Description: | Comprises: a letter from the District Fire Office to William Chance Esquire, dated May 16 1843, and an attached handwritten policy, no 7718, 'On the Building of a Warehouse of two Stories, situate / and being no 57 Bread Street Newhall Street, Birming- / -ham in tenure of Redfern Merchant', 800; a printed form for policy no 36808, dated 25th March 1862, between the District Fire Insurance Company and 'Henry Chance of no. 43 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, "Barrister", Surviving Acting Trustee, and Executor of his Father William Chance, who died in 1828', 'On the Building of two stories all communicating, situate and being no. 57 Bread Street, Newhall Street, / Birmingham, comprising Patterns Room, Warehouse, and Packing Room on the ground floor, with Counting / Houses and Warehouses or other Rooms over the same and Store Cellar underneath warmed by common / domestic Fireplaces and in tenure of Mess. Charlton, Brothers, "Merchants"', and fixtures, sum insured 800. A note on the latter states 'Lady Day Policy no. 7718 is hereby cancelled'. Also includes receipts from the Office of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance, 1827-1831, and from the District Fire Office of Birmingham, 1833-1843 and 1860-63 (not including every year), from William Chance (1749-1828) and the executors of his will, including his sons William and Henry Chance. Some of the receipts note it is for a house in Newhall street, some note no 18 or in the tenure of Darby Brothers. Found wrapped together with a piece of paper titled: 'Fire Insurance. Policies 1843. 1861. Receipts 1827-43. 1860-3'. This has been retained with the pieces. |