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Hove Baths & Laundry Company Limited  
                   

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HOVE: Medina Esplanade / Kings Esplanade

 
                

Please note that, as handwriting is often unclear, names of shareholders are indicative only. When accuracy is important, visitors should consult the original documents;
those with PRO references will be found at the National Archives (Public Record Office, Kew)

                      

 

             
PRO: BT31 5572/38764  (All information  is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)

1893 Memorandum of Association: 2 May
Capital: £25,000 divided into 2,500 shares of £10
Subscribers:
Chambers, Saul Bell (1 share) Architect
German, Henry (10 shares) 'Out of business'
Mannington, Matthew (250 shares) Draper (Dir)
Perry, Frederick Stephen (1 share) Solicitor's clerk
Sinden, Edward John (100 shares) Brewer (Dir)
Tooth, Frederick (1 share) Corn merchant (Dir)
Treves, Edward (10 shares) Surgeon (Dir)
Tooth, John (Dir)
Registered Office: 1 Duke Street (30 May)
Agreement: £6,500 to be paid to John Tooth for land and heraditaments, of which £5,000 was to be paid in shares.
Average number of shareholders: 37, with a total of 1377 shares

1894 Registered Office: moved to The Hove Baths, Medina Esplanade (5 Dec)

1898 Average number of shareholders: 71, with a total of 1750 shares

1903 Average number of shareholders: 78, with a total of 1750 shares
Directors, as at 19 May:
Matthew Mannington
Edward John Sinden
Frederick Tooth

1903 Floating charge on property and buildings for £3,000 to Frederick Tooth

1908 Average number of shareholders: 78, with a total of 1750 shares
Directors, as at 2 June:
Matthew Mannington
Edward John Sinden
Frederick Tooth

1908 Total mortgage £12,000

1911 Extraordinary Meeting on 11 May. Frederick Tooth, on behalf of holders of debentures of the company for £12,000 agreed an extension of time for payment to 11 February 1915 with interest raised from 4«% to 5%.

1913 Average number of shareholders: 79, with a total of 1750 shares

1915 Extraordinary Meeting. Company to be wound up. E N Eliot to be Liquidator.
London City and Westminster Bank took over the mortgage

The liquidator's six-monthly accounts are in the PRO file for 1916 to 1920, but the baths are not separated from the laundry. Neither is it known if the Turkish Baths continued in operation during this time.

1920 Memoranda of satisfaction.


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