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B - Dee Bridge Committees and Dee Bridge Commissioners - 1818-1864
BL - Blacon cum Crabwall Parish Council - 1894-1936
I - Police (Improvement) Commissioners - 1783-1846
N - Newton by Chester Parish Council - 1859-1936
P - Chester Parish Council - 1885-1928
T - Chester and Whitchurch Turnpike Trust - 1820-1852
Collapse U - Chester Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Records - 1850-1954U - Chester Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Records - 1850-1954
1 - Attendance book: includes the names of those attending Board of Guardians meetings and committee meetings 1928-9, and Public Assistance Committee meetings and sub-committee meetings 1929-1931. - 1928-1931
2 - General ledger - 1929-1933
3 - Receipts and payments - 1929-1930
4a - Register of charges payable and receivable i.e. payable 1914-1930, receivable 1913-1933 - 1913-1933
4b - Register of title deeds of freehold property held by the Guardians of the Poor on the Chester Union on 31 March 1930 - 1872-1930
5 - Admission and discharge book - 1933-1935
6 - Admission and discharge book - 1936-1941
7 - Admission and discharge book - 1945-1954
8 - Indoor relief list - Sep 1933-Sep 1934
9 - Indoor relief list - March 1939-Sep 1940
10 - Indoor relief list - March 1941-Sep 1942
11 - Indoor relief list - March 1943-Sep 1944
12 - Indoor relief list - March 1945-March 1947
13 - Indoor relief list - Sep 1947-March 1950
14 - Medical examination book, with index - 1935-1941
15 - Quarterly list of lunatic paupers - 1912-1948
16 - Register of inmates - 1930-1939
17 - Register of inmates - 1942-1948
18 - Creed register - 1875-1880
19 - Creed register - 1881-1886
20 - Creed register - 1889-1901
21 - Creed register - 1910-1914
22 - Creed register F-Z only - 1914-1928
23 - Creed register - 1928-1930
24 - Creed register - 1930-1943
25 - Creed register - 1942-1950
26 - Bathing register - 1946-1952
27 - Master's journal - 1940-1942
28 - Admission and discharge book - 1941-1942
29 - Admission and discharge book - 1942-1943
30 - Register of applications ? used as casual admission and discharge book. - 1943-1948
31 - Report book of N.S.P.C.C. inspectors re casual children - 1932-1946
33 - Account book of receipts and payments - 1926-1930
34 - Poor Law Board to Chester Guardians of the Poor rescinding an order of 1 Nov 1850 re the appointment of relieving officers. - 13 Dec 1850
35 - Order of the Poor Law Board to Chester Guardians of the Poor re the appointment and duties of a relieving officer for the city. - 14 Dec 1850
36 - Order of the Local Government Board to the Guardians of Chester Union re three fields in Hoole Lane belonging to the trustees of Thomas Brassey, esq., deceased, to be purchased for £3,500 for the site of a workhouse, schools and hospital. The said workhouse to be built within twelve months to hold 450 persons at a cost not exceeding £15,750, the children's building to hold 150 children at a cost not exceeding £5,250, and the hospital at a cost not exceeding £3,500, the total cost, therefore, including the land not exceeding £28,000. - 26 April 1872
37 - Charge by the Guardians of the Poor of Chester Union to Henry William Danglish of Coleman Street, London, esq. and others on the common fund of the Union to secure £4,000 with interest. - 8 Aug 1874
38 - Charge by parties as in 37 to secure £5,000 with interest. - 21 July 1876
39 - Order of the Local Government Board to the Guardians of Chester Union authorising an extra £10,000 to be spent on new workhouse, school and hospital buildings. - 16 Oct 1877
40 - Bundle of vaccination contracts and miscellaneous papers. - 1895-1929
41 - Charge by the Guardians of Chester Union to the Secretary of the Public Works Loan Commissioners to secure £6,598 with interest, for the erection of four homes for children. With copy of Guardians' minutes dated 18 Dec. 1900 relating to the same etc. - 18 Dec 1900
42 - Charge by parties as in 41 to secure an additional £1,000 for the erection of children's homes, and papers re the same. - 7 April 1903
43 - Order of exchange from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries between the Guardians of Chester Union and Samuel Smith of Chester, gent., of lands in Hoole. Plan. See also 176. - 6 July 1905
44 - Counterpart lease for 21 years from Chester Guardians to Edward Dixon of Stanley Place, Chester, esq., of a plantation in Littleton for the annual rent of £5. - 11 June 1907
45 - Agreement between Chester Corporation and Chester Guardians re the reception of patients from Chester Union into the Isolation and Smallpox hospitals of the Corporation at Sealand. - 9 June 1908
46 - Agreement between the Committee of Visitors of Upton Lunatic Asylum and Chester Corporation and Chester Guardians for the reception of pauper lunatics from the city. - 28 July 1908
47 - The Poor-Law Institutions Order 1913. Chester Union. Regulations for the control of the Institutions etc 3 copies, one with notes and amendments etc. - 25 Aug 1914
