The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
Ltd in London 382 to be repaid on 24 May 1935. It was eventually repaid 1941
383
Notwithstanding this farming continued, only a month earlier Holt had rented
Cuckoo Bush Farm to Miss Edith Scott for £40 pa 384 .
During the Second World War the estate was partially requisitioned but Holt
retained title to it, see below.
His niece, Mrs B Clark from Canada, visited Lackham in 1991 and erected the
monument situated to the west of the house, between the House and the Back
Drive. The elements inscribed on the monument - plants, a camera and horses -
represent some of Major Holt’s wide interests and was purposely sited on a
minor ley line said to run from St Cyriac’s Church to Chippenham 385
After the outbreak of the Second World War the House, cottages and gardens
were requisitioned and so Holt was living at Lanhill in 1940 386 . He received
compensation from the War Department of £300 pa plus £75pa for the upkeep
of the gardens. When the Butler’s cottage was derequisitioned the amount was
reduced by £26 pa. The Army didn’t take control of all the estate, and maps
held by Wiltshire College from the period indicate that the farms remained
382 On 24 November 1934 Thrings papers
383 6 th March 1941 statutory receipt in Thrings papers
384
Agreement between Capt. HP Holt and Miss Edith Scott dated 20 Sep 1935
Thrings papers
385 Personal knowledge - I had the honour to be a residential academic staff member of
the College at this time and, along with Head of Horticulture Oliver Menhinick, CBE, my
practical group and I put in the foundation pad (actually two of the garden staff, Head
Gardener Brin Thornton and Gardener Stewart Matthews, did the digging; we just did
the hardcore and concrete)
386 Agreement for the unfurnished letting of one of Lackham Cottages between HP Holt
and Joseph Ocar Tapper) Thrings papers
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