Catalogue description STROUD IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION, LOCAL BOARD and URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL

This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives

Details of DA 16
Reference: DA 16
Title: STROUD IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION, LOCAL BOARD and URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Description:

Clerk's and Treasurer's records, surveyors records including many building applications and plans. Rating and valuation records. Medical officer of Health records papers relating to Stroud Free Library and other authority records in Gloucestershire. Stroud burial Stroud records.

Date: 1825-1974
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Stroud Improvement Commission, Gloucestershire, 1825-1857

Stroud Local Board of Health, Gloucestershire, 1857-1895

Stroud Urban District Council, Gloucestershire

Physical description: 8 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Stroud Urban District Council, (Acc. 1575, 2746, 2803, 2981), 18 October 1958, 19 April and 24 August 1972, and 26 March 1974; Messrs Winterbotham, Ball and Gadsden, solicitors, Stroud 11, November 1983; Stroud District Council, 21 January 1986, 6 April 1989, December 1980, 24 February 1989, 2 May 1990, 12 June 1990; Stroud District Museum 8 December 1993

Accruals:

4727, 5155, 5958, 5774, 5924, 6170, 8558, 6896.

Administrative / biographical background:

An Improvement Commission was set up in Stroud in 1825 and continued in force until 1857 when it was replaced by a Local Board of Health. This in turn was superseded by the Urban District Council in 1895

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