| Description | Large bundle of papers and correspondence relating to overcrowding and Whiston Rural District Council's slum clearance programme.
Includes: Notice to Occupier to Abate Overcrowding form regarding Moss Bank Road, Windle (August 1939); correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London and Liverpool, regarding overcrowding and slum clearance (1935 - 1937); draft copy of form showing particulars of rehousing proposals for Bold, Eccleston, Halewood and Whiston (April 1937); overcrowding survey results for Bold, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Kirkby, Tarbock and Whiston, detailing numbers of people, age (under or over 10 years), gender and marital status (March 1937); various figures and tables for rehousing proposals, including numbers of homes and people impacted in Bold, Cronton, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Kirkby, Knowsley, Rainhill, Tarbock, Whiston and Windle (1936 - 1937); particulars of rehousing proposals (Form D), detailing the locations of proposed housing, numbers of people accommodated and estimated costs - houses are in Clock Face Road, Bold, Chapel Lane, Cronton, The Avenue, Eccleston, Pepper Street, Hale, Leathers Lane, Halewood, School Lane, Kirkby, Greensbridge Lane, Tarbock, Dragon Lane, Whiston (January 1937); report on Whiston R.D.C's rehousing proposals and overcrowding survey results table by W.H. Bone, Sanitary Inspector (September 1936); questions and draft answers for the Rural Housing Sub-Committee of the Rural District Councils Association and Lancashire County Council (September 1936); correspondence with Lancashire County Council (1936); correspondence with the Rural District Councils Association, London (1936); correspondence with Shaw & Sons Ltd., London, regarding their forms for the overcrowding survey, with catalogues and samples of their work (1935 - 1936); correspondence with St. Helens & District Property Owners' and Ratepayers' Association regarding the Housing Act 1935 (1936); paper by E.W. Frith, Clerk of the Kiveton Park Rural District Council, 'The Housing Act 1935: Provisions Relating to Abatement and Prevention of Overcrowding' (c. 1936); public notice poster about overcrowding and that it is a punishable offence from 1937 (July 1936); office copy of forms submitted to the Ministry of Health showing the return of rents of houses and flats belonging to Whiston R.D.C. (July 1936); correspondence with J.L. Jackson, of the Glass Works, St. Helens, regarding Miss Pilkington of the Hazels' concern about overcrowding at Prescot Lodge (May 1936); overcrowding reports on specific properties (St. Helens Road, Eccleston; Dragon Row, Whiston; Railway Cottages, Halewood; Bleak Hill Cottages, Windle; Ivy Farm Road, Rainhill; and Holt Lane, Rainhill) by the Public Health Department, Whiston R.D.C.; letter to Councillor Lavelle, Whiston, offering a job to his son with the Sanitary Inspector's department (November 1935); minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee overseeing the overcrowding survey (November 1935); correspondence with, and examples of overcrowding survey forms produced by, the Copeland Chatterson Co. Ltd., Stroud and Liverpool (1935); correspondence and catalogues for overcrowding survey forms from Charles Knight & Co. Ltd., London (1935); Ministry of Health booklet, 'Housing Act 1935: Memorandum B and the Prevention and Abatement of Overcrowding' (October 1935); summary of the Housing Act 1935: Overcrowding by Whiston R.D.C's Chief Sanitary Inspector (August 1935); schedule for slum clearance and dates of proceedings (1935). |