| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding a housing development off Dragon Lane, Whiston, the sale of the land from Edward and William Almond, of Royal Oak Farm, Dragon Lane, to Whiston Rural District Council and the development of housing for County Police on Old Lane, Rainhill and Hazel Avenue, Whiston.
Detailed plans of the site off Dragon Lane are included, which show the housing estate and surrounding roads (Dragon Lane, Cumber Lane, Shaw Lane, Stoney Lane, Cross Lane, Pottery Lane, Greenes Road, Paradise Lane, etc, March 1944).
Includes: correspondence with Messrs. E. and W. Almond (1936 - 1949); correspondence with J. Frodsham & Sons, solicitors, Prescot, representing Whiston R.D.C. (1937 - 1949); Memorandum of Agreement between the Almonds and Whiston R.D.C. for the land (July 1937); handwritten notes and calculations; correspondence with Gornall & Wainwright, architects, St. Helens (1942); plans for the site prepared by Watson Garbutt, Engineer and Surveyor, Whiston R.D.C.; correspondence with Lancashire County Council (1937 - 1948); draft Agreement between Whiston R.D.C. and Lancashire County Council for the diversion and improvement of Dragon Lane, Whiston (1939); correspondence with the Trustees of the Whiston Cross Methodist Church (1937 - 1939); correspondence with Bituminous Surfacing Ltd., contractors, regarding road improvements (1938); form of Tenders from contractors for road improvement works (1938); correspondence with the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks and City Water Engineer (1938 - 1948); Agreements, with plans, between Whiston R.D.C. and Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (1938); correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London and Manchester (1938 - 1949); reports by the District Valuer, Liverpool, on the sale by Whiston R.D.C. of land at Hazel Avenue to Lancashire County Council for Police Housing (January 1948), the proposed sale of housing land on Dragon Lane by Whiston R.D.C. to Cross Lane Methodist Church Trustees for the erection of church premises (March 1938), and the purchase by Whiston R.D.C. of land for housing (July 1937); correspondence with local residents regarding objections to the building of Council Houses in Dragon Lane (March 1938); correspondence with Whiston Parish Council (1938); correspondence with the District Valuer, Liverpool (1937 - 1947); correspondence with H.M. Inspector of Taxes, St. Helens (1937 - 1945); correspondence with Charles H. Reakes, builder and contractor, regarding the possible purchase of land from Whiston R.D.C at Dragon Lane (1937); correspondence with William Rudd, Freeman & Getley, solicitors, Liverpool, representing Messrs. E. and W. Almond (1936 - 1944); plans showing proposed County Police housing on Hazel Avenue and the site (1948); draft Requisitions on Title form between Whiston R.D.C. and Lancashire County Council and relating to Hazel Avenue, Whiston (1948); draft conveyance of land in Stoney Lane, Rainhill, from Whiston R.D.C. to the City of Liverpool (March 1947); draft conveyance of land on Hazel Avenue, Whiston, from Whiston R.D.C. to Lancashire County Council (June 1948) District Valuer and Mineral Valuer's reports on the Almond's land, off Dragon Lane, Whiston (June 1944); correspondence with the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Lytham St. Annes, concerning the land at Royal Oak Farm (1945); correspondence with the Tithe Redemption Commission, London, and plan and table showing revised tithe apportionment for the Royal Oak Farm site (February 1945); correspondence with the Ministry of Works, Manchester, regarding proposed coal mining at Shaw Lane, Prescot, and plan of the site (November 1944); letter from the Ministry of Health, Manchester, regarding plans for 134 houses for miners for the Bold Colliery development at Rainhill (January 1949); completed draft questionnaire regarding E. & W. Almond's land off Dragon Lane, Whiston, for the District Valuer (May 1944). |