Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF41/2/13/2
  • Title
    Letters
  • Date free text
    1888 - 1896
  • Production date
    From: 1888 To: 1896
  • Scope and Content
    including A K Lindsell to T J Hooper (for trustees) cannot see how we can afford to pay a higher rent than that proposed in last letter i.e £300 per annum, found this from experience of last 3 years proposes 5 year lease at £300 per annum (with option to continue) if new boiler or engine absolutely necessary the same to be put in by lessors if by lessees then to be their property and sold to lessors at a valuation. proposes considerable reduction in insurance cover letter from George Walter Powers 2 Jan 1888 letter from George Walter Powers, 52 Letterstone Road, Fulham to Hooper and Company regarding above, would like late father’s estate wound up once and for all and do away with the un-settled condition of affairs which has obtained for the last 4 years 5 Jan 1888 headed notepaper of Frederick Gee, wholesale and retail seed and plant grower, seed merchant and nurseryman of Biggleswade. Seed and nursery establishments, Sun Street and Fairfield deleted, replaced by Riverford. Seed, root and plant grounds, Hunger Hill, The Dells and Stratton. Under the distinguished patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Commissioners on the Stagsden Estate, Principal Noblemen, Clergy and Gentry of the United Kingdom. quotes reference in Agricultural Gazette 31 July 1876 and Bedford Mercury 29 July 1876 [NB Frederick Gee in 1894 is living at Riverford House, Biggleswade, former house of Misses Powers (daughters of Charles)]
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