File. 22 Eccleston Square

Reference No:
U DMS/4/3
Dates:
5 Jan 1955-24 Nov 1966
Description:
File containing the following papers relating to property held by the Missions to Seamen at 22 Eccleston Square, London: extracts from minutes 1956-1959; correspondence of Commander H. Selby Ash, Finance Secretary and Home Base Secretary for the Missions to Seamen with contractors, surveyors and solicitors; copy register of electors return for 1965. Includes references to: alterations to the 'Centenary Office'; redecoration; Commander Selby Ash vacating the first floor maisonette, and the same being let on a three year tenancy; extension of the leasehold period on the property; building works and repairs; Reverend Cyril Brown being an occupant of one of the flats; insulation of roof; renewal of gas water heater; changes to tenancies, inluding reassignment of lease from Mr Summers to Mr J.M.B. Hughes, a medical student; Commander Harper occupying the first and second floor flat at the end of Mr Hughes' tenancy; external repainting; proposal to convert rear room of basement offices into cinema; redecoration of basement offices; use of ground floor flat as Port of London Centenary Appeal offices; problems with leaseholder of No.21 Eccleston Square.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)