| Arrangement | Records preceding Audenshaw Council, including records of Audenshaw Local Board, have been arranged by function and in chronological order. Some of these record retain the archive reference numbers they had at Lancashire Record Office (i.e. uDAu).
The Audenshaw Council records have been arranged according to the Local Authority schema applied to all pre-Tameside Local Authority Archives held at Tameside Local Studies and Archives. An outline of this arrangement is below:
00-299 Clerk
-100-109 Minutes of authority
--100 Signed minutes
--101 Draft, copy and associated minutes
--102 Index to minutes
--103 Attendance registers
--104 Committee Schedule
--105 Committee agendas and reports
--106 Working groups and sub-committees
-110-119 Committee Minutes
--110 Finance
--111 General purposes; general volumes of committee minutes
--112 Health, sanitation
--113 Highways
--114 Housing
--115 Planning
--116 Rating and valuation
--117 Water, drainage
--118 War-time committees
--119 Other
-120-129 Councillor's elections, declarations; activities of authority as a whole; appointment of officers
--120 Papers relating to councillor's elections, e.g. poll books, voting proxies
--121 Declarations on acceptance of office
--122 Declarations of financial interest
--123 Bye-laws, signed and / or sealed copies
--124 Newscuttings books
--125 Notices of motions to be moved at Council meetings
--126 Electoral registers
--127 Standing orders regarding meetings and contracts
--128 Awards of freedom of the Borough and related papers
--129 Papers relating to appointment of authority officers and employees
-130-139 Clerk's correspondence and papers
--130 Out-letter books
--131 In-letters (general)
--132 Correspondence (specific topics)
--133 Papers relating to establishment / alterations of authority
--134 Clerk's papers (general)
--135 Clerk's papers (specific topics)
--138 Mayoral correspondence
--139 Memoranda
-140-149 Legal papers; Official inquiries
--140 Legal papers (general)
--141 Legal papers (specific cases)
--145 Papers relating to official enquiries
--146 Papers relating to highways
--148 Solicitor's papers
--149 Miscellaneous legal papers
-150-159 Deeds, mortgages and other agreements, including registers of documents
--150 Deeds
--151 Mortgages and securities
--152 Contracts
--153 Insurances
--154 Other agreements, e.g. conveyances
--155 Sale particulars and papers / purchase papers
--156 Registers / indices of mortgages
--157 Claims for compensation arising from the above
--158 Miscellaneous registers
--159 Registers and schedules of the above
-160-169 Notices, circulars and licenses etc. issued by authority locally, including registers of documents
--160 Licences for building and maintenance work
--161 Licences for petrol storage
--162 Licences for slaughter-houses and slaughtermen
--163 Other licences
--164 Planning approval certificates / planning refusal certificates
--165 Certificates of housing subsidy qualification
--166 Certificates of completed houses
--167 Demolition notices and orders
--168 Other notices e.g. highways, rates, sewers
--169 Registers of the above
-170-179 Returns to central government
--170 Return of members and officers to Local Government Board
--171 Statement of accounts under Lighting and Watering Act
--172 Returns of the Watch Committee
--179 Miscellaneous returns to Central Government e.g. national surveys
-180-189 Notices, orders and circulars received
--180 Central government orders
--181 Central Government Sanctions
--182 Central Government Circulars
--185 County Council orders and circulars
--186 Other official bodies
--189 Circulars from other bodies e.g. commercial firms
-190-199 Internal forms and circulars
--190 Applications for licences
--191 Forms for staff appointments, removal expenses etc.
--192 Orders for supplies
--194 Personnel (general, except appointments)
-200-209 Burial Ground records, including Burial Boards
--200 Minutes
--201 Ledgers and other account books
--202 Vouchers, receipt books
--203 Registers of contracts, mortgages and other agreements
--204 Registers of burials and graves
--205 Burial certificates
--206 Burial grounds, fees and regulations
--207 Photographs and plans
--208 Correspondence
--209 Other papers
-210-219 Fire Brigade, Ambulance, Hospital, Police and other services
--210 Fire Brigade minutes
--211 Fire Brigade accounts
--212 Other papers
--215 Ambulances and hospital services, minutes
--216 Reports and accounts of ambulance and hospital services
--219 Other services- Police, Refuse disposal
-220-229 War-time records (Second World War, 1939-1945)
--220 Evacuation, register of accommodation
-- 221 Evacuation, register of evacuees and billeting payments
--222 Property record (requisitions)
--223 War books
--224 Reports, circulars and memoranda
--225 Correspondence and papers, including accounts (general)
--226 Records produced under 1915 National Registration Act
--227 Accounts, British Restaurant scheme and A.R.P.
