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28 items extracted from CO 291/7 (folios 135-162). Southern Africa. 28 sheets of...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/745
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This record is about the 28 items extracted from CO 291/7 (folios 135-162). Southern Africa. 28 sheets of... dating from 1880 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1880
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28 items extracted from CO 291/7 (folios 135-162). Southern Africa. 28 sheets of maps and sketches relating to the proposed Delagoa Bay Railway, intended to link Pretoria, Transvaal, with Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. The areas through which the railway passed are now in Mozambique, Swaziland, and Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa. Detailed descriptions are given at item level.
(1)-(9), (11), (16)-(21), (23)-(27) [copied from originals by] Martin J Farrell, Civil Engineer, Pretoria, July 1880; copied 8 October 1880. (15) and (22) [copied from originals by] Farrell; traced by B Melville. Item 28 [copied from an original by] Farrell, July 1880; copied by B Melville, October 1880.
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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), entries 1888 (item 22), 1893 (item 15), 3088 (item 28), 3089 (items 1-27) and 3317 (items 1-14, 16-21, 23-27)
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