The collection consists of Herbert Loebl's business and personal records.

The business records contain group papers, sales and marketing files, finance files and general correspondence files for the following engineering and knowledge transfer enterprises with which Herbert Loebl was involved in his lifetime:

The collection also contains a number of annotated scrapbooks which trace the history of Loebl's engineering enterprises through photographs, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera.

Herbert Loebl's academic collection contains his early student notebooks from his degree studies in Electrical Engineering, and notes and source material for his subsequent doctoral thesis and Jewish history research. The collection also includes his certificates and various degree ceremony photographs.

Herbert Loebl received various awards during his lifetime and his personal collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and letters of congratulations regarding his many honours.

The papers held at Newcastle are a substantial repository of the personal papers and plans of Sharp. The major part of the collection consists of papers collected from Sharp's Oxford house on his death by the now-retired Professor Brenikov of this University. The papers were subsequently put into storage. Their significance realised they were deposited with the University Library Special Collections. The principal elements of the collection are as follows:

Files of information and correspondence relating to individual texts, including unpublished works

Files of information and correspondence relating to individual plans. This includes, for example, work on historic cities, new villages, new towns and overseas commissions and competition entries

Original plans for many commissions

Extensive documentation on key planning cases where Sharp appeared as a witness at public inquiry e.g. Oxford Roads, Kepier Power Station Durham, Clarendon Hotel Oxford

Extensive books of press-cuttings on all of the above

Typescript of an unpublished autobiography and manuscript autobiographical notes

Typescripts of government information films, radio talks, lectures

Documentation on unsuccessful commissions

Correspondence regarding the formation of the Civic Trust

Lecture slides

Miscellaneous personal correspondence

Creative writing i.e. poetry, novels, radio plays etc., largely unpublished

Collectively these resources:
Demonstrate the evolution of Sharp's thinking both in terms of individual commissions and over the course of his career
Illustrate important issues about the process of undertaking planning commissions in the period e.g. fees charged, numbers of staff employed, briefs set etc.
Provide a rich source of information on how commissions were received both by clients and professional and local audiences
Provide a rich source of material on how competing arguments and ideologies of urban evolution were advanced.