--228 Records of fuel, fire and ambulance service
--229 Register of war-damaged buildings
-230-239 Post-war Civil Defence records
--230 Papers relating to enrolment and membership
--231 Correspondence
--232 Printed pamphlets
--233 Papers dealing with War Memorials
--234 Accounts
-240-249 Land charges
--240 Register of Private Street Works
--241 Other papers e.g. regarding private street works
--242 Register of local land charges
--243 Mapped index to register
--244 Search forms
--245 Correspondence
--246 Accounts of building materials
--247 Establishment inventory
-250-259 Recreation and amenities
--250 Papers regarding swimming baths
--251 Papers regarding parks
--252 Papers regarding cricket and football pitches e.g. bookings
--253 Papers regarding allotments
--254 Papers regarding playgrounds / sports facilities (general)
--255 Papers regarding public halls e.g. lettings of Town Hall etc.
--256 Papers regarding fetes, shows, discos, concerts etc.
--259 Miscellaneous recreation and amenities papers
-280-289 Miscellaneous Clerk's papers
--281 Miscellaneous diairies and notes e.g. scribbling diaries
--282 Twinning papers
--283 Registers of societies
-290-299 Printed papers and miscellanea
--290 Local bye-laws and regulations
--291 Pamphlets on authority work e.g. brochures, invitations
--292 Parliamentary Acts and Bills affecting local government
--293 Other publications relating to local government
--294 Histories of authority
--295 Photographs
--296 Printed papers of other local authorities
--297 Corporation manuals and diaries
--298 Council visitors' books
--299 Town street plans / guides / handbooks
300-499 Treasurer
-300-309 Final Accounts (general)
--300 General Ledgers
--301 Draft General Ledgers
--302 Financial Statements (statutory)
--303 Printed abstracts of accounts
--304 Estimates
--305 Apportionments (costs)
--306 Costing analyses
--307 Balance sheets
--308 Miscellaneous
--309 Audit papers
-310-329 Second Stage Accounts
--310 Treasurer's accounts
--311 Receipt and payment books
--312 Expenditure journals and day books
--313 Registers of recurrent charges receivable and payable
--314 Contract books
--315 Invoices
--316 Bank papers e.g. statements, paying-in books
--317 Dues, abstracts and payments
--318 Job costing
--320 Cash books: General
--321 Cash books: Clerk's
--322 Cash books: Surveyor's
--323 Cash books: Public Health Inspectors
--324 Postage books
--325 Bank pass books
--326 Vouchers / loose receipt books
--329 Miscellaneous
-330-349 Accounts (specific functions, except those in 350-419 following)
--330 Capital ledgers
--331 Investments and dividend accounts
--332 Highways ledgers
--333 Highways accounts and cash books
--334 Parochial ledgers
--335 Rates ledgers
--336 Rating accounts and cash books
--337 Sundry debtors ledgers
--338 Sundry creditors ledgers
--339 Water ledgers
--340 Minor accounts e.g. mortgage lenders
--341 Parks and recreation grounds accounts
--342 Private street works
--343 Town Hall / Public Hall accounts
--344 Health and Cleansing Department / sanitary accounts
--345 Baths accounts
--346 Lighting accounts
--347 Public Works accounts
--348 Charities accounts
--349 Specifications other than above
-350-359 Housing Accounts: general
--350 Housing ledgers
--351 Draft ledgers
--352 Accounts and cash books
--353 Register of rate contributions payable
--354 Tax assessments
--355 Statements of housing accounts sent
--356 Registers
--357 Housing accounts arrears papers
--358 Housing capital accounts and papers
--359 Miscellaneous
-360-369 Housing Accounts: rent collection
--360 Rent accounts
--361 Collecting and deposit accounts
--362 Collector's summaries
--363 Collector's statements
--364 Allotment rent accounts
--365 Assessment of rents e.g. general policy, increases
--366 Miscellaneous rent collection papers (including correspondence)
