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THE ESTATES GAZETTE
March 11, 1899.
Were Mr. B. I’Anson Breach, F.S.I. ; and Mr. Walter Hall, F.S.I., 43, Chancery-lane, for ihe claimants ; and Mr. Edmund Farmer, F.S.I., Mr. G. A. Wilkinson, F.S.I., and Mr. J. H. Townsend Green, P.A.S.I. The jury gave a verdict of £500.
1 Mr. Henry Goddard, a notable architect, died at Lincoln, on Wednesday evening, in his 84th year. He was a native of Leicester, but came to Lincoln 60 years ago at the time of the great railway undertakings. He was architect to the Great Northern Railway Company in respect of all their stations between Doncaster and London, including Doncaster station, but not King’s-cross. He was associated as contractor with the father of the present Lord Brassey, and also with the railway king, Hudson.
At the Sheriff’s Court, Holborn, yesterday (Friday), an enquiry was conducted before the Under-Sheriff and a jury into the compensation payable to the Governors of the ■Stepney and Bow Foundation for six copyhold houses and gardens	in	Cobom-street, Bow, com-
pulsorily acquired by the London School Board.	The experts for the claimants
were Mr. Joseph Stower, of 43, Chancery-lane ; Mr. Elkington, architect and surveyor, Cannon-street; and Mr. Edmond F. B. Fuller (Messrs. Fuller and Fuller, Queen-street, E.C.); and for the School Board, Mr. Howard Martin, F.S.I., Mr. C. P. Whiteley, F.S.I., and Mr. Arthur Hunt, F.S.I. (Messrs. Hunt and Steward), were retained. The jury awarded £3,225.
General sympathy is felt for Mr. H. E. Foster, F.S.I. (Messrs. Foster and Craniield, 6, Poultry, E.O.), in the ׳bereavement which be has sustained by the death of his only son, Mr. Harry M. Foster. The deceased, who was only 24 years of age at the time of his death, was a young man of great promise. He passed his P. A. S. I. examination in 1895, and occupied a prominent position in the offices of his father's firm. He was, however, compelled to relinquish business some few months ago׳ on account of illness, and went for a voyage round the world in the hope that this would permanently improve his health. The improvement proved, however, to be only temporary, for shortly after his return to England he was again taken ill and died on the 3rd inst., at the residence of his father, the Grange, Thornton Heath.
The Old Gate House Inn, at Highgate, which occupies such a commanding position at the summit of Highgate-hill, and enjoys so wide a reputation, is to be offered to auction at Masons’ Hall Tavern, on March 21. The large hall attached to the house, which is fully-licensed for music and dancing, is a profitable source of income. The sale is in the hands of Messrs. Tabernacle and Son, of 15, Hart-street׳. Bloomsbury, W.C.
Land at Somers Town.—On Friday next, at the London Auction Mart, Messrs. Sitimson and Sons, of 8, Moorgate-street, E.C., are submitting some freehold property at Somers Town of an interesting character,' the particulars comprising the unusual combination of a surgery,	a church	and an ale-house.
Time	was when	Somers	Town was
a pretty suburban village, but the railways have for long been gradually absorbing the land, and each decade has seen the small remaining space between the termini of the Midland and North Western lines curtailed. The land still remaining between them, a part of which comes to the hammer next Friday, is the only possible ground available for the Midland extension works. Should a private buyer succeed in acquiring the property, he may safely look forward to a satisfactory' realisation in the not distant future.
CARTER’S
TESTED
GRASS SEEDS
FOR
RENOVATING THIN TURF
In Golf Links, Pastures, Meadows, Price from Recreation Grounds, Cricket Grounds,
1 Racecourses,
per Acre. Tennis Courts, Lawns.
GRASS SEEDS
FOR ALL PURPOSES.
For full particulars see
CARTER’S PAMPHLET ON THE MANAGEMENT OF GRASSY GROUNDS,
Gratis and post free.
THE QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 237, 238 & 97,
HIGH HOLBORN,LONDON.
