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Papers relating to Birkenhead Docks:- (a) Two reports of Admiralty Surveying Officer...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 35/42
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This record is about the Papers relating to Birkenhead Docks:- (a) Two reports of Admiralty Surveying Officer... dating from (a) 15.3.1848; (b) c1850; (c) c1850; (d) July-Oct 1856; (e) 4.11.1857; (f) c1864 in the series Birkenhead Railway Company. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- (a) 15.3.1848; (b) c1850; (c) c1850; (d) July-Oct 1856; (e) 4.11.1857; (f) c1864
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Papers relating to Birkenhead Docks:- (a) Two reports of Admiralty Surveying Officer (printed (b) Lithographed plan of docks showing Morpeth and Egerton (c) Printed copy if memorial from bankers, merchants, shipowners and inhabitants of Liverpool infavour of Birkenhead Docks Bill; (d) Correspondence between I.K. Brunel, Engineer, and C.A. Saunders, Secretary Great Western Railway Company, and between Birkenhead Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway Company, and Liverpool Corporation about proposed new docks (with tracing of plan); (e) Report of conference held in Manchester at which resolution was passed urging completion of docks before any further extension of docks north of Liverpool side were proposed to, or sanctioned by, Parliament; (f) Memorandum of Birkenhead Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway on railways and docks at Birkenhead.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- BRK/4/5
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Birkenhead Railway Company
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