Series
Dover Harbour Board
Catalogue reference: RAIL 821
Date: 1897-1933
Minutes and plans of the Dover Harbour Board.
Series
Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 864
What's it about?
RAIL 864
Miscellaneous records of the Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 864
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Title (The name of the record)
- Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1869-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous records of the Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company.
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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)
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SND.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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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)
- Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company, 1935-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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133 volume(s)
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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
- Canals and river transport
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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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In 1874, Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, Sharpness New Docks and Worcester and Birmingham Canal were incorporated as Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation, which company were also lessees of Droitwich Canal and Droitwich Junction Canal. Name of company was changed to Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation on 6th June 1935, and undertaking passed to British Transport Commission as from 1st January 1948 under Transport Act, 1947.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13052/
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Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company
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