Furtho - Catalogue of records of Arnold Charity 1900 - 1961

Original documents lodged in Northants Records Office. The original transcriber has anglicised words and modernised punctuation. They use ' to indicate uncertain spelling. There may be typing errors. A subsequent researcher has corrected in parts. [ ] are used to clarify this transcription.


FXIII/277.
1900

Map  4497

Ordnance Survey Northants Sheet L X 1. 2

Scale: 25 ins to 1 mile showing Badger's Farm in Cosgrove, The Grand Junction Canal at Isworth Farm Castlethorpe Wharf with Castlethorpe Mill Arnold's Charity estate in Furtho shown in pink colour wash.


FXIII/278.
1900

Map 4498

Ordnance Survey Map Northants Sheet L X 1. 6

Scale: 25 ins to 1 mile showing the parish of Furtho & part of Cosgrove. Colour washed in pink to show Furtho Manor estate (surrounding the church)

In pencil: position of septic tank a new farmhouse.


FXIII/247.
1906-1910

Bundle of papers relating to Furtho Farm house, its possible repair & eventual replacement, together with papers for raising a loan through the Charity Commissioners for rebuilding the house. Report on old farm house & estimate for repairs 1907 Estimate for water supply to house and plan 1907 Schedule of extras needed for house 1908

Photograph of the Dovecote 28.10.(19)28 at Furtho Farm,

Monochrome, matt, finish.


FXII/17.
4 May 1907

Printed Notice of Annual Meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge of Northants and Hunts, Town Hall, Towcester on May 9, 1907

Note on back of Arnold's Trustees' Meeting 4 May, to consider plans and estimates for alteration and repairs.


FXIII/284.
November 1907

Map 4504

Architect's Plan of new farm house at Furtho (for Arnold's Charity) showing details of front stairs with sectional elevations & plans of stairs (ground floor & first floor) Architect: W.D. Gibbins A.M.I.C.E. of N'ton
Size: 30 ins x 22 ins.
Scale: 1 in to 1 foot

Ink, pencil & colour wash on paper.

Pencil annotations.


FXIII/285.
November 1907

Map 4505

Architect's Plans of New Farm House at FURTHO (for Arnold's Charity) showing details of Porch (plan & front elevation)

Scale: 1 foot to 1 inch & details of Eaves
Scale: Half full size Architect: W.D. Gibbins of N'ton
Size: 30 ins x 22 ins
Ink and wash on paper

Pencil annotations.


FXIII/246.
1907/1908

Bundle of Builder's Calculations as to windows, slating, venetian saches, concrete, joists and partitions Also agreed amount for plastering & Estimate for plastering of John Wareing of Far Cotton-builder & contractor, to Arnold's Trustees 1.5.1908.

Scrap of paper refers to plan of Furtho old farm house & proposed position of new farm house.


FXIII/281.
1907

Map 4501

Architect's Plan of New Farm House at FURTHO (for Arnold's Charity) showing 2 sections through entire house, elevation of outbuildings, south elevation, west elevation & north elevation Architect: W.D. Gibbins of St. Giles Street, N'ton
Size Scale: 8 ft. to 1 inch

Ink & colour wash on paper.

Pencil annotations Annotated "This is the plan from which I made my tender of £1,250 dated Sep.18. 1907 John Wareing — contractor"


FXIII/282.
1907

Map 4502

Architect's Plan of New Farm House at Furtho (for Arnold's Charity) showing ground plan, chamber plan, basement plan, & plan of roof (rafters) Architect: W.D. Gibbins of N'ton
Size: 30 ins x 22 ins.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch

Ink & colour wash on paper

Pencil annotations.


FXIII/283.
1907

Map 4503

Architect's Plan of New Farm House at Furtho (for Arnold's Charity) consisting of Block Plan showing drains linking the House with the Horse Yard & outbuildings. Also shows churchyard, garden & pond. Architect: W.D. Gibbins of St. Giles Street, N'ton.
Size: 29 ins x 22 ins.
Scale: 33 feet to 1 inch

Ink & colour wash on paper

Pencil annotations.


FXII/57.
1908 - 1940
Bundle (30) of apprenticeship indentures (apps. from Parish of Lower (& a few Upper) Heyford with notes, correspondence etc.

FXII/12.
14, 18 Sept. 1909
2 letters re appointment of Mr. W. F. Read as a representative Trustee.

FXII/24.
1912, 1913
4 letters, (misc: 2 re Manor Farm Furtho, 1 re a resignation, 1 re a cheque)

FXII/100.
Feb. May 1915
Accounts, letter, re sale of timber at Furtho.

