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2 items (originally accompanying a letter to the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance,...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/1772
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This record is about the 2 items (originally accompanying a letter to the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance,... dating from 1851 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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- MR 1/1772
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1851
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally accompanying a letter to the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, 20 August 1851) extracted from WO 55/2988. Newfoundland (now in Canada): Saint John's. Two maps of land and buildings owned and occupied by the Ordnance: (1) showing Fort William, Fort Townshend and Fort Amherst, Government House, Signal Hill, the lime kiln, Queen's Wharf, the garrison hospital, and Chain Rock, Waldegrave and Quiddy Viddy batteries; (2) showing the whole town and its immediate environs. Scale: (1) 1 inch to 100 feet [1:120]; (2) 1 inch to 400 feet [1:4,800]. Compass indicator to both items. Item (2) drawn by Lieutenant M S Whitmore, Royal Engineers; both items signed by Lieutenant J G Jervois, Royal Engineers. Dimensions: (1) 74.5 cm x 101.5 cm; (2) 73 x 129 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entries 990-991
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