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Binding:Hardcover
Modification Description:Handwritten Indentures with Multiple Signatures
Place of Publication:United Kingdom
Signed:Yes
Modified Item:Yes
Subject:Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London, England
Year Printed:1869
Original/Facsimile:Original
Language:English
Special Attributes:1st Edition,Illustrated,Manuscript,Handwritten,Signed
Region:United Kingdom, England
Author:CHARLES HENRY BLAKE, et al
Country/Region of Manufacture:United Kingdom
Topic:Original INDENTURES, CONVEYANCE, PLAT MAPS
Character Family:Portobello, Notting Hill

ORIGINAL PORTOBELLO ESTATE CONVEYANCE & INDENTURE DOCUMENTS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INDENTURES, CONVEYANCE, LEASE SCHEDULES and HAND DRAWN COLOR PLAT MAPS of the PORTOBELLO ROAD AREA / PORTOBELLO ESTATE in NOTTING HILL, LONDON. All concern important real estate transactions that took place in 1868 and 1869. Bound in hard covers. Sixty-two (62) manuscript Indentures, along with accompanying Schedules, and a Conveyance. Illustrated with 62 hand drawn Color Plat Maps, one in each indenture. The indentures are all signed by various notable individuals. The main SELLER of the properties was CHARLES HENRY BLAKE and the main BUYERS were THE FREEHOLD SECURITIES COMPANY LIMITED, JOHN PARSON, and THE LAND AND HOUSE INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Sixty-one of the 62 indentures were transactions where C. H. Blake was the seller. Other individuals named in the indentures and conveyance include HENRY BESSEMER, Henry Hyde, William Honeywood, William Burchell the Younger, and other wealthy, movers and shakers of the day. Frank Richardson, Solicitor for both The Freehold Securities Company and The Land And House Investment Society, signed many of the indentures as a witness. The indentures and conveyance are bound in a book that was presumably made to hold them. Hardcovers, textured cloth covered boards with leather spine and corners, five raised spine bands, gilt title “PORTOBELLO ESTATE” on the front cover, 10×15 inches (25×38 cm), 147 pages (74 leaves). The indentures are all printed on watermarked laid paper. The first item is a long manuscript CONVEYANCE titled: “PORTOBELLO ESTATE In the parish of Saint Mary Abbott Kensington in the County of Middlesex – Copy of the CONVEYANCE of the above property to HENRY BESSEMER ESQUIRE and of the LEASES for which said property is subject”. The INDENTURE that is part of the Conveyance is dated the 16th day of December 1869. It is 21 pages in length, consisting of: (1) four manuscript pages that provide complete details of the transaction, the properties, and the individuals involved in the PORTOBELLO ESTATE CONVEYANCE, including Henry Bessemer, Charles Henry Blake, Freehold Securities Company, Henry Hyde, and others; (2) a FULL PAGE HAND COLORED PLAT MAP showing the properties on Golbourne (Golborne) Road between Portobello Road and Wornington Road, all part of the Portobello Estate and this conveyance; and (3) sixteen pages of “The Schedule” that fully describes each parcel, its lease terms, and the parties involved in the lease (many of the leases were for 99 years). At the end of the last page of “The Schedule” are official SIGNATURES and SEALS of the Directors of Freehold Securities Company Limited, Henry Bessemer, and several witnesses. There is also a statement that the sum of 10,400 Pounds was received from Henry Bessemer. The subsequent 61 INDENTURES are between CHARLES HENRY BLAKE and either JOHN PARSON, or THE FREEHOLD SECURITIES COMPANY LIMITED, or THE LAND AND HOUSE INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Nineteen of the indentures are dated in various months of 1868, and they are sales by BLAKE to The Land and House Investment Society. The other Indentures are dated in various months of 1869. The first of the indentures, following the 21 page Portobello Estate Conveyance and Indenture, is dated the 8th day of March 1869. It consists of 5 manuscript pages detailing the transaction, and includes a 3.5×6 inch (9×15.5 cm) hand drawn color map of the property in question. This property is located on Golborne Road. The Indenture is between Charles Henry Blake of Stanley Crescent, Notting Hill, in the County of Middlesex, and John Parson of Old Palace Yard, Westminster. The following 60 INDENTURES are each approximately 2 pages long, some longer. Each has a hand drawn plat map of the property in question. All presumably part of the Portobello Estate. All were sales by Charles Henry Blake. Condition: The covers have some old water staining / shorelining, scrapes, rubs, and general wear; the gilt title “Portobello Estate” is rubbed; else the covers are solid and doing their job well. The front and rear endpapers are recent. The bound in indentures have gray and brown stains, substantial on many of the pages, present on all the pages. Perhaps these are ink blotter stains, or offsetting from where these indentures were originally stored, or simply caused by unstable ink and colors, I do not know. The good news is that the manuscript writing is FULLY VISIBLE AND LEGIBLE beneath all the stains. The first two leaves have a 2×2.5 inch (5×7 cm) area of tearing, mostly in the blank spine gutter area but affecting some text words. The tears could be archivally repaired. The first two leaves, and a couple other pages, have a pea size hole that affects some letters. There is 1/2 inch (1 cm) of worming to the bottom blank margin of the last 3 leaves. The last leaf has a quarter (the U.S. coin) size hole in its center affecting some words. This last leaf is blank on the verso, so the affected words are only on the recto. An incredible group of important historic indentures with plat maps showing the Victorian Era property sales of the PORTOBELLO ESTATE that led to the development of the fashionable PORTOBELLO ROAD / NOTTING HILL region