Papers relating to "the property adjoining the Savings Bank, Cockermouth

Book containing:

Shareholders' dividend accounts (front), 1848-1901

Treasurer's accounts (back), 1847-1901

Draft minutes of shareholders' meeting, July 1848, list of shareholders, 1848, and memorandum of lease and dividend (inserted loose at front), July, 1848

Quarto volume; vignette of Flimby Lodge on cover.

Items relating to the Property itself

Lawbill to Mr Pearson Coulthard (tenant) and others, for sale of land adjoining the Savings Bank to the County for site of Lock-up, April 1854, 1855

Counterpart lease of the property

1. Richard Senhouse of The Fitz Esq. and others.

2. Joseph Fleming of Devonshire Street and Little Dockray, Penrith, grocer and patent medicine seller.

Term 7 years

Rent £35 4 April 1887

With 2 letters from solicitors to lessee, and reply, relating to structural alterations and reduction of the premises' area, (stapled to lease), 21-28 April 1897

Fire insurance policy

Sum insured: £600. Premium: 15s.

Mentions gas stove in shop 21 July 1882

Letter from the insurers concerning same. 20 July 1896

Legal

Bowerbank and others v. Senhouse and others

Bill of costs (1894-1897), receipted, 1897

Memorandum declaring trusts on which shares of the property conveyed by indenture of 12 July 1897 by Bowerbank and others, are held, 19 July 1897

Draft receipt and undertaking of Mr Lowthian and Mr Jennings, 1901

Correspondence, 1874-1928

Will of Miss Mary Lowthian of Acorn Lodge, Keswick, spinster, proved at Carlisle. 19 August 1918

Financial statements, 1893-1928

Bank books (2), 1894-1912, 1912-1921

Cheque-book counterfoils (16), 1894-1926

Receipts for dividends and capital (staped together) 1911-1928

Vouchers (receipted) 1878-1928

The property was owned by a group of shareholders; from its annual rent a dividend was paid in July. The shareholders included Dr R Bell; his son HP Senhouse was Treasurer from 1895-1911. The property (a house and shop) was occupied by the following:-

Pearson Coulthard, 1847 - 1870

Henry Norman, draper, 1870 - 1877

Jane Norman, 1878 - 1886

Joseph Fleming, 1887-1901 or after.

The property was sold in 1928.