Reference2664/1/2G/95
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TitleLetter book containing correspondence to the estate manager of Lacock, Mr Foley, concerning estate business.
DescriptionContains letters from:

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
Date1919-1920
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