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Series
Great Western Railway Company: New Swindon Improvement Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 277
What's it about?
RAIL 277
This series contains the records of the New Swindon Improvement Company.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 277
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: New Swindon Improvement Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1854-1893
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the records of the New Swindon Improvement Company.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Filed in the former British Transport Historical Records order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- GW 28
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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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 bundles, files and volumes
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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
- Railways
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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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The New Swindon Improvement Company was formed by the Swindon Mechanics' Institution to provide premises for the institution. The company was wound up in 1891.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12465/
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Great Western Railway Company: New Swindon Improvement Company
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