“Where clients call, and fees abound … Victoria Street!”
The chronicle of a Consulting Engineer’s practice in post-war London, and of its founder, Charles MacKechnie Jarvis Guest blog by Jonathan MacKechnie Jarvis My late father was an inveterate hoarder, who seldom discarded anything of possible future interest. He died in 2009 at the age of 101, leaving a huge legacy of books and papers. Among these was a black tin chest crammed full of the key records of the consulting engineering practice which he founded in 1949. The practice flourished during the busy post-war decades, for many years in a succession of offices along Victoria Street: a pre-computer world long since vanished. Much important and sensitive documentation of the practice was in the form of large quarto hardback notebooks, well-thumbed and quite neatly maintained, in my father…
