PRESTON COUNTY BOROUGH

This archive contains mainly 19th and 20th century records of the borough council; most of the ancient records are to be found in a separate catalogue (Corporation of Preston: CNP).

GENERAL

CBP 1 Council minutes (see also CBP 20-21)

CBP 2 Building control plans uncatalogued

CBP 3 Deeds of demolished properties

CBP 4 Photographs of demolished properties

CBP 5 Rate books

CBP 6 Police records

CBP 7 Fire brigade records

CBP 8 Education records

CBP 9 Accounts

CBP 10 Medical Officer of Health reports

CBP 11 Year books

CBP 12 Miscellaneous

CBP 13 Local Board minutes (see also CBP 16)

CBP 14 Waterworks records

CBP 15 Waterworks plans

CBP 16 Local Board minutes (see also CBP 13)

CBP 17 Local Board committee minutes

CBP 18 Composite volumes of Local Board minutes

CBP 19 Local Board: miscellaneous

CBP 20 Signed Council minutes (see also CBP 1)

CBP 21 Draft Council minutes

CBP 22 Printed reports

COMMITTEE MINUTES

CBP 23 Blind Persons Act Committee

CBP 24 Clothing Committee

CBP 25 Education Committee and sub-committees

CBP 26 Electricity Committee

CBP 27 Estates Committee

CBP 28 Finance Committee

CBP 29 Free Library Committee

CBP 30 General Purposes Committee

CBP 31 Health and Recreation Committee

CBP 32 Housing Committee

CBP 33 Market and Town Hall Committee

CBP 34 Maternity and Child Welfare Committee

CBP 35 Old Age Pensions Sub-Committees

CBP 36 Old People's Recreational Centres Executive Committee

CBP 37 Painting Committee

CBP 38 Public Assistance Committee

CBP 39 Relief Committee

CBP 40 Ribble Navigation Committee

CBP 41 Sanitary Purposes Committee

CBP 42 Scavenging Committee

CBP 43 Small Holdings and Allotments Committee

CBP 44 Stores Committee

CBP 45 Streets and Buildings Committee

CBP 46 Superannuation Committee

CBP 47 Town Improvements Committee

CBP 48 Town Planning Committee

CBP 49 Tramways Committee

CBP 50 Watch Committee

CBP 51 Water Committee

CBP 52 Officers' Committee

CBP 53 Ad Hoc committees

CBP 54 Joint authorities' committees

CBP 55 Composite volumes of committee minutes

GENERAL

CBP 56 Oath books

CBP 57 Borough Court records

CBP 58 Charity Commissioners records

CBP 59 Old age pension records

CBP 60 Papers relating to the passing of Local Acts

CBP RIBBLE NAVIGATION AND PRESTON DOCK

CBP (See also CBP 40, 79)

CBP 61 Reports on improving Ribble Navigation

CBP 62 Records of first Ribble Navigation Company 1806-38

CBP 63 Minutes of later companies

CBP 64 Capital and revenue accounts of later companies

CBP 65 Financial records of later companies relating to provision of capital

CBP 66 Operational financial records of later companies

CBP 67 Letter books of later companies

CBP 68 Arbitrations

CBP 69 Contracts

CBP 70 Accidents to shipping

CBP 71 Miscellaneous legal papers

CBP 72 Papers relating to port trade

CBP 73 Pilotage and regulations

CBP 74 Papers relating to vessels owned by the Navigation

CBP 75 Dredging records

CBP 76 Ribble Branch Railway records

CBP 77 Drainage, sewerage and pollution records

CBP 78 Papers relating to personnel

GENERAL

CBP 79 Miscellaneous

CBP 80 Treasurer's department records

CBP 81 Plans of public buildings (not catalogued)

CBP 82 Sewer plans

CBP 83 Engineering and other plans (not catalogued)

CBP 84 Building plan registers

CBP 85 Surveyor's records (miscellaneous)

CBP 86 Market records (not catalogued)

