| Description | Papers regarding Prescot Urban District Council compulsory purchase of lands, relating to The Wood site and Brook Cottage. The bundle includes details of the lands being acquired and the objection by King's College, Cambridge, to their property (Brook Cottage) being included in the list of lands intended for compulsory acquisition. Includes: several copies of the Order for the Purpose of Compulsory Acquisition of Lands, listing the lands affected; notes; correspondence with the Ministry of Health and the Housing Commissioner; correspondence with Boult, Son & Maples, Land Agents, Valuers and Surveyors, Liverpool; lists of property occupiers contacted; correspondence with Cameron, MacIver & Davie, Solicitors, Liverpool, acting on behalf of King's College, Cambridge, and copies of their letters of objection sent to the Ministry of Health; petitions by tenants objecting to the compulsory acquisition; and correspondence with the Inland Revenue. |