1872-1876
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/4
Letters written by William James Snape between June 1872 and February 1876
Enclosing account to 22 June.
Querying increased charge for advertising meetings. Please send copy of paper with advertisement of the last meeting.
Stating terms for position as foreman of canal works and inviting an application.
Please get me a tide table. I will pay when I come your way.
George Dean an extra labourer does not attend to his work well. Please assist the gang.
Asking if new gates made for Bristol Road and about other preparations for stoppage
Asking for a fence to be made before Snape's house
Since Mr Peyton's death, some boats are working two handed. I should like you and other men to report any case to me.
Details given of mix up with tickets. Peyton to tell one of the men to collect rents.
Coping stone on Roving Bridge damaged by your wagons. Will you make repairs or shall I and charge you?
Bank will charge for cashing your £5 note. Please let Mr Field know you will need it changed.
Requesting Cam to begin Bristol Road Wharf wall before the stoppage begins.
Please send your application for Foreman of the Canal to our Chairman.
Have had application for foreman from one of my old men now employed on the North Staffordshire Railway Canal Dept. I could trust him with anything. I need him before the stoppage.
Sending tickets (numbers given).
Requesting collection of rents due at Framilode from Elias Woore & Benjamin Gardner, but not from Harmer or Rowles.
Ford Brothers will replace coping on Roving Bridge. Report if not done in a few days.
Please send your men to do the work required here.
Dispute about payment of cargo of coal carried by boat Faith.
Please send price of copper strips used for indexing canal boats, as supplied to Mr Alliston of North Staffordshire Railway Co
Please send price for stamps to stamp plates for indexing canal boats, as supplied to Mr Alliston on North Staffordshire Railway Co.
Mrs Peyton ready to leave the house. Peyton at the Junction or someone at Eastington should attend to the tickets.
Tell Rowles & Harmer to pay rent before Friday or they will be summonsed. Where does Dangerfield require the new grate.
Please come to committee meeting on Thursday 1 August at 12 o'clock.
Sorry I missed you; will call on you on Saturday morning next. I have only six copies until I am sanctioned by Committee to print and post up tonnage table.
I hope you will find enclosed account correct as Mr Partridge has left this Company.
The paddle was stolen or thrown under the culvert at Dudbridge last night. Please get another made. If size not known come and see me by the next train.
Please supply one paddle, 12 cups and 12 racks, same as patterns.
Enclosed order for paddle oil. Come and get a padlock for Thomas Lewis.
Mr Field's ticket no. 580. re circumstances of non-payment of ticket. A note in pencil PAID written over letter.
Please supply rape oil and charge to account.
How many masons, bricklayers, etc. can you let me have for the stoppage week. Don't forget stone for Bristol Road Lock.
Will you pay for water you use for watering the roads at Ebley starting from 24 June 1872. Pencil note: at side of letter re arrangement.
Under-payments charged on boats Industry and The Sisters. As my books already made up, please send the additional money.
Please pay now for non-payment by your boat Flora, loaded with road stone. Please pay your tonnage account to Mr Peyton at The Junction.
Please pay 10 shillings for damage which you and Mr C B Lewis did to a paddle at the Double Locks.
From today take charge of the Lodgemore Feeder and paddles. Also directions as to work by Daniels and his men. Also directions as to where to get price for the feeder paddles, beam and uprights. P.S. Not received signed wage sheet for 20 July.
Men required for painting houses at Framilode, Eastington, Dudbridge, and the one occupied by me. Let me have bricks in time for the stoppage.
Please remove sand on Dudbridge Wharf or I shall charge Wharfage.
I've received your tickets, please send me the cash. Small rowing boats to be charged 5s or no less than 4s from today. Let me have number of the Mars? cleared out on 26 July.
Please settle your account.
Please settle your account.
Please settle your account.
Please settle your account.
Serve enclosed notice on Sittington on Saturday morning and read it to him. Then come up for the wages.
Please settle your account.
Please settle your account. P.S. The bridge near Eastington not yet repaired.
What is charge for bricks from Etruria to Stonehouse on Midland or Great Western. I shall get them from Mr Williams if that is cheaper.
Please settle your account
Re Mr Strachan's fields: get soil from Stonehouse to do up the banks damaged by water.
The Committee ask that either you pay for your notice board on our wharf wall or you remove the board.
Instructions on what to do re bricks ordered from Mr Williams to be delivered to you.
In future charge 5s for row boat of any kind. Ticket altered as requested.
Let me have a bricklayer to repair the coping etc at the Feeder at Lodgemore; and a man and his labourer to paint my house, and houses at Dudbridge, Eastington and Framilode.
