Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments: Inspectors' Notebooks, Reports, Visit Books and Diaries

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Reference: WORK 82
Title: Office of Works and successors: Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments: Inspectors' Notebooks, Reports, Visit Books and Diaries
Description:

This series contains a mixture of official reports, correspondence and personal notebooks, visit books and diaries by inspectors from the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, and some miscellaneous material. The official reports relate mainly to the preservation of ancient monuments in the Channel Islands and Jordan, and date from the mid 1950s. The notebooks and diaries belonging to two former Chief Inspectors of Ancient Monuments, Bryan Hugh St John O'Neil, 1905-1954, and Paul Kenneth Baillie Reynolds, 1896-1973, mostly record their comments on visits made to ancient monuments in England and Wales.

Date: 1897-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 61 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

Custodial history: The origin of this material is not known in all cases. It was transferred to English Heritage from the predecessor body in 1984.
Accruals: Series is accruing

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