Series
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds: Papers
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/32
Date: 1661-1717
By far the greater part of this collection consists of certain official records of the administration, as Lord High Treasurer (from June 1673...
Series
Robert Fordyce Aickman: Papers
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/82
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PRO 30/82
Papers of Robert Fordyce Aickman, 1945 to 1981, arising mainly from his work as founder and vice-president of the Inland Waterways Association, and similar material of the general secretary of the association, 1950 to 1956, and of its Fenland...
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PRO 30/82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Robert Fordyce Aickman: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1905-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of Robert Fordyce Aickman, 1945 to 1981, arising mainly from his work as founder and vice-president of the Inland Waterways Association, and similar material of the general secretary of the association, 1950 to 1956, and of its Fenland Branch, 1948 to 1956.
There are minutes of meetings and papers of the association, 1950 to 1967, and of certain of its Branches, 1951 to 1969.
The series also includes minutes and papers of other organisations connected with rivers, canals, and inland transport, 1951 to 1981, together with a collection of waterways publications and assorted miscellanea, 1905 to 1978.
Further boxes of correspondence of Robert Aickman and the general secretary were received after Robert Aickman's death and have been integrated with the original deposit.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The whole collection was received in a largely unsorted state, with pages of the same letter in different boxes and enclosures separated from their covering letters. Every effort was made to arrange the papers in chronological order and to re-unite letters and enclosures but this was not always possible.
PRO 30/82/422-425 contain a number of such loose papers.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Inland Waterways Association, 1946-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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436 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Robert Fordyce Aickman, 1913-1981
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Robert Fordyce Aickman was the founder of the Inland Waterways Association, vice-president from its foundation (1946) until his death (1981) and chairman until 1951. In addition, he was a council or committee member of other organisations concerned with the better maintenance and fuller use of the rivers and canals.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Aickman was the author of two books on British waterways, Know Your Waterways ( Coram, 1959) and The Story of Our Waterways (Pitman, 1955).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12028/
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Robert Fordyce Aickman: Papers
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