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           ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE


[[INTRODUCTION]]

Until the present century, the British Government's interest in
architecture was largely confined to public and Crown buildings and to
schemes for buildings and works by local authorities under various acts of
Parliament.  The majority of architectural drawings in the Public Record
Office reflect that interest.  Most departments treated architectural
drawings as maps and plans, and readers are advised also to consult Records
Information 91, Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office.  Although some
departments, notably the Office of Works, accumulated discrete series of
maps and plans which consist largely or wholly of architectural drawings,
the majority of such drawings are bound up with correspondence, included
in registered files and otherwise distributed among the records.  Even the
Office of Works has probably transferred at least as many drawings on
registered files as in classes of maps and plans.  There is usually no
indication in the class lists that drawings are present in such cases.

For convenience, the PRO has also treated architectural drawings as
maps and plans.


[[FINDING AIDS]]

(i)   [Printed catalogues]

      Many drawings are described in the published catalogues.

      Three volumes have been published by HMSO as: Maps and Plans in the
      Public Record Office:

      1.    British Isles c.1410-1860 (1967)

      2.    America and West Indies (1974)

      3.    Africa (1983)

      A fourth volume, Europe and Turkey, is in preparation.  A typescript
      draft is available in the Map Room at Kew.

      A catalogue of maps and plans of Japan is being compiled.  The draft
      catalogue entries are available in the Map Room, Kew and the Long
      Room at Chancery Lane.

(ii)  [Supplementary card catalogue]

      Many other architectural drawings are described in the supplementary
      card catalogue in the Map Room at Kew.  A few architectural drawings,
      plans of gardens etc, with cannot be identified by a precise
      geographical location are catalogued by subject as non-cartographic
      extracts.  This card catalogue also includes references to views -
      these may include representations of buildings as an integral part
      of the panorama.

(iii) [Summary calendar of unextracted maps]

      The Summary calendar of maps and plans comprises brief descriptions
      of uncatalogued maps and plans which remain within their parent
      documents.  Two volumes of the calendar form a subject index in two
      parallel series.  The subject indexes provide direct references to
      documents containing architectural drawings and building plans (the
      latter sometimes no more than outline ground plans, as well as more
      detailed scale drawings).  Subject headings include architectural
      drawings; buildings (by type); fortifications; and housing.  A
      thesaurus of headings precedes each index.

(iv)  [Class Lists]

      Classes consisting only of maps and plans are normally provided with
      lists which are available in the reading rooms.  Few of these maps
      and plans are further described in the printed or supplementary card
      catalogues.  See Appendix "List of classes containing Architectural
      Drawings".

(v)   [Plans drawn by named architects]

      Drawings by individual architects may be identified through the card
      index to surveyors, draughtsmen etc, and through a typescript index
      to signed drawings in the Office of Works, available on open shelves
      in the Map Room, Kew.  The summary catalogue of unextracted maps also
      includes an index to architects and surveyors.


[[ARCHITECTURAL FURNISHINGS AND FITTINGS]]

Other pictorial sources of information: registered designs of fixtures and
fittings; photographs.

Architectural details and fittings, including such matters as sanitation
and ornament, may have been the subject of patents of invention.  Some
include drawings, or specifications.  Specifications in the custody of the
Public Record Office extend only to 1853.  A subject index is available in
the Long Room, Chancery Lane.  For further information see Records
Information 17, Patents and Specifications for Inventions and Patent
Policy.  It is important to note that patents are essentially statements
of intent, which may or may not have achieved commercial realisation. 
Similarly, numerous representations of ornaments and fittings have been
protected as registered designs under successive acts of Parliament.  The
registers began in 1839.  As well as designs for wallpaper and furnishing
fabrics they include, for example, decorative ironwork (including
fireplaces and railings), lamps and lamp fittings, and architectural
woodwork.  For further guidance, see Records Information 42, Designs and
Trade Marks.  The Public Record Office has an extensive accumulation of
photographs, including some of architectural interest.  For further details
see Records Information 90, Photographs in the Public Record Office.



