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Rhondda Urban District Council records
Reference code(s): GB 0214 UDR
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Title: Rhondda Urban District Council records
Short title: Rhondda Urban District Council, records
Dates of creation: 1895-1970
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 2.28 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Rhondda Urban District Council
CONTEXT
Administrative and biographical history: Ystradyfodwg Urban District Council (Glamorgan) was formed in 1896, following the Local Government England and Wales Act 1894. It took over the functions of Ystradyfodwg Local Board of Health. The Council's area of responsibility was the parishes of Ystradyfodwg, part of Llanwonno, otherwise Llanwynno, and a small part of Llantrisant. It was renamed Rhondda Urban District Council in July 1897, and became Rhondda Borough Council in 1955. There are a number of records overlapping the period of change of status from Urban District Council to Borough Council.
CONTENT
Scope and content: Records of the Rhondda Urban District Council, 1895-1970, including: council and committee minutes and notices, registers of deeds and documents, advances, defaulters, mortgages, applications, auction sales, conveyancing, High Court action book, police courts record books, legal proceedings, grants of right of burial, bylaws and notices, Acts of Parliament, job application forms, register of appointees, Clerk's filing, abstracts of account, salaries register, Medical Officer of Health and Schools: Medical Officer of Health annual reports, summaries of births and deaths, registers of notifications of tuberculosis and other diseases, papers relating to Factory and Workshop Act 1901 and Shop Hours Act, correspondence and papers of Medical Officer of Health, registers of food samples and licenses, overcrowding surveys (Housing Act 1935), returns of cellar dwellings, register of and copy certificates of permitted numbers, newspaper cuttings, Public Health Inspector's registers, building regulation plans, Ferndale Gas, Light and Coke and Water Works Co records, school and college governing and managing bodies' records, education department letter books, financial estimates and statements, papers re the development plan under the Education Act 1944, school regulations and schemes, attendance records, registers of special place pupils, school files, records of admissions and examinations, and HMI reports.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/script: English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements: Fair condition.
System of arrangement: Arranged by date and type.
Conditions governing access: Items containing information on named individuals may be restricted in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Record Office policy. These records are stored in an outside repository. They should be ordered at least a week in advance of an intended visit so that they can be brought into the Record Office for consultation in the search room.
Conditions governing reproduction: Normal Glamorgan Record Office conditions apply.
Finding aids: A handlist is available at the Glamorgan Record Office.
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records have been retained.
Accruals: Accruals are not expected.
Immediate source of acquisition: Transferred by the Rhondda Urban District Council at various intervals.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note: Title supplied from contents of fonds.
Archivist's note: Compiled by Hayden Burns for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Glamorgan Record Office, Catalogue of records for Rhondda Urban District Council; Riden, Philip, Records Sources for Local History, (London, 1987); Hey, David, The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History, (Oxford, 1996); Stephens, W.B. Sources for English Local History, (Cambridge, 1981).
Rules or conventions: This description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) second edition, AACR2, and LCSH.
Date(s) of description: October 2003
INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Local government | Wales | Rhondda Cynon Taff
Public health | Wales | Glamorgan
Rhondda (Wales). | Urban District Council | Archives
Schools | Wales | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Administration
Personal names
Corporate names
Rhondda (Wales) | Urban District Council
Ystradyfodwg (Wales) | Urban District Council
