| Description | Large bundle of papers and correspondence relating to street lighting in Windle.
Includes: copy of the Whiston (Urban Powers) Order, 1923, given under the official seal of the Minister of Health, with Halewood, Speke, and Windle contributory places (Aug 1923); copy of the St. Helens Electricity (Extension) Special Order 1926 (Apr 1926); correspondence with the St. Helens Corporation Electricity Works [or Department] concerning street lighting in Windle (Apr - May 1926, Apr 1927, Mar - Oct 1931, Sep 1934, Apr - Sep 1935, Nov 1937 - Feb 1938, Dec 1938 - May 1939, Feb - Mar 1943); correspondence with the Ministry of Health concerning street lighting and loan applications (Apr 1926 - Jan 1927); correspondence with R.J.M. Wilson, Rainford Estate Office and the Windle Parish Council concerning Windle street lighting (Apr - Dec 1926, May 1929, Dec 1938); correspondence with the St. Helens Town Clerks, W.H. Andrew and, subsequently, W.H. Pollitt, regarding street lighting in Windle (May 1926 - Apr 1927, Nov - Dec 1931, Mar - Apr 1935, Feb - May 1936, Jun 1938 - Jan 1939, Mar - May 1951); completed form - Information to be Forwarded to the Ministry of Health with an Application for Sanction to a Loan, including population figures, rateable value of Whiston rural district and Windle, loan amount requested (Dec 1926); design plans for street lights (Apr 1926. Nov 1932); copy of Sanction to Loan document from the Ministry of Health (Jan 1927); correspondence with the Public Works Loan Board, London (Jan - Jul 1927); answers to queries set by the Public Works Loan Board before agreeing to loan application (May 1927); confirmation of £300 loan from the Public Works Loan Board for public lighting in Windle and copy of the indenture document (Jun 1927); letter to F.C. Capes, Westminster Bank, Prescot, regarding the £300 loan (Jul 1927); handwritten notes and calculations; copy of Supplemental Agreement, extending the existing agreement with St. Helens Corporation concerning the lighting of public highways in Windle (Nov 1931); complaint from Ryan & Nolan, builders, Moss Bank, of a lack of lighting on the Moss Bank estate causing a pregnant woman to fall in the road and, as a result of the fall, giving birth to a stillborn child (Feb 1934); correspondence with Windle Parish Council, concerning lighting in the township (Mar - May 1931, Feb - Mar 1934, Jun - Aug 1935, Sep - Dec 1938, Apr 1943, Dec 1945); request from Rainford Urban District Council, rejected by Whiston R.D.C., for the joint provision of an electric lamp at the Windle boundary (Dec 1934 - Jan 1935); draft Agreements, with St. Helens Corporation, as to lighting roads in Windle (Feb 1935, Feb 1936); petition from Windle residents calling for street lighting in Square Way, Windle and subsequent correspondence and confirmation of lighting from St. Helens Corporation Electricity Department (Jul - Aug 1935); complaint from a resident about no lighting in Princes Way, Moss Bank, and subsequent correspondence with Windle Parish Council (Oct 1936); Lancashire Constabulary Occurrence Report concerning a damaged street lamp in Queensway, Moss Bank and subsequent correspondence concerning the police report (Feb - Mar 1943); St. Helens Corporation Electricity Account statements and invoices (Nov 1943 - Mar 1944); correspondence with the Eccleston, Windle and District Property Owners' and Ratepayers' Association, concerning lighting of Bleak Hill, Windle (Mar 1946); letter from the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board concerning damage to public lighting in the Moss Bank and Clinkham Wood district (Oct 1951). |