Tuesday, October 26, 2010

'From an 1870 newspaper'

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

Preliminary Advertisement.

Extensive sale of superior larch, spruce, Scotch beech, oak, and other timber trees, and poles, Roecliff?, Leicestershire.
Holland, Warner, & Sheppard, have received instructions from W.U. Heygate, Esq., to sell by auction, sometime in the middle of next month, about 200 lots of most valuable larch, spruce, Scotch beech, oak and other timber trees and poles, cut down and lying in lots at Roecliff aforesaid.
Further particulars in future papers, and catalogues to be had of the Auctioneers, 10 days prior to sale.

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