Order for blue bricks and blue and red quarries to be sent by Great Western to Stonehouse Station.
Ticket missing for a load of coal taken by Sarah to Brimscombe or somewhere. Do you have any information. In future charge all pleasure boats at 10s each way. P.S. Mr Coley has promised me the ticket book for tomorrow.
Cheque enclosed; please send receipted bill.
How many men are you sending on Monday next for the stoppage? Last evening I sent over for a man to dress quoin stone at Bristol Road.
Three tickets enclosed. Let me have ticket no. 705 by return to work out whether there are two tickets with the same number or two cargoes on one ticket.
Bring receipt from Mr Hooper for rent of house at Eastington occupied by Clarke. Get a mason for the quoin stone at Bristol Road Lock.
Re your boat Jane in charge of William Couldry: If I do not hear from him with an explanation, my Committee has instructed me to take out summons against him for navigating the canal without a ticket.
Please repair Roving Bridge damaged by your wagon. Shall I have some bricklayers do the work and charge you?
Your boats now clear out of our office at The Junction; for the future instruct your Captains to clear out of this office.
Your boats are clearing out at The Junction; for the future instruct them to clear out at this office.
Please reply to my letter of 1 Aug.
You have sent road stone to Ryeford. Instruct your captains to clear out at the above office for all cargoes this side of Stonehouse Wharf.
I have to make a charge re your carting of stone daily to the new works at Lodgemore as you do not use the canal.
I draw your attention, as owner of the land opposite our wharf at Dudbridge, to the bit falling into the canal. Please repair and I will arrange for the rubbish to be taken out at Company's expense.
No charge will be made to you re carting through Wallbridge Wharf.
Instructions re roles of Thomas Lewis, Peter Daniels and Sittington. I shall be at your place on Monday and we shall go to Framilode together.
When oiling the paddles, you need not come further than the top of the five locks.
No need to send tickets and I shall come to you on Monday. Instructions on what to have ready by way of receipts.
Please call and settle account for 70 tons of stone brought up to Dudbridge Wharf. Pencil note re payment 20 Sept.
In future charge 'Sundries' for anything not named in headings of our Tonnage Table.
A mistake by my wife meant you paid too little for the tonnage for slates on 4 Sept. Pencil note: paid 26th Sept 1872.
Please clean out canal at the entrance of the lock at The Junction as it interferes with our traffic.
Please return our pile engine as we want to use it. Send to our canal yard at Eastington. Inform your captains they must clear out at this office.
You were charged too little for the slates on boat Emily. Please pay the additional tonnage. Pencil note: paid Sep 20 1872.
Please pay for boat load of coal carried by boat Hope from Bullo to Wantage on 27 May.
Please pay for boat load of coal carried by boat the Sisters from Bullo to Kempsford on the 26 July.
Please pay for boat load of coal carried by boat Thames from Bullo to Buscot on the 11 April.
Please pay for boat load of sundries carried by boat Red Rover from Gloucester to Lechlade on the 1 March.
Mr Rowles is leaving the house he occupies under the Co. I will send you a note to give him when he gives you the key.
I confirm there is no rent owing on the Cottage at Framilode on the understanding you give Mr Lewis the key by the 25 Sept 1872
What is the address of the Surveyor for the Wheatenhurst Highway Board who use a portion of our Stonehouse Wharf for stone breaking.
Please pay the rent which is overdue for the pen at Wallbridge Wharf.
Work required to the canal bank opposite Mr Ward's house at Dudbridge; boatmen having difficulty in getting into the lock.
Suggested appointment to look at cottage, opposite the Gas Works, requiring painting.
re Cottages at Framilode: Mr Rowles is leaving one and will give the key to Mr Lewis. Serve the enclosed Notice on the other tenant Harmer. Instructions to Mr Cam re excavations for the new wall at Bristol Road. The cottages at Framilode to be demolished before the rough weather. Instructions to collect rent for use of canal water by Mr Roberts - also Mr Webb at Ebley.
Account enclosed for period up to the 18th instant.
Has Henry Lewis cleared out with you for the old iron he had under a quantity of larch poles from Dudbridge? The Captain of the Gas Co's Reliance will be moving goods through Framilode lock.
A strapping post is required on the offside near top gate at Dudbridge; stop Bulling's [Budding's] wages one day for which I will pay him for working in my garden and send model up as soon as possible.
Instructions re: two separate sheets for wages for Fallows and Clarke; a report for work done since 19 Sept and a model.
