Reference
PM2935/4/9
Title
Bundle of correspondence Hawkins and Company to Preedy relating to sale of land in Sandy
Date free text
28 Jul 1915 - 22 Sep 1915
Production date
From: 1915 To: 1915
Scope and Content
including:
Letter of 28 July 1915 mentioning that Williams and James have a conveyance from Alexander Pym, dated 29 June 1875 of “1 acre of land with the messuage thereon situate in Sandy in ´Girtford Roads´ bounded east by land called Backsides belonging to Frederick Hogg, north and south by land of F Pym and west by a public footpath”
Letter relating to right of way to lots 73 and 74: 3 Aug 1915
W O Times suggests putting the “Pym money” out on mortgage for £800 at 5% secured on freehold property in East Ham (13 August 1915)
Letter of 16 August 1915 including “As to Stone Row Cottages it is sufficient for the present that the extent of the right of way is limited in Truin’s contract”, also mentions access of Baldrey to his plot, Great Northern Railway involved.
Letter of 18 August 1915 from W O Times “Do you mean that you will have £3000 to £4000 to invest on 3 months notice, which (except in special circumstances) could be held for a year at 4¾ or 5 per cent, besides money for more permanent landed investments on mortgage ... the Hanscombs borrowed £7000 or rather £8000 with £1000 now paid off of his then client William Hill on first mortgage of Pirton Hall and farms at Shillington – Arthur Hill who is sole executor and the only son has called it in because he as a solicitor wants to lend it out in small loans to his clients on villas etc!
Hanscomb to give full security (“I mean a new valuation”) and pay 4½ to 5%
Letter of 28 August 1915 Hawkins and Company
“Water for 71b” pond is that marked in middle of Cope’s field “and presumably the right extends only to the taking of water and does not include right of access for stock”
120a and b been bought by Biggleswade Rural District Council
Letter of 2 September 1915. Lists a number of names of the purchasers
Letter Hawkins and Company to H Preedy of 18 September 1915
relating to delay in completion of sales “We would suggest that had the sales been effected a little earlier than 8th August, a Michaelmas completion would have been much more feasible than it has proved”. A sale of this size requires an interval between contract and completion of about 3 months. We would remind you in addition that we have lost half our staff and have been unable to replace them.
Letter of 21 September 1915 same to same
Delay on reconveyance caused by objections by Leeds Smith for client.
“We quite agree that we may have been unduly optimistic as to the prospects of a Michaelmas completion, but we were naturally inclined to do our best rather than ask you to wait another year”
Level of description
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