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Series
Welsh Office: Roads Division and successors: Bridges Engineering: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: BD 131
What's it about?
BD 131
This series contains records on bridge construction within the overall design, construction and maintenance of the motorway, trunk and principal road programme for Wales.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 131
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Roads Division and successors: Bridges Engineering: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1973-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records on bridge construction within the overall design, construction and maintenance of the motorway, trunk and principal road programme for Wales.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
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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)
- BE
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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 and Welsh
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
- Welsh Office, Roads Division, 1965-1976
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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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 2026 Welsh Government
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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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- Topics
- Road Transport
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were originally created and stored by the Welsh Office. The National Assembly for Wales (Executive) took over custody from 1998 and the records were stored in Neptune Point Cardiff. The Welsh Assembly Government took over custody in 2007 and the records were stored with a third party contractor. In 2011 the Welsh Government took over custody of the records.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1974 to 1980
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records Collection Policy, s.3.1.1 records which detail changes in the strategic functions and obligations of the UK and English and Welsh governments.
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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 records were created by the Roads Division of the Highways Group. In 1977 this Division split into two separate divisions: the Roads Administration Division (dealing with planning and budgets) and the Roads Engineering Division (dealing with the day-to-day maintenance and technical work carried out on the roads programme in Wales).
The Highways Group was renamed the Transport and Highways Group in 1977.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14737161/
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