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4 items (enclosures in letter of 11 April 1850 from the Commanding Royal Engineer...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/960
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This record is about the 4 items (enclosures in letter of 11 April 1850 from the Commanding Royal Engineer... dating from 1850 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 1/960
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850
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Description (What the record is about)
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4 items (enclosures in letter of 11 April 1850 from the Commanding Royal Engineer Malta) extracted from WO 44/522. Malta: Senglea. (1) 'Plan and Elevation of the New Entrance proposed to be constructed by the Civil Gov t. through the Lines of Sanglea'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (Sgnd) W Lamb Arrowsmith, Superintendent of Government Works, 28 December 1849. (2) 'Plan and Section of Buejba Sallyport, on the West Side of Isola. Malta'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. Drawn by Charles A Broke, Captain, Royal Engineers, 14 March 1850. (3) 'Plan and Section of the Sallyport, and Drawbridge at Isola Point. Malta'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. Compass indicator. Drawn by Broke, 9 April 1850. (4) 'Plan of part of Isola de Senglea shewing the present Sally-port and that proposed to be formed by the Civil Gover t'. Scale: 1 inch to 250 feet [1:3,000]. Compass indicator. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 48 cm x 71 cm; (2) 57 cm x 39 cm; (3) 33 cm x 45 cm; (4) 28 cm x 46 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured; (1) on tracing paper
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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 3220.
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