Parks - General Information (file number 13)

Correspondence between Stretford UDC surveyor & various firms regarding the building of six tennis courts, 3 each at Longford, Victoria & Gorse Hill parks ( includes brochures from firms) Other correspondence includes plans to build a refreshment kiosk, provision of bowls & jacks in several Stretford parks; Summer Time Act; purchase & insurance of motor lawn mowers; provision of heavy park seats. Memorandum detailing land purchased from de Trafford Estates for parks, allotments & housing;consideration by Parks & Cemetery consideration of the question whether to appoint a General Superintendent of the Parks; sub-committee provision of entrance gate to Girls' School playground - Seymour Park; outdoor draught game - Hullard Park; request from 2 employees for increase in salary; tenders for repair of mowers from each park;opening of bowling greens for the Summer season;complaint to supplier who supplied & installed the public weighing machines in various parks that it is inaccurate; report from Parks sub-committee of applications received for Superintendent of Parks position 7 subesquent appointment; list of national anniversaries for flying of flags on public buildings; employees in the Parks Department overtime figures; orders for bulbs for each park; list of trees & shrubs required; report of abusive language; Councils application to De Trafford Estates for plots of land adjoining the Kings Road School & Low Moss Lane for use as recreation grounds (includes tracings); report from Park Superintent to Parks Committee; report on unhealthiness of old man's hut in Victoria Park; the provision of an additional recreation ground adjoining Moss Park School; inspection report of swings in Victoria Park; report of the Annual Conference of the Association of Superintendents of Parks & Botanic Gardens held in Liverpool July 1932; list of jobs requiring attention in several parks; proposal for disposal