| AdminHistory | Peter Moore was a Liberal Democrat councillor for Beauchief Ward, Sheffield City Council, and was Leader of the Council from 1999 to 2002. He was a Sheffield City Councillor from 1990 to 2012. He was also a member of the European Union Committee of the Regions. Prior to becoming a Sheffield City Councillor he was a parish councillor in Aston cum Aughton, Rotherham.
Moore was born in Ulverston, Cumbria in 1947. He worked as an electronics technician at Vickers Shipyard, Barrow in Furness before moving to Carlisle to work for the CEGB as a control engineer at Carlisle Power Station. In 1973, he moved with his family to South Yorkshire and worked as a control engineer at Neepsend Power Station, Sheffield, before transferring to Rotherham Transmission District as a power protection engineer.
In terms of politics, Moore started out as a member of the Labour Party but left believing it had become the party 'of the yob and mob' and in 1983 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In July 1985 he won a seat from Labour in a by-election for Aston-Cum-Aughton Parish Council and the following year became a prospective parliamentary candidate for Heeley.
Moore served as a Liberal Democract councillor for Beauchief Ward, Sheffield and became Leader of Sheffield City Council in 1999 (ending 30 years of Labour control over the Council). Moore was replaced as Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group by Paul Scriven in 2002 (when Labour regained control of the Council) but he remained a councillor for Graves Park Ward, Sheffield until his retirement from the Council in 2012. |
| Description | Minutes and agendas of meetings of the Liberal Democrat Councillors’ Group, 1992 - 1996 (X8/1) (LD2529/1-13)
Council matters, c.1993 (X8/2) (LD2529/14)
Reports, 1994 - 1997 (X8/3) (LD 2529/15-24)
Correspondence, 1991 - 1996 (X8/4) (LD2529/25-33)
General Liberal Democrat information (newsletters, circulars, etc.), 1996 - 1997 (X8/5) (LD2529/34-39)
Unlisted material:
(Acc. 1995/66)
Various records including papers of Councillor Peter Moore as leader and a few national Liberal Democrat Party papers.
(Acc. 2002/96)
Memoranda, reports, correspondence, etc., c.1996-2002, including papers of Cllr Sylvia Anginotti 1996-1999
(Acc. 2002/96 add 1)
Memoranda, reports, correspondence, 1998 - 2002
(Acc.2006/15)
Correspondence, reports and miscellaneous papers.
(Acc. 2010/128)
Correspondence; Local area papers, including Campaign Group minutes, local elections/constituency correspondence and printed items, desk diary (2002) and Sheffield Council Year Books, 1990-1992; photographs (including local Liberal Democrat party members); overseas conference and seminar papers, including draft and final presentations, notes, correspondence, agendas, draft opinions and amendments. Many relate to Peter Moore's involvement with the European Union's Committee of the Regions. 1986-2009.
(Acc. 2013/105)
Sheffield Social Democratic Party, Area Party Committee minutes, Nov 1987; Action Programme for Sheffield, 1987
Sheffield Social and Liberal Democrats Group:
Minutes, including Group briefings and correspondence re. the World Student Games; Finance Statement and Briefing Paper, 1988-1989;
Campaign Group minutes, Conference Representatives' Group minutes, Policy Committee agendas, 1988-1989
Co-ordinating Committee draft and proposed constitution, newsletters, minutes, income and expenditure account (1989), 1988-1990.
(Acc. 2015/51)
Files of papers relating to matters for Aston-Cum-Aughton Parish Council, Sheffield City Council, election campaigning and administration of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Liberal Democrat parties. Also includes some papers relating to the Committee of the Regions and papers relating to the SDP/Liberal party merger and the Sheffield Conference at which the merger was agreed. The full file list is as follows:
National SDP/Liberal Alliance Campaign papers, 1986 - 1988 (file numbered 3).
Papers relating to Sheffield City Council (and other constituencies and wards outside Heeley), 1986 - 1988 (file numbered 4).
Sheffield Area Social Democratic Party (SDP) papers (including copies of circulars, minutes, membership lists, etc. and papers relating to SDP/Liberal party merger), 1984 - 1988 (file numbered 9).
Heeley SDP/Liberal Alliance Campaign Committee papers (including copies of minutes, newsletters, circulars, correspondence, etc.), 1986 - 1988 (file numbered 8).
Woodseats and District Association papers (including copies of minutes, correspondence, etc.), 1988 - 1989 [note: the association was formed c. 1988 comprised of local residents and traders to discuss local issues including planning, transport, shopping, future development etc].
Papers relating to Peter Moore as prospective parliamentary SDP candidate for Heeley, Sheffield, 1986.
Rother Valley SDP Committee meeting minutes and associated papers, Nov 1982 - Jun 1986.
Rotherham SDP Committee meeting minutes and associated papers, Oct 1982 - Mar 1986.
Sheffield SDP Committee meeting minutes and associated papers, May 1986 - Oct 1987 (file numbered 6).
Correspondence and papers relating to SDP national conferences and initiatives, 1981 - 1986 (file numbered 7 titled "SDP National ii").
SDP/Liberal Alliance election material (including circulars, newsletters, local candidate posters and canvassing fliers, etc., 1983 - 1988 (file numbered 10).
Sheffield SDP housing policy draft statements, etc., 1986 - 1987 (file numbered 12).
"Focus" newsletter material (including copies of "Focus" magazines, draft notes and correspondence), 1984 - 1985 [note: these early copies of "Focus" relate to local magazine for Aston, Aughton, Swallownest, Fence, Orgreave and Ulley areas published by the Aston Ward Social Democrat Party and edited by Peter Moore].
Selection of 'Focus' newsletters and other local Liberal Democrat press-cuttings, c. 1988 - 2002 [note: these copies of "Focus" relate to Liberal Democrat magazine for Heely, Beauchief, Woodseats and elsewhere in Sheffield].
Aston-cum-Aughton Parish Council minutes, agendas, correspondence and papers, Jul 1985 - Jul 1986.
SDP election canvassing, comments, correspondence and casework relating to Aston, Orgreave, Ulley Ward, c. 1985 - 1986.
Rotherham and District Association for the Disabled newsletters, May 1985 - Mar 1986.
Association of Social Democratic Trade Unionists (ADSDTU) papers, Feb 1984 - Dec 1985.
Correspondence and papers of Peter Moore as Leader of Sheffield City Council (and later Councillor for Graves Park Ward), Apr 1999 - Apr 2007.
Beauchief and Woodseats Ward election campaign papers (Social and Liberal Democrats Alliance), 1987 - 1990. |
| CustodialHistory | Records created/accumulated by Peter Price during his time as Sheffield City Councillor and Leader of Sheffield City Council (and also relate to other political activities prior to this time), 1986 - 2009. The records were donated in 8 lots between 1995 and 2015. |