Speen Farm - Revision history

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← Older revision		Revision as of 08:41, 8 July 2024
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	For more information go to the [[Home of Rest for Horses]], [[1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing]] and [[1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)]]		For more information go to the [[Home of Rest for Horses]], [[1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing]] and [[1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)]]

−	''(A copy of the Report by Peter Larson for The Horse Trust entitled "Rebuilding the Trust". Also a copy of an article by The Horse Trust entitled "The Horse Trust Remembers Hyde Park Horses Sefton and Echo" are archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])''~~{{Property~~	+	''(A copy of the Report by Peter Larson for The Horse Trust entitled "Rebuilding the Trust". Also a copy of an article by The Horse Trust entitled "The Horse Trust Remembers Hyde Park Horses Sefton and Echo" are archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])''
−	~~\|Construction Era=1600-1699, 1823 Enclosures Record~~
−	~~\|Type of Property=House, Farm, Cottage, Land, Wood~~
−	~~\|Use of Property=Business~~
−	~~\|Village=Lacey Green, Speen~~
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 '''NEW COTTAGE'''
-In May 1961, Hugh Buckingham took out a loan from the Lands Improvement Company, part of the Ministry of Agriculture, for £1,619 @ 51/2 % per annum, in order to build a cottage for farm staff.    '''''Research note.'''  The cottage was to be at the entrance off [[Slad Lane]] and called [[Lodge Cottage]].''   (A copy of this loan document is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])
+In May 1961, Hugh Buckingham took out a loan from the Lands Improvement Company, part of the Ministry of Agriculture, for £1,619 @ 51/2 % per annum, in order to build a cottage for farm staff.    '''''Research note.'''  The cottage was to be at the entrance off [[Slad Lane]] and called [[Speen Farm Lodge]]''  (A copy of this loan document is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])
 '''SHERMER MEADOW SOLD TO JOHN WEST'''
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 In 1971 Dr & Mrs Dickson sold Speen Farm to the charity 'The Horses Trust'.  The managers were army vets.for many years.  The first was Colonel Lewis Bowen, followed by Major John Spurry
-For more information go to [[1971 new Home of Rest for Horses]], [[1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing]] and [[1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)]]
+For more information go to  the [[Home of Rest for Horses]], [[1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing]] and [[1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)]]
 ''(A copy of the Report by Peter Larson for The Horse Trust entitled "Rebuilding the Trust".   Also a copy of an article by The Horse Trust entitled "The Horse Trust Remembers Hyde Park Horses Sefton and Echo" are archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])''{{Property

