Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and successors: Public...

WORK 10

1834-1977

This series contains correspondence and papers and registered files relating to the acquisition of sites or existing buildings for embassies, consulates and other establishments overseas; the construction and conversion of the individual buildings; their equipment and furnishing, including the supply of pictures; and their subsequent maintenance or disposal.

The series also includes some general files, mainly of the 1950s to 1970s, concerning the ministry's responsibilities for and management of diplomatic buildings overseas.

Most of the files were registered in the AC and EO series, although some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 40

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
• Ministry of Public Building and Works, Controller Generals Division, 1967-1970
• Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967
• Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942
• Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943
• Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962
• Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945
• Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, Works Department, 1832-1851
• Office of Works, 1851-1940
• Office of Works, Architects and Surveyors Division, 1902-1914
• Office of Works, Architects Division, 1914-1920
• Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940
• Office of Works, Surveyors Division, 1901-1901
• Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Accommodation, 1976-1990

758 boxes and files

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Office of Works , from 1934

Topics

Art, architecture and design

Forestry

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