Catalogue description Ministry of Public Building and Works and predecessors: Directorate of Civil Engineering Development and predecessors: Registered Files (UB Series)

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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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