Reference
WW2/AC2/5
Title
Indexed letterbook containing, amongst other things:
- lists of names and parishes of those on whom Orders and Directions were served;
- correspondence with Frank R.Allingham regarding his refusal to break up pasture for ploughing;
- correspondence and report regarding prosecution of A.G.Hill and E.W.Stratford ;
- correspondence regarding storage of ammunition at St.Jude's Farm, Haynes;
- complaints regarding use of sites as anti-aircraft gun and searchlight batteries at Cainhoe Farm, Clophill, St.Jude's Farm, Haynes, Town Farm, Milton Bryan, Eastfields Farm, Melchborne, and Manor Farm, Houghton Conquest;
- application for postponement of military service for four rabbit catchers employed by Duke of Bedford;
- notes of resolutions passed by the Committee;
- use of agricultural land in Toddington as a rifle range;
- unsuccessful effort to persuade AMPC to fill in bomb craters on agricultural land;
- correspondence regarding Resolutions requiring Duke of Bedford to plough up land and to graze cattle and sheep in Woburn Park and his objections on account of the exotic animals European bison and deer collections;
- correspondence regarding legal proceedings against tenants of Shelton Hall Estate for non-compliance with Orders to Plough;
- list of members of the County Executive Committee and District Committees;
- note of discord between County Executive Committee and the Bedford District Committee regarding an individual case;
- correspondence regarding a Direction Order it was anticipated would be ignored by the recipient;
- protest at proposed use of 56 acres of agricultural land in Kempston and Elstow as the site of a canteen for an ordnance factory erected in Ampthill Road, Bedford;
- inadequate steps taken to destroy rats at Top Farm, Streatley;
- note that any revolution in Germany would come from Bavarian or Austrian elements, not from Prussians;
- inadequate control of rabbits in Park Wood, Harrold;
- intention of the Air Ministry to construct a road across continued Gorerong Farm, Hinwick, a farm recently taken into possession by the Committee;
- recommendation to relax school byelaws and allow boys of 13 and older to be engaged in farm work;
- opinion that the time was right to cull foxes.
Date free text
Sep 1940 - Jan 1941
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1941
Level of description
item