QSR1905/2/10/1/a(iii), a(iv)

Borough of Luton; Wheras on 7th February 1905 the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Lurton in the County of Bedford in Council assembled on application by or on behalf of Messrs Harry Arnold and James Squires resolved that John Ashurst the Acting Surveyor of and for the said Borough of Luton be authorised to give all notices and do all acts and things legally necessary to lead to the stopping up as useless and unnecessary and diversion of a certain footpath or public hightway, known as the 'Bury Path'.

6th March 1905

From: 1905 To: 1905

Bury Path leading from Dunstable Road and running in a westerly direction and parallel with and adjoining the Great Northern Railway for a distance of 173 yards of thereabouts from Dunstable Road to a point near the signal box of the said railway thence in a north westerly direction for a distance of 123 yards , such a path being of a total width of 6 feet and that in lieu of the said footpath so to be stopped up asaforesaid a new footpath to be made from a point in Dunstable Road nearly opposite the South West end of Francis Street and extending in a Westerly directon until the same joins with the existing footpath know as Bury Path at a point 296 yards from Dunstable Road. The proposed new footpath crosses land owned by Harry Arnold and James Squires whose consent in writing has been obtained and whereas in pursuance of an application the said John Ashurst as Acting Surveyor asaforesaid in that behalf made to us William Richards Philips and Robert Smith Tomson Esquires, being two of His Majestys Justices of the Peace . The said Justices did direct, on 9th February 1905, the Acting Surveyor to affix and publish a notice, placed at the side of each end of the portion of footpath to be stopped up and diverted, the same notice to be placed in a certain newspaper 'Bedfordshire Advertiser' on dates in February and March before the Quarter Sessions . Dated 6th March 1905, signed R S Tomson, W R Philips Justices of the Peace for the said Borough

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Arnold, Harry,
Squires, James,
Philips, William Richards,
Tomson, Robert Smith

LUTON, footpaths