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Local
government in and around Wolverhampton The following items are available for consultation in our public search room: •
Wolverhampton
Town Commissioners and Borough Council Wolverhampton Town Commissioners minute books 1777 - 1848 (CMB-WOL-C-TC) Wolverhampton town rate books 1777 onwards (D-WOP, D-FIN) Wolverhampton: The Town Commissioners 1777 - 1848, F Mason, 1976 (L352) The Town Commissioners in Wolverhampton, WA Smith, Journal of West Midlands Regional Studies, Vol 1 No 1, Dec 1967 (S9) Wolverhampton Borough Council minutes 1848 onwards (CMB-WOL-C-COU) Wolverhampton Council minutes of committees 1848 - 1997 (CMB-WOL-C) Wolverhampton Borough Council departmental records 1848 onwards (various references) Borough Politics: a Study of Wolverhampton Borough Council 1888 - 1964, GW Jones, 1969 The Book of the Century, F Avery (ed), 1948 (L9) Charles Pelham Villiers and the Repeal of the Corn Laws, WO Henderson, 1975 (L92 VIL) The Working Class Movement in the Black Country 1750 - 1867, GJ Barnsby, 1977 (S9) Bilston
Urban District Council: Reports and accounts 1900 - 1907 ; Monthly report book (Sanitary Inspector, Medical Officer of Health and Housing Inspector 1911 - 1932) ; Councillor's declarations of office 1911 - 1933 ; Education Committee minutes ?copy 1914 - 1942 (incomplete series) (CMB-BIL); Cemetery Department: registers of burials at Bilston Cemetery 1896 - 1911 ; Education Department: papers 1902 - 1909 ; preliminary report on primary education 1903 (LB372); departmental annual report 1904 (LB373); Housing Department: registers of tenants 1920 - 1929 ; Clerk's Department: letter books 1895 - 1923 ; Welfare Department: old age pensions - registers of claims and questions 1908 - 1912, 1922 - 1945 (C-UD-BIL) Annual reports of the Medical Officer of Health 1894 -1930 (LB614) Annual report of the medical inspection of children in elementary schools 1908 (LB370) Byelaws: new streets and ways 1906, 1927; water 1914 (LB34) Bilston Improvement Act 1896 (LB346) Printed ephemera: list of chairmen 1894 - 1933, list of clerks 1894 - 1933 (LB352p) Town Hall and Free Library: supplement to Bilston Herald re. laying of foundation stone 1872 (DX-520) Bilston
Borough Council: Revised draft of charter of incorporation 1933 (LB34) Reports on Public Health Services/Annual reports of the Medical Officer of Health 1945 - 1949, 1952 - 1963 (LB614) Map of proposed borough boundaries 1933 (LB912 map cabinet) Bilston Corporation Act: minutes of proceedings 1941 - 1942, Act 1942 (LB346) Abstracts of accounts 1936/7, 1943/4, 1946/7 - 1965/6 (LB352) Rate estimates 1950 - 1966 (LB352) Printed ephemera: souvenirs of Charter Day 1933 (LB9, LB352, LB352p); Childrens Week programme 1948 (LB37p); Clean Food brochure ?1940s (LB614p); Foul Air exhibition programme 1957 (LB7114p); tenants handbook c. 1960 (LB3391); Home Safety handbooks 1957/8, 1963/4 (LB614p); list of freemen 1937 - 1963 (LB352p); list of mayors 1933 - 1966 and list of clerks 1933 - 1966 (LB352p); official handbook 1961 (LB91p); Ettingshall Re-sewerage scheme, section 1, brochure 1952/3 (LB628) Wednesfield Urban District Council Signed minutes 1892 - 1966; General Purposes Committee signed minutes 1912 - 1966; Finance Committee minutes 1922 - 1966; Highways and Sanitary Committee minutes 1889 - 1907; Streets and Lighting Committee minutes 1919 - 1920; Housing Committee minutes 1920 - 1966; Parks Committee minutes 1925 - 1966; Public Health Committee minutes 1935 - 1966; Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes 1938 - 1951; War Time Nursery Management Committee minutes 1943 - 1948; Road Safety Committee minutes 1946 - 1953; Gwynn Morgan Hall Committee minutes 1957 - 1959 (D-WED) Declarations of acceptance of office 1928 - 1955; Seal registers 1938 - 1966 ; Clerk's files 1933 - 1959 ; Medical Officer of Health reports 1955 - 1956; Compulsory Purchase register 1939 - 1941 ; Tenancy Registers 1920s - 1930s ; General ledgers 1905 - 1910, 1938 - 1940; Valuation list 1894 - 1895 (D-WED) Tettenhall Local Board and Urban District Council Signed minutes 1883 - 1966; Public Health Committee minutes 1958 - 1960, 1965 -1966; Development and Planning committee minutes 1965 - 1966; Highways and Drainage Committee minutes 1965 - 1966; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes 1965 - 1966; Establishment Committee minutes 1965 - 1966; Housing Allocation Committee minutes 1965 - 1966; reports of committees 1939 - 1965 (D-TET) Roads and Sanitary Committee journals 1927 - 1938; Seal registers 1948 - 1966; Clerk's files 1891 - 1966; Minutes of evidence re. Wolverhampton Corporation Bills 1920s; Newspaper cuttings 1888 - 1965 (incomplete series) (D-TET) For local government records for Willenhall you are advised to contact Walsall Local History Centre Coseley Urban District Council Copy council and committee minutes 1956/7 - 1965/6; agendas and reports/reports of meetings/officers reports 1926/7 - 1965/6 (D-CLY) Yearbooks 1946 - 1966 (D-LAB-2) For other records you are advised to contact Dudley Archives and Local History Service Copy minutes and reports of committees 1945/6 - 1965/6 (D-SGY) For other records you are advised to contact Dudley Archives and Local History Service © Copyright. Wolverhampton City Council, 2002
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