--368 Rent rebates papers
--369 Primary material e.g. rent sheets
-370-379 Loan Accounts: loans to authority
--370 Loans ledgers (general)
--371 Loan accounts and cash books
--372 Loan accounts (specific)
--373 Miscellaneous load accounts papers e.g. returns, correspondence
--374 Local bonds for housing
-380-389 Loan Accounts: loans by authority
--380 Loans ledgers (general)
--381 Loan accounts and cash books
--382 Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, register of applications
--383 Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, register of advances
--384 Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, accounts
--385 Private enterprise, applications for assistance
--386 Private enterprise, register of assistance, grants
--387 Housing advances papers
--388 Loans correspondence (specific topics)
--389 Miscellaneous papers relating to loans
-390-399 Wages and salaries; superannuation (continued at 460)
--390 Salaries ledger
--391 Salaries accounts, registers of salaries
--392 Wages books and accounts
--393 Superannuation papers
--394 Income tax papers
--395 National Insurance papers
--396 Expenses
--397 Medical Officer of Health / Public Health Inspector: papers regarding salary claims
--398 Workmen's insurance papers
--399 Wages / salaries / superannuation: correspondence and memorials
-400-409 Stocks and stores
--400 Ledgers
--401 Accounts and cash books
--402 Order books
--403 Stock issue books
--409 Miscellaneous stocks and stores
-410-419 Accounts of trading undertakings
--410 Gas
--411 Markets and lighting
--412 Sewage farms
--413 Water
--414 Electricity
--415 Miscellaneous trading accounts
-420-429 Tax documents (except National Insurance and Income Tax)
--420 VAT papers
--421 Selective Employment Tax
--429 Insurance papers
-430-439 Grants and donations
--430 Rate support grants / rate deficiency grants
--431 Grants and subsidies (general)
--432 Grants and subsidies (specific)
--438 Donations and subscriptions
--439 Correspondence
-440-449 Investments
--440 Stocks and shares papers e.g. share certificates
--441 National Savings papers
--442 Civic Trading Stamps books and related papers
--443 Stocks and stores ledgers
--449 Miscellaneous
-450-459 Transport Accounts
--450 Road
--451 Canals
--452 Railways
--453 Tramways
-460-469 Wages and salaries (continued)
--460 Bonus incentive schemes
--461 Salaries returns
--462 Miscellaneous
--463 Sickness returns and benefit sheets
--464 Pensions
-480-489 Primary material
--480 Job sheets
--481 Balance sheets
--482 Time sheets
--483 Expense sheets
--484 Haulage sheets
--485 Store issue notes
--486 Overtime claims sheets
-490-499 Correspondence and memoranda
--490 Treasurer's correspondence (specific)
--491 Out-letters (general)
--492 In-letters (general)
--493 Other papers (general)
--494 Other papers (specific)
--495 Miscellaneous general correspondence
--498 Memoranda
--499 Indices
500-590 Rating Officer
-500-509 Valuation
--500 Pre-1927 valuation lists (rating authority copies)
--501 Valuation lists, 1927-1928
--502 Draft 1927/28 lists
--503 Special (i.e. agricultural, industrial and freight transport) valuation lists 1928/29
--504 Draft and preliminary Special Valuation lists
--505 Subsequent Valuation Lists and drafts
--506 Register of information supplied to Valuation Officer
--507 Proposals for alterations
--508 Directions for and record of alterations
--509 Primary material e.g. note books, forms to owners
-510-519 Rate books
--510 General District rate (pre-1927)
--511 Specific expenses (i.e. sanitation) rate (pre-1927)
--512 Highways rate (pre-1927)
--513 Lighting rate (pre-1927)
--514 Water / drainage rate (pre-1927)
--515 Poor rate (pre-1927, Rating Authority levy)
--516 General rate books and rate account books (post -1927)
--517 Rate charge books
--518 Water rate books (post-1927)
--519 Others
