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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Building maintenance Name HM Treasury, 12th century-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/70
Title:
File 370/1905 ‘Turkish Arabia: - Basra Consulate. Expenditure etc’
Scope & Content:
The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on building maintenance and repairs to the British Consulate and Post Office at Basrah [Basra] in what is referred to as Turkish Arabia. The correspondence is mainly between British officials at the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1905-9 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/661/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/661/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Repairs to Lighthouse buildings at Quoin Island & Tamb Island.'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing repairs and alterations to the lighthouse buildings on Quoin Island and, to a lesser extent, those on Tamb Island (also written in the correspondence as Tanb Island). Most of the part focuses on the details and costs o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1919-10 Aug 1926
Extent:
1 item (86 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3554
Title:
Coll 29/2(3) 'Royal Naval Base Bahrain: transfer and adaptation for use as Political Residency'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain in 1946, and the conversion of the Royal Navy Base in Bahrain for the use of the Political Resident. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1946-13 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (367 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3637
Title:
Coll 29/61 'Kuwait Agency buildings'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the Political Agency buildings at Kuwait. The volume covers: 1929 report on the conditions of the seventy years-old Agency building, property of the Shaikh of Kuwait, who permitted to the Political Agency to occupy it free of rent plans to build a new Agency; reports on weat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1929-27 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 file (402 folios)