Catalogue description THE INGRAM LOAN

The Ingram Loan consists of the archives of a firm of Uxbridge based architects, W.L. Eves. The archives themselves are a vast amount of architectural drawings, mainly of Uxbridge and its immediate area. They date from between c1865 and 1955, and were donated by Mr John Ingram, a chartered surveyor, whose practice owns the archive.

List of boxes

All Uxbridge boxes have their contents listed, as do boxes A-D of the Fragile documents. Box E is not listed, but contains mainly Uxbridge items.

1) Numbers 1-60, High Street Uxbridge

2) Numbers 61-99, High Street Uxbridge

3) Numbers 100-200, High Street Uxbridge

4) Numbers above 200, and un-numbered premises, High Street, Uxbridge

5) Public Houses, High street Uxbridge

6) Metropolitain Depot and warehouse extension, Uxbridge

7) Uxbridge: Plans for streets A-E

8) Uxbridge: Plans for streets F-H

9) Uxbridge: Plans for streets I-R

10) Uxbridge: Plans for streets S-U

11) Uxbridge: Plans for streets V

12) Uxbridge: Plans for streets W-Z

13) Uxbridge: Plans for St John's school and houses

14) Uxbridge: Uxbridge and Yeading Isolation Hospital plans

15) Uxbridge: Glebe and Greenway Housing Estate Plans

16) Uxbridge: Items with no street location: Commercial and Council properties

17) Uxbridge: Items with no street location: Houses and Breweries

18) Uxbridge: Items with no street location: Churches and associated properties

19) Hillingdon: Plans for streets A-z

20) Hillingdon: Plans for public houses and items with no street location

21) Hillingdon Cemetery

22) Hillingdon: Plans for the Violet Housing estate

23) Hillingdon: Plans for the Violet and Avenue Housing estates

24) Ickenham plans

25) Plans for licensed premises, West End Road, Ruislip

26) Ruislip plans

27) Northwood plans

28) Hayes and Eastcote plans

29) Plans for the Royal Standard public house, Hayes. FRAGILE

30) Harefield plans

31) Cowley plans

32) Yiewsley and West Drayton plans

33) Yiewsley, West Drayton and Hartington plans

34) FRAGILE: Box A

35) FRAGILE: Box B

36) FRAGILE: Box C

37) FRAGILE: Box D

38) FRAGILE: Box E

The Loan also contained many drawings for buildings outside the borough of Hillingdon, including a set of drawings of the old toll bridge at Hampton Court. It is a condition of the loan that those drawings relating to places outside the Borough be sent on to the relevant record office, and documents have been sent to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and to the Greater London Record Office. There are also a limited number of drawings due to be sent to the neighbouring London Boroughs of Ealing, Harrow and Hounslow.

W L Eves, architects

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Although the Uxbridge part of the Loan has been listed, the rest of it still needs to be done. This is due to its immense size. The following pages will give a guide to what the collection contains, but only the Uxbridge part will contain descriptions of individual documents.

The Eves family firm were based at 54 the High Street since before 1868, and consisted of George Eves and his two sons, William and Francis. George Eves was born in 1816, and was listed in 1841 as a surveyor on the staff of Uxbridge School. He became the surveyor for the Uxbridge District Local Board of Health in 1854, until his death in 1892. William Lionel Eves was the architect who probably produced many of the drawings; he was born in 1867 and died in 1950. Francis, the younger brother, was involved in the running of the firm and was born in 1871, dying in 1928. The Eves family originated in Brixton, South London, but moved to Hayes in the early 1830's.

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