Reference2664/1/2G/81
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TitleLetter book containing correspondence from (unless stated otherwise) the estate manager of Lacock, Mr Foley, concerning estate business.
DescriptionContains letters from:

Great Western Railway: tithes; poster board
Melksham Engineering Co Ltd: quote for generator in the Red Lion
Wiltshire Public House Trust Co Ltd: costs of improving the lighting at the Red Lion
E Ernest Hodgson: discusses Miss Northey taking over all from Edwards; payment of rent; death of elder brother means he could return to Lacock, Folly cottage mentioned
Gilchrist-Clark: Nash's house
F Hatherill: ruts at Inwood
Fred Banks: payment of rent
E A Hunt: payment of rent
C Ricketts: seeking a house to rent for his father-in-law, an Army pensioner
M A Martin: complaining about Mr and Mrs Frank Farmer, Mrs John Farmer and Ted Self
G H S Taylor: fixtures
Frank Banks:wall down at Wick Farm
W Joyce: house and allotment rents
to Henry L Risely: seeking quote for annual premium for a gravegigger and asking whether local Parish Council responsible for injury resulting from accident to Volunteer Fire Brigade
A H Lapham, Chippenham Rural District Council: amount of gravel taken from Talbot's land
Mary Northey: the Red House; the Old Angel; opening of the Old Furniture Shop; pig smell
C H Talbot: the Red House; asphalting; various estate matters; complaint from Mrs Bath of Reybridge of annoyance from neighbour's (Latham) children; path from Cantax Hill to Wick Lane and iron fence and gate at Bowden Hill; water supply at Bowden Hill; the need for tenants to have a copy of their tenancy agreements; tenancy of the Axe; Dr Taylor's thoughts on sewerage; transfer of tenancy from husband to wife, Annie Webb; 15th century wooden chimney head; archaelogical interest of The Round House and indication that Wick was a manor; supertax return; details of conveyances of Walter Banks house in 1884, Shoothangers 1884, two cottages in Wick Lane 1884, 1885; contaminated well water at James Fry's farm
I Stevens: payment of rent
James Fortune: garden in the Lane
E A Hankey: younger sons growing rubber in the Malay States, his continued residency under question; remedy needed re the damp walls in Cole's cottage - perhaps resulting from break in Water Company's pipes; farmer Selfe interferring with right of way, and other complaints
William Self: milk contract and work required on sheds; questioning the interest he is being asked to pay
W J Guley: field in Folly Lane
Shaw & Sons: tithes
Frederick Keen: giving notice
Charles Wiltshire: fence repairs
The People's Refreshment House Association Ltd: the Red Lion
Keary, Stokes & White: vacant possession of Keen's house; Fred Banks' letters marked "gone away"
Frances Awdry: repair to wall
M J Miles: wishes to rent house and paddock in Church Street
Midland Saw Mills, T Burgess and H G Salter: timber
A George Hurn: tender for timber
W J Holbrow: timber
Orchard & Co: timber
to E A Hankey: notice to quit cottages and potato patch in Church Street
Charles Wilson: asking for particulars of house in Church Street: later declined due to price
J Holmes, postmaster: asking that Mrs Webb take over her husband's tenancy as she has been nominated sub-postmistress
W Sawyer: timber felling
Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited: Loss
P Deline Awdry: Agreement needing signature by Mr Palmer
L F Pike: Cantax House
E J Latham: giving notice on house at Ray Bridge
Gowen & Stevens: leakage following building work
W Light, Son & Co, Ltd: Abbey kitchen floor
E Wheeler; repairs
W N Ledbury: assignment of lease of The Red Lion from Wiltshire Public House trust Co Ltd
H G Nicholson-Lailey, Trowbridge Urban District Council: damage caused by his car
A E Adams, Corsham Waterworks Company Ltd: pipe inspection
Mark Hill & Co: timber
Mrs E Bath: rent
Mrs Fred Hunt: rent
J Selman to Mr Latham: giving details of work done in the 1890s
S Crew: cannot stay in the house in the winter as too cold
E Selman: rent
W J & S Awdry: payment of tithe by J E Gladstone
A Beer: his compensation and repairs needed
William Ballinger: seeking copse wood to cut
A Chamberlain: rent
Chippenham Without Parish Council: defective stile at Rowden Hill
Date1909-1912
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