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Worktown Collection (1937-40)
Box 44: Social condition and housing
44/A Social conditions and housing
Untitled document, ts, 2pp, list of houses and rent per week
"The change in psychology of workers caused by change in environment", ts, 1p, 2.2.37, GT summary of a talk with Jack Fagan
"The Social Condtion of the County Borough of Bolton", ms, 4pp, an essay
- Observer accounts
- "The Housing Estate", ms, 6pp
- "Transition from Street Dwelling to Housing Estate", ms, 7pp
- "Co-operative House or Slum?", ts, 2pp
- "Peter Jackson's sisters", ms, 2pp, 2.4.[?], THH, corporation housing
- "Full Day of Ordinary Day Life", ms, 4pp, 26.4.38, BR
- "Mrs Caldwell. Questions", ms, 5pp, 28.4.[?], WH, about daily routine
- "Grices Home", ms, 23pp, 29.4[?], WH, illustrated description of home and answers to questions
- "Answers to Questions. Mrs. Duckworth", ms, 6pp, 30.4.[?], WH
- "Life on a Corporation Housing Estate", ms, 3pp, 5.5.38, BR, with hand drawn street map
- Untitled document, ms, 8pp, 7.5.38, BR, illustrated description of unspecified house
- "Description of Crossley's front room 45A Tonge Moor Road", ms, 8pp, 19.7.[?], WH
- "Front room of house in Bradford St", ts, 2pp
- "Transition from Street Dwelling to Housing Estate", ms, 7pp
Letter from Ernest Letchford, ms 4pp, (lacks pp1 and 2), about housing problem
44/B A description of the memorable Sieges and Battles in the North of England ....., J. Drake, Bolton, 1785
44/C Lancashire in Prose and Verse, Elkin Matthews & Marrot, Ltd., London, R.H. Case, 1930
44/D Bolton as it is and as it might be, Tillotson & Son Ltd., and B.F. Batsford Ltd, London, illustrated
44/E The Book of Bolton, Tillotson (Bolton) Ltd., Bolton and London, illustrated
44/F Street life
Letter from BB to THH, ts, 2pp, 18.2[?], results of street survey and enclosing 7 graphs with statistical data from the street survey
- Observer accounts
- Untitled document, ms, 12pp, 14.10[?], [interviews]
with 15 residents in [Powell Street], includes voting behaviour and newspaper
read
- "A day in the life of a street", ts, 13pp, Davenport Street M-O's Bolton headquarters
- "Class distinctions in our street", ms, 9pp, 21.9.37, EL
- Index cards (2), street observations
- "A day in the life of a street", ts, 13pp, Davenport Street M-O's Bolton headquarters
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