48 - Bundle of papers re appeal of the Shropshire Union Canal Company against the rating assessment of the Chester Poor Law Union. With 2 plans showing canal property at Cow Lane Bridge, Chester and at Christleton. - 1916-1921
49 - Four agreements between the Guardians of Chester Union with the Guardians of the Unions of Prescot, Hawarden, Wirral and Tarvin for the reception and maintenance of patients from Chester Union Workhouse, due to the conversion of Chester Union Workhouse as a temporary military hospital. Also contracts for building work and installations re this conversion. - 1917
50 - Letter, specification and plan from Manchester Steam Users Association re new boilers at Chester Union Workhouse. - 1917
51 - Specifications, correspondence, bill of quantities for conversion of part of the administrative work of Chester Union Workhouse into a nurses' home. For plans re this conversion see 179-181. - 1920-1921
52 - Letters and papers re representation of Hoole Urban District Council on Chester Board of Guardians. - 1920-1926
53 - Bundle of case papers - 1920-1930
54 - Letters, papers etc. re land at Crawford's Walk, Hoole Park purchased by Chester Board of Guardians. - 1921-1924
55 - Specification, letters, papers etc. re conversion of stable at Chester Union Workhouse into female tramp ward. For plans re this conversion see 183-4. - 1922
56 - Papers re contract with T.G. Huxley of Chester, contractor, for building works connected with extension of hot water system. - 1923
57 - Two contracts with Bunkenite Co., Ltd., re reflooring. - 1923-1924
58 - Letters, papers etc. re erection of verandahs and fire escapes. Roberts and Lawson, architects, 88 Foregate Street, Chester, contractor, John Myers and Sons, Chester. Plans. - 1923-1925
59 - Accounts re Wrexham inmates at Chester Union. - 1923-1925
60 - North West Vagrancy Committee, copies of minutes etc. - 1923-1925
61 - Letters and papers re purchase by Chester Board of Guardians of 6 Hoole Park, Plan. - 1924
62 - File of correspondence labelled Mental Hospital Committee re patients and accommodation. - 1924-1927
63 - Annual returns of persons in receipt of poor relief. - 1925, 1926
64 - Papers re purchase of land in Hoole Park by Chester Board of Guardians from William Gamon and Co. - 1926
65 - Letters and papers re tithe compositions. - October 1926
66 - Letters and papers re contract re new mortuary. Plans by J.H. Davies of Chester. - 1926-1928
67 - Local Government Act 1929, Ministry of Health. City of Chester. Representations to the Minister of Health from the Council of the City of Chester, and the Cheshire County Council regarding the transfer of institutional properties and liabilities of the Chester Poor Law Union, together with the Order of the Minister of Health of the 29 March 1930, to the city as the Chester Union, (Institutional Property) Order, 1930. J.H. Dickson, Town Clerk, Chester. - March 1930
68 - Papers re nurses' salaries - 1931
69 - Separation of St James Hospital from Public Assistance Home
70 - Appointment of superintendant and matron of Children's Home, Wrexham Road - 1932-1948
71 - Appropriation of Hospital from the Public Assistance Department to the Public Health Department - 1933-1942
72 - Public Assistance Institution, master and stewards' reports - 1935-1948
73 - Public Assistance Institution, inmates dietry - 1936-1939
74 - Central Hall rest centre, admission returns - 1941-1944
75 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, revised chapel design' Ground plan and half W. and half E. elevations. Marked No. 1. Scale: 10 feet to 1¼ inches. Henry Perkin, architect, Jan. 1878. Seal of the Local Government Board and memorandum that this and plan marked No. 2 had been approved, 19 Feb. 1878. Approved: William [Jacobson, Bishop of] Chester. 25 Feb. 1878 Received: Thomas S.L[ockwood] 18 March 1878. - 1878
76 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse revised design chapel' Half cross section, part of longitudinal section and N. elevation. Marked No. 2. Scale: 10 feet to 1¼ inches. Received by Local Government Board 4 Feb. 1878, otherwise sealed and signed as 152. - 1878
77 - Plan headed: 'Chester Workhouse burial ground'. Ground plan. Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch. No signature or date, ?c.1880. - ?c 1880
78 - Plan headed: 'Sketch plan of proposed hospital Chester Union Workhouse'. Plans and elevations. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Son, architects and surveyors, 24 Newgate Street, Chester. 28 Jan., 1893. Received by Local Government Board, 30 Jan. 1893. - 1893
79 - Tracing plan headed: 'Sketch block plan showing position of new hospital. Chester Union Workhouse'. Ground plan. Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Received by Local Government Board, 30 Jan. 1893. - 1893
80 - Plan headed: 'Proposed ovens for the Chester Union'. Plan and section. Scale: 1 foot to 1/4 inch. Alex. A. Anderson, oven builder, Doncaster, 2 March 1894. - 1894