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                                APPENDIX

          [[LIST OF CLASSES CONTAINING ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS]]

The following is a list of classes consisting entirely or largely of
architectural drawings and of certain classes of correspondence, papers
etc. known to contain drawings in some quantity.  Many other classes
besides these contain architectural drawings - in particular, most classes
of Office of Works registered files.  This list is arranged by record
groups; an asterisk against the name of the group indicates that the
classes described below it are held and may be seen only at Chancery Lane;
the remainder are held and may be seen only at Kew.

Covering dates relate to the entire class and not necessarily to the
architectural drawings in it.

This list contains entries of classes that have not yet been transferred
to the Public Record Office but to which class number and title have been
assigned.  Further information about these classes will be given in later
editions of this list.

Unless otherwise stated, all classes are subject to the 30 year rule.



[[UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY AND PREDECESSORS (AB)]]

AB 5      <<Chalk River Project, 1945-1946: Engineering Drawings>>.  1943-
          1946.  Includes drawings of the buildings at the Chalk River
          Laboratory.

AB 72     Culham Laboratory: Building Works: Correspondence and Papers. 
          1962-1970.

AB 85     Northern Groups: Buildings and Works: Correspondence and Papers. 
          1947-1964.  Includes plans of laundry buildings at Windscale.


[[ADMIRALTY AND NAVAL DEPARTMENTS (ADM)]]

ADM 79    <<Greenwich Hospital Surveys, Rentals etc>>.  1547-1928. 
          Includes drawings of Greenwich Hospital School, Greenwich Market
          and several taverns.

ADM 140   <<Works Departments Maps and Plans>>.  1708-1922.  Naval
          dockyards, buildings etc. at Chatham, Deal, Deptford, Devonport,
          Great Yarmouth, Greenwich, Milford Haven, Pembroke, Plymouth,
          Sheerness and Woolwich, and overseas at Antigua, Ascension
          Island, Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar and Minorca.  The class also
          contains plans of Somerset House showing Admiralty offices.  See
          also WORK 41.

ADM 305   Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar: Miscellaneous Books and Records. 
          Includes plans.


[[AIR DEPARTMENTS (AIR)]]

AIR 56    <<Headquarters No. 90 (Signals) Group: Technical Drawings>>. 
          1934-1952.  Drawings of transmitting and receiving stations,
          aerial systems, and various parts of telecommunications
          equipment.  Those of an earlier date than 1946 originated with
          the several predecessors of No. 90 Group.


[[BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION AND BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD (AN)]]

AN 31     <<British Railways: London Midland Region: Station Plans and
          Drawings>>.  1948-1966.  Includes plans relating to the
          reconstruction of Euston station, 1960-1966.

AN 48     <<British Railways: Western Region: Station Plans and Drawings>>. 
          1850-1960.  Before 1948, these plans are of the Great Western and
          the London, Midland and Scottish Railways.  Many relate to Snow
          Hill station, Birmingham.

AN 109    <<British Railways and Predecessor Railway Companies: Hotels and
          Catering Services: Minutes, Reports, Papers and Miscellaneous
          Records>>.  1838-1987.  Includes a large number of plans of
          railway hotels, restaurants cars, tea rooms etc.


[[DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT (AT)]]

AT 13     <<Ancient Monuments Branch: Plans>>.  1971-1980.  Drawings of
          castles, ecclesiastical buildings, antiquities and other ancient
          monuments in the care of the Department.


[[WELSH OFFICE (BD)]]

BD 11     <<Local Authority Files (LA Series)>>.  1854-1977.  Includes
          plans of proposed housing estates, including plans of individual
          house types; and plans of civic buildings and general civil
          engineering.


[[NATIONAL DOCK LABOUR CORPORATION AND BOARD (BK)]]

BK 7      <<National Dock Labour Board: Premises Plans>>.  1949-1983. 
          Plans of offices, dockers' shelters and clubs in Grimsby, London,
          Southampton and Workington.

BK 17     <<National Dock Labour Board: New Premises Document Folders>>. 
          1949-1986.  Files, most of which include plans, concerning clubs,
          call stands, medical centres and offices.


