Monday, October 25, 2010

'From an 1870 newspaper'

Taken from the 'Leicester Journal, and Midland Counties General Advertiser,' dated Friday, February 4, 1870.

Preliminary Advertisement. Valuable freehold property, Bridge-street and Bow Bridge-street, Leicester.

Holland, Warner, & Sheppard, are favoured with instructions from the Trustees of the late Miss Eliza Oram, to sell by auction, at the Blue Boar Inn, Southgate-street, Leicester sometime in the month of February next, all that house and butcher's shop, with Slaughter-house, stable, and outbuildings adjoining situate at the corner of Bridge-street and Bow Bridge-street, in Leicester, and now in the occupation of Mrs. Oram, butcher, together with the three tenements adjoining situate in Bow Bridge-street, and numbered respectively 1,3, and 5. Also all those two messuages or tenements situate in Bow Bridge-street aforesaid, and numbered 9? and 11.
Also a valuable piece of building ground, containing about two hundred and sixty-six square yards or thereabouts, immediately opposite the last described houses.
Further particulars in next week's papers, in the meantime references to the Auctioneers, or to Mr. Joseph arnall, Solicitor, Leicester.

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