of London that we know today. This wonderful archive of PORTOBELLO ROAD indentures, conveyance, and associated plat maps, belongs in a museum, imho. About the PORTOBELLO ESTATE (from the British History Online website): ******THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century there were two large farms at the northern extremity of the parish of Kensington. Portobello Farm, so named in honour of the capture of Puerto Bello by Admiral Vernon in 1739, had been purchased in 1755, subject to two life interests, by Charles Henry Talbot, esquire, of the Inner Temple. It was then described as 170 acres of land, ‘parcel of the Manor of Notting Barns’, and was let to a farmer at an annual rent of £170. Access to it was by way of PORTOBELLO LANE (now PORTOBELLO ROAD), and the farmhouse stood on the east side of the road upon the site now occupied by St. Joseph’s Home. By the early 1830s, when a large part of the farm was threatened with inundation by an abortive scheme for the formation of a reservoir by the River Colne Water Works Company, the now named PORTOBELLO ESTATE had passed to Sir George Talbot, baronet, and was described as a very valuable Grass Farm of 182 acres. Within a short while the property would become eligible for building, when its value was expected to rise to £3,000 per annum. The reservoir was not, of course, built, but Sir George died in 1850, before development could begin, and bequeathed the estate to his two daughters, MaryAnne and Georgina Charlotte Talbot. The Talbots sold the Portobello Estate to CHARLES HENRY BLAKE in a number of transactions between 1862 and 1864. On his lands on the Portobello estate Blake was both landlord and speculator. Although he frequently consulted his principal partner, JOHN PARSON, on business matters, it was Blake who always initiated and decided. He lived in one of his houses on the Ladbroke estate, within half a mile of his Portobello lands, and in addition to his almost daily visits to his solicitors, Lake and Kendall, in Lincoln’s Inn, he evidently exercised close personal supervision on site as well. His sole object was to exploit his land as rapidly as possible, either by granting building leases or by outright sales, in order that he might free his Portobello lands from their enormous mortgages. Most of Blake’s building agreements with individual builders were for a score of houses or less, but the field of operations of the Land and House Investment Society Limited was very much larger, ultimately comprising the greater part of the land bounded by Portobello Road, the Great Western main line, and Acklam Road. An important function of the developer was to keep up the momentum of building once it had started. Blake, with an ample supply of capital at his disposal, was able to do this by lending money to the builders with whom he had made building agreements. However, in early 1868 Blake began to experience financial difficulties and lenders refused to increase their loans to him. By October 1868 a payment of £34,000 was already four months overdue. Blake’s crisis was overcome by large sales of land between 1868 and 1870 at very high prices. The Land and House Investment Society bought 19 acres in the area between Golborne and Acklam Roads at c. £1,816 per acre and contracted to buy another 15 acres on Portobello Road for c. £1,787 per acre, and there were other sales in this price range. By 1870 most of Blake’s Portobello property had been sold or contracted for. The Freehold Securities Company Limited (which had participated in development in Golborne Road) was one of the purchasers. In almost all these sales Blake obtained double the price of £829 per acre which he had himself paid to the Misses Talbot and sometimes he obtained substantially more than double. With the proceeds of sales he was able to repay much of his mortgage debt, and when he died at the age of seventy seven on 22 March 1872 at Bournemouth, his total mortgage liability had been reduced from £79,000 in 1864 to £17,155.****** About CHARLES HENRY BLAKE (from Wikipedia): ******Charles Henry Blake, b. 1794 d. 1872, was a British indigo planter and industrialist in India, who became a property developer and railway company director in London. During the 1850s, Blake was involved in developing the Ladbroke Estate, where he bought speculatively into land holdings from 1850, later acquiring other land on Lansdowne Hill. In 1852 he was living at 15 Devonshire Place, and was a director of the Portsmouth Railway Company. Blake made little or nothing on his initial property investments. He survived the property market upheavals of the late 1850s by selling his Kensington Park Gardens house to tide himself over. He ultimately prospered in the 1860s by exploiting the opportunity of the new Hammersmith & City Rail Line, in which he invested and acted as a director. Questionable land dealings saw him pushed out of the railway company, but from 1864 his developer activities between the railway and Kensal Green area of London thrived.****** About HENRY BESSEMER (from various Internet sources): ******Sir Henry Bessemer, b. 1813 d. 1898, was an English inventor, whose steel making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He also established the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre. Bessemer had been trying to reduce the cost of steel for military ordnance, when he developed his system for blowing oxygen through pig-iron to remove the impurities. This made steel easier and quicker to manufacture, and revolutionized structural engineering. Bessemer also made over 100 other inventions in the fields of iron, steel and glass. Unlike most inventors, he managed to bring his own projects to fruition and profited financially from their success. In 1867 Sir Henry Bessermer received a Gold Medal presented by the Emperor Napoleon III.******

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