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THE ESTATES GAZETTE
April 29, 1899.
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Messrs. Aldridge have removed from No. 16, King-street, St. James’s, to No. 4, in the same thoroughfare.
Messrs. Robson and Co., auctioneers, etc., of Finsbury-park Hall, N., have opened a branch office ait Stroud-green Station, N.
Messrs. Ray (O. D. and1 F. H. Ray), auction eers and estate agents, of Norwich, have dis solved partnership.
Messrs. A. Thompson and R. Whitton, auctioneers, etc., Exeter, have dissolved partnership.
Mr. E. W. Margetts, auctioneer, etc., of High-road, Willesden - green, has recently opened a branch office at Cricklewood, adjoining the Post Office.
Mr. J. C. Platt, auctioneer, etc., of Hammersmith, has recently removed to handsome and commodious new offices at. No. 2, The Broadway (opposite District Railway Station), where his business will henceforth be con* ducted.
The name of Air. Albert Chancellor (ex-Mayor of Richmond, and head Of the firm ot Chancellor and Sons, Richmond and Pall Mall, S.W.) has been added to the commission of the peace for the borough of Richmond, upon the nomination of the Lord Chancellor.
Air. James Walker, auctioneer and estate agent, of Egham, Surrey, has taken into partnership Mr. Herbert Archibald Finn. F.S.I. (late of the firm of Frank Everill and Co., of Worcester and Malvern), The business of the firm will be conducted under the style of “ Walker and Finn.”
The partnership hitherto existing between Alessrs. J. G. Hammond, S'. Marsland, and W. J. Nieoll, marine and general auctioneers, Seething House, Great Tower-street, E.C., carrying on business as J. G. Hammond, jun., and Co., has been dissolved so far as regards S. Marsland.
Mr. W. Fiddian, for many years town surveyor of Stourbridge, has now resigned that, post, with the object of devoting his time entirely to private practice. Mr. Fiddian has taken a suite of offices over the London, City, and Alidland Bank (Old Bank), at the corner of High-street and Ooventry-street, Stourbridge.
Air. R. Harding has relinquished the business which he has carried on for upwards of 40 years at No. 20, Haverstock-hill, N.W., and this has been acquired by Mr. J. C. Brooke. The latter was for some years with Mr. David J. Chattell, of 29, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, and has had considerable experience in the management of houses and estates.
The firm of Charles and Tubbs, auctioneers, etc., having been dissolved by the effluxion ol time, and the lease of the premises, No. 1, Gresham-street, E.C., having expired, Air. R. Stafford Charles has taken a fine suite of ground floor offices at No. 52, New Broad-street, where he will carry on business in his own name as a land agent, auctioneer, and surveyor.
Mr. Edward J. Rabone, auctioneer, etc., Bromsgrove, has taken into partnership Air. Percy E, Bishton, who served as an articled pupil, and for several years as assistant, to Alessrs. T. J. Barnett and Son, auctioneers and valuers, Wolverhampton, with whom he has had a large and varied experience in each branch of the profession. The title of the firm will be Rabone and Bishton, and business will be carried on at their offices, New-road, Bromsgrove, and 5, Priory-street, Dudley.
At St. Mark’s Church, Gloucester, on April 20, the marriage was solemnised of Mr. Edward William Eason, son of Air. E. H. P. Eason, of Eversley, Forest-hill, London, and Miss Flora Ann Emily (Nancie) Bruton, daughter of Mr. H. W. Bruton, J.P. (Messrs Bruton, Knowles and Co.), of Bewick House, Gloucester. The bridegroom, who is an estate agent and auctioneer, and a member of the firm of Reynolds and- Eason, 43, Bishops-gate-street Without, London, E.C., was, it may be mentioned, educated at Marlborough, where he was head of the Alodern School. litis a Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution, and gained the Institution Prize in 1893.
The Auctioneers’ Institute.—The annual meeting of the Auctioneers’ Institute of the United Kingdom will be held at the Institute. 57 and 58, Chancery-lane, London, on Thursday, May 11, and the thirteenth annual dinner will take place at ,the Cannon-streel Hotel the same evening.
Richmond House Show.—■This popular meeting will be held for the eighth -time in the Old Deer Park, Richmond, on Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10. From the schedule of prizes which has just been issued we gather that the prize money has been increased to £1,200, and to the usual classes have been added new ones for champion hunters, novice hacks, novice harness horses and Suffolk horses. Captain Gerald Fitzgerald is again the secretary and manager, and to him entries must be sent.
