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3 items extracted from CO 48/509. Cape Colony: Kimberley (now in Northern Cape province,...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/69
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This record is about the 3 items extracted from CO 48/509. Cape Colony: Kimberley (now in Northern Cape province,... dating from 1884 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPGG 1/69
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1884
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3 items extracted from CO 48/509. Cape Colony: Kimberley (now in Northern Cape province, South Africa). 3 plans. (1) 'Plan No. 1. Sketch Plan of the Diamond Fields': showing mines, roads, and the scene of an explosion on 10 January 1884; on tracing cloth. Scale: 4 inches to 1 mile. Compass indicator. (2) 'Plan No. 2. Scene of the Explosion of over 40 tons of Dynamite, Powder &c. at the Diamond Fields, Kimberley, on January 10th 1884'; on tracing cloth. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet [1:1,200]. Compass indicator. (3) 'Plan No. 7. Proposed arrangement of Compound to contain 8 magazines suitable for storing explosives required by 15 mining companies or firms at the Diamond Fields, Kimberley ...': perspective view. Inset: 'Ground plan of Magazine, 28 feet x 16 feet, for storing Dynamite'. All items signed: F Schute, Inspector of Machinery, (1, 3) February 1884, (2) January 1884. Dimensions: (1) 52 cm x 65 cm; (2) 74 cm x 64 cm; (3) 28 cm x 46 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 2766
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980623/
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