| Description | Bundle of correspondence regarding housing, with a considerable portion of the bundle relating to The Wood housing scheme. Includes: correspondence with Briggs and Thornely, Architects, Liverpool; correspondence with the Local Government Board and Lancashire County Council regarding Housing of the Working Classes schemes; correspondence with the Office of the Housing Commissioner, Manchester; correspondence with building contractors; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; correspondence with the Ministry of Munitions of War regarding supply of building materials and related forms; letters from companies requesting that new housing be allocated to members of their staff, including British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Ltd. and Prescot Cinemas (1920) Ltd.; correspondence regarding the Shaw Lane housing scheme; request from tenants in The Wood to allow two friends to temporarily live with them (January 1921); notes and calculations; plan showing The Wood housing scheme (in fragile condition); correspondence with Boult, Son & Maples, Land Agents, Valuers and Surveyors, Liverpool; government circulars; correspondence with the Post Office Engineering Department, Liverpool, concerning telegraphs at The Wood; and correspondence with Liverpool Corporation Water Works regarding extension of water mains. |