| Description | Small bundle of papers regarding slum clearances and housing improvements in Prescot. Includes: report by Prescot U.D.C. relating to a loan application to the Local Government Board and the subsequent inquiry - the report details the reasoning behind the application and the lack of decent and sanitary homes for the town's working classes (6 August 1914); 'Housing: an imaginary report', brief document highlighting the need for sanitary housing and demands that this need is not ignored, citing Halsall Street as one area for potential house building; and a newspaper cutting of an article from 'The Prescot Reporter' (29 August 1913) about Prescot's housing troubles. |