1911 News
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20 Jan 1911 Eltham Times
Damage to Underwood
Dartford Magistrates: "Christopher Henry Kingston of Buckfield Cottages (sic), Longfield, was summoned for maliciously damaging underwood belonging to Sir William Chance, of Hartley, on December 31st, and was bound over…"
28 Jan 1911 Lady's Pictorial
Jones - Hickmott wedding
"on the 18th inst at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Longfield, Kent, by the Rev Edward Smith MA, the Rev Henry Arabin Jones, son of the late Archdeacon Jones MA to Miss Mabel Maud Hickmott, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Joseph Hickmott. The bride was given away by her father, and was attired in a loverly gown of ivory crepe de Chine meteore, which had the bodice and tunic skirt handsomely embroidered in pearls and tiny brilliants inset in silver, the vest and under-sleeves being of drawn net. The transparent court train, from the shoulders, of ivory fishnet, lined with chiffon, was worked all over with ivory ribbon in a vandyked design, and finished with cactus flowers and foliage in satin ribbon. The bridesmaids were the Misses Hickmott, who wore extemely dainty dresses of pale blue satin. The kimono bodices were edged with lattice work of satin, and arranged in folds over plastrons and bands of shaded ribbon and pearl embrodiery, showing here and there Empire wreaths of tiny pink roses. White Chantilly lace vests and under-sleeves completed these pretty gowns, and white shepherdess crooks decorated with pink carnations, tied with Louis Quinze bows of satin ribbon, were carried. The best man was Mr Gervaise Manson. Afterthe ceremony a reception was held at the court Longfield, and later the happy pair left for London, en route for Switzerland. The presents were numerous and costly. The wedding cake was supplied by Messrs Buszard, Oxford Street W. The wedding gown and bridesmaids' dresses were designed and made by Messrs James Shoolbred & Co, Tottenham Court Road, W." (article features pictures of the bride and groom).
11 Feb 1911 The Field
Servant Wants Position
"Gamekeeper seeks situation (single handed or good beat); has had life experience, and thoroughly understands all duties; sober and trustworthy; leaving through death of employer; age 29; height 5ft 9in, weight 12 stone, married, one in family; can be highly recommended. Apply W Fuller, Pescot Lodge, Longfield, Kent."
22 Apr 1911 Preston Herald
New Use for House Refuse
"Even house refuse is, it seems, following the general law of change. Previous to October 1906, states Mr Arthur Harrison, the borough engineer and surveyor for Southwark, the house refuse of the district was taken to the country depot, screened and sorted, and the ashes sold to brickmakers, the refuse being partly burned and disposed of in various ways. Owing, however to the increased use of gas cooking stoves during the last few years, it was found that the nature of the refuse had changd, and did not produce sufficient ashes to pay for hand screening. Accordingly, Mr Harrison decided to crush the refuse without sorting it, producing by this means a species of manure, which, it is said, saves annually to the ratepayers some thousands of pounds."
07 Jul 1911 Gravesend and Northfleet Standard
Local Scouts at Windsor
150 from Gravesend attend the King's Review at Windsor - 1st Gravesend (24); 2nd Gravesend (15), 3rd Gravesend (12); 3rd Northfleet (14); Longfield (14 under scoutmaster Lieut. Cory), Cobham (17), Sutton at Hone (16)
11 Jul 1911 London Standard
Happy Villages
Happy Villages' description of Small Owners Estate at Hartley
04 Aug 1911 Bromley & District Times
Drunkenness and Cruelty
"George Henry Pettman, Wellington Street, Gravesend, was summoned on two charges - one of being drunk in charge of a horse and cart in the Dartford Road, Longfield, and the other with ill-treating the animal, by beating it, on July 25th. PS Cash of Fawkham, Inspector Saunders RSPCA and other witnesses gave evidence as to defendant's drunken condition and to wounds on the horse and on the harness. Defendant said he went for a drive and had some beer, and the heat got over him. Supt Hayward said when he was brought into the police station, defendant wanted a Board of Trade examination to prove whether he was drunk or not (laughter). Defendant was fined 10s and costs of being drunk, and 20s and costs for the cruelty."