[[COLONIAL OFFICE (CO)]]

The original correspondence of the Colonial Office contains numerous
drawings of official buildings and civic amenities overseas.  Corresponding
files and drawings may be found among the records of the Ministry of Works
and its successors, particularly in WORK 10.


[[CROWN ESTATE COMMISSIONERS (CRES) *]]

CRES 2    <<General Unfiled Correspondence and Papers>>.  1513-1913 The
          class includes large numbers of drawings, some by eminent
          architects, of plans and elevations of existing and proposed
          building on Crown property.  It is particularly important for
          buildings in London.  The class list does not necessarily note
          the presence of plans within a bundle.  The series is continued
          in CRES 35

CRES 6    <<Constat Books>>.  1660-1918 Includes numerous ground plans of
          Crown buildings, made in connection with sales and leases or
          works.

CRES 39   <<Surveys>>.  1570-1961.  Particularly important for surveys of
          Crown properties in London, although also includes drawings of
          properties elsewhere.  Although many of the London surveys are
          little more than site plans, there are also numerous ground plans
          of individual buildings and some elevations, including at least
          one by Robert Smirke.

CRES 43   <<Photographs of Crown Properties>>.  1765-1967.  The class
          includes a few photographs of architects' drawings.


[[DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (DSIR)]]

DSIR 4    <<Building Research: Correspondence and Papers>>.  1919-1973. 
          These are mainly files of the Building Research Station.  The
          class also includes files of the Department of Scientific and
          Industrial Research relating to building research and a few files
          of the Chief Scientific Advisor's Division of the Ministry of
          Works.  Many files contain drawings: they tend to illustrate
          kinds of buildings and construction problems rather than specific
          places.


[[GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES (DT)]]

DT 21     <<Registrar: Property: Plans, Inventories, Valuations and
          Papers>>.  1900-1983.  These papers relate to building work in
          the various properties owned by the Council, maintenance, and the
          provision of facilities and services such as fire escapes and
          canteens.


[[EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS (ED)]]

ED 29     <<Science and Art Department Building Grant Files>>.  1860-1904. 
          These files contain applications from trustees of science and art
          schools for building grants, details of grants made and
          applications refused, specifications of work and plans of new
          grant-aided buildings etc.

ED 160    <<Further Education: Building Programmes: Files>>.  1936-1966. 
          This class contains particulars of consultations arising from
          local education authorities' proposals regarding their annual
          further education building programmes.  Most of the files contain
          drawings.

ED 173    <<Architects and Building Branch Publications>>.  1968-1976. 
          Technical publications, consisting of volumes and broadsheets,
          issued by the Branch and relating to the design and building of
          educational premises.  Open without restriction.


[[FOREIGN OFFICE (FO)]]

Both the general correspondence of the Foreign Office (which is subdivided
by country) and the embassy and consular correspondence for individual
countries contain numerous drawings relating to the building, extension and
alteration of embassies, consulates and legations overseas.  Original
registers of the Foreign Office may service as a partial index. 
Corresponding files and drawings may be found among the records of the
Ministry of Works and its successors, particularly in WORK 10 and WORK 40.


[[MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND ITS PREDECESSORS (HLG)]]

HLG 6     <<Maps and Plans: Miscellaneous>>.  1800-1919.  Maps, plans and
          drawings in this class are of two types: those submitted by local
          authorities to the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health
          and their predecessors in connection with the approval of schemes
          for buildings and works; and those deposited under public and
          local acts of Parliament.  They include drawings of town halls;
          fire, police, ambulance and other municipal buildings; hospitals,
          libraries, workhouses, markets, cemeteries, chapels, bandstands
          etc.  Only a small proportion of the total  number of drawings
          originally  submitted or deposited has been preserved.

HLG 23    <<Ministry of Health: Sealed Plans>>.  1923-1937.  Plans relating
          to orders made after March 1923 by the Ministry of Health.  They
          include some plans and elevations of buildings.  Reference is by
          means of registers and indexes in HLG 66.

