CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: NON-DEPARTMENTAL

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: MCC/CL/DP
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

Allied Materials

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

Archivist's 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