1834-1847
Gloucestershire Archives TS165a
Minutes of Committee from 1834 to 1847
Letter from Mr Morrell, Oxford Bank, re Tonnage Account of Imperial Salt and Alkali Co.
Mr George’s payment for tonnages by two drafts was not acceptable
Mr Denyer to send more facts about Griffins Bridge.
Using Mr Denyer’s information about Griffins Bridge, clerk to prepare case for opinion as to the Company’s liability.
Churn millers’ water payments.
Mr Bowly of Cirencester not to sell beer, but coal etc, on Thames head Wharf.
Mr Dunsford of Swindon permitted to land gravel for repair of towing path.
Mr Bowly refused to take wharf at Thames Head without sale of beer.
Repairs to tunnel to be effected at annual period.
Having Counsel’s Opinion, letter to be sent to proprietor of land adjoining Griffins Bridge drawing attention to its state due to the pressure of earth against it.
Half-yearly Accounts to 2 Apr 1838
Suggested postponement of annual stoppage of canal because of frost of last winter.
Letter from Mr Howell, proprietor of land adjoining Griffins Bridge suggesting a meeting with the Committee.
Charges against Company for profits arising from coal and merchandise, Parish of Cirencester Relief of the Poor. Opinion of Counsel, William J Alexander Temple.
Letter from Secretary to Anti Dry Rot Company on use of private tanks.
New upper gates at Ballingers Lock, Chalford and Daneway.
Mud cleaned out at Chalford.
New walls at Chalford Chapel lock and Ballingers Lock, puddling at Wallbridge.
Saul Lusty, wharfinger at Cricklade Wharf, allowed to use salt warehouse.
Letter to Lord St German’s agent about fencing his land.
Shed at Cerney Wick House had new roof.
Woodwork at Wilmoreway etc painted.
Ordered – stonework at Latton Basin to be used where wanted, new lower gate for Eisey Lock, pound between South Cerney Upper Lock and Siddington Lower be mudded.
Fencing and coping at basin at Cirencester, new wagon road bridge at Whelford.
Watermoor Bridge had been cased and widened, new lay-bye at Gas Works and Siddington Bridge examined.
Carpenters’ boat completed.
Whole extent of Summit Level, except Tunnel, and basin at Cirencester mudded.
No further cutting advised in Mr Gordon’s meadow. Present cutting to be filled up.
Cylinder of steam engine to be cased. Repairs to be examined.
Wharf at Thames Head unlet.
Tunnel in good order.
Two pairs of lower lock gates erected at Cerney Locks.
Leakages, towing path, Tunnel pits repaired.
Repairs at Daneway, Whitehall Level, Puck Mill, Chalford Chapel Lock, Ballinger’s lock, Brimscombe Wharf, Grist Mill and Wimberley Bridge, Golden Valley Lock etc,
Boat masters etc to carry bumpers at their heads while navigating the canal.
Application to Mr Anderson, Lord Bathurst’s agent, for land to enlarge wharf at Cirencester.
Coal dealers plan approved.
Alkali Co had ceased to traffic on canal. Application to Mr Morrell for tonnage not paid.
Request to Mr Bevin for title deeds.
Quantity of coals, salt and stone carried by Mr Dunsford had fallen short of expectations.
Tonnage on iron and nails delivered to Whitchurch Lock since 1835 not amounting to £90 per annum.
Fly Boat belonging to Commercial Carrying Co had damaged gates of Ham Mill Lock.
Charge on profits of Company at Cirencester.
Lack of wall at Daneway great inconvenience to Mr Tyler and other shippers of timber.
No reply from Mr Bevin.
Half-yearly Accounts to 2 Oct 1838.
Clerk to send facts re Title Deeds to Mr Pitt.
Rain had stopped laying down of stop planks on Summit.
Mr George requested cancellation of the Warrant of Attorney given by him and his account to be delivered monthly, for which he would give the acceptance of the Park End Coal Co payable at three months. Committee agreed, him paying the balance of his account £824.
Mr George to be paid 30 guineas for fixtures in house he quitted at Brimscombe. His application for further room as a timber yard dropped.
Repairs to dock gates at the Bourne yard to be attended to.
Mr George’s application for reduction in tonnage on coal at Kempsford not accepted.
Mr Denyer to obtain information re Mr George’s proposed reduction in tonnage on coal to Oxford.
Mr Henry Staples tenancy of premises at Kempsford terminated.
Letter to Mr Joseph Pitt re Deeds of the Company and the reply from Mr Mullings.
