File 11 - New Square - General, 1909-1927

1 file, paper

File containing the following letters between J. E. L. Whitehead (Town Clerk) and J. H. H. Goodwin (Bursar) about proposals that the Corporation should buy New Square as a public open space:

(1) 27 April 1904 – from the Town Clerk to the Bursar asking if the College would be prepared to convey to the Corporation the enclosed portion of New Square so that it could be laid out as a Recreation Ground like Christ’s Pieces, and if so on what terms;

(2) 31 August 1908 – from the Bursar to the Town Clerk stating that in the past there had been a covenant inserted into at least some of the leases that the College would not restrict the right of light by building opposite the house leased and so the designation of the central part of New Square as an open space would fulfill this covenant;

(3) 16 July 1909 – note from the Bursar stating that as the Committee was not disposed to recommend to the Corporation that they should purchase the whole of New Square at this time, even though it would secure forever an open space hitherto left undeveloped by the College, would the Corporation take over the back portion of the Square?

(4) 23 July 1909 – from the Town Clerk to the Bursar acknowledging receipt of his letter and plan and saying it would be brought before the General Purposes Committee;

(5) 20 August 1909 from the Town Clerk to the Bursar stating that his letter had been put before the General Purposes Committee and they had adjourned consideration of the matter but wished to state that they had never intimated that they would not purchase the ground in New Square but that the question of acquisition was mixed up with other matters;

(6) 9 November 1910 – from J. Carter Jonas & Sons (Land Agents) to the Bursar informing him that Mr Richard Sturton had applied to them to know if the College would let this property on lease for building purposes;

(7) November 1927 – plan of building site New Square with an area at the open side of the square shaded in pink.

Originally in a Box labelled "Cambridge Barnwell 10A. New Square 2"
In a folder entitled "1904-1909 New Square. Proposals that Corporation Should Acquire as a Public Open Space"