26 Aug 1911 Sydenham, Forest Hill & Penge Gazette
Technical Offences
(Bromley Magistrates) "William Bevan, Hartley Bottom, Hartley, did not appear to a summons for not having direction and government of a horse and van on the 27th ult at St Mary Cray - a fine of 10 shillings and 11 shillings costs was ordered."
11 Oct 1911 Eastbourne Gazette
Seek Vacancy
Cowman (head) seeks situation, early riser, abstainer, understands oil engine and all machinery, 9½ years in present place, age 42, near school. Apply J Marchant, Fairby Farm, Hartley, Longfield, Kent. [Mr Marchant was living in one of the cottages near Hartley Green. He would have been one of the people evicted by Small Owners Limited when they bought the estate, because they wanted to sell them. As he had 5 children he clearly would need a school close by.]
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""The Automatic Landowner - the Mecca of the Small Owner"" It was an English day. A day of autumn compromise.
There was a blunt softness in the air, because across the Kentish downs the wind met no resistance, and was good-tempered accordingly.
The Darracq hummed smoothly along.
We could of course, have trained it straight to Fawkham Station, but we wanted to see what our neighbours were like.
The 1.37 from London Bridge had run us to Dartford in 30 minutes with only one stop.
The 'Bull' - memorable to lovers of Pickwick - was having its front elevation repaired, and was of no interest to us at the moment. We were faring for Fairby Farm, and could do no more justice to the splendid open road than to skim over it, noting the presence of good breaking up gravel in the soil of the fields and ignoring the romance of a ruined Roman Villa to our right. Because after all, we were concerned with the present - with its beneficent alloy which we term promise for the future.
A short cut through Fawkham Station over a stile, and we were tramping the good brown loam, over the protesting heads of young turnips (at this time of year!) up a slope crowned with woodland.
Here a hard, dry path revealed itself, carpeted with acorns.
Mr H pointed to a curly monarch on our left with scarse a leaft unmoored from its anchorage yet.
""What would you give for that oak in your garden? £5? £10?""
""Yes, and be glad of it.""
The Valley Road
Leaving the wood we stood before long on a shelving slope with a wide view in front of us: undulating land leaning gently to a valley road, with flaming beeches in the middle distance, and away off in a hazy dip, more trees in diminishing masses.
""There is Fawkham Church just below, and a little to this side of it is the site of Fawkham Castle - an ancient keep now belonging to the legends. Here where we stand would be a fine take off for your aeroplane: plenty of room, no chance of dangerous currents, and open to the west and south. A few acres would serve your turn - ""
""The last aeroplane I had was a ____ ""
""____ But this land"", went on Mr H, ""is almost too good for a mere jumping on and off place. It is meant for a permanent alighting ground, with kisses at the front door, and tennis on a lawn and pottering about with a dibber and pruning hook and watching goldfish in a pond - just here, say.""
""Well the friend I told you about has lately been married, and is thinking of coming to the country in order to be free from noise and the least suggestion of business. This place is not far from the City, as the train flies it is as near as Hampstead or Brixton. I know you told me so, but I came along to see for myself. What my friend wants is my report of the best 2 acre plot you have got, and it's your turn now.""
We located this plot, but I shall not indicate it. I will just mention that it included a bit of woodland, whether for appearance in the front or quiet enjoyment in the rear pleasance, I decline to say - and a delightful uninterrupted view.
I took out a chart. Some people might call it a meaningless scrawl, but if you had drawn it yourself you also would refer to it as a chart. Then I came to grips with Mr H.
""These are my friend's instructions. First, as to the a house, he doesn't want anything reminiscent of the City; it must be, er, redolent of the soil __""
""In other words, a cottage. We will make him a plan, free, to any style he desires__""
""With a billiard room?""
""Yes""
""And a motor shed?""
""Yes""
""And, let me see, a poultry run?""
