Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Houses of Parliament: Registered Files

This series contains correspondence and papers and registered files relating to the maintenance of the old Palace of Westminster; the fire of 1834; the acquisition of land for the new Houses of Parliament and approaches; the design, erection, decoration, furnishing, equipment, regulation and maintenance of the same; the demolition and rebuilding, 1944 to 1952, of the war-damaged House of Commons; and the maintenance and equipment of the Palace since 1952.

There are a few papers relating to accommodation for state trials and trials of peers in Westminster Hall and the House of Lords, 1709-1873.

Most of the files were registered in the AE series, with a few relating to the roof of Westminster Hall in the AM series. Some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. A few files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 29

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, 1378-1832

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

from 2004 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

from 1934 Office of Works