| Description | The basic idea was commendable - i.e., the extinguishing of intermingled quillets of land in order to facilitate building operations, the laying out of new streets, and the general development of Holyhead; or as Lord Stanley put it on 18 August, 1906 "if those parts of Holyhead where our property is intermixed we could arrange for a common plan of street formation, allocating to each his fair share of the land so apportioned according to the existing values and frontages of the sever plots, it would.... be advantage to the town and both of us".
However, refractory points of detail wrecked the main scheme and even a subsidiary idea to exchange agricultural quillets only. Lord Stanley's determination (LLIG/618) not on any account to bring Llanfair Bach into the ambit of exchanges and thus facilitate building on Penrhos beach, was no doubt a deterrent factor in the situation.
13 papers in all, of which the two inventories (LLIG/616,617) illustrates very effectively the awkwardness of intervening quillets |