| Description | Two bundles split Jan-June/July-Nov:
-A petition (memorial) signed by owners and inhabitants of Victoria Park and Victoria Road to the council to provide lamps for these estates, Jan 1897
-Report of the General Purposes Committee, Jan 1897
-Report of the Lamp Committee, Feb 1897
-Report of the Sewerage Committee, Feb 1897
-Report of Dr Anningson as to cesspools on DeFreville Estate, Feb 1897
-Letter from J.S.Few complaining that the new sewer put in by the council has stopped water supply to his farm, Feb 1897
-Correspondence from the Postmaster-General permitting poles to be erected in several streets in Chesterton
-Report of the General Purposes Committee meeting reviewing Bermuda Path and agreed drainage work is required, 17 March, 1897
-Letters from the clerk of the conservators (of the river Cam) concerning the cleansing of the river
-Draft and official copy of Report of the Allotments Committee, Mar 1897
-Report of the General Purposes Committee, March 1897
-A requisition to summon an extraordinary meeting to discuss various matters, made by John Bester, Chairman to the clerk of the district council, 17 March, 1897
-Poster of a Notice of General District Rate of one shilling and sixpence to commence of 6 May 1897
-A letter confirming the completion of queries from Salford Borough concerning sewerage system, 7 May 1897
- A note of the plans passed at the last council meeting including bay windows to 163 and 165 Chesterton Road etc. May 10, 1897
-Letter from J.A.Beaver, 90 Victoria Road, notice to quite the allotment in Ferry Path, Mar 1897
-Letter from the National Telephone Company Ltd relacing unsound poles erected on the river embankment at Chesterton Road, includes a drawing of proposed new poles, Mar 1897
-Abstract of receipts and expenditure, Mar 1897
-Letter from John D.Bland, surveyor, to J. Spearing with list of plans passed at a recent meeting, Apr 1897
-Correspondence from the local goverment board concerning Victoria Road and Histon Road and inquiry made at the request of the district council as to their repair and being main roads, and an inquiry fee to be made to the goverment board, Apr 1897
-Letter concerning the above from the local government board to the district council, Apr 1897
-Notice of Intended Rate, Apr 1897
-Correspondence from the clerk of the Conservators, J. Musgrave Francis, regarding the consequences of the district council declining to pay their contribution towards to maintenance of the river cam, May 1897
-A note from John. D.Bland concerning the plans passed in the most recent meeting, May 1897
-Notice of General District Rate, May 1897
-Report of Committee of the whole council as to Histon Road and Victoria Road, May 1897
-Draft minutes of meeting of council, May 1897
-Report of the Finance Committee, May 1897
-Circular from the local government board concerning the Celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Accession of Her Majesty the Queen, May 1897
-Letter from Fanny Walker, 47 Chesterton Road, complaining about the smell from the sewage, May 1897
-New Chesterton Technical Education accounts, Jun 1897
-Draft Jubilee address, Jun 1897
-Memorial/petition for allotments by residents at Richmond Road, Oxford Road and Histon Road, Jun 1897
-Treasurer's account of receipts and payments for the year 1896, Jun 1897
-Letter from C.Preston enquiring into a remedy to the flooding of their brewery from the main sewer, Jun 1897
-Report of the Finance Committee, Jun 1897
-Draft report of the allotments committee, Jun 1897
-Report of the allotments committee, Jun 1897
-Draft agreement between the distrcit council and library committee, Jun 1897
-Report of the Sanitary Committee, Jul 1897
-Report of the Sewerage Committee, Jul 1897
-Letter from Charles Andrews, Searle Street, informing the council of the state of the fence at his allotment situate in Ferry Path, Jul 1897
-Notice to Mr Benjamin Fulcher, 95 Histon Road, the owner of nos. 85, 87, 89, 91, 93 and 95 Histon Road, to obtain water supply to these properties within 7 days, Jul 1897
-Letter from John D.Bland concerning the above, Jul 1897
-Letter from Edwin Bays, 61 St. Andrew Street, Cambridge, instructed by his client for the council's consideration to purchase a parcel of land situated at Huntingdon Road suitable for allotments includes a sketch, Jul 1897
-Correspondence from Bushell Anningson, medical officer of health and John D. Bland, surveyor, informing the council of the dangers of the current sewage system upon the health of the residents in Chesterton with reference to specific properties including 60 Hertford Street whose occupant is suffering from perpetual fever due to faulty drainage. "very little question that the fatal illness was contracted from the emanations into the house of sewer gas". The other case concerns the fatality at 3 Humberstone Terrace in whose occupant died of typhoid fever. The rest of the correspondence advises the council on the changes to be made to the sewage system, Jul 1897
-Report of the Finance Committee, Jul 1897
-Note reporting that buildings not been completed in accordance with plans passed and are contrary to byelaw; houses on Victoria Road, Avondale Terrace, Oxford Road and Priory Terrace in Canterbury Street, n.d.
