1889-1895
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/9
Letters written by William James Snape between June 1889 and December 1895
Let me know when your vessels leave St Mawes so that I can arrange for barges to be at the Junction.. Tell Mr Kendall not to interfere again.
As there is a demurrage charge at the Junction could the stone be put on shore if the barges were not there and fetched when needed?
The Bridge must be finished before anything else is done. The office is to be left
Inaccuracies in May account of charges to 'Perseverance'.
James Smart has applied for drawback on tonnage for manure.
Thank you for Mr Kendal's explanation. I have arranged for barges to meet the 'Emperor'. I enclose account for stone carried.
The tonnage on the stone you carried will be charged to you.
No room for your coal on Ryeford Wharf as Mr Hathway is expecting a load. Try Mr Long?
The towing path between Double Locks and your timber yard is cracked as there has been no water in the brook for some time; will you be able to fill the brook soon
Unaware of a problem at Whitminster Lock but will have it examined.
How much coal did the 'Endeavour' carry?
I saw no problem at Whitminster Lock but propose to make sluice boards deeper.
The Chairman has been elected as Trustee of Gloucester Harbour order.
Come down to settle your account and give particulars of drawback requested for wheat.
Do not turn your donkeys out on to the towing path at Ryeford or risk a summons.
Please attend to water running off the road at Ryeford Bridge and carrying drift into the Canal.
Do not turn your donkeys out on to the towing path at Ryeford or risk a summons.
Do not turn your donkeys out on to the towing path at Ryeford or risk a summons.
Your application for Clerk of the Junction was considered by the Committee; you will hear in due course.
Fredericks approved by Committee as Clerk at the Junction but we cannot contribute more than 10s per week to pay due to state of trade.
Reminder to fulfil promise to put in catch pits at Stonehouse, Ryeford and Ebley before Winter.
Enclosing cheque for late husband's salary. Has Mr Fredericks started work and is your son instructing him? CANCELLED BY ORDER OF CHAIRMAN.
Returning demand notes for poor rate and sewage charge and requesting corrected ones as well as particulars of what was paid by previous owners.
Enclosing cheque for cement.
Do not allow any vessel to pass off Canal through the Junction unless the Captain has ticket or pass.
Enclosing bill for rent due and account for work done at Stonehouse. Have not had a reply re catch pits.
Bristol Road Lock is leaky so that if a vessel passes up at night and the top gates are left open the Eastington pound is almost empty next morning . Could you send your diver and I will send my carpenter?
Please reply to my letter re catch pits before my next Committee meeting. Please pay rent due.
Do the work at Ocean Bridge and the fence at Dudbridge. Any stone needed for Stonehouse, Eastington and Bristol Road Bridges?
Enclosing bill for damage done to Eastington Top Lock. If you do not pay we shall enforce fine for only having two persons with the barge rather than three when the damage was done.
Enclosing cheque for subscription to Canal Association.
Will not press for excess tonnage owed this time but in future captain will be fined each time he enters canal without giving correct tonnage.
Tonnage to be paid on Friday; your Captains must tell clerk when stone is carried [short of Brimscombe] for which the toll is 6d/ton or I will summons them.
Call at the City Surveyor's Office and enquire for my son who will hand you £1 for your services as Clerk at the Junction from 29 September to 9 October.
Keep the house aired; repairs to be done by you; have the premises cleaned, painted and papered; replace broken weight on weighing machine bar.
Enclosing cheque for £2-2-0 as one year's subscription to the Stroud Hospital.
Give the key to Mr Martin who has signed the tenancy agreement for Dudbridge premises.
Enclosing cheque for salary.
Please settle tonnage account and also to Thames & Severn Canal Co.
Enclosing form of receipt for salary; ten days deducted as paid to E Peyton before you took over.
Water pipes on Dudbridge Canal Bridge still leaking, washing out mortar and weakening the bridge. Please repair this and footpath at once.
Enclosing cheque for Income Tax.
Enclosing Post Office Order for Income Tax.
Enclosing cheque for tithe rent for Eastington Parish.
Your trow 'Seabreeze' was navigated on the canal with less than three men against Company Bye Laws; please come before the Committee to explain or you will be summonsed to enforce payment of full penalty.
I can't say when we shall have a stoppage but we usually give a few weeks notice; I shall let you know. Please bring the catch pits to the attention of Mr Phillips.
If your rent is not paid this week I shall put it into the County Court.
You can have a copy of the report on the state of the Thames & Severn Canal if you pay for it to be written out.
I should like to see you before you start work on the walls and gates.
Please attend to whitewashing of pantry and stable-office at Dudbridge according to agreement.
Enclosing cheque for salary.
Giving quarter year's notice for water to engine boiler at Ebley.
Please pay increased charge for washing sheep to which no alteration can be made. Your notice to stop taking water from the canal is accepted. Please make good damage to dipping place.
You will have to give one year's notice for water to the engine boiler at Ebley.
Dividend of 25s per share to be paid on 1st May; shares worth £55 each.
I am informed you refuse to pay the 10s rent for washing sheep. If not paid in a few days it will be put to the Company's solicitors.
Committee considered your letter as notice to terminate and therefore six month's rent due.
You can deposit 100 tons of refuse lime at the mud tip at Stonehouse at 1s 6d per ton.
Re The Ship Inn: Committee regrets proposed terms for continued tenancy and are not disposed to incur the cost.
Cheque to be drawn at next committee meeting for tithe to Eastington Parish.
