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3 items (enclosures to Lieutenant Colonel Oldfield's letter of 17 July 1848 to the...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/957
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- MPH 1/957
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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Description (What the record is about)
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3 items (enclosures to Lieutenant Colonel Oldfield's letter of 17 July 1848 to the Inspector general of Fortifications) extracted from WO 44/522. (1) No 3: 'Extreme right of the Devonport Lines shewing the space... which might be made generally available as the site of the proposed Workhouse'. Scale: 5 inches to 800 feet [1:1920]. Compass indicator. Signed by R J Nelson, Captain, Royal Engineers, 15 July 1848. (2) No 2: 'Block plan of proposed new Workhouse. Devonport'. Scale: 1 inch to 25 feet. (3) [No 1]: 'Plan of Sites proposed for a Workhouse by the Commissioners of Devonport'. Scale: probably 1 inch to 1 chain (scale-bar is damaged). Compass indicator. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 20 cm x 15 cm; (2) 50 cm x 35 cm; (3) 40 cm x 47 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured; (2, 3) are on tracing paper and damaged
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- Open Document, Open Description
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