Thu 5 Aug 1841
Materials for roof of shed at Lechlade deposited there. Mr Matthews, tenant, had not provided agreed materials. To be erected without delay.
Marston Round House let for £4 per annum. Repairs, not exceeding £4, to be done.
Work on Kempsford High Bridge to be started immediately.
Shed ordered at Kempsford Wharf not erected.
Mr Pembury, Mr Baylis’s foreman, complained of injury done to his property by loss of a footpath across canal where Griffins Bridge stood. Temporary footbridge to be erected.
Mr Lidiard, Surveyor of the Highways at Cirencester, and Mr Hall, Land Surveyor, met Committee re application for a small portion of the Wharf to improve road at north end of the wharf. Earl Bathurst would give equal quantity of land from a paddock, adjoining south west corner of the Wharf, and would sell, on reasonable terms, the remainder of the paddock.
Agreed. Expense of rebuilding boundary wall of wharf to be borne by parties to exchange.
Pile planking at Blue House Valley well done. Desired effect to prevent leakages.
Steam engine. No visible advantage in saving of fuel by use of Patent felt on pipes of boilers.
State of engine under full supply of water very satisfactory.
Boilers and flues to be covered with ashes. Similar method in use at East London Water Works.
Work in Mr Gordon’s meadow for supply of water to the engine completed. Mr Jones had constructed a well at the springs to detect any obstruction in the cutting.
Cutting, 556 yards in length, completed. Cost less than £600.
Sixteen locks at and below Daneway and the Bourne Lock had been shortened to 81ft.
New System for Traction on Canals by either fixed or locomotive first movers, as a substitute for animal traction, referred to in a letter from Mr Bollaert of Trafalgar Square. Mr Palmer to inspect the plans.
Letter from Mr Graham, Clerk to the Commissioners of the Upper district of the Thames Navigation. Improvement of the district of the river from Oxford to Lechlade. Committee ready to meet him in London.
Work executed – Waste weir at Wilmore Lower Lock and Cerney Middle Lock reinstated with weather stone instead of bricks; North end of the Churn aqueduct at Siddington rebuilt; Petty repairs in various parts of the canal.
Sixteen Locks at Daneway and Chalford shortened to 81 feet.
Blue House Valley. 165 yards each side of canal protected from side leakage by pile planking and gravel puddle.
Repairing roofs of wagon sheds for Lechlade and Kempsford Wharfs.
Making pair of upper gates to enable gates of the shortened locks to be repaired and shifted.
Lower gates for Whitehall Upper, Bathurst Meadow, or Sickridge Wood Lower Lock.
NB. These three locks are so nearly equal as respects decay that it is impossible to say which will require attention first. The timber for the other two is being converted.
Erecting new pair of Upper Gates at Wharf Lock at Walbridge. Gates made last year.
Shifting Upper Gates and other work connected with shortening the Bourne Lock.
Under ground frame and other work connected with erecting new crane at Brimscombe.
Repairing materials viz gang ladders, boxhorses, barrows etc for mudding pound between Bowbridge and Walbridge.
Putting up partition in passage of Agent’s House at Brimscombe.
General repairs to locks, buildings and other works of canal.
Cleansing the mud out of level extending from Bowbridge Lock to Walbridge Upper Lock, including the Basin at the latter place, a distance of 1342 yards.
Cleansing the mud from under the front of the quay walls at Brimscombe Basin viz.
92½ yards lineal 4 yards wide from the Swivel Bridge to the end next the mill stream
159½ yards lineal 10 yards wide from the Swivel Bridge to the end of wall towards the Bourne.
Repairing stone and building a Wing Wall at Bakers Mill Lower Lock.
Repairing stone and rebuilding waste weir at Chalford Round House.
Building retaining wall to towing path at Walbridge about 40 yards long 3 feet high.
Prepairing stone and building well etc for new crane at Brimscombe.
Prepairing stone and building catch pool to convey soil under canal at Walbridge.
Prepairing stone and masonry requisite for shortening Bourne Lock.
General repairs to Locks, Buildings etc. Ordered that the system of side planking be adopted in Cox’s Valley and that Mr Jones makes the necessary preparations for same.
Cost of the new crane, £140, to be charged to Contingency Fund.
An enlargement in the kitchen of Mr Denyer’s house at Brimscombe, by removal of a partition, agreed.
External shade agreed to shield Mr Denyer’s office in the counting house.
Recesses or laybyes to enable loaded vessels to pass without impediment would save water at Stanton’s Mill and Arundel’s Mill.
Repairs to Mr George’s house. Outside to be painted and repaired, nothing internally.
Mr George’s application for repair of dock he rents from the Company. To be repitched, gates repaired, increase rent of £5 per annum.
Committee viewed pond cleansed of mud between Bowbridge and Walbridge Lock and plan adopted for conveying soil under canal instead of into it - both very satisfactory.
