• Reference
    PM/Pr/3/3
  • Title
    General correspondence
  • Date free text
    18 Nov1943-10 Mar 1944
  • Production date
    From: 1943 To: 1944
  • Scope and Content
    including:- correspondence re ridging plough with Bedford Plough and Engineering Company Limited (successor to J and F Howard Limited – Engineering Section) good headed notepaper showing Britannia Works Cultivation of Land Orders fertilising marginal lands brought under cultivation because of war Letters to and from Alan Lennox-Boyd MP re labour for farm Printed letter from Secretary of Parochial Church Council of Everton appealing for money to augment Benefice’s income (Ely Diocesan Scheme) (see also letter of 24 February 1944) Printed Advertisement of Parmiter’s Expanding and other Rakes (Tilsbury, Wiltshire) Correspondence with Large Black Pig Society Copy of note of H Preedy employed by L R Pym MP, 7 Sloane Street, London SW1 farms 800 acres himself and agent for c.10,000 acres 9 Feb 1944 Letter including phrase: “my real trouble is I should like to get out of Caldecote Farm, if anyone is fool enough to take it” 16 Feb 1944 Letting of Whitewood Cottage to Mrs Argyle Appeal for modification of potato and sugar beet order. Letter from Bedfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee allowing Preedy and L R Pym’s lands to be dealt with by Huntingdonshire War Agricultural Committee Pay as You Earn Taxation Letter from Preedy to L R Pym Vicar had announced lease to School buildings expired in 1946 and had discussed with Pym question of returning it to Church Schools Difficulties of Mrs Peck, a keen worker at the local Chapel. 9 Mar 1944
  • Level of description
    series