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Could colleagues share any criteria for retention and/or weeding of general district or borough rate books? Here at Canterbury, we last considered this in 2001 and came up with the criteria below: * Rate books should all be kept until 1921. * After 1921, they should be sampled, taking each census year (eg 1951, or 1951-1952 if volume covers a financial year) plus every fifth year (eg 1956, or 1956-1957). * The year 1927 should be kept. * The years 1939-1945 (WW2) should be kept. * All volumes for each retention year should be kept. * All rate books should be kept for the last 10 years. Those conclusions were reached following an email to this mailing list. I wonder whether there has been any further thinking since then. Very many thanks Cressida Cressida Williams Archives and Library Manager The Precincts Canterbury Kent CT1 2EH Telephone: +44 (0)1227 86 5330 [A blue and white card with white text Description automatically generated]<https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/holy-week/> Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra