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STAINES URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): ACC/3408

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: STAINES URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL

Date(s): 1921-1974

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.13 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Staines Urban District Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Local Government Act 1894 made provision for local self-government in England and Wales in the form of parish councils for every rural parish with a population of 300 and upwards. The existing rural and urban sanitary authorities became the new district councils. Further re-arrangement of districts was carried out by review, by county councils under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1929.

Rating remained in the hands of the parish overseers in 1894, although under the Public Health Act 1875 a general district rate was levied by the urban authorities. The Rating and Valuation Act 1925 abolished the rating powers of the overseers of the poor and named the new rating authorities as the councils of every county borough and urban and rural districts. A consolidated rate - 'the general rate' - replaced the confusion of various separate rates. In addition, a new valuation list was to be made for every rating area, to come into force on either 1 April 1928 or l April 1929, followed by a second list in 1932, 1933 or 1934. Instructions were given in the act for draft valuation lists and records of totals to be made.

Staines Urban District Council was formed in 1894 and comprised Staines and part of Stanwell. In it was expanded to include Ashford, Laleham, and all of Stanwell (including Stanwell Moor and Poyle). As a result of local government re-organisation in the Greater London area, Staines Urban District was transferred to the administrative county of Surrey with effect from 1 April 1965. Urban district councils were abolished in 1974.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Staines Urban District Council general accounts ledgers, 1921-1974.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/3408/001-024: Volumes arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City 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:

Received in 1994 (Acc/3408).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

For more records relating to Staines local government, see references ACC/1427, ACC/1524 and ACC/1747.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Urban district councils | District councils | Local authorities | Local government | Public administration | Government
Local government finance

Personal names

Corporate names
Staines Urban District Council

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Staines | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Surrey