Campus Construction 1950s-1963

These photographs from the university archives were probably created at the request of the Estates department to document the large number of construction projects undertaken on the Edgbaston campus and the Vale site from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s. They were collected into four albums (this is volume 1), sorted chronologically by date of each building's construction. Supporting documents are inserted in the first two volumes. There were a number of blank pages at the end of the fourth and final volume which suggests that there were plans to continue documenting new buildings on the campus after 1969.
Most of the photographs were probably taken by university photographers, but there are a small number of photographs that can be identified as having been taken by external photographers

The photographs in this volume date from the late 1950s to 1963, and show the construction of Staff House and University Centre; the extension to the Guild of Students building; the conversion of the Harding library for the Faculty of Law; Civil Engineering building; Haworth chemistry building; the Arts building; and the Watson mathematics building.

The album also contains a copy of an article written by the architects Hugh Casson and Neville Condor which sets out their plan for the development of the Edgbaston campus and the Vale site for proposed student halls of residence