24 Oct 1911 Evening News
The Automatic Landowner
""The Automatic Landowner - the Mecca of the Small Owner"" It was an English day. A day of autumn compromise.
There was a blunt softness in the air, because across the Kentish downs the wind met no resistance, and was good-tempered accordingly.
The Darracq hummed smoothly along.
We could of course, have trained it straight to Fawkham Station, but we wanted to see what our neighbours were like.
The 1.37 from London Bridge had run us to Dartford in 30 minutes with only one stop.
The 'Bull' - memorable to lovers of Pickwick - was having its front elevation repaired, and was of no interest to us at the moment. We were faring for Fairby Farm, and could do no more justice to the splendid open road than to skim over it, noting the presence of good breaking up gravel in the soil of the fields and ignoring the romance of a ruined Roman Villa to our right. Because after all, we were concerned with the present - with its beneficent alloy which we term promise for the future.
A short cut through Fawkham Station over a stile, and we were tramping the good brown loam, over the protesting heads of young turnips (at this time of year!) up a slope crowned with woodland.
Here a hard, dry path revealed itself, carpeted with acorns.
Mr H pointed to a curly monarch on our left with scarse a leaft unmoored from its anchorage yet.
""What would you give for that oak in your garden? £5? £10?""
""Yes, and be glad of it.""
The Valley Road
Leaving the wood we stood before long on a shelving slope with a wide view in front of us: undulating land leaning gently to a valley road, with flaming beeches in the middle distance, and away off in a hazy dip, more trees in diminishing masses.
""There is Fawkham Church just below, and a little to this side of it is the site of Fawkham Castle - an ancient keep now belonging to the legends. Here where we stand would be a fine take off for your aeroplane: plenty of room, no chance of dangerous currents, and open to the west and south. A few acres would serve your turn - ""
""The last aeroplane I had was a ____ ""
""____ But this land"", went on Mr H, ""is almost too good for a mere jumping on and off place. It is meant for a permanent alighting ground, with kisses at the front door, and tennis on a lawn and pottering about with a dibber and pruning hook and watching goldfish in a pond - just here, say.""
""Well the friend I told you about has lately been married, and is thinking of coming to the country in order to be free from noise and the least suggestion of business. This place is not far from the City, as the train flies it is as near as Hampstead or Brixton. I know you told me so, but I came along to see for myself. What my friend wants is my report of the best 2 acre plot you have got, and it's your turn now.""
We located this plot, but I shall not indicate it. I will just mention that it included a bit of woodland, whether for appearance in the front or quiet enjoyment in the rear pleasance, I decline to say - and a delightful uninterrupted view.
I took out a chart. Some people might call it a meaningless scrawl, but if you had drawn it yourself you also would refer to it as a chart. Then I came to grips with Mr H.
""These are my friend's instructions. First, as to the a house, he doesn't want anything reminiscent of the City; it must be, er, redolent of the soil __""
""In other words, a cottage. We will make him a plan, free, to any style he desires__""
""With a billiard room?""
""Yes""
""And a motor shed?""
""Yes""
""And, let me see, a poultry run?""
""Yes. We have an expert - that rare thing, a scientific farm manager - who will both provide the poultry and given him three weeks' lessons in the art of keeping them for both
Pleasure and Profit
""And the eggs, I suppose there will be eggs?""
""If he will put himself in the hands of our manager and is willing to take poultry seriously, he could pay for his two acres in two years, out of the poultry and what he takes out of the land.""
""Oh! Will he have to work?""
""No need to. But 10 to 1 this Fairby air will seduce him into doing it. And you can't worry about business while you are gardening.""
""Most true. Personally, I confine myself to looking on at the gardening, and I know I don't think about business then. I can only think what a silly way the other chap has of doing things.""
""Your friend can choose just how he will have his land laid out. A well known firm of designers will make him a plan free, flowers here, for instance, vegetables there, fruit trees over yonder, or he can keep the garden for flowers and vegetables and take a portion of an orchard. One of hte orchards we have is full of 5 year old trees and the price of the land would include the trees in their present perfection.""
