Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, H - J., 24 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1953
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (13); John Parkin, Assistant Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; representatives of the British Transport Commission (4); Peter Hudson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation; Graeme Finlay [MP for Epping, Essex]; Kenneth Jamieson, Foreign Office; [Walter] Leonard Allinson, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Education] (3); Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government; Alan Lord, Private Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue; [John] Derek Taylor Thompson, [Assistant Principal], Inland Revenue; John Gracey, Inland Revenue; Richard Whittick, [Principal Private Secretary to the Home Secretary] (2); Ethel Haslam, constituent (6); Brian Robson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air (3); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (4); A McCarlie Findlay, Wanstead and Woodford Town Clerk and Solicitor (8); M E and F W Hetherington, constituents (6); Paul Beards, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Terence Grady, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; [Stephen] Michael Banister, Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation; Eric Stretton, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Works; E M Jolliffe, constituent (13); F W Bamford, Ministry of Works (5); David Eccles, Minister of Works; George Moseley, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by CSC [President, Woodford Conservative Association] and Lettice Marston [also Lettice Shillingford], "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow] and Elizabeth Gilliatt, WSC's secretaries, and Peter Oates, WSC's Private Secretary and Christopher Soames, WSC's Parliamentary Private Secretary.Subjects include: the Boys' Battalion; school meal price rises; religious tolerance in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; housing, taxation, pension and benefit enquiries; National Service; damage done to land in Germany by British troops; London Airport taking over civil air traffic from Northolt [Middlesex]; council rent rises; requests for WSC to oppose the Sunday Observance Bill; de-requisitioning of property.Also includes: extracts from Hansard on cuts in the adult education grant; press cuttings.
Dates
- Creation: 24 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
2 file(s) (2 files (431 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
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