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Record: Title deeds relating to property acquired by D H Evans & Co for their department store in London (FRAS 380)

Title: Title deeds relating to property acquired by D H Evans & Co for their department store in London
Date: 1836-1943
Reference: FRAS 380
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 279 title deeds, 4 wills, 3 plans  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd
Debenhams

Scope and content:

Within each file there are a number of different title deeds and property records relating to premises which were acquired by D H Evans & Co Ltd for their department stores. These premises were mainly on Oxford Street and Old Cavendish Street in London, however a number of deeds relate to property on other streets nearby. The files include records such as leases, licences, assignments, agreements, mortgages, conveyances, abstracts of titles, and some plans.

Additional information:

Some of the records in this series were originally catalogued in a series of property records (HF 11/13). However a large proportion of the records described below were discovered after the D H Evans & Co Ltd collection was catalogued. These records were unlisted and arranged in no particular order.

It was decided that all of these records should be brought together in one series of property records and arranged into files relating to a particular property or a number of related properties.

System of arrangement: The title deeds and property records in this series have been grouped together into files of related properties. Some of these files cover one particular property while others cover a number of properties on the same street. There are also a number of title deeds which relate to a combination of properties on different streets acquired by D H Evans & Co Ltd. These have been grouped together into one miscellaneous file. Files are generally arranged alphabetically by property or street name and then within this alphabetical arrangement they have been listed by street number. Miscellanous files of records have been listed after the files which relate to specific properties. Records are arranged chronologically within each file.

Record type: Title deeds

Function:

Records held within this series:

Title: Property records concerning Chapel Place, London
Date: 1895-1903
Reference: FRAS 380/1
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 4 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Title deeds concern numbers 1, 2, 4 and 8 Chapel Place and include 3 leases and 1 licence.

Title: Property records concerning the Crown Public House on 12 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1856-1935
Reference: FRAS 380/2
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 74 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, mortgages, memorandums, licences, assignments, and letters.

Title: Property records concerning Henrietta Passage and Henrietta Street, London
Date: 1907-1935
Reference: FRAS 380/3
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 33 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Title deeds relate to 1a and 5 Henrietta Passage and 21a and 22 Henrietta Street and include leases, assignments, agreements, licences, mortgage, underlease and an abstract of title.

Title: Property records concerning 3-4 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1892-1909
Reference: FRAS 380/4
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 9 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Including leases, agreements, licence, and statutory delcaration.

Title: Property records concerning 13 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1866-1933
Reference: FRAS 380/5
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 10 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Included leases, licences and asssignment. This property was acquired by D H Ebans & Co in 1933.

Title: Property records concerning 14 Old Cavendish Street
Date: 1924-1933
Reference: FRAS 380/6
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 13 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd
Debenhams Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, licences, assignments, mortgage and deed of surrender. This property was acquired by Debenhams Ltd in 1930 and D H Evans & Co in 1933.

Title: Property records concerning 15 and 15a Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1925-1933
Reference: FRAS 380/7
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 3 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes a mortgage for the property in the name of H H Holt, 1925, and an agreement for the sale and purchase of the property between H H Holt and D H Evans & Co Ltd, 1932.

Title: Property records concerning 16-17 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1879-1935
Reference: FRAS 380/8
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 13 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, assignments, licence, deed of licence, and tenancy agreement. This property was acquired by D H Evans & Co Ltd in 1932.

Title: Property records concerning 18 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1836-1919
Reference: FRAS 380/9
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 7 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes, leases, mortgage and transfer of mortgage.

Title: Property records concerning 19-20 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1908-1933
Reference: FRAS 380/10
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 9 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, agreements, deed, licence, declaration of trust.

Title: Property records concerning 21-24 Old Cavendish Street, London
Date: 1894-1935
Reference: FRAS 380/11
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 11 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes lease, licence, mortgage, surrender of lease, reconveyane, appointments and an assignment.

Title: Property records concerning Oxford House on Chapel Place, London
Date: 1884-1894
Reference: FRAS 380/12
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 4 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes lease, mortgage, declaration of trust and assignment.

Title: Property records concerning 132-144a and 290-300 Oxford Street, London
Date: 1857-1897
Reference: FRAS 380/13
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 21 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Oxford Street numbers changed in the last 19th century so that 134 Oxford Street became 294 Oxford Street, 135 Oxford Street became 296 Oxford Street and so on. So all of the title deeds in this file relate to the same section of Oxford Street. Includes leases, assignments and a mortgage.

Title: Property records concerning 308 Oxford Street, London
Date: 1888-1906
Reference: FRAS 380/14
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 10 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes mortgages, licences, lease and assignment.

Title: Property records relating to 314-318 Oxford Street, London
Date: 1882-1908
Reference: FRAS 380/15
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 8 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, licences, and deed of demise.

Title: Property records relating to 322-326 Oxford Street, London
Date: 1885-1912
Reference: FRAS 380/16
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 9 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, assignments, licence and agreement.

Title: Property records relating to the stable and premises in Red Lion yard at Cavendish Square, London
Date: 1866-1895
Reference: FRAS 380/17
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 6 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases and assignments.

Title: Property records relating to 2 Somerset Street, 10 Bolsover Street and Wigmore Street, London
Date: 1864-1902
Reference: FRAS 380/18
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 6 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Includes leases, assignment and agreement.

Title: Miscellaneous property records concerning a combination of different properties acquired by D H Evans & Co Ltd throughout the London area for their department store
Date: 1854-1943
Reference: FRAS 380/19
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 23 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Title deeds relate to property on Oxford Street, Old Cavendish Street, Henrietta Street, Chapel Place, Wigmore Street, Somerset Street and Holles Street.

Title: Abstract of title of D H Evans & Co Ltd to certain leasehold hereditaments and premises in Oxford Street, Old Cavendish Street and Chapel Place forming the western block of the company's premises
Date: 1911
Reference: FRAS 380/20
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 4 title deeds  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

The title comes in three parts. Also includes supplemental abstract.

Title: Agreement between D H Evans & Co Ltd and Debenhams Ltd regarding the pulling down and reerecting of the premises on Chapel Place, London
Date: 1936
Reference: FRAS 380/21
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 1 title deed, 3 plans  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Also includes three plans referred to in the agreement.

Title: Miscellaneous probates and wills
Date: 1845-1899
Reference: FRAS 380/22
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 4 wills  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Title: Legal charge from J A Charter & Co Ltd to Debenhams Ltd concerning property on Old Cavendish Street and Henrietta Passage, London
Date: 1929
Reference: FRAS 380/23
Former reference: HF 11/13  
Physical description: 1 title deed  
Origination Debenhams

Records related to this series:

Title: Register of mortgages and bonds
Date: 1894-1935
Reference: FRAS 1405
Company: D H Evans & Co Ltd    
Connection: This register records particulars of mortgages and bonds for properties in Oxford Street, Old Cavendish Street , Chapel Place and Henrietta Street from 1894 until 1935.

Title: Register of leases
Date: 1915-1936
Reference: FRAS 1407
Company: D H Evans & Co Ltd    
Connection: This register records particulars of leases for properties in Oxford Street, Old Cavendish Street , Chapel Place and Henrietta Street from 1890 until 1936.

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