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Account book kept by Albert Prickett until his death in 1959, then by his widow Laura Lilian until her death.

1943-1982

From: 1943 To: 1982

Contents include: Farm accounts (West Farm, West End, Stagsden, of about 200 acres, rented from The Crown) 1943-1946 Unemployment benefit and wages after sale of farm 1946-1951 Bank account payments (household bills) 1952-1959 Household finances, credit and debit 1959-1982 Also contains (at the back) - Fuel accounts1970, 1980 - Expenditure on painting cupboards1965 - Examples of single entries include: - Credits - Farm - £185 12s. 6d. for 50 qrs. wheat [Jan 1943] - £84 16s. 6d. for 26 qrs. wheat [Mar 1945] - £146 17s. 6d. for 23 qrs. barley [Jan 1943] - £76 for 16 qrs. barley [Mar 1945] - £6 2s. 6d. for 1 ton 4 cwt. 2qr. oat chaff [Apr 1943] - £24 for 10 qr. oats [Apr 1945] - £2 6s. 2d. for 15 dozen eggs [Jan 1943] - £2 8s. 7d. for 16 dozen eggs [Mar 1946] - £20 14s. 6d. 10 tons 7 cwt. 1qr. straw, with 1s. 7d. deduction for weigh tickets [Oct 1946] - 12s. 0d. for 2 cwt. potatoes [May 1943] - 7s. 0d. for 1 cwt. potatoes [Jan 1946] - £18 for 4 qr. beans [Jun 1943] - £7 6s. 0d. for 1 heifer [Mar 1943] - £97 10s. 0d. for 5 heifers [May 1943] - £9 1s. 11d. from Ministry of Food for a heifer [casualty] [Jul 1943] - £43 5s. 8d. for 2 heifers at market, with 14s. 4d. deduction for - £35 15s. 6d. for Grade A 9 cwt. heifer [Dec 1945] - £31 14s. 6d. for Grade B 9 cwt. steer [Dec 1945] - £1 for 2 fowl [Dec 1943] - £1 5s. 1d. for return of sacks @ 15s. each [Apr 1943] - £10 from RAF Cranfield for damage claim due to plane crash [Jul 1944] - 15s. 0d. for moving hay press fromWootton to Turvey [Jul 1946] - £8 Ministry of Food ploughing grant for 4 acres [May 1943] - £155 Ministry of Food acreage payment, 50 acres of wheat @ £3 per acre, 1/2 acre potatoes @ 10 per acre [Sep 1943] - £141 Ministry acreage payment, 34 acres of wheat @ £4 per acre, 1/2 acre of potatoes @ £10 per acre [Aug 1945] - £68 Ministry acreage payment, 31 1/2 acres of wheat @ £2 per acre,1/2 acre of potatoes @ £10 per acre [Aug 1946] - £6 Dr. Bower's shooting rights, per year, over farm land - £100 13s. 6d. Prudential with profits insurance policy (£80 policy, £20 13s. 6d. profits) [Dec 1943] - 12s. 0d. Ouse Catchment Board carting sand etc. [Oct 1944] - £2,012 17s. 3d. Stafford, Rogers & A.W. Merry Ltd.'s valuation of live and dead farming stock, tenant right etc. [Oct 1946] Debits - Farm: - £2 One week's housekeeping [Jan 1943] - £2 6s. 1d.1/2 year's rate [Jan 1943] - 15s. Doctor's club [Jan 1943] - 6s. Piano tuned [Feb 1943] - £1 10s. Hire of 90 sacks from LMS railway [Feb 1943] - 17s. 6d. Repairing organ [Feb 1943] - £55 10s. 0d. ploughing 55 1/2 acres [Mar 1943] - 6s. 9d. Oddfellows Club [Mar 1943] - 17s.0d. 2 horses shoed by Mr. Higgins [Mar 1943] - £2 8s. 9d. 1 week's wages for H. Welch [Mar 1943] 14s. Prudential Assurance Co. monthly premium [Mar 1943] - £36 Purchase of 4 heifer calves [Mar 1943] - £7 10s. Purchase of 1 1/2 qrs. of seed wheat @ £5 5s. per qr. less 7s.6d. discount [Mar 1943] - £1 Interest on loan from A. Prickett (father) [Mar 1943] - 15s. War risk insurance for the quarter [Apr 1943] - £1 12s. 3d. 3 cwt. of King Edward seed potatoes [Apr 1943] - 2s. 0d. New cheque book [Mar 1943] - 4s. 0d. New cheque book [May 1945] - £7 3s. 6d. Threshing, 14 hours single labour [May 1943] - £4 7s. 0d. Threshing, 8 1/2 hours single labour [Jun 1946] - 2s. 0d. 8 cartridges [May 1943] - 3s. 0d. Castrating one calf [Jun 1943] - £34 16s. G.J. Fensome, cutting 58 acres @ 12s. per acre [Sep 1943] - 7s. 6d. Mr. Wade Gery sevicing a cow [Sep 1943] - £29 17s. 6d. Repairs to house and buildings, S. Foster Ltd. [Apr 1944] - £3 9s. River Great Ouse Catchment Board for pond clearance [Nov 1944] - £1 10s. 6d. Repairing copper in brew house [Jun 1945] - £35 7s. 6d. 3 1/2 qr, Plumer Archer barley including 27s. 6d. discount [Apr 1946] - £5 15s. 1/2 ton of nitro chalk [Jun 1946] - 12s. 6d. 3 men baling for 3 days [Jun 1946] - £138 Brown mare, £37; seven 2 year old steers @ £19 15s. each; less 5s. discount [Aug 1946] - £1 7s. Grinding 18 cwt. [Oct 1946] - £3 5s. 3d. F. Beard for 29 hours harvest work @ 2s. 3d. per hour [Oct 1946] - £42 Stafford, Rogers & A.W. Merry farm valuation fee [Oct 1946] - Purchase of seed and sale of grain were both transacted with F. Coales & Son, Corn & Flour Merchants, 23 & 25 Gwyn Street and 18 All Hallows Lane, Bedford and the majority of sales of cattle were to W. Paybody, Dovehouse Farm, Manor Road, Kempston Hardwick. Horace Welch was the semi regular farm labourer with Frank Beard and members of the Prickett family (principally Albert's father and son) also employed when demand was greatest, e.g. harvest time Household Accounts: - £1 10s. 5 weeks rent payment, West Farm [1960] - £2 11s. 8d. 1 month's rent payment, Trevor Cottage, Stagsden [1962] - £6 6s. 1 month's rent payment, 20 Bedford Rd., Stagsden [1963] - 14s. 3d. Quarterly hospital donation [1961] - £44 10s. Garlick's stone masons for headstone [1961] - 10s. 6d. Cats put to sleep by RSPCA [1961] - £3 Caretaking money from Bunyan Meeting, Stagsden [1961] - £1 10s. Donation from Bunyan Meeting, Bedford [1962] - £1 1s. Piano tuned [1969] - £1 Annual subscription to Sailor's Rest Home in memory of Albert [1974]

