| Description | Bundle of papers and correspondence relating to the proposed county council for Merseyside.
Includes: map of Lancashire showing proposed county areas; Lancashire County Council report in response to the Boundary Commission's proposals (c. 1947); correspondence with Lancashire County Council; correspondence with Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council; figures (acreage, population and rateable value) relating to boroughs (and their constituent districts) of Manchester, Wigan, Blackburn, and Lancaster or Preston; correspondence with the Borough of Widnes; typescript notes, with handwritten amendments and corrections, of a conference of clerks, surveyors and financial officers of the Widnes Borough Council, the Huyton-with-Roby, Prescot and Rainford Urban District Councils and the Whiston Rural District Council, regarding the Boundary Commission's proposal of new county council areas (October 1947); correspondence with Preston Rural District Council; correspondence with the Local Government Boundary Commission; transcript notes of a conference between the Boundary Commission and representatives of the Merseyside local authorities (July 1947); page from the Liverpool Daily Post (10 December 1947) including a small article concerning the Boundary Commission proposals. |