| Description | Bundle of correspondence and papers relating to Prescot Urban District Council's Improvement Scheme for housing in the district. Includes: two reports by Egerton Hall, M.D., Medical Officer of Health for Prescot U.D.C., into the unhealthy areas of Tea Street, High Street, Hill Street (July and December 1899); draft handwritten memoranda and notes by Henry Cross, Clerk to Prescot U.D.C., on the District Council Scheme under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (c. 1900); draft handwritten form of assent or dissent for Council to take properties compulsorily (November 1900); handwritten draft of advertisement of Improvement Scheme (October 1900); handwritten list of documents relating to property conveyances or surrenders; Particulars of Claims for property to be demolished under the Prescot Urban District Council Housing Scheme; letter from the Local Government Board regarding the Prescot Improvement Scheme (April 1901); letter from H.J. Longton, Solicitor, Warrington, to Henry Cross, proposing a date to inspect a property on behalf of Abel Haslam (September 1901); apportionment accounts with details of claimants (1903 - 1904); three completion statements for purchased properties in Improvement Scheme area (December 1903 - January 1904); Statement for House on Hill Street [very fragile] (January 1904); final page, typescript, of a document approved by G.H. Walpole, Home Office, London, relating to the borders of the towns of Whiston and Prescot, and including references to Scotch Lane and Turnpike Road (November 1866); collection of correspondence, principally relating to the valuation of properties identified under the Improvement Scheme as part of the Prescot Housing of the Working Classes Order, 1901 (January - July 1903). |