Chapter 10.3.3 Civil - Westminster City Council up to 1965

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Westminster City was formed in 1900 out of the parishes of St Anne Soho; St Clement Danes; St George, Hanover Square; St James, Piccadilly; St Margaret. Westminster; St Martin-in-the-Fields; St Mary le Strand; St Paul, Covent Garden; the Precinct of the Savoy; and the Liberty of the Rolls.

Both the Baths & Washhouses Committee and the Libraries Committee started under the parish administration (see Chapter 10.1), and continued under the Westminster City Council administration. In 1965 the boroughs (former parishes) of St Marylebone (Chapter 10.3.2) and Paddington (Chapter 10.3.1) were added to the City of Westminster.

Committee minutes, Deparmental records

Westminster City Council minutes:

Signed copies, 1900-1965

Committee minutes

Air Raid Precautions and Civil Defence Committee and Subcommittee:

1935-1939 and 1946

Arts and Recreation Committee and Subcommittee:

1948-1957

Assessment Committee:

1901-1934

Baths and Wash-houses Committee:

1900-1943; Expenditure Subcommittee 1915-1931)

(later Public Cleansing Committee, 1943 onwards)

Baths, Contracts and Highways Committee:

Register, 1940-1943

Buildings and Properties Special Committee:

1907-1909

Properties belonging to the Council

Car Parking in Inner London, Special Committee:

1953-1954 and 1957-1958

Charities: Albert Reitlinger and Barlow's Gift Committees:

1927-1961

(75 year closure)

Charities Committee:

1960

Civil Defence Committee:

1949-1965

Special Committee, 1946

Committee Reports, 1956

Contracts Committee:

1908-1943 (later Public Cleansing Committee, 1943 onwards)

Committee Register (see Baths)

Coronation Committee:

1952-1953

Emergency Committee (incorporating Baths and Wash-houses, General Purposes, Highways, Housing, Improvements, Law and Parliamentary, Public Health, Valuation, Watch and Works):

1939-1945

Establishment Committee (formerly Joint (Employees) Committee, formerly General Purposes Committee, Establishment and Expenditure Subcommittee):

1960-1962 and 1964-1965 (index 1963);

Reports to, 1962-1965;

Subcommittee (Salaries and Wages), 1961-1965

Finance Committee and Subcommittees (included General Purposes to 1901):

1900-1965

Subcommittee (Rates and Expenditure), 1912-1935

Subcommittee (Rates and Accounts), 1936-1941

Subcommittee (Rates), 1942-1965

Subcommittee (Investments), 1946-1949

Subcommittee (Accounts), 1949-1965

Investments Special Committee, 1950-1961

Reports, 1960-1965

General Purposes Committee:

1901-1918, 1921-1935, 1937-1943 and 1947-1965

Registers, 1939-1945

Reports and Registers, 1956-1965

Establishment and Expenditure Subcommittee, 1901-1913, 1915-1939, 1945-1948

Bye-laws and Standing Orders Subcommittee, 1935

Superannuation Act Subcommittee, 1938-1939

Charities Subcommittee, 1959

Law Parliamentary and Watch Subcommittee, 1943-1946

Reorganisation of London Government Subcommittee 1961-1964 (included in Finance Committee to 1901)

Special Subcommittee on Marsham Street, 1961

Highways Committee:

1904-1943

Central Depot Subcommittee, 1937-1938

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1905-1933 (gaps)

Expenditure and organisation Subcommittee, 1934-1935

Standing Subcommittee, 1937-1939

Special Committees and Subcommittee Technical Subcommittee re mechanical transport, 1924-1933

Works Subcommittee, 1901-1923 (later Public Cleansing Committee, 1943 onwards)

Housing Committee:

1901-1939, 1952, 1957-1964

Housing Subcommittee, 1938-1939

Housing Management Subcommittee 1956-1965

Dolphin Square (Special) Committee, 1945-1946, 1949-1960, 1963

Housing and Finance Special Joint Committee:

