• Reference
    CCD45
  • Title
    Proceedings of the council, indexed at front.
  • Date free text
    April 1945 - March 1946
  • Production date
    From: 1945 To: 1946
  • Scope and Content
    Minutes of the council pages 1-63 reports pages 68-235. According to index includes: Reports of the Agricultural Committee. Election of Aldermen, including Alfred Cook, Henry George Shoolbred. Election of: Kenneth W G Allen, Roland P Burton, Andrew Russell Carlisle, Robert Royal Hunter, Harold Phillips, Dudley Stewart Redman, Herbert Robert Waller, as county councillor. Death of Harold Phillips. Election of chairman of County Council. Establishment of Architectural Department. Resignation of: Harry Arnold and George Edward Brown, Frederick James Creak, William Percy Meldrum, Laurence Herbert Turner as County Alderman. Approval of creation of post of Assistant County Archivist. Additional accommodation for County Records Office. Sale of Gothic Farm, Arlesey land to Biggleswade RDC. Purchase of van for conversion to ambulance. Publication 'Bedfordshire County Council in Peace and War' (p213). Annual report of Beds and Northants Joint Board, also purchase of cottages by the joint board at Bromahm House Colony. The Lawns, Biggleswade. Biggleswade RDC election of councillors and parish councillors. Sale of land at Bleak Hall, Biggleswade for road improvement. Appointment of Welfare Officers for Blind. Application of Luton for County Borough Status. Cinematograph Act, 1909, application of Luton Town Council for delegation of powers. Reports of Civil Defence, Emergency Committee. Publication 'History of Civil Defence'. Report of the Cooking Depot Committee. Appointment of County Analyst - Mr A Lickorish. County Ambulance Service. Medical Officer of Health annual report. Roads. Reports of the Highways and Bridges Committee. Report of County Valuation Committee. Appointment of County Valuers. Report of County Water Committee. Post of assistant school dentist. Appointment of district medical officers. Sale of land at Great Green Farm, Eaton Bray to Luton RDC. Education (various). Elections. Estimates. Explosive Acts, appointment of inspectors. Farm Institute, Silsoe. Report of the Finance Committee. Greater London Plan. Great Ouse Catchment Board rate. Harpur Trust Secondary Schools. Honours conferred by HM the King. Horse Breeding. Provision of Small Holdings Houses. Housing (Rural Workers) Act, Grants and reconstruction of cottages. Housing, representations from Ampthill RDC. Appointment of Charles Jeyes to Eastern District Council. Report of the Lee Conservancy Board and Lee Conservancy Catchment Board. Report of the River Great Ouse Catchment Board. Rural Water Supplied and Sewerage Act 1944. Sewage scheme for parishes. Report of the Local Taxation Licences Committee. Luton RDC planning authority Chalton Cross. Report of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee. Report of the Committee for the 'Care of the Mentally Defective'. Meppershall Pumping Site. Mogerhanger Park Sanatorium electricity, X-ray dept, complaints... Report of the National Insurance Act Committee. Nurses Act 1943. Podington Aerodrome, discharge of sewage. Post war housing sites. Sale of Emery's Land, Potton to Biggleswade RDC. Reports of the public assistance committee. Reports of Public Health, Housing & General Purposes Committee. Appointment of public vaccinators - Dr W R Van Langenberg, Dr W F McGowan, Dr D H Irish, Dr M C Rothcope. . School Camps. Report of staffing committee. Report of Stage Plays and Cinematograph Act Licensing Committee. Sale of land Manor Farm Stotfold to Biggleswade RDC. Streatley Casual Wards. Report of Weights and Measures Committee and chief inspector.
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