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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/E15/Box 3/1
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/11/5
TitleGeneral Purposes Committee
DescriptionHandwritten minutes of the committee. Matters discussed include purchase, lease, upkeep, byelaws and prosecutions for infringing them, and access to land and property at Pitchcroft; recreation grounds, sports fields, and facilities; extension of city boundaries; regulation of schools and charities; shows, festivals and exhibitions; repairs to old hostel in Friar Street; music and other entertainment for the public; postal deliveries; establishment and remit of committees and sub-committees; registration of electors; advertisement of the city; National Registration Act, Naval and Military War Pensions Act 1916, and other war-related legislation; railway services; cemeteries maintenance, extension etc; increasing supplies and costs of food and fuel; war damage; national service; proposed new factories; family of Private Dancox V.C. and establishment of a benefit fund; parliamentary representation; historic house in Friar Street; Barbourne College (construction work, military occupation etc); prisoners of war; peace celebrations and memorial activities; and polling stations and districts.

Rough notes taken at some meetings in 1918 and 1919 on loose pages are tucked in the back.
Date1914-1919
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