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3 items, numbered 6-8, (originally accompanying a letter of 23 November 1848 from...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1894

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Reference
MR 1/1894
Date
1848
Description

3 items, numbered 6-8, (originally accompanying a letter of 23 November 1848 from W Lamb Arrowsmith, Civil Engineer, Superintendent of Government Works, Malta) extracted from WO 44/507. Malta: Grand Harbour. (6) Plan showing sites for coal stores and gas works, and a proposed new road. (7) Elevation of the area shown on item (6). (8) Elevation showing naval property and buildings proposed to be demolished and replaced. Scale: (6) 1 inch to about 725 feet; (7) 1 inch to about 420 feet; (8) Scale bar unfinished [?3 inches to about 100 feet]. Each sheet signed by Mr Arrowsmith, 10 October 1848.

A list of the drawings sent in Mr Arrowsmith's letter remains at the parent piece reference; in addition to the three drawings filed on this roll, 17 others, numbered 1-5 and 9-20, are now filed at MPH 1/879, and two seem not to have survived.

Arrangement

Item (6) follows item (8)

Related material

For other items extracted from WO 44/507, see MR 1/1895 MPHH 1/685 MPH 1/875 MPH 1/877 MPH 1/879 MPH 1/876

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured, on tracing paper
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Unpublished finding aids
See also , and
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public RecordOffice: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry2886
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4560921/

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