Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BMB4/1/18/17/2
  • Title
    Correspondence relating to insurance claim for haystack fire at Heath & Reach.
  • Date free text
    Apr 1914
  • Production date
    From: 1914 To: 1914
  • Scope and Content
    Reports that the fire was due to 'incendiarism'. A tramp named Daniel Burns was arrested and charged. 'His record for similar offences is a bad one, he having served upwards of 15 years imprisonment at different times.' Claim settled at £35. Includes letters from the Leighton Buzzard Fire Brigade and the tenant, E.E. Kestell [of Kingswood Farm, Heath & Reach]
  • Level of description
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