Eustace 1882. One of the six pioneers to go to America for Shell Oil Company when incepted. President and secretary for Shell in America.
DR Peter 1646. Prenenbary of Westminster Abbey Chaplin of House of Commons. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
Col. Thomas 1603. Held high office under Cromwell. Led siege which led to downfall of the King. Took active part in rebuilding London.
My late father Gerald Augustus 1883. Organist composer, served community well to be cheated by the British government. Played for the love of music. Organist at Winchester Cathedral when 21 years old.
His mother was related to Laurence of Arabia and Barret Browning of Wimpole Steet, London. Her father was a well known author of standard English law books (QC).
Many more MPs and rectors. Even poet Thomas Gray.
Please help us the people of Britain if you can, thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
See: Letter, page three
Saturday, 3 March 2007
Letter, page two: transcript
This sort of thing is going on all over Britain, and if one does not move out they are evicted from their freeholds. Indeed a 84-year-old man has evicted just recently and he was offered far less than a third of replacement value. At this time of life it can of course be fatal. Age or illness has no bounds to the British government. Time and time again they shrug off attempts for a fair deal.
I have written to the Queen, Prime Minister and members of the ministry, but all to no avail, every democratic way way I have tried. Would it be possible for you to try and make the British government see sense, for the sake of mankind to relieve human suffering. This would benefit many people in this democratic country as well as ourselves. If we are forcibly evicted I would be more than grateful if you could rehouse us in some way.
Ironically the man who will use our land for his private company said he will be Basildon's first millionaire, yet the land has been classed as 'parkland' and we are to be made homeless. The government are selling land at 76 times the price they are offering us and others. This is British justice, they are confiscating our home and my business which I have run here, completely ruining people's lives - no wonder they say one in seven have to spend time in a mental home.
Below are a few details of our family tree, but even the fact that they had contributed a great deal to the history of this country to try and make it a fair and decent place in which to live - morals it would appear have changed in Britain - had no influence.
Samuel 1757. Lord Mayor of London. 1814. Compose musical dramas - Convent Garden. One of few Londoners to have medal struck in his honour.
Samuel 1813. One of the world's leading Egyptologists. Helped solve hieroglyphics. British Museum 1836-1885.
DR Walter 1842. Dept of manuscripts British Museum.
Guthlac 1884. COL DSO commander of 51st battalion Gordon Highlanders. Chief arbitrator in strikes occupied Germany. Commissioner British occupied territory Germany. Order of Leopold.
See: Letter, page two
I have written to the Queen, Prime Minister and members of the ministry, but all to no avail, every democratic way way I have tried. Would it be possible for you to try and make the British government see sense, for the sake of mankind to relieve human suffering. This would benefit many people in this democratic country as well as ourselves. If we are forcibly evicted I would be more than grateful if you could rehouse us in some way.
Ironically the man who will use our land for his private company said he will be Basildon's first millionaire, yet the land has been classed as 'parkland' and we are to be made homeless. The government are selling land at 76 times the price they are offering us and others. This is British justice, they are confiscating our home and my business which I have run here, completely ruining people's lives - no wonder they say one in seven have to spend time in a mental home.
Below are a few details of our family tree, but even the fact that they had contributed a great deal to the history of this country to try and make it a fair and decent place in which to live - morals it would appear have changed in Britain - had no influence.
Samuel 1757. Lord Mayor of London. 1814. Compose musical dramas - Convent Garden. One of few Londoners to have medal struck in his honour.
Samuel 1813. One of the world's leading Egyptologists. Helped solve hieroglyphics. British Museum 1836-1885.
DR Walter 1842. Dept of manuscripts British Museum.
Guthlac 1884. COL DSO commander of 51st battalion Gordon Highlanders. Chief arbitrator in strikes occupied Germany. Commissioner British occupied territory Germany. Order of Leopold.
See: Letter, page two
Thursday, 8 February 2007
Letter, page one: transcript
President Amin,
Uganda,
Africa.
November 2nd, '72
Dear Sir,
The British governments are quick to to criticise other governments, and with keeping their 'image' abroad they are too busy to do anything about their own injustices.
Please find enclosed a newspaper copy. As you can imagine we are living in fear of the British government and have had to buy a shotgun for protection to enable us to keep our freehold property. The government have threatened to evict us because we have not signed over the house to them for a third of the replacement value; we have nowhere to go.
My fater a musician an organist and composer worked all his life, until in his seventies to buy this house - then while laying on his death-bed at the age of 82yrs was served with a compulsory purchase order. After some considerable time the 'Authorities' said he could stay in his freehold house while he lived, but would have to build a road outside his bedroom window. This was all against the doctors' orders who said any noise or move could prove fatal. It did - he died as work commenced. After my father died we were told we had 28 days to move out, and they now owned the freehold of the property. We were, they said, their tennants. Nothing had been signed by us - the government had simply applied a vesting deed.
We could not move either way for the government buyer, the District Valuer (DV), who was buying for the government had offered a third of the true replacement value. This proved true when these same people passed the house for death duty purposed at nearly three times the value the DV had offered, or should I say 'set'. Death duty, as you will no doubt know is compulsory for tax assessment.
See: Letter, page one
Uganda,
Africa.
November 2nd, '72
Dear Sir,
The British governments are quick to to criticise other governments, and with keeping their 'image' abroad they are too busy to do anything about their own injustices.
Please find enclosed a newspaper copy. As you can imagine we are living in fear of the British government and have had to buy a shotgun for protection to enable us to keep our freehold property. The government have threatened to evict us because we have not signed over the house to them for a third of the replacement value; we have nowhere to go.
My fater a musician an organist and composer worked all his life, until in his seventies to buy this house - then while laying on his death-bed at the age of 82yrs was served with a compulsory purchase order. After some considerable time the 'Authorities' said he could stay in his freehold house while he lived, but would have to build a road outside his bedroom window. This was all against the doctors' orders who said any noise or move could prove fatal. It did - he died as work commenced. After my father died we were told we had 28 days to move out, and they now owned the freehold of the property. We were, they said, their tennants. Nothing had been signed by us - the government had simply applied a vesting deed.
We could not move either way for the government buyer, the District Valuer (DV), who was buying for the government had offered a third of the true replacement value. This proved true when these same people passed the house for death duty purposed at nearly three times the value the DV had offered, or should I say 'set'. Death duty, as you will no doubt know is compulsory for tax assessment.
See: Letter, page one
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