Catalogue of sale, at Red Lion in Banbury, of Eydon Hall Estate with details of three cottages and a building site.
Catalogue of sale, at Red Lion in Banbury, of Eydon Estate with details of three cottages and a building site. The first cottage was let to Jesse Avery, a waggoner on a farm, who had been in the village since 1892. This may have been the home of the patricide Edward Higham. It was sold to Mr Prestidge for £70 and at some stage knocked down and land incorporated into 2 and 4 Partridge Lane. The other two cottages are now called 4 and 3 Doctors Lane respectively. Both were sold to Mr Wyatt for £100 and £55. Andrew Mason, who lived in the smaller cottage, may have been John Andrew Mason, who in 1901 was a 50 year old railway labourer. The building site was the site of five small cottages burnt down in the Great Fire of 1905 and was bought secretly (by Mr J Bonham of Cropredy for £20) on behalf of the Village Hall Committee for the site of the future Village Hall. Photographer: Unknown Image lent by : Mrs Margie Davies
Connected photos: KL015 range