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William Brown's

Account Book 1851-8

By Chris Reynolds

Talk given 18th May 2016

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Slide 1	William Brown's Account Book 1851-8
Slide 2	Outline of the Talk
Slide 3	Setting the Scene Tring Events before 1850
Slide 4	The Owners & Occupiers of Tring Park
Slide 5	The Brown Family
Slide 6	John R. Glenister, Estate Agent
Slide 7	William Brown Starts Trading as an estate agent
Slide 8	William Brown's First Advert
Slide 9	William Brown & the Railway Station
Slide 10	The Harcourt Arms, Tring Station
Slide 11	Further Work at the Station
Slide 12	Setting the Scene Between 1835 & 1850
Slide 13	William Brown in 1851 He starts Account Book C
Slide 14	The First Entry in the Account Book
Slide 15	A Typical Page dealing with property after a death
Slide 16	The Key Questions
Slide 17	Who was Elizabeth Kingsley?
Slide 18	The Plough Inn (Business)
Slide 19	Selling off the Furniture in the Plough Inn
Slide 20	The Advert in the Bucks Herald
Slide 21	The Coal Business
Slide 22	Mrs Kingsley's Accounts
Slide 23	Where was the Plough Inn?
Slide 24	The Plough Inn, 50 High Street, Tring
Slide 25	The Modern Inn Sign
Slide 26	John Brown & Tring Brewery
Slide 27	Inventories of Public Houses
Slide 28	Sale of The Brickmaker's Arms
Slide 29	Who as at the Brickmaker's Arms in 1851
Slide 30	Selling off Brewery Equipment for John Amsden
Slide 31	Thomas Springwell in Distress
Slide 32	Thomas Springwell's Baker's Shop
Slide 33	... Creditors paid at 2s 6d in the £
Slide 34	Sale of Tring Grove Estate
Slide 35	Lord Lake's Tring Grove Estate
Slide 36	The Auction
Slide 37	Tring Grove Farm
Slide 38	Entries in the Account Book
Slide 39	Who Brought What?
Slide 40	Some Miscellaneous items Another Rothschild Reference
Slide 41	Selling Timber
Slide 42	Small amounts of Timber
Slide 43	Arabelle Trees at Wilstone
Slide 44	The Aylesbury Election in 1851
Slide 45	Later Election Accounts
Slide 46	W. Brown's Services at the 1854 Hertfordshire Election
Slide 47	Other Election Expenses
Slide 48	What was Happening at Tring Park?
Slide 49	Rev James Williams of Tring Park
Slide 50	Farm Rents Received
Slide 51	Cottage Rents, July 1856
Slide 52	Property Managed in 1856
Slide 53	Acquiring New Property in 1856
Slide 54	Goods and Services, December 1854
Slide 55	Letting Hastoe House
Slide 56	Making Arrangements to Let Hastoe House
Slide 57	And what happened next ...
Slide 58	The Account Book is Online at bit.ly/BrownAccountBook