1945-1946, 1949-1960, 1963

Improvements Committee 1900-1941

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1911-1935

Plans Subcommittee, 1935-1939 (later combined with Town Planning Committee, 1943 onwards)

Housing, Public Cleansing, Town Planning and Works Special Joint Committee:

Subcommittees on Street Markets, 1960-1961

Improvements:

(Combined with Town Planning Committee October 1943)

1900-1941

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1911-1935

Plans Subcommittee, 1935-1939

Investments Special Committee:

See Finance Department

Joint (Employees) Committee:

(see also Establishment Committee and General Purposes Committee - Establishment and Expenditure Subcommittee)

1942-1955

Joint (Staff) Committee:

1943-1952

Law and Parliamentary Committee and Emergency Committee:

1901-1939

Law and Parliamentary Matters (proceedings of Emergency Committee), 1939-1943

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1911-1935

Private Bills Subcommittee, 1923-1930

Post War Reconstruction Committee (also other small Committees and Subcommittees in this period):

Post War Reconstruction, Town Planning and Improvements Subcommittee, 1943

Organising Committee for Book Recovery and Salvage Drive, 1943

Public Cleansing, Transport, Baths and Contracts Committee (superseded Baths and Wash-houses, Contracts and Highways Committees in 1943):

1943-1957 and 1959-1961

Baths Subcommittees, 1949, 1954-1956 and 1956-1957

Reports, 1956

Public Health Committee:

1900-1904, 1906-1939, 1945-1965

Reports, 1963-1965

Burials, mortuaries and Expenditure Subcommittee, 1911-1912

Subcommittee (previously burials), 1912-1915

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1915-1935

Standing Subcommittee, 1936-1939

Maternity and Child Welfare Subcommittee, 1919-1945

See also Public Health and Housing

Public Health and Housing Committee:

1943-1945

Post-War housing Subcommittee, 1944

Public Libraries Committee:

1900-1961

Reports, 1960-1961, 1964-1965

Book Subcommittee, 1912-1914

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1919-1923

Arts and Recreation Subcommittee (special), 1964-1965

Town Planning (and Improvements) Committee:

1943-1944, 1945-1957, 1958, 1960-1965

Reports, 1956-1962

Notifications Subcommittee, 1945-1965

Open Spaces Subcommittee, 1949

Berkeley Square Gardens Panel, 1949

Traffic and Public Lighting Committee:

1927-1943, 1957-1964

Public Lighting Subcommittee, 1931

Parking Places Subcommittee, 1934

Subcommittee Report, 1966

Car Parking, Town Planning and Traffic Subcommittee Report, 1966

Valuation Committee:

1900-1939, 1945-1950

Watch Committee (from 1943 functions taken over by General Purposes Committee):

1901-1939

Proceedings of Emergency Committee, 1939-1943

Registers of complaints and prosecutions of disorderly houses, 1939-1948

Works (Sewers and Highways) (and Traffic) Committee:

1900-1902, 1903-1958 and 1962-1965

Reports, 1956-1957, 1961-1962

Expenditure Subcommittee, 1905-1936

Street Trading Subcommittee, 1929-1965 (gaps)

Standing Subcommittee (Expenditure and Street Trading), 1937-1939

Public sanitary accommodation Subcommittee, 1923-1924

Special Subcommittee re fencing land and burial land, 1949

Cemetery Subcommittee, 1960

Wharves and Stables Subcommittee, 1900-1903

See also Buildings and Properties Special Committee

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Departmental records

City Engineer's Department:

Files including those on Festival of Britain and relocation of Covent Garden Market, 1930s-1965

Plans of Adelphi Estate, Alhambra, Marshall Street, Marshall Street Baths, St George's workhouse, 1960-1961

Environmental Health Department:

See Public Health Department

Finance Department:

Abstract of Accounts, 1900-1905, 1914-1933, 1959-1963

Analysis of accounts, 1901-1902

Arrears 1947-1951

Assessment particulars of public buildings, 1934

Cash books, 1902-1905

Cashbook or journal, 1901-1902

Contracts, 1938

Direction lists, 1950-1965 (gaps)

