| Description | Papers and correspondence concerning the requisition and de-requisition of property, including 3 Cumber Lane, Whiston, for families evacuated during the Second World War.
Incudes: two detailed reports, from 1944 and 1954 on the condition of 3 Cumber Lane, describing each room in the property and the external features; correspondence with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Manchester and London, about the requisition and derequisition of 3 Cumber Lane (1944 - 1955); correspondence with James Lowe & Sons, auctioneers, valuers and accountants, Prescot, regarding the requisition and, later, the derequisition of 3 Cumber Lane (1944 - 1954); Whiston R.D.C. application for consent to the requisitioning of 3 Cumber Lane, signed on behalf of Whiston R.D.C. and the Ministry of Health (September 1944); Form of Requisition Notice (September 1944); eleven draft quarterly returns showing numbers of requisitioned premises and camps, numbers of families accommodated, and financial costs (June 1952 - December 1954); blank 'Temporary Housing Accommodation: Huts' form; details of premises held for Ministry of Health purposes, these are: Moss Bank Road, Windle; Boundary Drive, Halewood; two properties on Cecil Drive, Eccleston (all four for 'War Workers'); and 3 Cumber Lane, Whiston for 'Homeless Persons' (October 1951); three government circulars relating to the Requisitioned Houses and Housing (Amendment) Act (August 1955). |