""Can you advise as to suitable furniture?""
""We will not only advise but supply, if your friend wishes - and at practically wholesale prices - the kind of furniture that seems to me eminently countrylike and homely. The sort of thing you pay dear for, as a rule, simply because it is both artistic and appropriate, but of course you friend will choose what pleases him.""
""In a sentence - your friend simply tells us what he wants and we supply it. Land, house, plotted garden, poultry, furniture; and if he buys now the best can easily be ready for him by the summer - the ideal time, of course, for a country life.""
""And for health. By the way, the water ____""
""Is company's water.""
""The roads___""
""Council road frontage wherever he selects.""
""Access to town easy enough""
""There is a splendid service of trains. You can get to the city in 37 or 50 minutes, according to your choice of train, both morning and evening. There are even theatre trains from Victoria, Holborn Viaduct and St Paul's at midnight, reaching Fawkham about 12.50.""
""Tell him that, in order to make the first year at his cottage more memorable, we will present your friend with a season ticket to town which will hold good to the end of June 1913. We do not offer free trips to prospective buyers; this free season ticket is only for householders on the residential section of Fairby Farm. We make the offer as one means of settling the land quickly.""
""It is possible he may come down and check my report.""
""He can do it this way; occupy all the morning with business, take the 1.37 from London Bridge to Dartford, and motor from there. He could have an hour on the estate, 315 acres you know, get the 4.15 from Fawkham, and be back in the office to wind up business. Or he could devote midday to the matter; take the 11.20 and return by the 2.46.""
""How do your plots work out in shape?""
""We give, to an acre plot, at least 100 feet of frontage and about 400 feet of depth, for £120 to £130 the acre. If you work out the latest offer I know of anywhere else you find the 20 feet frontage and 100 feet depth ome ou at £2,500 per acre - and more than that. Our local rates, again, are very low, about 4 shillings in the pound.""
""And suppose my friend, as we rather think he has, has got rid of most of his immediately available cash over his recent celebration___""
"" We are providing for any such case. We will take 25 per cent down, and the rest can be paid next year or in 5 years or in 12 years, with a modest 5 per cent on the balances. As you need hardly be told, all the money he pays is so much to the good, nor lost forever as in the case of rent; in fact, if he chose to avail himself of the 12 year period he would be paying less than rent and making hte place his own all the time.
Aladdin's Lamp
Really, seeing how easy it all is, he could hardly do better if he had Aladdin's Lamp! We are the slaves of the ring and lamp. Utter your wish - tell us what you want - and you become automatically a landlord!""
This majestic wind up dazed me for a time, and we next drove slowly round the farm, Mr H pointing out everything with a modest, no not exactly a modest pride; merely the statistical kind of pride of the man who knows that what he is talking about is a good thing without the possibility of question.
We now took in the features of the land appropriated for small holdings - land into which, I was told, thousands of pounds have been put in fertilisers. Certainly the look of it was decidedly promising; rich, dark land with a sufficiency of gravel for aeration. As a sample of fertility, Mr Hu pointed to a field of standing brussels sprouts. There was £600 worth in view, he said.
I saw a dozen or so of labourers' cottages on the estate; Fairby Grange, which did not pass with the land; orchards mature, and one lovely stretch of 5 year old beauties, trees so regular that one might expect see them labelled 'With care! From Noah's Ark Limited.' This particular orchard is to go at £100 the acre.
The farm buildings, apart from the cottaage, cost some £2,000 and it is here that lessons will be given in dairying and agriculture.
""We will take the small holder's milk and separate it and make the cream into butter for him, if he likes. If his produce, in fruit, vegetables, poultry, and the rest, is good enough, we will introduce him to a connection with hotels or institutions who must have the best, and with our methods and organisation we can always supply the best.
We are in the midst of
A Specially Fertile District
as you can see for yourself. As for poultry, Orpington is not for all, to give an example. Let the smallholder send us his produce; our manager will see to the rest. Freedom from trouble again, you see our very object, one of the leading features which make our proposition different from any other. That is the idea of the season ticket and of making you a home complete.""
