Catalogue description LYME REGIS BOROUGH

QUARTER SESSIONS

HUSTINGS AND COURT LEET

CORONER

ADMINISTRATION

LEGAL

COBB, SEA-WALLS & SHIPPING

FINANCE

RATES & TAXES

CHARTERS

DEEDS

RENTALS ETC.

ELECTIONS

PARISH & CHARITY

MISCELLANEOUS: LYME REGIS

MISCELLANEOUS: NOT LYME REGIS

ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF LYME REGIS BOROUGH (Uncatalogued)

SESSIONS

Bill for attendance at Special Sessions, 1841 (1).

[Petty Sessional fines and fees accounts, 1898-1908 (40), court registers, 1896-1927, (2 vols), added to PS10].

COURT OF RECORD (HUSTINGS)

Table of fees, 1841 (1). (Copy).

Rules of Practice, 1844 (3 vols) (Printed).

Blank forms of writs and procedures, undated (3 bundles). (Printed).

ADMINISTRATION

Borough

Borough Council minutes, 1882-1965 (16 vols)... AKA Municipal

Committee minutes, 1890-1935 (10 vols).

Borough Records Fund Committee minutes, 1927-43 (1 vol).

Cobb Committee minutes, 1898-1954 (6 vols).

Jubilee and Almshouses Committee minutes, 1887-8 (1 vol).

Technical Committee minutes, 1892-1900 (1 vol).

Loose (mainly signed) minutes as follows:-

Council in Committee, 1953-6.

Allotments and Council (Parking) Sub-Committee, 1956.

Boundary Sub-Committee, 1947-8

Establishment Committee, 1946-8.

Finance and General Purposes (Coronation) Committee, 1952-4.

Finance and General Purposes (Staff) Committee, 1951-6.

Highways, Lighting and Water Committee (Highways), 1953-6.

Public Health and Town Planning Committee, 1952-6.

Public Health and Town Planning and Borough.

Housing and Estates Joint Committee, 1949, 1953.

Reconstruction Committee, 1944-6.

Recreations Committee, 1952-6.

Recreations and Public Health Joint Committee, 1951.

Reorganisation Committee, 1947-50.

Sea Defence Committee, 1947.

Selection Committee, 1946-54.

Town Crier's Championship Contest Committee, 1948-9.

Report on condition of Town Hall, 1887 (1).

Reports of Inspector under pleasure boat bye-laws, 1899-1904 (1 file).

Reports of Captain of Fire Brigade, 1904-9, 1912, with correspondence, 1908 (1 bundle).

Town Clerk's out-letter book (Borough, UDC and Cobb business), 1898-1901 (1 vol).

6H/195 & 194 Town Clerk's correspondence, mainly in-letters (Borough, UDC and Cobb business), 1883-1926 (2 boxes). For letterbook 1932-1934 see D/LRM/D1/1

Acts, orders, Government and County Council circulars etc. 1845-1910, 1965 (1 box). (Mainly printed; some UDC business).

Bye-laws and correspondence, 1877-1910 (5 bundles)

Burgess lists, 1911, 1913, 1914 (3 vols).

Papers concerning appointments of deputy Mayors and elections of Councillors, 1899-1907 (1 bundle).

Applications for the post of Town Clerk, 1910 (1 bundle).

List of documents, 1910 (1 vol).

Indenture of verification of weights and measures, 1864, certified 1878-94 (1).

Notice of charges for hire of Assembly Rooms, 1911 (1 bundle). (Printed).

Notice inviting tenders for tolls of fairs and markets, 1917 (1) (Printed).

Receipt book, plan, papers and correspondence relating to potato allotments, 1917-8 (1 bundle).

Memorandum to be submitted to Local Government Boundary Commission, 1948 (1).

Planning scheme, undated (1).

Improvement Commission and Urban Authority

Improvement Commissioners' minutes, 1881-1890 (1 vol).

Urban Sanitary Authority, later Urban District Council, minutes, 1894-1956 (16 vols).

Report of Medical Officer of Health for Lyme Regis, 1887-1909 (21).

Reports of Medical Officers of Health for Dorset districts for 1890, 1895-1897, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1908 (9). (Printed).

Notices of provisions of Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889 (2) (Printed).

Notifications of infectious diseases, 1896-1899, 1912-1913 (2 bundles).

Bye-laws relating to common lodging houses, 1895 (1 bundle). (Printed).

