Reference
Z1578/Bed/19/1
Title
Abstract of Title
Date free text
1958
Production date
From: 1905 To: 1958
Scope and Content
Abstract of Title of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Bedford to freehold land known as Brickhil lFarm, Bedford
(I) Conveyance of 24 July 1922
Parties:
(i) Sir George Alan Thomas of 45 Stanley Gardens, Hampstead [London];
(ii) Frank Brightman of 48 Ashburnham Road, Bedford, farmer
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a)-(b) to (ii) for £5,000
Property:
(a) Brickhill House with outbuildings, gardens and plantations and farmhouse, homestead, farm buildings and fields called Brickhill Farm in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton
(b) Knott's Corner in Bedford, Saint Peter de Merton containing 184 acres, 3 roods, 21 poles
Covenant:
- by (i) to produce scheduled deeds
Schedule
- Indenture of 5 October 1905 (1) Arthur Foster; (2) Horace Frederick Fuller;
- Indenture of 19 February 1913 (1) Arthur Foster; (2) Edmund Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Robert Septimus Gardiner
(II) Mortgage of 25 July 1922
Parties:
(i) Frank Brightman;
(ii) Sir George Alan Thomas
Operative Part:
- (ii) conveyed (a)-(b) in (I) to (ii) subject to equity of redemption as security for £3,500 at 5.5% interest
(III) Receipt of 5 July 1933 from Sir George Alan Thomas acknowledging redemption to the mortgage
(IV) Death of Frank Brightman at 42 de Parys Avenue, Bedford on 18 February 1956
(V) Probate of 19 April 1956 the will of Frank Brightman of 8 November 1949 at Exeter DPR to executors Caleb Reginald Daniel of Jubilee Bungalow, Woodfield Lane, Renhold, cemetery registrar, retired; Eric John Mears of 137 Goldington Road, Bedford, estate agent and Francis Charles Victor Brightman of Haisthorpe, Warnham [Sussex] medical practitioner and nephew of Frank
(VI) Memorandum of conveyance of 1 June 1956 by (i) Caleb Reginald Daniel, Eric John Mears and Francis Charles Victor Brightman to (ii) Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Borough of Bedford of part of Brickhill Farm containing 153.697 acres as shown on included plan
(VII) Land Registry Search 318193/56 against Caleb Reginald Daniel, Eric John Mears, Francis Charles Victor Brightman and Frank Brightman revealing an entry against Frank Brightman of a binding Contract for sale to the corporation as in (VIII)
(VIII) Conveyance of 1 June 1956
Parties:
(i) Caleb Reginald Daniel, Eric John Mears and Francis Charles Victor Brightman;
(ii) Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Bedford
Reciting:
- Frank Brightmamn seized of (a) at his death;
- prior to death Frank Brightman had made a binding contract to sell (a) to Bedford Corporation for £17,650;
- death and probate of will of Frank Brightman;
- (i) had not made any conveyance of (a);
- (i) agreed to complete the conveyance of (a) as per the contract
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) for £17,650
Property (as shown on included plan):
(a) 153.697 acres of Brickhill Farm
(IX) Memorandum of 10 November 1959 relating sale to David Edward Morris of Plot 211
(X) Letter from Ministry of Housing and Local Government granting consent for the corporation to sell the land in (IX)
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