| Description | Bundle of papers regarding purchase of land by the Prescot Urban District Council. Includes: sales letter from Robert J. Cook and Hammond, Agents for the Ordnance Maps, offering services for production of lithographed plans (September 1899); Provisional Order Instructions for applications by Urban District Councils to the Local Government Board for Improvement Schemes under Part I of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (September 1899); handwritten drafts of Notice to Occupier (and Lessees) of Intention to Take Lands Compulsorily Under an Improvement Scheme, and two printed copies of the Notice, one addressed to John Lucas of Eccleston Street, and regarding 6, Tea Street, Prescot, and the other to Mrs Mary Yates of Brook Inn, Whiston, and regarding 36, High Street, Prescot (November 1900); handwritten draft of a Petition to the Local Government Board by the Prescot Urban District Council, regarding an Improvement Scheme based on the recommendations of Egerton Francis Hall, Medical Officer of Health for Prescot U.D.C. (November 1900); typescript draft, with extensive amendments and additions in ink, Scheme of the Prescot U.D.C. dealing with insanitary areas pursuant to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, in the areas of High Street, Eccleston Street, Tea Street, and Hill Street, Prescot; partial typescript copy of the Local Government Act, 1858, settling the boundaries of the Prescot District; handwritten note, and typescript copy of the same, addressed to the General Purposes Committee of the Prescot U.D.C., from the Housing Sites Sub-Committee, reporting on plots of land, in Moss Street and James' Lane, that they believe are suitable for the erection of workmen's dwellings (August 1901); estimated expenditure for the Prescot (Housing of the Working Classes) Order, 1901; particulars of claims for property to be demolished under the Prescot U.D.C's Housing Scheme, including names of owners, purchase money, rents due to purchasers, interest, income tax, rates, costs, and total payable to vendors on completion; two draft copies of a Surrender of Copyhold Messuage in Tea Street, Prescot (1903); draft Particulars as to the Necessity for Loan of Six Thousand Pounds to the Prescot U.D.C., with summary of agreed compensation, vendors costs, purchasers costs and enfranchisements costs (July 1903); bill of costs from Banks, Kendall and Taylor, Solicitors, Liverpool, regarding the case of Henry Lee Rowett and Ada G. Rowett and a property on High Street, Prescot (February 1905). |