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RefNoKCB/9/1/3/1
AltRefNoCB/9/1/3/1
TitleMinute book
DescriptionBound volume, embossed Minute Book, spine labels: Annual Meeting Minute Book, earliest label, and two later labels Cherryhinton Parish Council St John’s Ward 4 Dec 1894 – 29 Mar 1934. The title page of volume reads: Minute Book Parish of Cherryhinton St Andrew’s and St John’s Wards from 4 Dec 1894, the St Andrew’s entry added (at a later date than?) after St John’s Ward. The earliest minutes record establishing the committees required under the Local Government Act of 1894. There are minutes of meetings of Parochial Electors for both wards, each councillor being elected for three years, and minutes of Special Meetings of the elected councillors and of the Annual Parish Meetings.

At the Annual Parish Meetings of the Parochial Electors, held in March or April each year from 1895, accounts were presented and reports given for the Poor’s Estate, the Fund for Public Works and Wort’s Charity. Parishioners raised particular concerns, such as the states of local roads, kerbs and footpaths, the allotments, accumulations of earth at the sides of roads.

Annual meetings of the Parochial Electors of St John’s Ward for lighting purposes are minuted, at which the lighting accounts were examined and rates for lighting the ward were set.

Parochial Electors of St John’s Ward met in the Mission Room in Rock Road and of St Andrew’s Ward in the Schoolroom, to elect Councillors who held office for three years. The minutes of a meeting of Parochial Electors held in 1910 discussed amalgamation with the Borough of Cambridge, and it was reported that the Borough Authorities of Cambridge proposed applying to the Local Government Board for powers to extend their boundaries to include Cherryhinton. This meeting was broadly in favour of the proposal and agreed to set up a committee to further consider the details of the proposed scheme. There is no further mention of the proposal until after the Great War.

A Special Parish Meeting in 1924 discussed a proposal by Mr W.C. Pamplin to alter the Top Footpath near the railway; the proposal was lost. A second meeting was held in 1925 after a further submission by Mr Pamplin in which he offered £100 for the use of parishioners. The Parish Council recommended that the revised proposal to close and alter the footpath should be should be accepted. This was agreed. At subsequent Annual Meetings, the use to which the £100 should be put was discussed: proposals included a village hall, additional land for the recreation ground, a public memorial.
Date1894 - 1934
CreatorNameCherryhinton Parish Council
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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