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Catalogue description Ministry of Public Building and Works and predecessors: Directorate of Civil Engineering Development and predecessors: Registered Files (UB Series)
| Reference: | WORK 56 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ministry of Public Building and Works and predecessors: Directorate of Civil Engineering Development and predecessors: Registered Files (UB Series) |
| Description: |
The files in this series include papers relating to plumbing materials and systems, trade waste, and the maintenance of the Iron Bridge at Telford in Shropshire. The files were registered or re-registered in the UB series; several of them were inherited by the Directorate of Civil Engineering Development from other parts of the Ministry. |
| Date: | 1936-1979 |
| Related material: |
For later files see CM 28 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | UB file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Research and Development, Directorate of Civil Engineering Development, 1969-1970 Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Public Health Engineering Section, 1962-1963 Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Civil Engineering Section, 1963-1968 Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, Structural Engineering Section, 1962-1963 Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyors Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1940-1942 Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, Architectural Division, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1942-1943 Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Public Health Engineering Section, 1958-1962 Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Architects Branch, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1945-1957 Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, Structural Engineering Branch, 1961-1962 Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, Architectural Division, Sanitary Engineering Section, 1943-1945 Office of Works, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyors Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1928-1940 |
| Physical description: | 21 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1983 Department of the Environment |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Directorate of Civil Engineering Development was formed in 1969, within the Directorate General of Research and Development. By 1970, just prior to the absorption of the ministry within the new Department of the Environment, both had become part of the Controller General's Organisation. |
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