Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Statues and Memorials: Registered Files

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Details of WORK 20
Reference: WORK 20
Title: Office of Works and successors: Statues and Memorials: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains files and papers relating to the erection and maintenance of public statues and memorials, mainly in London, and the regulation of the use of Trafalgar Square.

Most of the files were registered in the AF series, but some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

Date: 1810-1988
Related material:

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 35

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

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

Physical description: 371 boxes and files
Access conditions: Open
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Office of Works first acquired responsibility for statues and memorials in London under the Public Statues Act of 1854. Its responsibilities extended gradually beyond those named in the schedule to the Act, to encompass not merely individual pieces, but also the management of Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square.

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