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Official
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STAINES
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Staines Urban District, Middlesex (Staines, Ashford,
Laleham and Stanwell): the official guide. Croydon: Home Publishing Co., 2nd
ed. [1950?]. 68p. [914.2212 STA]
STAINES
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Staines Urban District (Staines, Ashford, Laleham and
Stanwell): the official guide with map and 22 illustrations. Croydon: Home
Publishing Co., (1962). 40p.
[914.2212 STA]
STAINES
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Staines Ashford and district, Middlesex: the official
guide. Croydon: Home Publishing Co.,
1974? 84p. [914.2212 STA]
Legal and
Financial Documents
Fire
insurance certificate issued to Thomas Hawkes and Selina Harriet Hasseltine
Engall on properties in Ashford. 1901. [592]
Great
Western Railway (branches to Egham, Staines, Brentford and Twickenham). Notice to
the trustees of the Ashford and Hampton Turnpike Trust of an application to
Parliament to build a branch railway from Acton to Egham, from Brentford and
from Isleworth to Twickenham. 1846. Printed notice. [1006]
Laleham
Parish re. Stollerys encroachment. Letter sent from the churchwardens of
Laleham Church to J A Engall re. the encroachment of Mr Stollery on the highway
between Staines and Ashford Ford. 1888. Handwritten letter. [1225]
Messrs.
J.H. & C. Richardson to the Trustees of the West Middlesex, Surrey, South
Bucks & Berks Benefit Building Society. Draft memorial [drawn up] by Horne & Engall Solicitors,
Staines. Dated 2nd May 1888. A
memorial to be registered of an indenture made between James Henry Richardson
and Charles Richardson and the trustees of the West Middlesex Surrey South
Bucks and Berks Benefit Building Society. 1888. Handwritten legal document. [2]
Messrs.
J.H. & C. Richardson to the Trustees of the West Middlesex, Surrey, South
Bucks, and Berks Benefit Building Society. Draft further charge on freehold hereditaments at Ashford,
Middlesex to secure £60. Dated 2nd
May 1888. An indenture
between James Henry Richardson and Charles Richardson and the trustees of the
West Middlesex, Surrey, South Bucks & Berks Benefit Building Society . Solicitors: Horne & Engall. 1888.
Handwritten legal document. [22]
Messrs. J
H & C Richardson to the Trustees of the West Middlesex Surrey South Bucks
& Berks Benefit Building Society.
Draft further charge on freehold hereditaments at Ashford Middlesex to
secure £60. Solicitors: Horne
& Engall. 1888. Handwritten
document. [588]
Messrs. J
H & C Richardson to the
Trustees of the West Middlesex Surrey South Bucks & Berks Benefit Building
Society. Draft memorial. Solicitors: Horne & Engall. 1888. Handwritten document. [589]
Messrs. J
H Richardson & C Richardson to the Trustees of the West Middlesex Surrey
South Bucks & Berks Benefit Building Society. Draft mortgage of freehold hereditaments at Ashford. Solicitors: Horne & Engall. 1883. Handwritten document. [590]
Mr.
Charles Stiller to the Trustees of the West Middlesex Surrey South Bucks &
Berks Benefit Building Society.
Draft mortgage of property at Ashford to secure £570. Solicitors: Horne & Engall. 1898. Handwritten document. [591]
Mr. Henry
Ward to Miss S A Tatnell.
Equitable charge. 1903.
Typewritten document. [587]
Laleham
Parish re. Stollerys encroachment. Letter sent from the churchwardens of
Laleham Church to J A Engall re. the encroachment of Mr Stollery on the highway
between Staines and Ashford Ford. 1888. Handwritten letter. [1225]
Local Government Elections (1898)
Election of parish councillors for
the parish of Ashford in the year 1898.
Names of candidates.
Chairman of the parish meeting: Richard Wright Ewer. 1898. [620]
Election of parish councillors for
the parish of Ashford in the year 1898.
Declaration of result of poll.
1898. [626]
Letter from R W Ewer, Chairman of
the parish meeting in Ashford to J A Engall re. polling places. 1898.
