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Letter from George Bailey to Thomas Sworder of Hertford

25 Nov 1863

From: 1863 To: 1863

From: George Bailey, Luton Local Board of Health; To: Thomas Sworder of Hertford, solicitor "Dye House I regret that I have not had an opportunity of answering your letter of the 13th Inst before. Had the Dye House in question been allowed a most serious injury would have been inflicted on the best property in this Town and that too in its very centre. The Dyeing process as now carried on is of a noxious and offensive character, and comes within the 64 sec: of the 11 and 12 Vict. c.63. Independent of that it would in my humble opinion have been indictable, the premises being in close proximity to highly valuable property. A certain trade carried on in one place may not be a nuisance, but in another may become so. A local body is the best judge of this and the Section quoted confers on them the power not only of judging but deciding. Then the place was "not convenient" for such a business, and it would have been a most injudicious exercise of authority to have allowed it. All the adjoining owners of property memorialized the Board against the proposed Dye House. The Board had many other reasons against granting the right to build the Dye House".

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Bailey, George,
Sworder, Thomas

dyeing, health boards, LUTON, Thomas Sworder, pollution