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IOR/L/PS/12/3554
- Record Id:
- 040-000558620
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000558616
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000073
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100050208098.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- 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:
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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 the India Office, Admiralty, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, HM Treasury, the Public Works Department of the Government of India, the Ministry of Works, the Commonwealth Relations Office.
The correspondence relates specifically to the following:
- new buildings required at the Naval Base, including four architectural drawings (ff 359-361, f 285)
- conversion of Jufair Naval buildings as site for the new Residency
- wireless transmitting station
- list of building and works at the Naval Base taken over by the Political Resident in August 1946 (ff 304-319)
- estimate of costs
- plan of empty land situated at Qadhibia (outskirts of Manama), Harbour of Bahrain, which has been sold by the Government of Bahrain to the Government of Great Britain (f 208)
- air conditioning in the new Residency building
- regulations relating to the occupation of Embassy and Legation houses, the property of, or leased by, His Majesty's Government (ff 122-125)
- Ministry of Works report of visit to Bahrain and plans to build a new Residency (ff 107-117)
- Admiralty's need to reoccupy buildings in the Naval base at Jufair.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000558616
040-000558620 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/3551-3708 : Political (External) Collection 29: Persia and Persian Gulf; British Representation and Representatives in Persia and the Gulf
IOR/L/PS/12/3554 : Coll 29/2(3) 'Royal Naval Base Bahrain: transfer and adaptation for use as Political Residency' - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/12/3554, f 208 : Plan of empty land situated at Qadhibia (outskirt of Manama), Harbour of Bahrain, which has been sold by the Government…
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- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0030]/037-000558616[0004]/040-000558620
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (367 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000073
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1946
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 17 Apr 1946-13 Aug 1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 368; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-368; these numbers are also written in pencil, but the majority are not circled, where these have previously been circled they have been crossed through.
- Former External References:
- Coll 29/2/3
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)