ARCHIVE OF VIDLER AND COMPANY OF RYE ESTATE AGENTS, SURVEYORS AND VALUERS

• <corpname>Vidler and Company, Rye, estate agents, surveyors and valuers</corpname>
• <corpname>James C Vidler, Rye, auctioneer and land agent</corpname>
• <corpname>James C Vidler, Son and Clements, Rye</corpname>

Records deposited 16 Sep 1966 (ACC 768), 2 Aug 1980 (ACC 2600), 3 Jul 1990 (ACC 5529)

The firm had been established in Rye by c1826 by John Vidler (1789-1854), a port officer, auctioneer and merchant. He was Mayor of Rye in 1839, 1845 and 1850, and a JP from 1845 until his death in 1854. He was in partnership with a Mr Reeve from 1826 to 1843 and then with his second son until 1854

John Vidler had married in 1816 Mary Ann (1791-1855) the daughter of John Amon. Their second son, James Coleman Vidler (1825-1898), joined his father's auctioneering business in c1852

On the death of John Vidler in 1854 the firm continued trading as James C Vidler, Auctioneer and Land Agent until 1878 when he was joined by his son Ernest James Vidler (1858-1933) and George Frederick Clements. They traded as Messrs James C Vidler, Son and Clements

James C Vidler was Mayor of Rye in 1881 and 1886, and a JP from 1884 to 1896. On his death in 1896 the firm became known as Messrs Vidler and Clements

George Frederick Clements died in 1904 and in 1907 Ernest J Vidler disposed of the auctioneering part of his business to Messrs Reeve, Finn and Company, who continued to trade as Messrs Vidler and Company. Ernest J Vidler continued to act as a tenant right and general valuer, and estate agent until his retirement in 1920, when the business was acquired by Vidler and Company

The firm during its activities incorporated two formerly independent companies - Messrs Reeve and Finn of Lydd in Kent and Messrs Howse and Company of Beckley. The firm had offices in Rye, Lydd and Hastings, and business at Rye and Ore cattle markets

The Company was acquired by Prudential Property Services during the course of the 1980s

Vidlers, in common with many other firms of valuers, used an alphabetical code for numerical values in compiling tenant right valuations. The phrase 'golden mark' was used, whereby G had a value of one, O a value of two and so on to K which has a value of zero

Company records

VID/1/1 Partnership agreements; 1882

VID/1/2 Partners' call books; 1959-1972

VID/1/3 Dissolution of the partnership; 1907

Administrative records

VID/2/1 Valuations, unnumbered series; 1834-1890

VID/2/2 Valuation books, main series; 1853-1961

VID/2/3 Survey and valuation books; 1880-1924

VID/2/4 Valuation reports; 1920-1950

VID/2/5 Lists and indexes; 1873-1950

VID/2/6 Timber valuations; 1866-1950

VID/2/7 Inherited records: copies of documents; 1708-1813

VID/2/8 Auction books, early series; 1826-1837

VID/2/9 Auction books, main series; 1912-1957

VID/2/10 Auction books, second series; 1924-1932

VID/2/11 Auction books, real property and wood sales; 1948-1968

VID/2/12 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, valuation books; 1879-1977

VID/2/13 Inherited records: Howse and Company, valuation books; 1918-1965

VID/2/14 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, early valuation books; 1882-1891

VID/2/15 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, unnumbered series of valuation books; 1920-1969

VID/2/16 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, indexes; 1901 - 1921

VID/2/17 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, early auction books; 1883-1890

