Turkish Baths Blue Prints

Below are 2 of the blue prints, the first is showing the ground floor plan, I also have the blue prints of the other 4 floors, the basement and the roof.

The second drawing is the elevations from Jason Street & Church Street. I really like the detail of the exterior walls, the grand windows and arches all around the outside, this is one of the reasons I fell in love with the building

Unfortunately these blue prints are not the original, so they don't have but Nigel Roberts informed me of where I would be able to find the originals and I plan on contacting the Lancashire County Records Office when I move back to Preston in September.

Turkish Baths (2)

I contacted Preston City council and spoke to Nigel Roberts about possibly viewing the blue prints for the Turkish Baths. He was very helpful and said that if I emailed him a day I was available to come into Preston that we could sort out a time to meet. Unfortunately we were unable to meet up but Mr Roberts was very helpful and gave me a link to view the Blue Prints.

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Hi Melanie, 

The best place to start with for looking at original plans will probably be the Lancashire County Records Office just down from the railway station or the local history section of the library at the Harris Museum.

Thanks,
Nigel Roberts
Principal Urban Designer
Preston City Council 

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Hi Nigel, 

Thank you very much for helping me, those drawings are perfect and will help me so much with my Honours Project at University. Do you know whether it is possible to view the original plans, when the Turkish Baths were still there?

Kind Regards,
Melanie Cottam

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Hi Melanie,

Thanks for your email - Unfortunately I may not be in the office tomorrow as I might need to take day off to look after my children. However the link below should give you access to electronic copies of the most recent drawings we have on file. 

http://publicaccess.preston.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=75882

This should be a good starting point to identify which drawings you might want copies of for your project.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Nigel Roberts
Principal Urban Designer
Preston City Council 

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Hi, regarding our telephone conversation this afternoon. I was wondering if it was possible to arrange a meeting to view the blue prints of the Turkish Baths, Miller Arcade, for Wednesday 22nd August, as I have already planned to travel to Preston that day anyway.

Kind Regards

Melanie Cottam

Turkish Baths - Preston

I have recently been contacting Preston Council to try to get copies of the blueprints for the Turkish Baths in Miller Arcade, Preston. The baths have always interested me ever since I first saw the original entrance 2 years ago. I love the beautiful  detailed door and building and I've always had a curious interest in finding out what the Turkish Baths would of looked like when they were open between 1901 and 1947.

Below is the e-mail I sent to Preston Council.

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Melanie

You will need to ring Planning Support on (01772) ****** to make appointment to come into our offices to do a history check, if there is any application you need to view, we will order the files from the archives.

Regards
Dawn Wilson
Senior Planning Support Officer
Preston City Council

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Hi, my names Melanie Cottam and I am a student at The University of Central Lancashire studying my final year in Interior Design. We are currently doing a project where we have to find and re-design a building and I am very interested in basing my project on the Turkish Baths in Miller Arcade, Preston. I was wondering if it would be possible to get the blue prints and history of the Turkish Baths and surrounding buildings or whether there was anyone in particular I could contact about getting them.

Kind Regards
Melanie Cottam

My Boogazine

I have decided to create 2 separate Blogs as I feel that I will be able to organise my University work easier and more efficient. 

I have moved any current posts that are linked to Boogazine onto my other Blog.

http://mscottamboogazine.blogspot.co.uk/

Brentwood Blueprints!

After I received an e-mail back from Andy Lomax I contacted the case officer at Wigan council, Richard Taylor. Unfortunately he wasn't in when I phoned but I spoke to his assistant who was really helpful and he gave me the codes to access the blue prints on the Wigan council website. On the website there were various blue prints to look at including, ground plans, original blue prints and the blue prints of what the office extension the current owners are planning add. 

Unfortunately I can't open the blue prints in CAD or copy and paste them so I have had to print screen the webpage to get a copy for myself. To be able to edit them/redesign the building in CAD I will have to paste the print screen into AutoCad and go over every line that are on the blue prints.

Email received for Brentwood

Today I have been e-mailing people who are connected to the decision to restore Brentwood and I received an e-mail back from one particular person that was really useful as I now know who can send me the blueprints for the project and I now have a contact number.

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Dear Melanie,

I think your best bet would be to contact the case officer at the council Richard Taylor, 01942 489133. He is dealing with the current planning application for Brentwood

Regards and all the best,

Andy

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From: m_cottam@hotmail.com

To: andrewlomax23@hotmail.com

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:42:26  +0100

Hi, my names Melanie Cottam and I am a student at The University of Central Lancashire studying Interior Design. We are currently doing a project where we have to find and re-design a building and I am very interested in basing my project on Brentwood, 251 Wigan Lane. I was wondering if it would be possible to get the blue prints for Brentwood or whether there was anyone in particular I could contact about getting them.

Kind Regards

Melanie Cottam

Brentwood

Okay, I have been looking into buildings around my area in Wigan and I have always loved this house called Brentwood. It is a large detached Victorian Villa on Wigan Lane which has been allowed to become derelict for up to 2 decades meaning squatters and vandals have broke in many a times setting several fires and leaving the house to be a burnt out shell. 

Brentwood was constructed between 1890-92 but it isn't a listed building and the current owners, Cuerden Developments Ltd, are as far as I know trying to turn the building into offices. I have been unable to find an e-mail for Cuerden Developments Ltd but I shall be phoning them tomorrow to maybe arrange a visit and get the blueprints.