-520-529 Volumes related to rating and valuation
--520 Estimates for rates
--521 Grand summaries of rates
--522 Drafts of rate summaries
--523 Rate produce books
--524 Rate poundage books
--525 Totals of valuation lists
--526 Register of rate contributions
--527 Contribution order books
--528 Register of receipts
--529 Indices
-530-539 Collection of rates
--530 Collection and deposit accounts
--531 Record of rate payments
--532 Register of irrecoverable rates
--533 Register of arrears
--534 Summons book and costs accounts
--535 Record of rate repayments
--536 Register of empty properties
--537 Collection sheets
--538 Collector's statements
--529 Vouchers
-540-549 Rating Officer's papers
--540 Correspondence
--541 Papers
--542 Agreements to pay rates
--543 Rate demand notes (Officer's copy)
--544 Association of Rating and Valuation Officers papers
--549 Miscellaneous
-550-559 Area Assessment Committee
--550 Minutes
--551 General ledgers
--552 Treasurer's accounts
--553 Cash books
--554 Financial statements
--555 Valuation lists
--556 Records of totals of valuation lists
--557 Registers of evidence for valuation
--558 Alterations of assessment
-560-569 Ratepayers' Associations
--560 Ratepayers Association papers
600-690 Housing Officer
-600-609 Provision of housing
--600 Register of houses provided by local authority
--601 Register of houses provided by private enterprise
--602 Register of new dwellings
--603 Terrier of housing development
--604 Register of empty properties
--605 Register of dwelling hosues
--606 Register of housing alterations / renovations etc.
--607 Register of assistance to private enterprise
--608 Applications for financial assistance
--609 Old persons' dwellings - general papers
-610-619 Tenancy: applications
--610 Application forms
--611 Correspondence
--612 Agreements
--613 Register of tenancies
--614 Register of allotments
-620-629 Tenancy: rent alterations, welfare
--620 Correspondence and papers relating to rent alteration
--621 Complaints registers and papers
--622 Correspondence (general)
--623 Notices to quit and similar
-630-639 Housing repairs and clearance papers
--630 Repairs
--631 Renovations
--632 Clearance
--633 Demolition
--634 Claims for compensation
--635 Development papers
-640-649 General correspondence, printed papers
--640 Questionnaires regarding provision of housing
--641 Correspondence regarding housing
--649 Miscellaneous
-650-659 Housing Association papers
--650 Housing Association papers
-690 Miscellaneous
700-790 Surveyor
-700-709 Maps and plans, authority schemes
--700 Plans (general schemes)
--701 Plans (specific schemes)
--702 Related papers
--703 Agreements
--704 Planning appeals
--705 Wartime plans
--709 Miscellaneous
-710-719 Maps and plans, outside schemes submitted for approval
--710 Plans (general schemes)
--711 Plans (specific schemes)
--712 Related papers
--713 Agreements
-720-729 Contracts
--720 Contract book
--721 Specifications
--722 Estimates
--723 Bills of quantity
--724 Correspondence and related papers
--725 Contracts
--728 Certificates
-730-731 Improvement Grants
--730 Application forms
--731 Plans
--732 Estimates
--733 Certificates
--734 Approvals
--735 Correspondence
--736 Exchequer grants
--737 Miscellaneous papers regarding improvement grants
-740-749 Correspondence and memoranda
--740 Out-letters
--741 In-letters
--742 Correspondence (specific topics e.g. lighting)
--743 Papers (general)
--744 Papers (specific)
--749 Memos
-750-759 Primary material
--750 Work and time sheets
--751 Note books and diaries
--752 Reports
--753 Pumping station log books
--754 Connections to water mains
--755 Order books
--756 Requisition books
--757 Job order forms / job sheets
--758 Reinstatements
--759 Other miscellaneous
-760-769 Surveyor's Accounts
--760 Surveyor's accounts
--761 Cash books
--762 Requisition ledgers
--763 Quotations, tenders etc.