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Prickett, Albert,
Prickett, Laura Lilian,
Ministry of Food,
Royal Air Force Association,
Bower, Dr,
Ouse Catchment Board,
Stafford, Rogers & A.W. Merry Limited,
Railway, L.M.S.,
Oddfellows Club,
Higgins,
Welch, H.,
Prudential Assurance Co.,
Fensome, G.J.,
Gery, Wade,
Foster, S. Ltd.,
Archer, Plumer,
Beard, F.,
Coales & Son, F.,
Paybody, W.,
Welch, Horace,
Beard, Frank,
Garlick Brothers,
Sailor's Rest Home,
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Stagsden West Farm, agricultural accounts, unemployment, agricultural wages, family/personal accounts, wheat, barley, oats, eggs, straw, potatoes, beans, cow keeper, Ministry of Food, markets, fowl, Military airplanes, hay, ploughing, shooting rights, sand, piano, sack, Organ, horses, Prudential Assurance Co., insurance, threshing, ponds, brewhouses, harvesting, chalk, corn merchants, flour seller, farm labourer, cottage, Bedfordshire hospitals, stone mason, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Bunyan Meeting meetings, Kempston Hardwick Dovehouse Farm, STAGSDEN, CRANFIELD, WOOTTON, TURVEY, Bedford Gwyn Street, Bedford Allhallows Lane, BEDFORD, Kempston Hardwick Manor Road, Stagsden Bedford Road