Offer of timber yard to Mr George as yearly tenant, rent £20. Gate at east end of Brimscombe to be locked every evening and watchman to parade up and down wharf during the night.
Churn millers’ water payments.
£30 to Mr Denyer and Mr Jones, the Company’s agents.
Destruction of irrigation hutch in Mr Gordon’s meadow. Permission asked for use of Company’s engine to irrigate his meadows.
Last instalment of £250 plus £31.5.0 interest on bond of Cheltenham and Great Western Railway.
Details of increased supply of water by erection of new steam engine. Possible use of waste water to irrigate Mr Gordon’s meadow.
Repairs to canal proposed-
Mud to be removed from pond below Siddington and erection of lower gates, repairing cills of some of locks near Daneway and Tunnel, ascertaining state of Summit level and repairing defects near Cox’s Valley or Smerrill.
Letter re parties involved with new engine. No reply from Mr Pitt’s solicitor.
Letter from Mr Bevin re land in Cirencester. Rateable amount reduced.
Consideration of Bye Laws postponed.
Statement of Accounts to 2 April 1839.
Special Meeting. Revision of Bye Laws.
Whitsuntide repairs to canal.
Letter re Company’s £50 donation towards erection of church at Brimscombe.
Approval of Bye Laws.
Agreed to a £50 donation to the fund for building a church at Brimscombe.
Commercial Inland Carrying Co asked to make payments as regularly as possible.
Lower lock gates for Eisey Lock.
Shortening of lock at the Bourne not effected. Competent workmen employed on railroads.
Work at Daneway Wharf to be proceeded with immediately.
Committee agreed to request of Rev T Huntingford to make an entrance from the canal through the Waste Weir adjoining his garden to enable him to erect a boat house. Sixpence per annum.
H Staples of Kempsford Wharf now held premises as a weekly instead of a yearly tenant, paying two shillings a week.
Round house at Marston untenanted and dilapidated, as is watchman’s house built at Eisey Lock. Estimate of value to be ascertained.
Strip of land at Cerney Wick exchanged with Earl St Germans. Mr Jones to plant willow stakes on Company’s side of ditch.
Interview with Mr Mullings at Cirencester and Mr Lewis re Title Deeds of Company’s property at Brimscombe.
Experiment by Mr Jones for covering over shafts of Tunnel with brick.
Parapet of bridge at Furzen Leas to be repaired.
Temporary bridge and towing path erected by Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway Co over canal near Hinton’s Bridge inconvenient and dangerous. Mr Haynes, sub engineer, provided plan. Permission postponed.
Problems with Steam Engine. Report from Mr Ferrabee.
New lime kiln at Thames Head.
Mr Gordon might be allowed waste water to irrigate his meadow.
Mr Nicholson, agent to Parkend Coal Co, claimed that Northern traders had an advantage over Dean Coal traders.
Clerk with 40 years service to receive £7, with 8 years £3.
Tank for Kyanising timber completed.
Mr Harrison, builder of Stroud, permitted to build wall along a strip of land, belonging to late Mr Holbrow, opposite Stroud Canal office.
Wall at Brimscombe Basin and lime kiln dilapidated.
Carpenters’ work: Making Kyanising tank and crane; New paddle frames and planking, upper gates of lower lock at Wallbridge; Making and erecting new wharf gates at Brimscombe Port; New upper gates to Puck Mill lock; New breast to lower gates of Ham Mill lock; New floor in Agent’s house; Repairing two ice boats and carpenters floating workshop; Sills, paddles etc to lower lock gates of Whitehall lock repaired.
Masons’ work: Building walls below Hope Mill and Wimberly locks to protect towing path; Rebuilding part of weir culvert at Red Lion lock and wall round Chalford wharf; Repairing brewhouse at Brimscombe; Repairing and enlarging wall to waste culvert in Walbridge lower pound; Rebuilding entrance to new wharf at Brimscombe Port; Renewing hollow quoins to lower gates of Ham Mill lock; Repairing wing wall to Cleeves lock, and above Puck Mill; Drain at Bourne lock; Cleansing pond below Brimscombe basin of mud.
Easter stoppage 1839: New stop at Smirrel valley; Tunnel, Siddington lower lock, long pond and lower short pond.
Whitsuntide stoppage: Tunnel, summit level leakages; South Cerney lower lock, new masonry and guard timber,lLower sills to be repaired, gates fitted, lock cleansed of mud and rubbish.
Mudding: South Cerney long pond, Boxhall Springs pond.
