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Correspondence regarding Sale of Brewery

Nov - Dec 1897

From: 1897 To: 1897

Bundle of correspondence Mainly regarding Valuation of Biggleswade Brewery by Alfred Thomas, Peyer and Miles, brewery auctioneers and valuers and accountants of 2 Adelaide Place, London; includes letter, A K Lindsell, Lonsdale House, Bedford to T J Hooper Thomas etc. want ½% commission i.e. £500 at least Letter, Joint General Manager of Capital and Counties Bank Limited of 29 Threadneedle Street, London EC offering to buy old bank premises of Wells and Company 26 Nov 1897 Letter Union Assurance Company to Hooper; will accept letter as notice to repay mortgage by Wells and Company if brewery is sold 30 Nov 1897 Letter, F Williams, Elm Villa, Kingston on Thames to Hooper and Company; friend “ A Capitalist” anxious to purchase large brewery with tied trade – will Wells and Company sell by private treaty 2 Dec 1897 Letter, Thomas and Company to Hooper; “already had half a dozen scheming gentlemen writing and calling upon us in regard to a sale by private treaty. This is to us a well known device to get a clue as to price, profits etc.” always reply when Particulars published, private offers will be considered. “one or two country solicitors have been attempted to be got at in the same way” 29 Nov 1897 Letter, Joint General Manager of Capital and Counties Bank to T J Hooper; agrees with suggestion should buy brewery premises as well as bank and dwelling house in order to get rid of right of way 8 Dec 1897 Letter, James Hall, 20 Ashburnham Road, Bedford; wants to know if Wells and Company will sell George Hotel by private treaty as “I would like to live there and make a good house of it” 16 Dec 1897

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Wells & Co,
Alfred Thomas, Peyer & Miles,
Lindsell, Arthur Knox,
Hooper, T J,
Capital & Counties Bank Limited,
Union Assurance Society Limited,
Williams, F,
Hooper & Company,
Hall, James

Hooper & Fletcher, breweries, BIGGLESWADE, Wells & Company, legal correspondence, business correspondence, buildings and land use, AUCTION SALES, valuations, Biggleswade Brewery, Peyer & Miles Alfred Thomas, auctioneers, Bedford Lonsdale House, fees/charges, general manager, Capital and Counties Bank Limited, City of London Threadneedle Street, banks, private buildings & land, PRIVATE FINANCE, mortgages, Kingston upon Thames, Hooper & Company, business, solicitors, rights of way, Bedford Ashburnham Road, Bedford George Hotel, BEDFORD, HOUSING