WW1/AC/OP2/118

Person Involved: William Simmons; Occupier: William Simmons; Owner: William Simmons; Property: Leighton Buzzard Mill Stream; Additional Information: - the file concerns cleansing of the Mill Stream; - William Simmons, Miller & Corn Merchant, owned Roller Flour Mills of Leighton Buzzard; - dispute as to whether mud dredged from the stream should be dumped on the stream banks; -the file centres around a dispute as to who should be made to undertake the work or pay for its undertaking - Charles Calcott, Solicitor of Leighton Buzzard, WS or the Committee [1919]; - the file includes correspondence regarding the availability and quality of rubber thigh boots [1919]; - the file includes a copy of Section 14 of Land Drainage Act 1847 and legal opinions on the Section; - the file also includes an extract from the Leighton Buzzard Award of 1848 regarding the Mill Stream; - the file includes a complaint regarding the way the Executive Committee workmen had cleansed Clipstone Brook [1919].

1918 - 1919

From: 1848 To: 1919

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Simmons, William,
Roller Flour Mills,
Calcott, Charles

ploughing, local government orders, crops, Bedfordshire County Council, World War One, watermills, miller, corn merchant, Roller Flour Mills, local references drainage, specific solicitors, Charles Wallis Berkeley Calcott, clothing, Land Drainage Act 1847, Inclosure, Clipstone Brook, LEIGHTON BUZZARD