Correspondence and agreements between the Trust, the Romilly estate, solicitors, architects, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Young Men's Christian Association concerning the leasing of land at Cold Knap in Barry, ground rents, and the planning and proposed extension of a Y.M.C.A. holiday and conference centre at Glan-y-Môr, including footpaths and street works, with related drawings, plans, memoranda, notes, press cuttings and publicity material.
The series contains records and correspondence, 1932-1952, of the Wrexham Tenants' Society.
Agreements between the Trust and Wrexham Tenants' Society, including leases, underleases, surrenders, releases, sales of freehold reversions, acknowledgements, services agreements and deeds of sale relating to properties at Wrexham, together with correspondence between the Trust, Wrexham Tenants' Society, solicitors, accountants, surveyors, land agents, insurers, Denbighshire County Council and the Inland Revenue concerning sales of freehold reversions, alterations to properties, proposals to develop properties (notably land occupied by tennis courts, and the conversion of the estate office), increases in rents, Society finances, leases, surrenders of leases, unauthorised land use, maintenance of properties, clearance of delapidated structures and rubbish around garages, sewers, insurance, access to properties, footpaths, easements, meetings of the Society, the voluntary liquidation of the Society and a poll of shareholders, the terms of the subsequent conveyance of land to Denbighshire County Council, solicitors' fees, and the health and deaths of Trust and Society officials, with related drawings, plans, memoranda, notes, circulars, reports, notices, accounts, receipts, press cuttings, and a copy of the Society's rules. Also included are minutes of Annual General Meetings and meetings of the Management and Finance committees of the Wrexham Tenants' Society with associated letters.
Papers relating to Wrexham Garden Village.
The series contains documents relating to the Wrexham Garden Village, 1913-1975.
Agreements between the Trust and the Borough of Wrexham concerning the widening of roads and the laying of electricity cables, with related plans, and also correspondence and plans concerning proposed sewers.
Correspondence between the Trust, surveyors, solicitors, estate agents, the Welsh Office, the Central Land Board, Denbighshire County Council, Wrexham Rural District Council, the Treasury, the Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation concerning inquiries, appeals, compulsory purchases and development proposals relating to the building of the Wrexham bypass road on plots of Trust land near Wrexham Garden Village, in particular near Tŷ Gwyn farm, as part of the development of the Swansea-Manchester trunk road, with related notes, memoranda, reports, plans, maps, receipts, forms, minutes of meetings, notices and press cuttings.
Agreements between the Trust and Wrexham Building Estates, including deeds of sale of properties at Wrexham, with indemnities and plans.
Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company,
Agreements between the Trust and the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company concerning the laying of pipes, the building of a booster station and the sharing of costs on the Wrexham estate, together with related plans and correspondence between the Trust, the Company and solicitors.
The file contains correspondence with the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan County Council, the Tithe Redemption Commission, tenants and solicitors relating to land development on the Rhiwbina Garden Village estate near Whitchurch station, Cardiff, 1930-1943, together with a lease, 1938.
Agreements between the Trust, the Romilly estate, Barry Garden Suburb, the South Wales and Monmouthshire Housing Association and lessees, including leases, assignments, sales of freehold reversions, and sales and grants of properties at Westward Rise, Barry, together with correspondence between the Trust, solicitors, architects, contractors, lessees, Barry Borough Council, the South Wales and Monmouthshire Housing Association and Glamorgan County Council concerning plans for development of houses and flats at the site (including properties adjacent to Marine Drive), leases, underleases, ground rents, mortgages, the South Wales and Monmouthshire Housing Association and other co-operative housing societies in south Wales, plots for shops, probate of lessees, insurance, drainage, street works expenses, solicitors' fees, alterations and repairs to premises, and damage caused by tree roots, with related drawings, plans, press cuttings, notes, memoranda, notices, accounts, photographs, forms and invitation cards.
The file contains correspondence with the Central Land Board, the Inland Revenue and solicitors, 1949-1952, relating to claims by the Weston-Rhyn Garden Village.
The series contains records of the Weston Rhyn Tenants' Society Limited, 1915-1958.
Agreements between the Trust and Weston Rhyn Tenants' Society, including a lease of land and a sale of land and houses at Weston Rhyn, with a related plan.
The series contains the architect's plans for the Weston Rhyn Garden Village, c. 1915, by the Trust's Consultant Archivist Thomas Alwyn Lloyd (1882-1960).
Lloyd, T. Alwyn (Thomas Alwyn), b. 1881
Papers relating to Weston Rhyn Garden Village.
Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Records
Records of the Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Limited, established in 1913, including minute books, deeds, correspondence, financial papers and printed material relating to housing estates in Barry, Burry Port, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Newtown, Rhiwbina, Weston Rhyn and Wrexham, and other associated papers.
Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust.
Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion,
Agreement between the Trust and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion concerning a conveyance by the Trust to the Connexion of a property on Kenyon Avenue, Acton, Wrexham, with a plan of the premises.
Agreements between the Trust and lessees, including leases, underleases and sales of freehold reversions of properties at Well Walk, Barry, together with correspondence between the Trust, solicitors, architects, banks, the Post Office and lessees concerning leases, underleases, assignments, mortgages, ground rents, development of plots, alterations and extensions to premises, deaths of tenants, architects' fees, uses of properties, trees and weeds, and a telegraph pole, with related notices, drawings, plans, accounts and press cuttings.
The file contains correspondence between the Trust, Cardiff City Council, the Pentwyn estate and solicitors relating to water mains, 1925-1959.