R4/938

Papers relating to parish organisations and property, i.e. churches, schools, reading rooms, etc.

1883 - 1884

From: 1883 To: 1884

Includes note and plan of property to be taken over for a reading room, Leighton Street, Woburn, Feb. 1883; references to making Aspley Heath into a separate ecclesiastical parish, including press reports - Leighton Buzzard Observer, Oct. & Dec 1884; Rector of Steppingley wants a footpath closed "over which trespassers in pursuit of Your Grace's game come & go as they like" - does not want his ground "made a thoroughfare or common ground for all the loafing poachers of the place", Dec 1883; schoolchildren playing truant at Woburn "gathering sticks" - objections to having Saturday for this occupation "home cleaning day, when the women can ill afford to leave home", Feb 1884; thanks for purchase of bath chair for the almshouses Woburn - old Mrs Green has attended church "and expressed herself with much gratitude towards your Grace", Mar 1884; Duke has provided pictures & apparatus for Husb. Crawley School, May 1884; report on Ridgmont School - "the dirtiest ... and the most uncared for appearance of any school that I know" - reasons "petty jealousies & divisions on the part of some & indifference in others", May 1884; notes on pews and sittings in Lidlington Church - suggestions as to new site, July 1884; Woburn Flower Show, Aug 1884; Duke to visit proposed sites for new Church at Lidlington, Aug 1884; Lidlington Vicar wants use of Board Schools for class in Agricultural Science [11 "lads" interested] "I think it is the first Parish round here to try this", Nov 1884; Vicar of Flitwick has purchased "an iron room for £90 to be used as a reading and coffee room "to improve morally the life of the men and lads of this parish ... it seems to me futile to attempt to draw them away from the public house without offering them something that may take its place", furniture, "coffee & tea apparatus &c" will cost a further £50 - asks for a donation - note of £25 gift by Duke, Nov 1884; list of men in Ridgmont with remarks, e.g. "an old Man - decent labourer", "a Jobber bears a rowdy character", " a confirmed drunkard", etc., n.d; list of labourers "out of Employment on the Woburn estate - gives parish, whether married or single; number of children; if a tenant; former employer; and remarks [in case of Ridgmont, same as foregoing], Jan 1884; a number of letters consenting to the use of reading rooms for estate audits, 1884.

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Duke of Bedford,
Green

buildings and land use, reading rooms, Woburn Leighton Street, WOBURN, site layout plans, ASPLEY HEATH, parish, Leighton Buzzard Observer, vicar, STEPPINGLEY, footpaths, trespass, poaching, CHILDREN, schools, HOUSEHOLD, cleaner, furniture, almshouses, elderly people, CHURCH, works of art, Husborne Crawley School, HUSBORNE CRAWLEY, Ridgmont School, RIDGMONT, education buildings, church pews, LIDLINGTON, church buildings & land, flower shows, curriculum science, husbandry - theory and development, AGRICULTURE, FLITWICK, coffee houses, morality, public houses, tea, coffee, money, labourer, jobber, drunkenness, unemployment, ESTATES (LANDED), FAMILY, tenancy, employment, auditors