Handwritten letter. [623]
Election of Parish councillors for
the Parish of Ashford. Statutory
declaration of secrecy. Six signed declarations. 1898. [600]
Notice of poll. Election of parish councillors for the parish
of Ashford in the year 1898.
Returning officer: John Anthony Engall. 1898. Poster. [599]
Notice of result of poll declared
by deputy returning officer.
Election of parish councillors for the parish of Ashford in the year
1898. Returning officer: John
Anthony Engall. 1898. Printed
form. [627]
Local Government Act, 1894. Election of parish councillors. (Copy) order of the County Council of
Middlesex, fixing the hours of poll.
1898.. [625]
Map (1897)
Ordnance
Survey map covering Ashford & Laleham, 2nd edition. 1897. [A49]
Miscellaneous
Ashford Parish Magazine, September
1934. Ashford: J.M. Stitt & Co.,
1934. p. 67-72. [914.2212 ASH]
The auto-biography of a village. A
children's history of Ashford written by Lily Taylor, teacher at Clarendon Road
School, Ashford. Handwritten.
[574]
Card commemorating Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee presented to Willie Taylor from the Staines & District
United Band-of-Hope excursion 1897. Printed card. [586]
Copy of a birth certificate for
Annie Elizabeth Taylor (Lily). 1923. [576]
Exhibition of documents maps &
views relating to Staines, Ashford, Laleham & Stanwell sponsored by Staines
Urban District Council the Standing Joint Committee for Middlesex & the
National Register of Archives at the Town Hall, Staines 25-29 Mar 1952 .
Catalogue. [772]
Letter from May, 6, Chapel Street,
Bromsgrove on the death of Lily's father. 1933. [572]
Letter from Maggie, 432 Staines Road,
Twickenham to Lily Taylor on her retirement. 1947. [573]
Letter from Emmie, 180 Wendover
Road, Staines to Lily Taylor. 1932. [580]
Manor Golf Club, Ashford fixtures,
1907. 1907. Printed card. [596]
Manor Golf Club rules and
regulations and local rules and bye-laws. Booklet. [595]
Notes of lessons. Notes by Lily
Taylor for lessons at Clarendon Road School, Ashford. 1909-1910. Handwritten
notes in exercise book. [578]
Receipt from the New Manor Golf Club,
Ashford to R. Pimm for subscription. 1907. Receipt. [597]
Weekly Times & Echo Children's
Corner. This is to certify that
Lily Taylor has been enrolled among Uncle Sam's children. Printed card. [575]
Photographs
A play at Lily Taylor's
school. [579]
Charles Taylor. [584]
John Gurr, evangelist with troops,
etc at Ashford during the 1914-1918 war. Photographer: Percy M Kaye. [1749]
Laleham Church. [10524]
Lily and William Taylor [583]
Mr. & Mrs. Taylor. [10488]
St. Matthew's Church. [10492]
The Taylor family. [577, 577a, 577b, 1084]
Town Tree and Drinking
Fountain. [10523]
Postcards
Ashford Church. 1908 [6834, 6836]
Ashford County Schools. n.d. [6882]
Ashford County Schools. 1911. [6839, 6855]
Ashford from Railway Bridge. n.d. [6944]
Ashford. n.d [6881]
Boy in fancy dress. n.d [Clarendon Road School]. [6924]
Boys in fancy dress. [Clarendon Road School]. n.d [6919]
Children dancing in school. n.d [6963]
Children in a classroom. [Clarendon Road School]. n.d [6933, 6934]
Children in fancy dress. [Clarendon Road School]. n.d [6918, 6920-23,
6925-32]
Children outside school. n.d [6962]
Church Road. n.d [6868, 6899, 6955]
