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Series
Welsh Office: Establishment Group: Emergencies Branch (EB) prefix: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: BD 129
What's it about?
BD 129
This series consists of records of Welsh Office Emergencies Branch dealing with the snow emergencies of 1978 and 1982; and droughts of 1976 and 1984. They deal with providing assistance to farmers and local authorities and post-emergency reviews...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 129
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Establishment Group: Emergencies Branch (EB) prefix: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of records of Welsh Office Emergencies Branch dealing with the snow emergencies of 1978 and 1982; and droughts of 1976 and 1984. They deal with providing assistance to farmers and local authorities and post-emergency reviews of the effectiveness of emergency procedures and any lessons learnt.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in chronologically in file prefix 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)
- EB prefix
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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 and Welsh
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 16 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Welsh Government
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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
- Farming
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were originally created and stored in Cathays Park building at Cardiff. In the 1990s the records were stored at the Welsh Office storage facility at Neptune Point, Cardiff. In 2012 the records were stored with a third party contractor prior to transfer to The National Archives.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1976 to 1985
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- This series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- RCP s.3.1.1 - Principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh governments.
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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 records were created by the Welsh Office, Establishment Group, Accommodation Office and Management Services Division, Emergencies Branch.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14569289/
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Welsh Office: Establishment Group: Emergencies Branch (EB) prefix: Registered Files
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