Probably very few of the general public are acquainted with the interesting house that forms the official home of the Speaker. Still, there it is, situated in a quiet, spacious courtyard, and forming a portion of that stately pile of buildings, the Houses of Parliament, which might well he termed the British Mecca, for it has been the centre of interest to travellers from all parts of the world for over half a century. Two architectural points that add to the charms of the Speaker’s House are the great loftiness of the rooms and the ■enormous windows. Then it has the natural advantage of having on two sides unique views. The panorama seen from the windows overlooking the river is an ever-varying one—barges lazily drifting to and fro ; saucy little steamers, all merry and bustle, rushing hither and ■thither; a train of barges in the wake of a grimy tug; and the river smiling at the sun until its waters glisten and dimple, or at intervals roused into foamy protest by some too energetic craft.
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Very interesting is the State Dining Room, a long narrow apartment which accommodates comfortably 40 guests. The halls are panelled with the portraits of former Speakers, the place of honour -being given to Charles Shaw-Lefevxe, who was Speaker when the House was built (1839). Another smaller dining room adjoins, very light and pleasant. The ceilings are beautifully painted in Moorish style. The galleries, which go round three sides of the house, are lit with stained-glass windows, on which are the coats of arms of all the Speakers, beginning with Peter de Montford (1260), who was the first Speaker, and including the bold, bad Sir John Trevor, who was expelled in 1694 for accepting a bribe. The library is a fine room, with oak ceiling and panelled with books, “ more useful than interesting,” consisting principally of “Hansard Debates,” hooks of reference on all Parliamentary matters, etc.
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Petersham Common, which is 17 acres in extent, .though described as a common, is actually that stretch of woodland which covers the side of Richmond-hill below the Star and Garter Hotel, and is better known to the public as Petersham Wood. At the recent enquiry by Mr. Pemberton Leach, an Inspector of the Board of Agriculture, the Richmond Town Council asked that the scheme enabling them to regulate and control the common as a public recreation ground should he granted on the ground that the common is in a neglected condition at the present time, nothing material having been done to it for many years. They alleged that the dense thicket of undergrowth ׳which covers a large part- of it harbours tramps and many other bad characters, that a great deal of rubbish is shot there, and that the lack of drainage renders it almost impassable in wet weather. The application was strongly opposed. The Yestry opposed on the ground that the scheme would deprive the common oi much of its present wild and natural beauty, and they denied that it was at present the cause of a nuisance in the way represented by the corporation. They asked, therefore, that the control should he vested in a body of conservators, the majority of whom should he elected by Petersham. The Dysart trustees, on the other hand, urged that the control of the common at the present time rested with themselves as lords of the manor—a claim strongly cis-puted by the Yestry—and preferred that u any new body of control were constituted it should be the Town Council, but they demanded substantial compensation for alleged manorial rights, which, they said, would be interfered with. Ultimately, the inquiry was adjourned in order that the records of past years might be thoroughly inquired into as ,to the actual possessor of the existing rights over the oom-
Spring Grove, near Isleworth, Aliddlesex, is well-known as a healthy neighbourhood, it is also very advantageously situated, being within nine miles of Hyde-park-corner, and about half-an-hour’s drive from Richmond and Bushey-parks, Kew-gardens, etc., and within easy distance of the river Thames. A large building estate, therefore, placed in such a district■ should attract considerable attention when offered for public competition. Messrs. Green and׳ Son, of St. Swithin’s-lane, E.C., are offering to land companies, building syndicates, land speculators, and others, a good opportunity of acquiring such a property when they submit at the Mart, on Monday, Alay 8. the remaining portions of the Spring Grove Estate. This property comprises upwards of 124 acres of freehold building land, stated to be ripe for immediate building operations; the major part of the estate having been developed and covered by good villa residences for some years past. The property in question overlooks the beautiful grounds of Osterly-park (the seat of the Earl of Jersey) through which the public are permitted many walks. Osterly-park Station is on the estate, and Isleworth Station is close by, so that there is no lack of means of access to all parts, which will he extended if the proposed communication with Richmond and .the Great Western main line is carried out.
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A Property Owners’ Association is being formed at Doncaster, Mr. F. J. Littlewood, accountant, being hon. sec. The new association will be affiliated with the United Property Owners’ Association.
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It appears from a report recently submitted to •the Board of Guardians that the gross rental of Durham has increased from £362,037 to £414,223, and the rateable value from £311,870 to £350,506, being an increase in the gross rental of £52.186, and in the rateable value ot £38,636.
