Reference
PM/Pr/3/2
Title
General correspondence
Date free text
1944-1945
Production date
From: 1944 To: 1945
Scope and Content
including:-
farming during World War II especially problems of getting a tractor, felling trees, cultivation of lands orders, Italian and Austrian prisoners as labour, sugar beet contracts.
Farming 177 acres in Tetworth, Huntingdonshire and 166½ acres in Bedfordshire in addition to Caldecote Farm.
References to Bishop of Ely’s scheme for parishes to help increase income of Everton Benefice.
NB letter of 6 March 1944. “I only put Victoria Farm into cultivation as a small effort to produce food after your Committee had declined to take it over in its derelict state, and I personally have a very limited time for farming. If the acreages for sugar beet and potatoes put on me are fair with other farmers, and I may expect the same in future, I have no alternative but to get out of farming, as I have not personally the time to superintend the work or labour employed”
Would like Bedfordshire War Agricultural Committee to find tenants for Caldecote and Victoria Farms.
Note of 7 April 1944 showing amount of land planted by Preedy to each crop, September figures for Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.
Fire Prevention – 2 outbreaks caused by fires lit by farmers near
27 ASD RAOC Depot, Shefford
Expemptions for employees
detailed letter by T P McNical writing from Hethpool Cottages, Kirknewton (but a member of Kings College, Newcastle upon Tyne) re removing ticks from sheep. Complimentary remarks re Professor Wheldon, Principal of above College
Audit water supply to Tempsford Aerodrome. Apr 1944
Excess Profits Tax (Lands Agents Society trying to help H Preedy)
Printed booklets on “Towns and Country Planning Acts 1932 and 1943”. “The Control of Land Use” and “Employment Policy”, all issued 1944
Biggleswade Rural District Council printed papers etc.
Victoria Farm – Aircraft accident 4 Mar 1944
Plans of “Addison” type Council House spare parts for a “Hercules” type windmill
Letter from Preedy “I go into Cambridge Hospital next Monday afternoon to see what can be done to put me right, as I have been unable to do much for the last three months, especially walking”. 22 Jul 1944
At Addenbrookes Hospital Private Wards from 24-30 July, cost £22..1s
Unless health improves intends to farm nothing beyond Caldecote Farm after Michaelmas 1944
Details of farming at Caldecote sent by R Webb
Printed Advertisement for Kennedy’s and Kempe’s new Grain Drier
Printed Address of Bishop of Ely to Ely Diocesan Conference 7 Nov 1944
Preedy “better” in November 1944
First number of “Bedfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee Farm News”
War Memorials (Lieutenancy re)
Biggleswade Trade Council Conference on 1944 Education Act Feb 1945
Large Black Pig Society
1943 Profit on year’s trading £440..0s..1d
One item for 1942 and 6 July 1943- 4 April 1945
Level of description
series