| Description | Large bundle of correspondence and papers regarding the Ivy Farm Estate, Rainhill.
Includes: architectural plan by Herbert J. Rowse of the Housing Scheme at Ivy Farm Estate between Longton Lane, Warrington Road and Holt Lane (July 1924); details of guarantees for loans relating to properties on the Ivy Farm Estate, including financial breakdowns and calculations, forms with particulars of homes concerned; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; invitation to a meeting of the Royal Sanitary Institute meeting in Blackpool (September 1937); blank Application for Tenancy of House form for the Ivy Farm Estate; application by Whiston R.D.C. to the Ministry of Health for approval to build '476 houses to let to persons of the working classes' (1936).
The majority of correspondence and papers in the file concern several guarantees with Charles Oldham, builder, of Manchester, for homes to be built at Longton Lane, Holt Lane, Sandhurst Road, Chatsworth Road, Branker Avenue, Horwood Avenue, Honiston Avenue, Batey Avenue, Norcliffe Road, Millom Avenue, and Ivy Farm Road, along with architectural plans for the properties and the estate and the signed Guarantees (1936-1939). |