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Series
Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Plans and Drawings
Catalogue reference: WORK 32
What's it about?
WORK 32
This series contains site plans and drawings relating to the royal gardens, parks and other open areas in the care of the Office of Works and its successors, including buildings located within such areas.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WORK 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Plans and Drawings
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1653-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains site plans and drawings relating to the royal gardens, parks and other open areas in the care of the Office of Works and its successors, including buildings located within such areas.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related registered files, see WORK 16
For further records relating to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, see MAF 46
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Works and Buildings, Royal Parks Division, 1940-1942
- Ministry of Works and Planning, Royal Parks Division, 1942-1943
- Ministry of Works, Royal Parks Division, 1943-1962
- 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, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyor's Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1928-1940
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 702 flat sheets and rolls
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1960 Ministry of Works
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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
- Maps and plans
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14633/
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Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Plans and Drawings
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