Pride of Peacocks : a memoir of a Bedford firm of auctioneers, estate agents and surveyors /
This memoir, written by a former partner of Peacocks, the Bedford firm of estate agents, auctioneers and surveyors, covers the years 1902-1988 and draws on a wide variety of sources, many from his own collection, including property instruction books, business ephemera and auctioneers' handbooks...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
Boydell Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society ;
v. 93. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Auctions and Auction Houses in England: a brief history
- Chapter One The Beginning
- Chapter: Two Horne Lane Sale Yards, Bedford
- Chapter Three: 10 Lime Street, Bedford
- Chapter Four: The Sale Rooms, Lime Street, Bedford
- Chapter Five: 6 Dame Alice Street, Bedford
- Chapter Six: 58 St Loyes Street, Bedford
- Chapter Seven: 26 Newnham Street, Bedford
- Chapter Eight: Baldock and the A1 Offices
- Chapter Nine: Property Auction Sales
- Chapter Ten: Surveys
- Chapter Eleven: Lettings and Property Management
- Chapter Twelve: Advertising and Publicity
- Chapter Thirteen: Fun and Games
- Chapter Fourteen: Ministry of Supply Sales, Peacock,Merry and Swaffield
- Chapter Fifteen: The Egg Packing Station, Bedford
- Chapter Sixteen: The Rutland Road Store, Bedford
- Chapter Seventeen: 121-123 Midland Road, Bedford,Bartle Potter &
- Son
- Chapter Eighteen: The Surveyors 1921 Club
- Chapter Nineteen: W. &
- H. Peacock Reborn
- Appendix 1: Compilation of the Property Auction Records,1902-1988
- Appendix 2: Property Auction Records, 1902-1988
- Works Cited
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Places.