Mr James Smith requested a reduction in tonnage to recover trade in goods, Gloster to Cirencester, lost to land carriers. Mr Denyer to consider.
Interview between Mr Howell, proprietor of Griffins Mill and Messrs Palmer, Cass and Ford on behalf of the Company. Mr Howell accepted that the dilapidated state of Griffins Bridge was due to the earth piled against it and the heavy loads that passed over it but would not come to any specific arrangement. Letter to Mr Howell threatening legal proceedings.
Mr George’s application re pitching of his dock and repair of gates postponed.
Warehouse on the Island to be offered to Mr George at £10pa.
Quay wall at Daneway erected and wharf was in use.
Application for credit from Mr Gandell of Farringdon, his security being Richard William Crowdy of Farringdon, accepted.
Mr Palmer’s report on steam engine.
Statement of Accounts to 1 October 1839.
Permission granted for swing bridge over canal near Hintons Bridge, by Cheltenham & Great Western railway Co. need to elevate bridge.
Mr Jones – plan for permanent stone bridge does not conform with Act of Parliament.
Mr Nicholson’s application for equalizing present plan of charging canal boats, no directions.
Correspondence between Mr Lawrence and the Company re swing bridge near Hinton’s Bridge.
Company has no special power to purchase shares of Navigation as an investment for capital. Consent of a General Assembly advised.
Exchequer Bills, £1500, to credit of Company, to be purchased.
Agreement on construction of swing bridge over the Canal between Hintons Bridge and Cox’s valley.
Parapet and then whole arch of Griffins Mill bridge had fallen into canal. Mr Howell declines interfering. Mr Denyer would ensure a passage for boats and install fencing across the approaches either side. Further response deferred.
Churn millers’ water payments.
Further portions of land adjoining Griffins Mill had fallen into canal, rest to be held back with piles driven into canal.
Stock of coals at wharfs supplied from Brimscombe not large. Continual supply necessary.
Materials of Griffins Bridge are deposited along towing path as near the spot as possible.
Stone passing from summit level used on Great Western Railway, Wilts & Berks Canal, Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway and Berkshire roads.
Staffordshire coal passing along canal chiefly small, used for burning clay into ballast, burning bricks, lime etc for Cheltenham & Great Western Railway.
Notice from Cheltenham & Great Western Railway re land required.
Permission granted to Mr Marling for removal tonnage free of up to £100 tons of materials from their Ham Mill premises, destroyed by fire.
Statement of Accounts to 6 April 1840.
Mr Denyer believed the Commercial Inland Carrying Co had ceased to exist. He was asked to examine responsibilities for unpaid tonnages. Otherwise notice to be given to parties concerned requiring payment of tonnages as boats pass.
Mr Harrison of Stroud was erecting a house near the canal on his own land opposite the canal office. He previously had the Company’s permission to build a wall but had declined to execute the required bond, so permission for the wall was withdrawn.
Non-payment by Mr Gandell of his last quarter’s tonnage account. Letters to Mr Crowdy bondsman.
No alteration in mode of credit for Commercial Inland Carrying Co as the same parties were still involved.
Letter from Mr Jones acknowledging liberal donation to him awarded by the General Meeting.
Letter from Rev S Gompertz, Minister of Episcopal Chapel at Chalford, soliciting assistance in aid of the Expenses of Enlargement. No response to appeal.
Mr Gandell’s tonnage account paid
Inland Carrying Co had ceased to exist but trade likely to be carried on by Mr Drew, principal carrier between London and Bristol.
Re copper, which might be brought to the canal, the Committee was ready to receive any proposition.
Shoals had accumulated in navigation of upper district of the River Thames during the violent floods of the preceding winter.
Death of Treasurer, Mr Payn.
Mr Zachary Allnutt of Marlow was asked to represent the upper district of the Thames to the Commissioners. Request to them to have cause of complaint removed.
Mr Matthews, occupier of Lechlade Wharf. Injury done to his carts and wagons from want of shed to protect them. Mr Jones to estimate expense of a shed and Mr Denyer to request to Mr Protheroe for his permission to erect sheds with no additional rent. Materials required to be carried by Mr Matthews, the tenant.
Inexpedient to sell land and house at Marston Round House. Last year’s order rescinded.
Kempsford High Bridge in very bad state. Mr Charles Jones to rebuild as much as necessary.
Kempsford Wharf. Shed to protect carts and wagons. Mr Charles Jones to make estimate and assess additional rent.
Title deeds of property at Brimscombe. Meeting with Mr Mullings. Copies of Deeds and Deed of Covenant to be procured from Mr Lewis.
