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Anonymous: chimney fires
Mrs Allen: seeking a house
The Avon India Rubber Co Ltd: direction signs
The Automoile Association: blind corner on Chippenham-Melksham road
G B Beak: seeking help with Beak ancestors, mentioning John Beak (will proved 1747) and William Beak, John Beak at China Court Farm, Milbourne, George & Isaac Beak of Malmsbury, James Beak of Maiden Bradley
A Beer: loose cattle due to gate post knocked down; curb in front of his house
H K Bennett: yew planks
Mary Binney: gooseberries and plums; her brother accepts offer of compensation for releasing part of the garden
S M Bowsher: notice to quit the Parish Ground
W J Bowsher: rent paid, but disputing it
Bristol Grammar School: possible visit to the Abbey
Charles J Butler: W Shields willing to take over allotment from Butler’s father
Chippenham Rural District Council: sewerage conditions at cottages one of which is occupied by Mr Flower; proposed purchase of land for housing; repairs to milking sheds at Whitehall Farm; quarries, in occupation of Mr Jones and Mr Taylor, recently worked need assessment; Lacock housing
D M Coffin: ditches need scouring
Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd: insurance for maintenance staff engaged in tree felling
Corsham Water Works Company Limited: water supply to West Street; water supply to cattle trough for Mr Self
Crittall Manufacturing Co Ltd: alleged reckless driving
Frederick Croker: tree felling; Mr Farthings pigs causing problems
Edwards & Armstrong Ltd: installation of electric lighting at the Abbey
H Ferris: cutting wood at Nethermore and larch tree blown down
Mrs F Flower: rent
G C Gibson: problems with an apprentice on the ship “Winkeigh” was not Goffman”
W T G Guley: giving notice to quit Wick Farm; his cheesemaking plant
G N Haden & Sons Ltd: examination of heating installetion
A D Hamilton: will rent “Church Villa”
Cyril Hankey: a shoot
H J Hardy: timber account
Herbert S Harrold: leazes
H J Harding: timber
A Hick: repairs needed in washhouse
Henry Hill: improvement to kitchen
A E Horwood: proposal to end the dispute between her son and Mrs Thurgood
John Horwood: electricity supply
A Hughes: the boundaries of Nethermore Farm
Bessie E M Hunt: payment of rent, rates, insurance; water ingress
W E Hurcomb: visit
Inland Revenue: repayment; ancient monuments
F G Jones: wash house for Mr Parson; requesting money in absence of same from Dr Hickson; his reasons for not allowing a ladder of his to be used for “this class of work”
Francis G King: become tenant of Wick Farm
Lacock Parish Council: repair needed to stile
L Maidment: is a sub-tenant at Whitecross
E H Mason: estate accounts
Minimax Ltd: requires payment
Harold Moxon: visit to Abbey by Mothers’ Union of Amesbury
James J Newman: much water in the Strickleigh field
Parker Pearson & Ross Hooper: Miss Aspinall wishes to purchase land for a house; main drainage in Lacock
R W Parsons: wants the opportunity to rent the house currently occupied by Mrs Pullen
The People’s Refreshment House Association Ltd: improvements at the Red Lion; removal of excretia; bedroom windows will not open; proposed public convenience
Post Office: reason for non-delivery of post
Post Office Telephones: telephone installation at the Abbey
A T Powlett: C E Awdry’s estate
The Prudential Assurance Co Ltd: accident on Lacock Road
Charles H Pugh: “Atco” motor
M Pullen: rain coming in window and chimney cowl needed
The Pump Room, Bath: admission owing from attendance of Press party?
W Rains: rentr
Miss G H Read: purchase of house at Bowden Hill by her mother, Mrs Webb
Reynolds & Sons: an employee had hit a wall on Lacock Road
G Selman: estimate for repairs
Lady Shippard: repairs needed
Maud Simeo: highest rent she could afford
F E Sims: renting of land at Wick Lane and taking over from P Chivers
Thomas Sims: two fields to be passed to Mr Taylor’s tenancy
Smith & Marshall: seeking a reference for T G Selman
Sotheby & Co: auctioned book has slight defect
Spye Park Estate Office: regarding F G King
E H Stewart: reference for Mr Meekes who is applying for Wick Farm
Sylvester & Mackett: late Mrs Hunt’s executors’ desire to rent/buy her house
Matilda Talbot: new will; in Newfoundland with Lady Middleton (previously Mrs Granville) and her husband, who had been Governor of the Falkland Islands and Gambia, mention of Dr Grenfell, Mrs Bary; copy of her letter to Mr Hodgson regarding her current inability to raise the money to buy his house; her talk with Bessie Hunt regarding rent
William Teagle & Sons: P Chivers, Mr Hughes and Nethermore
A H Thomas: rates for Nethermore Farm
Tilley & Culverwell: Mr Hughes at Nethermore Farm; Mr King and Mr Guley at Wick Farm; Mr Guley’s cheesemaking plant
Toogood & Sons: quotation for Portugal Laurel, Common and Handsworth Box and Black Italian Poplar
Thring, Sheldon & Ingram: Capt W H Burt’s tithes
Trotter, Leaf & Pitcairn: papers sent by GWR
Augusta Walsh: would like a house to set up a hairdressing business, mention of Lilian
Waterfall & O’Brien: water analysis
A Webb: insurance of his cottage
The West Wilts Elecric Light & Power Co Ltd: wayleaves
Wood & Awdry: sale of cottages at Bowden Hill to Sir John Gladstone, Mr H D Webb, Miss Webb and Mr Read; sale of cottages to Sir John Gladstone and Edward Brinkworth
Western Electricity Supply Company Ltd: main to Stroud Farm to cross estate land
West Wilts Electric Light & Power Co Ltd: route of lines
Wilts County Council: tree butts; new road layout near the river bridge; National Omnibus Ltd complain of overhanging branches; wayleaves; repairs to Bowden Hill Bridge
Wood & Awdry: contract with Mr P F Hodgson; conveyance of cottages on Cantax Hill
Wootton, Leaf & Pitcairn: Mr & Mrs Gilchrist Clark’s marriage settlement
H R Yorke: bracken
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