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Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 53: General and historical material

53/A General and historical material

"Historical descriptive account of Blackpool and its neighbourhood", ms, 23pp, index card attached, Mass-Observation research on the history of Blackpool, notes from secondary sources by a Mass-Observer

Book: Blackpool's Progress Jubilee Year, 1926, Mather Bros, Preston, illustrated

Newspaper cutting, "Beginnings of the Lancashire Reports", Manchester Guardian, 10.6.38 (photocopy)

Misc, pages torn from books

53/B Blackpool Improvement Bill

Book: Book of Reference November, 1937, Blackpool Improvement, Sharpe Pritchard & Co., Parliamentary Agents, London

Plan, County of Lancaster, Parish and County Borough of Blackpool, In Parliament-Session 1937-38 Blackpool Improvement

53/C Blackpool Improvement Bill

Observer accounts
"Blackpool Improvement Bill", ms, 8pp, 14.1.38, LT, overheard conversations and general impressions
"Conversations in Blackpool", ms, 2pp, 14.1.38, AB, about the improvements
"Improvement Bill, Blackpool", ms, 1p, [?HJ], graph showing number of votes, (no source cited)
"Waterloo Road, Kent Road, Talbot Road", ms, 1p, 14.1.38, graph, Blackpool Improvement Bill
"Blackpool Interviewing re. Plebiscite.", ts, 2pp, 15.1.28(sic), FHC
"Blackpool Improvements Bill", ts, 2pp, 14.1.38, FHC, polling booth behaviour
"Stanley Ward", ts, 6pp, details of roads and canvassers for the Ward
"Blackpool Counting of Votes", index cards (2), ms, [EB]

"County Borough of Blackpool Poll of Electors 14.1.38", ts, 1p, instructions to supervisors

"Propaganda for Blackpool Election 15.1.38", ms, 2pp, [HH]

"How You Vote", 4pp, literature produced by the Council for the vote on the Improvement Bill (2 sets)

"The New Building", ms, 1p, details of contractors and estimated costs (no source cited)

Newspaper cuttings (37) about the Improvement Bill and voting on it

53/D Guide books and maps

Books (2); Ward Lock's Guide to Blackpool, Lytham-St. Annes, Fleetwood, Ward Lock, London, illustrated

Map: Town Map of Blackpool, Ordnance Survey

Map: Visitors Plan of Blackpool, "Geographia" Ltd., London

Map: Blackpool, Corporation Transport Guide Street Plan & Index

Booklet: Blackpool walks and rides in the Fylde and Over Wyre, Palatine Books Co, Blackpool, illustrated

Booklet: Blackpool the Holiday Playground of the World, C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., Liverpool, London & Prescot

Book: Blackpool Holiday Journal, C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., Liverpool, London & Prescot

Programme: Blackpool Tower Palace Opera House and Grand, illustrated

Booklets (2), Tower and Winter Gardens Blackpool, illustrated

"Chapel Street", black and white photograph, [Trevelyan],

Newspaper cuttings (2)

Magazine cuttings (2)

Postcards (4), "The Old Cottage, Blackpool Illuminations" (1); "A laugh a day keeps misfortunes away", (2) Mabel Lucie Attwell; and 2 'jokes' postcards

53/E Press cuttings on paid holidays and Wakes Weeks

Newspaper cuttings (10)

Mass-Observation Studies 1937-55

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