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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/E14/3
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/24/3
TitleProperty and Cemetery Committee
DescriptionTyped minutes of the amalgamated property and cemetery committee. Matters discussed include duties, resignations, appointment, salaries and pensions of staff; council office furnishings and supplies; swans; cleaning, maintenance, improvements and other works to council property, land, cemeteries and furnishings; bills and purchases approved; haymaking and grass at the cemetery; sales, leases, tenancies and rents concerning Corporation land and properties; soldiers' graves; appointment of sub-committees; displays, exhibitions and decorations in the Guildhall; donation of portraits, photographs and historic artefacts to the council, and their storage during war time; St Helens & St Andrews churches; water supply in the cemeteries; National Association of Cemetery and Crematorium Superintendnets; precautionary measures concerning gas masks, blackout, air raids and minimising damage to property caused by fire or explosion; memorials approved; application to remove and reinter a body; consecration of Astwood cemetery extension; theft of flowers from cemeteries; army drill practice; abstract of accounts; disused churchyards; staff and officers on military service; compliance with wartime regulations concerning defence (particularly fire watching), food production and requisitions by the military; complaints against Corporation staff; restricted access of road to St John's Cemetery for defense reasons; loan of Private Dancox's Victoria Cross; communication with the War Graves Commissions; maintenance of Elgar's birthplace; dances, and the damage caused to the hall; proposed crematorium; fire risk at the Public Hall; cost of hiring the facilities; preservation of historic buildings; and burial and grave maintenance fees.
Date1937-1949
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