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ADMINISTRATION (TOWN CLERK’S RECORDS): Council minutes, 1835-1974; Council agenda papers, 1922-1928; Paving and Lighting Commissioners’ minutes, 1795-1865; Local Board minutes, 1863-1873; Urban Sanitary Authority minutes, 1873-1894; Urban District Council minutes, 1895-1941; Watch Committee minutes, 1836-1856; Burial Board minutes, 1859-1934; Finance Committee minutes, 1882-1908. 1925-1929, 1962-1973; Sanitary Committee minutes, 1883-1913; Contagious Diseases (Animals) Committee minutes, 1883-1888; Estates and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1883-1908; Bathing Committee minutes, 1883-1901, 1919-1942; Waterworks Committee minutes, 1886-1887; Landing Stage Committee minutes, 1888-1899; Drainage Committee minutes, 1890-1900; Technical Education Committee minutes, 1891-1901; Bye-law /Byelaws Committee minutes, 1891, 1913-1914, 1925; Market Committee minutes, 1894; Market Tolls Committee minutes, 1894; General Purposes Committee minutes, 1895-1929, 1962-1968; Isolation Hospital Committee minutes, 1896-1899; Gas Purchase Committee minutes, 1898-1909; Streets and Footways Committee minutes, 1899; Highways Committee minutes, 1899-1905, 1960-1961; Fire Brigade Committee minutes, 1899, 1910-1922, 1934-1941; Committee of Whole Council minutes, 1899; Burial Board Executive Committee minutes, 1900-1932; Town Hall and Free Library Sub-committee minutes, 1904; Lighting Committee minutes, 1905-1920; Building Committee minutes, 1908-1938, 1946-1948; Finance and Estates and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1908-1911; Common Rights Committee minutes, 1909; Gas Committee minutes, 1899-1950; Open Markets Committee minutes, 1909-1930; Borough Boundary Extension Committee minutes, 1911-1936; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1911-1924, 1929-1940, 1946-1962; Sanitary and Highways Committee minutes, 1912-1940, 1946-1948; Bull Croft Committee minutes, 1913-1914; Allotments Committee minutes, 1913-1915; Honorary Freedom Committee minutes, 1913; School Attendance Committee minutes, 1913-1915; Working Class Dwellings Committee minutes, 1914-1919; Estates Committee minutes, 1915-1932, 1945-1946; Rate Collections Committee minutes, 1917; Sports Committee minutes, 1921-1948; Housing Committee minutes, 1923-1940, 1946-1974; Car Parking Committee minutes, 1924; Wallingford and District Joint Fire Brigade Committee minutes, 1924-1934; Town Improvement Committee minutes, 1925-1926; Public Health Committee minutes, 1925; Local Services Committee minutes, 1926; Rating and Valuation Committee minutes, 1927-1952; Borough Extension and Town Planning Committee minutes, 1929-1932; Market Committee minutes, 1930-1931; Wallingford and Sotwell Joint Burial Committee minutes, 1935-1952; Works Committee minutes, 1936-1948; Free Library Committee minutes, 1936-1938; ARP Committee minutes, 1938-1942; Building and Town Planning Committee minutes, 1938-1942; County Library Local Committee minutes, 1939; Emergency Committee minutes, 1939-1945; Waste and Dormant Materials Committee minutes, 1939; Local Government (Staffs) (War Service) Act Committee minutes, 1939-1940; Sanitary and Housing Committee minutes, 1940-1946; Street Lighting Committee minutes, 1945; Youth and Community Centre Committee minutes, 1945-1946; British Legion and Free Library Sub-committee minutes, 1945; Building and Licencing Committee minutes, 1946-1956; Road Safety Committee minutes, 1946-1948; Public Lands and Buildings Committee minutes, 1946-1973; Staff and Establishment Committee minutes, 1946-1963; Public Health and Highways Committee minutes, 1946-1952; Town Planning Committee minutes, 1948- 1953; Civil Defence Committee minutes, 1948-1965; Highways and Lighting Committee minutes, 1948-1973; Public Health Committee minutes, 1948-1973; Rating