Catalogue description Tynemouth County Borough

Council and Committees

Signed minutes

CB/Ty/1/1-10 Council, 1849 - 1910 (10 volumes)

CB/Ty/2/1-8 Indexes to Council minutes, 1849 - 1909 (8 volumes)

CB/Ty/3/1-4 Indexes to plans discussed in Council minutes, 1878 - 1909 (4 volumes)

CB/Ty/4 Baths and Wash houses Committee, 1854 - 1855 Also, Watch Committee, 1857 - 1866 (1 volume)

CB/Ty/5 Free Library Committee, 1869 - 1892 (1 volume)

CB/Ty/6 Incorporation Committee, 1848 - 1849 (1 booklet)

CB/Ty/7 Parliamentary Committee, 1850 - 1855 (1 booklet)

CB/Ty/8/1-9 Sanitary Committee (formerly Public Health Committee), 1851 - 1885 (9 volumes)

CB/Ty/9/1-3 Trade and Commerce Committee, 1857 - 1888 (3 volumes)

CB/Ty/10-1-4 Watch Committee, 1841 - 1883 (4 volumes)

CB/Ty/11 Special Committees, 1858 - 1887 (1 volume)

Administration

CB/Ty/12/1-2 Acts of Parliament, 1786 and 1852 (2 printed booklets)

Finance

CB/Ty/13 North Shields Improvement Act, Treasurers cash account and ledger, 1846 - 1851 (1 volume)

Engineering

CB/Ty/14 Register of works ordered to be done under notice to owners, 1891 - 1947 (1 volume)

CB/Ty/15/1-94 Building control plans 1852-1951 (1937 not received) (94 volumes)

CB/Ty/16 Housing Act 1923, plans of houses built with subsidies under the Act, 1925-1929 (1 volume)

see MD/Ty

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• Local government

In 1828 "An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, regulating and improving the town of North Shields..." (9 Geo IV cap 37) was passed. Under this Act, Commissioners were appointed, not only to carry out the Improvement Act but also to assume the administrative powers formerly exercised by the Vestry and Court Leet. The jurisdiction of the Commissioners included Tynemouth as well as North Shields.

The Borough of Tynemouth was incorporated on 6 August 1849, and from the end of that year the Borough exercised the powers of the Improvement Commissioners until superceded by those of a Local Board of Health which were granted in 1850. Also in 1850, on 25 March, a Commission of Police was granted to the Borough. Later, on 10 November 1873 the Borough became an Urban Sanitary Authority, superceding and enhancing the powers of the Local Board.

The County Borough of Tynemouth came into being by an Order of 9 November 1904. At this time it included the following civil parishes:-

Chirton

Cullercoats

North Shields

Preston

Tynemouth

Murton (part)

On 1 April 1908, all these areas were amalgamated to form a single parish of Tynemouth, coterminous with the County Borough.

The only major boundary changes since that date took place in 1935, when, by means of the County of Northumberland Review Order, parts of Earsdon Urban District, Earsdon Civil Parish, Murton Civil Parish and Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District were transferred to the County Borough whilst other parts of the County Borough were transferred to Seaton Valley Urban District and Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District.

Finally, on 1 April 1974, under the 1972 Local Government Act, Tynemouth C.B. was abolished and became part of the newly-created Metropolitan District of North Tyneside.