Burgh of Partick Committee Papers
- Reference:GB 243 H-PAR1/21/45
- Dates of Creation:1908
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:4 bundles Manuscript
Scope and Content
First bundle includes:
- accounts for granolithic pavement
- revenue and expenditure for the Port Local Authority
- police objection to licensing of social club
- plan showing electricity station, fire station and stables
- insurance policies and correspondence
- petition from proprietors to have their streets adopted as a public streets
- police report of tram accident
- notices of resignation, incapacity and dismissal of police officer
- report of Chief Constable
- estimates for works in fire station
- Dean of Guild Court returns on applications 1902-1908
- account of expenses of deputations to London for legislation
Second bundles includes:
- police reports on accidents and related insurance claims
- bond for repairing Anderson Street
- opening of streets for telegraph
- motor fire engine advertisements and correspondence with other burghs on fire equipment
- contract for work on bridges
- annual reports of the Association of Burgh Officials of Scotland 1906-7 and 1907-8
- newspaper cutting on assessment of unlet property
- notes of wages paid to unemployed
- report on lighting of private streets and courts and common stairs in Glasgow with comments by Partick's head of Lighting Department
- report on hospital haulage and Committee on haulage reports on costs of all aspects of haulage
- papers on widening of Dumbarton Road for tramway terminus
- blank form for annual report of Medical Officer of Health
- nuisance of damp in Beaumont Gate
- memorandum on coup in park
- application under Margarine Act, letter relating to prosecution and circular requesting registrations
- letter from Sanitary Department on steps taken for public health after a case of enteric fever on a farm supplying milk to the city
- letters on insanitary conditions in Castlebank Street
- proposed regulations on foreign meat
- return by the Convention of Royal Burghs of the strength of each Scottish police force with a view to providing a weekly rest day
- petitions to form new streets
Third bundle includes:
- proposal to establish an electric power station for supplying collieries, railways, factories etc with proposed agreement with North British Railway and Caledonian Railway
- correspondence and specification for turf at Scotstoun station
- report on over-crowding in flat behind ice cream shop
- meat inspection reports
- report by Sanitary Inspector on various nuisances
- specification for burials
- delegate's report on the Sanitary conference at Peebles
- report on Children' Bill
- papers on police weekly rest day
- request for information from the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion
- letter from the Post Office on arrangements for letter delivery throughout Glasgow
- tariff and charges for Partick Burgh Halls with amendments
- papers on cross river communications
- Ratepayers' Federation Report on Glasgow Corporation Provisional Order 1909
- report by Burgh Surveyor and medical officer of health on building application on difficult site
- correspondence on proposed extension of Victoria Park with plan
- supply of textile goods and uniforms to Knightswood Hospital
- report by Chief Constable and Sanitary Inspector on sanitary accommodation of public houses and licensed grocers
- letter from John Reid cabinet makers objecting to children chalking his property [with large letter head]
- Tramway bye-laws
- papers relating to telephone assessments
- papers relating to a proposed passenger landing stage
Fourth bundle includes:
- correspondence on music in the parks with programme and photograph of the UCBS [United Cooperative Baking Society] silver band
- papers on opening of bandstand
- Victoria Model Yacht Club programme
- charges for Burgh Halls with amendment
- objections to licensing of Partick Social Club and Partick Commercial Club
- duties of hall keeper
- The Rules and Courtesies of the Road produced by the Motor Union and table of numbers of registered motor vehicles
- papers relating to the allocation of the Education (Scotland) Fund under the Education Act
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