| Description | Bundle of correspondence and papers regarding housing clearances and compensation. Includes correspondence regarding claims for compensation and / or pleading loss of business following clearance and demolition orders with following businesses and properties: William Young's grocery shop on Kemble Street; J. Garth & Son, The Prescot Corn Mills; Carr Lane Cottage. Bundle also includes: lists of condemned houses and those demolished; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; plan of housing at Shaw Lane, 1920; correspondence from Prescot residents appealing for transfer to new housing; correspondence from landlords of houses scheduled for demolition as part of the slum clearances; and correspondence with solicitors representing landlords and / or residents regarding demolition of houses. |