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Social Snapshots provide intriguing and colour insight into the social evolution in Lacey Green and Loosley Row

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  • 1964 Letter re: School Charities

    DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (legal branch)

    Curzon street

    London W.1,

    
    

    Dear Sirs                                                                                                             27^th October 1964  

    
    With reference to your letter of 29^th September 1964, and for the forms enclosed therewith.   I am directed by the Secretary of State to explain that in connection with the application for an order appointing Trustees of the Teachers’ house at the Lacey Green Church of England School, a statement of willingness to serve, if appointed, signed by yourself and the churchwardens should be forwarded as stated in the penultimate paragraph of the official letter of 25^th June 1964 to Mr.Adams.

    
    With regard to the application submitted for an order vesting the legal estate in properties in the Official custodian for charities,  I am to say that the Foundation known as the Endowment for Schools Erected by Emma Grace at Loosley Row and Speen now consists of a holding of £1,481.6.8   3  ½% War Stock, invested with the Official Custodian of Charities, being the proceeds of the sale of the farm at Hughenden, authorised by an Order of 19^th April 1940, which comprised the original endowment.   Thus there is no longer any real property to be vested in the Official Custodian.

    
    The legal estate of the property of Lacey Green Church of England School is already held by the Vicar and Churchwardens and their successors as a corporate body under the Deeds of 3^rd February 1875 and 15^th March 1926, whereby the site was granted under Section 2 of the School Sites Act 1841.   As these Trustees are for the purpose of the said Act a corporate body having perpetual succession, it is not necessary to vest the property in the Official Custodian.

    
    

    The vesting applications should be completed and returned, with the original Deeds, or certified copies thereof, under which the properties are held, to this department, for transmission to the Charity Commissioners.

    
    I am, Reverend Sir,

    Your obedient servant.

    (Mrs,) E.M.Sims

    Social Snapshot
    Year	1964
    Village	Lacey Green
    Author
    Copywrite
    Theme
    Social Period	Category:1960's

    
    

  • Air Vice Marshall L W Cannon

    Research by Joan West

    Air Vice Marshall "Bill" Cannon, his wife, "Tiddler" and her companion, Joyce, moved into Cairndale, Main Road, Lacey Green, when Bill retired from his position of senior representative of Rolls Royce Ltd in the Indian sub-continent. They were there at the time of partition of India and Pakistan.

    After the grand accommodation they had enjoyed abroad, Cairndale, though an attractive house, must have seemed very small. They laughingly called it their 'dolls house'. It didn't seem to worry them.

    However in 1965 they sold the house to Ursula and Derek Glyn-Jones, moving into a much larger property at Penn.

    I do not know when they bought the house, but they had been there a few years when I met them in 1961. They were friends of my parents-in-law, Dick and Hilda West, who lived opposite at Stocken Farm.

    Hilda West related that Indira Ghandi had been a guest of theirs at Cairndale

    CAREER

    AIR VICE MARSHALL LESLIE WILLIAM CANNON                                                          

    1920 JOINED RAF, BOY MECHANIC, no 2 TECHNICAL TRAINING, CRANWELL

    1932 ENGINEERING OFFICER, RAF CRANWELL

    1932 ENGINEERING OFFICER, HQ RAF INDIA

    1935 FLIGHT COMMANDER, No.60 SQUADRON

    1937 OFFICER COMMANDING, No.5 SQUADRON, NORTHWEST FRONTIER, INDIA

    1938 ADMIN/PERSONNEL STAFF, HQ TRAINING COMMAND

    1939 STAFF, DIRECTORATE of OPERATIONS (HOME)

    1940 WING COMMANDER, ENG. STAFF OFFICER, HQ BOMBER COMMAND

    1941 CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER, HQ No 21 GROUP

    1942 OFFICER COMMANDING, RAF WATTON

    1943(Mar) DEPUTY S.A.S.O. HQ No 83 COMPOSITE GROUP

    1943(Nov) OFFICER COMMANDING No 138 WING

    1943(Dec) SOA, HQ No 2 GROUP

    1944 AOA, HQ No 2 GROUP

    1946 GROUP CAPTAIN, AOC, No 2 GROUP

    1948 ASSISTANT COMMANDANT, RAF STAFF COLLEGE, ANDOVER

    1949 AIR COMMODORE, DIRECTOR of ORGANISATION (ESTABLISHMENT)

    1951-55 ACTING AIR VICE MARSHAL, COMMANDER in-CHIEF, ROYAL PAKISTAN AIRFORCE.   (1953 made AIR VICE MARSHAL).

    1955 DIRECTOR-GENERAL of ORGANISATION.

    He continued to fly on operations as OFFICER COMMANDING, WATTON and AOA, 2 GROUP with both the RAF and USAAF, for which he was AWARDED the US SILVER STAR.

    He represented the RAF in athletics, boxing and pistol shooting.

    ON RETIRING from the RAF, he RETURNED to the INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT as SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE of ROLLS ROYCE LTD.

    He was the first apprentice to ATTAIN the RANK OF AIR VICE MARSHAL.

    HONOURED 1952 COMPANION of the ORDER OF THE BATH

    HONOURED 1945 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)

    MENTIONED in DESPATCHES, Feb 1938, Sept. 1941, Jan. 1945, Jan 1946

               

    
    

    Social Snapshot
    Year	1965
    Village	Lacey Green
    Author
    Copywrite
    Theme	The Cannons leave Cairndale
    Social Period	Category:1960's

    
    

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  • 2012 Ray Hewinson

    For the obituary and life history of Ray, click Ray Hewinson

    Social Snapshot
    Year	2012
    Village	Lacey Green
    Author	Bette Tyler
    Copywrite
    Theme
    Social Period	Category:2010's

    
    

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