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From a report- recently submitted to the City guardians it appeared -that for the first -time for 29 years there had been a- decrease in the rateable value of the City. The annual report of the Assessment Committee for the year ending April, 1899, showed that the gross value for the year was £5,409,747, and the rateable value £4,563,134. The gross value for 1898 was £5,423,566, and the rateable value £4,572,296. For this year, therefore, there was a decrease of £13,819 on the gross value and £9,162 on the rateable value.
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An interesting event will -take place within the ruins of Flint Castle on August 21, when Air. F. R. Benson, the well-known actor and Shakespearian scholar, and his company, will give an open-air performance ■of Shakespeare’s Richard II. The event is designed as a celebration of the 500th anniversary of the memorable historical scene which occurred within the walls of the castle, when the weak and degenerate Richard II. was delivered prisoner to Bolingbroke, his rival to the throne. The Flint incident occurs in Act III., scene 3. Inveigled by the Earl of Northumberland from Conway Castle, and brought to Flint, Richard witnesses the approach of the suave and astute Bolingbroke with his forces from Chester. Whether Shakespeare ever visited Flint is a matter of conjecture, but from his intimate references to the castle one would conclude he did. He speaks of the “ rude ribs of that ancient castle” and its “tattered battlements,” so the castle must have been- of considerable age even in 1399.
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A young French nobleman, who was with Richard, has described the approach of Boling-broke’s host marching along the sea shore, where “ there was neither hedge nor bush between them. .	.	. And be assured that he
made a fine show with them as they came, for they were right well marshalled, and their numbers were such that, for my own part, I never saw so many people together.” Here, therefore, is splendid scope for the scenic artist and costumier, not the least striking feature of the group being the famous minstrels of Chester. The passionate and rhetorical lamentations which !Shakespeare puts into the mouth of the doomed King as he speaks from the castle walls after -the sounding of -the parley, and the meeting in the base court where he surrenders to the inevitable, are all in strictly historical keep-
In recently unveiling a bronze tablet placed on 19, New King-street, Bath, recording tie fact that Sir William Herschel, the great astronomer, lived there, Sir Robert Ball said that in the annals of astronomy Herschel was -absolutely peerless. He discovered the planet Uranus in the back garden of that house, and on occasion he used to bring his telescope out into the street opposite that house, where many of his discoveries were made. By discovering Uranus he made the greatest possible advance in astronomy. The old planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Yenus and Mara, had been known from all time. Their discovery was lost in the depths of antiquity. It had been well said that the great importance of the discovery of Uranus was not so much the discovery of •that planet as the discovery of Herschel himself. A vote of thanks was accorded Sir Robert Ball, and the house, where Mr. Potter, the tenant, preserves several interesting mementoes of the great astronomer, was inspected.
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The death, the other dav, of Mr. Thomas Newland Allen, of Newland Park, near Chal-font, Buckinghamshire, draws attention to the local tradition that the Park is haunted. The gates open from the road upon a splendid avenue of Scotch firs, about three-quarters of a mile long, leading up to the mansion. Such trees in this perfection are something of a raritv in England, and the avenue, on the sunniest day, is of an imposing, but essentially sombre, aspect; indeed, if it is not really haunted, it is just, exactly the place that ought to be. The legend goes that the gates fly open at stated seasons, and a four-horse coach gallops up the drive to the house ; the doors are opened, passengers descend, and then all vanishes into the ghostly midnight air.
P. J. DIXON and GO., 16, King-street, Cheapside, E.C., and 263, Betbnal-green-road, N.E.
Edmonton—Kenninghall-road, Six Building Plots, P Wimbledon—Gecil-road, PGR of £8 DOLMAN and PEARCE, 62, HaYerstock-hill, N.W.
Haverstock-llill—No. 47, L
GODWIN, BASLEY and ELDRIDGE, 28,
Martin’s-lane, Cannon-street, E.C., and 28, Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square, S.W.
Norwood—70, St. Julian’s Farm-road, L City of London—14, Nicholas-lane, Beneficial Lease Highbury—68, Highbury New-park, and' Land in rear; Green-lanes, Park House, L New Southgate—Stanford-villas, PGR of £19 LINNETT and LANE, S6, Station road, Willes-den-junction, N.W., and 62, Lincoln’s-inn-fields. W.C.
South Ealing—Darwin-road, PGR of £25 RIDER and SONS, 37, Bramiey-road. Notting-hill, and Notting-hill Station, Ladbroke-grove-road, W.
Shepherd’s Bush—64, Loftus-road, L Notting-hill—38, St. Charles-square, L
LONDON AND SUBURBAN RESULTS.
