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'General Wray's proposed plan for laying down a light tramway from Axim to Tarqua...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/762/7
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This record is about the 'General Wray's proposed plan for laying down a light tramway from Axim to Tarqua... dating from 1889 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MR 1/762/7
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889
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Description (What the record is about)
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'General Wray's proposed plan for laying down a light tramway from Axim to Tarqua [Tarkwa]': detailed view of a tramway construction camp, showing work to be undertaken (including tree-felling, sawing and pile-driving), bridges, a water tank, and the European quarters. Copied by George E Ferguson, Accra, 4 May 1889. 2 insets: a view of the coast at Axim, showing the fort, the village and the tramway terminus; a view of raft bridge across the Bonsa River. Originally enclosure number 8 in Gold Coast [despatch] number 184, 28 June 1889.
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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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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 60 cm x 99 cm
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, watercolour
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1064
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9147334/
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