General correspondence file concerning enquiries applying for land in the Eastern...

General correspondence file concerning enquiries applying for land in the Eastern Division, i.e. in the area of Sandy, including correspondence with occupiers, land agents, and owners of land re: offers of land to the Beds. County Council for Smallholdings (usually following a request from the County Land Agent; inspections and schedules giving names of owner and occupier, the area concerned, and surveyor's remarks on the quality of the land); agreements and settlement of terms, compensation, and other related details; some letters, re- the administration of Small-holdings in the area, involving transfers, payment of rents, repairs, audit reports, etc.

Further correspondence including: letter from Willmot, Willmot, and Pinney of Birmingham, land agents, to Sir Trustram Eve [who resigned as Land Agent to the County Council in 1919] re- the felling of trees on Lord Peel's Sandy estate; letter from Ernest Brown of Beeston, market gardener, asking the County Land Agent to try and sell certain fillies for him (May 1920); letters from the Secretary of the Sandy Branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Soldiers and Sailors (17 Nov 1919) complaining that 'the Council is taking very little step to secure our men Land' and re-iterating the same forcibly, e.g.'...now we want a little bit of land for our trouble & we are going to have it now. I hope these gentlemen will realise that is our position if we don't soon get some sort of answer we shall come out- there is a million & a half of us & then there will be trouble...'

Acc.23895

[Ex AOC packet no. 30 inscribed 'Eastern Division: Sandy- General No.1'; old file ref. 27 S.H.; formerly catalogued as AO/A2/5]