Agents bundles

The agents kept their papers in subject bundles, and this arrangement has been retained. The bundles contain correspondence, plans, deeds and other types of documents, which are not mentioned elsewhere in the catalogue.

The two agents involved with the estate in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, (the period covered by these bundles) were Alfred Ford, (AF) c.1875-1913 and, from 1913, Frederick Crossley (FC).

Unless otherwise stated all letters from Sir James, Sir Ughtred (later 1st Baron Shuttleworth), 2nd Baron Shuttleworth, AF and FC were written from Gawthorpe. Messrs. Farrer, Outry and Co., of 66 Lincolns Inn Fields, London were the estate solicitors and are referred to below as Messrs. Farrer and Co.

General

DDKS 25/1 Copyholds, 1737-43, 1873-1914

DDKS 25/2 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 1865-1904

DDKS 25/3 Sales of Ground Rents, 1898-1940

DDKS 25/4 Sale Particulars, 1880-1938

DDKS 25/5 Streets, lighting and water undertakings, 1924-41

DDKS 25/6 Tithes, 1907

Topographical: Lancashire For Burnley, Scott Street see DDKS 25/19

DDKS 25/7 Burnley, St. Cuthbert's Vicarage, 1915

DDKS 25/8 Burnley, Glen View Golf Club, 1919-23

DDKS 25/9 Gawthorpe Hall alterations, 1850-52, 1909-24

DDKS 25/10 Gawthorpe Ings Drainage, 1903-10

DDKS 25/11 Habergham Eaves, Higher and Lower Holes Farms, 1879-1909

DDKS 25/12 Habergham Eaves, All Saints Vicarage, 1899-1902

DDKS 25/13 Inskip National School, 1902-4

DDKS 25/14 Inskip shooting rights and rateable value of land, 1917-43

DDKS 25/15 Inskip Baptist Chapel, 1935-36

DDKS 25/16 Myerscough with Sowerby, Morily Farm, 1878-79

DDKS 25/17 Padiham, St. Matthew's C.E. School, 1857-c.1905

DDKS 25/18 Padiham, Whitegate Quarry, 1879-1915

DDKS 25/19 Padiham, Whitegate Lane and Burnley, Scott Street, 1893-6

Sowerby, see Myerscough

DDKS 25/20 Standen Mill, c. 1900-18

Topographical: non-Lancashire

DDKS 25/21/1-58, 25/23-25, 27 constitute an original bundle labelled 'Barbon Farms'

DDKS 25/21 Barbon, Fell House and Oak Tree Farms, 1855-1915

DDKS 25/22 Barbon Water supply, 1892-1939

DDKS 25/23 Barbon, Middleton and Dent Tithes and boundaries, 1902-3

DDKS 25/24 Barbon churchyard, 1893-1915

DDKS 25/25 Barbon station hotel, 1905-1938

DDKS 25/26 Fisheries, 1909-19

DDKS 25/27 Middleton, Yew Tree and Eskholme Farms, 1890-1905