Register of common lodging houses, 1900-1905 (1 vol)

Papers and plans concerning waterworks schemes, 1888-1897, 1903, 1906-1908, 1923-1927 and undated (8 bundles).

Agreements for gas lighting, 1890, 1904-1907 (15).

Specifications, contract, correspondence, reports of Clerk of Works etc. relating to town sewerage scheme and waterworks extension, 1899-1904 (3 bundles).

Contracts for work on waterworks extension, Bethel Bridge, parade shelter, river rails, 1905-1906 (4).

Agreements for supply of stone for road maintenance, 1905-1907 and for steam rolling, 1907 (4).

Notice declaring Poole's Court a highway, 1911 (1). (Printed).

Notice inviting tenders for reconstruction of Cobb Road, 1914 (1). (Printed).

Correspondence, plans and contracts relating to electricity supply, 1920-24 (1 bundle).

Statements of duties of Borough Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector, 1926 (1 bundle). (Printed).

Statement of facts relating to Uplyme sewerage scheme, 1943 (1).

Plan of drainage objected to by Mr E Wallace at Jericho, undated (1).

Blank forms, circulars etc. undated (1 bundle). (Printed).

Burial Board

Minutes, 1885-1934 (1 vol).

LEGAL

Plans of Gun Cliff and baths area, with elevation of baths and wall towards sea (E O Lee, plaintiff), 1856 (2).

Correspondence relating to case Gardner v Restrick and borough privileges, 1864-5, 1888 (1 bundle).

Brief in case Harvey and others v Corporation concerning Cobb duties, 1869 (1).

Case and opinion on repair of pavements, 1879 (1).

Case, opinion and correspondence relating to widening of Silver Street, 1899 (1 bundle).

Case and opinion on rating of limestone quarries, 1882, with copy of The Councillor, 1896 (2).

Case and opinion on application of borough fund to publicity, 1903 (4).

Papers, including draft Justices' certificates, concerning diversion of footpaths at Paradise Fields, Woodmead Estate, 1904 and Colway Mead, 1929 (2 bundles).

Papers concerning arbitration over field intended for allotments, 1920 (1 bundle).

COBB

Specification and plans of Cobb extension, 1862 (2).

Certificates of testing of chains, 1882, 1910, 1915, with register, 1910, 1915 (7).

List of tools etc. 1900 (1).

Notices of Cobb duties, 1907 (4). (Printed).

Plans of harbour, one with soundings, undated (3).

FINANCE

Borough general ledger, 1881-97, 1927-54 (6 vols).

? Urban District Council ledgers, 1922-41 (2 vols).

Housing ledger, 1936-53 (1 vol).

Electricity ledger, 1936-48 (1 vol).

Treasurer's accounts, 1898-1912 (UDC), 1919-34 (Borough) (2 vols).

Cobb accounts, 1886-1920, 1931-47 (4 vols).

Water rent accounts, 1934-47 (5 vols).

Borough Fund annual accounts, 1908, 1916 (1 bundle).

Town Improvements annual accounts, 1809-99 (1 bundle).

Urban Sanitary Authority annual accounts, 1894-1902 (1 file).

Main Roads annual accounts, with papers, 1889-1904, 1906 (1 bundle, 1 dec).

Workmen's Dwellings annual accounts, 1916 (1 bundle).

Balance sheets and statements of account, Borough, 1881-9, 1893-1914, 1918, Urban, 1899-1912, 1916, Cobb, 1882-9, 1915-6 (1 bundle).

Abstracts of accounts, 1930-2, 1943-66, 1968-9, 1971 (30).

Invoice location book, 1929-48 (1 vol).

Bank books, Borough Fund, 1892-1906 (3 vols), Town Improvement account, 1886-9 (1 vol), Urban Sanitary Authority account, 1886-97, 1903-8 (3 vols), Cobb account, 1894-1908 (2 vols), Sewerage account, 1903-5 (1 vol).

Bills and receipts, Borough Fund and Waterworks account, 1911-7 (5 bundles), Urban District Council, 1904-9, 1911-2, 1923, with separate receipts from Medical Officer of Health and Inspector of Nuisances, 1904-10 (8 bundles), Bridge Street account, 1912-4 (1 bundle), Langmoor Gardens, 1913-4 (1 bundle), Marder Bequest, 1899-1917 (1 bundle), Moly Bequest, 1910, 1913-4, 1917 (1 bundle), Cobb account, 1910, 1915-7 (4 bundles), Main Roads account, 1904-10, 1916-7 (7 bundles), Workmen's Dwellings account, 1912-7 (3 bundles).

