AO/E5/1

Correspondence file including the following items: tenancies of shooting rights and some fishing/angling rights, e.g. many renewal letters to tenants asking if they wish to continue their sporting tenancies for the coming season, the rights being seasonal lets in all cases ; letters requesting or chasing up payment for the same; arrangement of rent for the same; applications and relinquishments of the same (applications usually being presented to the District Sub-Committee); pasting up of notices advertising shooting lets; rates liability in respect of sporting rights (especially following re-assessments under the Rating & Valuation Act 1925); references in letters to poaching and trespass or disturbance of rights subject to letting; lists of tenants with shooting rights, including schemes, acreages and rents; lists of shooting and fishing rents; and lists of schemes on which sporting rights are and are not let.Also includes illustrated letterheads for Langley and Lewis of Luton, gunmakers. [ former cat. ref. AOSR 1; AOC no. 94 ]

1924-1925

From: 1924 To: 1925

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shooting rights, fishing rights, gunmaker, LUTON