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Series
Board of Trade Harbour Department: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: MT 10
What's it about?
MT 10
This series consists of correspondence and papers concerning administrative, legislative and legal questions relating to harbours, navigation, pilotage, foreshores, wrecks, and electricity and gas undertakings.The series includes files...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade Harbour Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1864-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of correspondence and papers concerning administrative, legislative and legal questions relating to harbours, navigation, pilotage, foreshores, wrecks, and electricity and gas undertakings.
The series includes files transferred from BT 356.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
ABBREVIATIONS USED: H.M.S. HIS/HER MAJESTY'S SHIP L.S. LIGHTSHIP L.V. LIGHT VESSEL S.L. STEAM LAUNCH S.S. STEAM SHIP S.V. STEAM VESSEL S.Y. STEAM YACHT T.S. TRAINING SHIP
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Electricity Branch of the Ministry of Transport see POWE 13
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Fisheries and Harbour Department, 1898-1904
- Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1867-1898
- Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1904-1918
- Board of Trade, Marine Department, Harbour Department, 1864-1867
- Board of Trade, Public Utilities and Harbour Department, 1918-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2085 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1974 Department of the Environment
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
- Oil and gas
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Subject indexes for1856 to 1885 will be found in BT 19 An alphabetical index of places is held in the RER, Kew
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11060/
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Board of Trade Harbour Department: Correspondence and Papers
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