WW1/AC/OP2/79

Claimant: Alfred Inskip; Occupier: Alfred Inskip; Owner: Alfred Inskip; Property: Clifton Bury Farm; Land Affected: Middle Field (No. 27) (10 acres to be broken up); Other Information: - AI was a member of the War Agricultural Executive Committee and the file also contains correspondence on his duties in this capacity; - clearance of land adjoining Potton Wood [1917]; - appointment of three assistants to AI as Organiser of the War Agricultural Executive Committee [1918]; - correspondence on the poor condition of Langford Glebe Land [1918]; - individual cases of men wishing early discharges from the army to return to the land [1918-1920]; - belief of the Executive Committee that there was no need to set up further structures for the marketing of agricultural produce [1918]; - appointment of AI as Chairman of the Horticultural Sub-Committee [1918]; - possibility of a tenant under an Order from the Executive Committee being sued by his former landlord for complying with the Order and breaking up pasture land [1918]; - need to establish a Bee-Stocking Sub-Committee [1919]; - sale of Horse Drawn Sprayers [1919]; - implications of a four shilling per acre fixed rate, imposed by the Smallholdings Committee, on smallholdings and allotments [1919]; - need for a Foreman at Stratton Park Training School, Biggleswade [1920]; - presence of a rookery in Hitchin Road, Shefford, which should be destroyed to prevent damage to crops [1920]; - unsuitability of a number of trainees at Stratton Park Training School, Biggleswade [1920]. [ex File No.49]

1917 - 1920

From: 1917 To: 1920

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ploughing, local government orders, crops, Bedfordshire County Council, World War One, Clifton Bury Farm, glebe, service personnel, at home (WW1), service personnel, overseas (WW1), general horticulture & market gardening, bee-keeping, agricultural machinery, smallholdings, allotments, Stratton Park Training School, rooks, CLIFTON, Clifton fields, LANGFORD, Stratton Park, BIGGLESWADE, SHEFFORD, Shefford Hitchin Road