Builders

Estate documents on builders

In this section are the lists of builders, with maps of their properties for each holding.

The first estate map (1834) actually lists the early builders with their plan code:

Index of builders for 1833 Camden Town map
Index of builders for 1833 Camden Town map
London Metropolitan Archives
Richard Holbrook at Camden Place (sites A1-A12)

The estate lease articles show the full list of builders from A (Richard Holbrook) to Xxx (Mansbridge & Mansbridge 1864).

London Metropolitan Archives
Building articles, Camden Town estate

 

The following tables set out chronologically the builders and locations on the estate maps.

 

A document on Builders’ lives provides some (limited) background.

 

There are also ‘miscellaneous’ leases,

  • some that were small individual leases (1816 to 1873), Misc1-95
  • a larger group of about 360 houses within the Kirkman and Hendy franchise (1790 to 1865) are listed in M1-168Maps .
London Metropolitan Archives
Miscellaneous builder leasees
London Metropolitan Archives
Miscellaneous builder lessees – 2