Reference
WW2/AC2/2
Title
Indexed letterbook containing, amongst other things:
- applications for licences to use timber;
- correspondence regarding refusal of and proceedings against Francis R.Allingham to plough up land at Old Rowney Farm, Shefford;
- opinion that flax contracts issued by Willett & Bartram of Billing [Northamptonshire], local processing factory, were unfair to the farmers as the factory decided the scale of payment;
- Committee support for a rebuilding of Biggleswade Lock on the River Ivel;
- need to plough up about 220 acres in Chalton and Toddington belonging to Chalton Estates Ltd., a later letter from the owner accusing the Committee of using "cursed Nazi methods" ;
- lists of names and parishes of those on whom Orders continued were served;
- possible grazing of animals on golf courses;
- applications for servicemen to be employed in agricultural work;
- complaints about damage by Duke of Bedford's game animals in the vicinity of Woburn;
- need to cull rabbits, particularly in warrens on Sharpenhoe Clappers;
- notes of resolutions passed by the Committee;
- letters regarding Orders served to individuals regarding appeals, refusals and offers to vary the fields involved;
- need to cleanse the course of the Kym Brook;
- variation of the areas covered by the four Sub-Committee Areas;
- note that the owner of Doolittle Mill, Maulden had a right but not an obligation to cleanse the mill stream;
- note that establishment of a German prisoner-of-war camp in North Bedfordshire would receive support from the Committee;
- Committee possession of part of Grindstone Hill Farm, Turvey due to bad cultivation, the owner, John Davies, being referred to as "a man of straw".
Date free text
Feb - Apr 1940
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1940
Level of description
item