• Reference
    QSH1
  • Title
    Trust deeds and papers relating to trusts
  • Date free text
    1752 - 1877
  • Production date
    From: 1752 To: 1877
  • Scope and Content
    There are no further trust deeds after 1877 because the Local Govt. Act 1888 transferred to the County Council (Standing Joint Sites). See QSM18 p.337 et seqq:- Shire Hall & furniture; offices & land adj. occ. Sharman & Smail @ 50 pa rent (lease expiring 1893); court houses at Luton & Sharnbrook and police stations at Ampthill, Bedford, Biggleswade, Leighton Buzzard, Woburn; it is recited that the Town Council have the right to use the Council Chamber and Committee Room for 118 pa; that Bedford District Highway Board pay 3 pa for a room; that HM Board of Works pay 14s for each sitting of the county court.
  • Level of description
    series