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 '''DOCUMENTS HELD'''
-Following the sale in 1837 of the freehold, Speen Farm and [[Darvills Hill Farm]], copyhold, the documents were held by the purchaser of the largest property, as was the custom.   This was [[Sir William Lawrence Young,]] who lived at North Dean.   (Put 'absentee' in Search for similar landlords)
+Following the sale in 1837 of the freehold, Speen Farm and [[Darvills Hill Farm]], copyhold, the documents were held by the purchaser of the largest property, as was the custom.   This was [[Sir William Lawrence Young]], who lived at North Dean.   (Put 'absentee' in Search for similar landlords)
 '''SPEEN FARM TENANTS'''
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 . Messrs [[Hatt Brothers]].   ( see under Mrs Eveline Forrest, below)
-'''MRS EVELYN FORREST'''
+'''Evelyn Forrest of [[Grymsdyke]], died in 1905.'''   It is stated in the recent ‘Domesday’ record - "Speen Farm.   Executors of Mrs Evelyn Forrest, dec’d.   Tenants Messrs [[Hatt Brothers]].   Homestead, premises and land, 134 acres, approximately.
-Evelyn Forrest of [[Grymsdyke]], died in 1905.   It is stated in the recent ‘Domesday’ record
+'''John Forrest inherited from his wife.'''   He died in 1910.    His executors sold to the Hatt Bros. (tenants)[[File:Horse Trudging.jpg|thumb|The Timberbob, sketch by Brian Panter.(click [[Brian & Nell Panter]])]]
-SPEEN FARM.   Executors of Mrs Evelyn Forrest, dec’d.   Tenants Messrs [[Hatt Brothers]].   Homestead, premises and land, 134 acres, approximately.
+'''1911 census.'''   Frederick Hatt, 41, & Walter Hatt 38, brothers, farmers.   Also William Rogers, 27, nephew, waggoner
 They also ran a timber carting business, collecting tree trunks from Hampden Woods on a timber-bob to deliver to furniture factories.  It took 6 horses to load and pull the timber-bob.   The timber-bob and horses are vividly described in the book 'Children in a Bodger's World by Mosh Saunders.   Click [[Mosh & Trudy Saunders]]  for the lives of Mosh & Trudy Saunders.
-'''ISHBEL ALLEN RIDGLEY'''
+'''June 1st 1938 Ishbel Allen Ridgley, nee McDonald purchased Speen Farm from Frederick and Walter Hatt.'''
 [[File:Norman & Ishbel.jpg|left|thumb|Norman and Ishbel Ridgley.(click [[Ishbel MacDonald]])]]
-June 1<sup>st</sup> 1938.   Purchased Speen Farm from [[Frederick & Walter Hatt]]
+Ishbel was the daughter of Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald.   She had been the hostess at 10, Downing Street, for her father.   When he retired she bought [[The Plough]]<nowiki/>at [[Flowers Bottom]].  The entrance to Speen Farm was beside the pub.   She married Norman Ridgley and bought Speen Farm, where they then lived.    It was said to be very run down, but most farms were, as there had been a great depression.
 Norman Ridgley died November 10<sup>th</sup> 1950.  Ishbel remarried James Calder Peterkin on February 24<sup>th</sup> 1953, and moved to Scotland.
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 '''HUGH BUCKINGHAM'''
-May 8<sup>th</sup> 1953.   [[Hugh Buckingham]] of Hammonds Sandridge, Herts, Company Director, purchased from Ishbel Allen Perterkin, for £6,550, Speen Farm
+May 8<sup>th</sup> 1953.   Hugh Buckingham of Hammonds Sandridge, Herts, Company Director, purchased Speen Farm from Ishbel Allen Perterkin, for £6,550. - All those parcels of freehold farmland, together with the messuage, buildings and outhouses erected thereon and known as Speen Farm.   All which parcels contain in area 134.186 acres.   A Mortgage was taken out with the Luton Building Society for £4,900 and interest.   ''(the Conveyance and the Mortgage document are archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]])''
-'''SCHEDULE of [[FIELD NAMES]]'''
+'''SCHEDULE of Field Names'''
 Ordinance No.  Description …………………………State…………………Quantity

