ARCHIVE OF A BURTENSHAW AND SON OF HAILSHAM, AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS

The collection is in the course of being listed.

SUMMARY OF CLASSES SO FAR LISTED

BUR/1 Company records; 19th and 20th centuries

No classes yet formed and listed

BUR/2 Administrative records; 1850-1988

BUR/2/1 Auction and valuation books; 1850-1958

BUR/2/2 Valuations of individual properties; 1915-1980

BUR/2/3 Separate yellow valuation books for single properties; 1975-1983

BUR/2/4 Unnumbered yellow valuation books; 1983-1988

BUR/2/5 Unnumbered red valuation books; c1981-1987

BUR/3 Clients' records; 19th and 20th centuries

No classes yet formed and listed

UNLISTED RECORDS: Stock sales at Golden Cross, Hailsham and Wood Corner; 1946-1963

Chronologically arranged property sale files (32 boxes)

Chronologically arranged auction, valuation and estate files (148 boxes)

Claims for depreciation of land values; 1940s-1950s (2 boxes)

Town and Country Planning Act applications; 1956-1979 (4 boxes)

Oddments (1 box)

Annual bundles of sale particulars; 1880s-1960s

Index to sale particulars; 1927-1968

Files on individual valuations, arranged in annual blocks; 1931-1973

Individual property file series; 1971-1973

Company records and ledgers, 19th-20th centuries, including Pevensey tithe collecting book, 1881

Three rolls of Ordnance survey maps

Correspondence files with Southern Water Authority and predecessors concerning farms and properties managed by the firm; c1970-1980

General particulars; 1980s

Ordnance Survey 25-inch sheets, various editions (14 drawers); late 19th - early 20th centuries

Sale particulars; 1920s (1 bdl)

Eastbourne Waterworks arbitration papers; 1897

Documents are closed to public inspection for 30 years from the last date of a document

Deposited by Cornerstone Estate Agency Limited, 2 Jun 1994 (ACC 6345)

This collection comprises the archive of the firm of A Burtenshaw and Son of Hailsham, auctioneers and valuers. This was the title of the firm between at least 1899 and 1967. The firm originated with Samuel Southerden who was in business in 1850, is listed in the 1851 census as an auctioneer and in Kelly's Directory for 1855 as auctioneer, appraiser, house and estate agent, Hailsham, trading also as a wine and spirit merchant in 1862 and 1867. By 1878 and in 1887 the firm was Southerden, Morris and Burtenshaw, auctioneers, valuers and estate agents, Hailsham and Lewes. By 1895 the partnership had split, and in 1899 Kelly's listed two firms, A Burtenshaw and Son, auctioneers and estate agents, Market Square, Hailsham, and Herbert Morris and Son, auctioneers, valuers and estate agents, 203 High Street, Lewes. The former continued under that name until at least 1967, but by 1975 was known as Messrs Burtenshaw, Thornton and Company. It was taken over by Cornerstone, Abbey National Estate Agents in about 1987. The 347 branches of Cornerstone's were the subject of a management buy-out led by Bill McClintock and Tony Snarey (backed by Provident Life) in September 1993 and they renamed the company Cornerstone Estate Agency Limited. Their local offices were at Hailsham, Uckfield and Heathfield.

The partners of A Burtneshaw and Son were also the principal shareholders in the Hailsham Cattle Market Company. However, when ownership of the two firms diverged the records of the cattle market remained in the custody of Burtenshaw's and they were included in the deposit of their records in 1994. Subsequently, however they were reclaimed by the cattle market company and re-deposited at this office (see ACC 6982).