Mr Jones’ experiment of brick dome in tunnel shafts to be tried.
Measures to be devised for protecting the boilers of the steam engine from the action of atmospheric air.
The disadvantages complained of by Mr Nicholson, agent to the Park End Co, materially removed by remedies adopted by Stroud Canal Co.
Repair of approaches to Castle Eaton Bridge. £15 contributed.
Mr Jones suggested new mode of protecting canal from side leakages. Stopping banks by pile planks and land ties. To be tried on part of Summit Level crossing the Blue House Valley.
Crane at wharf at Brimscombe thoroughly worn out. New crane essential . Corresponce between Mr Denyer and Messrs Perry, Barrett & Co of Reading. Authorised to carry 5 tons.
Usual credit to be given to Mr Drewe as carrier on line of canal on his procuring security required.
Reduction in article of copper left for consideration of Mr Denyer with Mr Drewe.
Resolutions re tonnage charged, stone quarried on Summit Level, proposed to next General Assembly.
Griffins Mill Bridge. Mr Howell, owner of mill adjoining, through his solicitor Mr Aldridge, refused to pay any portion of expense of rebuilding.
£5 in aid of fund for two fire engines.
Mr Denyer allowed £3.5.7 for oak belonging to Company used for making Communion furniture for Brimscombe Church.
Carpentry: New lower gates at Eisey Lock and from there to Siddington.
Masonry: Wing wall to Latton Lock and coping to Castle Eaton.
Brick Work: Repair to Cerney Middle Lock and Siddington \second Lock.
Tunnel : Repair to side walls near Sapperton end, one piece in crown of long arching.
Summit Level: Repair of leakages and to towing path.
Mudding: Boxall Springs pound to Wilmore Upper Lock.
Carpenters’ work: Upper gates for Stroud Upper Lock; Parlor in Agent’s house; New stern in Summit Fly and graving complete, repairing Brimscombe Fly, repairing sills and paddles and general repairs.
Masons’work: Key wall at Daneway Wharf, wall against towing path to widen wharf; Putting hollow quoins at W Meachams Lock; Rebuilding new wharf wall at Brimscombe; Repairing wing wall at Wimberley Lock.
Agreed an improvement in Mr Denyer’s house at Brimscombe by means of a door in the passage and the Committee coinciding thereon.
Examination of bridge constructed over canal by Cheltenham & Gt Western Railway Co near Hinton’s Bridge and nearby swing bridge – both satisfactory.
Quay wall at Daneway and wall enclosing wharf on south side of Brimscombe Basin both satisfactory.
Mr Partridge permitted to build wall along the side of the towing path at Bowbridge
When an opportunity offers, dirty water, drainage of part of town of Stroud, now falling into the canal, to be conveyed under the canal. Owner of adjoining land to be asked for his permission.
Letters from William B Clegram and George Hawker agreeing the T&S Committee could proceed through the Stroud and Gloucester & Berkeley Canals.
Plan for puddle on upper slopes of Summit Level to prevent great loss of water by leakage.
Estimate of expense of erecting card sheds at Lechlade and Kempsford. Cost to tenants.
Letter from Mr Jones. Drain in Mr Gordon’s meadow complete. Gravel and rubble to be filled in. Experiment for preventing side leakage by pile planking.
Letter from Mr Mullings re Brimscombe deeds. Deed of Covenant expected from Messrs Lewis.
Letter from Mr Aldridge, Mr Howell’s solicitor, re restoration of Griffins Bridge, requesting the matter be determined. Committee considered Mr Howell to be the aggressor and the subject should be left to his discretion.
Statement of Account to 6 October 1840
Resolutions on tonnage.
Report on and costs of planking on sides of canal at Blue House Valley. Decision to give experiment a fair trial.
Protection of steam engine boilers from atmosphere. Experiments made by Mr Wickstead of Old Ford with Borradailes Patent Felt most effective.
Committee satisfied with efforts to keep canal navigable during the present frost.
Investigations for some time past into errors and arrears of tonnage in accounts of Mr George had lately been brought to a close by a compromise.
Letter from Mr Perry of Wolverhampton. Extract of the Power of a Steam Engine for raising water.
Deed of Feoffment of strip of land at Bowbridge by side of canal, conveying same to Mr Wathen for £5.
Deeds relating to property at Brimscombe on table with letter from Mr Mullings.
Mr Gandell’s account still unpaid. Clerk to write to Mr Crowdy (Gandell’s security) for amount due.
