BOGNOR REGIS Urban District Council

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

UD/BR/1. Minutes of Council meetings, 1822-1974

UD/BR/2. Agenda of Council meetings, 1868-1910

UD/BR/3. Minutes of Committee meetings, 1873-1943

UD/BR/4. Agenda of Committee meetings, 1880-1898

UD/BR/5. Yearbooks, 1822-1950

UD/BR/7. Registers of documents sealed, 1932-1965

UD/BR/8. Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1925-1968

UD/BR/9. Miscellaneous, 1879-1950

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

UD/BR/10. Title Deeds, 1808-1965

UD/BR/12. Agreements, Contracts and Mortgages, 1851-1965

UD/BR/14. Records of Licences and Statutory Notices issued, 1912-1953

UD/BR/16. Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1883-1948

UD/BR/18. Register of plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1883-1948; Records of street naming and numbering, 1939-1960

UD/BR/19. Registers of plans deposited under planning regulations, 1930-1950

UD/BR/21. Correspondence, 1901-1947

UD/BR/23. Public Enquiries Papers, 1952

UD/BR/24. Miscellaneous, 1843-1972

BURIAL GROUNDS

UD/BR/25. Minutes of Financial records, 1885-1961

UD/BR/26. Registers of Graves, see MF 257-266

UD/BR/27. Registers of Burials, see MF 257-266

UD/BR/29. Miscellaneous (Account Book, 1956-72)

FINANCE

UD/BR/30. General and Housing Ledgers, 1867-1959

UD/BR/31. Estimates, Abstracts, Financial Statements, 1923-1974

UD/BR/32. Treasurer's Ledger, 1905-1909

UD/BR/34. Valuation Lists, 1929-1937, 1956-1972

UD/BR/35. Rate Books, 1863-1951

UD/BR/38. Housing Accounts, 1922

UD/BR/39. Rent Accounts 1958/9 - 1963/4

UD/BR/41. Records of Wages and Salaries, 1919-1947

UD/BR/42. Register of loan sanctions, 1923-1924

UD/BR/43. Register of loans and mortgages raised, 1835-1902, 1938-1964

UD/BR/44. Loans Ledgers, 1904-1933, 1910-1965, 1938-1964

UD/BR/45. Advances to the public, 1924-1932

UD/BR/47. Loans Miscellaneous, 1937

UD/BR/48. Accounts relating to rechargeable works, 1894-1947

UD/BR/49. Records of trading undertakings, 1886-1949

UD/BR/50. Other Miscellaneous accounts and records, 1917-1974

SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER

UD/BR/55. Reports to the Council 1867-1910

UD/BR/56. Miscellaneous, 1945

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

UD/BR/57. Annual Reports, 1874-1972. See note in catalogue

UD/BR/57A Journals, 1911-1928

UD/BR/58. Registers, 1891-1951

UD/BR/59. Miscellaneous, 1935-1946

PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR

UD/BR/60. Journals and Diaries, 1912-1947

UD/BR/61. Registers, 1911-1966

UD/BR/62. Surveys, 1935-1955

UD/BR/63. Miscellaneous, 1960-1963

PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTED MATTER

UD/BR/65. Photographs, 1894-1968

Deposited by Arun District Council between 1974 and 1978, and in 1990, and between 1998 and 1999.

An Act of 1822 [3 Geo IV c.57] established Improvement Commissioners for the town or tithing of Bognor in the parish of S. Bersted, and two later Acts, of 1825 and 1835, enlarged the powers of the Commissioners. In 1866 a Local Board of Health was also established for the same area, under the Local Government Act of 1858, and in the following year the powers of the Commissioners were either abolished or transferred to the Local Board [Local Govt. Supplemental Act (1867) no. 5].

By Local Government Board Order of 1874 part of the parish of S. Bersted was transferred to the Local Board district. The new boundaries appear on the 2nd ed. 6" O.S., 1899.

By a W.S.C.C. Order of 1894 that part of the civil parish of S. Bersted within the district of the Local Board was renamed "Bognor", and the remainder "Bersted", and in January 1895 the Local Board was succeeded by an Urban District Council, under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894.

By a W.S.C.C. Order of March 1900 part of Bersted and part of Pagham were added to the Urban District.

For a map see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/1/6.

Bognor assumed the suffix "Regis" by permission of King George V to commemorate His Majesty's convalescence at Aldwick in 1929 after a serious illness.

Under the West Sussex Review Order, 1933, part of Pagham, including the whole of Aldwick, Rose Green and Bay Estate, the major part of Felpham, and part of Bersted were added to the Urban District.