| Description | 1/1 - 104: Papers concerning an enquiry by Worcester City Council into the desirability of adopting the Public Libraries Act 1855, including questionaires circulated to circa 70 local authorities in England and Wales, with various Library Committee reports and regulations. Dated 1860 - 1861.
2/1 - 4: Notices and other papers concerning a public meeting to consider adoption of the Public Libraries Act 1855. Dated 1869 - 1870.
3/1 - 8: Resolutions, proposals and other papers for the prevention of the disposal of the Old City Library, including resolution of the Worcester Natural History Societ and its Museum Building Committee. Dated 1877 - 1879.
4/1 - 11: Notices, minutes, opinions and other papers concerning a poll of the citizens of Worcester relating to adoption of the Public Libraries Act 1855. Dated 1879.
5/1 - 31: Copy deeds, statutory declarations, opinions, schedules and other papers relating to the acquisition of the Museum building and its collections by the City Council, including draft conveyance of the building 14 September 1880 and draft surrender and assignment of the alterations, 15 September 1880. Dated 1879 - 1880.
6/1 - 4: Rules of the Worcester Public Library and Hastings Museum, with papers concerning the forms of application with the City and the County to become borrowers. Dated 1881.
7/1 - 16: Forms of tender, draft contract and other papers concerning adaptions to the old City Library to the purposes of a public library, including a report to the Library Buildign Committee concerning fittings. Dated 1880 - 1881.
8: Draft inscription recording the gift of the Natural History Collections, specimens, books and pictures in the Museum. Dated 1880.
9/1 - 5: Draft agreement concerning the purchase of Acacia House, Foregate Street, Worcester, for the purposes of erecting a new library. Dated 1887.
10/1 - 7: Draft agreement, schedules and other papers concerning the acquisition by the City Council of 26 and 27 Foregate Street, Worcester, for the purposes of erecting a new library. Dated 1889.
11/1 - 14. Schedules, advertisements, agreements, notices, sales particulars (with plan), and other papers and concerninmg the sale of the Public Library and Museum site in Foregate Street. Dated 1896.
12/1 - 10: Copies of various issues of the Worcester Daily Times, 20 October to 31 December 1887, with notices of local enquiry concerning street widening in connection with the construction of the Victoria Institute. |