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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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WORK 56

Title
Ministry of Public Building and Works and predecessors: Directorate of Civil Engineering Development and predecessors: Registered Files (UB Series)
Date

1936-1979

Description

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.

Related material

For later files see CM 28

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

UB file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • 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
Physical description

21 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1983 Department of the Environment

Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Construction industries
Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

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.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14657/

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