Title:
'Spade Husbandry and Allotments' [on front cover]
Level: Category
Borough records
Level: Fonds
SAFFRON WALDEN
Level: Sub-Fonds
Civil parish records etc.
Level: Series
Miscellaneous poor law records
Scope and Content:
'Register of proceedings in matters relating to Spade-Husbandry and Allotments' [title page], recording minutes of committee relating to provision of allotments for poor labourers.
Includes names of applicants and of allotment holders; diagrams of allotments; printed rules, 1 March 1830 (pasted in); note that prizes offered by Horticultural Society, March 1830; annual reports, December 1830, December 1831; report by John Player on success of scheme, March 1831.
At back: register of 237 agreements to hire allotments, 1830-1834, with signatures or marks and addresses of holders (pp. 215-244); indexes of personal names and subjects.
Loose at front: printed report of meeting of inhabitants, held 26 December 1832 to receive report of employment committee appointed by vestry, 26 October 1832 (1 folded sheet), noting that only one person had applied for emigration.
Dates of Creation:
December 1829 - May 1834
Extent:
1 volume
Physical Characteristics:
Original pagination.
Not Available:
Use digital image(s).