Local government in and around Wolverhampton

The following items are available for consultation in our public search room:

• Wolverhampton Town Commissioners and Borough Council
• Bilston
• Wednesfield Urban District Council
• Tettenhall Local Board and Urban District Council
• Willenhall
• Sedgley

Wolverhampton

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 (L92VIL)

The Working Class Movement in the Black Country 1750 - 1867, GJ Barnsby, 1977 (S9)

Bilston

Bilston Urban District Council:
Signed minutes of Council 1895 - 1933; Estates Committee signed minutes 1903 - 1914; Finance Committee signed minutes 1897 - 1914 ; General Purposes Committee signed minutes 1898 - 1914 ; Old Age Pensions Committee signed minutes 1908 - 1917, 1927 - 1942 ; Streets and Sewers Committee signed minutes 1901 - 1914 ; Water and Baths Committee signed minutes 1901 - 1914 ; Public Library sub-committee signed minutes 1921 - 1942 (C-UD-BIL)

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 (LB346:1896)

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:
signed Minutes of Council 1933 - 1966; Old Age Pensions Committee signed minutes 1943 - 1948; committee agendas and reports 1954 - 1966 (incomplete series); monthly reports to General Purposes Committee 1933 - 1949; committee accounts 1944 - 1954; declarations of acceptance of office 1933 - 1965; mayors declarations of acceptance of office, appointment diaries etc 1933 - 1966; Roll of honorary freemen, 1937 - 1963; Art Gallery & Public Library Department annual reports and papers 1920 - 1964; Borough Engineers files 1905 - 1966; abstract of accounts 1933 - 1966 (incomplete series); ledgers and other financial records 1936 - 1966; registers of contracts 1930 - 1961; Town Clerks files 1933 - 1966; title deeds to corporation properties 19th - 20th cent; legal papers re Wolverhampton Corporation Bill 1920 - 1942; other miscellaneous papers 20th cent (CMB-BIL)

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 (LB346:1942)

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)

Willenhall

For local government records for Willenhall contact
Walsall Local History Centre.

Coseley

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

Sedgley

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