IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): MCC/CL/DP
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: NON-DEPARTMENTAL
Date(s): 1932-1939
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Local Government Act, 1929, made the Council financially responsible for all classified roads and county bridges. By 1954 the Council was responsible for 550 miles of classified road and 200 bridges, as well as 81 miles of trunk road. Expenditure on improvement, reconstruction and repair cost on average £4000 a day.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising plans of works carried out on roads and highways in the Middlesex area, 1932-1939.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
MCC/CL/DP/01: Deposited plans (highways).
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also papers relating to highways, reference MCC/CL/HY.
Publication note:
For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009