1876-1880
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/5
Letters written by William James Snape between February 1876 and April 1880
If you do not pay your fine, further action will be taken against you
Please send a cheque for the rent due
[illegible] details of account
Interest stated on the Railway Judgement debt will be taxed next year
Gives tonnage rates for wheat coal and flour handled at Bristol Road
Repeating the tonnage rates quoted in 302
Gives the price offered for a Canal Share, including current dividend
Discusses tonnage and wharfage rates for stone and coal
(see previous letter) Gives further details on wharfage charges
Discusses procedure and cost of transfer (of Canal share, see 303) A power of attorney for Mr Jones is needed.
Asks for return of agreement with Thames & Severn Canal Co respecting tonnages and with Nailsworth Railway respecting sidings on Stonehouse wharf
Encloses a share transfer document for completion and return
Committee decline to contribute to your fund
Committee agree to your use of a pen on Wallbridge wharf on stated terms
Committee wish you to review your bill with reference to a previous resolution of the Committee
Encloses a share certificate, delayed because the insurer was away from home
Sends payment for water rate, says payment again made under 'protest' [underlined]
Encloses Messrs Webb's bill for two oak beams for Walk Bridge with Committee's thanks for them
Encloses cheque for one quarter's salary and requests a receipt
Encloses copy of the day's Committee minutes respecting your bill
Encloses cheque for Tithes due to Rev S Peters on 1st October. Receipt requested.
Dudbridge & Stroud Railway: proposed Bill to be considered by the Committee when additional information is provided.. Committee reserves right to oppose the Bill if they think it desirable
Acknowledges receipt of Railway and canal Bills viz Dudbridge & Stroud Railway; Severn & Wye Railway & Canal & Severn Bridge Railway Companies; Thames & Severn Canal Co; Sharpness Dock Co
Reduce expenses wherever possible: Perry to stop work for a month or two
Wharf House, Dudbridge in poor condition: Please redecorated and empty filthy closet
Orders to attend to reported dangerous state of Lodgemore swing bridge
Acknowledges your report of a dangerous state of Lodgemore swing bridge; will attend to this
Will not pay for alterations to Eastington Yard House. Please present new bill for the remainder.
Meeting deferred until report on Railway and Canal Bills is received from Mr Kearsey: Mr Marling to get half-yearly report of Thames & Severn Canal Co to 28 Sept 1878 for Mr Kearsey.
Meeting deferred until report on Railway and Canal Bills is received from Mr Kearsey
Meeting deferred until report on Railway and Canal Bills is received from Mr Kearsey
Meeting deferred until report on Railway and Canal Bills is received from Mr Kearsey
Meeting deferred until report on Railway and Canal Bills is received from Mr Kearsey
Submit list of work for paddle and frame for Lodgemore. Get rent from E. Woore & J. Copman?
Will supply mud as requested when the mud boat is at work in the near future
Asks for help in relieving distress of boatmen frozen in the canal. Plans to make soup.
[see 320] Committee decline payment for extra work at Eastington Canal house as work was between Harpers and Mr Clissold?. Please present account for the ceiling at the Ship Inn when work is complete.
Thanks for Sharpness Dock Co report and donation (see 325) Wants Thames & Severn Canal Co half yearly report ending September last for Mr Kearsey's report on the Canal and Railway bills.
Requested to stop water running from the mill and damaging the towpath
Please provide poles for my men to repair the fence from mill to the clapgate; also put cesspool of closet on bank in order, as currently draining into the canal
Your request concerning the tenancy of the house at Bristol Road wharf, currently occupied by Mrs Critchley to be considered at the next meeting of the board
Maps and a copy of a tonnage agreement left at your office. Details of share certificate 61.
Owner of share 61 accepts £92. Mr Davies to have the dividend due 1st May next. Papers ready for signature in a few days
Have received letter concerning tonnages and a cheque. Receipt enclosed.
Have received your letter concerning T&S Canal Bill and sent it to Mr Kearsey who will contact you.
May I visit tomorrow to show the entry of the two shares in the Register Book
Letter from Mr Thomas Marling enclosed about clause 45 in G&B Canal Bill inserted in T&S Canal Bill to prevent them turning the canal into a railway. Please send a copy of the clause.
see 334 Your letter re. The T&S Canal Bill has been forwarded. I have received a letter from Messrs Wilton & Riddiford about the same clause
Your letter re tonnages will be laid before the committee next Thursday
Cannot see you tomorrow as with Mr Kearsey. Inspect slip at Framilode instead; take measurements of water depth and report to Mr Beard. The king post of Mr Marling's swing bridge is broken. Send our pattern to Vick & Co and inform Mr Marling.. I enclose cheques for Webb & Spring and Mr Mastin - please pay them. Come on Saturday by the usual train.
