Title
Higgins 1931
Conveyance
1) Higgins & Sons Ltd, The Brewery,
Biggleswade, (vendors)
2) Wells & Winch Ltd (purchasers
1) is a Company carrying on a business as Brewers;
nominal capital 80,000 divided into 1,283 shares
of 10 each, none of which have been issued and
6,717 preferred ordinary shares of 5 each and
6,717 Deferred Ordinary Shares of 5 each, all
issued
2) agreed to purchase above shares 180,000
(5 for each Preferred Ordinary Share and
21 15s 11.1/2d for each Deferred Ordinary Share)
intended to liquidate 1) voluntarily
1st Schedule
1)a Balloon, Albert St, Bedford
b 3, 5, 7, Albert Street, Bedford
2) Commercial Tavern, Commercial Road, Bedford
3) Compasses, Tavistock Place, Bedford + cottages
4) Fox & Hounds, Goldington Rd, Bedford
5) Three Cups, Newnham St, Bedford
6) Cottage, 43 Newnham St, Bedford
7) George & Dragon, Mill St, Bedford
(formerly Old George)
8) Yard at back (near Ram Yard)
9) 9 Mill St, Bedford
10) Half Moon, Tavistock St, Bedford
11) Railway Tavern, St Johns St, Bedford
12) Wheatsheaf and cottqge (adj)
36 & 38 Cauldwell St, Bedford
13)a Star Inn, Harpur St, Bedford
b Shop and premises adj last in Paradine Court,
(incl former brewhouse
14) 30 & 32 High St, Bedford
15) Beerhouse, cottage or tenement, Odell
and yard and messuage all adj
16) Mad Dog & Bell, Odell
17) 'Blacksmith's Arms', Ravensden
18) Bricklayers Arms, Fenlake
19) 'Bell' and shop, Woburn
20) 'Royal Oak', Woburn
21) Post Boy, Rose Lane, Biggleswade
22) The Jury, Colmworth
23) Wheatsheaf and cottages at Harrold
24) Three Horse Shoes, Keysoe
25) The Gardeners Arms, Kempston
26) Beerhouse, Box End, Kempston
27) Swan and 2 cottages, Newton Bromshold,
Northants
28) Chequers, North Crawley, Bucks
29) Polhill Arms and land at Renhold
30) Coach and Horses, Shefford
31) White Hart and cottage, Shefford
32) Railway Inn, Turvey
33) White Lion and land, Wootton
34) Fox and Duck, Wootton
35) land at Wootton
36) Griffin and land, Toddington
37) Bedford Arms, Souldrop
38) George Hotel, Silsoe
39) Victoria Arms, Wilden
40) Five Bells, Cople
41) Buildings, Old George Yard, Bedford
42) Swan, Newton Bromshold
43) all other properties if any
b Leasehold
1) Three Cranes, Turvey
2) Cat & Custard Pot, Shelton
CONSIDERATION 1801, 10s 0d (incl duty
21 Sept 1931
Dorse Memoranda:-
1) Sale of 1.039 Acres, Souldrop, to
Geo Gulliver of Church Farm, Souldrop
29 Jan 1957
2) Sale of 'Jury' (formerly public house)
and 2.1/2 A of land at Channels End, Colmworth,
to Harry Browning of New Farm Cottage,
Colesdon, Beds
11 June 1957
3) Sale of piece of land, High St, Harrols,
east of GPO Telephone Exchange [1A] pt of
Wheatsheaf to Edgar Clayson
17 Oct 1957
4) Sale of piece of land 20ft square at
Thurleigh Road, Ravensden (adj property of
Postmaster General) to Postmaster General
19 Dec 1957
5) Sale of 4A at Souldrop to Geo Leslie Wilson
of Bedford Arms, Souldrop
27 Feb 1959
6) Sale of former public house 'The Star',
Harpur St to Marks & Spencer Ltd
7) Sale by Greene King (Biggleswade) of pt of
OS field 62 for Parish of Souldrop [0.23A]
to Beds RDC
25 Mar 1966
8) Sale by Geene King (Biggleswade) of piece
of land pt of Swan, Newton Bromswold, Northants
to Jas Geo Harris of The Cottage, New Bromswold
14 Jan 1966
9) Sale of Compasses, Tavistock St,
Bedford to Borough of Bedford
17 Jan 1967
10) Sale by Greene King (Biggleswade) Ltd
Post Boy, Rose Lane, Biggleswade and
shop adj to Michael Frank & Margaret
Jane Cheshire
5 Jun 1978
Other items:- illegible