P60/8/2

Vestry minute book Regular business includes election of parish officers, passing accounts, rates and rating etc., and occasional business includes: 1835 Workhouse and continued care of the poor; new rate assessment; sale of workhouse goods 1836 Meeting houses (2) exmpted from rates 1842 Sale of exhausted gravel pits at Up End and Ridgeway 1844 Unpaid bills of 1822-1836 due to James Webb of Bedford, printed and stationer etc., refused by Vestry [letters from widow and executrix entered in volume] Stone from parish pits to be used for wall round new schools 1845 Purchase of new gravel pits 1847-9 Rating a new railway [Bletchley to Bedford] 1851 Cage at Up End moved 1852 Report on state of church roof by Wing & Jackson, architects, Bedford; loan for work from Public works Loan Commrs. 1853 Sale of Box End gravel pits 1855-8 Churchyard enlargement 1855 Diversion of footpath from Wootton to Kempston 1859 Rating of new Methodist Meeting House 1860 Jesse Stoakes drowned in the river 1864 Repairs to church - Nave roof - under James Horsford, architect 1869 Street lighting (gas) in part of the parish 1871 Sanitary condition of the parish (At back) Lists of sums paid to widows under the will of Mrs. Cater [names and amounts] 1845-1859

1835-1871, 1884

From: 1835 To: 1884

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Webb, James,
Wing & Jackson,
Stoakes, Jesse,
Horsford, James,
Cater

Kempston Up End, BEDFORD, Bletchley, Kempston Box End, WOOTTON, wills, elections, Parish Workhouses, Poor Laws, gravel pits, printer, stationer, architects, building work, church finance, churchyard, drowning, gas lighting, widow