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WW2/AR/CA1/1/2
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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 38 Church Street, Ampthill: - Miss W.J.West of Enfield [Middlesex] (vacant); - WVS Store; - compensation of 90/5/6 paid; - premises transferred from War Department (requisitioned 10 May 1940) to Ministry of Health and Bedfordshire County Council as a WVS Store on 18 Jul 1944; file includes a record and schedule of condition at May 1940; - 18 Jul 1944 - 30 Mar 1946. 22 poles of land off Claridge's Lane, Ampthill: - W.B.Moss & Sons Ltd. of High Street, Hitchin [Hertfordshire] (vacant - waste land); - Combined Wardens' Post and First Aid Party Depot; - rent of 1 per annum paid; no compensation paid; - W.B.Moss & Sons were grocers and provision merchants; - 28 Apr 1943 - 31 Oct 1945. land off Claridge's Lane, Ampthill: - W.B.Moss & Sons Ltd. of High Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire (vacant); - Incendiary Bomb Hut; - hut sold by auction; rent of 1 per annum paid for site; - ?1943 - 12 Oct 1945 86 Dunstable Street, Ampthill: - Francis Pierre Du Sautoy of Ampthill (White Bros); - WVS Offices; - rent of 30 per annum paid; - transferred to Ministry of Works 1 Apr 1946; White Bros had been cabinet makers, the premises being a shop, workshop, garden and outbuildings; - 20 Feb 1941 - 1 Apr 1946. 110 Dunstable Street, Ampthill (cellar and ground floor): - W.B.Moss & Son Ltd. of High Street, Hitchin [Hertfordshire]; (Mid Bedfordshire Conservative & Unionist Association); - West Bedfordshire Control & Report Centre (ground floor) and public air raid shelter (cellar); - rent of 30 per annum paid; compensation of 274/13/1 paid - the cellars at the building were previously used as the Report & Control Centre; the building had been requisitioned by War Department on 1 Apr 1940; the file includes detailed record and schedule of condition at 30 Mar 1940 and in 1945 as well as floor plans; the premises were released in stages; - 3 Jun 1941 - 24 Jan 1945, 25 May 1945 and 5 Dec 1945; King's Arms Yard, 7 Church Street, Ampthill: - A.E.Grimmer, trading as Flitt Motor Company; - garage for Rescue Party Car; - rent of 7/16/0 paid; - the garage was moved to The Hurdle Barn [see below]; - 13 Oct 1940 - 1 Apr 1941. The Hurdle Barn, Woburn Road, Ampthill: - Thomas William Facer of 8 Sydney Road, Ampthill, later "Crayton", Alameda Road, Ampthill; - garage for Rescue Party Car; - rent of 3/- per week paid; no compensation paid; - the garage was moved from King's Army Yard [see above]; - 1 Apr 1941 - 30 Jun 1945 Methodist Sunday School, Dunstable Street, Ampthill (five rooms on ground floor): - Trustees of Ampthill Methodist Church, chairman Rev.G.Owen; (Ampthill Methodist Church); - Regional Civil Defence Store; - compensation of 42 per annum paid; no claim for dilapidations etc.; - the premises took overflow equipment from the store at Park Road East, Bedford; the file includes a detailed record of condition; - 19 Mar 1941 - 1 Mar 1946. Moss' Garage, Ampthill: - garage for Civil Defence vehicles; - rent of 5/- per week paid; no compensation paid; - Civil Defence Committee converted an open shed into a garage; - ?16 Oct 1940 - 31 Oct 1945. Public Assistance Institution, Ampthill: - Alternative Air Raid Precautions Control Room; - ? - c. Feb 1945. land adjoining Public Assistance Institution, Oliver Street, Ampthill: - A Stanbridge of Silsoe Road, Maulden; - access to First Aid Post; - rent of 8/- per annum paid; - 1 Sep 1939 - 25 Mar 1946. Public Assistance Institution, 1 Dunstable Street, Ampthill: - First Aid Post and Gas Cleansing Centre for Civil Defence Personnel; - 149 paid on reinstatement, with 80/15/- recovered from salvage of materials; - ?1939 - c. Aug 1945 Old Drill Hall, Ampthill (one room): - Bedfordshire Territorial Army Association; (Bedfordshire Territorial Army Association); - public air raid shelter; - no reinstatement claim paid; - 6 Jun 1940 - 7 Mar 1947 Working Men's Club, Station Road, Arlesey: - Arlesey Working Men's Club; (Arlesey Working Men's Club); - Wardens' Post, First Aid Party Depot and Upgraded First Aid Point; - rent of 42 per annum paid; 44/4/0 paid for claim for dilapidations; - premises had been requisitioned on 16 Nov 1940 by Ministry of Health for evacuation purposes and was then released to Civil Defence Committee; the file includes a detailed record and schedule of condition and list of articles contained at the premises; - 20 Jul 1942 - 31 Jul 1945 Parish Hall, Woburn Lane, Aspley Guise: - Trustees of Aspley Guise Parish Hall (Trustees of Aspley Guise Parish Hall); - Wardens' Post and First Aid Point; - no rent charged; - ? - 30 May 1945 Homewood Convalescent Home, Aspley Heath: - Bedford County Hospital; (Bedford County Hospital); - Sick Bay for evacuees; - 173/1/3 compensation paid; - the file includes a detailed inventory and record of state of repair and condition of the premises and an inventory of furniture and fittings made on 22 Oct 1940; - 15 Oct 1940 - 15 Apr 1941
Date free text
1940-1948
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1948
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