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Frederick Banks, builder: work at Notton; clearance of ditch at Bowden Hill; work at New Cottages E A Hunt: price of coal, repairs needed Huntington & Leaf: Mrs Gilchrist Clark's settlement; balance resulting from sale to Pocock; Naish Hill Farm; need to pay unpaid duties before sale to Lord Glanely Matilda Talbot: her movements; proposed new bathroom; heating the hall; throwing the yew tree; housing Dick Hopkins' van; Inwood cottage; date for her investiture at Buckingham Palace; managing her finances; lodgings for Frank Latham Charles Wiltshire: ash timber; the merits of using match board or felt at Mr Guley's brewhouse; staging at Abbey greenhouse; work at The Angel W H Attwood: tile need replacing A H Llewellyn, District Valuer: proposed purchase of land for Council housing Mrs Florrie Flower: payment of rent a problem as her husband gives her insuficient; Earnest Pike would like a house in Lacock Col Armour: firewood Mrs W Baker: roof needs repair A Fortune: death of Mrs Baker's boy S Fletcher, Board of Trade: Nethermore Farm and Inwood timber A W Doel: requires feed for cattle W G Minty: concerning a fence Keary, Stokes & White: financial affairs Harriet Fry Gale: purchase piece of land, including land used by Mr Banks as a poultry run Capital and Counties Bank: Miss Talbot overdrawn Capt Burt: purchase piece of land Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd: various policies H Smart: chimney needs repair H Pearce: bid for house previously occupied by Mr Skettle The People's Refreshment House Association Ltd: various repairs to the Red Lion; donation for the re-fitting of the Lacock Club; George Priddle appointed new manager of the Red Lion E H Mason: accountancy Orchard & Co: felling of 3 beech trees Office of the Housing Commissioner: interpretation of Act covering new build housing J Mullins & Sons: Wind engine W E Beint & Sons: possible purchase of beech trees C Cowling: boiler flue needs repair Frederick Croker: timber Herbert J Fisher: order for building materials Basil and Percival Hankey: leases on cottages occupied by Mrs Locke and Miss Burson Corsham Water Works Co Ltd: lay on water for fire hydrants at the Abbey J Edwards: work being done on his cottage Eastmond & Jones: they have a bath awaiting collection J G Jefferies: would like a house for his daughter who is to be married Mrs Estcourt: paying half of the cost of work at The Porch House G Parker Pearson: purification plant James Croker: rent for Nethermore Mrs Self: suggests add Nether cottage to White Hall farm as short of water for cattle Special Commissioners of Income Tax: receipt H Dyer: allotment Mr Terrell: his Parliamentary Question on housing subsidy William Forgan: undergrowth needs cutting back in larch plantation Adamson & Blacklock: Mrs Gilchrist Clark's tax F Latham: transfer of tenancy Jean E Fowler: selling of tithes to new tenant William Minty Hubert Wall: seeking information on a leaze at Bowden Hill S Langton: wood in Wheeler's wood W J Guley: his son (Gifford) accepted as tenant at Wick Farm Ward Soames: Tithes due from Lord Methuen George Elmer: wishes to erect a pigsty Gowen & Stevens: kitchen range at the Red Lion Lloyds Bank: account overdrawn P Bath: cattle in her garden H D Webb: bedroom ceiling coming down H Allen: house very damp Edward Hodgson: would like rooms/house at Lacock The Bristol Tramways Carriage Co Ltd and Bath Electric Tramways Ltd: receipt of opening hours of the Abbey Dawson, Bennett, Ainslie, Wilson & Arnould: sale of Halfway Farm to Arthur Farthing Steam Saw Mills, Exeter: cheque for cost of gate post knocked down Annie Latham: declines offer of Scout Hut for her husband Bruton, Knowles & Co: seeking reference for W H Self |