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Miscellanea includes letter from Joseph Bennett sec to I K Brunel to GWR regarding...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1014/36
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellanea includes letter from Joseph Bennett sec to I K Brunel to GWR regarding payments to the latter, 27 December 1859, and an Ancient Order of Forresters ticket for excursion to Southampton on the London and South Western Railway - 'Open Carriages' at 4/6d (01/08/1853)
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Photographs, prints and various illustrations collected in the Great Western Railway Central Record Office and located in `Cupboard 36'. An unspecified number of items appear to have been indexed (with references 36R or 36AR) in the B.T.H.R. card index but all the material found in the cupboard when the Public Record Office took over custody of the archive has now been arranged under the various subject headings below. Alphabetical contents lists are filed with each category. Reassociated with Malan Photographs as RAIL 1014/19 Part IV End. HRP 1/38
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- HRP 1/35
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Railways
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Great Western Railway Collection
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