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Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Policy 217,925

5 May 1886

From: 1886 To: 1886

Charles Powers Trustees insured on 1/7th of total values given below 1) Building of oil mill, engine and boilerhouse all communicating £3000 2) Steam engine in engine house £1000 3) Machinery mounted and in use, millwright’s work and fixed utensils £2500 4) Building of oil cake store communicating with oil mill by double iron doors only £700 5) Building oil store detached about 30 ft from last £300 6) Building of dwelling house and offices, brick, timber, tiled and thatch detached about 40 ft from mill 7) Building of cooperage and blacksmith’s shop adjoining 6), brick, timber, tiled All buildings brick, stone, tile or slate unless otherwise stated called South Mills, Blunham Sole tenure of Messrs Archdale and Lindsell. Mill being 5 storeys high with boilerhouse communicating, lit by electric light only. Working:- 1 pair of edgerunners and “2 sets of rolls in connection therewith” Linseed and Egyptian Cotton seed only crushed in it. Policy void “if any gin and decorticator, huller or other machine for cleaning cotton or if any disintegrator or horizontal stones are used” or if any other cottonseed other than Egyptian or if bisulphide of carbon or other chemical of inflammable nature is used. £8000 total value insured for £1157..3s

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Powers, Charles,
Charles Powers and Co.,
Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company,
Archdale, Frederick,
Lindsell, Arthur Knox

Hooper & Fletcher, business correspondence, buildings and land use, insurance, Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company, Blunham South Mills, MILLS, oil cake maker, steam engines, manufacturing machinery, agricultural machinery, millwright, tools, Store Room, HOUSING, offices, cooper, blacksmith, shops, lighting, linseed, cotton, restrictive covenants