Fifty Years of Borough Status

Paper Number: 
OP18
Summary: 

The original Petition of the Eastleigh Urban District Council for Incorporation is dated 10th January 1935, and it is addressed to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council, the King referred to being George V.
The Petition sets out in the scholarly English of F.W. Cuthbertson, then Clerk of the Urban District Council and subsequently Charter Town Clerk, the reasons of history, geography and achievement upon which Eastleigh’s claim to be incorporated as a Municipal Borough was based.

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