We have not extracted every Council Meeting report, but chosen those with interesting notes and detailing changes in the town. The late 1800s saw the village grow rapidly into a town, and mechanisation meant shoe work was moved into factories. This brought problems: housing the influx of workers from other villages, water supply and sanitation, roads, and schools. All this expansion came before WWI which then brought other problems for the Council to deal with. Another expansion took place post WWII when many new Council Houses were built to provide homes for the returning Heroes.