F89

Miscellanea                                                       52 items

 

1846 - 1967

 

     See also G24.

 

 

F89/1

Copy of Council resolution concerning a tribute to Recorder John Robert Kenyon, esq., on the occasion of his marriage.

 

 

 

3 Aug. 1846

F89/2

Property and income tax assessment for Tindaethwy Hundred, co. Anglesey.

 

1847

 

F89/3, 4

Land and assessed taxes assessments for Ardudwy Hundred, co. Merioneth, and Wenlock District, co. Salop.

 

 

1847

 

F89/5

Proclamation for the encouragement of piety.

9 Jun. 1860

 

F89/6

Draft specification of works in the erection of a printing office, shops etc. in the new road to the railway station, for Mr. Askew Roberts.

 

 

1862

 

F89/7

List of silver plate and other articles handed over to the incoming Mayor by the outgoing one.

 

[1864]

 

F89/8, 9

Bill of complaint in suit Briant v. Williams, and related letter.

 

1864

 

F89/10

Letter from W. Gladstone to Edw. Woodall, declining to advise on the ‘representation’.

 

1868

 

F89/11

Copy of specification and contract for restoration of Oswestry Parish Church.

 

1872

 

F89/12

Miscellaneous envelopes.                                   1 bundle

1886 - 1894

 

F89/13

Invitation to meet the Oswestry Philharmonic Society on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.

 

1887

 

F89/14

Newspaper advertisements of auction of properties in Bailey Street and Llanymynech, co. Salop.

 

 

1888

F89/15

Letter from Town Clerk of Ludlow, co. Salop, relating to police superannuation fund, and theatre licences.

 

19 Feb. 1889

 

F89/16

Letter from W. Mitchell, Globe Parcel Express, London, relating to a query raised.

 

18 May 1889

 

F89/17

Printed items circulated by the Association of County Councils.                                                           1 bundle

 

1889 - 1891

 

F89/18

Invitations to attend Salop County Council and Committee meetings, and related items.             1 bundle

 

 

1890 - 1891

F89/19

Printed items circulated by the Non-County Boroughs Association.                                                       1 bundle

 

1890 - 1891

 

F89/20

Correspondence relating to enlargement of Holy Trinity Church.                                                             1 bundle

 

1893

 

F89/21

Letter from Councillor John Cottam asking for a motion to be put on the agenda for the next Council meeting re the clearance of rubbish from the printing works.

 

 

28 Jun. 1897

 

F89/22, 23

Letters relating to the restoration of the ‘plague stone’.

1898

 

F89/24

Letter from Mr. Calder, 49 Canning Street, Liverpool, concerning a visit to Oswestry.

 

[c.1898?]

 

F89/25

Poem ‘Bag of Nails’.

[pre 1900]

 

F89/26

Notices of Mayor’s Services and Sundays.        1 bundle

1898 - 1957

F89/27

Supplement to the Border Counties Advertiser, including reports on meetings of Council and General Purposes Committee.

 

 

10 Jan. 1900

 

F89/28

Supplement to the London Gazette Extraordinary, relating to the death of Queen Victoria.

 

 

23 Jan. 1901

F89/29

Circulars and instructions relating to provisional orders.

                                                                         1 bundle

 

1901

 

F89/30-32

Letters of acceptance and refusal of invitations, and other letters relating to the Mayor’s Luncheon held 10 Jan. 1902.                                                               3 bundles

 

 

1901 - 1902

 

F89/33

Tickets and seating plans for same, with related letters.

                                                                         1 bundle

 

1902

 

F89/34

Programmes and menus for luncheons at Welshpool and Oswestry to welcome the Yeomanry and Volunteers on their return from the South African War.            1 bundle

 

 

1902

 

F89/35

Notices of special services and celebrations.     1 bundle

1902 - 1950

 

F89/36

Notices, plans, consents relating to telegraph lines and poles.                                                                1 bundle

 

1911 - 1924

 

F89/37

Receipt of Major John Henry Cooke of the Third Line, Fourth Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, for the loan of the Maxim Machine Gun, obtained by public subscription for service in the Boer War, and subsequently presented to the Town Council.

 

 

 

 

7 Oct. 1915

 

F89/38

Ceremonial address to Sergeant Harold Whitfield, V. C., K.S.L.I.

 

 

16 May 1918

 

F89/39

Letter book of H. Bird Jones of Oswestry, Solicitor.

                                                                              1 vol.

 

May 1924 - Mar. 1927

 

 

     H. Bird Jones was Town Clerk 1924 - 1960.  This volume contains letters relating to his private practice as a solicitor.

 

 

F89/40

Notice of application of Lilian Hughes for transfer to her of the licence for public billiard playing at the Harlech Castle, Oswald Road.

 

 

12 Apr. 1927

 

F89/41

Notice of public meeting concerning the proposal for an order of the Secretary of State to extend the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. V c.51) to the Borough of Oswestry.

 

 

 

2 Aug. 1939

 

F89/42, 43

Letter and memorandum relating to proposal to sell properties in Gobowen Road and Cambrian Drive, in mortgage to the Council.

 

 

May 1945

 

F89/44

Summons to Leonard Andrew Denny of Holbach Road, Oswestry, to be a juror at an enquiry concerning treasure trove.

 

10 Mar. 1950

 

F89/45a

Registration book for Allen mowing machine.

1950 - 1967

 

F89/45b

Programme and menu for St. John Ambulance Brigade Dinner on the occasion of the visit of Lady Mountbatten of Burma.

 

 

14 Jul. 1951

 

F89/46, 47

Letter and memorandum concerning a collection of stuffed birds given to the Library Committee in 1931, and lent temporarily to Ellesmere College, co. Salop.

 

 

1953

 

F89/48, 49

Telegram of thanks from Winston S. Churchill, and envelope.

8 Dec. 1964

 

F89/50

Notes on Oswestry Corporation Plate (2 copies).

 [post 1964]

 

F89/51

Instruction for operating the Britannic Calculating Machine.

 

undated

F89/52

Message of greeting from the London Borough of Greenwich on the occasion of the re-affirmation to the Royal Regiment of Artillery to the Honorary Freedom of that Borough.

 

 

 

 

26 May 1966