Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Dashing my menagerie plans.
Stu and I have just bought a house in Kent (yay! arrgh!), and we're currently going through all the legal stuff to do with land registry and title deeds and things. Our solicitor has discovered that the house is subject to a restrictive covenant from 1922, which includes the following:
"No noisy noisome noxious or offensive trade business or occupation shall be carried on on the land...No hut shed cart-house-on-wheels caravan show booth swing or roundabout shall be placed or used or allowed to stand or be on the land hereby conveyed nor shall the same be used for a hospital or asylum sanatorium barracks chapel or place of worship or for a fair tea gardens or circus or menagerie..."
What possible objection could anyone in 1922 have had to a tea garden? How noisome and noxious were the tea-drinking habits of Edwardian Kent?!
Stu and I have just bought a house in Kent (yay! arrgh!), and we're currently going through all the legal stuff to do with land registry and title deeds and things. Our solicitor has discovered that the house is subject to a restrictive covenant from 1922, which includes the following:
"No noisy noisome noxious or offensive trade business or occupation shall be carried on on the land...No hut shed cart-house-on-wheels caravan show booth swing or roundabout shall be placed or used or allowed to stand or be on the land hereby conveyed nor shall the same be used for a hospital or asylum sanatorium barracks chapel or place of worship or for a fair tea gardens or circus or menagerie..."
What possible objection could anyone in 1922 have had to a tea garden? How noisome and noxious were the tea-drinking habits of Edwardian Kent?!