HLG 24    <<Rehousing Schemes of Statutory Undertakers: Sealed Plans and
          Schemes.  1890-1939>>.  These were submitted to the Local
          Government Board as schemes for the provision of accommodation
          for persons displaced from working class dwellings as a result
          of undertakings, including railway, gas, water, tramways, school,
          harbour, road and other improvements and developments under Local
          Acts, Railway Acts and Provisional Order Confirmation Acts.  Such
          rehousing schemes were later carried out under section 3 of the
          Housing of the Working Classes Act 1903, and subsequent housing
          legislation.

HLG 49    <<Housing Proposals and Schemes: Correspondence and Papers>>. 
          1905-1971.  General and local authority files of the Local
          Government Board, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
          and the Department of the Environment relating to measures taken
          by Parliament, local authorities, housing associations and other
          bodies for the planned development of housing programmes and
          schemes.  Papers relate to proposals and plans for housing and
          town development, acquisition of land, loan sanctions, district
          valuers' and surveyors' reports, etc.  Many of the files contain
          drawings and plans.

HLG 111   <<Ministry of Housing and Local Government: Miscellaneous Sealed
          Plans>>.  1951-1955.  Sealed plans of the Ministry from February
          1951.  The register which serves as a means of reference to these
          plans is in HLG 66/58.

HLG 126   <<Registered  Files:  Ancient  Monuments  and  Historic
          Buildings>>.  1920-1982.  Files, formerly of the Ministry of
          Works, re-registered.  The files, many of which contain maps and
          plans, relate to the maintenance and preservation of buildings
          of outstanding historic and architectural interest.  See also AT
          13, WORK 31, WORK 14.


[[HOME OFFICE (HO)]]

HO 20     <<Home Office and Ministry of Home Security: Civil Defence
          Regions: Headquarters and Regional Files>>.  1935-1957.  Files
          relating to the co-ordination of civil defence and related
          services and to preparations for dealing with civil emergencies,
          including invasion.  Many files include drawings of air raid
          shelters, control and decontamination centres, cleansing stations
          and other civil defence structures.


[[BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE (IR)]]

IR 58     <<Valuation Office: Field Books>>.  1910-c.1915, Records of
          property valuations compiled in pursuance of the Finance (1909-
          1910) Act 1910.  Some books contain large numbers of sketch plans
          of buildings.  Although plans are present in only a minority of
          the books, many entries throughout this large record class detail
          matters such as the internal arrangement of buildings and the
          number of rooms; the material used in the construction; and
          alterations to the structure.  In a minority of instances the
          surveyor may have included a more detailed description of
          internal architectural fittings.


[[LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DEPARTMENT (LC) *]]

LC 7      <<Theatres>>.  1660-1901.  Ground plans and elevations.  c.1870-
          1900.


[[OFFICE OF LAND REVENUE RECORDS AND ENROLMENTS AND ITS PREDECESSORS
AND ASSOCIATED DEPARTMENTS]]

LRRO 1    <<Maps and Plans>>.  1560-1953.  Numerous architectural plans and
          drawings.  Especially important for property owned by the Crown
          within Greater London and the south-east, including Regent's
          Street, Regent's Park, Westminster, Richmond, Eltham and Windsor. 
          Many plans relate to files in CRES 2.


[[METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICE (MEPO)]]

MEPO 9    <<Architectural Plans and Drawings>>.  1847-1957.  These relate
          mainly to police stations and married quarters.


MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND ITS PREDECESSORS (MH)

MH 14     <<Poor Law Union Plans>>.  1861-1918.  These relate to land and
          buildings used for Poor Law purposes.  The plans bear the numbers
          of the papers to which they refer in: where such papers survive,
          they are to be found in MH 12.  Later plans have not yet been
          transferred.


MH 83     <<Lunacy Commission and Board of Control: Mental Hospital
          Buildings: Correspondence and Papers>>.  1845-1954. 
          Correspondence and papers relating to the building of asylums and
          hospitals, acquisition of land, contracts, planning etc.  Many
          files contain plans and drawings.


[[TRANSPORT DEPARTMENTS (MT)]]

MT 21     <<Ramsgate Harbour: Deeds, Evidences and Plans>>.  1613-1939. 
          The plans, at the end of the class, apparently modern, are of the
          harbour, harbour property, the pier, motor tugs and other
          vessels.


