| Description | Paper and correspondence concerning plans and leases for Air Raid Precaution shelters.
Papers include plans showing locations of shelters in the following roads: Moss Bank Road; Aker's Pits, Knowsley Road; Gillar's Green, Burrow's Lane; Valencia Bungalows, St. Helens Road; corner of Ellerslie Avenue and St. Helens Road; unmarked shelter in the Warrington Road, View Road and Victoria Street area; Warrington Road, near the Ship Inn; Ace of Hearts Garage, Warrington Road; Tarbock Road, near Cafe Belge and Priory Farm; Cronton Lane, near the junction with Prescot Road and Fox's Bank Lane; Millbrook Lane, near the junction with Kiln Lane; Millbrook Lane, near the Seven Stars Inn; Church Lane, near the Griffin Inn; Portico Lane, near Eccleston Park Station; St. Helens Road, near the junction with Ansdell Villa Road; Unicorn Inn, Cronton Lane.
Papers also include: handwritten notes and plans regarding the ARP shelters and their locations; correspondence with British Railways and the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company regarding demolition of air raid shelters at Victoria Road, Rainhill and Portico Lane, Eccleston Park (1947-1949); agreements, between the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company and Whiston Rural District Council, for the privilege of Air Raid Shelters at Victoria Road, Rainhill, and Portico Lane, Eccleston Park (January 1941); architectural plan showing suggested rearrangement of entrances to communal shelter for 50 persons to prevent direct entry of splinters (1939).
Also included are draft lease agreements, partially completed, for shelters in the following areas: off Windy Arbor Road, Whiston (including a handdrawn plan of the site); land fronting to St. James Road, Eccleston, and forming part of the playing field of Prescot Grammar School; St Helens Road, Rainhill, adjoining premises of the St. Helens Cooperative Society; Cronton Lane, Tarbock (1940). |