""And the price for this agricultural land?""
""From £32 per acre, and you can buy from 1 to 50, every acre with a hard road frontage. We have 218 acres set apart for the smallholders; the residential sites account for 97. That is a council school we are passing. Grammar schools you can get at Rochester or Chatham, not far.""
""Grammar schools remind me of golf. I don't know why.""
""There are links at Gravesend, 4 miles away. At Rochester is the Royal Medway Club.""
""Golf suggests church - naturally.""
""There are three within a few minutes: Longfield, Hartley and Fawkham.""
""Coming once more to the agricultural land, I notice that most of it is turned.""
""Yes, cultivated right up to the date we transfer it"".
""You have certainly thought the matter out very thoroughly. I see no flaw in the proposition.""
""My dear sir, we knew from the first what we were looking for. It is the bare fact that we examined or considered hundreds of estates before we pitched upon Fairby Farm.""
""Well you have partly verified our claim that your friend can do the business in half a day. We shall catch the 4.15 badk to Town (we could have taken an earlier train at Fawkham), and a short talk in our office in our office over cottage plans, garden plotting and selection of furniture would relieve him of all trouble. He would simply await our note to the effect that his cottage was ready, furnished and aired, the garden laid out, and the hens clucking out there are eggs, fresh eggs, for tomorrow's breakfast. Let him ask for me at the offices of Small Owners Limited, in Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, London EC. I shall be pleased to see him, whether he is quite ready to proceed or not. Let him ring up 13183 Central or he can call upon our surveyors, Messrs Leopold Farmer and Sons, 46 Gresham Street, EC.""
I am asking my friend accordingly to meet Mr H. I believe he will thank me next summer at 'Woodland Cottage' Fairby Farm.
John Dalma"
Pleasure and Profit
""And the eggs, I suppose there will be eggs?""
""If he will put himself in the hands of our manager and is willing to take poultry seriously, he could pay for his two acres in two years, out of the poultry and what he takes out of the land.""
""Oh! Will he have to work?""
""No need to. But 10 to 1 this Fairby air will seduce him into doing it. And you can't worry about business while you are gardening.""
""Most true. Personally, I confine myself to looking on at the gardening, and I know I don't think about business then. I can only think what a silly way the other chap has of doing things.""
""Your friend can choose just how he will have his land laid out. A well known firm of designers will make him a plan free, flowers here, for instance, vegetables there, fruit trees over yonder, or he can keep the garden for flowers and vegetables and take a portion of an orchard. One of hte orchards we have is full of 5 year old trees and the price of the land would include the trees in their present perfection.""
""Can you advise as to suitable furniture?""
""We will not only advise but supply, if your friend wishes - and at practically wholesale prices - the kind of furniture that seems to me eminently countrylike and homely. The sort of thing you pay dear for, as a rule, simply because it is both artistic and appropriate, but of course you friend will choose what pleases him.""
""In a sentence - your friend simply tells us what he wants and we supply it. Land, house, plotted garden, poultry, furniture; and if he buys now the best can easily be ready for him by the summer - the ideal time, of course, for a country life.""
""And for health. By the way, the water ____""
""Is company's water.""
""The roads___""
""Council road frontage wherever he selects.""
""Access to town easy enough""
""There is a splendid service of trains. You can get to the city in 37 or 50 minutes, according to your choice of train, both morning and evening. There are even theatre trains from Victoria, Holborn Viaduct and St Paul's at midnight, reaching Fawkham about 12.50.""
""Tell him that, in order to make the first year at his cottage more memorable, we will present your friend with a season ticket to town which will hold good to the end of June 1913. We do not offer free trips to prospective buyers; this free season ticket is only for householders on the residential section of Fairby Farm. We make the offer as one means of settling the land quickly.""
""It is possible he may come down and check my report.""