Mr Gandell given two months to pay amount due.
Materials for completion of planking at Blue House Valley being prepared. Ready for Easter Stoppage.
No damage to works of canal as a result of the late frost or floods.
Headway 6 by 8 feet in direction of proposed railway tunnel through Sapperton Hill let for 7000 guineas. Directors pledge to have done preparatory work on line between Kemble and Stonehouse. No great supply of water likely to be met with.
Churn millers’ water payments.
Inconvenience and loss of trade occasioned by insufficient supply of water last summer and autumn. Attention to avoiding all waste and unnecessary expenditure.
Locks arranged for largest sized barges no longer required. Considerable waste of water by passage of trade at present. Proposal at once to reduce all locks to size necessary for narrow canal boats. Rejected because of disadvantages.
Plan to widen present locks to admit two narrow boats adopted. Also reduction of locks by 20 feet as the lock at Wilmoreway. Alterations to Daneway and the Bourne only at present.
Mr Jones to select one lock to alter or enlarge. Preparations to be made for alterations to other locks between Daneway and the Bourne. Shortening locks of great importance to Committee.
Difficulties with plan of widening locks. Agree to shortening of locks between the Bell Lock at Chalford and the Daneway. Necessary stoppage not to exceed one month.
Mr Crowdy to pay amount due under his bond as security for Mr Gandell.
Water likely to be met with in cutting the head ways through Sapperton Hill by the Railway Company. Measures should be taken for leading it into the canal.
Mr Gandell's account has been paid.
Statement of Accounts to 6th April 1841.
Letter from Mr Jones of Siddington. He suggests that someone should be employed at Siddington and that he himself should live at and develop Thames Head Wharf.
Boilers of the steam engine to be repaired.
Although the rains had interfered with progress made in the alteration of the locks, and especially in the mudding, the canal would be in full operation on 31 May.
Mr Jones’ thanks for £50. All workmen discharged, except two or three labourers.
During prolongation of stoppage important repairs done to sills and paddles. No great scarcity of water expected.
The stone trade had not turned out as expected.
Agreed to meet at Lechlade on Monday evening 2 August and proceed along the canal on the following two days.
Materials for roof of shed at Lechlade deposited there. Mr Matthews, tenant, had not provided agreed materials. To be erected without delay.
Marston Round House let for £4 per annum. Repairs, not exceeding £4, to be done.
Work on Kempsford High Bridge to be started immediately.
Shed ordered at Kempsford Wharf not erected.
Mr Pembury, Mr Baylis’s foreman, complained of injury done to his property by loss of a footpath across canal where Griffins Bridge stood. Temporary footbridge to be erected.
Mr Lidiard, Surveyor of the Highways at Cirencester, and Mr Hall, Land Surveyor, met Committee re application for a small portion of the Wharf to improve road at north end of the wharf. Earl Bathurst would give equal quantity of land from a paddock, adjoining south west corner of the Wharf, and would sell, on reasonable terms, the remainder of the paddock.
Agreed. Expense of rebuilding boundary wall of wharf to be borne by parties to exchange.
Pile planking at Blue House Valley well done. Desired effect to prevent leakages.
Steam engine. No visible advantage in saving of fuel by use of Patent felt on pipes of boilers.
State of engine under full supply of water very satisfactory.
Boilers and flues to be covered with ashes. Similar method in use at East London Water Works.
Work in Mr Gordon’s meadow for supply of water to the engine completed. Mr Jones had constructed a well at the springs to detect any obstruction in the cutting.
Cutting, 556 yards in length, completed. Cost less than £600.
Sixteen locks at and below Daneway and the Bourne Lock had been shortened to 81ft.
New System for Traction on Canals by either fixed or locomotive first movers, as a substitute for animal traction, referred to in a letter from Mr Bollaert of Trafalgar Square. Mr Palmer to inspect the plans.
Letter from Mr Graham, Clerk to the Commissioners of the Upper district of the Thames Navigation. Improvement of the district of the river from Oxford to Lechlade. Committee ready to meet him in London.
Work executed – Waste weir at Wilmore Lower Lock and Cerney Middle Lock reinstated with weather stone instead of bricks; North end of the Churn aqueduct at Siddington rebuilt; Petty repairs in various parts of the canal.
Sixteen Locks at Daneway and Chalford shortened to 81 feet.
Blue House Valley. 165 yards each side of canal protected from side leakage by pile planking and gravel puddle.
Repairing roofs of wagon sheds for Lechlade and Kempsford Wharfs.
