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RSP/4/4/JAC
Title
JACKSON, Ernest William
Date(s)
- Jul 1951 (Creation)
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5 files, Manuscript
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Biographical history
Bill Jackson received his BSc (Eng) from Regent Street Polytechnic in 1951. He moved with his civil engineering career a great deal, spending 5 years in Nigeria 1955-60 and 2 years in Northern Ireland 1967-69. Bill was engineer in charge of the construction of the Cookstown Cement Works, later bombed by the IRA. In 1975/6 Bill was in charge of part of the M4/M5 motorway junction at Almondsbury, Bristol. Bill hadjoined Sir Lyndsey Parkinson & Co. in 1960. In 1982 the company was taken over by AMEC and soon after Bill retired to run a small hotel with his wife in Bournemouth which they did for the next 24 years. Bill died aged 80 in 2008.
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Coursework of Ernest William 'Bill' Jackson, civil engineering student in the School of Engineering at the Polytechnic, 1946-1951. Student ID. 24487, studying for the University of London BSc (Eng) degree at Regent Street Polytechnic. With summary of his working life, provided by wife Marion.
- Mechanics of Fluids (Laboratory Records), Part II
- Surveying, Part II BSc (Eng) (New Regs)
- Theory of Structures (records of Laboratory work), Part II BSc (Eng) (Revised Regs)
- Theory of Structures (office exercises), Part II BSc (Eng) (Revised Regs)
- Strength of Materials (Laboratory records), Part II
- Mechanics of Fluids (Laboratory Records), Part II
- Surveying, Part II BSc (Eng) (New Regs)
- Theory of Structures (records of Laboratory work), Part II BSc (Eng) (Revised Regs)
- Theory of Structures (office exercises), Part II BSc (Eng) (Revised Regs)
- Strength of Materials (Laboratory records), Part II
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Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000