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28 items extracted from CO 18/96 (folios 574, 575 and 588-612 respectively). Convict...

Catalogue reference: MPG 1/722

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MPG 1/722
Date
1857
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28 items extracted from CO 18/96 (folios 574, 575 and 588-612 respectively). Convict establishments, Western Australia. All by J Manning, Clerk of Works. (4)-(28) are numbered on the sheets 1-25 and are on tracing paper. (1)-(3) Invalid establishment and lunatic asylum to be constructed at Fremantle. (1) is a small overlay on part of (2). (2) is a plan of the building. Scale: 1:240. (3) shows its positon relative to the rear of the prison and cells. Scale: 1:960. (4)-(16) Main convict establishment at Fremantle. (4) Plan and front elevation of hospital. Scale: 1:120. (5) Plan for invalid and lunatic asylum (as in 2). Scale: 1:240. (6) Surgeon's house. Plans of ground floor, chamber floor and roof, and section through the building. Scale: 1:120. (7) Assistant chaplain's house. Plans. Scale: 1:120. (8) Baths. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 1:120 (9) Guardhouse. Plan and front and end elevations: Scale: 1:120. (10) Warders' quarters. Plans of ground and first floors. Scale: 1:120. (11) Principal warder's quarters. Plan and section. Scale: 1:120. (12) Warders' kitchens. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 1:96. (13) Sappers' Barracks - women's privies. Plan and section. Scale: 1:48. (14) Water Police Barracks. Coxswain's quarters. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 1:96. (15) Proposed additions to Superintendent W[ater] P[olice] quarters. Scale: 1:120. (16) Plan of the convict grant showing the buildingd erected, in progress and planned under the 1857-1858 estimates. Scale: 1:960. (17)-(19) Convict establishment at Mount Eliza. (17) Depot buildings. Scale: 1:240. (18) Hospital as proposed to be enlarged for 12 patients. Scale: 1:120. (19) Superintendent's quarters. Scale: 1:120. (20)-(22) Convict establishment at Guildford. (20) Plan of the convict grant and depot buildings. Scale: 1:720. (21) Plan for enlarging the hospital. Scale: 1:120. (22) Plan for 3 cells. Scale: 1:120. (23)-(25) Convict establishment at York. (23) Plan of the convict buildings showing the new buildings planned under the 1857-1858 estimates. Scale: approx. 1:540. (24) Plan for Porter's lodge and 3 cells. Scale: 1:120. (25) Plan for hospital for 12 patients. Scale: 1:120. (26)-(28) Convict settlement at Toodyay. (26) Plan of the convict grant showing the new buildings planned under the 1857-1858 estimates. Scale: 1:180. (27) Plan for hospital for 12 patients. Scale: 1:120. (28) Plan for porter's lodge and 3 cells. Scale: 1:120.

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English
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Open Document, Open Description
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Archives and libraries
International
Mental illness
Maps and plans
Australia and Pacific
Prisons
Sex and gender
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981411/

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