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Series
Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: WORK 26
What's it about?
WORK 26
This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WORK 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1936-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
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- 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 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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23 box(es)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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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From the mid-1930s, the Office of Works and its successors undertook building work on an agency basis for the War Office and later for the Ministry of Supply, constructing ordnance factories and stores. From March 1941, the Ministry of Works acquired full responsibility for these and other major direct building schemes of the Ministry of Supply.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14627/
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