Foregate Literary Society, Shrewsbury. In the course of his remarks the lecturer said that it was Henry III. who granted a new charter to the burgesses of the town. That charter was distinguished by a provision which, with like privileges granted to other boroughs, was the first step towards complete freedom of the unhappy persons who held all ■their property at׳ the will of their lord. Henry visited the town in 1232 in connection with his1 reference to the Pope of the angry dispute with Llewelyn. The Papal legates held their court in St. Mary’s Church. In 1241, Henry was in the town again, in 1263 Prince Edward was there, and in 1277, as King, the latter was there again. Edward II. was there in 1322, and in 1387 Richard II. visited Shrewsbury. Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV., was in Shrewsbury at the time of the birth of her two sons. This, however, was previously to her marriage with Edward. Dealing with the extent and condition of the town in early times, Mr. Jackson said in Henry VIII.’s reign iit was decided at a meeting of the Corporation that all hedges of thorns that stand in any street of the town shall be removed.
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In 1591, the Assizes were held in the open air, and the Corporation in 1594 made an order which, among other things, said, Neither shall there be any playe at footiball within׳ the walles .of this towne,” About 1660 a writer said: “ Shrewsbury is a place of great resort and well inhabited, both by the English and Welsh, who speak both speeches.” The lecturer gave some interesting items from the Corporation accounts, and, speaking off St. Mary’s Church, said it was curious to note that in making the cement for the spire in 1594 they used worte and white of eggs. In 1615 there! was׳ this entry: “Shote and powder to kill the steers, 4d.” In the reign of Henry VIIL, St. Mary's parish kept live stock, and let them out at a rent.

Messrs. Love and Legge have recently commenced business at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Fitzroy-street, Cambridge, as auctioneers, valuers, house and estate agents.
The dissolution of the partnership hitherto subsisting between E. W. Oxborrow and 1.
M. Gilder, estate agents, Brighton, trading as Gilder and Co., is notified.
The death occurred, on February 27, of Mr. Nathan Todd, land agent, of Penrith. The deceased had been absent from business through illness for nearly a year.
^ Messrs. Penney and Clark, of King’s-road, Southsea, have been appointed valuers to the Tramways Committee of the Portsmouth Town Council, who will call in an expert to advise them as to purchase.
Mr. A. H. Lisner, who has had a large experience in dealing with country estates, has commenced business as an auctioneer, surveyor and valuer, at No. 32, King-street, Cheapside. E.C.
After 36 years’ occupation of No. 34, Hamil-ton-square, Birkenhead, Messrs. Milnes and Son, estate agents and valuers, have removed to No. 57, in the same thoroughfare, next to the Town HaH.
Owing to the expiration of the lease of No. 30, Finsbury-pavement, E.C., Messrs. Tillet and Yeoman have secured temporary offices at No. 32, in ■the same thoroughfare, during the rebuilding of their new offices׳.
The second annual dinner of the employees of Mr. J. C. Platt, auctioneer, of Hammersmith, took place at the Roebuck, High-road, Chiswick, on March 2. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. C. Platt, sen., the gathering was presided over by Mr. J. C. Platt, jun.
The tenantry on the Croxteth Estate recently made a presentation to Colonel Wyatt upon his retirement from the management of the estate, after a connection extending over 29 years. Colonel Wyatt is succeeded by Mr. Giles W. Lloyd, who has for many years been connected with the Earl of Derby’s Knowsley Estate.
Mr. C. Wentworth Clarke, P.A.S.I., and Mr. A . Stanley Walker have commenced business as estate and general auctioneers, valuers and land agents, at 13, Bowlalley-lane, Hull. Mr. Clarke had five and a half years’ experience in the offices of Messrs. Martin and Fenwick, land agents, and Messrs. Hepper and Sons, auctioneers, of Leeds ; whilst Mr. Walker spent ten years in th׳e offices of the latter firm.
Mr. C. Herbert Bedells, F.S.I., has taken into partnership Mr. V'. E. Vernon Crompton, A.R.I.B.A., who will chiefly, but not exclusively, devote himself to the architectural side of the practice. The style of the firm wili henceforth be Lander, Bedells and CromDton. Mr. W. A. Powell, who has, for many years, occupied a responsible position with the late firm, will continue with the new firm in a like capacity.
