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Dixcove (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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Dixcove Fort, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J/2
Scope and Contents

View of cannon on the ramparts of the Spur, built about 1750. An English Fort was begun on this spot in the 1690s; it has endured many sieges and has undergone a great deal of rebuilding.

Dates: 1950 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Dixcove near Seccondee, Gold Coast [i.e. Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana], 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Gold Coast/16
Scope and Contents

The caption on the reverse reads: 'Dixcove, near Seccondee, Gold Coast. One of the most picturesque of the old forts built on the Coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the early eighteenth century'.

Dates: 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Postcard of Dixcove Fort, built by the Royal African Company in the 18th century], 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/4
Scope and Contents

90 x 140 mm.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Postcard of Dixcove Fort, built by the Royal African Company in the 18th century], 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Q/5
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).