| Description | Papers relating to the Housing of Rural Workers Act, 1926, and related Whiston Rural District Council activity. The papers include reference to assistance provided to residents following the Housing (Rural Workers) Amendment Act, 1938.
Includes: booklet, produced by the Ministry of Health, explaining grants and loans that the Act has made available for rural home improvement (c. 1930s); Whiston R.D.C. guidance on the conditions required for an application for assistance under the Act and a blank application form (c. 1930s); memorandum upon the Housing (Rural Workers) Acts, 1926 to 1938, by John G. Martin, Secretary of the National Housing and Town Planning Council (November 1938); County of Lancaster Application for Assistance under the Act form (blank, c. 1936); statements showing rent that can be charged if the owners of cottages on South Lane and Warrington Road, Bold, accept grants from Whiston R.D.C. under the Act (1937-1938); notice of scheme to be administered by Cheshire County Council for administration of their powers under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926 (June 1927) and guidance by a Cheshire County Land Agent (March 1928); copy of a publicity notice about the 1926 Act produced by Worcestershire County Council (December 1927); blank copy of a Certificate of Approval of Works carried out under the 1926 Act (c. 1927); correspondence with the Rural District Councils Association and the National Housing and Town Planning Council; various papers from the Rural Housing Conference, Manchester, March 1927 |