[[PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE (PRO)]]

PRO 8     <<Miscellanea>>.  1772-1977.  This class includes miscellaneous
          correspondence and papers relating to the building, maintenance
          and regulation of the Public Record Office and the Rolls Chapel
          repository, plans and drawings of the Office, and a register of
          correspondence of James (later Sir James) Pennethorne relating
          to the construction of the Office and the Museum of Practical
          Geology.

PRO 50*   <<Plans of the Public Record Office: Chancery Lane>>.  1944-
          1964.  Floor plans, plans of the electrical heating and hot water
          systems, and of the layout of the museum.  Includes plans for a
          proposed extension of the Chancery Lane building.  Earlier plans
          are mostly in PRO 8, WORK 6 and WORK 12.

PRO 55    <<Hayes  Intermediate  Repository:  Maps,  Plans and
          Photographs>>.  1953-1973.  Plans and photographs relating to the
          planning and development of the Public Record Office intermediate
          Repository.

PRO 62    <<Maps, Plans and Photographs: Kew>>.  1928-1978.  Includes
          photographs showing construction of the Public Record Office,
          Kew.

PRO 65    <<Maps, Plans and Photographs of the PubliC Record Office>>:
          Former Repositories and Offices.


[[RECORDS  OF  PRE-NATIONALIZATION RAILWAY,  CANAL AND  RELATED
COMPANIES, LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD, AND SUCCESSORS (RAIL)]]

The records of most railway companies contain maps and plans in quantity. 
They are most usually found in composite classes such as deeds and
contracts, and miscellanea, and in those classes which contain all the
surviving records of a particular company.  Plans include architectural
drawings of stations and bridges, often with elevations and sometimes
including constructional details.  They include plans by the major railway
architects.  The classes are too numerous to list here.


[[TREASURY SOLICITOR AND H.M. PROCURATOR GENERAL (TS) *]]

TS 45     <<Miscellaneous Books on Admiralty Causes>.  1841-1867.  This
          class includes plans of coastguard stations, 1858- 1867.


[[WAR OFFICE (WO)]]

WO 44     <<Ordnance Office: In-Letters>>.  1682-1873.  Original
          correspondence of the Ordnance Office, which except for a small
          section of miscellaneous letters is almost entirely of
          nineteenth-century date.  The class includes many plans of
          barracks, fortifications and other buildings for which the Board
          of Ordnance was responsible.

WO 55     <<Ordnance Office: Miscellanea>.  1568-1923.  This class includes
          engineers' papers and letter books, 1785-1868; returns of land,
          rents and buildings, 1732-1923; and miscellaneous books and
          papers, 1568-1865.  Many of these include plans of buildings for
          which the Board of Ordnance was responsible.

WO 78     <<Maps and Plans>>.  1627-1953.  These were compiled or collected
          by the Ordnance Survey, the Topographical Branches of the War
          Office and of the Commander in Chief and the Director of
          Fortifications and Works.  They include many record plans of
          fortifications and barracks.  See also WORK 43.

WO 192    <<Fort Record Books>>.  1892-1957.  The official records of the
          operation, administration and history of forts at home and
          abroad.  Many include drawings.

WO 385    <<Board of Ordnance and Successors: Royal Gunpowder Factory and
          Successors, Waltham Abbey: Maps and Plans>>.


[[WORKS DEPARTMENTS AND PROPERTY SERVICES AGENCY (WORK)]]

WORK 13   <<Deeds etc. Series III (Contract Rolls)>>.  1844-1951.  These
          are the original contracts for the erection and maintenance of
          various public offices, royal residences, post offices and other
          public buildings (including a few overseas), with attached
          specifications of work and material, and architects' drawings
          relating thereto.

WORK 25   <<Festival of Britain>>.  1948-1952.  Includes plans and drawings
          of the Festival site, pavilions, exhibition areas, restaurant,
          other public areas, etc.


WORK 29   <<Maps and Plans: Houses of Parliament>>.  1698-1927.  The class
          includes plans earlier than the fire of 1834, competition
          drawings for the new building, plans of the old Westminster Hall
          and a volume of designs for rebuilding made in 1739.

