Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF41/1/1/25
  • Title
    Correspondence; mainly Law Union and Crown Fire and Life Insurance Company of 126 Chancery Lane, London; regarding destruction by fire at 1 and 2 High Street, Sandy
  • Date free text
    May - Oct 1893
  • Production date
    From: 1893 To: 1893
  • Scope and Content
    Hooper and Company on behalf of Wells and Company Claim £865 26 May 1893 Insurance Company feel £39..9s..4d amount demanded by Sandy Fire Brigade an “unreasonable demand and the time stated to be occupied, 14 hours, out of character” “no satisfactory explanation as to the cause of the fire but it occurred in Ellerbeck’s premises, a secondhand clothes dealer” 1 Jun 1893 Letter from C B Cooper of Rectory Farm, Sandy, waywarden asking for fallen materials to be removed 3 Jun 1893 Further letter from Cooper “What I complain off is the Rubbish, caused through fallen material consisting of a great quantity of bricks, morter, stone, cement etc. at present on the foot path and the road where the fire cccured. What I want you to do is to have the Rubbish removed or give me orders to do so as it completely blocks up the path causing people to go into the road and the children are continually strewing them about causing a danger to horses etc. after dark” 19 Jun 1893 Insurance Company will write to their surveyor to have the bricks cleared up at once 21 Jun 1893 Loss adjusted to £732..10s 5 Jul 1893 Covering note for £732..15s to Wells, Hogge and Lindsell 11 Jul 1893 Letter from Guy Pym, Caesar’s Camp talk of getting better Post Office in Sandy, interested in site 8 Sep 1893 from same such demand for site, no chance of acting quick enough 13 Sep 1893 Headed Bill due to French and Ellwood, builders and contractors, plumbers, glaziers, gas fitters, cabinet makers, house decorators and undertakers – London Office 9 Victoria Street, Westminster SW.; Bricklayers Stores, Church Road, Sandy and plumbing and painting works, Avenue Road, Sandy from Hooper and Fletcher for fixing 2 notice boards for 2 houses at Sandy and putting up notices issued by Spong and Son 14 Oct 1893
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