Making pair of upper gates to enable gates of the shortened locks to be repaired and shifted.
Lower gates for Whitehall Upper, Bathurst Meadow, or Sickridge Wood Lower Lock.
NB. These three locks are so nearly equal as respects decay that it is impossible to say which will require attention first. The timber for the other two is being converted.
Erecting new pair of Upper Gates at Wharf Lock at Walbridge. Gates made last year.
Shifting Upper Gates and other work connected with shortening the Bourne Lock.
Under ground frame and other work connected with erecting new crane at Brimscombe.
Repairing materials viz gang ladders, boxhorses, barrows etc for mudding pound between Bowbridge and Walbridge.
Putting up partition in passage of Agent’s House at Brimscombe.
General repairs to locks, buildings and other works of canal.
Cleansing the mud out of level extending from Bowbridge Lock to Walbridge Upper Lock, including the Basin at the latter place, a distance of 1342 yards.
Cleansing the mud from under the front of the quay walls at Brimscombe Basin viz.
92½ yards lineal 4 yards wide from the Swivel Bridge to the end next the mill stream
159½ yards lineal 10 yards wide from the Swivel Bridge to the end of wall towards the Bourne.
Repairing stone and building a Wing Wall at Bakers Mill Lower Lock.
Repairing stone and rebuilding waste weir at Chalford Round House.
Building retaining wall to towing path at Walbridge about 40 yards long 3 feet high.
Prepairing stone and building well etc for new crane at Brimscombe.
Prepairing stone and building catch pool to convey soil under canal at Walbridge.
Prepairing stone and masonry requisite for shortening Bourne Lock.
General repairs to Locks, Buildings etc. Ordered that the system of side planking be adopted in Cox’s Valley and that Mr Jones makes the necessary preparations for same.
Cost of the new crane, £140, to be charged to Contingency Fund.
An enlargement in the kitchen of Mr Denyer’s house at Brimscombe, by removal of a partition, agreed.
External shade agreed to shield Mr Denyer’s office in the counting house.
Recesses or laybyes to enable loaded vessels to pass without impediment would save water at Stanton’s Mill and Arundel’s Mill.
Repairs to Mr George’s house. Outside to be painted and repaired, nothing internally.
Mr George’s application for repair of dock he rents from the Company. To be repitched, gates repaired, increase rent of £5 per annum.
Committee viewed pond cleansed of mud between Bowbridge and Walbridge Lock and plan adopted for conveying soil under canal instead of into it - both very satisfactory.
Mr Richards unable to attend. Mr Evans called to the Chair.
Arrangement with Mr Hall, acting for Lord Bathurst, to purchase rest of paddock adjoining Wharf at Cirencester for £30 (27 perches), £178 per acre. Compare local prices at £400 - £800 per acre.
Results of experiments in the boiler house at Thames Head. Letter from Mr Wickstead confirming Mr Denyer’s information to Committee re boilers of the East London Water Works at Bow. Mr Palmer procuring ashes to try the effect at Thames Head.
Letter from Mr Jones re experiments in the Engine House. Same results as stated by Mr Denyer.
Shafts in Tunnel Nos.7, 9 and 10 domed over.
Half yearly statement of Receipts and Payments. Balance very great.
£106.19 received from rail road contractor for use of crane at Brimscombe and privilege of landing materials across towing path at Coxe’s Valley.
Receipts at Siddington augmented by removal of railroad materials to similar work,
Accounts have benefited from carrying higher rated articles, but more expenses incurred in cleansing mud out of Canal between Bowbridge and Walbridge.
Re question of Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway’s liability for raising height of road behind wharf wall at Cirencester. Claim for compensation abandoned. Mr Denyer to reconstruct wall.
Deed of Covenant received from Mr Mullings for the production of title deeds of property at Brimscombe..
Half-yearly Accounts to 4 October 1841.
Trade on Canal very slack. Wharfs loaded with coal equal to any demand. Slackness in trade of Cloth Manufacture. Many steam engines unemployed, dye houses curtailed in work.
Mr Evans and Mr Palmer only members of Committee present. No Business transacted.
Reassessment of the parish of Bisley. Part of Canal running through parish rated to poor rates. Appeal lodged. Present amount to be paid in conformity with 87th section of Canal Act.
Mr Jones satisfied with effect of cast iron fan shaped discharging paddles for filling the lock, in use at Whitehall Lock. Possible use at other locks.
Churn millers’ water payments listed.
Five pounds to Relief of Unemployed Poor of the Neighbourhood of Brimscombe.
