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Employers Tribunal and Military Service Papers. - Certificate re acreage of grassland ploughed. [14 Mar 1918]. - Pillinge Works. Lists of male employees over 16 and under 18, female employees over 16 and male employees over the age of 41 [15 Mar 1917]. - Pillinge works. Defence of the Realm Regulations 41a. List of male employees between 18 and 41 years. Name, address, marital status, age, date of engagement, job title, documents entitling him to exemption. [Feb - May 1917]. - Additions to Females [16 May 1917]. - Sale licence for 3 tons of oat straw at Elstow brickworks. [20 Feb 1918]. - Copy letter from the Ministry of National Service to the Institute of Clayworkers, listing exemption from National Service. - List of attested employees. Includes name, age, date of birth, marital status, date of marriage, address at registration 1915, occupation, whether engaged in similar occupation before 1915, name and address of last employed, medical category, date of last examination, where attested, date of attestation, group no. no. on group card, number of children and area of ground cultivated. Hand-written draft and typed top copy.[20 Sep 1918] List of exemption certificates issued by the Road Board. Name, address, age, status, whether attested or exempt under the military service act, remarks. [28 Sep 1916]. - Pillinge works. Exemption list. Name, address, type of exemption, marital status, age, whether or not attested, date of engagement, work usually employed on. [11 Apr 1918]. - Correspondence with the Employment Exchange, Bedford, objecting to the transfer of A E Bunker, employed at Wootton Pillinge works as a fitter. [Mar 1917]; - BJ Forder & Son employment particulars listing numbers at Pillinge, and Elstow works. [3 Apr 1916] - BJ Forder & Son employment particulars [20 Nov 1916]; - BJ Forder & Son employment particulars listing number of employees and their ages. [3 Apr 1917]; - BJ Forder & Son employment particulars listing employees [1 Sep 1918]; - Notes regarding men awaiting demobilisation: including Pte. J Webb, Rifleman W Watts, W J Tysoe, Pte W H Turvey; Pte A Trueman, Pte W Beard, Sapper A W Mayhew; P S Saville, Pte G C Timms, Pte L Newbery, Pte D G MacGregor, S M Lowe, Sergeant E J Lowe, Pte J Lovell, Pte S Juffs, M G Hutchings; Pte W Bunyan, Rifleman W G Fuller, Pte A Emery, Pte S Dudley, Pte E P Day, Cpl. E J Clarke, Cpl Caves, Driver J Caves, Pte H J Carr, Pte R Caress, Pte S Caress, Pte F Burnage, Pte F Breed, Pte A G Breed, Sapper A J Bird, Pte G G Benson, Pte E Bass, Driver A E Bass, Pte J E Appleby, Pte A Mobbs. Memo regarding the demobilising of Pte E F Faulkener. [28 Mar 1919]. - Certificates of Registration under the 1915 National Registration Act: Gertrude Caves, Lacemaker, Marston Caulcote nr Ampthill; Ernest Edward George, Farm Labourer, High Street, Cranfield; Jane George, Household Duties, Wootton Pillinge; Winifred Ida Keech, Domestic Servant, Marston Moretaine; Rose Lea, Household Duties, Wootton Pillinge; Lizzie Mead, Electric Lamps, Kempston Hardwick; Ellen Odell, Household Duties, Upper Shelton; Winifred L Odell, Lacemaker, Upper Shelton; John Sharp, Brewers Traveller, Arthur Street, Ampthill; Mary Whittington, Household Duties, Marston Shelton. - Marston Hall Granite Quarries, [Warwicks]. Copy list of men considered indispensable to produce material ordered for purposes of Admiralty, War Office or Ministry of Munitions. Name, nature of employment, date and place of attestation or place of registration, group and card no. length of time for which exemption required. [6 May 1916]; - Marston Hall Granite Quarries, [Warwicks]. List of men to whom exemption certificates have been issued. [27 Sep 1916]. - Marston Hall Granite Quarries, [Warwicks]. Men rejected by the military authorities. - Pillinge Works. List of employees under 18 and over 41.n.d. - Return of men employed at Marston Hall, [Warwicks]. and Calton Hill Quarry, Millers Dale [Derbyshire] who have not been declared ineligible for Military Service. n.d. - Marston Hall Granite Quarries, [Warwicks]. Granite Agreement with list of customers and amount required, acceptances for 1917 - 1918, statistics regarding output of quarry, copy of information required for the Reserved Occupations Committee [Feb 1917]; - Correspondence between Percy Stewart and A R Grossmith regarding trees planted at a house and premises at Pillinge. [Dec 1917]; - Rent Collection Account of BJ Forders & Sons Ltd for property in Finchley.[Apr 1918] - Medical certificate of Francis Reginald Giles of Church End, Marston passed Class A. Accompanying letter (addressee unknown) from Mr Giles explaining that he contracted dysentery and rheumatic fever whist with the Expeditionary Force and was discharged on 23 Jun 1915. With letter from the Ministry of Pensions to Mr Giles awarding him Eight Shillings 3 pence per week. [1917]; - A history of the problems with pistons in No.1 engine, outlined by Mr Percy Stewart.[12 Dec 1917]; - Employee particulars for Pillinge and Elstow works [3 Apr 1916]; - Correspondence regarding the suspension of the proposed transfer of W G Payne to military service due to his skills being needed at Pillinge Brickworks. [18 May 1917] - List of Messrs Forders applications at the Local Tribunal for Bedford Rural District, with name, age, position and place of work. n.d.[cApr.1917] - Bedford Rural District Tribunal Notice of Decision re P Huckle (Electrician) & E Brinklow (Smudger) Houghton Conquest Works. Application not granted. Signed by W G Daniels for the Tribunal [16 Apr 1917]. - List of contracts in hand [12 Apr 1917]; - Letters to BJ Forders pressing the urgency of the supply of bricks which they have ordered from the company. Includes letters from following: Principal Architect, HM Office of Works; W T Lamb & Sons, Brick Manufacturers and Merchants, 43 Shoe Lane, London; Webster & Cannon, Builders & Contractors, Aylesbury; W Alban Richards & Co. Public Works Contractors16 Albemarle Street, London; J Jarvis & Sons Limited, Contractors,253 - 255 Hackney Road, London; Resident Engineers Office, Naval Air Works, Cardington; C Miskin & Sons Ltd, Builders & Contractors, St Albans; The Grahame-White Aviation Co.Ltd, London Aerodrome, Hendon; Ellis & Everard, Coal and Building Merchants, Cauldwell Street, Bedford; Lionel Hull, Sand, Brick & Cement Merchant, Glengyle, Grange Road, Leagrave. - Correspondence between the Reserved Occupations Committee & BJ Forder & Son Ltd, regarding adherence to Provisional Instructions R.O.O.4 (attached). - Roll of Honour. Lists Works, Name, and Regiment, with some amendments. n.d[c1917]. 7 pages. - Return of men employed at Marston Hall, [Warwicks]. and Calton Hill Quarry, Millers Dale [Derbyshire] who have not been declared ineligible for Military Service, with correspondence regarding the exemption of quarrymen [Jul 1917]. - Pillinge Works. List of men who have attested under the Derby Group System. Name, age, marital status, work performed, group no. & remarks. n.d. - Draft forms re shortage of male labour, filled out with statistics of workers at Wootton, Elstow & Kempston Hardwick, stating that conditions of work were unsuitable for women. [Jan 1916]; - Duplicate forms re numbers employed and hours worked at Wootton, Kempston and Elstow. n.d. - Draft employment particulars for Pillinge & Elstow [Sep 1918].
Date free text
1914 - 1918
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From: 1915 To: 1919
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