Área de identidad
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Fecha(s)
- 1731-1961 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1.37 linear metres (281 files).
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Woolwich Arsenal was developed from the Royal Laboratory, Carriage Department and Powder House. It dates to the Tudor period and was a centre for the manufacture and testing of arms. It housed the main Government foundry. It was named the Warren until 1805 when George III renamed it the Royal Arsenal. Up to 40,000 workers were employed there during the Second World War. Post-war, the site was reduced in size and some was sold off for housing development.
Information from The London Encyclopaedia, eds. Weinreb and Hibbert (LMA Library Reference 67.2 WEI).
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
GB 0074 ACC/1601 1731-1961 Collection 1.37 linear metres (281 files). War Department
Woolwich Arsenal was developed from the Royal Laboratory, Carriage Department and Powder House. It dates to the Tudor period and was a centre for the manufacture and testing of arms. It housed the main Government foundry. It was named the Warren until 1805 when George III renamed it the Royal Arsenal. Up to 40,000 workers were employed there during the Second World War. Post-war, the site was reduced in size and some was sold off for housing development.
Information from The London Encyclopaedia, eds. Weinreb and Hibbert (LMA Library Reference 67.2 WEI).
Transferred to the Greater London Record Office [now LMA] on 28 November 1980.
Deeds relating to lands, mainly in Plumstead and Erith, purchased by the War Department for the extension of Woolwich Arsenal and subsequently sold by the Ministry of Defence to London County Council, 19 December 1975.
Details of property given are very scanty but marginal plans aid in location of the plots. The deed packets also contain some related papers.
The deeds have been catalogued according to original file order, and chronologically within each file.
Available for general access.
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
English
Fit
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Records prepared May to September 2011. Plumstead Europe UK Western Europe England London Erith Royal Arsenal , Woolwich Greenwich Woolwich
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Transferred to the Greater London Record Office [now LMA] on 28 November 1980.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Deeds relating to lands, mainly in Plumstead and Erith, purchased by the War Department for the extension of Woolwich Arsenal and subsequently sold by the Ministry of Defence to London County Council, 19 December 1975.
Details of property given are very scanty but marginal plans aid in location of the plots. The deed packets also contain some related papers.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
The deeds have been catalogued according to original file order, and chronologically within each file.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Available for general access.
Condiciones
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Idioma del material
- inglés
Escritura del material
- latín
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
English
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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Idioma(s)
- inglés