Burgh of Partick Committee Reports
- Reference:GB 243 H-PAR1/21/23
- Dates of Creation:1893
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:4 bundles Manuscript
Scope and Content
First three bundles include:
- jobbings reports [on work done]
- fire reports
- reports by Superintendent of Police on police clothing, lamps, police numbers
- notices to retire and medical certificates for police officers
- notes on alteration to the police force
- petition for increase in pay from the lamplighters
- correspondence and specification for new steam fire engine
- pay of firemen
- flooding on Byres Road
- petition from fleshers requesting another suitable building theirs having been sold to the railway company
- minute of agreement between Partick and Glasgow over Glasgow Corporation Bill
- appeals against Burgh Surveyor notices to construct footpaths
- petition by house factors and proprietors against the current system of ejecting tenants
- public notice of events at Park Theatre 'a working man's theatre at popular prices'
- correspondence on the Victoria Park extension
- sale of the old school on Kelvin Street
- correspondence on amending the Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875 and the Margarine Act 1887
- correspondence on the Telephone Bill
- construction of Whiteinch Police Station with plans
- Partick Electric Lighting Provisional Order
- copy of The Partick Star newspaper Wednesday March 29th
- programmes for the Victoria Model Yacht Club
- papers relating to new Court Hall, Whiteinch
- Burgh of Partick Dean of Guild Court Regulations and Rules
- petition for increased wages by park workers and updated park bye-laws
- notice against bicycles in the park
- correspondence on the unemployed relief fund
- request to publicans to close on 1st January
Fourth bundle includes:
- lengthy petition against the opening of a theatre on open ground on Muirhead Street, undated
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