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Gibraltar. (8) 'Sketches of Flag-Staff for Upper Signal Station': sheet bearing front...

Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/57/8-9

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MFQ 1/57/8-9
Date
[1844]
Description

Gibraltar. (8) 'Sketches of Flag-Staff for Upper Signal Station': sheet bearing front and side views. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (9) 'Plan and Section of Signal-Staff for the Upper Signal Station shewing the proposed Lightning Conductor on Mr Snow Harris's principle'. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]. Inset: side view; scale: 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]. Pencilled amendments. Signed: Lieutenant Frederick English, Royal Engineers. Dimensions: (8) 26 cm x 27 cm; (9) 28 cm x 26 cm. Item 8 originally accompanying a report and estimate by Colonel George J Harding, Commanding Royal Engineers, 20 April 1844; item 9 originally accompanying the addenda to this report.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured, on tracing paper
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 1960
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9092854/

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