Letter re tonnages not brought forward as insufficient numbers to hold a meeting
Mr Marling promises to get information required re petitions and to write to me tomorrow.
I enclose £92 cheque for share 61. Request receipt and share certificate by return post.
I enclose share certificate for share 61 as acknowledgement of cheque of £92 for the purchase
I have received share certificate no.61 and receipt for the cheque of £92
Please remove your stores put out on the wharf at Framilode which Mr Fallows reports are in the way of traffic
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
Alterations to the Thames & Severn Canal Cos. Bill and Mr Kearsey's observations will be considered by the Committee at next Thursday's meeting. Important you attend as course to be taken must be decided.
I enclose copy of a minute re. Thames & Severn Canal Co Bill, passed at today's committee meeting
I enclose your salary cheque for £10.8.0 due 25th Mar. Please send receipt
Mrs Critchley's notice to give up the tenancy of the house and garden at Bristol Road and your application for it have been accepted. An agreement will be drawn up
[from G H A Beard, chairman, his holograph] Informal meeting today has concluded unanimously that it is useless to proceed with opposition to the Thames & Severn Canal Co Bill. Those present form a majority of the Committee and I instruct you to withdraw the petition at once. A resolution to this effect will be passed at the next formal meeting.
Enclosed bill shows that your cheque is £1.0.9 less than the amount due. Please send balance as cheque or cash
I return your bill for one year's road repairs to the Canal bridge ending March 1879 as agreement made by the Committee in August 1878 covers the year ending Sept 1879. Receipt for rent enclosed
Notice of quarter year's rent for land at Saul overdue: if not paid by next Monday, will be referred to Mr Kearsey, the Company's Solicitor
Please send £1.17.3 balance of account for year ending March. If not paid it will be taken from tonnage money.
Mr Fallows reports that last week you fixed your barge to the handrail of the top gate at Westfield lock contrary to the law, despite repeated advice. Committee imposes a 10s fine to be paid within seven days or full penalty of £2 will be enforced by summons.
A resolution passed at yesterday's board meeting requires that in future, in view of the inconvenience caused by non-payment of your account, it should be paid monthly.
You were undercharged £1.6.0 in last quarter's bill for coal delivered to Stafford's Mill but only charged to Dudbridge. Please pay as early as you can and bring any further inaccurate charges to my notice.
We are not empowered by the Act to charge for vessels lying in the canal but we can give notice for their removal by a given date on penalty of a charge. Mr Kearsey is ill and unlikely to attend to business so I think the matter had better drop.
(see 353) Please reply to my letter of 23 April
Cheque for £1.0.9 received in part payment of balance owing for tonnage. 16s 6d is due.
Please report on progress with bridge for Board meeting tomorrow. O Cam to provide cost of labour to be added to paysheet with particulars so that total cost is presented in one account. Add your fortnight's charges to this account. Have date put on bridge thus: 1879.M. (the M standing for May.)
Request you attend Canal Inspection on 10th June from Canal Yard Eastington to Framilode
Herewith 17s 10d for poor rate demanded today per Mr Fallows. It is paid under protest.
I have authority to put up fence at Clarks and bottom gates for Blunder lock; prepare necessary materials. Also to purchase oak, elm, larch, Baltic fir, pitch pine and deals and will arrange to inspect them. Prepare for inspection from Eastington Yard to Framilode on 10th June
I enclose cheque, please hand in and send receipt. Will call next week to select pitch pine, deals and Baltic and hope to see you.
Your application for a weighbridge at Eastington wharf will be brought before the next meeting for settlement
Our yard at Eastington will be ready for the timber any time after 2nd June. Only 500 ft required.
Thames & Severn Canal Co will shortly have timber from Price & Co's yard for this company which must pass on the G&B Canal "tonnage free"""
Tuesday 10th June fixed for Survey of the canal from Eastington to Framilode, starting 11am. Please attend
I require a few old Railway metals, the longest you have. Please let me know the cost as soon as possible.
If available, I would like use of your steam dredger for about two months. Please advise cost of same including driver and all stores except coal for my Committee to consider next Thursday
Boundary wall at Wallbridge in a very poor condition. Supported by struts but these are in the way of your tenants and further action is needed. Please could you consult your deeds to determine whether it belongs to you or the Company
If available, my Company would like use of your steam dredger for about two months. Please advise cost of same, you providing driver and our Company all stores and coal. You could deliver her to Stourport or Worcester and I could send for her. Request early reply.
If we hire your dredger, can you send a competent man to drive and take charge of the engine with her.
