| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to new housing developments in the Whiston rural district and overcrowding.
Includes: correspondence with Gornall & Wainwright [also known as Wainwright & Gornall], Architects, St. Helens and various building contractors (1932 - 1935); correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London (1931 - 1934); correspondence with J.W. Lee Ltd., Public Works Contractors, Chorley, concerning schemes in Cronton, Halewood, Kirkby and Tarbock (1933); loan statement concerning housing and road works (December 1934); breakdown of numbers of pre-war non-parlour types of houses in Hale, Kirkby, Tarbock, Bold, Cronton, Eccleston, Halewood, Rainhill and Whiston (c. 1933); survey of average weekly rents for pre-war non-parlour type of houses (1933); newspaper cutting, undated, about government department and municipalities being too bureaucratic and inflexible; list of tenders for development of housing in Whiston, Rainhill, Tarbock, Hale, awarded to: Lucas & Son Ltd; S & A Taylor Ltd; J.W. Lee Ltd; Huyton & Son; Abel & Co.; William Lawrenson; and G & E Cork, and Forms of Tender for the work (June 1933); report by A.F. Mann, Clerk to Whiston R.D.C., on the council's proposal to provide 190 houses in the district, with accompanying table providing supporting information on overcrowding conditions (1932); correspondence with Lord Sefton's estate, Croxteth, regarding need for housing for agricultural tenants (July 1932); rate calculations for tenants across Whiston rural district (September 1931); list of suggested housing sites in Clock Face Road and Mill Lane, Bold, Chapel Lane, Cronton, Pepper Street and Cocklade Lane, Hale, Baileys Lane, Halewood, School Lane, Kirkby, Maidens Bower, Knowsley, Holt Lane, Rainhill, Liverpool Road, Tarbock, Paradise Lane and near Royal Oak Farm, Whiston (c. 1931); figures regarding homes unfit for habitation in the district (c. 1932); tables and figures regarding overcrowding in the district (1931); newspaper cutting advertising sale of Northfield Farm, Bold, and correspondence with Grayson & Burrows, Estate Agents, regarding the farm and potential purchase by the council (September 1931); correspondence with the Lancashire County Council Medical Officer of Health regarding overcrowding and housing provision (1930 - 1933); replies of Whiston district Parish Councils to survey on overcrowding; schedule of sizes of rooms in new properties (1933); results of overcrowding survey (September 1932). |