Catalogue description RECORDS OF BOLTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE POOR
This record is held by Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service
Reference: | GBO |
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Title: | RECORDS OF BOLTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE POOR |
Description: |
Many of the series of administrative records listed below continue in sequence after 1930, and these are included herein, although they are technically County Borough and not Board of Guardians records. GBO/1. GUARDIANS' MINUTE BOOKS GBO/2. GENERAL LEDGERS GBO/3. PAROCHIAL LEDGERS GBO/4. COMMITTEE MINUTE BOOKS GBO/5. REGISTERS OF WORKHOUSE BIRTHS, DEATHS & BURIALS GBO/6. WORKHOUSE MASTERS' REPORT BOOKS GBO/7. INDOOR RELIEF REGISTERS GBO/8. OUTDOOR RELIEF REGISTERS GBO/9. WORKHOUSE ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE REGISTERS GBO/10. RELIGIOUS CREED REGISTERS GBO/11. VALUATION LISTS GBO/12. NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS BOOKS GBO/13. MISCELLANEOUS Further Instalment Deposited by Bolton M.B. Social Services Department GBO/14. GUARDIANS' FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND BALANCE SHEETS GBO/15. CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS AND CIRCULARS GBO/16. SUNDRY LEDGERS AND ACCOUNTS, INCLUDING PUBLIC WORKS, NON-SETTLED POOR, WORKHOUSE SALES, ETC GBO/17. PETTY CASH ACCOUNT BOOKS GBO/18. RECORDS OF HANOVER STREET WORK DEPOT, BOLTON GBO/19. RECORDS OF KINGSGATE INSTITUTION CASUAL WARDS AND AMBULANCE STATION GBO/20. REPORTS OF OFFICERS' APPOINTMENTS GBO/21. REGISTERS OF NURSES EMPLOYED GBO/22. REGISTERS OF OFFICERS' FEES, SALARIES AND SUPERANNUATION RETURNS GBO/23. GUARDIANS' STATISTICAL RETURNS AND ANALYSES GBO/24. ESTIMATES AND FINANCIAL CALCULATIONS GBO/25. PAY CLERKS' RECEIPT AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT BOOKS GBO/26. WAGES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE ACCOUNT BOOKS GBO/27. REGISTER OF CHILDREN PLACED UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE BOARD GBO/28. PERSONNEL FILES |
Date: | 1831-1948 |
Related material: |
The Chorley Union records are at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston; those of Wigan Union are at the Wigan Record Office, Town Hall, Leigh |
Held by: | Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 28 Sub-fonds |
Access conditions: |
PUBLIC ACCESS RESTRICTED for some files |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records listed below include material formerly deposited on loan with the Lancashire Record Office, Preston, items transferred to the Archives Service by Bolton Central Reference Library, and records deposited by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Social Services Department. GBO/6/10,11 deposited by Bolton Area Health Authority GBO/7/18-450 Further instalment transferred from the Social Services Department Home, Watermillock, Crompton Way, Bolton GBO/8/451-GBO/26 Further instalment transferred from Watermillock, Crompton Way, Bolton |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
Bolton Poor Law Union was constituted in 1837, under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1834. It comprised the following townships: Parish of Bolton-le-Moors Bradshaw, Breightmet, Darcy Lever, Edgworth, Entwistle, Great Bolton, Harwood, Little Bolton, Little Lever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Sharples, Tonge-with-Haulgh, Turton. Parish of Deane Farnworth, Halliwell, Heaton, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Hulton, Middle Hulton, Over Hulton, Rumworth, Westhoughton. Parish of Middleton Great Lever. The townships of Anglezarke and Rivington, Bolton-le-Moors Parish were in Chorley Union; Blackrod Bolton-le-Moors Parish was in Wigan Union. The Bolton Union Workhouse at Fishpool in Farnworth was opened in 1861. Before that date, the Guardians used the former township workhouses of Great Bolton Fletcher Street and Turton Goose Cote Hill. Other premises administered by the Board included the Casual or Tramp Wards in Kings Gate, Great Bolton, Hollins Cottage Homes for poor children in Farnworth, and Townleys Hospital, which was built on a site next to Fishpool Workhouse. The Board was abolished by the Local Government Act of 1929, and its powers and functions transferred to the Public Assistance Committees of Bolton County Borough and Lancashire County Councils |
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