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2 items extracted from CO 520/50. (1) Plan of Lagos Island, Lagos [now in Nigeria],...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/987
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from CO 520/50. (1) Plan of Lagos Island, Lagos [now in Nigeria],... dating from 1904-1907 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPG 1/987
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904-1907
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2 items extracted from CO 520/50. (1) Plan of Lagos Island, Lagos [now in Nigeria], showing the layout of the town, lagoons, reclaimed land, and Iddo Island connected to Lagos Island by Carter Bridge. Scale: 1 inch to 660 feet. Compass indicator. Intelligence Department, S[outhern] N[igeria] Regiment. Enclosed in despatch of 2 December 1907. (2) 'Map of Lagos Town and Island [now in Nigeria] with Circumjacent Features'. Sheet 2. Notes on survey. Scale: 4 inches to 1 mile. Compass rose. Surveyed by E P Cotton, Commissioner of Lands, 9 September 1904. Drawn by J A Pratt. Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1904. Coloured MS additions show reclaimed land and gravelled roads. 'Submitted in connection with C.S. 4441/06 C.V. Bellamy, 29.11.7'. Dimensions: (1) 67 cm x 55 cm; (2) 96 cm x 73 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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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), entries 2156, 2155
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981676/
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