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Catalogue reference: WORK 56
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WORK 56
The files in this series include papers relating to plumbing materials and systems, trade waste, and the maintenance of the Iron Bridge at Telford in Shropshire.The files were registered or re-registered in the UB series; several of them were...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WORK 56
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Public Building and Works and predecessors: Directorate of Civil Engineering Development and predecessors: Registered Files (UB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1936-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series include papers relating to plumbing materials and systems, trade waste, and the maintenance of the Iron Bridge at Telford in Shropshire.
The files were registered or re-registered in the UB series; several of them were inherited by the Directorate of Civil Engineering Development from other parts of the Ministry.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later files see CM 28
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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)
- UB file series
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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 Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Research and Development, Directorate of Civil Engineering Development, 1969-1970
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Public Health Engineering Section, 1962-1963
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Civil Engineering Section, 1963-1968
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Structural Engineering Section, 1962-1963
- Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyors Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1940-1942
- Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, Architectural Division, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1942-1943
- Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Public Health Engineering Section, 1958-1962
- Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1945-1957
- Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Structural Engineering Branch, 1961-1962
- Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, Architectural Division, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1943-1945
- Office of Works, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyors Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1928-1940
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 21 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1983 Department of the Environment
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Directorate of Civil Engineering Development was formed in 1969, within the Directorate General of Research and Development. By 1970, just prior to the absorption of the ministry within the new Department of the Environment, both had become part of the Controller General's Organisation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14657/
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