Collection LCC/CL/HIG - CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: HIGHWAYS COMMITTEE

6.5 linear metres

LCC/CL/HIG 1882-1966 Collection 6.5 linear metres LCC , London County Council x London County Council

The London County Council delegated administrative matters to its committees, both standing committees and a number of special committees appointed for specific purposes. The committees met frequently, either weekly or fortnightly, while the Council met weekly. Committee reports requiring decision by the Council were dealt with weekly, and each committee reported to the Council every 6 months. In addition the Council also had representatives on many bodies such as industrial councils, school governing bodies and charitable foundations. For the purpose of carrying out the services of the Council, the staff is organised into departments, each of which is under the responsibility of a chief officer.

The Clerk of the Council was the chief administrative officer of the Council, acting as the clerk of the Council itself as well as the various committees. Additional important duties of the Clerk's Department included the maintenance of the library for members of the Council at City Hall, the preparation of general publications and the responsibility for general work including records.

The London County Council committees relating to highways were:

Highways Committee - 1889-1939

Highways and Main Drainage Committee - 1939-1940

Town Planning Committee - 1940-1950

Roads Committee - 1950-1965

In addition to its functions in relation to highways, to the tramways, to bridges and tunnels (after the disbandment of the Bridges Committee) and the passenger steamboat service (1905-07), the Highways Committee was also responsible for the Councils activities in regard to the electricity undertakings. These included the early attempts to secure municipalisation and later the statutory provisions for regulation of the industry.

Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1882-1966, including papers relating to the establishment of an electricity supply in London, including charges, laying of mains and Battersea Power Station; papers relating to roads including proposals, legislation affecting roads, motorways and road improvements; papers relating to individual road schemes; papers relating to Thames crossings including weak bridges, railway bridges, tunnels, embankments, the Blackwall Tunnel, the Woolwich Free Ferry, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, Albert Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Putney Bridge, Wandsworth Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge.

Electricity supply: LCC/CL/HIG/1; Roads, bridges and tunnels: LCC/CL/HIG/2.

Available for general access.

Copyright: Depositor
English

Fit

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For other London County Council committees concerned with roads, see LCC/CL/IMP and LCC/CL/MD.

For further information on the history of the LCC please see Achievement: A Short History of the London County Council by W Eric Jackson (1965), LMA Library reference 18.0 1965, The London County Council 1938, LMA Library reference 18.7 SER 4, and The Youngest County: A description of London as a county and its public services, 1951, LMA Library reference 18.0 1951.

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Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1882-1966, including papers relating to the establishment of an electricity supply in London, including charges, laying of mains and Battersea Power Station; papers relating to roads including proposals, legislation affecting roads, motorways and road improvements; papers relating to individual road schemes; papers relating to Thames crossings including weak bridges, railway bridges, tunnels, embankments, the Blackwall Tunnel, the Woolwich Free Ferry, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, Albert Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Putney Bridge, Wandsworth Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge.

Electricity supply: LCC/CL/HIG/1; Roads, bridges and tunnels: LCC/CL/HIG/2.

Available for general access.

Copyright: Depositor

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• latin

English

For other London County Council committees concerned with roads, see LCC/CL/IMP and LCC/CL/MD.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais