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RefNoKCB/9/1/3/3
AltRefNoCB/9/1/3/3
TitleMinute book
DescriptionBound volume, embossed Minute Book, spine labels: Cherry Hinton Parish Council 25 Feb 1916 to 3 Nov 1932

Title page reads: Parish of Cherry Hinton from 25th February 1916. Inside the front cover are pasted 4 press cuttings. One, undated, reports a court case convicting six boys of damage to posts at Cherry Hinton; two reports the first meetings of the recently appointed parish council, one dated (19)31, the other no year; and the fourth dated 29 July 27(?) reports a District Council meeting at which it is complained that the British Portland Cement Company had allowed dust to pollute fruit and vegetables growing in Cherry Hinton.

Inside the back cover is a Wayleave agreement from 1 July 1928, between Cherry Hinton Parish Council and the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Electricity Company granting permission to erect poles and cables to transmit electrical energy and to lay underground cables across Cherry Hinton High Street. There is a plan of the route.
A number of documents are pasted into the volume chronologically where they are presented to the Councillors: Cambridge County Council National Service (1917) Chesterton Rural District Council (1917) Destruction of Rats and Sparrows survey (1917) Housing of the Working Classes Rats Order 1918 Chesterton Rural District Council (1919) Housing Clerk to Justices (1919) Local Government House, Whitehall (1919) Celebration of Peace Chesterton Rural District Council (1921) Robin Hood Improvements Circular presented to Parliament about housing, and financial assistance to Public Utility Companies. Rating and Valuation Act 1925, letter dated 2 April 1927 about transfer of duties of Overseers and requesting books to be sent to Clerk to Rating Authority. Local Government Act 1929, suggestions for rearrangements of parishes and constitution of Rural Districts District of Cambridge, 1932, maintenance of roads, bridges and footpaths where they are not adjacent to the carriageway.

The minutes occupy 241 pages of the volume. The last meeting minuted in this volume was held on 3 November 1932.
The volume is not indexed.

Annual Parish Council Meetings are minuted, at which declarations of office were signed, and the chairman and vice-chairman elected. Accounts for the previous year are presented and approved and reports are given from council committees, including the Lighting Committee, the Allotments Committee, the Footpaths Committee, the Trustees of Poor’s Estate and the Public Works Fund, Parish Officers are appointed, gas accounts approved, and parishioners raised concerns.

During the 1914-1918 war, Council meetings are held less frequently than at other times. On 26 Sep 1916 a letter was discussed from the Cambridge County War Savings Committee asking for an Association to be formed in Cherry Hinton but the Council decided many people in the village were already members of their employers’ associations and there was a lack of suitable persons to undertake the work.

In 1917 a survey of working class housing needs was carried out at the instigation of Chesterton Rural District council and there were further discussions about housing needs from 1919, with 12 houses requested in 1924. Council housing was allocated by the parish council and there are letters of application for such housing, and discussion about equable allocations. At the meeting on 10 Sep 1925 the first motor signals are requested for Cherryhinton, two to notify the school and two at the junction of Queen Edith’s Way and Shelford Road.
Date1916 – 1932
CreatorNameCherry Hinton Parish Council
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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