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851. IOR/L/L/2/1351-1373

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1351-1373
Title:
East India College
Scope & Content:
In December 1804 the East India Company purchased a lease for 21 years on Hertford Castle from the Marquis of Salisbury. East India College opened at the Castle in February 1806 but the premises proved to be unsuitable and the Company decided to build a new College rather than undertake expensive...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1861
Extent:
23 files

852. IOR/L/L/2/1374-1375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1374-1375
Title:
Warley, Essex
Scope & Content:
In 1843 the East India Company purchased 116 acres of land with barrack buildings at Warley in Essex for £15,000 from H M Government for use as recruiting depôt. The barracks were altered and extended to provide quarters for officers, other ranks, and married men. The property was transferred bac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1861
Extent:
2 files

853. IOR/L/L/2/1376 (Sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1376 (Sub-series)
Title:
Milton, Gravesend Kent
Scope & Content:
Two pieces of freehold land in the parish of Milton near Gravesend in Kent purchased in June 1799 by the East India Company from Francis Wadman for £410. It was intended that barracks should be built on the site for the recruits from Chatham, but this became unnecessary when the depôt moved to th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 file

854. IOR/L/L/2/1377 (Sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1377 (Sub-series)
Title:
Wanstead, Essex
Scope & Content:
Three houses with coach houses and stables in Epping Forest.    [The connection of the property with the East India Company has not yet been established.]
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1777
Extent:
1 file

855. IOR/L/L/2/1378-1460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1378-1460
Title:
Board Of Control Offices
Scope & Content:
The Board of Control moved in 1810 from 3 Downing Street to Dorset House on the west side of Whitehall. The Crown purchased the premises from the Dorset family under an agreement of 1808. In 1817, the Board of Control moved into premises on the east of Cannon Row, Parliament Street, which had bee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1652-1826
Extent:
83 files

856. IOR/L/L/2/1461-1463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1461-1463
Title:
Westminster Palace Hotel
Scope & Content:
In 1860, whilst awaiting the completion of the new building at Whitehall, the India Office moved from East India House in Leadenhall Street to temporary accommodation in Victoria Street, occupying the building which was later to become the Westminster Palace Hotel. The Secretary of State moved hi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1866
Extent:
3 files

857. IOR/L/L/2/1464-1668

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1464-1668
Title:
India Office, Westminster
Scope & Content:
HM Office of Works purchased properties for the new government buildings at Westminster under the terms of the Public Offices Extension Act 1859 and the Supplemental Public Offices Extension Act 1861. Part of this land was released to the Secretary of State for India as the site of the new India ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1911
Extent:
205 files

858. IOR/L/L/2/1669-1707

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1669-1707
Title:
India Store Depot, Belvedere Road Lambeth
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1931
Extent:
39 files

859. IOR/L/L/2/1708-1733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1708-1733
Title:
Royal Indian Asylum, Elm Grove Estate Ealing
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1891
Extent:
26 files

860. IOR/L/L/2/1734-1747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1734-1747
Title:
Royal Indian Engineering College Cooper's Hill, Egham Surrey
Scope & Content:
Cooper's Hill estate near Egham in Surrey was purchased by the India Office in 1871 for £55,000 from Albert Grant. The conversion of the property was supervised by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the official opening took place in August 1872. Although the College closed in October 1906, the estate was n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-1913
Extent:
14 files