| Description | Bundle of papers relating to Prescot Urban District Council's Improvement Scheme for housing in the district. Includes: various notes and rough calculations; draft estimates of costs, with calculations, of the purchasing of properties to be demolished; draft Scheme of the Prescot U.D.C. dealing with insanitary areas between Eccleston Street and High Street, pursuant to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890; handwritten letter from Henry Cross, Clerk to Prescot U.D.C., to Edward Tracey, Secretary, British Insulated Wire Company, enquiring if the company plan to build any workman's dwellings, and typescript response from Edward Tracey (September 1901); Henry Cross's reference copy, with annotations, of the Schedule of property proposed to be taken compulsorily by the Prescot U.D.C. (31 December 1902); handwritten draft of Schedule as to copyhold property, including details of property, property tax assessment and estimated net annual income (1904); draft of notice to quit property and hand possession over to Prescot U.D.C. and seventeen duplicates of notices delivered to occupiers, covering properties in Daniel's Court, Brown's Square, High Street, Saggersons Court, and Tea Street (February 1904); draft list of conveyances sent for registration under the Finances Act, 1895; draft summary of the cost of carrying the Prescot U.D.C. Scheme, dated 2 October 1900, into effect, and a later copy of the document; list of surrenders of copyhold properties purchased on behalf of the Prescot U.D.C. (February 1904); handwritten draft estimate of money required for Prescot U.D.C.'s improvement scheme; estimates of interest on purchase money; draft notice from tenant of desire of enfranchisement of copyholds, addressed to C. E. Grant of Cambridge, Steward of the Manor (1905); draft Schedule of the Lands to be Enfranchised (1905); correspondence, comprising seven letters, regarding the registration of deeds, surrenders and conveyances and the Schedule of Lands to be Enfranchised - the letters, all addressed to Henry Cross, Prescot U.D.C., are from Chester, Broome and Griffithes, London, and Frederick Smith, Solicitor, Prescot (February 1904 - June 1905). |