Catalogue description Washington Urban District Council

Council and Committees

UD.Ws/1/1-41 Council, signed minutes, 1927 - 1967, 1969 - 1974

(41 volumes)

UD.Ws/2 Adjustment committee, 1922 - 1933

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/3 Allotment Committee, 1933 - 1946

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/4 Baths Committee, 1925 - 1937

(1 file)

UD.Ws/5 Byelaws and Standing Orders Committee. 1922 - 1938

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/6 County Basis Committee, 1922 - 1923

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/7 Emergency Committee, 1941 - 1944

(1 file)

UD.Ws/8 Establishment Committee, 1934 - 1938

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/9/1-3 Finance Committee, 1935 - 1958

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/10/1-3 Health Committee, formerly sanitary committee, 1922 - 1938

(3 volumes)

UD.Ws/11/1-2 Highways Committee, 1922 - 1938

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/12/1-4 Housing Committee, 1922 - 1938

(4 volumes)

UD.Ws/13/1-2 Licensing Committee, 1922 - 1931

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/14/1-2 Planning Committee, formerly New Buildings and Plans Committee, 1922 - 1938

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/15 Office Committee, 1926 - 1929

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/16 Staffing Committee, 1922 - 1933

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/17 Works Committee, 1926 - 1929

UD.Ws/18/1-13 Reports of Officers to Committees, 1943 - 1971

(13 files)

Administration

UD.Ws/63/1-2 Standing Orders and Extracts from the Local Government Act, 1933, 1939

(2 booklets)

UD.Ws/19 Register of deeds, 1922 - 1974

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/20 Register of mortgages, 1946 - 1952

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/21 Register of Advances, Small Dwellings, 1947 - 1950

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/22 Register of applications and proposals to acquire land, 1955 - 1957

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/23 Summary of rents register, 1930 - 1955

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/24/1-4 Files concerning Local Government Act of 1929, 1929 - 1939

(4 files)

UD.Ws/25/1-42 File series - original numbers in square brackets, 1897 - 1973 [This series has been extensively weeded]

(42 files)

UD.Ws/26/1-25 File series in chronological order, 1919 - 1956 [This series has been extensively weeded]

(25 files)

UD.Ws/62/1-2 Washington New Town master plan and reports, 1961 - 1966

(2 files)

Financial

UD.Ws/27/1-35 General ledgers, 1922 - 1962

(35 volumes)

UD.Ws/28/1-2 Loan account ledgers, 1923 - 1952

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/29 Cash book, 1942 - 1958

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/30/1-4 Valuation lists, 1928 - 1964

(4 volumes)

UD.Ws/31 Valuation direction sheets, 1956 - 1964

(1 file)

UD.Ws/32 Record of totals of valuation list and special list, 1930 - 1958

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/33 Record of products of rates, 1939 - 1952

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/34/1-5 Rate books, 1950 - 1962

(5 volumes)

UD.Ws/35 Changes to property necessitating rating changes, 1932 - 1955

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/36/1-4 Salaries books, 1922 - 1946

(4 volumes)

UD.Ws/37/1-2 Register of allotment rents, 1937 - 1952

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/38 Composite subsidy register, 1925 - 1944

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/39/1-4 Reports to Housing meetings, 1953 - 1965

(4 files)

UD.Ws/40/1-4 Reports to Planning meetings, 1953 - 1963

(4 files)

UD.Ws/41/1-3 Reports to Highways Meetings, 1953 - 1963

(3 files)

UD.Ws/42 Alphabetical index by street to building control plans, 1898 - 1946

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/43/1-26 Building Control plans, 1898 - 1946

(26 volumes)

UD.Ws/44/1-19 Individual building control plans, 1909 - 1922 [these do not appear in the index UD/Ws/42]

(19 plans)

UD.Ws/45/1-24 File series, original numbers in square brackets, 1959 - 1974 [This series has been extensively weeded]

(24 files)

UD.Ws/64 Durham County Council, footbridge between Barmston and Coxgreen, plan and sections, 1956

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/46 Town Map and draft report, first review of Green Belt, 1962 - 1969

(4 files)

UD.Ws/61 Household census, 1969

(1 volume)

Housing

UD.Ws/47/1-4 Reports to Housing Committee, 1931 - 1966

(4 files)

UD.Ws/48/1-3 Registers of houses provided under Housing Acts of 1923, 1924 and 1930 and 1946

(3 volumes)

Public Health

Medical Officer of Health

UD.Ws/49/1-49 Annual reports, 1922 - 1972

(49 volumes)

UD.Ws/50 Quarterly reports, 1961 - 1971

(1 file)

Inspector of Nuisances

UD.Ws/51/1-4 Journals of nuisances, 1944 - 1956

(4 volumes)

UD.Ws/52/1-5 Record of complaints, 1945 - 1961

(5 volumes)

Sanitary Inspector

UD.Ws/53/1-2 Monthly reports to Sanitary Committee, 1924 - 1949

(2 volumes)

UD.Ws/34 Monthly reports of the Sanitary Inspector and Public Health Inspector to Health Committee, 1954 - 1965

(1 file)

Slum Clearance

UD.Ws/55 Register of houses in clearance areas, 1936 - 1957

(1 volume)

UD.Ws/56 Number not used

UD.Ws/57 Clearance orders enquiry under Housing Act of 1936, 1938

(1 file)

UD.Ws/58 Ojections to Clearance orders, 1938

(1 file)

UD.Ws/59/1-5 Clearance orders, 1936 - 1938

(1 file)

UD.Ws/60/1-8 Clearance orders by name, 1952 - 1962

(1 file)

Washington Urban District Council

Accession 219, T475 (part)

• Urban planning
• Public transport
• Health policy
• Housing policy
• Social welfare

Washington Urban District was formed on the 1 April 1922 following the County of Durham (Washington Urban District) Confirmation Order 1922. It consisted of part of Chester-le-Street Rural District, Barmston Civil Parish, Usworth Civil Parish and Washington Civil Parish.

Following the Washington New Town (Designation) Order 1964, Washington New Town was established which included part of Washington Urban District.

The Local Government Act of 1972 abolished Washington Urban District and from 1 April 1974 it became part of Sunderland Metropolitan Borough.

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