Distinctive Features: Blueprint sketch map dated 21 May 1934 produced by the Bahrein Petroleum Company, sent with a copy of the 1935 Annual Report describing the operations of the Company (folios 69-75). Shows the location of wells and various other facilities including water, oil and gas pip...
Map showing the first of two proposed concession areas which Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) hope to acquire from the Shaikh of Bahrain, identified as 'leased area no. 1'. The leased area which the Company hopes to acquire is marked with red line and covers the islands of FASHT AL JARIM [F...
Map showing the second of two proposed concession areas which Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) hopes to acquire from the Shaikh of Bahrain, identified as 'leased area no. 2'. The leased area which the Company hopes to acquire is marked with red line and covers the Hawar Group of islands and...
Blueprint map of Bahrain showing the proposed area for an oil concession covering the shoal area of Bahrain. The proposed concession area is marked with a single red line and covers the territorial waters and islands to the North and East of Bahrain, excluding the Hawar Islands. Within the nort...
Extracts from Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia by J G Lorimer CIE, Indian Civil Service
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of approximately forty extracts from Volume I, Parts I and II, and Volume II of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer. The reason for the compilation of this volume of extracts is unclear.
The majority of correspondence in the file consists of miscellaneous letters and instructions, with enclosures, in Arabic and English, between 9 February 1884 to 24 February 1914, from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and ‘Abd al-Qāsim, Khān Bahādur ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd a...
This file includes a partially bound ledger book (ff. 2-138) containing drafts of letters sent by the Khān Bahādur bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah, in 1907 and 1908. The ledger book includes drafts of letters mainly sent to the Political Resi...
This file consists of correspondence from various British officials in the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire to Khān Bahādur ‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf, the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah. These letters cover the year 1930, between 13 January (12 Sha‘bān 1348) and 2...
Distinctive Features: A tracing of a plan based on a provisional survey carried out on 22 July 1934 enclosed to a copy of a ‘Report on areas acquired in Bahrein’ by Major K.M. Papworth (folios 210-211). Shows the extent of the property on the sea coast between villages of Busaitin and Dair wi...
Distinctive Features: A tracing of a plan based on a provisional survey carried out on 22 July 1934 enclosed to a copy of a ‘Report on areas acquired in Bahrein’ by Major K.M. Papworth (folios 210-211). Shows the extent of the plot situated about 1 ½ miles south of Manamah on the east coast o...