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Three sheets of drawings of defences on St Christopher, all endorsed as coming from...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/265
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This record is about the Three sheets of drawings of defences on St Christopher, all endorsed as coming from... dating from 1808 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPH 1/265
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1808
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Three sheets of drawings of defences on St Christopher, all endorsed as coming from Charles W. Shipley, Brig Gen CRE West Indies, Barbados, 3 September 1808. (1) 'Plan, and Section of a Wall, to Close the East Gulley of the Post at Brimstone Hill... as recommended by the Board of Officers sent to the West Indies in 1791'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. (2) 'Plan & Section Shewing the works already executed, and what is farther proposed,... for compleating the project for Monkey-Hill or Fort Charlotte'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. Compass indicator. Signed by Shipley, 3 September 1808. (3) 'General Plan of Brimston Hill' (endorsement). Reference table to batteries proposed to be established. Part of the right side of this plan has perished, including title, scale and key to lettered points. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 25.1 cm x 50.5 cm; (2) 49.5 cm x 67.3 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1253
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- Public Record(s)
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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), entry 3641
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4562072/
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