Thu 7 Aug 1845
Kempsford Swivel Bridge renewed with Ryanized timber.
267 yards of Summit, pile planking braces and land ties prepared. Lock gates Siddington to Inglesham, South Cerney repaired.
Towing path and field gates, wheelbarrows etc repaired.
Masonry: North side of Cerney Upper Lock repaired with bricks and square quoins stone.
Labourer’s Work: Summit Level side piling and puddling. Casual leakages stopped. Towing path fences kept up, towing path reformed and gravelled at Siddington and Furzen Leaze. Weed mowing and cleansing.
Carpenters Work: Gates, sills, paddles Weighing Dock, Bakers Mill Lower Lock etc. Repairs to paddles, frames, planking at various locks. Putting up pounds, gates, window frames, doors, balance poles. Making good the trunk across the canal at the Bourne, repairing Siddington repair boat etc.
Masons work: Recess for bumper boards, setting back coping at Whitehall Lower etc. Repairing weir and dressing hollow quoins, pointing wing walls at Cleeves Lock etc. Repairing walls Capels Bridge, Ballingers Bridge, roof of lockkeepers’s house, Daneway etc. Repairing walls near Mr George’s house, warehouses, offices and outbuildings at Brimscombe etc.
Labourers Work: Assisting carpenters and masons, mowing slopes of canal, repairing roads, making good the land in meadow near Lewis’s by filling in culvert with rubbish, etc, puddling, etc, tracing a leak.
Wharf house outside woodwork to be painted and wharf gravelled.
Greater security at Cricklade wharf, addition to gate.
Proceedings against Warburton dismissed. Insistence on regularity of payment of rent.
Thomas Pash, lockkeeper at Wilmoreway incapacitated. 25 years service. Allowance of 5s a week.
New pair of Lower Gates for Latton Lock.
Side planking expensive, to be discontinued.
Gate to be erected on part of towing path adjoining the Bell Bridge for safety of public.
William Clutterbuck to be held responsible for consequences of raising the parapet of St Mary’s Bridge.
Mr Willson to send letter of thanks to Mr Saunders, Secretary to the Great Western Railway Co., for manner in which more important parts of agreement made by Mr Brunel were carried out. Instructions required for resident Engineer re fence and gates, stone wall built and retaining wall against Mr Marling’s premises raised. Instructions also required for
Spring cut off in forming railway in Cowcombe Hill to be brought into Red Lion Pound, Slip in Red Lion Pound to be made secure, Hand rail to be put up under viaduct at St Mary’s Mill, fence between Canal and Mr Webb’s yard, Towing path to be rebuilt at Capells Mill viaduct,
Water at Stroud to be taken in at £15 per annum.
Estimate for converting stable at Wallbridge Wharf occupied by Mr Pearce into a residence for James Pratt.
Laybye at Griffins Mill.
Mr Marling wished to fence off strip of land near the Port Mills.
Damp in entrance hall of Company’s house at Brimscombe. Stone floor to be replaced with oak floor.
Lower gates at Valley lock to be replaced and those at the Clowes Lock to be repaired.
Skirting boards in warehouses occupied by Mr Bowly and Mr Lane to be repaired.
Letter from Mr David Ricardo read. Reply from Mr Richards.
