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Catalogue description Admiralty, Navy Works Department and predecessors: Naval Establishments: Plans and Drawings
| Reference: | WORK 41 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Admiralty, Navy Works Department and predecessors: Naval Establishments: Plans and Drawings |
| Description: |
This series contains plans of naval establishments, including dockyards, naval hospitals, workshops and magazines. The bulk of these plans date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although a substantial minority are of eighteenth-century origin. |
| Date: | c1760-1970 |
| Related material: |
For records of naval works, see Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard and related bodies, Division within ADM |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Admiralty, Civil Engineer in Chief's Department, 1919-1960 Admiralty, Directorate of Works, 1837-1919 Board of Admiralty, Surveyor of Buildings, 1832-1837 Navy Board, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796-1813 Navy Board, Surveyor of Buildings, 1813-1832 |
| Physical description: | 671 flat sheets and rolls |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1967 Ministry of Public Building and Works |
| Custodial history: | These files were inherited by the Ministry of Public Building and Works from the Navy Works Department of the Admiralty in 1963. It is likely that they were regarded as of primarily historical interest by that date. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
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