1872-1876
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/4
Letters written by William James Snape between June 1872 and February 1876
Instructions on alterations to be made to bill re timber being called oak when it was elm and on overcharge on oak piles. Two bills required to enable charging to different accounts.
Notice to attend meeting with Committee re your conduct last week.
Instructions re various sizes of nails and screws to be sent to Clark.
Please attend meeting with Committee re plank taken out of the canal; otherwise I shall instruct our solicitors.
Instructions to take the lock and chain off the bridge and put them on the top gates every night in accordance with the rules.
I will keep the keys of the two padlocks on the gates at the pen and will give them only to captains of barges that have received your instructions to unload thereon.
Cheque for £40 enclosed being first payment on account for timber as agreed.
Meeting arranged with Messrs Beard and Hooper at Bonds Mill to make arrangements in reference to Eastington wharf.
Problems with your carters leaving the gates unlocked for many nights. New locks put on the gates and only Mr William's barges will be allowed to unload.
Pass addressed to lockkeepers and other workman to allow Mr F J Stockwell to "angle"" in the canal."
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Pass addressed to lockkeepers and other workmen to allow Mr John York to "angle"" in the canal."
Re your letter of the 9th, our solicitors consider it requisite that spouting be put on your Framilode property; in line with Mr Purnell of Stinchcombe Park, the owner of the other cottages.
Re your letter of 24 July, please instruct your bailiff to put up the spouting which our solicitors consider is requisite.
Detailed specification of duties appertaining to him as lock keeper at Framilode.
Continuation of detailed specification of duties appertaining to him as lock keeper at Framilode.
The Board accepts the terms of your notice dated 21 August 1873 re giving up the premises at Eastington on the 29 September.
Coal being brought up by Ford's people is not on their account, but is for G & A Ford Bros who don't have an account with the Company In future they must pay on entrance to the Canal. Instructions about keeping a barge at the Junction tomorrow (Saturday) until the Captain gives you a pass signed by me or my wife.
Permission given to grub up the hills? on the company's property.
Mr G Ford junior informs me that only one more coal cargo coming up. Let this cargo pass. In future anything on their account must be paid for before leaving the Junction.
Duplicate dividend warrant for £7.10s.0d enclosed re shares Nos 2 and 125 in names of Jacomb, Wood and Walker. The other warrant must have been lost in the post..
A sketch plan and instructions re work required to the bottom gate of the bottom lock.
Pass enclosed which Clark issued for 'Nellie' last evening; send me all tickets at end of month.
Several instructions: including Peter to come up with boat; send broken stone to Wallbridge Wharf; clear up the Stroud pond and widen the road near the Warehouse; go mudding at Ebley; put in your paysheet next fortnight an amount to W Snape for curtains for committee room; after the half yearly meeting Perry to put up a partition in a bedroom and then make the bridge for the shallow lock; the two outside bearers to be pitch pine and not oak.
One quarter's pension of £12.10.0 due on 29 September enclosed.
One quarter's salary of £10.8s.0d.due on 29 September enclosed.
Copy of minute of meeting on the 18 Sept re your taking of Company's premises at Eastington. Your letter of agreement to the terms required.
Everything coming up the canal on Mr E T Ward's account to be paid for. He is bankrupt.
The Committee have agreed charges for empty boats up and down the canal agreeably with the Act of Parliament.
You owe 7s 6d for coal unloaded from Samuel, half of which has to be paid to T&S Canal. Also let me have the money for the Garibaldi and Hope as I am completing my half year's accounts.
Please have the hedge between the railway bridge and your new fence cut back.
Please let me have an offer for the pump purchased from you in 1867; only used a few times and as good as new.
Thank you for settlement of our account. Please let me have the 5s which you say is in error, as this is the charge for the Caroline being empty both ways.
Charge Mabbut 1s 8d lockage at Framilode Lock; otherwise you will be responsible for that amount.
Receipt enclosed for £22.0s.5d for tonnage due from Mr E T Ward, plus a post office order for £1 overpayment. The Barge Atlas started away from here this morning at about 10am for Lydney.
Receipt for £22.0s.5d as per letter no. 225.
Your bill Is incorrect. I never knew tools to be charged for and your man did not stay over night. P.S. our man assisted yours. I can give you all the details of his time spent here and what he did.
Check tonnage of 'The Effort'; complaint re your Captain of 'Nellie' holding back Z Whiting's 'Charity' and W Davies Captain of Webb's Endeavour.
