Ministry of Works and Buildings

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1940-1942
History:	Created May 1940; inherited functions of the Office of Works. Also responsibilities for new civil works and buildings required by other government departments, and for post-war reconstruction. In July 1942 became the Ministry of Works and Planning.
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	PROGuide; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C278166

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1858-1996: Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Brompton Cemetery Working Plans	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 98
2	1867-2006: Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Brompton Cemetery: Unregistered Files, Papers, Drawings and Photographs	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 100
3	1879-1992: Records of the Regions
4	1746-1988: Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Office of Works and successors (WORKS Series)	The National Archives, Kew	TS 59
5	1609-1975: Office of Works and successors: Miscellanea	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 6
6	1748-1882: Epping Forest Commissioners: correspondence, papers and maps	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 9
7	1844-1951: Office of Works and successors: Deeds, Series III (Contract Rolls)	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 13
8	1940-1980: Ministry of Works and Buildings and successors: Construction Industry and Building Materials: Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 45
9	1919-1945: Ministry of Works and predecessors: Official History of the Second World War, Works and Buildings: Unpublished Sources	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 46
10	1716-1999: Office of Works and successors: Government Property Registers	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 50
11	1899-2016: Office of Works and successors: Government Art Collection: Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 54
12	1898-1962: Office of Works and successors: Public Buildings, Overseas: Photographs	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 55
13	1800-1996: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and of successor and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	HLG
14	1918-1979: Ministry of Works and successors: Public Health Engineers, Structural Engineers and New Works Engineers: Registered Files (WS Series)	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 85
15	1841-1973: Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Garden Books	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 86
16	1598-2005: Office of Works and successors: Deeds Registers	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 87
17	1712-1992: Office of Works and successors: Deeds, Series V	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 91
18	1840-2010: Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Brompton Cemetery Records	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 97
19	1852-1994: Property Services Agency: Proposed Official History: Collected Source Material	The National Archives, Kew	CM 68
20	1609-2011: Records of the successive Works departments, and the Ancient Monuments Boards and Inspectorate	The National Archives, Kew	WORK
21	1879-1998: Records created or inherited by the Property Services Agency	The National Archives, Kew	CM
22	1910-1995: Records of the Ministry of Works and successors
23	1609-2005: Corporate and Administrative Records	The National Archives, Kew
24	1910-1955: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Housing Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 13
25	1891-1955: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Housing Registers of Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 14
26	1840-1997: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Public Health and Local Government Legislation, Bill Papers	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 29
27	1914-1966: Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Authority Administration and Finance, Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 53
28	1914-1976: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Local Government Divisions and predecessors: Air Pollution and Smoke Abatement, Registered Files (91213 Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 55
29	1919-1961: Ministry of Health and successors: Confidential General Registered Files (100,000 Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 68
30	1941-1951: Ministry of Works and Buildings and successors: Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey, Reports and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 82
31	1941-1945: Ministry of Town and Country Planning and predecessors: Greater London Plan, Working Papers of Professor Abercrombie	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 85
32	1943-1959: Ministry of Health and successors: Planning and Redevelopment, Registered Files (99,200 Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 104
33	1928-1965: Ministry of Health and successors: Health Division and successors: General Health Questions and Foreign Correspondence, Registered Files (95,000 and 96,000 Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 109
34	1938-1981: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors and successor: Development Plans	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 119
35	1928-1985: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Establishment Division and Establishment and Organisation Division: Registered Files (EST Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 124
36	1920-1997: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments, Registered Files (HB Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 126

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Ministry of Works and Planning	Successor/Predecessor		See Also
2	Office of Works	Successor/Predecessor		See Also