Smethwick County Borough Council

• Ref No: CB-S
• Repository: Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
• Date: 1880 - 1972
• Creator: Smethwick County Borough
• Description: (Acc. 9134) Abstract of accounts 1959, 1961 - 1963, 1965, 1966 rates estimates 1965, 1966 (Acc. 0063) Summons book 1900 - 1941 Register of non-resident poor c. 1930 - 1940 (Acc. 9805) Notebook, chiefly in shorthand , possibly Smethwick Public Works Committee (nd); Printed papers re Public Inquiry on West Midlands Special Review Area under local Government Act of 1958 (1961); (Acc. 8910) Warley County Borough Council and Smethwick Metropolitan Borough Council: Education Department papers 1970s - 1980s (Acc. 9518) Planning Department land use survey of Smethwick with key map 1949 - 1963 (Acc. 9652) Borough Surveyor's Department wages book 1902 - 1903 (Acc. 9427) District Medical Officer's Relief Books (1929-1932); Register of property of persons chargeable (1924-1948); Register of mental defctives (1914-1941); Particulars of mental cases (1933-1947); Harbourne (including Smethwick), Vaccination Officer's Report Book (n.d.); * Edgbaston, Vaccination Register (1875); (Acc. 9763) Smethwick Library Accession Register 1928 - 1937 (Acc. 9028) Smethwick Library accession, stock and i ssue books 1880 - 1970 (Acc. 0063) Public Library daily issue book 1925 - 1940 (Acc. 9445) Copy correspondence from Smethwick Borough Librarian. Chiefly with Town Clerk re quarterly book lists (Acc. 9637) Seal of Insurance Committee in 2 parts. Used during the life of the Committee 1912 - 1948 (Acc. 0017) Smethwick County Borough Road Fund Licence Stock Book 1925 - 1972 (Acc. 0012) Registers of Motor Car Licences: Vol A: 1 April 1907 (HA 1) - 27 Jan 1915 (HA 417); Vol B: 29 Jan 1915 (HA 234) - 21 July 1919 (HA 772); (Acc. 9005) Rating Department records 1930s - 1960s (Acc. 9003) NALGO [?Smethwick] branch minute book 1957 - 1964
• Admin History: Local Boards of Health were formed under the Public Health Act, 1858. Smethwick Local Board of Health, which served the 'Hamlet of Smethwick in the Parish of Harborne in the County of Stafford', held its first meeting on 5 June 1856. It was replaced by Smethwick Urban District Council at the beginning of 1895. The Urban District Council lasted only until November 1899, when Smethwick became a borough. Its powers were extended in 1907 when it was made a County Borough. In the local government reorganisation of 1966 Smethwick County Borough merged with the Boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis to form the County Borough of Warley.
• Level: Fonds
• Tags:
  • Borough records
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