| Description | Bundle of papers relating to the Prescot (Housing of Working Classes) Order, 1901, and the purchase of houses. Includes: draft schedule of property proposed to be taken compulsorily by Prescot Urban District Council pursuant to the said order, including copies with corrections and amendments, a copy with claims figures included, a copy dated February 1903 that includes an unaddressed notice of intention to take possession of a house, a copy for valuation purposes, a copy for tax assessment purposes, a copy for assessment of rents purposes; handwritten drafts of Notice of Intention to Take Houses and Schedule of Claim; handwritten notes; draft copies of notice to treat and to furnish particulars and claim; draft schedule of claims; a poster giving notice of properties being possessed by Prescot U.D.C., with a typed list on reverse of the ten places the poster has been posted; draft agreements for purchase of property; handwritten draft contract for the sale of copyhold messuage; schedule of property to be valued by Messrs Owen & Son (Area No. 1), with details of ten properties in Tea Street, High Street, Eccleston Street and the Shamrock Tavern. |