Among the experts retained in the case of “Mrs. Davis v. the London County Council,’ relating to the acquisition of No. 266, Strand, and heard at Westminster yesterday (Fridav),
being started from the terminus at Marylebone by Mr. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade. Speaking at a luncheon which was given before the starting of the train, Mr. Ritchie remarked upon the fact that when the Queen came to the throne there was no railway station in London, with the trifling exception of that of a small line from the Minories to Blaclcwall, the trains on which were drawn with a rope. The first company to open a station in the metropolis was the Great Western, which made a railway between Paddington׳ and Maidenhead, and so much astonishment did the novel experiment excite that a posse of police had to be stationed along the line to prevent the Eton boys from invading it.
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The success in the treatment of consumption by the open-air cure, as practised at Davos Platz and elsewhere, has resulted in the erection of several establishments in this׳ country, where patients may be received. One, which will be known as the Mundesley Sanatorium, is about to be built a short distance from the shore on the Norfolk coast. The situation has been well chosen, being sheltered from the northeasterly winds by a pine-covered 1hill, and under the superintendence of Dr. Burton-Fanning, of Norwich. The promoters are sanguine as to the success ■of the venture. The buildings׳ will be constructed on most modern principles, and lighted by electricity, and a pure supply of water will be derived from the chalk by a deep artesian bore, to be made by Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, of London, who have successfully sunk the well for the supply of the neighbouring seaside resort. It is expected to have everything in working order early in the summer.
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We gather, from a Parliamentary paper issued by the Board of Agriculture, that a scheme for the future care of Harrow Weald Common has been approved and certified by the Board, and now awaits Parliamentary confirmation. The common, which is 46 acres in extent, has been vested in the urban district councils of Harrow, Wealdstone and Wembley, and the rural district council of Hendon, subject to the rights reserved to the surveyors of the highways and proprietors of land within the parish of Harrow and hamlet of Pinner of using it as1 and for public gravel, stone and sand pits. The evidence at the inquiry disclosed ■that the common was turned into a camping-ground by gipsies, frequented by poachers, and made a receptacle for rubbish. The scheme for vesting the management of Petersham Common in the Richmond Corporation, on the petition of the latter, has been drawn up, and will be further considered on the expiration of the period prescribed for the delivery of objections or suggestions.
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Rottingdean—which, as the home of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, has been so frequently mentioned lately—is one of the most delightful spots on the south coast. The village lies׳ at the extremity of a1 long “combe”—a narrow valley stretching far inland. Up this combe, from th'e very edge of the great chalk cliffs, winds ■the single street, to where the gray old English church stands sentinel over the green. In the little churchyard only a few weeks ago William Black, the novelist, was laid to rest, and the flowers are still banked upon׳ his grave. In the middle of the green lies the horsepond ; and all around are houses, each of which possesses an interesting history of its own. There is the vicarage, for instance, looking across the green to Mr. Kipling’s window. Under its high roof many famous men received their early education, among ■the number being Bulwer Lytton, the great Duke of Wellington and Cardinal Manning.
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Mr. Kipling’s garden wall stretches across the upper part of the green. The ■house is two-storied, with an attic. The gate is rarely opened. The entrance is by the smaller wicket, further down the street, and directly facing the church. The house was originally built by Thomas D’Oyley, serjeant-at-law, in the last century. From the window of Mr. Kipling’s working room he !has a fine view of the Downs, the long range of cliffs, and the English Channel. On clear days Beachy Head is distinctly visible, and the Dieppe steamers may be seen beating into Newhaven. Straight opposite Mr. Kip-lings^ house, on the other side of the green, is a quaint old inn—the Plough, kept by one Bley-ber, who knew the author of “ Recessional ” when he was a swarthy youngster just home from India. Bleyber and Mr. Kipling are fast friends, although they differ widely in politics. Not long since Bleyber fell ill, and Mr. Kipling, by way of cheering him up, was wont to drop in of an evening to argue Imperialism versus Little England policy. The discussion invariably waxed hot, so that when Mr. Kipling left the innkeeper’s pulse had quickened abnormally, and he was feverish to a degree.
