Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Records
Records of the Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Limited, established in 1913, including minute books, deeds, correspondence, financial papers and printed material relating to housing estates in Barry, Burry Port, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Newtown, Rhiwbina, Weston Rhyn and Wrexham, and other associated papers.
Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust.
Pethick v. Vale of Glamorgan Railway, &c.,
Part of Szlumper Manuscripts,
Material, 1897-1900, relating to the case of John Pethick & Pethick Bros of Plymouth v. the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company, the arbitrator in the case being Sir James Weeks Szlumper, and including: printed material, May-December 1900, relating to the court case, with further handwritten, typewritten and printed reports, statements, accounts, etc.; a copy of Sir Benjamin Baker's report, 1898, on the Porthkerry Viaduct; and a printed claim, April 1900, of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company against John Pethick and Pethick Bros, with a handwritten amended claim, May 1900. The volume also includes a printed contract, 1894, of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company, including accounts, some of which are filled in by hand, together with hand written specifications, accounts, etc., 1895; a typewritten transcript of another court case, 1898, involving the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company; copies of correspondence, 1897-1900, between the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company and the Railway Department of the Board of Trade; and a printed copy of the 1889 Vale of Glamorgan Railway Act.
Material, 1898-1899, relating to the case of James Nuttall of Manchester v. the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company, the arbitrator in the case being Sir James Weeks Szlumper, and including printed and handwritten transcripts of court proceedings and printed and handwritten statements, with annotations.
Printed copies of the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Company (Plymouth and Devonport Extension) Bill 1883, with estimations of related costs, 1882; printed and handwritten transcripts of Parliamentary proceedings relating to the Bill; printed and handwritten petitions against the Bill, including petitions from the London & South Western Railway Company, the Great Western Railway Company and the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Devonport; other printed material relating to the Bill.
Great Western Railway and British Railways (Western Region),
Papers relating to the Trust's collaboration with the Great Western Railway and its successor, British Railways (Western Region).
General letters, 1912-1980, to Maxwell Fraser, many relating to her research work and publications; correspondence between Maxwell Fraser and named friends, 1950-1980; materials on Lord and Lady Llanover and the Hall family, comprising correspondence, 1954-1980, and research materials assembled by Maxwell Fraser, 1806-1933, on the Llanover family; research papers assembled by Maxwell Fraser relating to her various books, 1935-1978; research notes, 1952-1977, concerning the preparation of Maxwell Fraser's articles and scripts; correspondence and papers, 1929-1968, relating to Maxwell Fraser's publicity work for the Great Western Railway Company (including Holiday Haunts, 1929-1962); notebooks bearing Maxwell Fraser's research notes; groups of press cuttings, 1924-1980; papers, 1947-1980, concerning Maxwell Fraser's links with numerous associations and societies, including the Cambrian Archaeological Association, the International Arthurian Society, the Kilvert Society, Offa's Dyke Association, P.E.N., Sherlock Holmes Society of London and other societies; papers, 1912-1980, deriving from Maxwell Fraser's hobbies and interests; papers, 1953-1968, concerning Maxwell Fraser's attempts to learn Welsh; miscellaneous papers, 1901-1980, relating to Slough; diaries kept by Maxwell Fraser, 1930-1980, of varying detail, including a journal, 1930, of a tour of Poland; theatre programmes; letters and papers relating to the testator's parents, 1900-1966, and her uncle, Lovat Fraser (1871-1926), the prominent journalist and author of India under Curzon and after (1911); and other personal papers relating to Maxwell Fraser; financial papers, 1911-1980; miscellaneous printed materials; and miscellaneous papers relating to research and writing by other individuals.
Fraser, Maxwell.
The series contains papers, 1946-1957, relating to the Trust's applications to the Central Land Board, which were required in advance of any land development under the Town and Country Planning Act (1947), together with a pamphlet, 1923, about the housing of Great Western railwaymen in London.
Great Western Railway and British Railways (Western Region),
The series contains correspondence, records and publicity material, 1923-1976, relating to Great Western housing schemes, which continued under that name after 1948 under British Railways (Western Region).
A holograph letter, 1865, from J. H. Preece, for the Great Western Railway New Swindon Mechanics Institution, to Mr. Hanty (thanks to Mr. [Harry H.] Davies for the gift of a drawing); 'half-yearly report of conduct; or, lady's school register' of Miss F[lorence] M[ary] Davies, 1870; the return of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Rumney, Monmouthshire, 1901; a short pedigree of the family of Edmunds of Rumney, and of the family of Davies of Rompney Castle, with whom they intermarried; and two school arithmetic books, one of which belonged to Miss Hannah Edmunds and contains in addition some copies of her accounts, etc., 1879-1886 and undated.