VID/2/18 Inherited records: Reeve and Finn, auction books; 1889-1966

Financial records

VID/3/1 Clients' account ledgers; 1877-1957

VID/3/2 Auctions, markets and sales ledgers; 1909-1955

VID/3/3 Clients' rent ledgers; 1870-1904

VID/3/4 Clients' rent ledgers; 1888-1905

VID/3/5 Clients' rent ledgers; 1885-1905

VID/3/6 Clients' rent ledgers; 1953-1970

VID/3/7 Auctions, markets, sales and rent ledger; 1924-1946

VID/3/8 Expenses ledgers; 1925-1950

Agency records

VID/4/1 County Fire Office agent's account books; 1918-1949

VID/4/2 Sun Fire Office printed material; 1910

Vidler and Company: clients' records

VID/5/1 Burra family; 1882-1955

VID/5/2 Henry Curteis Burra of The Chapel House, Rye; 1914-1954

VID/5/3 Richard Curteis Pomfret of The Hooks, Playden; 1914-1960

VID/5/4 Edward Barrett Hodges Curteis; 1880-1946

VID/5/5 Denise Harriott Burra; 1918-1945

VID/5/6 Mrs Frances Curteis; 1880-1922

VID/5/7 Major Edward Barrett Curteis of Leasam, Rye; 1854-1888

VID/5/8 General Reginald Laurence Herbert Curteis; 1865-1967

VID/5/9 Anne Mary Curteis; [1766]-1925

VID/5/10 Curteis family; [1799]-1920

VID/5/11 Rye Cattle Market Company Limited; 1911-1937

VID/5/12 Rye Farmers Club; 1908-1915

VID/5/13 Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Bt of St Leonards; 1851-1935

VID/5/14 Katherine Elizabeth Richardson; 1919-1952

VID/5/15 Charles James Bannister of Salcote Place, Playden; 1905-1940

VID/5/16 Nathaniel Lloyd of Great Dixter, Northiam; 1910-1939

VID/5/17 Executors of Captain Charles Edward Pennefather of Hays, Beckley; 1888-1969

VID/5/18 Harold Wilfred Armine Freese-Pennefather; 1906-1935

VID/5/19 Mrs H C C Kenrick; 1875-1932

VID/5/20 Trustees of Lieutenant Edward Peter Blake Frewen of Brickwall, Northiam; 1845-1972

VID/5/21 Victor A G A Warrender, Lord Bruntisfield of Leasam, Rye; 1900-1948

VID/5/22 William Allen Jowitt, KC of Budds Farm, Wittersham, Kent; 1920-1936

VID/5/23 Trustees of John Pankhurst of Holmans Farm, Stone, Kent; 1869-1947

VID/5/24 Executors of John Paine of the Fleur de Lis, Brenzett, Kent; 1913-1946

VID/5/25 C L Laurence-Pix of Woodside, Peasmarsh; 1900-1920

VID/5/26 Winchelsea Beach Estate; 1922-1934

VID/5/27 Ilythia Theodula Phipson of St Anthony of Pardua, Rye; 1938-1941

VID/5/28 Messrs Shipman and King of The Old Picture Palace, Rye; 1944-1948

VID/5/29 Muriel Gwendoline Marsden of The Railway Hotel, Rye; 1941-1946

VID/5/30 C P Aiken Trust, Jeake's House, Rye; 1944-1947

VID/5/31 Parish of Playden; 1844-1940

VID/5/32 Parish of East Guldeford; 1839-1940

VID/5/33 Parish of Northiam; 1875-1940

VID/5/34 Parish of Rye; 1840-1940

VID/5/35 Parish of Winchelsea; 1842-1945

VID/5/36 Mary Marshall of Rye; 1716-1923

VID/5/37 Rother and Jury's Gut Catchment Board; 1930

VID/5/38 Mrs S E Springate of Hawkhurst, Kent; 1879-1907

Other records

VID/6/1 Vidler and Howse: sale particulers; 1864-1965

Inherited records: Howse and Company, clients records

VID/7/1 Parish of Beckley; 1841-1936

VID/7/2 Thomas Gibson; 1706-1865

VID/7/3 Parish of Northiam; 1852-1921

VID/7/4 G D Bishopp; 1882

VID/7/5 Augustus Langham Christie of Glyndebourne; 1916

VID/7/6 Colonel Geoffrey William Liddell of Peasemarsh Place, Peasemarsh; 1866-1930

VID/7/7 Parish of Peasmarsh; 1889

VID/7/8 Parish of Broomhill; 1924