Houghton le Spring Urban District Council

Council and Committees

UD.HS/1/1-47 Local Board and U.D.C. minutes, 1854 - 1973

Includes committee minutes from 1969

(17 volumes, 30 files)

UD.HS/2/1-15 Duplicate council minutes, 1970 - 1971

(15 files)

UD.HS/3 Allotments Committee minutes, 1933 - 1944

(1 volume)

UD.HS/4/1-4 Cemetery, Sewage Farm and Hospital Committee minutes, 1898 - 1955

(4 volumes)

UD.HS/5/1-11 Finance Committee minutes, 1911 - 1964

(11 volumes)

UD.HS/6 Health Committee minutes, 1955 - 1964

(1 volume)

UD.HS/7/1-7 Highways, Lighting and Water Supply Committee minutes, 1895 - 1964

(7 volumes)

UD.HS/8/1-2 Housing Estates Committee minutes, 1955 - 1964

(2 volumes)

UD.HS/9/1-9 Housing and Planning Committee minutes, 1927 - 1964

(9 volumes)

UD.HS/10 Nuisances Removal Committee minutes, 1895 - 1919

(1 volume)

Parks Committee minutes, 1949 - 1955, see UD.HS/7/6

UD.HS/11/1-3 Rating and Valuation Committee minutes, 1925 - 1937

(3 volumes)

UD.HS/12/1-4 Sanitary Committee, (Sanitary and Hospital Committee from 1937), 1920 - 1955

(4 volumes)

UD.HS/13 Local Joint Committee for Administrative Services minutes, 1946 - 1955

(1 volume)

Administration

UD.HS/14 Clerk's report book, 1911 - 1920

(1 volume)

UD.HS/15/1-35 General files, 1935 - 1974

(28 files, 10 booklets, 38 papers, 5 plans, 3 volumes)

UD.HS/16/1-29 County Development Plans files, 1950 - 1972

(9 files, 18 booklets, 1 volume, 153 papers, 36 plans)

UD.HS/17/1-43 Housing and Road Development files, 1919 - 1972

(282 files, 18 booklets, 3 volumes, 609 papers, 64 plans, 34 photographs)

UD.HS/18/1-4 Sunderland Echo newscuttings, 1970 - 1974

(4 files)

UD.HS/19 Ordnance Survey plans showing northern area of the Urban District, northwards to the River Wear Composite comprising Durham sheets V11.16, V111.13, X111.4 and X1V.1 and part of V111.9 Scale: 25 inches = 1 mile [1:2500], 1919 - 1920

(1 rolled plan)

Engineer and Surveyor

UD.HS/20 Surveyor's report on enquiry into sewerage, drainage etc., 1854

(1 file)

UD.HS/21 Surveyor's report book, 1884 - 1890

(1 volume)

Building Control Section

UD.HS/22 Index to building plans, 1855 - 1960

(1 volume)

UD.HS/23 Building plans, 1855 - 1960

(6 boxes)

UD.HS/24 Site plans, 1855 - 1960

(6 boxes)

Works Section

UD.HS/25/1-258 Plans, 1890 - 1964

(257 plans)

UD.HS/26 Press cuttings, 1972 - 1974

(1 volume)

Public Health

UD.HS/27 Public Health Inspectors reports, 1952 - 1973

(1 file)

UD.HS/28 Record of certificates of disrepair under the Rent Act, 1957, indexed, 1957 - 1962

(1 volume)

UD.HS/29/1-14 Medical Officer of Health, annual reports, 1898 - 1960

(5 volumes, 9 booklets)

Sanitary Inspector

UD.HS/30 Report book, 1937 - 1944

(1 volume)

UD.HS/31 Complaints received and infestations treated register, 1961 - 1967

(1 volume)

UD.HS/32/1-2 Licensed slaughterhouse registers, 1876 - [1924]

(2 volumes)

UD.HS/33 Returns to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Slaughterhouse Licences (Forms and Records) Regulations, 1959, 1964 - 1969

(28 papers)

Finance

UD.HS/34/1-22 General ledgers, 1920 - 1962

(22 volumes)

UD.HS/35/1-3 Epitome of accounts, 1947 - 1966

(18 files)

UD.HS/36/1-4 Treasurers reports, 1957 - 1971

(32 files)

UD.HS/37/1-19 Correspondence files, 1967 - 1974

(33 files)

UD.HS/38/1-4 Indexes to correspondence, 1965 - 1974

(4 volumes)

Rating and valuation

UD.HS/39 Report book, 1967 - 1969

(1 volume)

UD.HS/40/1-10 General rate books, 1961 - 1962

(10 volumes)

UD.HS/41/1-8 General rate fund analysis journals, 1960 - 1972

(8 volumes)

UD.HS/42/1-5 Valuation lists, 1937 - 1963

(1 volume)

UD.HS/43/1-5 Record of information supplied to Valuation Officer, 1963 - 1971

(5 volumes)

Housing

UD.HS/45/1-2 Dwelling house registers, 1933 - 1938

(2 volumes)

UD.HS/46/1-10 Housing survey registers, Council houses, 1950

(10 volumes)

UD.HS/47/1-8 Housing survey registers, Private houses, 1950

(8 volumes)

UD.HS/48 Housing survey register, workshops, 1950

(1 volume)

UD.HS/49 Register of new dwellings provided for general needs, 1957 - 1972

(1 volume)

UD.HS/50 Ordnance Survey Durham sheets V111.SW, V11.SW, V11.SE Revision of 1913 - 1938, showing ward boundaries, scale : 6 inches = 1 mile [1:10560] n.d. [1937]

(1 plan)

Includes the records of Houghton le Spring Local Board of Health which came into being in 1854. The Urban District Council was established in 1895, under the Local Government Act of 1894, and inherited the functions of the Local Board. The Urban District Council was abolished in 1937 and a new extended Houghton le Spring U.D.C. created which included Morton Grange, Newbottle, Penshaw and West Herrington Civil Parishes, formerly part of Houghton le Spring Rural District Council.

In 1964 part of the Urban District was transferred to Washington New Town, but in 1967 a further extension took place, incorporating parts of Ford, Herrington, Offerton and Silksworth Civil Parishes into the Urban District. These areas were formerly parts of Sunderland Rural District.

Under the 1972 Local Government Act, Houghton le Spring U.D.C. was abolished and absorbed into the newly-created Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council, as from 1 April 1974.

Houghton le Spring U.D.C. was one of the constituent authorities in the Houghton le Spring and Hetton Joint Smallpox Hospital Board (HB.HSH) and participated in the North-East Durham Joint Town Planning Committee (see UD.Bo/12-16)