--764 Invoices
--765 Stocks and stores papers
--766 Estimates
-770-779 Printed papers and miscellanea
--770 Publications received from other authorities
--779 Miscellaneous
-780-789 Miscellaneous registers
--780 Searches registers
-790-799 Indices
--790 Indices
800-879 Public Health Inspector
-800-809 Journals, dairies and reports
--800 Journals
--801 Diaries
--802 Reports
--803 Notebooks
--804 Photographs
-810-819 Registers: applications and licences etc.
--810 Licence applications: movable dwellings
--815 Register of water samples
--816 Register of unfit food
--817 Register of infestation
--818 Rodent control
-820-839 Registers: inspections of businesses
--820 Bakehouse
--821 Canal boats
--822 Caravans and movable dwellings
--823 Cowsheds and dairies
--824 Factories and workshops
--825 Ice-cream manufacturers and sale premises
--826 Lodging-houses
--827 Shops
--828 Slaughter houses
--829 Smoke control papers
-840-849 Housing Inspection
--840 Survey of overcrowding, 1937
--841 Other overcrowding records
--842 Register of inspection of dwellings
-850-859 Correspondence
--850 In-letters (general)
--851 Out-letters (general)
--852 Correspondence (specific topics)
--853 Miscellaneous general correspondence
--854 Other papers (general)
--855 Other papers (specific)
--858 Memoranda
--859 Indices
-860-869 Printed papers and miscellanea
--860 Annual Reports of the Weights and Measures Department
880-889 Medical Officer of Health
--880 Annual Reports
--881 Reports
--882 Register of notification of infectious diseases
--883 Register of notification of tuberculosis
--884 Returns of births and deaths
--885 Annual reports of the School Medical Officer
--886 Register of nuisances
--889 Miscellaneous
890-929 Librarian
-890-899 General
--890 Annual Reports
--891 Lending figures register
--892 Reading analysis
--893 Accession lists /stock lists
--894 Diaries
--895 Correspondence and related papers
--896 Personal papers
--897 Papers relating to buildings e.g. new libraries
--898 Plans / pictures / photographs of new libraries
--899 Borrowers lists / registers
-900-909 Library Accounts
--900 Receipt books
--901 Order books
--902 Statistics
--903 Estimates
--904 Expenditure books
--905 Cash books
--906 Account books
--907 Tenders
--908 Insurance
--909 Miscellaneous
-910-919 Miscellaneous
--910 Papers regarding exhibitions in library e.g. programme
--911 Papers regarding recitals, festivals and lectures in library
--912 Children's library - miscellaneous papers
--913 Library Association - papers / reports etc.
--914 Publications received from other authorities
--915 Files of research work done using library research material
--918 Closure notices
--919 Miscellaneous e.g. fines, overdue books
920-929 Reorganisation of Local Government affecting Library Departments
--920 Reorganisation of Local Government affecting Library Departments
930-939 Weights and Measures
--930 Reports
--931 Registers of prosecutions
--932 Indentures of standards
950-999 Records of other authorities (associated and superceeded)
-950-959 Parish councils
--950 Minutes
--951 Receipts and payments accounts / income and expenditure
--952 Financial statements
--953 Vouchers
--954 Correspondence
--955 Memoranda
--956 Miscellaneous accounts
--957 Declaration books
960-969 Lighting / special drainage districts
--960 Minutes
--961 Accounts
--962 Rate books
-970-979 Water Boards, parochial drainage committees
--970 Minutes
--971 Accounts
--972 Reports
--973 Correspondence
--974 Rent receipt books
--975 Wages books
--979 Miscellaneous
-980-989 Hospital Boards, Joint Medical Office of Health Committees
--980 Hospital Board minutes
--981 Hospital Board ledgers and accounts
--982 Hospital Board reports
--983 Hospital Board correspondence
--984 Hospital Board other
--985 Joint Medical Office of Health Committees minutes
--986 Joint Medical Office of Health Committees correspondence and papers
--987 Joint Medical Office of Health Committees reports
-990-999 Poor Law Union Records
--990 Poor Law Union yearbooks
--991 Poor Law Union accounts
--992 Minutes
--993 Miscellaneous |
