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2 items (enclosures to letters from Vice-Admiral Thomas Pickmore, Royal Navy, 15...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/617
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This record is about the 2 items (enclosures to letters from Vice-Admiral Thomas Pickmore, Royal Navy, 15... dating from 1817 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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- MFQ 1/617
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1817
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2 items (enclosures to letters from Vice-Admiral Thomas Pickmore, Royal Navy, 15 and 22 November 1817) extracted from CO 194/59. North America: Newfoundland (now in Canada). 2 plans: (1) 'Plan of part of the town of St John's destroyed by fire on the 7th November 1817': showing the building where the fire commenced and the buildings ruined by the fire of 1816; (2) 'Plan of part of the town of St John's destroyed by fire on the 21st November 1817': also showing the areas burned on 7 November. Reference tables. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet [1:1,200]. [Drawn by Captain] Richard Vicars, Royal Engineers. Dimensions: (1) 52 cm x 37 cm; (2) 23 cm x 30 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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983638/
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