The Editor will he glad to receive from Auctioneers Masked Copies of Particulars of Suburban Sales, with a view to the insertion of results in this column. They mnst, however, reach the office by not later than the first post on Iriday.
APRIL.
MONDAY 24th.
CURTIS and SHARP, The Broadway, Plaistow, E. (at the George Hotel, Enfield Town).
Lower Ecfmonton—Two Plots of Freehold- Building Land fronting Hertford-road . 480
TUESDAY 25th.
R. CHEKE and CO., 749, Romford-road, Manor park, E. (at the Swan Hotel, Stratford-Broadway, E.)
Manor-park—7, 9 and! 11, Second-avenue, Romford-road, ut 83 years, GR £15, R £78 . 625
27, 31, 33, 35, 37 and 39, Meanley-roa-i, ut 75 years, GR £30, R £144 6s..... 1,030
WEDNESDAY 26th-
WALTER MORTLOCK, Yemier-road, Sydenham
(at the Childwick Hall. Penge).
Penge—41 and 43, Lennard-road, ut 83 years,
GR £10, R £60 .......................... 540
29, 31, 35, 37 and 39, Lennard-road, ut 83
years, GR £25, R £150 .................. 1,330
45 and 47, Lennard-road, ut 83 years, GR
£10, R £60 ............................. 550
2, Green-lane, R £32, F ................. 480
WÀLFORD and W1LSHIN, 137, Anerley-road, S.E. (at the Thicket Hotel, Anerley-road,
S.E.)
Sydenham—21 and 23, Knighton-park-road, ut
S48 years, GR £18, ER £68 .............. 490
Penge—18, Queen Adelaide-road, ut 50 years,
GR £7, R £50 ........................... 4
Beckenham—10 and 11. Heathfield-terrace, Lennard-road, ut 81 years, GR £10, R £46 16s.	305
BEALE and CAPPS, 126, Ladbroke-grove, Notting-hill, W. (at the Elgin Hotel, Lad-broke groye, W)
Bays water—111, Ledbury-road, ut 47 years, GR
£5 8s., R £45 ............................ 445
13, Denbigh-terrace, ut 46 years, GR £6 6s.,
289
R £30
Notting-hill—2, Rosmead-road, ut 40 years, GR
£7 10s., ER £40 .......................... 310
GREEN and SON (at their mart, 217, King-street, Hammersmith, W.)
Hammersmith—14 to 46, Albion-gardens, ut 46
years, GR £70, R £501 16s................. 4,010
Chiswick—10 and 12, Sut her land-road, ut 57
years., GR £8, R £50 14s.................. 480
71, 73, 75 and 77, Devonshire-road, ut 69
years, GR £16, R £104 .................... 855
57 and 59, Devonshire-road, ut 69 years, GR £6, R £52 ............................ 480
42, Swanscombe-road, ut 80 years, GR £4 10s.,
R £54 12s............................... 240
Chelsea—100, Edith-grove, ut 78 years, GR £7 10s.,
R £75 8s................................ 425
THURSDAY 27th.
DAYID BURNETT and CO., 15, Nicholas-lane, E.C. (at the Fishmonger’s Tavern, Wood-green).
Wood-green—122 Plots of Freehold! Building
Land on the Ohitt’s-hill Park Estate . 9,022
GODFREY C. LAMBERT, 10, Basinghall-street, E.C. (at the Greyhound Hotel, High-street, Croydon).
Mitcham and Wimbledon—205 Shares of £10 each (£5 paid) in the Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas Light Co.....£1,815 12s. 6d.
Surveyors’ Institution Examinations.— The classes for preparation for .the Surveyors’ Institution examinations, conducted by Mr. Graham A. Mould, at 3, John-street, Bedford-row, will be resumed on Tuesday next, May
Land Sales.—On Monday Messrs. Protheroe and Morris conducted a sale, at Whitstable-on-Sea, of the second portion of the Olapham-hill Estate, Whitstab'le. The price given for plots ranged from £10 to £30 per plot, a total of £1,602 10s. being realised. On Thursday the same firm sold building land situate at Maldon, Essex, for a total of £1,100.
Sale oe Jewellers’ Stock.—The disposal of the stock of Messrs. Perry and Sons, jewellers, Nos. 90 and 92, Oxford-street, by Messrs. May and Bowden, on Monday and three following days, resulted in a total of nearly £4,000 being realised for the 800 lot®. A pearl necklace was sold for £150 ; ■two pairs of diamond earrings for £70 and £65 respectively ; a single stone diamond ring for £42 10s. ; and another with two stones for £25.