Financial statements (audited), 1901-1931

Journal, 1902/3-1931

Ledgers, 1901-1902, 1905-1935 (gap 1927-1929)

Personal ledgers, 1905-1936/7

Provisional Valuation lists 1930/31-1934/35, 1939-1942

Supplemental Valuation lists, 1931-1934

Valuation lists 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935

Rates:

General Rate, daily cash reconciliation, 1965

General Rate Summary Cash book, 1955-1959

Irrecoverable General Rate, 1945-1959

Rate books, 1900-1965 (indexed by street)

Rateable values:

weekly record of, 1929-1941;

totals of, 1956-1964

Rates, totals collected, 1950-1951

Register of forms (Rates), 1951-1955

Summary Rate account, 1965/66

Housing Department:

Assisted Housing Scheme ledger, 1924-1935

Plans of Oxford Street Estate

Libraries Department:

Annual reports (printed), 1900-1962

Committee Minutes, 1900-1939 Acc 189

Index to Committee Minutes Acc 235



Record of proceedings 1939-1943 Acc 189

Librarian's copies of Emergency Committee Minutes, 1939-1945 Acc 190

Register of action taken on Civil Defence matters, 1939-1940 Acc 189

Stock books, particular libraries and general, 1881-[1950s]

Letter book, 1915-1919

St Martin's Lane Library Committee

Valuation of libraries, 1890s; Staff guild

Plans of Buckingham Palace Road, Charing Cross, Church Street, Churchill Gardens, Great Smith Street, Marylebone Road, Paddington, St Martin's Lane, St Martin's Street and South Audley Street libraries

Parks Department:

Hanwell Cemetery registers of burials, 1867-1965, including cremations 1948-1965

Appropriation book, 1898-1905

Planning Department:

Register of composition agreements, 1880-1929

Notifications by or from the London County Council, 1905-1949 See also Surveyor's Department

Land use map, 1935 Acc 1939

Map of recent development and important monuments, 1946 Acc 1955

Drainage plans - see Public Health Department

Public Health Department

Drainage plans, 1900-1965

Registers of drainage plans, 1906-1965 (indexed 1911-1965)

Tuberculosis notification register, 1953-1966

Register under the Food and Drugs Act 1938, North District, 1956-1963. See also Environmental Health Department, Chapter 10.4

Public Libraries: see Libraries

Surveyor's Department: Plans, mainly of stages to view Queen Victoria's funeral procession, 1901, 1923 and 1935 see also Planning Department

Town Clerk's Department: Copies of official notices and forms, 1900-1902

Notices of motions at Council Meetings, 1913-1938 and 1941-1965

Register of deeds, 1900-1953; Declarations by councilors on acceptance of office, 1929-1941

Registers of contracts, 1901-1920, 1946-1951

Coroners' Court, including civilian war dead (see Chapter 13.3)

Westminster Paving Scandal records, 1902-1903 Acc 191

Caxton Hall: Lettings books, 1936-1965 (see also Chapter 10.4)

Plans of City Hall, Westminster boundaries

Treasurer's Department: see Finance Department

Valuer's Department: see also Finance Department; St Anne, Soho, Assessor's List, 1908-1909 Acc 249

Works Department:

Register of drainage works with note of Committee approvals, 1905-1912

Applications to the Works Department for the erection of signs, No's 2245-2782, 1934-1949 WCC:Acc0057

Other Council Records:

City of Westminster ward boundaries inquiry. Record of proceedings, with maps, 1958 Acc 169

Fulham Power Station Enquiry, Minutes of evidence, 1930

Gas Light and Coke Company's Bill. minutes of proceedings before Select

Committee of House of Commons on Private Bills, 1933

Civil Defence Records: Records of incidents, organisational and operational records of report centres, personnel records, equipment records, circulars and pamphlets, photographs, maps and plans, cuttings, 1938-1947, CD



For civilian war dead, see Chapter 13.3: Westminster Coroner’s Court. For additional civil defence records see Chapter 19

Mayoralty Records: Mayors of Westminster. Scrapbooks re receptions, 1903-1934 Acc 248

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