Clerk's Department

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Reference code(s): LCC/CL

Title: Clerk's Department

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Level of description: Fonds

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Name of creator(s): London County Council

Administrative/Biographical history: The records of the Clerk's office that are listed under four main headings: Ceremonial Officer, Fire Brigade, General information and the Water Committee.

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Scope and content: Records detail the work and functions of the Clerk's Office including administration, management and core responsibilities of the Office, the activities of the various standing committees, as well as the work of Special committees that were set up to look at different housing issues (i.e., over-crowding, new construction sites, different types of tenants and policy changes (LCC/CL/HSG/1). There are also subject and policy files on individual estates (LCC/CL/HSG/2).

Files of note include the following that are found in the Housing records of the LCC Clerk's Department:

Immigration of West Indians and coloured Colonial (ref: LCC/CL/GP/1/219, 1955 - 1959)

The file contains correspondence regarding, and pamphlets and questionnaires covering the work of the Institute of Race Relations (c 1959).

The files also contain information on the African, African - Caribbean and Asian communities covering housing, education, births, employment, health and crime, and details of the responses of departmental officials when asked about issues of race and ethnicity.

The file also contains notes and discussions on the report 'Immigration of West Indians' (dated March 3rd, 1955). The reports cover the welfare, housing, and education issues facing e African - Caribbean immigrants in the London in the mid 1950s. There is another report published in 1956 that covers similar issues to do with African, African - Caribbeans as well as Asian peoples

These reports were part of a series of conferences held by the Welfare department (as well as representative from the Colonial Office, and the Housing Department as well as several voluntary associations) and borough councils including: Paddington, Lambeth, Stepney, and Kensington.

Also included are details of a project financed by the City Parochial Foundation to look at the ' family problems facing coloured people living in London and the work of the London Council of Social Service (ACC/1888) and the Family Welfare Association during this period

Commonwealth Arts Festival (ref: LCC/CL/GP/2/1/11-16, 1960 - 1961) covering the plans for the festival.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June 2000

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Employment

Housing

Social welfare

Immigration

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Family Welfare Association

London Council of Social Service

Institute of Race Relations

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London, United Kingdom

Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Stepney, London, United Kingdom

Lambeth, London, United Kingdom

Paddington, London, United Kingdom