| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to the Whiston Rural District Council's opposition to the Liverpool Extension Bill 1951.
Includes: Liverpool Daily Post newspaper with small public announcement of Whiston R.D.C's opposition to the Liverpool Extension Bill (15 December 1950); typescript note by J.R. Henley, Clerk of the Whiston R.D.C., confirming that portions of the Liverpool Extension Bill (regarding Kirkby) were rejected by the Select Committee of the House of Lords (April 1951); draft and final copy of the Petition of the Lancashire County Council and the West Lancashire and Whiston Rural District Councils against the Liverpool Extension Bill (2 copies of the draft, one with handwritten notes, single copy of the final document, 1951); Liverpool Echo newspaper cutting concerning the Housing Committee's tour of inspection in Kirkby (19 June 1951); Liverpool Echo newspaper cutting concerning the erection of the Standard Motor Company's factory in Kirkby and the intention of Liverpool to build homes in the area (24 July 1951); Liverpool Daily Post newspaper with an article about the Liverpool Extension Bill and including a map showing the proposed extensions (28 September 1950); Liverpool Mercury newspaper cutting of a map showing the portions of the Knowsley estate purchased by Liverpool City Council (7 January 1932); list of the members of the House of Lords Select Committee to consider the Bill (April 1951); correspondence with Lancashire County Council and Hale Parish Council; correspondence with Knowles and Warburton, Solicitors, Widnes, and Sharpe, Pritchard and Co., Solicitors, Westminster; Parish of Kirkby: Statement as to Services (March 1951); Evidence of J.R. Henley, Clerk, and Watson Garbutt, Engineer and Surveyor, Whiston R.D.C., provided as part of opposition to Liverpool Extension Bill (c. March 1951); handwritten notes of a conference with Counsel held at the offices of Sharpe, Pritchard and Co., to discuss the opposition to the Extension Bill (March 1951); statement showing the estimated rate charge resulting from the sewerage and sewage disposal scheme under construction for Rainhill (March 1951). |