In message <[log in to unmask]>, Brian Read
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>I think some of the above dates are not quite right (England & Wales):
I did send out a correction when I got my big book out.
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>UNIONS. An Act of 1782 allowed parishes to form Unions, but few did. Most
>started after the Poor Law Act, 1834, and I believe some continued to exist
>as late as the 1930s or 1940s but I have not yet found the date when the
>Union ceased to exist in my own locality. Has no-one written a
>comprehensive history of a Poor Law Union or of PL Unions?
Technically the Unions and the Boards of Guardians were abolished in the
1948 Health Service Act which took effect in 1949
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>PARISH COUNCILs (civil) were in existence long before 1894 although the Act
>of 1894 (often referred to in those days as "the parish councils bill")
>made them more formal and increased their powers a little.
The 1894 Act split the civil from the ecclesiastical functions of the
Parish councils which had evolved from the old parish vestries.
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>RURAL SANITARY DISTRICTS were created under an Act of 1872 but I think
>their boundaries coincided with the existing Boards of Guardians. They
>ceased to exist when the 1894 Act came into force.
agree
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>RURAL & URBAN DISTRICT COUNCILS did not cease to exist in 1972 but on 31
>March 1974 when they were replaced by new (much larger) district councils
>under the 1972 Act.
yes was mixing up Act and implementation.
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John M Chapman
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