| Description | Large bundle of data and statistics relating to Local Government Boundary Commission proposals.
Includes: population, density, rateable value and expenditure data for Whiston, Prescot and Widnes districts (July 1945); population data and housing survey results relating to the parishes within the Whiston district (Bold, Cronton, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Kirkby, Knowsley, Rainhill, Tarbock, Whiston, Windle), 1946 and 1947; handwritten table comparing population and rateable value figures for Whiston district parishes in 1897 and 1946 (Bold, Cronton, Ditton, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Kirkby, Knowsley, Rainhill, Speke, Tarbock, Whiston, Windle); Statement of Rates Levied in Rural Districts of England and Wales for the Years 1945-46 and 1946-47, Second Annual Statement by the Rural District Councils Association (1947); copy of Case and Submissions of the Whiston Rural District Council to the Local Government Boundary Commission, regarding the St. Helens Corporation extension proposals, including notes and underlined passages in pencil (March 1947); Observations of the Whiston R.D.C. for submission to the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Basil Gibson, of the Boundary Commission (July 1946), includes information and statistics concerning the Whiston district; Review of Areas by the Boundary Commission, Report of Whiston R.D.C. Sub-Committee (June 1946), includes detailed information and statistics about the Whiston district; blank demand notes for general and special rates for the townships of Eccleston and Windle (c. 1947); handwritten notes, calculations and figures relating to the townships of the Whiston district; statistics relating to highways and private street works (1947); existing and future potential population figures and calculations; Estimates of Rates to be Levied for the Year Ending 31st March 1946; comparative statement of rateable values, 1930-1943, between the districts of Whiston, Huyton, Prescot, Rainford and Widnes; analysis of Whiston district rate book (August 1943); Report of the proceedings of the Prescot Assessment Committee for the year to the 1st April, 1945; typescript text of a statement made by Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, Chair of the Boundary Commission, at a conference of local authorities, Liverpool (two copies with differing amendments, June 1946). |