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Series
Admiralty, Navy Works Department and predecessors: Naval Establishments: Plans and...
Catalogue reference: WORK 41
What's it about?
WORK 41
This series contains plans of naval establishments, including dockyards, naval hospitals, workshops and magazines.The bulk of these plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although a substantial minority are of...
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 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty, Navy Works Department and predecessors: Naval Establishments: Plans and Drawings
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1760-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains plans of naval establishments, including dockyards, naval hospitals, workshops and magazines.
The bulk of these plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although a substantial minority are of eighteenth-century origin.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of naval works, see Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard and related bodies,
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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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- Admiralty, Civil Engineer in Chief's Department, 1919-1960
- Admiralty, Directorate of Works, 1837-1919
- Board of Admiralty, Surveyor of Buildings, 1832-1837
- Navy Board, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796-1813
- Navy Board, Surveyor of Buildings, 1813-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 671 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 1967 Ministry of Public Building and 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These files were inherited by the Ministry of Public Building and Works from the Navy Works Department of the Admiralty in 1963. It is likely that they were regarded as of primarily historical interest by that date.
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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/C14642/
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