""He can do it this way; occupy all the morning with business, take the 1.37 from London Bridge to Dartford, and motor from there. He could have an hour on the estate, 315 acres you know, get the 4.15 from Fawkham, and be back in the office to wind up business. Or he could devote midday to the matter; take the 11.20 and return by the 2.46.""
""How do your plots work out in shape?""
""We give, to an acre plot, at least 100 feet of frontage and about 400 feet of depth, for £120 to £130 the acre. If you work out the latest offer I know of anywhere else you find the 20 feet frontage and 100 feet depth ome ou at £2,500 per acre - and more than that. Our local rates, again, are very low, about 4 shillings in the pound.""
""And suppose my friend, as we rather think he has, has got rid of most of his immediately available cash over his recent celebration___""
"" We are providing for any such case. We will take 25 per cent down, and the rest can be paid next year or in 5 years or in 12 years, with a modest 5 per cent on the balances. As you need hardly be told, all the money he pays is so much to the good, nor lost forever as in the case of rent; in fact, if he chose to avail himself of the 12 year period he would be paying less than rent and making hte place his own all the time.
Aladdin's Lamp
Really, seeing how easy it all is, he could hardly do better if he had Aladdin's Lamp! We are the slaves of the ring and lamp. Utter your wish - tell us what you want - and you become automatically a landlord!""
This majestic wind up dazed me for a time, and we next drove slowly round the farm, Mr H pointing out everything with a modest, no not exactly a modest pride; merely the statistical kind of pride of the man who knows that what he is talking about is a good thing without the possibility of question.
We now took in the features of the land appropriated for small holdings - land into which, I was told, thousands of pounds have been put in fertilisers. Certainly the look of it was decidedly promising; rich, dark land with a sufficiency of gravel for aeration. As a sample of fertility, Mr Hu pointed to a field of standing brussels sprouts. There was £600 worth in view, he said.
I saw a dozen or so of labourers' cottages on the estate; Fairby Grange, which did not pass with the land; orchards mature, and one lovely stretch of 5 year old beauties, trees so regular that one might expect see them labelled 'With care! From Noah's Ark Limited.' This particular orchard is to go at £100 the acre.
The farm buildings, apart from the cottaage, cost some £2,000 and it is here that lessons will be given in dairying and agriculture.
""We will take the small holder's milk and separate it and make the cream into butter for him, if he likes. If his produce, in fruit, vegetables, poultry, and the rest, is good enough, we will introduce him to a connection with hotels or institutions who must have the best, and with our methods and organisation we can always supply the best.
We are in the midst of
A Specially Fertile District
as you can see for yourself. As for poultry, Orpington is not for all, to give an example. Let the smallholder send us his produce; our manager will see to the rest. Freedom from trouble again, you see our very object, one of the leading features which make our proposition different from any other. That is the idea of the season ticket and of making you a home complete.""
""And the price for this agricultural land?""
""From £32 per acre, and you can buy from 1 to 50, every acre with a hard road frontage. We have 218 acres set apart for the smallholders; the residential sites account for 97. That is a council school we are passing. Grammar schools you can get at Rochester or Chatham, not far.""
""Grammar schools remind me of golf. I don't know why.""
""There are links at Gravesend, 4 miles away. At Rochester is the Royal Medway Club.""
""Golf suggests church - naturally.""
""There are three within a few minutes: Longfield, Hartley and Fawkham.""
""Coming once more to the agricultural land, I notice that most of it is turned.""
""Yes, cultivated right up to the date we transfer it"".
""You have certainly thought the matter out very thoroughly. I see no flaw in the proposition.""
""My dear sir, we knew from the first what we were looking for. It is the bare fact that we examined or considered hundreds of estates before we pitched upon Fairby Farm.""
""Well you have partly verified our claim that your friend can do the business in half a day. We shall catch the 4.15 badk to Town (we could have taken an earlier train at Fawkham), and a short talk in our office in our office over cottage plans, garden plotting and selection of furniture would relieve him of all trouble. He would simply await our note to the effect that his cottage was ready, furnished and aired, the garden laid out, and the hens clucking out there are eggs, fresh eggs, for tomorrow's breakfast. Let him ask for me at the offices of Small Owners Limited, in Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, London EC. I shall be pleased to see him, whether he is quite ready to proceed or not. Let him ring up 13183 Central or he can call upon our surveyors, Messrs Leopold Farmer and Sons, 46 Gresham Street, EC.""
