Reference2664/1/2G/84
LevelItem
TitleLetter book containing correspondence to the estate manager of Lacock, Mr Foley, concerning estate business.
DescriptionContains:

Tilley & Parry: acting on behalf of James Fry of Manor Farm, who is seriosly ill, and Mrs Pike;
Mary Northey: The Angel; alteration to coach house to accept a motor car; the Red House
C H Talbot: cannot accept Mr Tilley as acting for James Fry; pulpit; letting of Manor Farm - including conversion of cheese loft and possible build of cottages for farm labourers; the District Council withdrawing notices sent to him re state of 4 houses ie those inhabited by Hannah Butcher, Mrs Farmer, Edward Self and J Martin; allowance for James Fry; gates to Bowden Common; ash bins; privies at Bath's corner; elm tree near Footbridge; Richard Moore to take over tenacy from his father, after house is disinfected; widening of road where Chippenham and Corsham roads meet; head housemaid, Esther Dixon, broke her leg in an accident
James J Newman: interested in renting Manor Farm
Edith Jones: payment of rent
Chippenham Rural District Council: new entrance to Convalescent Home; proposed inspection of cottages in South Street; payment for gravel for use at Bowden Vicarage; ditch clearance at cottages at Queen's Bridge, Corsham; branches obstructing the roads; water on the Melksham Road
Edwin Bath: payment of rent
The People's Refreshment House Association Limited: rent for the Red Lion
Emma Self: payment of rent
E Jones: payment of rent
E A Hunt: payment of rent
Mrs Chivers: house needs thatching
I Stevens: payment of rent
Edward Stanford: receipt of map for mounting
Robert Huntley: seeking to act in his father, William Huntley's behalf, who is very ill
Smiths and Marshall: ditch in field occupied by Selfe is blocking flow of water
L Pike: lease on the Common
Frances Awdry: could she sub-let rooms to Mr Fry and Mrs Pike; payment of rent; seeking permission to cut down apple tree; Mrs Huntley posibly moving out after the death of her husband
C H Smith: applying to rent a farm
H G White: water supply at Manor Farm
William Self: would like the field Nethercote, part of Manor Farm: water for the cattle
Henry Edledlicott: providing a reference for J J Newman
Frederick Bank: payment of rent and damp course at Mr Coles' house; repairs at Mrs Jonas Hunt's cottage, Mr Wiltshire's wall, closet at Mrs Collett's, Mrs Smith at Raybridge, door at F Crew's, James Baker's boiler, Caleb Weston's lead lights, Mrs Walker's well and roof; roof at J Chiver's
Frank Banks: rails required in field
L Spackman, Corsham Water Works: cheque for payment of Wayleave
J Bird: work required on his wash house
Wood & Awdry: William Minty's estate
Inland Revenue: Income Tax on the Convalescent Home
A Chamberlain: arrears of rent
A H Lapham: possible resignation from ?
Mrs Fred Hunt: payment of rent
Wilts County Council, Health Department: appeal
Mr Joyce: payment of rent; repairs to his house
James Fry: apologies
Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited: damage to old Toll House occupied by Joseph Stevens; claim of Dixon
Cunningham & Gibaud: fire at Turnpike Cottage caused by Mr Hurns' (timber merchant of Melksham) traction engine.
Mr Burt: The Red House
E A Hankey: payment of rent; where can he obtain gravel; repairs to Locke's cottage
E Moberly: Henry Cole, Cantax Hill, out of work
Clifford Bax: enquiring after a house in East Street
E Brinkworth: broken water pump
A V Willion: water rate for Ash Hill Farm
Mr Lysley
William Ballinger: wood cutting
L J Tanner: rent for Cantax House
Mr Luearl: leaking dormer window
G Curnick: wood cutting
A Horwood: leaking roof
F A Hopkins: Mr Lysly's horses
G A Adam-Ormiston: road gravel
T H Hopkins: horses at the Red Lion
Orchard & Co: lime trees at Old Turnpike cottage
J Sawyer: ferretting
Gilchrist-Clark: equipment for disinfecting Mr Moore's house
Surveyor of Taxes
N Croker: payment of rent
Keary, Stokes & White: obtaining monies due from Keen
J Moore: asking for account for rent
W J Guley: Mrs Huntley's cottage
Great Western Railway: rent for board at Lacock - one communication on post card of "Fishguard Route to Ireland"
Merryweather & Sons: portable fire apparatus
William Sawyer: hedge cutting and laying
A Beer: repairs needed
Sydney H Bourne: requesting binders or heathers
Charles Wiltshire: John Chamberlain's garden
Date1911-1912
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