| Description | Displacement register relating houses in clearance areas purchased under Section 27 of the Housing Act 1936 and 1957. The register records the address of situation of dwelling, statutory power under which action has been taken, if unfit dwelling was owned by the local authority, result of action taken, if dwelling was included in a clearance or redevelopment area, title and date of marking demolition or closing order, names of families displaced and rehoused, address of local authority or housing association house in which families were rehoused and year of rehousing. |