| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to the purchase of the Royal Oak Farm estate by Whiston Rural District Council. The land was originally owned by E. and W. Almond, before being purchased first by B. Johnson & Co. Ltd., builders, Liverpool, and then Paramount Estates Ltd., builders, Liverpool, before the Whiston R.D.C. acquired a portion of the land through compulsory purchase.
Includes: plans of the site; correspondence with James Lowe & Sons, auctioneers, valuers and accountants, Prescot, representing E. and W. Almond (1946); correspondence with E. and W. Almond, Royal Oak Farm, Whiston (1947 - 1949); correspondence with Ellis and Sons, estate agents, auctioneers and valuers, Liverpool (1947 - 1948); correspondence with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, Manchester (1947); correspondence with Paramount Estates Ltd. (1948 - 1949); correspondence with Elias and Lancaster, chartered surveyors, Liverpool, representing Paramount Estates (1948 - 1949); correspondence with the District Valuer, Liverpool (1948 - 1950); correspondence with Lancashire County Council, including regarding Whiston R.D.C's proposed building of 382 homes, shopping centre, public hall, library and car park at the Royal Oak Farm estate (1949) and later legal wrangles relating to the sale of land (1955); correspondence with H. Allcock, lessee, Dragon Lane, Whiston (1949); correspondence with Weightman Pedder & Co., solicitors, Liverpool, representing Thomas Allan Aizlewood, who had been receiver of B. Johnson & Co. (1955); schedule of planning applications at Royal Oak Farm, 1932 - 1948 (1955); typescript statement by the Clerk of Whiston R.D.C. at the Hearing of Objections to the Royal Oak Farm Compulsory Purchase Order, with handwritten corrections (February 1950); typescript history of planning developments in the areas close to Royal Oak Farm, 1907 - 1948 (c. 1950); handwritten notes relating to the Hearing of Objections to the compulsory purchase order (1950); correspondence with the Ministry of Health (1950); Notice of Objection by Paramount Estates to Whiston R.D.C's compulsory purchase order (January 1950) |