File 22/1 I Miscellaneous correspondence regarding establishment of observatory at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers sent to and from the Bahrain Political Agency, relating to the set-up and subsequent day-to-day running of a weather observatory in Bahrain. The file begins with a letter from the head meteorologist of the India Meteorological Department in Kara...
The meteorological correspondence subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to the set-up and day-to-day operation of the Bahrain meteorological observatory between 1927 and 1948. They also contain meteorological statistical data from the observatory (as well as corresponding mete...
File 22/1 II Miscellaneous correspondence regarding establishment of observatory at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The correspondence and other papers contained in the file relate to the day-to-day operations of the weather observatory in Bahrain. These include the rising costs of living in Bahrain, in part a result of the growth of the oil industry, population growth and housing shortages which have caused ...
File 22/3 Daily readings of maximum and minimum temperatures
Scope & Content:
The file is almost entirely comprised of statistical report sheets containing data about daily weather conditions in Bahrain, sent to the Political Agency by the Pilot Balloon Observatory on a fortnightly basis. The measurements are recorded two times a day (morning and afternoon). At first, onl...
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...
File 23/1 Acquisition of property in Bahrain by Shaikh Muhammad ibn `Isa Al Khalifa; Hindu Bathing Pool
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Political Agent (Colonel Barrett, from November 1927 to April 1929), representatives of the Hindu community in Manama, and the Khalifa ruling family. The correspondence refers to the ownership and use of freshwater pools (referred to as chauch...
Flags Flown by the Sheikh of Qatar. (Bahrain and Trucial Coast)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British officials in Bahrain, Bushire, Baghdad, the India Office and the Government of India, as well as with Khalīl bin Ibrāhīm Kanoo [Kānū]. These papers concern various enquiries made by the British Admiralty between 1929 and 1938 regarding flags...
The English Office subject file contains correspondence regarding various enquiries made by the British Admiralty between 1929 and 1938 regarding flags flown by the Shaikh of Qatar, as well as by the sheikhs of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast.
File 28/5 Visits of Tankers and other Ships to Sitrah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Financial Adviser to the Government at Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on shipments of oil and movements of tankers and ships in and out of Sitra...
The forty-seven files forming the 'Oil and Minerals' subject files were produced by the English Office at the Bahrain Political Agency. The 'Oil and Minerals' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain, other Br...
