Catalogue description RECORDS OF BOLTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE POOR

This record is held by Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service

Details of GBO
Reference: GBO
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
Creator:

Bolton Board of Guardians of the Poor

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

Subjects:
  • Bolton, Lancashire
  • Bolton, Greater Manchester
  • Social welfare
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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