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Barbados: Carlisle Bay. 'Ricketts Battery (site of)... Record Plan of buildings and...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/415
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This record is about the Barbados: Carlisle Bay. 'Ricketts Battery (site of)... Record Plan of buildings and... dating from 1899 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPHH 1/415
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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Barbados: Carlisle Bay. 'Ricketts Battery (site of)... Record Plan of buildings and land handed over from W.D. [War Department] to Colonial authorities ...': showing the location of the battery on the coast. Reference notes. Scale not shown. Compass indicator. Copied by Company Sergeant Major C Barnard, Foreman of Works, Royal Engineers, 11 January 1899; from a tracing signed by Captain F E Warburton, Royal Engineers, 14 June 1869. Completed and signed by C P Rogers, A S D O, for Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Royal Engineer Barbados, on leave, 14 January and 4 February 1899. Inset: Plan of Ricketts Battery; scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. Plan shows the land transferred in 1898 in accordance with War Office letters of 1896 and referred to in the letter from the General Officer Commanding Barbados to the Under Secretary of State for War, 23 December 1898.
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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)
- F 306
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/2122
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 67.1 cm x 101.9 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:240
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 3194
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561519/
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