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Deed of Covenant: Upexe House Ltd, Thorverton (Devon)

Deed of Covenant between Upexe House Ltd (formerly E J Coombe Ltd) and the Purchase Finance Company Ltd. Includes statutory declaration by John Edward Hamlin, managing director of E J Coombe (Thorverton) Ltd, 'which has been formed to take over the business of Upexe House Ltd (formerly known as E J Coombe Ltd)'

Purchase Finance Company Ltd

Pocket notebook - focus on tide mills

A repurposed Lett's diary for 1936 measuring 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm, containing measurements, notes, calculations and drawings on a variety of engineering and milling matters including the mills listed at 'Place access points' below.

Reference is made to a number of sea or tide meals including unidentified ones at Denham, Wadebridge and St Austell, Cornwall and also to 'Butshead Tide Mill' [Budshead?] at St Budeaux. There are also 8 pages of notes under the headings 'Beech' and 'Stock' detailing the equipment/set-up within two unidentified mills. A further unidentified mill mentioned is 'Little Bentley Mill'.

Further notes on tide mills record that, 'porpoises came up at Barrow Hill Tide Mill, Abridge [Heybridge?], Maldon Essex'. A record is also made of '7 Tide Mills on North coast of Norfolk in the Burnhams'.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Mortgage relating to land and property at Garliford Mills, Bishops Nympton

One sheet of vellum measuring 52cm x 40cm, folded in two and signed and sealed by Henry Hill. The indenture records the grant of a mortgage as security for a loan from Thomas Chapple to Henry Hill over: a variety of property and land in Northmolton, Devon; a piece of land at Long Holcombe awarded to Henry Hill by the Enclosure Commissioners for the Forest of Exmoor; and property at Garliford, Hareholt and Garliford Mills, Bishops Nympstone. A piece of watermarked paper, signed by Thomas Chapple, is attached (34 cm x 22 cm).

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Thingwall, Crowfield, Gwendarr Mill, Overy Mill, Tidworth, Shabden Park, Earls Colne, Brickfield Pump, Caudwell's Mill, Lustleigh, Dullelog.

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