Ancient & Old Records
New Alresford Town Trust: Clerk's general correspondence (7M50/F)
This section consists principally of original bundles and files of correspondence, together with some correspondence found unbridled. For the period 1943-53 there appear to be at least two separate series of files, with no obvious division of subject-matter. Although a few items in both series are addressed to the Chairman rather than the Clerk, the majority of items in both sets of files appear to have been detitle with by the Clerk. During this period the clerk was Sidney Charles Lane, managing clerk to Messrs Shield and Son, and Mr G E R Shield was a member of the Trust, and for most of the period was Chairman, so it is possible that their correspondence relating to the Trust was combined in the firm's filing system.
7M5O/F1
Clerk's general correspondence (original bundle) Includes correspondence concerning water supply, financial and procedural makers, and application of Covey's Charity to the financing of scholarships at Perin's School
1890-1892
7M50/F2
Clerk's general correspondence (original bundle) Includes letters concerning water supply, Broad Street sidings (correspondence with Alresford Highway Board and others), Covey's Charity (School) and other parish charities, and transfer of clerkship from W H Kneller to Arthur Hall and then to George Bingham
1893-1895
7M50/F3
Clerk's general correspondence (original bundle) Include correspondence on financial matters, arrangements for delivery of steam roundabout to space in front of the Horse and Groom Inn at Alresford Fair (Oct 1899), and supply of gravel
1896-1901
7M50/F4
Clerk's correspondence (found unbundled)
3 items
1901-1909
7M50/F5
Clerk's correspondence (found unbundled)
Includes correspondence concerning appointment of
trustees, financial matters, Recreation Ground (including
proposed air show, 1938), proposed installation of water
pipe in The Avenue by the Alresford Water Company (1940),
improvements to Old Fire Station for use by ARP personnel,
with ground plan (1940), and exemption of Lamb Fair from
Weighing of Cattle Acts (1942)
Also includes superseded agreement with Dudley George
Grace, motor mechanic, for tenancy of the east end of The
Avenue (1943)
1936-1944
7M60/F6
Clerk's correspondence file
1943
7M50/F7
Clerk's correspondence file
Also includes a small amount of correspondence from 1938
onwards, primarily relating to the fair tolls
1943-1945
7M50/F8
Clerk's correspondence file
1945
7M50/F9
Clerk's correspondence file
1946-1948
7M50/F10
Clerk's correspondence file
1948-1949
7M5O/F11
Clerk's correspondence file
1949-1950
7M5O/F12
Clerk's correspondence file
1950-1951
7M5O/F13
Clerk's correspondence file
Includes correspondence with New Alresford Coronation
Committee, including programme of children's events to
mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
1951-1953
7M50/F14
Clerk's: correspondence file Includes correspondence concerning the de-requisitioning of the Old Fire Station and Recreation Ground after the end of Second World War (also covered in other contemporary files)
1944-1946
M50/F15
Clerk's correspondence
52 items
1944-1945
7M50/F16
Clerk's correspondence
92 items
1946
7M59/F17
Clerk's correspondence, 1947-48 and undated 1940s
material
19 items
1947-1948
7M50/F18
Clerk's correspondence file, 1951-1953, mostly 1953
91 items
1951-1953
7M50/F19
Clerk's correspondence file
205 items
1953-1955
7M50/F20
Clerk's correspondence file
250 items
1956-1959
7M50/F21
Clerk's correspondence, mostly 1954-1960
212 items
1954-1960