Catalogue description Records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation

The records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation are divided into three sections:

BRU: the records of the unreformed borough, 1553-1835

BRR: the records of the reformed borough, 1836-1974

BRT: the records of the institutions carried on by members of the Corporation acting in another capacity (e.g. as Justices of the Peace) or whose responsibilities and/or records were taken over by the Corporation (e.g. the Gild of the Holy Cross).

These are subdivided as follows:

BRU: records of the unreformed borough, 1553-1835

BRU1 Borough Charters

BRU2 Minute books

BRU3 Orders and bye-laws

BRU4 Chamberlain's accounts

BRU5 Receipts and vouchers

BRU6 Cash books

BRU7 Rentals and surveys

BRU8 Expired leases

BRU9 Title deeds

BRU10 Maps and plans

BRU11 Toll books

BRU12 Court of record

BRU13 Capital burgesses and aldermen, certificates of elections and admission

BRU14 Lawsuits

BRU15 'Miscellaneous Documents'

BRU16 Other miscellaneous volumes

BRU17 Trading companies

BRU18 Corporation bonds and declarations of trust

BRU19 Grammar School admission certificates

BRU20 Electoral rolls

BRU21 Miscellanea

BRR: reformed borough records, 1836-1974

Town Clerk's Office

BRR1 Minute books

BRR2 Committee minutes and reports

BRR2/1: Watch committee

BRR2/2: Finance committee

BRR2/3: General Purposes committee

BRR2/4: Contagious diseases committee

BRR2/5: School attendance committee

BRR2/6: Cemetery committee

BRR2/7: Land & Buildings committee

BRR2/8: Gas committee

BRR2/9: Sanitary & Highways committee

BRR2/10: Record committee

BRR2/11: Waterworks committee

BRR2/12: River & Bancroft committee

BRR2/13: Infectious hospital committee

BRR2/14: Technical education committee

BRR2/15: Electric light committee

BRR2/16: Public library committee

BRR2/17: Sewage disposal committee

BRR2/18: Housing of the working classes committee

BRR2/19: Fire Brigade committee

BRR2/20: Town Planning committee

BRR2/21: Rating committee

BRR2/22: Information Bureau committee

BRR2/23: Industrial Development committee

BRR2/24: Flying grounds committee

BRR2/25: Conference committee

BRR2/26: Trees committee

BRR2/27: Camps & bathing committee

BRR2/28: Air raid precautions committee

BRR2/29: Community feeding centre

BRR2/30: Road Safety committee

BRR2/31: Civil Defence committee

BRR2/32: Public Relations committee

BRR2/33: Accounts committee

BRR2/34: Health committee

BRR2/35: Highways and planning committee

BRR2/36: 1964 Shakespeare Celebrations committee

BRR2/37: Bylaws, planning and town development committee

BRR2/38: Highways & sewerage committee

BRR2/39: Miscellaneous or composite volumes

BRR3: Printed Committee minutes of Borough Council

BRR4: Registers of attendance at committee meetings

BRR5: Acceptance of office by mayors, aldermen, councillors, etc.

BRR6: Yearbooks (1889 - 1916)

(1948 - 1951)

BRR7: Committee time-tables

BRR8: Committee papers

BRR8/1: Watch committee

BRR8/2: Contagious diseases committee

BRR8/3: School attendance committee

BRR8/4: Notices calling meetings, 1872-74.

BRR8/5: Miscellaneous letters

BRR9: Burgess and electoral rolls

BRR10: Expired leases

BRR11: Title deeds

BRR12: Paper relating to election of Borough Councillors.

BRR13/1: Bundles of papers grouped by subject.

BRR13/2: Miscellaneous government circulars.

BRR13/3: Papers relating to bye-laws

BRR13/4: Papers relating to extension of borough boundary, 1879.

BRR13/5: Papers relating to appointment of officials.

BRR13/6: Grammar school papers.

BRR13/7: Papers relating to Guild Chapel.

BRR13/8: Papers relating to parish church and vicarage.

BRR13/9: Papers relating to municipal charities.

BRR13/10: Papers relating to Corporation property.

BRR13/11: Miscellaneous papers.

BRR14: Miscellaneous volumes.

BRR15: Photographs

Borough Chamberlain & Treasurer's office

BRR16: Chamberlain's annual accounts, including rentals.

BRR17: Printed extracts of accounts.

BRR18: Estimated accounts and financial statements.

BRR19: Cash books.

BRR20: Waste cash books.

BRR21: Receipts and vouchers

BRR22: Money order and payment ordered books.

BRR23: General Ledgers

BRR24: Journals for closing entries

BRR25: Expenditure journals

BRR26: Rentals (see also BRR16, BRR23/1-2)

BRR27: Surveys and property documents

BRR28: Bank books, receipt and deposit books

BRR29: Cemetery accounts

BRR30: Gas accounts

BRR31: Public Library

BRR32: Fire Brigade accounts

BRR33: Housing accounts

BRR34: Unemployment schemes

BRR35: Civic Restaurant accounts

BRR36: Treasurer's correspondence

BRR37: Committee papers

BRR38: Rating records, rate books

BRR39: Water rates

BRR40: Valuations

BRR41: Accounts

BRR42: Miscellaneous

BRR43: Superannuation and pension records

BRR44: A.R.P. accounts

BRR45: Wages and salaries records

BRR46: Wages and Mop Fair records

BRR46a: Loan records and Sinking Fund accounts

BRR47: Miscellaneous volumes

BRR48: Miscellaneous bundles

Borough Surveyor & Borough Engineer's Office

BRR49: Plans submitted for building and planning consent.

BRR50: Plans and drawings for public works

BRR51: Indexed register of plans

BRR52: Further series of plans in date order

BRR53: Borough Surveyor's report books

BRR54: Index volume for pre-1947 files

BRR55: Files, pre 1947

BRR56: Index volumes, post 1947 files

BRR57: Files, post 1947

BRR58: Road account books

BRR59: Photographs

BRR60: Miscellaneous volumes and papers

Public Health Inspector's Office

BRR61: Annual reports, Medical Officer of Health

BRR62: Annual reports, Sanitary Inspector

BRR63: Committee papers

BRR64: Canal boat records

BRR65: Lodging House records

BRR66: Miscellaneous

Borough Police Records

BRR67

Public Library Records

BRR68

Information Office

BRR69

Gifts and Deposits

BRR70

Miscellanea

BRR71

BRT: the records of institutions and offices carried out by members or officials of the Corporation in another capacity (e.g. as Justices of the Peace, Returning Officers etc.) or whose responsibilities were taken over by the Corporation (e.g. the Guild of the Holy Cross)

Summary of divisions

BRT1: Guild of the Holy Cross

BRT2: Bridgewardens

BRT3: Peculiar Court

BRT4: Borough Sessions

BRT5: Bridge Commissioners

BRT6: Gas Company

BRT7: Board of Health

BRT8: Borough Vestry

BRT9: Old Stratford Parish Vestry

BRT10: Alveston parish

BRT11: School of Art

BRT12: Burial Board

BRT13: Committee to purchase fire-engine

BRT14: School Board, Returning Officer

BRT15: Deputy Registration Officer

BRT16: Returning Officer, County Council elections.

Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation