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Description: | P.S. Hancock was Chairman of the Health Committee intermittently from 1923-1963 and Mayor of Gateshead and 1939 and 1940. His greatest achievement was the conversion scheme of earth closets to water closets. In 1924, Gateshead’s population was 125,142 occupying 25,652 houses of which 19,638 still had earth closets. He applied for a Government grant for the conversion the first such scheme in the north east. It was estimated that the job would take 9 years but it was completed in 2 years 3 months. Because of this success he was given the local nickname of ‘Pully String’ and was made Honorary Freeman in 1959. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Councillors and M.P.s | Temporal: | name=1930s; start=1930; end=1939; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Bambridge Art Studio | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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