WW2/AR/CA1/1/4

File regarding return of requisitioned or otherwise occupied premises and action taken. The file is divided up into individual premises and each entry below records [where the information is given]: the location of the premises: - owner (and former occupier); - purpose of requisition; - action taken at the end of the requisition period; - other information of note; dates of requisition garage at Upper Shelton Road, Marston Moretaine: - William Sanders of 30 Upper Shelton Road; (William Sanders); - garage for Rescue Lorry; - rent of 3/6 per week paid; claim of 5 regarding damage paid; - 17 Apr 1944 - 30 Mar 1945 land at Marston Moretaine: - London Brick Company Ltd.; (London Brick Company Ltd.); - Wardens' Post and First Aid Party Depot; - building erected by Civil Defence Committee, purchased by London Brick Company Ltd. for 20; - the file contains an offer to buy the premises from A.R.Pulford of 60 Station Road, Marston Moretaine to use for business; - ? - c.1946 Billiard Room, School Lane, Maulden: - Trustees of Maulden Billiard Room; (Trustees of Maulden Billiard Room); - Wardens' Post; - claim of 10 for damage paid; - ? - 31 May 1945. 2 garages at 29 Clophill Road, Maulden: - Mrs. E.Stanford; (Stanford & Clarke Ltd.); - garage for Rescue Party Trailer and Towing Car; - rent of 5/- per week paid; claim of 4/8/0 for damage paid; - Stanford & Clarke Ltd. were builders and contractors; - 13 Jul 1940 - 31 May 1945. Church Hall, Maulden: - Maulden Parochial Church Council; (Maulden Parochial Church Council); - Ministry of Health Regional Store; - rent of 33 per annum paid; - the hall was used to ease pressure on the County Store at Park Road East, Bedford; the file includes a survey of the property; the premises were taken over by the Home Guard in 1943; - 24 Jun 1941 - 15 Apr 1943 42 High Street, Meppershall: - W.Olley of 42 High Street Meppershall; (W.Olley); - Wardens' Post; - no claim made; - ? - 23 Jun 1945 portable hut at Brookside Nurseries, Meppershall: - Walter Dilley of 26 Shefford Road, Meppershall; (Walter Dilley); - Wardens' Post; - no claim made for damage; hire of chattels paid for at 2/12/0 per annum; - 20 Nov 1939 - 24 Jun 1942 garage attached to Tithe Barn, 100 yards from Meppershall Rectory: - William L.Taylor of 38 High Street, Meppershall; (William L.Taylor); - Wardens' Post; - rent of 6 per annum paid; no claim for damages made; - 29 May 1943 - 22 Jan 1945 Millbrook Village Room: - Trustees of Millbrook Village Room; (Trustees of Millbrook Village Room); - Wardens' Post; - no claim for damages made; - ? - 31 May 1945 Milton Bryan Public Elementary School: - Wardens' Post; - no claim for damages made; - Sep 1939 - Jun 1945 Home Farm, Milton Ernest: - Stephen Helps Starey, Home Farm, Milton Ernest; (S.H.Starey); - Wardens' Post and Infant School for evacuees - no claim for damages made against Civil Defence Committee; - the file includes a letter from S.H.Starey indicating that the premises was let to the Local Education Authority and that he intended making a claim for 75 against them and that he had "neither thanks nor money for the effort we made"; - ? - 9 Jun 1945 Parish Hall, Mogerhanger: - Mogerhanger Parish Hall Committee; (Mogerhanger Parish Hall Committee); - Wardens' Post; - no claim for damages made; - ? - 31 May 1945 list of premises released in North Bedfordshire, the premises being as follows: - Bedford: North Bedfordshire Report & Control Centre at St.Leonard's Hall, Victoria Road; - Biddenham: Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Biddenham House; - Bletsoe: Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at The Old Rectory; - Bolnhurst: Wardens' Post at Church Farm House; - Cardington: Wardens' Post at The Old Shoeing Forge; - Carlton: Wardens' Post at The Rectory Stables; - Clapham: Wardens' Post at Kitchen and Vestry of Methodist Church; - Colmworth: Wardens' Post at Manor Farm; - Cople: Wardens' Post at The Parish Room; - Elstow: Wardens' Post at St.Helena; - Felmersham: Wardens' Post at The Grange; - Harrold: Wardens' Post at The School; - Kempston: First Aid Point at Eaton Road; - Kempston: Wardens' Post H.1 at Cosmic Pavilion, Ampthill Road; - Kempston: Wardens' Post H.2 at Ibbett's Garage, Park Road; - Kempston: Wardens' Post H.3 at Farrer Street; - Kempston: Wardens' Post H.4 at 6 Orchard Street; - Kempston: Wardens' Post H.5 at Hoo Estate Office, Eugster Avenue; - Milton Ernest: Wardens' Post at Home Farm; - Oakley: Wardens' Post at Methodist Chapel School; - Odell: Wardens' Post at The Bell Inn; - Pavenham: Wardens' post at cottage on