WORK 30   <<Maps and Plans Public Buildings in England>>.  1738-1946. 
          Includes drawings of coastguard stations, county courts, customs
          houses, post offices and other GPO establishments, and telephone
          buildings, as well as central government buildings in London and
          elsewhere.  Many other drawings are in WORK 12.

WORK 31   <<Maps and Plans Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings>>. 
          1666-1970.  Includes drawings of castles and forts; cathedrals,
          churches and chapels; halls, houses and farms; windmills, tithe
          barns and other buildings in the care of the Department.  Many
          other drawings are in WORK 14.  See also HLG 126.

WORK 32   <<Maps and Plans: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens>>.  1701-1930. 
          Includes drawings of the buildings in Hyde Park, Kew Gardens,
          Richmond Park, St. James's Park etc.  Many other drawings are in
          WORK 16.

WORK 33   <<Maps and Plans: Art and Science Buildings>>.  1815-1952. 
          Includes drawings of national museums and galleries.  Many other
          drawings are in WORK 17.

WORK 34   <<Maps and Plans Royal Palaces>>.  1662-1935.  Includes drawings
          of the palaces at Hampton Court, Kensington, Kew and Windsor, as
          well as Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace and Marlborough
          House.  Many other drawings are in WORK 19.

WORK 35   <<Maps and Plans: Statues and Memorials>>.  Includes drawings of
          Wellington Arch,  Trafalgar Square,  the Albert Memorial, the
          Queen Victoria Memorial, as well as many individual statues and
          other memorials.  Many other drawings are in WORK 20.

WORK 36   <<Maps and Plans Ceremonial>>.  1685-1936.  Includes drawings of
          Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral and other buildings as
          used on state occasions.

WORK 37   <<Maps and Plans Osborne House>>.  1843-1952.  Includes drawings
          of other buildings on the estate.  Many other drawings are in
          WORK 15.

WORK 38   <<Maps and Plans Miscellaneous>>.  1662-1951.  Includes drawings
          of prisons, law buildings, churches and cathedrals, bridges,
          Woolwich Dockyard, Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, buildings
          in Westminster, wireless stations etc.  Many other drawings are
          in WORK 6.

WORK 40   <<Maps and Plans: Public Buildings Overseas>>.  1852-1952. 
          Drawings of embassies, consulates and legations overseas.  Many
          other drawings are in WORK 10.  Photographs are in WORK 55.  Both
          the general correspondence of the Foreign Office (which is
          subdivided by country) and the embassy and consular
          correspondence for individual countries also contain numerous
          drawings relating to the building, extension and alteration of
          embassies, consulates and legations overseas.  Original registers
          of the Foreign Office may serve as a partial index.

WORK 41   <<Maps and Plans: Naval Establishments>>.  c.1760-1949.  Drawings
          of naval establishments, including dockyards, naval hospitals,
          workshops and magazines.  These are records of the Works
          Departments of the Navy Board and the Admiralty.  See also ADM
          140.

WORK 42   <<Maps and Plans: Public Buildings in Northern Ireland>>.  1920-
          1929.  Drawings of the Parliament buildings in Belfast.

WORK 43   <<Maps and Plans: Army Establishments>>.  1713-1963.  Drawings
          of barracks, depots, forts, batteries etc.  These are records of
          the Board of Ordnance and of the Directorate of Fortifications
          and Works of the War Office.  See also WO 44, WO 55 and WO 78.

WORK 44   <<Maps and Plans: Air Force Establishments>>.  1914-1956. 
          Drawings of R.A.F. Spittlegate and Gosport; Ringway, Manchester;
          Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough; Central Flying School,
          Upavon; and other sites, sheds etc.

WORK 50   <<Government Property Registers>>.  1716-1959.  Site plans,
          including architectural plans, of land and property owned or held
          by the Office of Works, the Office of Woods, Forests and Land
          Revenues, and the Ministry of Works on behalf of most government
          departments.  Plans include coastguard stations, post and
          telegraph offices, and ancient sites and monuments.  Some volumes
          include elevations as well as ground plans.

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