| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to gas supply and services in the Whiston rural district.
Includes: Draft Special Order made by the Board of Trade under the Gas Regulation Act 1920, on the application of the Prescot (and District) Gas Company, with pencil annotations throughout - document includes details of the transfer of undertakings from the Rainhill Company to the Prescot and District Gas Company (Feb 1929); correspondence regarding the draft order between Henry Cross & Son, solicitors, Prescot, Whiston R.D.C., Rainhill Parish Council, and Lancashire County Council (Feb - Mar 1929); Draft Special Order, regarding St. Helens Gas, made by the Board of Trade under the Gas Regulation Act 1920, on the application of the Borough of St. Helens (May 1930); brief letter to Earlestown Town Hall answering an enquiry about the use of Vulcan Locomotives and damage to roads in the Whiston rural district (Feb 1930); copy of a Special Prescription by the Gas Referees for the Liverpool Gas Company in consequence of the transfer to that company of the gas undertaking of the former Formby Gas Company (Nov 1935); plan showing proposed new 6 inch gas main from Scotchbarn Lane to Rainhill Gas Works (Jan 1930); correspondence regarding the Prescot and District Gas Company making an application for an Order under the Gas Undertakings Act 1929 to raise and borrow share capital - correspondence is with the solicitors to the United Kingdom Gas Corporation, the Prescot and District Gas company, and the Board of Trade (Apr - Jun 1940); Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts for the Liverpool Gas company for the year ending 31 December 1941 (Feb 1942); Liverpool Gas Company Scale of Gas Charges and Discounts booklet (Apr 1942). |