Water Supply to the Village Pump dd 1818. Legal agreement in which promises were made and signed to for the supply of water to the village pump from Catchpoles pond for 500 years.
Reads"Received of Mr Wllm Clullen a Document dated 4 July 1818 for the Grant and D------- of the Right of supplying the town pump with water from a Pond in the orchard of the Premises formerly Catchpoles at Stradbroke between John Fanow and Thurston…
Transcript:
Dated July 14th 1818
Mr John Farrow
To Mr Chas Thurston and Others In Trust for the Inhabitants of Stradbrook
Grant and Demise of the Right of supplying the Town Pump with Water from the Pond…
Rear of The Court House with the village water pump under the wooden canopy.
The Court House was originally The Corn Hall. The building was commissioned from public donation, mainly farmers and tradesmen, and erected in 1854. The Revd. Allen placed…