Please inform me where your steam dredger is at work
Please come to take the measurement for the new strut for the Wallbridge crane, as the work is to be done at once.
Cheque value £10.8.0 is enclosed for your salary to 24th of this month. Please send receipt.
Committee thanks you for your letter. As they have no experience of steam dredging, would prefer you to set the charge. If it is easier we will find stores and coal and only hire man and boat and would pay all expenses from Stourport to Stroud and back.
Re your request for a reduction in tonnages, my Committee feels this would require consideration and that at present they cannot make a reduction.
We are considering installing a weighbridge at our Eastington wharf large enough for a cart 4 ft x 5ft 6" and would require you to fix it all complete. Please send a man to look at the place. The nearest station is Stonehouse on the Midland Railway"
Please call tomorrow re work to be done at one of our cottages at Downfield and the alterations at Eastington Cottage
Boundary Wall Wallbridge. Mr Little will inspect the deeds to clarify ownership. The wall is in a dangerous state well supported with props but they are over the path to the garden.
Share certificate No. 134 was sent from Kearsey & Co to Messrs J & H Livett, Solicitors, Bristol on 10th August 1874.
Please enter Price & Co's bill for Baltic fir, enclosed. The bricklayer working here leaves at 5.00pm - is that correct? Please get Stonehouse wharfage from Mr Critchley as soon after 24th as you can, also the poor rates from the tenants at Framilode.
Please estimate for the Bridge and fixing only. Excavating can be done by the Company and we have men and materials to construct the brickwork and frame under the direction of your man.
Please proceed with the work at Eastington Canal yard on the terms submitted yesterday. Inform me of date so that I can have men and materials ready.
Respecting the tonnage charges above Butler's bridge, please refer to the resolution sent to you 26 Apr 1864 and your reply 09 May 1864.
After trouble with Mr Stephen's tonnage payments, in future he will pay monthly. I will deal with his tickets as I do with Mr Field's and give empty passes down and you can send any you have returned along with Mr Field's.
In Nov 1848 Share No. 56 was transferred to Miss Mary Salt. Are you the person holding the share and is it Miss or Mrs Mary Salt.
The wall at my house is in a dangerous state and I dare not move the props. Mr Little has written to Mr Biddell: nothing can be done until ownership of the wall is determined. Neither I nor the other tenants complain of the props. Please bring the key of the seal box next Thursday
Please make tickets out to Port Mill or Butlers Bridge Wharf and not just to Brimscombe.
Re: Division of tolls on coal between Stroud and Brimscombe. I enclose a copy of my Committee's resolution on this matter
A few days after receiving your letter, the Sharpness Dock Co offered us the use of their steam dredger and as it is much closer to Stroud than yours the committee have accepted it. Thanks for your kindness and trouble.
You can send the timber I saw on these conditions: the big tree at 2s 9d per ft, and the other at 2s 6d per ft, cheque to be drawn for payment on 29th Oct next. If the small tree does not open [illegible] make an allowance.
In reply to yours of 21st, the statement made by Maslin to you is not true.
I enclose share certificate No.134 made out in the name of Miss F. R. Duddin
I have received your bill for the stone and will send a p.o.o. For the amount when I have seen and measured them. We hear they are still at Lydney. Please send them via a barge coming this way, one of Shepstone's or [illegible]
I have received the weighbridge and sent it to Eastington Yard. My bricklayer is engaged in work he cannot leave for one or two weeks. I will let you know when you can send your man to start work.
This Co's mud boat will start work at Wallbridge next Wednesday. Please send yours to join in the mudding as arranged.
I have received your letter re hire of steam barge. Where and when can we meet on Monday?
Dredger at work shortly. Can you get permission for us to deposit mud in the meadow beyond Brooks
I have instructed Peyton to send the steam dredger to Wallbridge Monday next to commence work. I enclose the agreement for hire signed by Mr Beard, Chairman
I enclose cheque for £10.8.0, being a quarter year's salary due 29th. Please send receipt.
A special meeting of the committee with the T & S committee will be held at the Wallbridge office on Tuesday 20th to confer on questions between the companies. Please attend if possible bringing relevant papers.
A special meeting of the committee with the T&S committee will be held at the Wallbridge office on Tuesday 20th at the request of Mr Potter to confer on questions between the companies.
A special meeting of the committee with the T & S committee will be held at the Wallbridge office on Tuesday 20th at the request of Mr Potter to confer on questions between the companies.
A special meeting of the committee with the T&S committee will be held at the Wallbridge office on Tuesday 20th at the request of Mr Potter to confer on questions between the companies.
A special meeting of the committee with the T & S committee will be held at the Wallbridge office on Tuesday 20th at the request of Mr Potter to confer on questions between the companies.
