| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding housing developments and slum clearance following the Housing Act, 1930.
Includes: correspondence with the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company regarding the demolition of a property on Platt's Bridge, Whiston, and cottages on Pottery Lane belonging to the company (1935 - 1937); estimated costs of footpath construction on Pepper Street, Hale, School Lane, Kirkby, Greensbridge Road, Tarbock, Chapel Lane, Cronton, and Gerrards Lane, Halewood; estimated costs of street works construction on New Road off Tarbock Road, Whiston, Union Lane, Bold, Holt Lane, Rainhill, The Avenue, Eccleston; correspondence with C.J. Maslin, Government Buildings, Liverpool, regarding the council's slum clearance programme (1935 - 1936); correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London, regarding the slum clearance and loan agreements (1933 - 1935); correspondence with various building contractors regarding tenders for the development of new houses, including J.W. Lee Ltd., who won the tender to construct 80 houses at Bold, Eccleston, Rainhill and Whiston (1935); correspondence with Gornall & Wainwright, Architects, St. Helens, regarding plans for new housing (1935); breakdown of J.W. Lee Ltd's estimate of costs (March 1935); list of companies that submitted tenders and their estimates (March 1935); ten signed forms of tender from the companies bidding for the work (March 1935); correspondence with Arthur D. Dean and Co., solicitors, Liverpool, relating to the Slum Clearance Inquiry, 27 November 1934 (1934 - 1935); draft slum clearance forms, showing four clearance areas - The Camp, Rainhill, Church Row and Makinson's Cottages, Whiston, and Kiln Cottages, Eccleston - and particulars of rehousing proposals, with numbers of homes and inhabitants and costs (1934); correspondence with Harmwood Banner and Son, chartered accountants, representing the owners of Cromwell Cottage, Pottery Lane, Whiston, regarding the cost of building work and scheduled demolition (November 1934); printed public notice announcing the four clearance area orders issued by the Ministry of Health (November 1934); report on meeting with Mr. Gibbey from the Ministry of Health in Whitehall, London (November 1934); attendance list for the Slum Clearance inquiry in Whiston (27 November 1934); handwritten draft of an unsent letter concerning house demolitions (1934); document summarising the Ministry of Health's answers to questions posed by Whiston Rural District Council (June 1934); newspaper cutting of a letter concerning agricultural housing in Norfolk, taken from the Observer, January 1934; correspondence from John Roland Robinson, MP for Widnes, regarding slum clearance (May 1933). |