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Promotional pamphlets for Bush House as a luxurious commercial office building. Contents include: a list of current tenants, map of Kingsway with names of businesses and plans of standard office suites, 1925; a colour illustration, ‘Bush House from the Strand’ from a watercolour by Hanslip Fletcher, and line drawings of the Aldwych and Strand porticos, the Aldwych entrance hall and the central building seen from the north east, c 1927; details of facilities and services available, and line drawings of the Aldwych and Strand entrances and of the West Court, 1928.

Christmas pamphlets for Bush House inhabitants, 1927, 1928 and 1930, with comic references to some of the businesses and office life, cartoons by H M Bateman [Henry Mayo Bateman], 1927 and 1928, depicting life in Bush House, and a 1930 poem, ‘Wisdom and youth’, parodying Lewis Carroll’s ‘You are old, Father William’.

Blueprint design by Steevens for foundations for stanchions, Bush House West Wing.

Blueprint design by Steevens for an ornamental stone carving for the planned connecting loggia between Bush House central block and the new West Wing. Original title, ‘New West Wing detail: doorhead, connecting loggia’.

Blueprint design by Steevens for corridor partitioning, Bush House West Wing.

Blueprint design by Steevens for the arrangement of pipes in the subway connecting Bush House central block and West Wing.

Blueprint design by Steevens for access hatches in the roof over the tenth floor, Bush House West Wing.

Blueprint design by Steevens for the north elevation of Bush House West Wing.

Blueprint designs by Steevens for the tenth floor lift motor room, Bush House West Wing.

Blueprint designs by Steevens for ground floor lavatories, Bush House West Wing.

Set of detailed coloured floor plans for the twelve floors of the proposed West Wing extension to Bush House, with cross sections and elevations, created by Steevens (‘AES’) and two colleagues. Original title, ‘Bush House West Wing general 1/8” scale drawings, office set’.

Print of a sketch of Bush House with the East Wing under construction. Signed ‘W Walcot’ [William Walcot (1874-1943), artist and architectural draughtsman].

Artists’ impressions of the completed Bush House with East and West wings, viewed from the north-east and north-west.

Press cuttings on the continuing development of Bush House, including an Evening Standard account, 1929, ‘How London beats America in hustle building: with the iron fighter 100 feet over London’. Also press cuttings of illustrations showing the building work and the proposed extensions.

Captioned photographs of the construction of Bush House West Wing, created by Bush House (Extensions) Ltd. Images include: preliminary excavations; views of surrounding buildings, streets and rooftops; a visit by the commissioning property developer, Irving Tar Bush; the digging of foundation trenches and pier holes; the erection of the steel frame; excavated fragments of old water pipes; stone masons, riveters, asphalt layers, welders and other workmen on site.

Photographs (some captioned), of the construction of Bush House South East Wing. Images include the Clerk of Works’ temporary office, nearby Australia House, and the view eastwards towards the City of London.

Captioned photographs of Bush House centre block and West Wing, including views from the central portico northwards towards Kingsway (with the tramway station entrance visible), and the loggia linking the central block and West Wing.

Captioned photographs of the completed East Wing of Bush House seen from the north and south. Also one photograph of stone masons working on blocks of stone for East Wing.

Captioned photographs of Bush House interior views, showing corridors, doors and staircases.