IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): ACC/2155
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SUNBURY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Date(s): 1895-1971
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Sunbury Urban District Council
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Urban District Councils and Rural District Councils were formed under the 1894 Local Government Act, and were abolished by the 1974 Local Government Act. Their records, not being part of county council records, are from the county record office's viewpoint, considered non-official.
The records forming this collection are probably all from the Clerk's Department of Sunbury Urban District Council. The composition of the Council was as follows: From 1894-1930: Sunbury UDC covered the parish of Sunbury on Thames From 1930-1974: Sunbury UDC covered the parishes of Sunbury on Thames (including Sunbury Common, Charlton and Upper Halliford), Shepperton (including Lower Halliford and Shepperton Green), Ashford Common, and Littleton. By the Middlesex (Feltham, Hayes, Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames) confirmation Order, 1930, the parish of Shepperton and parts of Ashford and Littleton were transferred to Sunbury Urban District on the dissolution of Staines Rural District Council.
Sunbury UDC was transferred to the administrative county of Surrey with effect from 1 April 1965. In 1974 the Urban Districts of Sunbury and Staines were abolished and replaced by Spelthorne Borough Council.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Sunbury Urban District Council, 1895-1971, including presented reports; correspondence, memoranda and copies of bye-laws, relating to the adoption of certain provisions of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907; deeds, agreements and other documents relating to The Cedars Estate, Sunbury; papers relating to a dispute between the owners of Sunbury Park Estate and the Council; agreements and contracts for various works to be carried out, particularly road maintenance works, sewer and drainage works, housing construction, civil defence structures and war damage repairs.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2155/001-171: Orders, agreements, contracts.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection consists of items deposited in Surrey Record Office on 24 January and 29 May 1974, and transferred to the Greater London Record Office on 26 July 1985 in accordance with the agreement that the catchment area for deposited, non-official archives held by county record offices in south-east England should be co-terminus with the pre-1965 county boundaries.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also Staines and Sunbury Local Authorities, reference Acc/1427 and Shepperton Parish, reference Acc/1218.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009