Ref NoGB1076.WRDC/3/2/29
TitleWhiston R.D.C. Overcrowding Survey
DescriptionWhiston Rural District Council Overcrowding Survey for individual properties across the Whiston R.D.C. area, including Bold, Cronton, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Kirkby, Knowsley, Rainhill, Tarbock, Whiston and Windle. Includes address, name of owner, description of property, names of tenants or occupiers, number of habitable rooms, number of persons sleeping there and their ages. Includes loose inserts: typescript notes regarding a letter from a tenant in Dragon Lane concerning poor conditions and potential overcrowding, signed by J.G. Evans, Public Health Department (16 October 1947); notes, in pencil, regarding a family living in Hall Street (undated).
Amongst the properties covered in the survey are those in the following highways:
Queensway; Esonwood Road; Cook Street; Stoney Lane; Crawford Street; Hall Street; Frenchfield Street; Clock Face Road; Hall Lane; Barrow Hall Lane; Neills Row; Jubitts Lane; Sandy Lane; St Helens Road; Town Lane; Glovers Brow; Shevingtons Lane; Holt Lane; First Avenue; Longtons Lane; Finger House Lane; Bears Paw Cottages; Gillars Green Cottages; Burrows Lane; Houghtons Lane; Knowsley Road; Pepper Street; Halebank Road; Higher Road; Lane Ends; Lower Road; The Barracks; Burtons Brow; Rainford Road; Club Street; City View; Moss Lane; Broad Lane; Crank Road; Martindale Road; Vining Road; Halsnead Avenue; Cronton Avenue; Market Street; Rainhill Road; Sutton New Road; Warrington Road; Houghton Street; Lancaster Avenue; Halton Avenue; Brook Street; Dragon Row; Greens Row; Cross Lane; South Lane; Gorsey lane; Gartons Lane; Railway Cottages; Colliery Road; Smithy Lane; Penny Lane; Chapel Lane; New Road; The Bungalows; Sadlers Lane; Seven Stars Cottages; Church Road; Gerrards Lane; North End; Old Hutte Lane; Wood End; Wood Road; Ribblers Lane; Swell Lane; Moor End Lane; Hob Lane; Bleak Hill; Pottery Lane; Longview Road; Boyes Brow; Ainsworth Lane; Edna Avenue; New Cut Lane; Little Briton; Little Brook; Bank Lane; Harbour Lane; Knowsley Lane; Liverpool Road; Ormskirk Road; Pyes Lane; School Lane; Blundells Lane; Second Avenue; Ritherup Lane; Old Lane; Parkers Row; Derby Cottages; Church Place; Victoria Terrace; Tasker Terrace; Sutton Road; Whitefield Road; Netherly Road; Greensbridge Road; Foxes Bank; Chapel Bridge Road; Cable Road; Cumber Lane; Whiston Cross; Paradise Lane; Church Row; Dragon Lane; Sundale Avenue; Shaw Lane.
Date4 Dec 1935-22 May 1939
ConditionFair
FormatBound volume
AccessConditionsOpen
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