Catalogue description Office of Works: Deeds, Series II

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Reference: WORK 8
Title: Office of Works: Deeds, Series II
Description:

This is the second series of title deeds of the Commissioners of Works.

The deeds relate to ancient monuments and historic buildings; art and science buildings; courts of law; General Register House and General Post Office, Edinburgh; the Isle of Man; metropolitan police courts; Ministry of Labour training centres; Pimlico improvements; public offices under the Public Offices Sites Acts 1855 to 1897; public buildings overseas; the Public Record Office; royal parks and palaces; statues; Thames Embankment and Chelsea Bridge; Westminster improvements (Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Bridge estate and the Houses of Parliament); and Windsor improvements.

Date: 1710-1904
Related material:

Deeds to which the commissioners were a party are in:

E 159

LRRO 13

LRRO 14

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

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

Office of Works, 1378-1832

Office of Works, 1851-1940

Physical description: 82 box(es)

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