Subseries consists of Take Root and Molendinar Park Housing Association’s meeting papers. These include both handwritten and typed minutes with annotations.
Take RootCorrespondence from various organisations concerning Take Root, other self-build projects, membership, building sites and available land and meeting arrangements. Also included is correspondence between Sue John, co-founder of Take Root, and the editor of the Evening Times concerning an article about Take Root, with John claiming the article is ‘badly written, but also factually wrong’.
Take RootSeries containing the various other organisation’s material in the Take Root collection. This includes materials from the Walter Seagal Self Build Trust, Community Self-Build Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology and several other organisations. The types of material include publications, pamphlets, leaflets and information packs.
Take RootPhotographs and slides of construction work featuring Take Root members as well as other builders.
Take RootNewspaper cuttings of Take Root features and articles. This includes cuttings from The Times, Evening Times, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Herald, Daily Record, The Glaswegian, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Herald, The Scotsman, The Guardian, and Scotland on Sunday.
Take RootSeries concerning Take Root publications, including press releases, pamphlets, presentations and a ‘Feasibility study and report'.
Take RootCorrespondence from Scottish Homes, the National Housing Agency. This concerns self-build projects, guides to self-building, regulations and policies.
Take RootThe collection contains records relating to Take Root, the self-build group which existed from 1993 to the early 2000s. It contains meeting, finance and administration papers, correspondence, construction plans, press cuttings, publications and photographic and audio-visual materials. Because Take Root worked with several other organisations in Glasgow and Scotland, the collection contains meeting papers of Molendinar Park Housing Association and press cuttings and publications of various self-build projects including the Walter Seagal Self-Build Trust, Community Self-Build Scotland, and Centre for Alternative Technology.
Take RootCorrespondence to and from Take Root. This includes letters from Take Root promoting the project, organising meetings and training, and correspondence from members. Also included is correspondence to Take Root from students, concerning their dissertations, new membership queries and organisations wishing to work with the group.
Take RootTyped and handwritten minutes and agendas from Take Root meetings.
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