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An interesting lecture was recently delivered by Mr. S. Jackson, on the subject of Old Shrewsbury, before the members of the Abbey
MaUz fag tlj£ Mag.
The Earl of Rosebery has been nominated for a seat on the Epsom Urban Council, in ad-tion to the three retiring members, who again seek re-election.
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A short time ago antiquarians and others witnessed with regret the demolition of Dryden’s house in Fetter-lane. It is now stated that another historic ׳edifice in the same thoroughfare will ■soon disappear. The ancient Independent Chapel is to be pulled down to make way for the extension of the premises occupied by a printing firm. The chapel was established so long ago as 1660. The existing building dates from the year 1732.
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The annual banquet of ׳the London Society of East Anglians ■takes׳ place to-day, in the King’s Hall, Holborn Restaurant, with Earl Carrington, who is president of the society, in the chair. His lordship is intimately associated with East■ Anglia through the Gunton Estates, and by ׳his marriage with Lord Suffield’s daughter. The speakers will include Mrs. Fawcett, who■ comes of a well-known Suffolk family, Mr. Felix Cob-bold, who is equally well known, ■and connected with Lord Kitchener’s family, and the Dean of N orwich.
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In the picturesque and salubrious village of Prees, ■Shropshire, is situated the charming family residence or hunting box, known as Minshall House, which Messrs. F. G. Richards and Fenn will sell by auction at the New Inn, Prees, on the 14th instant. The property is close to churches and post and telegraph offices, and within easy distance of Prees station. The rooms throughout the house are spacious and well arranged. There are kitchen gardens, orchard, greenhouse, stabling, coachhouse, cowhouse, etc. It may be added that the property is in excellent repair, and that the land is of superior quality.
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A magnanimous gift of £1,500 for a scheme of water supply for the village of Cropton, Yorkshire, has just been made by Mr. J. Gill, of Manchester. Mr. Gill has further promised to pay the cost of a clerk to the works, which was not provided for in the original estimate. The Pickering Rural District Council unanimously passed a vote of thanks for this additional offer. The works are to׳ be constructed in accordance with plans prepared by Mr. J. E. Parker, of Newcastle. The contract for its completion׳ in five months has been secured by Mi•. Charles Firth, of Scarborough.
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The farmers in the neighbourhood of Rochester and Chatham appear to be seriously inconvenienced, owing to their inability to retain their farm hands. The wages of the latter amount to about 16s. or 18s. per week, and as the men are able to earn 30s. with shorter hours as bricklayers’ labourers, they are leaving the farms on a wholesale scale, and scarcely any men remain on the land. Agriculturists view the situation with dismay, as owing to the fact that there is great activity at the cement works, whilst the Government have extensive naval barracks, powder magazines and other works in hand, which find employment for hundreds of men at trade union rates, there is no prospect of labour being ■available for a prolonged period.
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A propos of ■the approaching marriage of Lady Margaret Primrose and the Earl of Crewe, it may he interesting to recall the connection which exists between the illustrious bouse of Rosebery and the county of Norfolk. The grandfather of the present earl had a seat at llixley more than a century ago, and was׳ lord of !the manor of Framingham Earl and Bixley. In the parish church׳ there is a marble monument to Susan, Countess׳ of Rosebery, who died in 1771. The Earl of Rosebery owns, too, the whole of the ׳soil, and is lord of the manor of Postwick, and at the west end of the church i® a window inserted in memory of the earl who died in 1868.
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In Mr. Pickwick’s time, the Golden Cross, at Charing-cross, was a busy and important coaching house, and was, in fact, designated the Bull and Mouth of the west. It was at the door of this inn that Mr. Pickwick had the memorable encounter with the philosophic cabman. The inn of those times, however, did not occupy quite the same site as that■ on which the Golden Cross Hotel of to-day stands. This property, which is to be submitted to auction by Messrs. Barker, Cathie and Finch at an early date, comprises a very fine modem building, with a noble and attractive architectural elevation, and furnished throughout by Messrs. S. J. Waring and Sons. It enjoys a very wide and popular reputation, and the business is■ of a verv profitable character.
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The Great Central Railway was formally opened for traffic on Thursday, the first train