Postcard to Mrs Yates at Eagle Terrace - 1912 (Ref: 000015)
Postcard addressed to Mrs M Yates at Eagle Terrace dated 25th May 1912. See file 000014 for the picture of the Greyhound Inn on the reverse side of the postcard.
War Service will of William Fossey - 1910s (Ref: 000023)
ar Service will of William Thomas Fossey. Army No 17103. See 000024 for a photo of William.
Business Card of William Fossey (Ref: 000034)
Business card of William Fossey - practical gardener - who lived at Elm Cottage.
Obituary of John Fossey - 1930s (Ref: 000037)
Obituary of John Fossey (Scoutmaster) in the Preston Deanery magazine.
WW1 Propaganda leaflet side 1 - 1910s (Ref: 000038)
WW1 Propaganda leaflet dropped by the Germans onto Allied lines. Annotated: this is one of Jerrys leaflets, very cunningly put together, but we are not having any, we know him to well.
WW1 Propaganda leaflet side 2 - 1910s (Ref: 000039)
Letter to Sir Ryland Adkins sheet 1 - 1910s (Ref: 000040)
Letter from Agnes Fosseys brother, on behalf of William Fossey, to Sir Ryland Adkins asking for help concerning the familys threat of eviction from Elm Cottage.
Letter to Sir Ryland Adkins sheet 2 - 1910s (Ref: 000041)
Letter from Agnes Fosseys brother, on behalf of William Fossey, to Sir Ryland Adkins asking for help concerning the familys threat of eviction from Elm Cottage.
Thank you letter to Sir Ryland Adkins - 1910s (Ref: 000042)
Letter from Agnes Fosseys brother thanking Sir Ryland Adkins for intervening to save their family from eviction from Elm Cottage.
Television licence - 1967 (Ref: 000087)
Gardening request - 1928 (Ref: 000090)
Postcard dated 1928 to William Fossey at Elm Cottage, requesting him to carry out gardening work.
Return from war service postcard - 1918 (Ref: 000091)
Letter addressed to Elm cottage and dated 1918 concerning the return of William Fossey from service in WW1.
Red Cross Agriculture certificate - 1945 (Ref: 000106)
Certificate awarded to Marjorie Carter in recognition of fund raising for the Red Cross. These certificates were prepared by Mrs Hazlerigg who, on this particular one, erroneously wrote her own name instead of Marjories.
Commando Service Certificate - 1946 (Ref: 000129)
Commando Service Certificate awarded to Tom Paul on 13th February 1946. Tom served with the Commandos from September 1942 until February 1946.
Milton Pig Club rules - 1904 (Ref: 000162)
A copy of the Milton Pig Club rules dated 5th December 1904.
Hope Brewery price list - 1880s (Ref: 000173)
Hope Brewery's price list extracted from "Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Irland".
Hospital letter to Mrs E Stockford 1949 (Ref: 000185)
Letter from Northampton General Hospital to Mrs E Stockford dated 15 September 1949 asking her permissions to allow photographs of her skin lesion to be used in a scientific journal. Mrs Stockford lived in Blacksmith's Yard at the time.
Parish Church Guide for visitors 1960s (1) (Ref: 000186)
Page 1 of a General Guide for visitors to the Parish Church of the Holy Cross prepared by George E Hubbard in the 1960s.
Parish Church Guide for visitors 1960s (2) (Ref: 000187)
Page 2 of a General Guide for visitors to the Parish Church of the Holy Cross prepared by George E Hubbard in the 1960s.
Parish Church Guide for visitors 1960s (3) (Ref: 000188)
Page 3 of a General Guide for visitors to the Parish Church of the Holy Cross prepared by George E Hubbard in the 1960s.
Parish Church Guide for visitors 1960s (4) (Ref: 000189)
Page 4 of a General Guide for visitors to the Parish Church of the Holy Cross prepared by George E Hubbard in the 1960s.
Sale of Asplins' land Alongside Barn Lane 1964 (1) (Ref: 000190)
Notice of an auction of land bordering Barn Lane owned by the late H T Asplin and O F Asplin. (page 1)
Sale of Asplins' land alongside Barn Lane 1964 (2) (Ref: 000191)
Notice of an auction of land bordering Barn Lane owned by the late H T Asplin and O F Asplin. (page 2)
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (1) (Ref: 000192)
Page 1 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (2) (Ref: 000193)
Page 2 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (3) (Ref: 000194)
Page 3 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (4) (Ref: 000195)
Page 4 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (5) (Ref: 000196)
Page 5 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (6) (Ref: 000197)
Page 6 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (7) (Ref: 000198)
Page 7 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (8) (Ref: 000199)
Page 8 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street. 1963
Auction of Asplins' properties 1963 (9) (Ref: 000200)
Page 9 of an auction catalogue relating to the sale of Ivy House, The Maltings, Eagle View, Asplins Yard and the Butchers shop in Green Street, 1963. This was a rather old and out-of-date map to have been using in 1963: it does not show the Church View terrace built during WW2, nor the Stockwell housing estate, and the detail for Barrack Yard is quite wrong!
Part of the Conveyance dated 12th October 1957 in which Albert George James gifted to the Parish Council the land on which the Village Hall was built. The Conveyance stipulates that the property:
“… shall be held upon trust for the purposes of physical and mental training and recreation rooms library lectures classes recreations and entertainments or otherwise as may be found expedient for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish of Milton …. “
An extract from the Registry of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough dated 1789 concerning letters of administration granted to Elizabeth Ward on the death of her brother Thomas Palmer.
Transcription of Thomas Palmer’s will
Extracted from the Registry of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough –
On the eighth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. Letters of administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of Thomas Palmer late of Milton in the county of Northampton victualler intestate deceased were commited and granted to Elizabeth Ward (the wife of John Ward) the Sister of the said deceased She having been first sworn upon the Holy Evangelists before the Rev I Watkin Clerk BD a surrogate lawfully appointed well and faithfully to administer the same and at the same time make Oath that the said deceased at the time of his death was not posessed of a Personal Estate to the amount of One hundred Pounds.
Which I attest
W M Gates Dep Regs
