File. 22 Eccleston Square

Reference No:
U DMS/4/4
Dates:
29 Dec 1966-6 Jul 1972
Description:
File containing the following papers relating to property held by the Missions to Seamen at 22 Eccleston Square, London: correspondence of Reverend T.P. Kerfoot as General Superintendent, G.H. Robinson as Finance Secretary, Reverend M.A. Mann as Home Secretary, and K.T.H. Naylor for the Missions to Seamen with solicitors, land agents, contractors and tenants; inventories of contents of ground floor and top floor flats in 1967. Includes references to: problems with leaseholder of No.21 Eccleston Square; consideration of selling the property in 1967 but decision taken to retain for further two years; repairs and redecoration; purchase of furniture from the estate of Mrs Ford deceased; sale of freehold from St George's Estate Limited to Central Estates Limited in 1967; utilities; lease on the property being 134 years; estimate of cost to the society of maintaining the property; work to No.21 affecting the party wall between the two properties; Alexander Haley as tenant of the ground floor flat; insurance; alterations to electricity supply; fire prevention; Reverend C. Chetwynd as a resident; installation of an entryphone system; Miss Glenda Christie as tenant of the ground floor flat; speculative enquiries from agents re the possibilty of purchasing the property.
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)