Reference
WW2/AC2/4
Title
Indexed letterbook containing, amongst other things:
- cultivation of hay on fields taken over by the Air Ministry at Barton-le-Clay and Stanbridge;
- difficulties about compensation regarding the Committee take-over of Grindstone Hill Farm, Turvey;
- Committee observations on the situation regarding volunteers for casual work on farms;
- lists of names and parishes of farmers on whom Orders and Directions were served;
- decision to not press proceedings against Messrs Allingham regarding Old Rowney Farm, Shefford, the "childish and truculent attitude" of F.R.Allingham being noted;
- need for basic slag as fertiliser, particularly in North Bedfordshire;
- details of a case of a serviceman needed for agricultural labour;
- intention to set up Bedford and Luton based panels to investigate cases of the agricultural unemployed;
- brief details of resolutions passed by Committee;
- difficulties of Committee officers inspecting farms around RAF Henlow due to guards not allowing them access;
- proposal by Luton Town Council to purchase land in Chalton to cultivate;
- plea by the Committee in mitigation for a man prosecuted for non-compliance with a Hertfordshire Order to Plough who had complied with all Bedfordshire Orders;
- authority for a man to purchase strychnine for mole destruction;
- lack of bomb disposal squads to deal with unexploded bombs both in Luton and at Manor Farm, Caddington
Date free text
Jun - Sep 1940
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1940
Level of description
item