University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive

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Paper folder containing: Booklet: Housing Conditions in East Ward, Bolton Housing Committed Survey Report, 1931; Leaflet: "Memorandum on the Preservation of Amenities" Booklet: Short memorandum upon the Objects of the Draft Joint Planning Scheme, Bolton and; District Joint Planning Scheme; Handbill: "Government attacks rent control"; Letter (2), "The Council for the Preservation of Rural England", ts, 1p, incorporates membership form

Observer accounts: Index cards (7), ts/ms, references to housing; "Interviews in East Ward", ms, 9pp, 5.8.38, WH

Newspaper cuttings (5)

Paper folder containing observer account "Councillors v. Borough Officials Football Match", ts, 4pp, 24.8.39, BB

Paper folder containing: Untitled document, ts, 5pp, about the symbolic role of the town hall; Untitled document, ms/ts, 22pp, about the town hall and its status within the town; "Analysis of Town Council Speeches", ms, 1p, chart

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Town Council Reports", ts, 4pp, summaries of reports carried out by observers; "Town Council", ms, 228pp, 2.6.37, WH, meeting; "Bolton Town Council Meeting", ms, 6pp, 23.6.37, JLW; "Bolton Town Council Meeting", ms, 5pp, 1.9.37, EB; "Town Council Meeting", ms, 14pp, 1.12.37, WH; "Town Council Meeting", ms, 6pp, 31.12.37, EB; "Town Council Meeting", ts, 4pp, 5.1.38, BB; "Town Council", ms, 5pp, 5.1.38, EB, chart, details of topics and speakers; "Town Council", ms, 10pp, 2.2.38, [WH], meeting; "Town Council", ms, 2pp, 2.3.38, EB, Education Committee appointment; "Arrival of Town Clerk", ts, 2pp, 2.3.38, EB; "Council Meeting Town Hall", ms, 13pp, 2.3.38, AWV; "Council Meeting", ts, 3pp, 2.3.[38], FHC; "Town Council", ts, 2pp, 6.4.38, BB, timing of proceedings; "Report on Town Council Meeting", ts, 5pp, [6].4.38, FHC; "Council Meeting", ms, [?].6.38, LT; "Bolton Town Council Meeting", ms, 1p, 20.10.[38], EB; Untitled document, ms, 1p, EB, chart with details of Labour, Liberal and Conservative aldermen and councillors' speeches; "List of attendances of Member of the Town Council", printed chart, ts, 2pp, 9.11.35-21.10.36; Index cards (10), ms/ts, references to town council and councillors

Untitled document, ts, 5pp, report in letter form by Councillor James Vickers on the care and treatment of mental patients

"Scandal of our Mental Institutions", ts, 5pp, a report

Observer accounts: "Dance at Fishpool Institution", ts, 2pp, 7.1.[?], BB; Untitled document, ms, 1p, 4.8.37, EB, about an article in the Evening News; "Hell's Museum", ts, 9pp, 13.4.[?], WH, visit to Fishpool Mental Block; "Townley's. Mental Block", ts, 2pp, 13.4.38, CM; "Description of room - parlour of J [Forter] ... a warden at the Mental Hospital", ms, 4pp, 16.5.[?], WH; Index cards (4), ms, references to Fishpool

Newspaper cutting, about the shortage of nurses at Fishpool

Mass-Observation Archive