Recording of interview with Mark Fenton, RSP Architecture student c1937-1940, and chair of the Student Council.
Interviewer: Anna McNally, History Project Archivist
Discusses: childhood; reasons for joining Polytechnic; career; architecture course - structure, staff, students; Student Council; student life including during World War Two; sport.
Booklet listing brief details for short full-time postgraduation courses, including:
Full-time day courses, mostly lasting from 2-5 days:
Should Architects buy Micros? [microcomputers]; Energy Conservation and the use of Solar and other Renewable Energies in Agriculture, Horticulture and Fishculture; Steel Connections; Project Management for Students; The Management of Building Maintenance; Demountables in Distribution; Urban development Corporations; Building Economics; Rural transport Seminar; Urban Design; Indoor Landscape; Royal Town Planning Institute; Introduction to Structural Steelwork; Steel Bridge Design; Urban Management; Computerised Maps for Land Use Decisions; Home Purchase and how the Cure the Ailments; The Law of Contract and the Standard Forms; New uses for Older Buildings; Urban development Operations; Airport Economics and Finance; Contract Situations; Thermal Insulation and the Occurence of Condensation; Claims and the Building Industry; Design and Cost Effectiveness of Solar Heating Systems; Urban Policy Integration and Implementation; Senior Architects Project Management; Institution of Structural Engineers; Subjective Estimation and Transport Forecasting; Management in Civil and Structural Engineering; Conference: A Decade of Plan Implementation; Professional Negligence; Royal Town Planning Institute Public Participation Working Party Report; Tree Planting in Urban Areas; Adapting Buildings to meet the needs of Visually Handicapped people; Public transport Planning; Bankruptcy Problems in the Construction Industry; Child Care Provision and Employment Planning; Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers; Microcomputer applications for students; the Redundant Surveyor.
Part-time evening courses:
Introduction to programming in Apple-Soft BASIC for Architects; Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Measurement of Mechanical and Engineering Services; Cost Control and Building Economics; Principles of Perspective; Perspective, Freehand Drawing and Rendering (Architectural Graphics); Town Planning and Building Law; Using Colour; property Investment and Development; Limit State Design of Structural Steelwork.. Includes the Habitat Forum series.
Leaflet for disabled students with a map of the campus, access details, and information regarding services and provision.
Two copies.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 16 Jul 1914 and 27 Oct 1921.
Matters arising include: appointments and salaries; membership statistics; financial statements; war fund; volunteer training corps; insurance against bombs; Compassionate Fund; VR Hoare memorial; Royal Flying Corps training; war bonuses; Hospital Saturday Fund; large hall lettings; air raid protection; hairdressing classes for disabled soldiers (Apr 1918); death of Alice Hogg; memorial tablet to members and students who have fallen in the First World War (27 Feb 1919); Boathouse tank (27 Jan 1921); Major Robert Mitchell's retirement (23 Jun 1921); Poly cinema leases (1921).