Let me have your authority that Mr Ward can do business with me re tonnages etc. Also your reply re tonnage of The Effort.
I enclose Mrs H Wilton's dividend warrant to your address. The previous letter was returned to me through the Dead Letter office, having been sent to the address supplied me by Mr Partridge.
Re new address for your dividend warrants. If you are thinking of selling at about £75 to £80 the present value of your share(s), I can get you a purchaser.
Suggested date for a meeting with the Committee to discuss his letter re the Culvert from the River Frome to Stroud Canal at Whitminster.
Charge dead weight for all timber entering the canal; e.g. instance with Jas Smart. Some November tickets enclosed. Instructions on how in future to send the tickets in..
Either Mr Perry or the Sawyers to cut up Marling's Spanish Chestnut beam into 3 or 4 boards. Mr Beard and I will be at Stonehouse Ocean at 2.15pm Wednesday, get about 12 stakes and a man. The Income Tax charged for the house at Bristol Road will be appealed.
I will be writing to the Sawyers to get the Spanish chestnut beam cut up and will advise you.
Cheque for £10.4s.7d. enclosed in settlement of our account.
Enclosed cheque for £5.8s.0d re Tithe charges at Eastington Parish due to the Rev T Peters.
Enclose copy of Minute of Thursday last re weight declared to be on The Effort on 29 October 1873.
Instructions including: when Fork Pound mudding finished, send men to move the fence to Mr Sutton's pen; repairs needed to the road to Mr Hasting's pen; Clark has cut down tree near the Gas Works.
Confirmed meeting at The Ocean at 11.am tomorrow.
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I have no plan of the Frome Aqueduct, but do have the size of the two blue brick culverts: 7ft diameter at the mouth, 5ft 6in at the centre, 18 to 20ft long, bottom of culvert about 14ft below canal level.
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Estimate required for repairs to weighing machine at Dudbridge Wharf.
Payment required for the accounts owing to this Company, including half year's rent for space at Wallbridge, plus bill for expenses incurred when sewage pipe work put under the canal.
Inconsistency in declared tonnage of coal cargo on your barge ?Royal, when part was weighed as it was unloaded at Wallbridge in order to go on the T&S Canal. I have paid T&S for the extra, please repay me. Also any complaints should be addressed to me not to the workforce.
Get the planking of the Bottom gate here (Wallbridge) to be altered to prevent damage as set out.
One quarter's pension of £12.10.0 due on 25th December enclosed (see letter 218).
One quarter's salary of £10.8s.0d.due on 25 December enclosed.
Concerning repairs to the weighing machine at Dudbridge Wharf.
Before your cut down the tree at Wallbridge, the Committee want to see a plan of the land.
Get up the small boat sunk in Framilode Basin. If you do not, we shall do it and charge you the cost.
Get up the small boat sunk in Framilode Basin. If you do not, we shall do it and charge you the cost.
Get up the small boat sunk in Framilode Basin. If you do not, we shall do it and charge you the cost.
Re: the small boat sunk in Framilode Basin. Please give orders for it to be removed.
Effect of non-closure of the gates at Shallow Lock.
Dispute over quick set hedge on slope adjoining land you purchased near Framilode.
Instructions for Peter when next at Framilode and inspect the bank at Ryeford.
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Fined for wasting water at Blunder Lock, full fine to be levied if not paid within 14 days of this letter.
Fined for obstructing canal at Eastington, full find to be levied if not paid within 14 days of this letter.
Let me know when you have slabbing in the yard; measurements stated in a former letter.
Copy of Minute enclosed. Drop me a line if you want to see me.
Instructions on number and measurements of spruce boards required. A boat to be sent for them.
Bill from Price & Co for balk etc which, if correct, copy, sign and return. Measuring staff missing therefore new procedures set out to be followed for all tools. Write to Gloucester for bars for balance pole at Double Locks.
Receipted account enclosed: The Committee has decided to do the work at Eastington, please come and look at the plans.
Information re measurements of timber and iron ordered.
Reply to my letter re canal bank you claim, or the matter will go to my Board and then to solicitors..
If you continue to draw out vessels on to your old dock near Saul Bridge the Company will charge at the usual rate.
Arrangements for collection of a barge load of stone at Lydney Basin plus measurements of stone required..
Amount of lime required to be delivered to Midland Railway station at Stonehouse.
Your estimate for new wharf at Eastington is too much, we will use own men.