81 - Plan headed: 'Proposed observation wards Workhouse, Chester. Ground plan. Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Son, architects, 9 April 1896. Signed: George Forester and Sons. ? contractor. Received by Local Government Board, 14 April 1896. Seal. - 1896
82 - Plan headed: 'Proposed observation wards, Workhouse, Chester.' Plans, elevation and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Son, architects, 9 April 1896. Signed: George Forester and Sons, ?contractor. Received by the Local Government Board 14 April 1896, and sealed and signed, 22 May 1896. - 1896
83 - Plan headed: 'Proposed classification scheme, Chester Union Workhouse'. Plans and elevations. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects, 5 Nov. 1896. Received by the Local Government Board, 11 Dec. 1896, and sealed and signed, 28 Jan. 1897. - 1897
84 - Plan headed: 'A. Taken from Ordnance Survey, Sheet No. 38.15 (Cheshire)' showing 1 acre of land on the Wrexham Road, Chester near Overleigh Lodge. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Stamped as received by the Local Government Board, 19 Oct. 1899 and sealed and signed with approval to purchase, 8 Nov. 1899. - 1899
85 - Plan headed: 'B. Taken from Ordnance Survey Sheet 46.5 Cheshire' showing 2 roods of land in Dodleston. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Stamped as received by Local Government Board 19 Oct. 1899 and sealed and signed with approval to purchase 8 Nov. 1899. - 1899
86 - Plan headed: 'C. Taken from Ordnance Survey Sheet 38.1 Cheshire' showing 1 acre of land in Great Saughall. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Stamped as received by Local Government Board, 19 Oct. 1899 and sealed and signed with approval to purchase, 8 Nov. 1899. - 1899
87 - Plan headed: 'D. Taken from Ordnance Survey Sheet No. 38.3 (Cheshire)' showing 611 square yards of land in Upton Heath John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Stamped as received by the Local Government Board 19 Oct. 1899 and sealed and signed with approval to purchase 8 Nov. 1899. - 1899
88 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for children's homes headquarters block Wrexham Road'. Plans, elevations and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, Chester, April 1900. Received by the Local Government Board, 2 May 1900 and sealed 30 July 1900, see 166. - 1900
89 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for children's homes headquarters block Wrexham Road.' Elevations. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, April 1900. Received by the Local Government Board 2 May 1900 and sealed and signed 30 July 1900. - 1900
90 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for cottage homes, home for 12 boys at Saughall'. Plans, elevations and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects. April 1900. Received by the Local Government Board 2 May 1900 and sealed 30 July 1900, see 166. - 1900
91 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for cottage homes, 12 girls at Dodleston'. Plans. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, March 1900. Received by the Local Government Board 2 May 1900 and sealed 30 July 1900 see 166. - 1900
92 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for cottage homes, 12 girls at Dodleston'. Elevations and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, April 1900. Received by the Local Government Board 2 May 1900 and sealed 30 July 1900 see 166. - 1900
93 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union scheme for cottage homes, 12 mixed girls and infants at Upton'. Plans, elevations and sections. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, April 1900. Received by the Local Government Board 2 May 1900 and sealed 30 July 1900 see 166. - 1900
94 - Tracing plan headed: 'Foundations of patent weighbridge for Chester Union'. Plans. Scale: 3 feet to 1 inch. Henry Pooley and Son, ironfounders and engineers, Albion Foundry, Liverpool. Undated: c.1900. - c 1900
95 - Plan headed: 'Cottage Home, Upton, plan of roads.' Plan. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. T.M. Lockwood and Sons, architects, 19 Nov. 1902. Received by Local Government Board, ?20 Nov. 1902, and sealed and signed with approval to purchase, Dec. 1902. - 1902
96 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed alterations and additions to laundry'. Plans and elevations. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, May 1903. Received by the Local Government Board, 23 May 1903 and sealed and signed 27 July 1903. Also additional date stamp of Local Government Board 21 July 1908. - 1908
97 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union, proposed additions to laundry'. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c.1903. - c 1903
98 - Plan headed 'Chester Union'. Plan of laundry. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c.1903. - c 1903
