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Series
Property Services Agency and predecessors: Directorate of Post Office Services: Registered...
Catalogue reference: CM 50
What's it about?
CM 50
Records of the Directorate of Post Office Services of the Property Services Agency and predecessors relating to the new buildings and maintenance programmes for the Post Office. The series contains one file in four parts, which deals with the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CM 50
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Title (The name of the record)
- Property Services Agency and predecessors: Directorate of Post Office Services: Registered Files (WL Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Directorate of Post Office Services of the Property Services Agency and predecessors relating to the new buildings and maintenance programmes for the Post Office.
The series contains one file in four parts, which deals with the redevelopment of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance's Central Office, Newcastle. This particular project commenced before the creation of the Post Office Services directorate but it was completed by them.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Ministry of Works' files relating to redevelopment of Central Office, Newcastle, can also be found in WORK 12
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- WL file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1962-1970
- Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
- Property Services Agency, Directorate of Home Estate Management, 1972-1976
- Property Services Agency, Directorate of Post Office Services, 1974-1981
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2003 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Pay and pensions
- Communications
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4155/
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