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War Office, Directorate of Works and predecessors: Army Establishments: Plans and...
Catalogue reference: WORK 43
What's it about?
WORK 43
This series contains plans and drawings of army barracks, depots, forts, batteries and other military structures.The bulk of the plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with only a handful of earlier or later material.
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 43
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office, Directorate of Works and predecessors: Army Establishments: Plans and Drawings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1713-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains plans and drawings of army barracks, depots, forts, batteries and other military structures.
The bulk of the plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with only a handful of earlier or later material.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other plans and drawings of fortifications are in WO 78
For Ministry of Defence, Defence Lands Service and predecesors Registered Files (CLAV series), see also DEFE 51
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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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- Commander-in-Chief, Military Department, Works Division, 1887-1895
- Ministry of Defence, 1947-1947
- Ministry of Defence, Defence Geographic Centre, 2000-2022
- Ordnance Office, Board of Ordnance, 1683-1855
- War Office, Barrack Department, 1807-1822
- War Office, Barrack Office, 1793-1807
- War Office, Fortifications Branch, 1855-1862
- War Office, Master General of the Ordnance, Directorate of Fortifications and Works, 1904-1927
- War Office, Quarter Master General, Directorate General of Works, 1959-1963
- War Office, Quarter Master General, Directorate of Fortifcations and Works, 1935-1959
- War Office, Quarter Master General, Directorate of Works, 1927-1935
- War Office, Works Department, 1862-1870
- War Office, Works Department, 1895-1904
- War Office, Works Division, 1870-1887
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2125 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 unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1968 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)
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These files were inherited by the Ministry of Public Building and Works from the War Office Directorate of Works 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)
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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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The Defence Geographic Centre was established as a business unit within the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA), which was formed in 2000. By 2020 the DGIA had been reorganised on four occasions and is presently the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence of which the DGC forms the Foundation Geospatial-Intelligence pillar (NCGI-F) alongside Analysis (NCGI-A), Technology (NCGI-T) and field deployable force elements (NCGI-D).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14644/
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