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Malta: Vittoriosa. (1) 'Plan Elevation and Section of Part of the Victoriosa Land...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/614
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This record is about the Malta: Vittoriosa. (1) 'Plan Elevation and Section of Part of the Victoriosa Land... dating from 1806 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 1/614
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1806
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Malta: Vittoriosa. (1) 'Plan Elevation and Section of Part of the Victoriosa Land Front, Malta Shewing the Breach made by the Explosion of a Magazine on the 18 th July 1806 and proposed manner of rebuilding it by L t. Col l. Dickens Com g. R l. Eng r.'. Scale: plan 1 inch to 40 feet [1:480]; elevation and section 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (2) 'Plan Section and Elevation shewing the Breach made by the explosion of a Powder Magazine on the right of the Victoriosa Landfront ...'. Scale not shown. Signed by T M Dickens, Lt RE. This is probably the original drawing on which (1) was based. (3) 'Plan and Elevation shewing the manner and progress of Rebuilding the Right of the Victoriosa Land Front ...'. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. Drawn by Samuel Romilly, Lt RE, on the orders of Dickens, Lt Col CRE, 4 Nov 1806. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 60 cm x 59 cm; (2) 71 cm x 65 cm; (3) 45 cm x 74 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 78/1973
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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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 3490.
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