| Description | Air Raid Precautions (ARP) and correspondence files; rate books 1811-20th cent; Staveley Urban District ledgers, rate books, valuation lists, maps etc c.1881-1968; valuation lists 1854-1954, Watch Committee general ledger 1835-1880s, copy Staveley tithe award 1853, lists of paupers receiving relief 1830s, Chesterfield Water Board Fire Policy 1940; Housing Survey record cards 1935-c.1959 for Chesterfield, Brimington and Staveley; register of rate contributions 1936-1956; General and Water rate books 1945-c.1965, valuation list c.1950, Staveley highway rate book 1882, ledgers c.19-20th cent; Photocopies of wills and inventories for Chesterfield 1604-1700; Town Clerk's files pre 1945 and 1945-1962; unsigned Council minutes 1946-1971, annual accounts 1939-1972 (incomplete); bye-laws 1890's-1970's; abbatoir summary of charges 1939-1974 (5 vols); files re Revolution Cottage, negatives of charters; Chesterfield abbattoir, Hipper Street plans; Town Clerk's dept file re coal emergency order 1921 strike, 1920-1921; Private Street Works; estimate books c1910/1911-1929, 1949-c1970 (2 vols) costs and apportionments books 1910-1927,1952-1968 (2 vols)
See D1504/UL for interim lists and summaries of recent accessions
Also including building regulation registers 1894-1974 (on microfilm M/729-M/735) and building regulation plans 1894-1974 Chesterfield Borough, Chesterfield RDC, Staveley UDC. Whittington and Newbold UDC, Brampton and Walton UDC. No list is available of the registers and plans. |
| Custodial History | These records were deposited at Derbyshire Record Office by Chesterfield Borough Council at various dates fom 1975. The civil defence records accessioned in August 2016 were received from Chesterfield Library: Local Studies. The original Corporation record books 1646-1836 were transferred to Derbyshire Record Office in October 2016 by Chesterfield Museum, to which they were donated on behalf of a private individual whose ancestor was a former Clerk of the Borough and had collected a large of quantity of archival material for the area. |