29-30 July 1846
Meeting held at Lechlade.
Amount of extra toll received on overweight detected by the weighing machine at Brimscombe. £153.18.4.
Kyans Patent. Pieces of beech tested.
Lechlade Wharf. List of repairs to be given to Mr George.
Kemble Field Swivel Bridge to undergo thorough repair.
Inglesham Round house. Sundry small repairs. Outside painting to all houses and buildings belonging to Company.
Demand made by Sapperton parish for Rates. Mr Willson to call on Mr Pye, the Rector.
Mr Warburton of Thameshead Wharf to be allowed claim of £10.
Lord Bathurst’s wish to purchase land formerly owned by Company as a reservoir.
Company open to offer.
Aqueduct at Puck Mill Lower Pound to be repaired. Turning place to be made for the boats.
Trees at Bakers Mill Lock to be cut down to make a shipping place for timber, stone etc.
Mr Baker to be forbidden to cut grass on the bank of Company’s reservoir at Twizzles Mill without permission.
Works on railway have caused a slip at the tail of Bakers Mill Lock and Red Lion Pound.
Unsafe state of road at Bell Bridge since removal of quoins of gates leading to house usually occupied by Mr Richardson.
Lack of a handrail at towing path under viaduct at St Mary’s Mill.
Gates not erected at Company’s Dock Yard and other matters agreed to be done by Mr Brunel not executed.
Slip at Griffins Mill Bridge contracted canal nearly a foot. Soon impassable for larger boats.
Head of Griffins Mill Lock pushed in. Soon will be impassable.
No agreement for taking the Company’s water at Stroud.
Some competent person should examine these matters.
Met Stroudwater Canal Committee. Four Propositions on behalf of Company. Stroudwater Company’s counter proposition. New proposals considered.
Carpenters: Siddington Carpenters Boat repaired, Sawgating heads and bumpers, repairing paddles, sills, fitting lock gates, lining heads, blacking gates at various Mills etc, Rehanging and repairing towpath gates, Repairing wheelbarrows, stanking planks etc, New lower gates at Valley and Latton Locks, Lining heels and bottom bars and sheathing sills, selecting timber from old gates and making pair of lower gates for Clowes lock, Planing up boards for hall of agent’s house and laying floor, Preparing timber for roof of shed at house at Bourne Lock. Many other repairs. See Work Book.
Masons: Repairing wing and towing path walls, making catch pool near Quay Bridge, Pointing masonry, making good coping, fixing hand rail etc, Building stack of steps at St Marys Bridge, putting wall round swing pole, building pieces of wall to uphold bank at Whitehall, Lock tail at Grist mill etc, Jointing, facing, relaying paving, repairing chimney of Tunnel House, relaying floors and many minor jobs.
Labourers: Assisting carpenters and masons, collecting boating materials, collecting brick and cinders for repair of towing paths, Cutting and cleaning slopes of canal, repairing banks, Stopping leakages, making good land in Mr Hancox’s field, Clearing and repuddling culvert in Bourne Pound, cleaning out catch pools, clearing away rubbish, quarrying stone, discharging and refilling Kyans tank.
Carpenters Work: Sundry repairs and cleaning, Fixing tank at engine for supplying cistern with water, repairing small punt and plating the angles, roof at Inglesham Round House, stairs of Engine, fixing hand rails, sundry small jobs.
Labourers: Mowing and mending, stopping leakages etc.
