New Fields for Industry - an industrial handbook of North East Lancashire, c1955 : advert issued by the North Western Electricity Board
A fascinating "official handbook" of the style produced usually for individual councils, this c1955 book was issued as part of the drive to attract new industries to the North East Lancashire Development Area. The area was one of a number designated under Government powers that were embodied in the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, that was intended to assist 'declining areas' as well as attempting to spread the growing 'light' industries more equitably across the UK. It allowed the Board of Trade to construct factories for lease and to make loans for the development of such facilities as industrial estates as well as improving 'basic services' such as transport, power, housing health and the reclaimation of derelict land.
The North East Lancashire area consisted of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Barrowfield, Brierfield, Padiham, Trawden, parts of the Rural District of Burnley and even across the County boundary to include Barnoldswick, Earby and Salterforth in West Yorkshire.
The advert was issued by the North Western Electricity Board, set up at nationalisation in 1948. It subsumed numerous municipal undertakings across Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland and parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire, including local Burnley Corporation's, as well as various private companies, the largest of which was the Lancashire Electric Power Company. Way and above the largest council undertaking acquired was that of Manchester, one of the largest in the UK and I often wonder if Liverpool's large undertaking formed to core of the North Wales & Merseyside Board to ensure North Western wasn't to big and North Wales to small to be viable? The generating side of all the undertakings were transferred to the British Electricity Authority. In 1990 the Board was privatised as Norweb.
New Fields for Industry - an industrial handbook of North East Lancashire, c1955 : advert issued by the North Western Electricity Board
A fascinating "official handbook" of the style produced usually for individual councils, this c1955 book was issued as part of the drive to attract new industries to the North East Lancashire Development Area. The area was one of a number designated under Government powers that were embodied in the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, that was intended to assist 'declining areas' as well as attempting to spread the growing 'light' industries more equitably across the UK. It allowed the Board of Trade to construct factories for lease and to make loans for the development of such facilities as industrial estates as well as improving 'basic services' such as transport, power, housing health and the reclaimation of derelict land.
The North East Lancashire area consisted of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Barrowfield, Brierfield, Padiham, Trawden, parts of the Rural District of Burnley and even across the County boundary to include Barnoldswick, Earby and Salterforth in West Yorkshire.
The advert was issued by the North Western Electricity Board, set up at nationalisation in 1948. It subsumed numerous municipal undertakings across Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland and parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire, including local Burnley Corporation's, as well as various private companies, the largest of which was the Lancashire Electric Power Company. Way and above the largest council undertaking acquired was that of Manchester, one of the largest in the UK and I often wonder if Liverpool's large undertaking formed to core of the North Wales & Merseyside Board to ensure North Western wasn't to big and North Wales to small to be viable? The generating side of all the undertakings were transferred to the British Electricity Authority. In 1990 the Board was privatised as Norweb.