Catalogue description Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and successors: Public Buildings, Overseas: Registered Files

This series contains correspondence and papers and registered files relating to the acquisition of sites or existing buildings for embassies, consulates and other establishments overseas; the construction and conversion of the individual buildings; their equipment and furnishing, including the supply of pictures; and their subsequent maintenance or disposal.

The series also includes some general files, mainly of the 1950s to 1970s, concerning the ministry's responsibilities for and management of diplomatic buildings overseas.

Most of the files were registered in the AC and EO series, although some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 40

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Controller Generals Division, 1967-1970

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967

Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943

Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962

Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945

Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, Works Department, 1832-1851

Office of Works, 1851-1940

Office of Works, Architects and Surveyors Division, 1902-1914

Office of Works, Architects Division, 1914-1920

Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940

Office of Works, Surveyors Division, 1901-1901

Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Accommodation, 1976-1990

Office of Works , from 1934