Soft Fruit sale (1919)
Post date: Feb 05, 2018 12:29:36 PM
Extract from Sevenoaks Chronicle & Kentish Advertiser of 20 June 1919
RECORD SALE. On Saturday last Messrs. Langridge and Freeman
held their annual Soft Fruit Sale at Wateringbury, when the
attendance was so large that not half those present could
get in the sale room at the King's Head, and the sale was
consequently held in the open on land adjoiniug the hoteL
The competition and prices realised were far away beyond
anything previously experienced, the total of the sale
being more than double anything previoualy realised at this
annual event. The prices realised included the following
for cherry orchards: 71/2 acres £740: 21/2 acres, £230;
7 acres, £280; 18 acres, £740;13 acres £360, 14 acres, £250; acres, £528;
6 acres, £360; 7 acres, £460: 121/2 acres £200; 16 acres,
£625; 7 acres. 3 acres £; 10 acres, £330; 13 acres, £335.
Mowing grass sold at £90 for 18 acres; £7O for 17 acres; £32
for 6 acres; and £26 for 41/2 acres. The total realised by the
sale was £6,852.