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 click [[Farming pre 1823]] for this era
-Research by Joan West
+Research by [[Joan West]]
 '''THOMAS DELL snr.'''    (put entrepreneurs in Search for similar people)
-[[Thomas Dell snr]]. purchased [[Speen Farm]].    ''Research note.  The purchase date not known, but before 1811 (when he died).  He left it to his wife Ann, to go to their son Thomas, after her death.   She, prudently, gave it to Thomas jnr. long before she died.''
+Thomas Dell snr. purchased [[Speen Farm]].    ''Research note.  The purchase date not known, but before 1811 (when he died).  He left it to his wife Ann, to go to their son Thomas, after her death.   She, prudently, gave it to Thomas jnr. long before she died.''
 '''1823.  INCLOSURES of MANOR of PRINCES RISBOROUGH'''
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 Speen Farm is registered in the name of Thomas Dell Jnr.   It is all freehold.   See [[Thomas Dell Jnr. & Mary,nee Carter]] for their history
 [[File:Darvills Hill Auction Poster.jpg|thumb|1837. bankruptcy sale of Speen Farm]]
-'''[[FIELD NAMES]]'''
+'''FIELD NAMES'''
 .      821.  Wood Field
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 September 29<sup>th</sup> 1837.   Sold by auction by Mr. Thomas Dell, of Speen Farm, with concurrence of the mortgagee.
-.      2 copyhold cottages, formerly one farmhouse, with 20 acres of land adjacent to Speen Farm, known as [[Darvills Hill Farm]].   This lot was purchased by Mr. [[Anderson.]]
+.      2 copyhold cottages, formerly one farmhouse, with 20 acres of land adjacent to Speen Farm, known as [[Darvills Hill Farm]].   This lot was purchased by Mr. Anderson of [[Darvills Hill Farm]]
-.      2 copyhold tenements with gardens at Darvills Hill, occupied by [[Thomas Janes]] and widow Williams, yearly tenants  of £4 per annum each.
+.      2 copyhold tenements with gardens at Darvills Hill, occupied by Thomas Janes and widow Williams, yearly tenants  of £4 per annum each.
-.      Separated from Speen Farm by the road, a copyhold estate, comprising a neat cottage with barn and garden and two closes of meadow land called [[Templars Close and Nut Croft,]] containing 4 acres.   The cottage and garden in the occupation of Jacob Dell and the meadow by Mr. Thomas Dell.  This lot is tithe free and copyhold to the Manor of Princes Risborough.
+.      Separated from Speen Farm by the road, a copyhold estate, comprising a neat cottage with barn and garden and two closes of meadow land called Templars Close and Nut Croft, containing 4 acres.   The cottage and garden in the occupation of Jacob Dell and the meadow by Mr. Thomas Dell.  This lot is tithe free and copyhold to the Manor of Princes Risborough.
 '''NOTICE of Sale of Speen Farm, by order of the mortgagee, 29th September 1837'''

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	'''THOMAS DELL snr.''' (put entrepreneurs in Search for similar people)		'''THOMAS DELL snr.''' (put entrepreneurs in Search for similar people)

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 Census.  William Harding, 42, 120 acres
-Census. William Saunders 56m, Louisa, wife, Benjamin and William, sons, agricultural labourers.   For William & Louisa click, [[William Saunders, born 1815 & Louisa, nee Lacey]] and for William Saunders, his son, click [[William Saunders, born 1851]]
+Census. William Saunders 56m, Louisa, wife, Benjamin and William, sons, agricultural labourers.   For William & Louisa click, [[William Saunders, born 1815 & Louisa, nee Lacey]] and for William Saunders, his son, click [[William Saunders & Bethia Janes]]
 Census.  William Saunders Snr 65 widower
-Census.  [[George Saunders]] 40 and Benjamin 38, farmers (brothers, sons of William)   For Benjamin see [[Benjamin & Jane Saunders]]
+Census.  George Saunders 40 and Benjamin 38, farmers (brothers, sons of William)   For Benjamin see [[Benjamin & Jane Saunders]]
 Census.  George Saunders 56, farmer
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 census.   Frederick Hatt, 41, & Walter Hatt 38, brothers, farmers.   Also William Rogers, 27, nephew, waggoner
-They also ran a timber carting business, collecting tree trunks from Hampden Woods on a timber-bob to deliver to furniture factories.  It took 6 horses to load and pull the timber-bob.   The timber-bob and horses are vividly described in the book 'Children in a Bodger's World by Mosh Saunders.   Click [[Mosh Saunders]] for the lives of Moh & Trudy Saunders.
+They also ran a timber carting business, collecting tree trunks from Hampden Woods on a timber-bob to deliver to furniture factories.  It took 6 horses to load and pull the timber-bob.   The timber-bob and horses are vividly described in the book 'Children in a Bodger's World by Mosh Saunders.   Click [[Mosh & Trudy Saunders]]  for the lives of Mosh & Trudy Saunders.
 '''ISHBEL ALLEN RIDGLEY'''

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 '''ISHBEL ALLEN RIDGLEY'''
-[[File:Norman & Ishbel.jpg|left|thumb|Norman and Ishbel Ridgley.(click Ishbel McDonald)]]
+[[File:Norman & Ishbel.jpg|left|thumb|Norman and Ishbel Ridgley.(click [[Ishbel MacDonald]])]]
 June 1<sup>st</sup> 1938.   Purchased Speen Farm from Frederick and Walter Hatt