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Series
Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Water...
Catalogue reference: HLG 127
What's it about?
HLG 127
These files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relate mainly to the exercise by those departments of their responsibilities under the Water Acts 1945 to 1948 and the Water...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HLG 127
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Water and Sewerage, Registered Files (WS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relate mainly to the exercise by those departments of their responsibilities under the Water Acts 1945 to 1948 and the Water Resources Act 1963. The series contains general policy files and case files dealing with specific water and river authorities. The subjects covered include: the organisation of water resources, water supplies and charges, water pollution, underground water, fluoridation and drought. The series includes minutes and papers of the Central Advisory Water Committee.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also AT 19
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- WS file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1661 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1982 Department of the Environment
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8822/
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