1834-1847
Gloucestershire Archives TS165a
Minutes of Committee from 1834 to 1847
No agreement with Stroud Canal Navigation on alteration in tonnages.
Mr George had not paid rent as promised.
Reduction of tonnage to one penny per ton on salt, grain and iron.
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.
Meeting adjourned to 27 October.
Half-yearly accounts to 5 October 1846.
Claim made by Parish of Sapperton. Decision of Bench of Magistrates in favour of Company. Parish determined to carry case to higher Tribunal. Mr Ball, Solicitor to prepare case.
Case on Poor Rates to be submitted to Mr Ford.
Lease of Wharf and premises at Lechlade granted to Mr Protheroe expired at Christmas next. Notice of Dilapidations to be served.
Premises now occupied by Mr George to be let to Mr Gould who was also interested in the wharf at Lechlade. Mr Mathews, tenant, must leave on month’s notice.
Mr George had 2000 tons of railway timber to deliver at Fenny Compton Wharf on the Oxford Canal which he might take through the Thames & Severn Canal if a drawback was allowed. One halfpenny per ton per mile if over 1000 tons, before the end of February.
Sapperton Poor Rates. Mr Ball to lay it before Counsel.
Notice of intended Application to Parliament for a Railway from Southampton to terminate by a junction with the Midland Railway. Previously described as the Birmingham and Gloster Railway at Cheltenham. Company dissent.
Churn Millers’ water payments listed.
Opinion of Mr Keating on the Sapperton Rates case.
Bill from Mr Kearsey of Stroud re Messrs Lewe’s purchase £31.15.10, reduced from £31.18.8. To be paid. Also Mr Bever’s bill of £5.16.4.
Mr Gould unable to take premises held by Mr George.
Fire at Brimscombe. Richard Webb’s premises and stock entirely destroyed. Company to subscribe £20 in aid of a collection to reinstall him in his business.
Mr Willson to examine Insurances.
Dilapidations on Wharf and premises at Lechlade. No answers from Mr Protheroe or his solicitor re Company claim against him.
In the event of a Bill brought into Parliament for making a railway from Southampton to Cheltenham, the Clerk to prepare and present a petition against it.
£25 to be paid to Mr Bowley.
Mr George had given up possession of Company house. He had taken down a stable he had built on a piece of waste land adjoining Company’s salt warehouse, although given notice to desist. Mr Willson’s actions approved.
Bill re proposed railway from Southampton to Manchester, £6.11.0 to be paid.
James Mantle to be allowed to erect at his own expense a limekiln at corner of garden of Cricklade Wharf.
Half-yearly accounts to 5 April 1847
Deficiences in Mr Willson’s Accounts.
Mr Willson to pay £200 in October and £150 every 6 months after till debt paid off.
Mr Willson £1006.1.10 in arrears. Extent of bondsmen’s assistance. Mrs Willson’s death.
Carpenter: Cleansing, blacking and repairing several lock gates, paddles etc between Siddington and Inglesham. Blacking swivel and high bridges at Kempsford, weather board of shed on Kempsford Wharf, repairing stop planks, wheelbarrows etc, erecting swivel bridge at Thameshead, Repairing cottage floors, door frames etc at Wilmore, Cerney Wick and Inglesham, repairing stable and warehouse at Inglesham, doors and window sashes Kempsford Wharf house etc, Preparing timber from old gate timber for towpath gates, making and erecting them.
Labourers and Watchmen: Mowing and cleansing weeds out of canal, collecting rubbish, cutting bushes, stopping leaks along summit level, cleansing, blacking, piling timber in summit, boring for water at Siddington, repairing towpaths, pointing and plastering various cottages, fencing round tunnel pits Hailey Wood.
Carpenters’ Work: Roof of shed at Bourne Dock Yard, gates, posts and rails near Clewes and Chalford Locks. Repairing Chalford Round House etc, Making and putting up several towpath gates between Brimscombe and Tunnel. Lower Lock gates at Stroud and Bowbridge Locks, Top gates at Wimberly Lock. Repairs at other locks.
Masons: Preparing stone etc for pillars to support roof of shed at Bourne Lock, repairing and pointing walls of house, colouring outside, repairing walls and premises at Lewis’s Wharf, putting up pieces of wall brought down by snow and frost, Daneway Wharf house, Chalford Round House walls, Brimscombe Terrace house.
New wall at Chalford Wharf to uphold towpath. Pitching in Mr George’s dry dock.
Repairing old drains and making new ones to convey water across turnpike into canal basin at Brimscombe, Relaying, pitching a long shed, cutting down hollow quoins etc at Stroud Lock. Repairs to bridges, lock tails etc. Fence above Stroud Wharf and Capels viaduct.
Labourers: Collecting cinders, brick ends etc for repair of towpath between Stroud and Chalford, cutting weeds, clipping hedge mounds, blacking, paling, piling canal bank, fetching loads of gravel from Stroud, etc.
Mr Matthews to give up possession of premises on wharf at Lechlade, to be let as public wharf and house to a tenant.
Mr Archer of Castle Eaton to repair damage done by him to quoin of gate at Maston Round House.
Memorial signed by clergymen and gentlemen of the Parish of Tetbury re permitting house at Thames Head, now occupied by Charles Warburton, to be diverted into a public house. Not in interest of Company.
Side puddling from Thames Head Wharf westward on towpath very leaky. Timber for side piling to be prepared.
Mr Franks to repair swing bridge over canal at Hinton’s Bridge.
Mr Jones to alter present ice boat.
£1006.1.10 for tonnages due from Mr Willson. Explanation of his affairs. He continues to be Company’s Agent under satisfactory arrangement.
Letter from Mr Tuffley re carriage of stone during building of weighing machine at Brimscombe.
Half-yearly accounts to 4 October 1847.
No relief for Mr Tuffley re Mr Willson’s payment.
Letter from Mr Aldridge re £5 note paid by Mr Willson to Mrs Denyer as part of her quarter’s pension, loser as a result of the failure of Abingdon Bank. Company to make good the amount.
Letter from Mr Protheroe re wharf at Lechlade.
