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Series
Board of Trade and successors: Office for Wales: Registered Files (G Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 41
What's it about?
BD 41
The files in this series cover all aspects of the work of the Board of Trade and successor's regional office for Wales, including a wide range of general and geographical policy matters, together with some casework, concerning industrial...
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 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Office for Wales: Registered Files (G Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series cover all aspects of the work of the Board of Trade and successor's regional office for Wales, including a wide range of general and geographical policy matters, together with some casework, concerning industrial development and employment in Wales. They deal mainly with the designation of industrial development areas, the establishment of industrial estates and government-sponsored factories and the redeployment of labour in the South Wales coal industry. The series also includes files relating to the Aberfan tip disaster of 1966 and its aftermath.
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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)
- G 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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- Board of Trade, Office for Wales, 1942-1970
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 479 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 2018 Welsh Government
From 1991 Welsh Office
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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)
- The files in the G series originated in the Office for Wales of the Board of Trade. They were passed to the Welsh Office in 1975.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1945 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2817/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BD
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Board of Trade and successors: Office for Wales: Registered Files (G Series)
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