Item
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
Six sheets of drawings (enclosures in Captain Spry's despatch of 24 January 1778)...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/703/47-52
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MPHH 1/703/47-52
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Date (When the record was created)
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1778
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Description (What the record is about)
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Six sheets of drawings (enclosures in Captain Spry's despatch of 24 January 1778) of defence works for Halifax, Nova Scotia (now in Canada). (47) 'Design for an Ordnance Wharf and two additional Store-houses at Halifax in Nova Scotia; the whole to be enclosed within a Stone Wall 12 feet high': plan, section, and inset elevation of pier. Scale: plan 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]; section 1 inch to 25 feet [1:300]; pier 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. Compass indicator. (48) 'Plan, Sections & Elevation of a Powder Magazine proposed to be built on Georges Island at Halifax Nova Scotia ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (49) 'Plan of the Citadel Redoubt and Octagon Block House at Halifax'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (50) Section relative to (49). (51) 'Plan of Fort Needham on Pedleys Hill at Halifax'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (52) Section relative to (51). All signed by Captain William Spry, Commanding Royal Engineer. Dimensions of sheets: (47) 43 cm x 41 cm; (48) 37 cm x 47 cm; (49) 27 cm x 43 cm; (50) 30 cm x 47 cm; (51) 29 cm x 47 cm; (52) 27 cm x 43 cm.
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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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MPHH 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various...
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Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from records of the War Office
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various...
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Within the piece: MPHH 1/703
58 items (numbered 1-45, 47-59) extracted from WO 55/2269. Plans and drawings of...
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Six sheets of drawings (enclosures in Captain Spry's despatch of 24 January 1778)...
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