Formed during WWII to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. In 1962 it was renamed the Ministry of Public Building and Works, and acquired the extra responsibility of monitoring the building industry as well as taking over the works departments from the War Office, Air Ministry and Admiralty. The connection with detergent powder (see the photograph) eludes us.
See also HM Office of Works.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ministry of Public Building and Works
This camp is protected as a monument of national importance under the Ancient...
Committee chairman in Bow in 1900. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Initially (ha) we thought the middle initial on the plaque read 'R' but since that name lead nowhere Andrew ...
Parliamentarian army officer and Lord Mayor of London. Â Born London (according to the ODNB though the picture source disagrees). Â Died Essex.
Church warden of Holy Trinity, Sloane Square in 1889.
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Assistant Secretary to a building committee in June 1912.
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