Beeston and Stapleford was an

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

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, from 1935 to 1974. Beeston Town Hall - geograph

It was created by a

County Review Order The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The Act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boar ...

. Beeston had previously been part of Beeston Urban District itself, to which was added the entirety of the

Stapleford Rural District Stapleford was a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1935. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from part of the Shardlow rural sanitary district in Nottinghamshire, and consisted of the parishes of Bramcote, C ...

, consisting of the parishes of

Bramcote Bramcote is a suburban village in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England, between Stapleford and Beeston. It is in Broxtowe parliamentary constituency. The main Nottingham–Derby road today is the A52, Brian Clough Way. Nearby ...

Chilwell Chilwell is a village and residential suburb of Nottingham, in the borough of Broxtowe of Nottinghamshire, west of Nottingham city. Until 1974 it was part of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District, having been in Stapleford Rural District un ...

, Stapleford and

Toton Toton is a large village in the Borough of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England. The electoral ward of Toton and Chilwell Meadows population of this ward was 7,298 in the 2001 census. It increased to 8,238 at the 2011 census. Until 1974 Toton ...

. The urban district bordered the

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent te ...

of Nottingham in the north west, two disconnected parts of the Basford Rural District to the north and south, and to the west the

South East Derbyshire Rural District South East Derbyshire was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It covered an area to the south-east of Derby. It was formed as Shardlow rural district under the Local Government Act 1894, mainly from the Derbyshire part of ...

and

Long Eaton Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, just north of the River Trent, about south-west of Nottingham and some 8½ miles (13.7 km) south-east of Derby. The town population was 37,760 at the 2011 census. It has ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

. The council built itself

Beeston Town Hall Beeston Town Hall is a municipal building in Foster Avenue in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England. The building was formerly the offices of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council and is now used by the Redeemer Church. History Following ...

on Foster Avenue in Beeston at a cost of £18,500 () designed by the architectural firm of

Evans, Clark and Woollatt Evans, Clark and Wollatt was an architectural practice based in Nottingham from the early 1920s to 1948. History The practice was established by Robert Evans, John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt by 1921. Robert Evans died in 1927, and John Thomas ...

which opened on 24 March 1938. Since 1974 it has formed part of the Broxtowe borough.

Chairmen of the council

*W. Ireland 1935 - 1936 *Alfred Redwood 1936 - 1937 *W.V. Potts 1937 - 1938 *J. Taylor 1938 - 1939 *Fitzherbert Wright 1939 - 1940 *J.T. Welch 1940 - 1941 *Joseph Heard 1942 - 1943 *

Douglas Leonard Booth Douglas Leonard Booth (5 May 1889 – 2 October 1956) was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Life He was born on 5 May 1889 in Nottingham the son of Thomas Booth (b. 1855) and Elizabeth Collier (b. 1852) ...

1943 - 1944 *W. Ireland 1944 - 1945 *Mrs. E Littlewood 1945 - 1946 *Frederick William Litchfield 1946 - 1947 *H.R. Winstanley 1947 - 1948 *W. Ireland 1948 - 1949 *T.L.V. White 1949 - 1950 *G.H. Peel 1950 - 1951 *R. Banks 1952 - 1953 *F. Stowell 1953 - 1954 *Alex T. Oldham 1955 - 1956 *F. Scothern 1956 - 1957 *Victor H. Oade 1957 - 1958 *G.H. Peel 1958 - 1959 *J. William (Bill) Plowman 1959 - 1960 *Mrs. F. Wilson 1960 - 1961 *F.T. Brough 1961 - 1962 *C.W. Anderson 1962 - 1963 *Mrs. F.E. Bradley 1963 - 1964 *J.R. Oldershaw 1964 - 1965 *N. Challenger 1965 - 1966 *N.B. Fortune 1966 - 1967 *Alex T. Oldham 1967 - 1968 *F. Scothern 1968 - 1969 *E. Ray Hudson 1969 - 1970 *John Sutton 1970 - 1971 *Gordon Mee 1971 - 1972 *Harold Clifford 1972 - 1973 *Grenville Stanley 1973 - 1974

References

Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 History of Nottinghamshire Urban districts of Nottinghamshire Borough of Broxtowe 1935 establishments in England {{nottinghamshire-geo-stub