Category: 1918 Property Sale
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School Street Auction Lots
This page is linked from the main page on School Street here. The entries for the cottages in the 1918 auction were as follows (the house on the corner of School Street and Smithy Lane) – noted on the plan below them in the lot numbers and colours indicated. They are shown in an clockwise… Read more
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Church Road Auction Lots
This page is linked from the main page on Church Road here. The entries for the cottages in the 1918 auction were as follows (including those fronting on to the Village Green partially in Little End / Green Lane) – noted on the plan below them in the lot numbers and colours indicated: Read more
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Auction Index and Links
The table below shows the various auction lots, with a link to a specific page with more detail. For cross references to the various auction maps please see the various auction pages via a link here. The maps at the bottom of the page help to locate the cottages via their lot number, and the… Read more
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Cottage History
During the 19th Century, and through to the Manorial sale in 1918 the various cottages and houses in the two villages were allocated a manorial number. Prior to the revisions in street naming and house numbering during the 1950s these numbers remained unless the cottage was developed. In some cases, especially in Kings Newnham the… Read more
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Auction Lot Pictures
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Documenting the 1918 Property Sale
Various documents were produced during the first part of the 20th Century to document the transfer of property from the 6th Duke of Buccleuch to his heir the Earl of Dalkeith in 1910, and then the onward sale to Samuel Waring in 1917 prior to the main property auction in June 1918. The sale catalogue… Read more
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Subsequent Sale Activities Following 1918 Sale
Following the 1918 sale there were still a number of properties that were not sold, so remained with Samuel Waring, other properties were bought by investors, and some were sold on for other reasons. Some of the properties that changed hands between the two World Wars are summarised below. In 1921 there were around 140… Read more
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Village Residents Following The Auction and The Great War
In addition to the housing details available on the auction page here, the pages below contain the Electoral Roll information for the villages in 1921. See here for details of the voting rights in this era, as well as the key to the abbreviations. See here for details of the 1921 census, or alternatively the… Read more
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Property Valuations Following The Auction
To get an insight into properties and their ownership after the 1918 auction it is possible to look at the valuation of village properties from 1919. At this time each parish was responsible for looking after its own poor (the 1925 Rating and Valuation Act removed that responsibility). At regular intervals the properties in the… Read more
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The Results From The 1918 Sale
The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported on the 1918 Estate Sale with details of the various transactions. SALE OF PROPERTY OF THE DUKE OR BUCCLEUCH. A feature of the first day’s sale at Rugby of 4,550 acres, comprising part of the estate formerly owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, was the number of farms that were… Read more