File 3/19 Crew for the Felix Jones Launch of the Political Agent, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses crew for the Felix Jones launch of the Bahrain agency including: Possible alternative employment opportunities. Applications for employment as nakhuda and other crew. List of tools used by the crew. Conditions of service and informal person specification for a carpenter...
File 4/6 Correspondence re: Deposits and other Funds Accounts in the Agency -
Scope & Content:
The file relates to fund accounts held by the Political Agency, Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein), particularly the Agency Funds Account and the Agency Treasury Account. The file consists mainly of correspondence (letters, receipts, statements, memoranda, and related items) dated 24 November 1930 ...
File 4/35 Pay Bills of the Quarantine Medical Officer, Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file contains monthly pay bills for the Medical Officer, Bahrain (Dr, later Lieutenant M L A Steele), from April 1943 to March 1945 inclusive; and accompanying receipts.
File 4/59 REMITTANCE TO SHARJAH FOR AIR FACILITIES ON THE TRUCIAL COAST
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the sending of remittances by the Political Agency, Bahrain to the British Agency, Sharjah as payment to the Rulers of Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Kalba, and Dubai for air facilities on the Trucial Coast. The file includes correspondence between staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain,...
‘File 13/7 Visits of individuals to Nejd Territory Correspondence re:’
Scope & Content:
The file contains requests from a few individuals to the Political Agent, Bahrain for: approval of their plans to travel to Saudi Arabia; provision of letters of introduction; help in obtaining permission from the ruler or other relevant Arab authorities in the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz. The fi...
‘File 16/54 School for the Children of Indian Communities in Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly exchanged between the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban) and the Government of Bahrain (represented by the Adviser to Government, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) on proposals to establish a school for Indian children in Bahrain. The corresp...
‘File No. 16/62 Shortage of meat and vegetables etc supplies in the Bazzar’
Scope & Content:
A single piece of correspondence, a letter from D Ham, Manager of the Bahrain branch of Eastern Bank Limited, to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 14 August 1944 (folio 2). Ham writes that his staff complain of having been unable to obtain meat in the bazaar for a fortnight, and asks if essen...
File 22/3 II Daily readings of maximum and minimum temperatures, humidity, etc.
Scope & Content:
Most of the papers in the file are statistical report sheets containing data about weather conditions in Bahrain. In addition to the weather data reports, other items in the file include a letter from Petroleum Concessions Ltd (PCL) to the Political Agency in Bahrain, dated June 1945, requesting...
This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to the importation of hardware including nails, water cisterns and lanterns from various supplie...
File 36/103 Requirements of Trucial Coast from the United Kingdom during 1946
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the requirements of imports from the UK that were needed in the Trucial Coast for the year 1946. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Residency Agent in Sharjah.
