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Accident register for the North Eastern Railway Company
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Series
Office of Works and successors: Civil Defence and Prison Building: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: WORK 28
What's it about?
WORK 28
This series contains correspondence and papers relating to air raid precautions, the construction of shelters for government offices and the public, structural precautions in public buildings, lighting restrictions and other civil defence...
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 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Works and successors: Civil Defence and Prison Building: Registered Files and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1895-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence and papers relating to air raid precautions, the construction of shelters for government offices and the public, structural precautions in public buildings, lighting restrictions and other civil defence measures.
Most of the files were registered in the AR series, but a few are from the DCA, DL, ESS and SR series. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.
Many pieces contain maps and plans.
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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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AR file series
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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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- 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 Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940
- Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Accommodation, 1976-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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327 boxes and files
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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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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 were involved in provision of structures for civil defence in the event of possible war. Work in this area continued after the Second World War. In May 1945 the ministry took over part of the Research and Experiments Department of the dissolved Ministry of Home Security, and in 1950 it acquired from the Home Office responsibility for giving advice to local authorities on structural precautions for civil defence.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14629/
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