Send me copies of certain ticket, of which we are short, to fill up the numerical book. Confirmation required that no. 972 was the last issued for September.
This is my third letter; pay the amount owing at once, by post office order.
Please pay by post office order, by return, the amount owing for the coal carried from Bullo to Lechlade.
Please pay at once by post office order for loads as detailed.
Proceedings will be taken out against you if you do not pay at once for timber from Gloucester to Brimscombe on 18 September. Also instructions as to how future cargoes will be allowed on the canal.
Please send cheque by bearer to settle your account.
Please send cheque by bearer to settle your account.
Please send cheque to settle your account.
Please send cheque to settle your account.
Please send cheque to settle your account for tonnage.
Details of drawbacks allowed on imported wheat. Settlement of overdue accounts asked for and request to attend the General Half Yearly meeting on the 24th if it is considered there is a claim.
Instructions at estimated figure re making of a pair of middle gates for the double locks
Mr Partridge has left Co. please send cheques to me in future. Send me 10 stamps to make your account right.
Only the Committee can agree to an allowance on your account.
Please pay for the portion of the wharf at Ryeford you are using but do not pay for. An amount per annum suggested.
You are using a portion of our wharf at Ryeford for stone breaking, but do not pay for it. An amount per annum suggested.
Asking again for settlement of last account.
re: Cargo of boat Thomas Edwards, delivered to Brimscombe and an account sent to you. However, no account given by William Smith, steerer, of the coal unloaded on 12 Sept at Upper Wharf, Stroud. Please send the cash; I have paid the T&S Canal their share. Please ask your men to be careful in giving correct statements of their cargo. Pencil note: Paid by cash Oct 25th 1872.
Our account is correct; please pay cheque for amount not later than tomorrow - Friday.
Offering use of part of Ryeford and Bristol Road Wharves for storage of stone
Send some clay up to the ground opened at Ward's cesspool at Dudbridge as it is affecting the well. Tell Sittington to report all boats working two handed, being careful to check the correct name of captain
Re two dividends, I will reply in a few days
Re shares in the name of the Hon P P Bouverie, I will reply in a few days
I would be glad to have a second delivery on the terms named by you
The Committee think your estimate of £31 for the wall at Bristol Road Wharf includes the excavations
J Webb's a/c should be 11s 8d. A Field did not mention his down cargo, ticket to be made out for blue bricks and for red bricks
All monies received by you must be sent in full. Any expenses will be paid back after receipt of bill. Tonnage must be paid in full.
Advice to make a claim for shares personally or through a solicitor at our next Board Meeting
Put right damage done to Wharf and Tow Path by you carting stone to the works at Lodgemore or we will have to make a charge.
Materials for our work pay no toll. Materials for contractors work do pay. Do you think the enclosed tickets would be better than those now in use
Query about surplus stone and whether it might be purchased to repair wharfs and bridges.
Noted the correct address for the warrant.
Request to pay for portion of Stonehouse Wharf used at same rate as Mr Savage.
Request for reply to letter 19 October re Wharves at Ryeford and Bristol Road
Floor quarries brought to Lodgemore should be classed as Sundries, not bricks
Account enclosed under agreement as per your letter of 15 March 1872
Copy of account referred to in accompanying letter
Taking more land than he is paying for. Must stay with set boundaries
Please pay account for tonnage
Re stacking of logwood on Stonehouse wharf, we make a charge for stock kept on the wharf, but not if moved in a reasonable time
Share list left confused by Mr Partridge. List of Jacomb shares to be checked, please let me have particulars..
Cheque to be drawn on or after next committee meeting on 21st of this month and sent to you.
Cheque enclosed; names and number of shares set out.
If G&B has charged quarries at same rate as bricks, we shall do the same. Send me the tickets.
Mistake over shares; thank you for your cheque, I am writing to Mr Jacob.
I should not want the stone lying at Bristol Road unless assured there were 38 tons, and should like a separate bill for it not charged in your account. There is much cheating in Bristol Stone, often wrong statements of cargo from pits.
Today I have sent you a ticket book and stamps. T&S Canal stoppage at Stroud Lock starting 12 o'clock tomorrow night until 12 o'clock on Saturday night. I will send you a cash book. Let me have copies of tickets, numbers set out. A ticket issued in April or May last has turned up.
I am meeting Mr Savage at Stonehouse Wharf on Saturday morning. Let me know amount required for wages and I'll bring it with me. Look at Camm's stone at Bristol Road if you are able.
Can you meet me at Stonehouse Wharf on Saturday at 11.30am?
