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Office of Works and successors: Miscellaneous Plans and Drawings
Catalogue reference: WORK 38
What's it about?
WORK 38
This series contains plans and drawings relating to various buildings, property and improvements outside the main areas of responsibility of the Office of Works and its successors. The buildings and areas covered include: barracks, bridges,...
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 38
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Works and successors: Miscellaneous Plans and Drawings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1662-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains plans and drawings relating to various buildings, property and improvements outside the main areas of responsibility of the Office of Works and its successors.
The buildings and areas covered include: barracks, bridges, Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Brompton and other cemeteries; crown property; docks and dockyards including the Port of London; engineering and sanitation works; a proposed London railway station; legal buildings; the Menai Bridge; prisons; the River Thames and the Embankment; the City of London, including St Paul's Cathedral; the City of Westminster, including Victoria Street, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Bridge and Parliament Square; and Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files relating to some of the buildings and structures covered by these plans are in WORK 6
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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 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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468 flat sheets and rolls
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14639/
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