PCSharnbrook19/22

Correspondence Topics include: Scholarships. P.C. protest re ploughing up of awarded footpath. Rabbits. Electricity for village. LMS Railway to protest against Rate Assessment 1923. Letter and newspaper article re demonstration by farmers and agricultural workers re depression in agriculture 1 or 7 May 1924.

1922 - 24

From: 1922 To: 1924

- 1923 Beds. C.C. Scholarships etc. - P.C. protest re ploughing up of awarded footpath alongside hedge leading from homefield of Manor Farm. Not with L. Stileman-Gibbard's approval, but little he can do - keen on eradicating rabbits from warren at sandpits - year or two back ferretted them out and instructed Tom Allen to stop the holes and pour tar into ones reopened: "they seemed to like it". Good many rabbits in Bonfire Field. - Rushden District Electricity Supply Co. approached by two leading Sharnbrook residents re providing electricity for village - send questionnaire. - LMS Railway to protest against Rate Assessment 1923. - Letter and newspaper article by J.R. Hicks of Hadon Hall (near Clare) S.W. Suffolk re Demonstration by farmers and agricultural workers re depression in agriculture 1 or 7 May 1924.

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Stileman Gibbard, L.,
Allen, Tom,
Hicks, J.R.

SHARNBROOK, Electricity Supply Company, scholar, footpaths, rabbits, London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, rates, agricultural worker, farmer