99 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse grounds'. Plan of lands to be exchanged with Samuel Smith, esq., see 43. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch. Thomas A. Beckett, Chester, 11 Nov. 1904. Received by the Local Government Board 13 Jan. 1905 and sealed and signed with approval for exchange according to an order of the Board dated 4 Feb. 1905. - 1905
100 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, main body, proposed alterations'. Plan and elevations of laundry. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c.1908 see 173. - c 1908
101 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, present plans for administrative block'. Plans. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c.1920-1 see 51. - c 1920-1
102 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed nurses quarters'. Plans for central heating see 51. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. William Griffiths, Sons and Cromwell Ltd., engineering specialists in heating, 1 Nov. 1921. - 1921
103 - Tracing plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed nurses quarters'. Plans with memorandum: 'Proposed conversion of the front administrative block and officers quarters into nurses quarters'. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: 1920-1 see 51. - c 1920-1
104 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed nurses home'. Plans. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies, architect. Undated: c.1920-1 see 51. - c 1920-1
105 - Plan headed: 'Chester Board of Guardians, St. Martin's House, Chester, proposed alterations'. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c. early 1920s. - c early 1920s
106 - Tracing plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed conversion of existing stable into female tramp ward. Preliminary sketch drawing.' Plans, elevations and sections see 55. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects, March 1922. Received by the Ministry of Health, 24 March 1922. - 1922
107 - Plan headed: 'Proposed female tramp ward, Chester Poor Law Institution.' Plans, elevations and sections. see 55. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects, May 1922. - 1922
108 - Plan headed: 'Chester Union Workhouse, proposed new wards and annexes'. Plan, elevation and section. Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects. Undated: c.1923 see 57. - 1923
109 - Plan headed: 'Proposed alterations to oven at Chester Union for the Chester Board of Guardians'. Plan and section. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch. D. Partington and Sons, oven builders, Farnworth, Sept. 1923. - 1923
110 - Tracing plan headed: 'Chester Poor Law Institution, proposed new male receiving and observation wards and alterations to cramps ward Plan Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch John H. Davies and Sons, architects, 30 Sept. 1926. - 1926
111 - Tracing plan headed: 'St. James' Hospital, main hospital block, proposed alterations to bathrooms, lavatories etc Plans and section. Scale: not given. John H. Davies and Sons, architects, ?Jan. 1927. - 1927
112 - Plan headed: 'Children's Home, Wrexham Road, Chester. Site plan. Scale: 100 feet to 3 inches. Undated: ?late 1920s. - ?late 1920s
113 - Plan headed: 'Children's Home, Dodleston, Nr. Chester.' Site plan. Scale: 100 feet to 3 inches. Undated: ?late 1920s. - ?late 1920s
114 - Plan headed: 'Children's Home, Little Saughall, Near Chester'. Site plan. Scale: 100 feet to 3 inches. Undated: ? late 1920s. - ?late 1920s
115 - Plan headed: 'Children's Home, Upton Heath, Chester'. Site plan. Scale: 100 feet to 3 inches. Undated: ?late 1920s. - ?late 1920s
116 - Plan headed: 'St. Martin's House, St. Martin's in the Fields, Chester'. Site plan. Scale: 100 feet to 3 inches. Undated: ?late 1920s. - ?late 1920s
117 - Plan headed: 'Poor Law Institution, Chester, proposed conversion of female receiving ward into resident's doctor's apartment.' Plans for scheme 1 and scheme 2. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch. ?Aug. 1928. - 1928
118 - Plan headed: 'Lodge Crawfords Walk belonging to the Guardians of the Poor, Chester Union.' Plan and Schemes 1 and 2. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch. John H. Davies and Sons, architects, July 1929. - 1929
119 - Site plan of Chester Union Workhouse taken from O.S. map Undated: ?c.1930. - ?c1930
120 - Plan headed: 'City of Chester Public Assistance Institution'. Taken from Ordnance Survey map as 196. Undated: ?c.1930. - ?c1930
121 - Plan headed: 'Poor Law Institution, Chester'. Ground plan. Scale: John H. Davies and Sons, architects, Nov. 1930. Received by the Ministry of Health, ?2 Jan. 1931. - 1931
122 - Another copy of 198. Not sent to Ministry of Health. - 1930
123 - Plan headed: 'National Telephone Company Ltd., proposed position of poles...'. Plan of telephone poles near Children's Home on Wrexham Road. No scale given. Undated. - n.d.
124 - Seal of the Guardians of Chester Union. - n.d.
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