FXII/86a
April, 1915
Notice, memoranda, correspondence re proposed alterations of Parish boundaries of Cosgrove, Furtho, Passenham and Potterspury and the possible effect on the Charity. April 1915.

FXII/25.
1916

Letters (3) re a holding of Exchequer bonds etc. Form and note re purchase of War Loans, 1923.


FXII/98.
20 April 1917

Order of Charity Commission:

£117 from sale of timber to be invested in 5% War Stock 1929-1947 etc
and covering letter 25th April 1917


FXII/92.
7 May 1919
Tenancy agreement. Trustees to J. P. Barr of Upper Heyford, farmer.
Manor Farm Furtho (294 acres)
7 years @ £318, £368 p.a.

FXII/41.
1922- 1931
Bank pass book, Charity, 1922-1931

FXII/9.
1929 - 1936
Part of the Northampton Chronicle 20 Feb. 1924 with report of meeting of N. Heyford Parish Council at which proposed Charity Commissioners' Scheme for Arnold Charity was discussed.

FXIII/78.
16.9.1926
Newspaper "Northampton Daily Chronicle" including (on Page 2) Board of Education Notice on the establishment of a scheme for Arnold's Charity.

FXIII/79.
16.9.1926
Newspaper "The Daily Echo” Northampton, includes notice (on Page 2) of intended scheme for Arnold's Charity administration.

FXIII/279.
1926

Map  4499

Ordnance Survey Map of Potterspury a Furtho (Northants Sheet L X 1 N,W.) 1926 Edition Scale: 6 ins to 1 mile

With the Arnold Furtho charity estate coloured in pink wash.


FXIII/248.
28.10.(1928)
Photograph of the Dovecote at Furtho Farm.

Monochrome, matt. finish.


FXIII/249.
1931 - 1940
File containing Correspondence & Plans re application for wayleave by N'ton Electric Light Co. to erect transmission poles at Furtho 1931 - 1933,
also Drainage Rate for Furtho Manor Farm 1961
Newspaper "Mercury & Herald" of N'ton 21.7.1939 reporting move to save Furtho dovecote,
Report of 1938 by Socy. for Protection of Ancient Buildings on the state of Furtho Church & Dovecote, with subsequent correspondence 1938-1940.

FXII/10.
1929 - 1936
a) Charity Commion Scheme, 11 Oct. 1929:

John Whalley Charity for parish of Stony Stratford (E & W) & Cosgrove by will of 1670, comprised in Schemes of 1866, 1899, 1904, 1920

b) Scheme. 8 May 1936:
Repeals Scheme of 1929, new regs.

FXII/42.
1930 - 1931
Bank pass book,
Educational Foundation account 1930-1931

FXIII/82.
c.1932

List of Deeds of Arnold's Charity (Furtho) lent to the Northants Record Society for the Place Name Survey of 1932.

Typescript.  4 sheets.


FXII/93.
11 April 1933
Agreement for surrender of tenancy of Manor Farm,
Furtho, by J, P, Barr of Manor Farm, Furtho,
farmer, to Trustees.

FXIII/301.
27. 7.1933

Magazine

"North British Agricultural & Farming News" Vol, LXXXV. No. 31.


FXII/94.
26 Sept. 1933
Draft tenancy agreement.
Trustees to W. J. Jones and other people of that surname.
Yearly £290 p.a.
with draft release leaving W. J. Jones sole tenant, 4 Aug 1937 with relevant correspondence.

FXIII/250.
1933 - 1937

File of Correspondence relating to Furtho Manor Farm including applications for tenancy, specifications for proposed repairs, valuation of land seeded down to pasture & fixtures.

MS & Typescript enclosing "Farmer & Stockbreeder" for July 24 & 31, 1933.


FXII/104.
1936
Notice of Assessment for property tax on Manor Farm, Furtho.

FXIII/83.
4. 5.1938

Signed Undertaking of the Trustees of the Northamptonshire Record Society to the Trustees of Arnold's Charity as to the safe custody of the Charity's deeds while with the Society, and conditions for production to the public, Signed J. A. Gotch (Chairman) & Joan Wake (Hon. Secretary)

Typescript.


FXII/105.
1941 - 1942
File of correspondence etc. re successful claim for War Damage to Manor Farm.

FXII/28.
1942 - 1950
File of General Correspondence, concerning both the administration of the Charity generally and locally, and of the Furtho estate.

FXIII/303.
4.7.1945

Assignment

(1) Eric Reg. Percy Smith of 43. Stimpson Avenue - insurance rep. to
(2) N'ton & Midlands Building Society of Life Assurance Policies by way of Collateral Security Correspondence attached.


