Office of Works and successors: Statues and Memorials: Registered Files

This series contains files and papers relating to the erection and maintenance of public statues and memorials, mainly in London, and the regulation of the use of Trafalgar Square.

Most of the files were registered in the AF series, but 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 35

• 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, 1378-1832
• 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

The Office of Works first acquired responsibility for statues and memorials in London under the Public Statues Act of 1854. Its responsibilities extended gradually beyond those named in the schedule to the Act, to encompass not merely individual pieces, but also the management of Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square.