MT 139/455

London Borough Council of Barking: London - Tilbury trunk road; improvement from Saxham Road to Renwick Road; compulsory purchase order

Date range	1969-1971
Location	National Archives (see all files stored here)
Catalogue	See entry
File base	Series MT, subseries MT 139

This file is a waste of time. You are advised to avoid it like the plague. Its file title sounds rather interesting but it may contain only dull papers that fail to illuminate the subject matter or it may not even be related to the subject suggested by the title.

Context

The third and final in a series begun at MT 139/453 looking at land acquisition for a minor dualling scheme on the A13. I will admit that it seems odd to willingly take out three whole files like this, which make plain in the titles what they refer to and which aspect of the scheme they concern, and then complain that they are tedious; I will say in my defence only that I was hoping to find some information peripheral to this project that I could not find anywhere else, and was not much surprised that I didn't find it here either. But even if it was your lifelong dream to read more about this specific dualling scheme you would probably tire of it before reaching the end of this saga.

Much of this file deals with the Compulsory Purchase Order itself, the generation of which required a large volume of routine paperwork, all of which is here, sometimes in duplicate. This scheme had the additional complication that British Rail weren't 100% certain who owned some land surrounding a railway bridge.

An envelope at the back contains the same four land use plans you can see several times at MT 139/454, and there is another copy of the report into this scheme from its public inquiry, in case you've mislaid the one at MT 139/453.

Links to other files

MT 139/453 London Borough Council of Barking: London - Tilbury trunk road; improvement from Saxham Road to Renwick Road (1969-1971)

MT 139/454 London Borough Council of Barking: London - Tilbury trunk road; improvement from Saxham Road to Renwick Road (1969-1970)

People with camera copies

None known.