Lord Luke's Estate; - Podington: Wardens' Post at Chestayne Cottage; - Riseley: Wardens' Post at British Legion Room; - Roxton: Wardens' Post at The Institute; - Sharnbrook: Wardens' Post at Bullock's Barn; - Stagsden: Wardens' Post at The Reading Room; - Little Staughton: Wardens' Post at Rectory garage; - Thurleigh: Wardens' Post at Baptist Chapel Schoolroom; - Turvey: Wardens' Post at The Laws House; - Wilden: Wardens' Post at the Post Office; - Willington: Wardens' Post at Noah Hull's Yard; - Wilstead: Wardens' Post at hut at "Brooklyn"; - Wootton: Wardens' Post at School House; - Wymington: Wardens' Post at 22 Church Lane; - Yielden: Wardens' Post at The Rectory. Longmead, Thorncote Road, Northill: - F.W.Marsom of Longmead; (F.W.Marsom); - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - ? - 31 May 1945 two rooms at Methodist Chapel School, Oakley: - Trustees of Methodist Chapel; (Trustees of Methodist Chapel); - Wardens' Post; - rent of 9/2/0 per annum paid; no damages claim made; - 7 Nov 1943 - 16 Jun 1945 room at rear of The Bell Inn, Odell: - Wells & Winch Ltd. of Biggleswade; (Mrs.Emily Annie Smith); - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - ? - 9 Jun 1945 cottage on Lord Luke's Estate, Pavenham: - Wardens' Post; -no damages claim made; - ? - 21 Jul 1945 The Vicarage, Pavenham: - Wardens' Post; - Jan 1941 - ? Chestayne Cottage, Podington: - R.J.Turner of Chestayne Cottage; (R.J.Turner of Chestayne Cottage); - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - ? - 16 Jun 1945 Linden Lodge, Potton: - Dr.Anderson of Linden Lodge; (Dr.Anderson); - Rescue Party Depot and Upgraded First Aid Point; - no damages claim made; - ? - 9 Jun 1945 Home Farm, Horne Lane, Potton: - Land Settlement Association Ltd.; (A.C.Andrews); - Wardens' Post; - rent of 10/- per week paid; - c. Apr 1941 - ? Market Square, Potton: - Wardens' Post; - a purpose brick-built Wardens' Post, relinquished to Bedfordshire County Council; - ? - c. Jun 1945 The Shelter, Pulloxhill: - Mrs. E.B.Stanley of Pulloxhill Post Office; - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - Sep 1939 - 31 May 1945 YMCA Hall, Ridgmont: - London & Devonshire Estates Company [part of Woburn Abbey Estate]; - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - the post was transferred from The White Hart Inn, Ridgmont; - 25 Jan 1941 - 30 Jun 1945 Royal British Legion Room adjoining 42 High Street, Riseley: - C.A.Brooks of 42 High Street, Riseley; - Wardens' Post; - 5 damages claim paid; - ? - 16 Jun 1945 The Institute, Roxton: - Wardens' Post; - no damages claim made; - ? - 16 Jun 1945 Parish Room, Salford: - Salford Social Club; (Salford Social Club); - Wardens' Post; - rent of 10/8/0 per annum paid; no damages claim made; - Sep 1939 - 31 May 1945 Small Hall at Sandy Baptist Schoolroom: - Trustees of Sandy Baptist Church; (Trustees of Sandy Baptist Church); - Rescue Party Depot, First Aid Point etc.; - 12 damages claim paid; - six sections of troops were quartered in the room until 1 May 1941; - ? - 9 Jun 1945 Sandy Public Elementary (Church of England) School: - Sandy Church of England School Trustees; - Mobile Unit Depot and Rest Centre; - the Civil Defence Committee took over the premises on behalf of Ministry of Health from War Department who requisitioned in on 6 Sep 1940; on Civil Defence relinquishment the occupied premises were converted into a school canteen; - 26 May 1941 - 19 Feb 1945 Sandy & District Liberal Club: - Civil Defence Office and Wardens' Post; - 1 per week rent paid; compensation of 12 paid; - - 7 Jan 1946 9 poles of land at rear of Sandy Public Elementary Church of England School: - Frank S.Ball of Magnolia House, Sandy: (F.S.Ball); - garage for Civil Defence Ambulance and Mobile Unit; - 9/- rent per annum paid; - garages built by Civil Defence Committee, sold to F.S.Ball for 200 - May 1942 - 1947 garage at 16 Market Square, Sandy: - Hunt Bros. of 16 Market Square, Sandy; (Hunt Bros.); - garage for Civil Defence vehicle; -Hunt Bros were monumental and architectural masons; - 10 per annum rent paid; 13 Apr 1940 - ? 16 High Street, Sandy: - John William McDonald of 28 Bedford Road, Sandy; (Martha Eayrs of Whitwell House, Offord Cluny [Huntingdonshire] as wife of William Eayrs, later Benjamin William Crowe of 16 High Street, Sandy); - public air raid shelter; - rent of 3 per annum paid; - J.W.McDonald bought the timber in the shelter for 2; - Aug 1940 - 30 May 1946 yard of H.F.Bull & Son, High Street, Sandy: - Rescue Party Depot; - no damages claim made; - H.F.Bull & Son were builders; - 31 Aug 1939 - 13 Dec 1945

