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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/E15/Box 1/2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/11/2
TitleGeneral Purposes Committee
DescriptionHandwritten minutes of the committee. Matters discussed include the marriage of the Earl of Dudley; River Severn navigation; pleasure boat bye-laws; Worcester & Broom Railway; Free School and Almshouses, and Moore's and Dent's Charities; Small Holdings Act 1892; Assizes; loaning of objects for exhibitions; Hop market; arrangements for the Duke of York's visit to Worcester; Post Office; Agricultural Show; council minutes and records; Foregate Street and Henwick railway stations; tenancy, uses and purchase of land at Moorsfields and Pitchcroft, with some tenants and terms mentioned; local and parish charities; lists of people and business using openings onto Moorsfields, either the amount paid to retain this privilege or the obstruction of the opening, and steps taken to ensure the surrounding walls and fences were unclimbable; Hussars training; reorganisation of polling districts; Charity Commissioners' examination of Bishop Lloyd's Charity; waste and rubbish disposal; improvements to roads and footpaths; Queen's Jubilee celebrations; consolidation of Hebbs Municipal Widows Asylum and Hebbs Municipal Almshouse charities, 1897; Mason College, Birmingham; frequency of railway services; ground levelling and tree planting at Pitchcroft; telephone exchanges; Jews Patch; Cathedral School; Chinese Minister's visit to Worcester, 1900.

Motions carried unanimously or lost are stated as such. With index in the front of the volume.
Date1891-1900
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