Bank book, bills and receipts for Assembly Rooms Club, 1912 (1 bundle).

Statutory declarations and papers relating to Public Works Loan, 1903-5 (1 bundle).

Main Roads estimates and correspondence, 1904-11 (3 bundles).

Note of receipts for watermen's licences (1898-1910), undated (1).

Analysis of income and expenditure for tourist facilities, undated (1).

RATES AND TAXES

Rate books, 1941, 1946-7, 1952-3, 1960-1 (4 vols).

Water rates, 1913-5 (1 vol).

Total of valuation lists, 1934-49 (1 vol).

Draft precepts to Overseers to pay rates, 1887-1907 (1 file).

Local taxation returns for Borough and Urban Authority, 1890-1909 and for Harbour Authority, 1890-1910, with papers, 1907-11 (3 bundles).

Returns of Corporation property under Finance Act, 1910 (1 bundle).

DEEDS

Deeds of various properties in Lyme Regis, including Baths and Ship Inn, 1793-1913 (47)

Draft mortgages, with papers concerning Public Works Loans, 1895-1903 (1 bundle).

Draft deeds and papers concerning pleasure gardens etc., 1902-13 (1 bundle).

Draft agreement concerning bank on Charmouth road, with papers, 1906-7 (1 bundle).

ELECTIONS

Secret ballot marks used at elections, 1901-12 (2).

Registers of electors, 1922-5 (6).

CHARITIES.

Specification and letters concerning Jubilee Almshouses, 1887-1888 (1 bundle).

Draft application for Local Government Board order concerning charities, 1895 (1).

Letters concerning trusteeship of Fanny Tucker's charity, 1897 (2).

Charity Commission orders and receipt relating to Marder legacy, 1897-1901 (1 file, 2 docs).

Letter and notice concerning trusteeship of British and Foreign School, 1899 (2).

Scheme of application of income from Moly legacy, 1913 (1 bundle).

Bill, receipt and letter concerning prizes given under Moly legacy (Boys' School), 1915 (3).

Correspondence and papers concerning Chalmers legacy, 1916-1919 (1 bundle).

Papers concerning charities registered under War Charities Act, 1916-1925 (1 bundle).

MISCELLANEOUS

Thermometer readings, 1907-1910 (1 bundle).

List of Corporation documents in hands of Town Clerk etc. 1910 (1 vol).

Bridport Borough: abstracts of accounts, 1967, 1968, 1971; estimates, 1972-1973 (4 vols).

Bridport RDC: estimates, 1972-3 (1 vol).

Sherborne RDC: abstract of accounts, 1973 (1 vol).

Dorset County Council: abstract of accounts, 1973 (1 vol).

Photocopies of documents lodged in Philpot Museum (1662-1836) (19).

Indices and notes to volume of transcript of charters etc. (Cyril Wanklyn), 1942 (1 bundle).

Fragment relating to projected harbour at Seaton, Devon, undated (1).

Section of new road from Charmouth to Rhodehorn Hill, undated (1).

List of books and pamphlets offered to Lyme Regis Library by sisters of G M Anderson deceased, undated (1).

Lyme Regis Borough, Dorset

This list, made in 1963 at the Dorset Record Office, does not pretend to the full status of an accurate catalogue. The original intention of the compilers was to divide the mass of material into rough classes, and to give outside dates to each class. In fact a great deal more than this has been done. As hardly an original file remained intact, partly through the work of a previous would-be arranger, (who endorsed many documents with their dates in purple pencil), thousands of papers which were either found loose or as bundled by this arranger had to be sorted out. Even so, there are certain bundles such as the Bills series which have been taken on trust and left largely unexamined. The papers which have been put into a "Quarter Sessions Rolls" series have been placed in date order of years, but are not in order within each year. It is quite possible that the searcher will find strays that should be in other classes. In spite of the roughness of this catalogue, it is felt that it will serve as a useful guide to a large and fascinating accumulation of archives for which previously no catalogue existed.

The County Archivist wishes to thank Mrs S M Campbell, MA, who bore the brunt of the work, and Miss M Weinstock, MA, who sorted out the deeds.

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