| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding street lighting.
Includes: correspondence with Bold Parish Council regarding installing lighting at Clock Face Road and Gorsey Lane, to Crawford Street (Sep - Oct 1922); printed public notice poster declaring that it was resolved at a Bold Parish Council meeting to adopt the Lighting and Watching Act, 1833, for the Parish of Bold (Nov 1922); agenda for a meeting of the Whiston Rural District Council, with reference to an agreement that an application be made to the Ministry of Health, under the Public Health Act, 1875, for powers for lighting streets in areas of the district where the Lighting and Watching Act, 1833, is not in force (Feb 1923) and subsequent correspondence with the Ministry of Health, London (Feb - Sep 1923); correspondence with the various Whiston rural district parish councils concerning the application to the Ministry of Health, whether they agree to the proposal and concerns and questions relating to the application (Mar - Jun 1923); printed public notice poster announcing the date of the Annual Meeting of the Bold Parish Council and that business will include authorisation of the amount needed to carry out the provisions of the Lighting and Watching Act, 1833 (Mar 1923); handwritten notes; correspondence with H.S. Oppenheim, Town Clerk, Widnes Corporation, concerning the application to the Ministry of Health in relation to the township of Bold and copy of a letter sent by Mr. Oppenheim to the Ministry of Health about street lighting in Bold (May - Jul 1923); copy of Order investing Whiston R.D.C. with Urban Powers (lighting), with Halewood, Speke and Windle as contributory places (Aug 1923); correspondence with Knowsley and Kirkby Parish Councils regarding renewing the 1923 application to the Ministry of Health concerning street lighting (Jun - Aug 1935); correspondence with the Ministry of Health concerning renewing the 1923 application for Urban Powers for lighting (Sep - Oct 1935); copy of Order investing Whiston R.D.C. with Urban Powers (lighting), with Kirkby and Knowsley as contributory places (Oct 1935); Ministry of Transport circular no. 504 (Roads), concerning street lighting (Nov 1937); correspondence with the Ministry of Home Security concerning street lighting (Feb - Apr 1945); Ministry of Home Security circular no. 8/1945 concerning street lighting (Jan 1945); correspondence with the Post Office, Liverpool, concerning the Lighting Restrictions Order, 1944 (Apr 1945); correspondence with the Ministry of Transport concerning Street Lighting circulars (Jul 1947); Ministry of Transport circulars no. 618 and 633 concerning street lighting (Jul 1947, Jul 1949); copy of Order investing Whiston R.D.C. with Urban Powers (lighting), with Hale as contributory place (May 1949). |