Lesley Aitchison - Norhamptonshire Manuscripts, Maps, Photographs, Ephemera etc.

Ball (Wm.) & Son, Ltd., Rothwell PRICE LISTS of carts Three sheets, two large 4to, the other slightly smaller illustrating Bedford Cart, Tipping Cart, Farm Lurry etc., two illustrations on each side of sheet... together with... another price list, single sheet, printed on both sides, 4to, describing their Beet Lifter, with small illustration. c1912. £18.00
¶ The company was at the Royal Prize Implement Works, Rothwell.
Brigstock, Wadenhoe, Geddington, Corby TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale 6" to one mile. Each size 36" x 39". Sheet XVIII N.E. and sheets to south and west, and Sheet XVII N.E. and sheets to south and west. Dissected and linen-backed, grey endpapers with Stanford labels, inserted in cloth-covered 8vo slipcase. Second Edition 1901. £38.00
¶ Shows good detail of Boughton House, Rushton Hall, Glendon Hall etc.
Brixworth THE PARTICULARS of a Valuable Tithe-Free Estate, situate at Brixworth... on the High Road, Six Miles from Northampton... in the very Centre of Mr. Ward's (late Lord Spencer's) Hunt... Comprising a spacious Stone-built Edifice, called Brixworth Hall... Pleasure Ground, Canals and Fish Ponds, Cold Bath, Ice-house... containing together upwards of 16 Acres walled round... Also one Fifth Part of the extensive Manor of Brixworth.. A Good Farm-House and the George Inn... To be Sold by Private Contract. 3p., folded with docket title. no date. c1800. £40.00
¶ Gives measurements of the rooms in the Hall, Schedules with acreages of different closes etc.
Carlton NORTH VIEW OF THE REVD. MR SLYE'S HOUSE at Carlton in the County of Northampton, the seat of Sr. Jon. Palmer bart 1809. Pencil drawing size 8" x 10" on thick paper. Shows house with trees at the side, children with hoops, adults and a dog on the lawn. Paper watermarked 1809. £16.00
¶ A rather naive drawing but the architectural detail of the house is good. The Revd. Matthias Slye altered the church substantially in the 1780's, with the costs born by the Lord of the Manor, Sir John Palmer, of Carlton Hall.
Hardwick, Wellingborough ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX N.E, N.W. etc., scale 6" to 1 mile. Water features hand-coloured. Size approx. 25" x 36". Linen-backed, folding into 8vo cloth wraps. 1887. £20.00
Maxey, Bainton MAP OF A FARM AT LOLHAM the Property of William Fludyer Esq. 1851. Manuscript map in ink and full wash colour, on cartridge paper backed with linen. Size 24" x 32", scale 3 chains to an inch. Large calligraphic title, scale bar, table of Reference with key to 21 fields, woods, building etc., inset map bottom left of land in Maxey Fen next to the River Welland, scale 6 chains to an inch. Shows homestead with ponds, garden layout, fields, hedgerows, river, railway with level crossing, woods, adjoining owners. Signed below scale bar 'Charles Day, Surveyor, Colleyweston.' 1851. £110.00
¶ Charles Day, of Colleyweston, is listed in Eden's 'Dictionary of Land Surveyors' as making estate plans in various counties in the East Midlands.

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Warmington WARMINGTON GRANGE pencil drawing of the house. On thick paper, size 8" x 10", showing the front and side of house, flower beds in front, picket fence at side. Date and title at bottom. July 27, 1858. £10.00

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