-Report of the Finance Committee, Aug 1897
-Estimate for general district rates, Aug 1897
-Information to be forwarded to the local government board with applications for sanction to borrow money, along with reply from the local board authorising the sanction, to borrow £1000 for works of street improvement (Victoria and Histon Road), Aug 1897
-Letter from Carter Jonas & Sons concerning Mr Morton's tenancy of land in which the district council wish to acquire as allotments upon agreement of £6 per acre, Aug 1897
-Letter from John D. Bland reporting on the contaminated water suppply at 109 Histon Road and therefore unfit for drinking purposes, Aug 1897
-Notice of audit by the District Auditor, Edward Brent Prest, Aug 1897
-Draft minutes of meeting of the Finance Committee, Aug 1897
-Draft Report of the allotment committee, Aug 1897
-Local government board's annual account under the Housing of the Working Classes Act returns to be completed by the district council (with a doodle), Aug 1897
-Letter from W.Wren on behalf of client, Mr Wheaton at 21 Chesterton Road, who requests permission to raise the gate steps to lay down pavings in the gateway, Aug 1897, with accompanying letter of acceptance of the council's offer, Sept 1897
-Agreement with Mr George Clark of 53 Chesterton Road to carry out sewage work across the property, Sept 1897
-Amended estimate of kerbing and channelling Histon Road from Victoria Road to Rock End, Chesterton, Sept 1897
-Seal warrant, and a copy, given to John Douglas Bland, inspector of nuisances, to enter premises known as Dalrymple Terrace, Carlyle Road, Chesterton under the Public Health Act 1875 to examine the drains, Sept 1897
-Draft notice of resolution adopting the Public Health Act's amendment 1890, Sept 1897
-Circular from the local government board of parliamentary procedure on bills and provisional orders (pier and harbour, electric lighting, gas and water, amendment local act, compulsory purcahse of land, improvement schemes, joint districts, tramways, light railways and borough fund act, Sept 1897
-Letters from the Great Eastern Railway, William Birt, confirming the arrangement to supply water to the cottages at Chesterton junction from the water company's mains, Sept 1897
-Draft and report of minutes of the allotments committee meeting, Sept 1897
-Report of the Technical Education Committee, Sept 1897
-Report of the Finance Committee, Sept 1897
-Sanction of the local government board to the appointment of inspector nuisances at a rate of £30 per annum, Sept 1897
-Circular letter from the Cyclists' Touring Club concerning complaints made all over the country by cyclists whose tyres have been damaged by thorns left on the highway and ask the council to ensure they are removed, Sept 1897
-Consent from the council to the erection of a line of poles and wire by the side of French's Road, Bermuda Road and Histon Road from the Victoria Road to the junction etc, Oct 1897
-Letter from J.E.L.Whitehead, town clerk, informing the district council of the decision made by the town council to paint Victoria Bridge by Mr Underwood of Alpha Road, Oct 1897
-Report of the Finance Committee, Oct 1897
-Letter from Siddons & Freeman contractors regarding Jack Roll and the council is mistaken in the matters (no further information into the nature of the mistake), Oct 1897
-Receipt from the town clerk regarding Elizabeth Gatland and the Sanatorium Committee, Oct 1897
-Notice of Intended Rate, Oct 1897
-Notice of adoption of the public libraries act, 1892, Nov 1897 |