I am asking my friend accordingly to meet Mr H. I believe he will thank me next summer at 'Woodland Cottage' Fairby Farm.
John Dalma"
24 Oct 1911 Daily Express
Small Owners Advert
"Do you want a garden or smallholding?
At Fairby Farm, Fawkham, Kent, 37 minutes from town. This estate is being arranged on the new idea of colonisation - producer and consume on the same farm.
Acre sites on the residential section adjoin the station, have charming views, company's water, and no road charges, with a FREE SEASON TICKET (lasting till June 1913) for every householder on the residential seciton.
Small holdings on the agricultural section have council road frontage. Land in splendid condition. Many buildings have established orchards with a FREE COURSE IN PROFITABLE POULTRY KEEPING for small owners on the colony.
EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT
Ask for these booklets (A) Fairby Farm, Fawkham, agricultural section illustrated; (B) Fairby Farm, Fawkham, residential section illustrated; (C) To Own or Rent, from the smallholder's point of view; (D) What Small Owners Ltd Do, business methods applied to small holding.
From Small Owners Limited, Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, London EC."
01 Nov 1911 Shields Daily Gazette
Small Owners Description
Description of Fairby Estate by G H Humphries (also appears in other papers)
18 Nov 1911 John Bull
Small Holdings (Ad)
"At Fairby Farm, Fawkham, Kent, 37 minutes from town. The new idea in colonisation - producer and consumer on the same farm.
Acre sites in the residential section adjoin the station, have charming views, company's water, and no road charges, with a FREE SEASON TICKET (lasting till June 1913) for every householder on this section.
Small holdings on the agricultural Section have council road frontage. Land is in splendid condition. Established orchards. A FREE COURSE IN PROFITABLE POULTRY KEEPING for small owners on the colony.
Collecting depot under resident manager, in the central buildings on the farm. Combined marketing - deferred payments if desired.
Write for any of these booklets: 1 Fairby Farm Fawkham - Agricultural Section (Illustrated); 2 Fairby Farm Fawkham - Residential Section (Illustrated); 3 To Own or Rent from the Smallholder's point of view; 4 What Small Owners Ltd Do. Business methods applied to smallholding."
[Similar Advert in Reynolds Newspaper but with the heading (to pick up the newpaper's banner) "Our Land is the Land for the People"]
26 Nov 1911 Lloyds Weekly News
Small Holdings (Ad)
"Fairby Farm at Fawkham, Kent, is now being divided into freehold smallholdings for sale at prices from £32 per acre, which can be paid over 12 years. Collecting depot for smallholders' produce on the estate in the Central Buildings. Implements, labour, and horses at the disposal of every smallholder. Main line station on the Estate, 22 miles from London. Resident practical small holdings expert will act as our manager on the farm and give free advice and instruction in how to produce and sell." (Reply coupon)
10 Dec 1911 Weekly Dispatch
The Way to the Land for a Living (ad)
"On the Fairby Farm Estate there are for sale on very easy terms many holdings of land of the highest quality, adjoining hard parish roads, with Company's water laid on. The Farm Buildings will be used a Central Collection and Marketing Depot. Her the smallholder will be able to hire cheap implements, horses and labour. He will also find experts who will advise him free of cost on any difficulty regarding market gardening, fruit culture, poultry and the many departments of an up-to-date smallholding. There are 60 acres of established orchard, 108 acres of arable, and 50 acres of pasture land. A main line station on the estate ensures quick transit of produce. London is only 23 miles distant, and the busy towns of Gravesend and Dartford are within 5 miles." (reply coupon)
[another differently worded advert on 12/11/1911 has the tagline "Don't Emigrate before you have seen our small holdings"]