PP/16/4/35/4 - Correspondence with tenants: Flat 29 (Mr E.M. Daltroff, 1944-1956)

PP/16/4/35/4

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Correspondence with tenants: Flat 29 (Mr E.M. Daltroff, 1944-1956)

1944-1956

45 sub items Mixed

Daltroff, E. M.

General correspondence between Mr Daltroff and the management of Lawn Road Flats, concerning leases and maintenance.

Lease agreement 15/9/1944.

Correspondence re laundry account; shoe cleaning; general repairs; electrical repairs; the fitting of new locks after burglaries in the wider complex in March 1948; ventilation and draughts; re-decoration of the flat by the owners in 1947; cost of anthracite and coke and an increase in energy bills; rent collection.

Request from E.M. Samuel for a switch to be repaired (which they broke whilst staying in Mr Daltroff’s flat for a week in October 1945).

Correspondence re renewal of lease (agreement dated Jan 1946 for three years).

Lease dated January 1949.

A request dated 7/8/55 from ‘Dally’ for trees not to be removed from the back of the building as they hide the ugly architecture opposite (in Haverstock Hill) and provide a barrier for the smoke coming from the railway chimney. Management replies mentioning the loss of a silver birch due to overcrowding; they hope to plant some fast-growing poplars to compensate for the removal of trees by Russell’s (neighbours).

Mr Daltroff gives up the flat in December 1956. He contributes £3 to the Christmas staff fund. His new address is 122 Rossmore Court, Park Road, N.W.1. The address is not permanent but he expects to be there for a few months. While he and his wife lived in Lawn Road Flats they had a cleaner for 2 mornings a week, they have arranged for the same cleaner to continue at their new address and request additional cleaning on two other mornings.