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Plan: 'Sketch of the Ordnance Lands at Berry Head': tracing of MPHH 1/692/1.
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/692/7
Date: 1831
Plan: 'Sketch of the Ordnance Lands at Berry Head': tracing of MPHH 1/692/1.
Item
Seven sheets of drawings of proposed fortifications for St John's, Lower Canada,...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/688/59-65
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- MPHH 1/688/59-65
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839-1840
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Description (What the record is about)
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Seven sheets of drawings of proposed fortifications for St John's, Lower Canada, originally made to accompany report and estimate dated 11 January 1840 submitted by Lieutenant Colonel J Oldfield, Commanding Royal Engineer in the Canadas. (59) Sections through ABC, ZW and XYTV, relating to plate 1 [ie item (63) below]. Scales: ABC: 1 inch to 40 feet; ZW and XYTV vertical scale: 1 inch to 50 feet and horizontal scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Drawn by Lieutenant H A White, Royal Engineers, 14 January 1840. (60) 'Tower proposed to be erected in the North West Bastion of the Fort ...': plans, section and elevation. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]. Drawn by Lieutenant A H Freeling, Royal Engineers, 31 December 1839. (61) Plan and section of the bridge leading to the Fort at St John's; with enlarged section of drawbridge lowering mechanism. Scales: plan and section 1 inch to 10 feet; enlarged section 1 inch to 2 feet. Signed by T Hounslow, Temporary Foreman of Works. (62) No 1: plan showing the proposed defences at the fort and Tête de Pont. Scale: 1 inch to 150 yards [1:5,400]. Compass indicator. Certified a true copy: signed by P J Bainbrigge, Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 20 December 1839. (63) No 2: 'Pl. [plate] 1': plan showing the proposed improvements to the fort. Scale: 1 inch to 120 feet [1:1,440]. (Signed) Lieutenant A H Freeling, Royal Engineers, 21 December 1839. Certified a true copy: signed by Bainbrigge. (64) No 3: plan and sections of the proposed river-front fortifications; with enlarged plan and section of a gun traversing platform. Scales: fort: 1 inch to 120 feet [1:1,440]; gun platform: 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]. Compass indicator. Signed by Major [?P Cole], Royal Engineers, District Officer, 9 January 1840. (65) Plate 4: 'Sections on the several Lines shewn in Plate 1'. Drawn by Freeling, 13 January 1840. With later MS pencilled additions. Dimensions of sheets: (59, 60) 56 cm x 40 cm; (61) 38 cm x 26 cm; (62) 43 cm x 54 cm; (63) 28 cm x 42 cm; (64) 52 cm x 41 cm; (65) 52 cm x 41 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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64 items (numbered 1-6, 8-65) extracted from WO 44/36. Plans of defences, barracks...
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