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3 items (originally enclosed in Gold Coast despatch number 61, 5 March 1896) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/92
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This record is about the 3 items (originally enclosed in Gold Coast despatch number 61, 5 March 1896) extracted... dating from 1896 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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- 1896
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3 items (originally enclosed in Gold Coast despatch number 61, 5 March 1896) extracted from CO 96/271. Ashanti (now Ghana): Kumasi. 3 sheets of plans. (1) Ground plans, sections and elevations of the Fort and Residency. Explanatory reference notes. Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet [1:192] (general plan); 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96] (elevations, sections and other plans). (2) Sketch plan of the Hausa Cantonment, showing the outlay of the camp. Scale: 1 inch to 30 yards [1:1080]. (3) Sketch plan, on tracing cloth, of the town, showing principal buildings, villages, water sources, brickfields, the royal mausoleum and King's quarters, existing and proposed roads and streets, and contours. Reference table to military buildings, quarters etc. Scale: 1 inch to about 147 yards. Compass indicator. All items signed: Captain G E Phillips, Royal Engineers, (1), (3) 22 February 1896, (2) 29 February 1896. Dimensions: (1) 67 cm x 119 cm; (2) 20 cm x 36 cm; (3) 67 cm x 40 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 1099-1101.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980646/
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