FXIII/254.
1946

Draft Licence

(1) Grand Union Canal Co. of Seething Lane, London to (2) N'ton Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd. of Bridge Str, N'ton to construct an electric cable across the canal & beneath the Company's land at DEANSHANGER near the Iron Works (plan attached)

Typescript

Attached: 2 Letters, 1946 re forwarding above draft to solicitors,


FXIII/192.
July-Sept.1947

File of Correspondence

between Rev. A. H. Mumford of Edith St., Northampton and the Arnold Trustees (& others) about his daughter Joy Mumford benefiting from Arnold's Educational Foundation.


FXIII/84.
27.3.1947

Letter

Miss Joan Wake, Hon. Sec. of Northants Record Society

to Mr. G. C. Wells

announcing the move of the N.R.S. to Lamport Hall, where the documents deposited by the Trustees of Arnold's Charity in 1938, will be stored in future

Attached: Copy of reply 9.4.1947 stating acceptance of new arrangements subject to suitability.


FXII/86b.
1947 - 1948
Correspondence about the draining of a pond and 40 acre field at Furtho Manor Farm.

Removed from the front of XII/32.


FXIII/190.
1947

Letters (2)

from M. Court of Lower Heyford to Applying for grant of £5 from Arnold's Charity for Richard Clarke, and thanking -for £7.10.0 on behalf of Richard Clarke.


FXIII/191.
(1947)

Work Assessment Schedule

for pupils at Stowe Nine Churches School giving names, attendance marks diligence marks, and conduct marks, with a special recommendation for Susan Parrish and Stephen Lewes and note that £9 has been received.


FXIII/192.
July-Sept.1947

File of Correspondence

between Rev. A. H. Mumford of Edith St., Northampton and the Arnold Trustees (& others) about his daughter Joy Mumford benefiting from Arnold's Educational Foundation.


FXIII/193.
1947

Bundle of Receipts

to Arnold's Charity for payments of bills, benefactions, tithe, school prizes

& including Apprenticeship Indenture 9.7.1941 Basil Godfrey Nicholls (aged 15, son of Herbert M. Nicholls of Stony Stratford - moulder) to Geo. Betts & Albert Faulkner of Stony Stratford -builders.


FXIII/306.
1947-1951

Box File of Miscellaneous papers

• Northampton (Municipal) Church Charities Acts for 1947,
• Memo to Will of Thomas C.K. Moore 3.8.1946 requesting the burning of 3 old farm wagons
• Letter from Planning Officer 22.7.1948 as to preservation of Dovecote at Furtho with plan of footpaths,
• Plan of kitchen & bedroom to be built on to Madge Cottage, Denton for E. E. Ingram 1934.

Printed Notice (lower half only survives) relating to the foundation of a hospital at BATH and the establishment of a Fund to support it.

Printed by Thomas Boddely of Bath
Endorsed on back "Mr. Griffiths at Rhode".


FXIII/251.
1948 - 1958

File of Correspondence relating to Arnolds Charity includes Dovecote, insurance, Furtho Manor Farm, grants, tender for stock yard building 1949, applications for grants, provision of prizes.

MS, typescript.


FXIII/194.
1947
Bundle of Receipts 1949 to Arnold's Charity for payments of educational grants.

FXIII/304.
1949

Pamphlet

"Introducing the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts 1946 & 1948" by Robert S. W. Pollard J.P. - solicitor

Loose inside: Speciment Doctor's Certificate.

Published by the Law Society.
42 PP.


FXIII/252.
1950 - 1955
File of Correspondence relating to Arnolds Charity includes provision of prizes, Furtho Manor Farm, repairs to churchyard (1953), statement of claim for damage to Manor Farm caused by Sewage works (1954), Applications by Parents for financial assistance, 2 copies of Arnold's Charity Accounts 1953.

FXIII/253.
1954 - 1957

File of Correspondence relating to Arnolds Charity on misc, subjects like Furtho Manor Farm, grants for prizes, insurance, rights of way, new bridges, road maintenance,

MS, typescript & bills,


FXIII/249.
1931 - 1961
File containing Correspondence & Plans re application for wayleave by N'ton Electric Light Co. to erect transmission poles at Furtho 1931 - 1933,
also Drainage Rate for Furtho Manor Farm 1961
Newspaper "Mercury & Herald" of N'ton 21.7.1939 reporting move to save Furtho dovecote,
Report of 1938 by Socy. for Protection of Ancient Buildings on the state of Furtho Church & Dovecote, with subsequent correspondence 1938-1940.


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