| Description | Large bundle of papers and correspondence relating to the 1930 Housing Act and slum clearance programme in the Whiston Rural District.
Streets with condemned or unfit housing are across the district, but named streets and properties include: Ropers Bridge, Whiston Cross, Warrington Road, Paradise Lane, Warrington Road, Dragon Lane, Holt Lane, Pottery Lane, Whiston Lane Ends, Coalgate Lane, Seven Stars Cottages, Platts Bridge, Tarbock Road George & Dragon pub, Paradise Farm, Cromwell Cottage (all Whiston); Kiln Lane, Church Lane, Burrows Lane (Eccleston); Jubitts Lane, South Lane, Gorsey Lane, Maypole Cottages, Union Bridge Cottages, West Lodge, Fingerpost Lane (Bold); Halsall's Cottages, Halebank Road (Halewood); Liverpool Road, Cross Hillocks Cottages (Tarbock); Dyson's Cottages, Holt Lane (Rainhill); High Street (Hale).
Bundle includes: Schedule of Individual Unfit Houses, with addresses and names of owners; summary of the Overcrowding Survey for council houses owned by Whiston R.D.C., including numbers of married couples, gender and age breakdowns, number of bedrooms, and numbers of persons permitted in each house; rehousing proposals in accordance with the 1930 Housing Act, including numbers of houses required in each township; correspondence with Richard Pilkington, M.P. regarding a property in Kiln Lane, Eccleston (August 1936); minutes of a Whiston R.D.C. meeting to decide on condemned and unfit houses in the district, with lists of houses and occupiers (July 1936); completed Order for Demolition of a Dwelling-House forms (October 1935) and blank copy of the form; completed Notice to Occupier of Demolition Order which has become Operative forms (November 1935) and blank copy of the form; correspondence with the following Solicitors practices regarding the slum clearance programme: Swift, Garner & Son, Banks, Kendall, Taylor & Gorst, W. Tyrer & Co., Gregson & Ashton; timeline of 4 slum clearance orders (1935); correspondence with property owners and agents, including London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company; list of occupiers of individual unfit houses; correspondence with J. Roland Robinson, M.P. regarding the poor condition of Dyson's Cottages, Holt Lane, Rainhill and a property on Paradise Lane, Whiston (1934); correspondence from residents and application forms for council houses with details of residents, including occupation, income, age, gender, and reason for application; correspondence with Liverpool corporation regarding Burrows Lane Cottages, Eccleston (1932-1934); correspondence with medical practitioners regarding housing conditions, including Dr. Mercer, Medical Officer of Health for Widnes Borough Council; Reports on properties by the Whiston R.D.C. Public Health Department; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London (1934). |