1940-1946

From: 1940 To: 1946

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Sanders, William,
London Brick Company,
Pulford, A.R.,
Stanford, E.,
Stanford & Clarke Ltd.,
Olley, W.,
Dilley, Walter,
Taylor, William L.,
Starey, Stephen Helps,
Cosmic Crayon Company Limited,
Royal British Legion,
Lawson Johnston, Ian St John (2nd Baron Luke),
Hull, Noah,
Marsom, Frederick William,
Wells & Winch,
Smith, Emily Annie,
Turner, R.J.,
Anderson,
Andrews, A.C.,
Stanley, E.B.,
Brooks, C.A.,
Ball, Frank S.,
Hunt Brothers,
McDonald, John William,
Eayrs, Martha,
Eayrs, William,
Crowe, Benjamin William,
H F Bull & Son(s) Ltd.,
Brookside Nurseries,
Ibbett,
Young Men's Christian Association,
Land Settlement Association Limited

brick making, First Aid, billiards, other church buildings, Home Guard, general health, Air Raid Precautions, market gardening nurseries, tithes, parsonages, village halls, Milton Bryan Public Elementary School, Milton Ernest Home Farm, general schools, Bolnhurst Church Farm, blacksmiths, Methodist churches, Colmworth Manor Farm, Harrold School, estate management, Odell Bell, cottages, service organisations, Mechanics' Institutes, Baptist chapels, post offices, Wootton School, Bedfordshire County Council, Land Settlement Association, Ridgmont White Hart, Sandy Public Elementary Mixed School, Liberal Party, ambulances, MARSTON MORETAINE, Marston Moretaine Upper Shelton Road, MAULDEN, Maulden School Lane, Maulden Clophill Road, BEDFORD, Bedford Park Road East, MEPPERSHALL, Meppershall High Street, MILLBROOK, MILTON BRYAN, MILTON ERNEST, MOGERHANGER, Bedford Victoria Road, BIDDENHAM, Biddenham House, BLETSOE, Bletsoe The Old Rectory, BOLNHURST, CARDINGTON, Cardington The Old Shoeing Forge, CARLTON, CLAPHAM, COLMWORTH, COPLE, ELSTOW, Elstow St.Helena, FELMERSHAM, Felmersham The Grange, KEMPSTON, Kempston Eaton Road, Kempston Ampthill Road, Kempston Park Road, Kempston Farrer Street, Kempston Eugster Avenue, OAKLEY, ODELL, PAVENHAM, PODINGTON, Podington Chestayne Cottage, RISELEY, ROXTON, SHARNBROOK, Sharnbrook Bullock's Barn, STAGSDEN, LITTLE STAUGHTON, THURLEIGH, TURVEY, WILDEN, WILLINGTON, WILSHAMSTEAD, YIELDEN, WOOTTON, WYMINGTON, Turvey The Laws House, Wilshamstead Brooklyn, Wymington Church Lane, Northill Thorncote Road, NORTHILL, Potton Linden Lodge, POTTON, Potton Horne Lane, Potton Market Square, PULLOXHILL, RIDGMONT, Riseley High Street, SALFORD, SANDY, Sandy Magnolia House, Sandy Market Square, Sandy High Street