| Description | Large bundle of correspondence and papers regarding the proposal for a County Council for Merseyside.
Includes: notes of a conference between Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, Chair of the Boundary Commission, and members of the councils of the borough of Widnes, the urban districts of Huyton-with-Roby, Prescot, and Rainford, and the rural district of Whiston, to discuss the proposed county council (October 1947); minutes, agendas and notes of a number of conferences between the borough of Widnes, the urban districts of Huyton-with-Roby, Prescot, and Rainford, and the rural district of Whiston, to discuss the proposed county council (September and October 1947); correspondence with the Lancashire Branch of the Rural District Councils Association regarding the proposed county council changes; correspondence with the Borough of Widnes and Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council regarding local government boundaries; three maps showing proposed new counties in parts of existing counties of Lancashire and Chester; statement (and a draft copy) and a further supplementary statement on the proposed new county council by the borough of Widnes, the urban districts of Huyton-with-Roby, Prescot, and Rainford, and the rural district of Whiston (October and November 1947); statements of housing and highways drafted between the Borough of Widnes and Whiston R.D.C. for the Boundary Commission (November 1947); schedules of different county areas of Lancashire (Lancaster or Preston, Wigan, Blackburn, Manchester, Bolton, Preston) with acreage, population and rateable value; two Schemes of Divisional Administration for the Borough of Widnes, as modified by the Minister of Education, with one specifically referring to higher education (1947); summary of proceedings of a conference in Liverpool convened by the Boundary Commission with 27 local authorities from Lancashire and Cheshire (July 1947); 'Observations to the Local Government Boundary Commission', report by Lancashire County Council on the proposals, includes maps of proposed boundaries (May 1947); pages from the Liverpool Daily Post, 1 November 1947, that include an article on the boundary commission's proposals. |