• Reference
    BorBB23/11
  • Title
    Copy agreement (1) Robert Partridge of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, mill owner (2) G. Horn (Kempston) Limited of Kempston (3) Corporation of Bedford, concerning water abstraction at Kempston Mill
  • Date free text
    14 March 1922
  • Production date
    From: 1922 To: 1922
  • Scope and Content
    (1) owner and (2) occupier of Kempston Mill, with two waterwheels, and (3) built waterworks and pumping station in 1868 up river from said mill; and in 1905 (3) increased abstraction of water from the river, whereupon (2) took action through the courts to restrain them; in 1911 (3) took further water without permission, and great number of troops stationed in Bedford at outbreak of war caused further demand for water, so (3) laid pipes in 1915 for abstracting water; (3) has paid £1,500 to (1) and agrees not to abstract more water than can be obtained from two 6 inch pipes for 5 years (2 copies) (See also BorBB 23/23)
  • Level of description
    item