Church Road. 1904 [6837]
Church Road. 1911 [6856]
Church-West London School. 1905. [6844]
The cinema, Clarendon Road. n.d [6898]
Clarendon Road. n.d [6877, 6901, 6904, 6908, 6945 ]
Clarendon Road Board School. n.d [6888, 6889]
Clarendon Road Schools. n.d [6906, 6961]
Commemoration service. n.d [726]
Congregational Chapel. 1904. [6857]
Cricket team. n.d [6850]
Elderly lady [Mrs Taylor?]. n.d [6941]
Elderly man [Mr Taylor?]. n.d [6940]
Entrance & Lodge to Staines
Union. n.d [6848]
Feltham Hill Road. n.d [6954]
Fishing in the Ash. n.d [6869]
Ford Bridge Road. n.d.. [6905]
Ford Bridge Road. 1931. [6835]
Ford Bridge. n.d [6861, 6863, 6864, 6876, 6885, 6903, 6911, 6956,
6957, 6960]
Ford Bridge. 1903 [6842]
Girl in fancy dress. [Clarendon Road School]. n.d [6917]
The Glen. n.d
[6873]
Greetings from Ashford. n.d [6895, 6912, 6949, 6952]
Kingston Road. 1910. [6859]
[Lily Taylor]. ca. 1940. [6948]
The Links Hotel. 1907. [6847]
Muncaster House School. n.d [6907, 6950]
The Old Town Tree. n.d [6897]
Old Village. n.d [6867]
Older children in a classroom. [Clarendon Road School]. [6935]
The Pond. n.d
[6953]
Post Office, Ashford Common. 1913. [6858]
Rev. G.J.M. Kingston. n.d [6883]
Ruins of the Home of the Good
Shepherd. n.d [6860]
School Road Corner 1907. [6838]
School Road. n.d [6886]
The Secondary Schools. 1911. [6840]
St. Matthew's Church. n.d. [6854, 6878, 6880, 6884, 6893,
6896, 6902]
St. Matthew's Church. 1904 [6846]
St. Matthew's Church, Centre
Aisle n.d [6845, 6892]
The Spelthorne. n.d [6849]
Station Approach. n.d [6951]
Station Approach. 1904. [6891]
Town Tree. n.d [6887, 6894]
Town Tree. 1906. [6841]
Town Tree. 1915. [6865]
Train coming into Ashford
Station. n.d [6890]
War Memorial. n.d. [6910, 6913, 6914, 6915, 6916, 6946, 6947, 6958, 6959, 6962,
6875]
Welsh Girls School. 1912. [6866]
Welsh Girls' School, (St. David's
Chapel). 1904. [6851]
Welsh Girls' School, (The
Hall). 190? [6852]
The Welsh School. n.d [6872]
West London School. n.d. [6871]
West London School. 1921. [6843]
[Willie Taylor, postman]. n.d
[6936-6939]
[Willie Taylor with other soldiers
in World War 1 uniform]. ca.
1915.
[6942]
A winter scene from the Ford
Bridge. n.d [6874]
Woodthorpe Road. 1908. [6909]
Woodthorpe Road. n.d [6853, 6870, 6900]
Sale
Brochures and Catalogues
Detached
freehold residence "Winkfield", Station Crescent, Ashford will be
sold by Messrs. Gale & Power on March 19th, 1912. Solicitors: Messrs. Phillips & Randle Ford. Particulars
& conditions of sale. 1912. Brochure. [1015]
Detached
pair of freehold houses "The Brackens" & "The
Firlands", Feltham Road, Ashford will be sold by Messrs. Gale & Power
on March 19th, 1912. Solicitors:
Messrs. Horne, Engall & Freeman. Particulars & conditions of sale.
1912. Brochure. [1014]
Francis'
Stores, Ashford. Catalogue of the
excellent stock of builders' ironmongery, tools, garden utensils, household
requisites ... which Messrs. Gale & Power will sell on July 17th, 18th
& 19th, 1912. 1912.
Catalogue. [1018]
Freehold residence
known as "Claremont", The Causeway, Egham & 7 freehold cottages
known as nos. 1 to 7 Spelthorne Terrace, Ashford Common for sale by Gale, Power
& Co on 29th July 1930.
Solicitors: Messrs. Ryland & Co. Particulars & conditions of
sale. 1930. Brochure. [1784]