Description

Handwritten Lease between Lord Cardross and The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd dated 10 & 22 July 1878 signed by Lord Cadross and by John Hurll and William Kennedy, Directors, The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd. There is a Plan attached headed "Ground South of Bathgate Railway Let Broxburn Oil Company Coloured Yellow". The plan is dated 1878 and is signed by Lord Cadross and by John Hurll and William Kennedy, Directors, The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd. The scale is given in chains. Typed Copy Feu Charter by the Trustees of the late Robert Bell of Cliftonhall in favour of The Holmes Oil Company Ltd (1900-1913). The Fue Charter has been signed by Thomas Bell, Arthur Dewar and Dalrymple Maitland, Trustees and dated 13, 16 and 29 June 1900. Plan 1 attached is headed "Plan of Ground Feued to The Holmes Oil Company Ltd. - For Workmen's Houses" and the area is coloured Pink. The scale is 1.25 inches = 150 feet. Plan 2 attached is headed "Plan of Ground Feued to The Holmes Oil Company Ltd. - For Cottages" and the area is coloured Pink. The scale is 1.25 inches = 150 feet. Plan 3 attached is untitled and shows Holmes Rows and Holmes Cottages coloured Pink and the existing road and road to be formed coloured Blue. Handwritten Disposition by the Rev. Gilbert Clark in favour of The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd and signed by Gilbert Clark dated 11 November 1913 relating to Holmes Cottages Uphall. Typed copy Memorandum for Commutation of Casualties between the Trustees of Robert Bell of Cliftonhall and The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd dated January 1921. Disposition by William Pirie in favour of The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd dated 12 January 1954. Typed Deed of Alteration of Feuding Conditions by The Broxburn Oil Company Ltd dated 10 March 1955. Search for Incumbrances over Subjects – Holmes Cottages (1964). Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (Section 4) (1979).