Z749/47

Correspondence between Henry Rutherford of Biggleswade and the Engineer's Office of the Great Northern Railway, King's Cross [London] after the auction [see Z 749/46] re: Lot 4, which Henry Rutherford had purchased, and Lot 5, which the GNR had purchased. In the event, the GNR declined to either buy Lot 4 or sell Lot 5. Also 2 x A4 sheets of typed notes about Messrs Conder and Son, Auctioneers and Estate Agents, containing details of the deaths of Mr R. F[rederick] Conder in 1895 and his son in 1907, about Brook House, Market Square, Biggleswade where the company had its office; and a brief history of Henry Rutherford, draper of Ednam in Roxburghshire, then of Warwickshire, then Biggleswade, who died in 1907, and his grandson Alan Rutherford Bennett, solicitor with Messrs Chaundler and Son of London Road, Biggleswade, who died 1996. [For details of the suicide of R F Conder, see CRT 130 Biggleswade 35; and for creditors of Conder and Son and the fate of the business after the death of R.F.Conder in 1907, see HF 26 uncatalogued]

1895-1907

From: 1895 To: 1996

14 sheets

Originals purchased by depositor at a birmingham auction of railway material 10 June 1998.

photocopies

item

Rutherford, Henry,
Great Northern Railway Company,
Conder & Son,
Conder, Robert Frederick,
Bennett, Alan Rutherford,
Chaundler & Son

Great Northern Railway Company, suicide, auctioneers, estate agents, Conder & Son, draper, specific solicitors, Alan Rutherford Bennett, Chaundler & Son, deaths, specific auction sales, Birmingham, Ednam, Warwickshire, BIGGLESWADE, London King's Cross, Biggleswade Market Square, Market Square Brook House, Biggleswade