Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: Office for Wales: Registered Files (G Series)

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Reference: BD 41
Title: Board of Trade and successors: Office for Wales: Registered Files (G Series)
Description:

The files in this series cover all aspects of the work of the Board of Trade and successor's regional office for Wales, including a wide range of general and geographical policy matters, together with some casework, concerning industrial development and employment in Wales. They deal mainly with the designation of industrial development areas, the establishment of industrial estates and government-sponsored factories and the redeployment of labour in the South Wales coal industry. The series also includes files relating to the Aberfan tip disaster of 1966 and its aftermath.

Date: 1943-1998
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: G file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Welsh Assembly Government, 2006-2011

Welsh Government, 2011-

Physical description: 479 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1991 Welsh Office

Custodial history: The files in the G series originated in the Office for Wales of the Board of Trade. They were passed to the Welsh Office in 1975.
Accumulation dates: 1945 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing

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