Catalogue description Records of Cadw and predecessors

Details of Division within BD
Reference: Division within BD
Title: Records of Cadw and predecessors
Description:

Records of Cadw and predecessors relating to the maintenance of monuments and historic buildings in Wales.

Records of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales are in BD 34. Reports of the Ancient Monuments Branch are in BD 42 and ancient monuments and historic buildings files of Cadw and predecessors are in BD 68
Date: 1931-1987
Related material:

Records of Ancient Monuments Branches are in Division within WORK

See also the Department of the Environment, Division within AT

Records of the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales are in WORK 48
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cadw, 1984-

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1962-1969

Ministry of Works and Buildings, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1942-1943

Ministry of Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1943-1962

Office of Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1912-1940

Welsh Office, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1969-1991
Physical description: 4 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Responsibility for ancient monuments in Wales passed successively from the Office of Works to the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Public Building and Works and, on 1 April 1969, to the Secretary of State for Wales. The Ancient Monuments Board for Wales and the Historic Buildings Council for Wales both now reported to him.

In April 1991, responsibility for ancient monuments passed to Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency.

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