Mon 1 Sep 1800
Inspection of Blunder Lock by Mr Grazebrook, Mr N Jones, Rev William Ellis, Rev Joseph Colborne, Mr Scudamore, Mr Nathaniel Wathen.
Letter from Richard Owen Cambridge Esq, requesting repair of long wooden weir erected by Company for use of mill pond. As weir had become totally useless as the mill pond was never used for navigation, Company could not agree to repair but would in future make an embankment so that land might be restored to pristine state. No stones of old weir belonging to Mr Cambridge used by Company.
Thomas Cook to attend next meeting with full and complete estimate for stone wall at Framilode.
Same reduction of tonnages allowed to Messrs Benjamin and Thomas Grazebrook as allowed to Thames & Severn Proprietors during stoppage of canal.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee room at Walbridge on Monday the 1^st of September 1800
Present: Rev^d Will^m Ellis, Rowles Scudamore, Rev^d Jos^h Colborne, Edw^d Wood, Jn^o Allaway, Nath^l Wathen, Joseph Grazebrooke, Nath^l Jones.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Continued the Order respection the Warehouse at Bristol Road. Also the Swivell Bridge at Lodgemore to be new erected.
Rev^d M^r Ellis, Rev^d Jos^h Colborne, M^r Scudamore, M^r Nath^l Wathen, M^r Grazebrook, M^r N Jones have this Afternoon inspected the Work at Blunder Lock which is in forwardness.
A Letter was read, received from Rich^d Owen Cambridge Esq^r requesting the Committee to give directions for the repair of a long Wooden Wier erected by the Company, when the Mill pond was made use of as a part of the Navigation. Resolved that an answer be transmitted to M^r Cambridge to the following purport, Viz: that as the Wier in question had become totaly useless to our Company since the original plan of using the Mill pond for the purposes of Navigation had been abandoned, the Committee could no consent to undertake the repair thereof, but that they should be ready at any future tome at the request of M^r Cambridge to make a substantial embankment on the scite of the Wier so that the Land appertaining to M^r Cambridge might be restored to its prestine state. M^r Cambridge having also aledged that some Stones belonging to his old Wier had been used by our Company at the time that the Wooden Wier was erected, the Committee made enquiry to W^m Beard one of the Companys Carpenters who assisted in the erection of the Wier, who positivly aversed that no Stones belonging to M^r Cambridge where taken, and that those made use of, where found in digging the Channel of the Canal.
An incompleat Estimate having been some time since given by Thomas Cooke of the expence of erecting a Stone Wall at Framiload to protect the Companys Land that has been considerably washed away during the last Winter and Spring, Resolved that the said Tho^s Cook be directed to attend the next Meeting of the Committee and to come prepared with a full and compleat estimate of the expence attendant on the erection of such Wall, including all Materials and Work.
Agreed that the same deduction of Tonnage be allowed to Mess^rs Benj^n and Tho^s Grazebrook as is allowed to the Thames and Severn Canal Proprietors during the Stoppage of the Canal.
Adjourn'd this Meeting to Monday the 8^th Ins^t at the Committee room at Walbridge at 5 o'Clock in the afternoon.