Committee minutes, 1952-1959; Town Planning, Building and Licensing Committee minutes, 1953-1954; Public Lands and Drainage Committee, 1954-1956; Housing and Town Planning Committee minutes, 1954-1960; Schools Committee minutes, 1956-1962; Selection Committee minutes, 1959-1972; Finance Sub-committee minutes, 1958-1960; Planning and Development Committee minutes, 1960-1973; Museums Committee minutes, 1961-1962; Finance and Staffing Committee minutes, 1964-1968; Public Lands, Buildings, Parks and Gardens Committee minutes, 1964; Local Government Re-organisation Sub-committee minutes, 1965-1966; Joint Advisory Committee (with Wallingford Rural District Council) minutes, 1965-1969; Finance, Staffing and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1969; Council-in-Committee minutes, 1969-1974; Plans Committee minutes, 1973-1974; and minutes of various special committees, 1882-19.) Plans Committee; meeting with Henley Borough and Thame Urban District Councils to discuss transfer of functions and property under local government re-organisation; and Finance Sub-committee.; handbills for borough elections, 1838-1884; poll book, 1843-1873.; ephemera relating to parliamentary elections, 1832-1859; terrier of borough estate, 1868; rules for Watch, 1836; papers relating to the Cattle Market, 1870-1904; bye-laws, 1962; Town Clerk’s correspondence, 1909-1974; plans of allotments, 1960-1969; lists of members and officers, 1871-1874.
DEPOSITED COLLECTIONS: records of Wallingford Mechanics' Institution (later Wallingford Free Library and Literary Institute), 1844-1872; Streatley and Goring Bridge Commissioners’ treasurer's accounts, 1893-1922.
FINANCIAL RECORDS (BOROUGH TREASURER): ledgers, 1890-1912, 1952-1970; Borough Fund treasurer’s accounts, 1912-1941, and ledgers, 1880-1881, 1912-1941; Urban District Fund treasurer’s accounts, 1912-1957, and ledgers, 1912-1952; Allotments Fund accounts, 1913-1947; Bridge Fund treasurer’s accounts, 1912-1936, and ledger, 1880-1881; annual abstracts of accounts, 1866-1878 (incomplete); annual statements of accounts, 1904/5, 1939/40-1943/4, 1954/5-1972/3; rentals, 1880-1881, 1892-1946; Working Class Dwellings rent book, 1914-1948; Assisted Housing Scheme rentals, 1925-1936; council house rentals, 1936-1948; tenancy register, 1949-1953; Working Class Dwellings Housing (Assisted) Scheme ledger, 1920-1935; housing ledgers, 1935-1958; poor rates, All Hallows, 1838, St Leonard, 1913-1916, St Mary, 1911-1917, and St Peter, 1910-1917; general district rates, 1893-1967; rating valuation lists, 1897-1898, 1929-1954.
REGISTRATION AND ENROLMENT: electoral registers, Wallingford Division, 1832-1872; burgess rolls, 1835-1909; programme for freedom ceremony, 1971; registers of infectious diseases, 1911-1949; letter concerning petroleum licence, 1869; declarations in lieu of sacramental test, 1845-1866; declarations on entering into office, 1845-1951.
BOROUGH SURVEYOR: building control plans, 1909-1958 (incomplete); drainage plans, 1891-1892 (incomplete); slum clearance register, 1935-1939; plans for municipal housing developments, 1945-1961; building files for municipal housing developments, 1935-1954; papers relating to the waterworks, 1879-1884; sewerage of Wallingford, 1870-1892, 1933-1935; drainage plans of Wallingford Industrial Estate, 1960, and list of tenants, 1962; plans of public toilets, 1973; surveyor’s files on public toilets, 1936-1966, and Fir Tree Allotments, 1964-1965; papers relating to Work Study Survey, 1970; draft Wallingford Town Centre Plan, 1968.
UTILITIES: Wallingford Cemetery grants of rights of burial, 1861-1933 (incomplete), notices of interments, 1934-1959, accounts, 1935-1948, correspondence, 1935-1956; gas ledgers, 1916-1949; papers relating to the gas works, 1834, n.d. [c.1889]-1899.
MISCELLANEOUS: photographs, 1953-n.d. [c.1960s]. |