| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1938 and the housing of the Whiston rural district's agricultural population.
Includes: recommendations from a sub-committee of the Whiston Rural District Council assessing applications for new housing from agricultural populations in the townships of the district (May 1939); printed booklet of minutes of proceedings at a conference of the Rural District Councils Association, addressed by Walter Elliot, MP, the Minister of Health (May 1938); correspondence with Kirkby, Tarbock, Halewood and Whiston Parish Councils regarding their towns' agricultural housing needs (1938 - 1939); National Housing and Town Planning Council memorandum on the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act (April 1939); correspondence with John Mather of Bridge Farm, Bold, regarding housing of agricultural workers (November 1938); correspondence from C.W. Turner & Sons, Ltd., wholesale flower growers, Hale, regarding the housing of their workers and a letter from one of the workers regarding his application for a new home (August - November 1938); correspondence with Henry Burgess, Springfield Farm, Tarbock, regarding the housing of the farm's workers (October - November 1938); correspondence with Prescot Proprietary Limited, the Estate Office, Knowsley, Prescot, in their capacity as landowners (December 1938); correspondence with Lancashire County Council (July 1937); correspondence with Richard Pilkington, MP for Widnes, and the Liverpool & District Farmers' Club (Liverpool Branch of the National Farmers' Union) regarding the housing of workers at Delph Farm, Knowsley (April - June 1938); correspondence with J.L. Rawsthorne & Co., who have won the tender to build 138 houses in the district (February 1938) correspondence with Martins Bank Ltd., Liverpool, regarding J.L. Rawsthorne & Co. (February 1938); correspondence with Gornall & Wainwright, architects, regarding the construction of new houses (1937 - 1938); figures regarding overcrowding in the district and numbers of houses required (1937); correspondence with newspapers and journals to place tender advertisement (1937). |