BRITONS FARM, HORNCHURCH, ESSEX, MOOR HALL, AVELEY, ESSEX, TUNNEL FARM, WEST THURROCK, ESSEX, UPHAVERING FARM, HORNCHURCH, ESSEX COLLECTION

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Contains: Balance sheet and profit and loss accounts of Tunnel Farm, West Thurrock, Essex 1922-1931; farm account book of Tunnel Farm 1897-1900; expenditure analysis books of Tunnel Farm 1925-1936; petty cash analysis books of Tunnel Farm, 1925-1936; receipts analysis books of Tunnel Farm 1925-1941; cropping record of Tunnel Farm 1880-1916; cropping record of Uphavering Farm, Hornchurch 1905-1911; diary and notebook 1906; account books of labour payments of Tunnel Farm and Bayhouse Manor Farm 1926-1938; valuations of tillages, hay, straw, manure, fixtures and other matters at Tunnel Farm 1909; summary of valuations of the tenant right, live and dead farming stock etc upon Tunnel and Bayhouse Manor Farms, and other land at West Thurrock and Elm Farm, Hornchurch 1926-1931

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The donor's family moved to Tunnel Farm in 1880 from the Barnstable area of Devon, where they had held about 320 acres either as owner-occupiers or as tenants. They were induced to move by the collapse of tin prices and by the attraction of cheap land. A strong evangelical tradition in the family led them to fund local churches, which presumably absorbed considerable surplus capital