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen allowing Mr Fisher and Friends to boat on the canal for the year 1874.
Please load Mr Field's barge Mercy at Lydney on 24th inst. Also send me the caps for the wall.
Something about a letter returned through dead letters' office, but mostly illegible.
Shares selling at £75 to £80, do you want me to find a purchaser..
Alteration in address to ensure dividends are sent to new address.
Tonnage payment required for the Samuel and the Kent.
Mr Field's barge will be at Lydney for remainder of stone; measurements set out of more coping stone required; if this doesn't make a barge load fill up with bulk stone for walling.
Your letter re tonnages rates will be placed before the Board, after which you'll hear from me again.
Negotiations and procedures re purchase of share.
Water supply to Stroudwater Canal from River Frome; plus need for a mud boat in the near future for the area of the lock to the Junction. Do you need a good joiner carpenter?.
Letter asking for the supply of iron, with measurements, plus tarred rope, oakum, hair, charged to the Canal account; the iron to be sent at once.
Cheque enclosed in payment of the account.
If you want to sell your share, I have a purchaser. Please contact me.
Cheque enclosed in settlement of the account.
Company will give a special rate for you bring large quantities of tiles up the canal. Please contact me
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen allowing Mr George Holloway to have a canoe on the canal, but not go through the locks. Note at bottom: "5s paid up to Dec 1874""."
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen allowing Mr Cooper to have a canoe on the canal until the end of 1874. Note at bottom "5s paid""."
Enclosed copy of Minute passed at last Board meeting re the application for a reduction of tonnage.
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen allowing Mr E N Smith permission to fish in the canal.
Your carters must take street sweepings to the sewage works and not put them into the canal at Wallbridge Wharf..
Instructions re: Mr Field's account, 4d paid for change of a bank note, the poor rate from Mrs Williams at Framilode, sign enclosed bill and return; get Peter to carry the pump to Vick & Co to look at.
Instructions re: two tickets for pleasure boats enclosed, send in your month's account, a bill has been sent to Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co for tonnage, draw a line through the item for bricks on Lewis' account as a new one has been made out.
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen allowing Mr P L Smith of Lansdown, Stroud, to angle in the canal.
Receipt for the 5s paid by Mr J L Smith for permission for rowing boat on Canal not using the locks.
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr J L Smith to have a row boat on the canal, 5s paid, if locks are used a further charge of 10s will be made at Committee's direction.
Cheque for salary to half year enclosed. Instructions re charge for floating timber through a lock to B Gardner; a charge should be made for the gas tar E Rudge had on Field's boat Sarah for E Woore; I hope to be down on Saturday week.
The address will be altered as requested.
Your charges for repairs of machine at Dudbridge Wharf seem excessive in view of reasons set out in letter. Let me have a bill giving particulars of charges to pass to the Board.
You are fined by the Committee for your false account of your cargo from Ebley to Framilode on the 1 June; if not paid a summons will be taken out and the full penalty enforced.
The Committee cannot made any addition to your present rate as requested in your application to them.
You are fined by the Committee for drawing off water out of the short pound at Dudbridge; if not paid a summons will be taken out and the full penalty enforced.
You must either make a per annum payment or discontinue using the tow path from Dudbridge to the Gas Works and the canal for washing your sheep.
The Committee will allow you to wash sheep in the Canal on the offside for a payment per annum. Do you agree to this payment?
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr W M Thursfield of Fort Cottage , Rodborough to angle in the canal between Wallbridge Wharf and the Double Locks..
In reply to a request the costs for transferring a share from vendor to purchaser are set out.
In reply to a request, the current value of a share is set out.
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr M Phillips and one friend to angle in the canal until the end of the present year.
Order for £2.10.0. enclosed, please send receipt for same.
Enclosed signed memorial from traders, barge owners and others trading on the T&S Canal complaining about state of canal.
Continuation of complaints re state of T&S Canal and request by Company of Proprietors to place the whole canal into an efficient state.
Remove your timber brought by railway from our Wharf at Stonehouse, unless you pay for use.
Attend at the Double Locks on Monday morning, you will be wanted all week for the Stoppage.
A list of cargoes of coal unloaded in the pen at Wallbridge.
Attend at Whitminster on 30th July re Williams' cases.. Lewis will attend to your Bridge.
As Mr Peyton will be from home from 30 July, attend to the Bridge until his return.
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr J Miles and one friend to angle in the canal until December 1874.
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr E Ward to fish in the canal until Dec 1874.
