[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.
- West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1937
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Sefton, except for a flour mill, is mainly an agricultural parish. jMany acres used to tlood in winter, but with improved pumping facilities and the deepening of the Alt, all this land has been reclaimed and is now farmed. Building operations have necessitated tlie ])rovision of a seweragi* scheme in Lydiate. Here again is a colony of City workers implanted in a ])urely agricultural parish. In the Parish of lArd, adjacent to the Litherland Urban District Council’s boundary, residential development has been commenced and wlien the Kimrose Brook Sewerage Scheme has been completed this will be accelerated. Forty-twO' new houses were completed during 1937. In Aughton, from Town Grreen to Ormskirk, a distance of some two miles, the; area has for many years been semi-nrban in character, not as a result of ribbon development, but because of a curious scattered layout of moderately large houses. Sites have been selected on liills overlooking the Mersey, notably at Granville Park and in various parts of Clieves Hills and Aughton AIoss. luitterly, some ribbon development has taken place along the main Liverpool-Ormskirk Hoad. A Potato' Crisps factory no-w employs thirty-seven male and hfty-six female operatives. A small baskef--making industry is canded on in Bispham and Eufford. Bufford has a station on the Liverpool to Preston main line, and the adjacent village is the principal housing centre in this part of the district. In Scarisbrick there are three densely populated areas: at the western end, adjoining the County Borough of Southport; and in the centre near Bescar Lane Station O'n the Southport and Wigan line; also at the eastern end, adjoining the market town of Ormskirk. Of recent years there has been a marked development of market gardening in Scarisbrick. A furniture factory at Melling emplo-A'S a staff of 312. The site occupies' 10 acres of land, with 4 acres of production buildings, and the weekly timber consignment adds up to 110 tons. The Bickerstaffe Colliery is now closed down. Many young mariled people with children are living away from Bickerstaffe in order to obtain work in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire. There is much less agricultural work available than formerly because of the introduction of macliinerv. The size of families generallv is noticeablv smaller. » ^11 Development in Hesketh and Tarleton continues. A scheme of sewerage in Tarleton was completed during 1935.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30261636_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