CBP 87 Electoral registers

CBP 88 Housing department records

<span class="wrapper"><p>Material relating to civic and parliamentary affairs of the borough may also be found in the following collections: DDH, DDK, DDKE, DDL, DDP, DDPD, DDPR, DDX 113, DDX 123, DDX 398, DDX 433, DDX 549, DDX 900, DP 295-319.</p> <p>Material relating to the Ribble Navigation and Preston Dock may also be found in DDPP.</p> <p>H W Clemesha Bibliography of the History of Preston (1923) contains a useful summary of printed works and published editions of certain records, most of which are in the Record Office Library. These include election poll books from 1807 and squibs from 1796.</p> <p>The searchroom library also contains many items which are not mentioned in Clemesha's Bibliography; the following are particularly useful:</p> <p>Preston Directories from 1781 onwards</p> <p>Preston Almanacs 1835-54</p> <p>Preston Sanitary Reports (with plans) 1844-53</p> <p>Catalogue of the Shepherd Library 1839</p> <p>Reminiscences of W S Bramwell, Borough Librarian 1879-1917</p> <p>Reminiscences of Manor F L Gore-Little (Chief Constable, 1887-1908)</p> <p>History of the Police Service in Preston 1815-1956</p> <p>Preston Water Supplies Through Three Centuries 1653-1953</p> <p>History of Preston County Borough Fire Brigade 1702-1952</p> <p>County Borough of Preston Electricity Undertaking</p> <p>Silver Jubilee Commemoration Brochure 1922-47</p> <p>Harris Library Annual Reports 1949-57</p> <p>Water Department Annual Reports 1948-52</p> <p>The Langden Culvert 1870-1952</p> <p>Towards a Prouder Preston (Town Planning and Development Committee) 1946</p> <p>Preston Corporation Bill, Petition and Evidence 1921</p> <p>Guild Record 1952 (and other Guild items)</p> <p>The History of Preston Guild, A Crosby 1991</p> <p>A History of Preston, D Hunt 1992</p></span>

All records open

Catalogued accessions

457 17 Jan 1947 E J Reed & Sons (CBP 1 1836-1914)

1906 3 Dec 1964 Treasurer's Dept (CBP 5)

2568 3 Dec 1969 Health Dept (CBP 4)

2834 18 Aug 1971 Mr T Lightfoot (CBP 6)

2916 22 Feb 1972 Mr T Lightfoot (CBP 6)

2955 28 Apr 1972 Mr T Lightfoot (CBP 6)

3359 3 May 1974 Chief Fire Officer (CBP 7/1-46)

3361 1 May 1974 Dist Educ Officer (CBP 1/1929-71; 8/1-27; 9/1; 10-11; 12/1-8)

3871 6 Jan 1977 Dist Educ Officer (CBP 8/28-46; 12/9)

3919 27 May 1977 N W Water Authority (CBP 13; 14/1-23; 15/1-6

4017 1 Mar 1978 N W Water Authority (CBP 15/7)

4319 25 Oct 1979 Town Clerk (CBP 30/2; 50/3; 53/23-24; 55/16)

4524 22 Dec 1980 Borough Solicitor (CBP 71/27 and uncatalogued)

4716 20 Oct 1981 Borough Solicitor (CBP 79/36-37)

4766 8 Dec 1981 Borough Solicitor (CBP 79/38-39)

4857 21 May 1982 Borough Solicitor (CBP 79/40)

5042 19 Apr 1983 Chief Estates and Valuation Officer (CBP 75/14)

5055 12 May 1983 Borough Treasurer (CBP 80/22)

6651 5 Mar 1979 Town Clerk (CBP 1 1914-15; 9/2-6; 12/10-38; 14/24-25; 16-29; 30/1,3-11; 32-49; 50/1-2,4-21; 51-52; 53/1-22; 54; 55/1-15; 56-70; 71/1-26; 72-74; 75/1-13; 76-78; 79/1-35)

6758 12 Jul 1990 Chief Building Control Officer (CBP 84/1-12; 85/1)

7013 24 Oct 1991 Sewerage Section, Development Dept (CBP 82/1-2)

7471 30 Jul 1993 Chief Fire Officer (CBP 7/47-53)

7686 3 Aug 1994 Chief Fire Officer (CBP 7/54)

7694 19 Aug 1994 Harris Museum and Art Gallery (CBP 79/41-43)

7702 9 Sep 1994 Director of Development (CBP 79/44)

7915 8 Nov 1995 Liverpool Univ (CBP 12-39)

7933 18 Dec 1995 Liverpool Univ (CBP 8/47)

8287 26 Nov 1997 HOUSING DEPT. (CBP 88)

8293 28 Nov 1997 HARRIS LIBRARY (CBP 87)

There are also over 50 accessions of deeds of demolished properties (CBP 3), partly catalogued.