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This was deposited in the archive some time in 1996 from Property and Architectural Services and covers the dates 1938-c.1980. It consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, with housing application forms and internal council memos etc. It is under the normal 30-year closure period except where indicated. There are some obvious gaps, particularly in the early years.

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Applications for building warrants: completed forms and covering correspondence. Relating to properties in areas including Bilbster, Scrabster, Latheronwheel and Halkirk.

Housing returns forms of Caithness County Council relating to the Housing (Agricultural Population) Act 1938. These are short statistical summaries with brief covering letters, and occasional additional correspondence clarifying terms under which grants should be made

(i-iii) Specifications, applications and correspondence re housing improvements. Includes details of work to be undertaken and certificates of completion. Large file now split between three folders for preservation purposes (numbered i-iii)

Specifications and correspondence re application of Alex Matheson for reconditioning of his house at Upper Gills, 1930 and 1942-48. Enclosed plans appear to date from the latter period

Correspondence relating to the house of Nurse Margaret Grant at Berriedale regarding problems with her water supply

Housing return forms for Caithness (see O15/2) with printed housing returns for Scotland and brief covering letters.

Housing return forms for Caithness (see O15/2) with printed housing returns for Scotland, and brief covering letters, 1947

Housing return forms for Caithness (see O15/2) with covering letters and one individual application, from Alexander McAdie, architect, to build a farmworkers cottage at Killiminster

Housing return forms for Caithness (see O15/9) with covering letters giving some information on individual grant queries, 194

Correspondence over individual applications under the agricultural workers act, 1945-1947. With some individual plans and detailed written specifications

Provisional application for additional exchequer contributions under the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act of 1946. Relating to Cruden houses on sites of Castletown, Dunbeath, Keiss, Thrumster, Reay, Watten, Haster, Westfield, Ackergill, Geise, Gillock.

(i-iii) Completed questionnaires from recipients of housing grants under the 1926 to 1938 acts.  Large file now split between three folders (i-iii)

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Applications for building licences/materials, Castletown, 1946-1951. Mostly Ministry of Works forms with one or two plans and applicants' covering letters.

Applications for building licences/materials, Watten, 1946-1951. Ministry of Works forms and a few applicants' covering letters and plans.

Applications for building licences/material for Dunnet, 1946-1953. Forms from applicants, one plan, and a letter from the architect querying one application.

Applications for building licences/materials 1948-1952, mostly Latheron parish but two from Thrumster village. Forms, plans and a few covering letters.

Building licence correspondence and applications 1947-1950. Applications and details sent to County Architect under the national building programme, mostly for dwelling houses but including Clyth lighthouse

Building materials priority forms issued to builders in conjunction with post-war housing redevelopment. 

Applications to county architect for building licences and improvements, 1948-1953. Mostly completed Ministry of Works forms but including a few plans.

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Registration of war-damaged houses, council correspondence on guidelines to be complied with regarding registration of grants, 1945-1947. Discusses individual case of David Swanson of Harpsdale Hill.

Applications for licences on the Sandside estate, Berriedale, 1947.

Architects' correspondence (internal council and with Home Department at Edinburgh) regarding harbour and pier improvement following the war, 1947.

Internal correspondence and memoranda relating to contractors monthly reports on projects building project financed by the council. Very few items give much detail, though central council minutes for this period may supplement the information on progress given here.

Draft survey development plan for Wick burgh, 1951. 33 pages. 

Application forms and covering correspondence relating to work requiring timber licences

Correspondence re Swedish timber houses at Rumster, 1951-1952. These matters are also discussed in Caithness County Council minutes of this period.

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Architect's letters out, September-October 1946. Mostly brief and routine covering letters to application forms or cheques sent out; some notes of work to be done on public buildings, and some internal memoranda to the county clerk

Architect's letters out, October 1946-January 1947. Mostly routine items as with O15/27 above

Architect's letters out, January-May 1947. Mostly routine items as described in O15/27 above

Architect's letters out, March-May 1949. Mostly routine items as described in O15/27 above

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Architect's correspondence with other council officials and public figures regarding the Wick Infectious Diseases Hospital and the Dunbar Hospital, Thurso. Includes minutes of the Hospital Committee, 1948, and technical details of building work and tenders.

Correspondence and tenders over Dunbar Hospital, Thurso, 1946-1947 (maternity block) and 1957-1959 (consulting room and cubicles, with a plan)

Correspondence and tenders re Bignold Hopsital, Wick, 1951-1959. Includes some plans of proposed work.

Correspondence and tenders re the Henderson Memorial Nursing Home, mostly regarding painting work.

Correspondence and tenders re the Town and County Hospital, Wick, 1955-1960

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(i-iv) Miscellaneous items largely relating to matters which have had to be referred to the county clerk or the Secretary of State/Department of Health for Scotland, 1948-1954. Large file now split between four folders.

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