Enclosing receipt for cheque. If you wish to discontinue washing your sheep you will have to give half year's notice.
When houseboat 'Wherry' leaves, charge 6d per week going back 18 months. Charges for pleasure boats generally 10s
Stroudwater Canal shares sold at £72 each. Small dividend last half-year as Canal closed for 6 weeks by severe frost; trade now improving.
Enclosing cheque for tithe ending March 1891. What is there to pay for the summons re George Lewis?
Permission granted to lay pipe under canal for water from Stroud Water Company to Bond's Mill at 2s 6d per annum. Canal inspection fixed for 1 June.
I don't think our list of tolls would be useful to you as incomplete, related to local trade. Revised list to be prepared but timber beyond Daventry is at 6d per ton and 4d all other goods.
You promised the assistance of P Perry in making bottom gates for Bristol Road Lock. NOT SENT
Re: Hawker's Trust - shares at £150 each.
I will send the carpenter so I can have full particulars of what you mean by 'small pieces' of oak.
Enclosing order for stone; please send it down to Lydney Basin; need the hardest stone as it is for lock groin work.
I will send the carpenter with this letter so you can supply the oak and will give an order after the stoppage.
Supply the stone as stated; send to the Basin and advise me when sent.
Notice of stoppage in August. Please send Philip Perry to Eastington Yard on Monday to assist in making the new gates.
Notice of stoppage at Bristol Road Lock in August to put in a pair of bottom gates and to reline the lock sides.
Last selling price of shares was £70 each.
Order of lime to be delivered at Midland Station, Stonehouse by 5th August at latest due to stoppage.
Order for 30 casks of best Portland cement to Stroud Great Western Railway to be delivered at the latest day so as to be fresh.
No timber arrived as promised and you are responsible for the inconvenience. Pray send the oak at once.
Enclosing probate of will of Joseph Watts Hallewell and of Henry Witworth Jones.
Enclosing cheque in settlement of account.
Enclosing tracing showing Stroud Water Co. intended water main at Eastington Canal Bridge.
Permission to lay water main 'outside' Eastington Canal Bridge upon usual payment of 70s per annum.
Your representative offered to take on the lease for the Ship Inn at Wallbridge. Let me hear from you so I can place your communication before the Chairman and the Co.'s solicitors.
Proceed with the Share Certificate Book but the cost must not exceed £5.
Enclosing cheque for salary.
Charge for pleasure boats from Junction to Wallbridge is 10s paid on entering Canal.
Let Mr Pitt borrow the pile driver monkey but record what he takes, its condition, the date, and get his man to sign for it.
Enclosing postal order for steel.
Acknowledging instructions to pay share dividend for Mrs Whitworth to Martins Bank.
Re Bathing in the Canal: let the boys off with a caution but I will write again after the Committee Meeting.
Detailing arrangements for stoppage due to work on Bristol Road lock.
Due to coming stoppage cannot spare men to attend to water in cellar of Bridge House at Ebley.
Strike the elm from the order as have got it from Webb & Spring, being pushed for time.
Have adjusted ticket for 4056. Charge excess tonnage on next voyage. Tonnage to be paid on bricks for Bristol Road lock for Company as it is included in the amount to be paid to W. Millard.
Applying for further extension to submission of revised classification and schedules under the Railway & Canal Traffic Act 1888.
Mr Broadhurst of Chesterfield claimed the three shares and dividend warrant handed over by Little & Mills and should have been paid into your bank account. Two shares sold, one to Messrs Skinner & Cartwright.
Enclosing share certificate made out to Messrs Skinner & Cartwright.
Enclosing cheque in settlement of account.
Enclosing registered probate of wills.
If your son Albert is caught bathing in the Canal again a summons will be taken out against him.
I enclose the letters I have written to the three boys you reported for bathing in the Canal at Stonehouse. Please deliver them with a caution.
If your son George is caught bathing in the Canal again a summons will be taken out against him.
If you are caught bathing in the Canal again a summons will be taken out.
The carpenter did not reject the wood because of a flaw but it was not the right size for lock gate use.
As the Employers Liability Act is so strict, be very particular as to the condition of all equipment you send to the stoppage.
W J P Marling and S S Marling have signed the Transfer Book re two shares.
The Committee considers the rent for the premises at Dudbridge to be very low considering their extent and canal facilities.
The Committee reject your offer to rent the Ship Inn, Wallbridge on a yearly tenancy. They have accepted another Brewer willing to take a lease for seven, 14 or 21 years.
Please return enclosed indemnity signed by Mr Hooper.
I do not think that you have reason to complain of the Committee having decided to let the Ship Inn on lease rather than accept your offer of a yearly tenancy.
Enclosing cheque for oak timber.
Complete and return the enclosed timesheet. The blacksmith must make up his lost hour or time stopped.
Enclosing a circular received regarding an extension of time needed to complete repairs to Bristol Road locks.
Enclosing cheque for carriage of 18,000 blue bricks from West Bromwich to Bristol Road lock.
Enclosing the signed grant of right to lay water pipes by the side of Eastington Canal Bridge by the Stroud Water Company.
Enclosing share certificates in name of Samuel Stanley Marling and William John Paley Marling.
Enclosing dividend warrant
I will ask my Chairman about the £5 cheque for Messrs Holmes and Co.
Repairs to Bristol Road lock completed yesterday afternoon and canal open to traffic.
The Committee placed the business with Mr Mills whom you will hear from shortly.
The work at Bristol Road lock was so far advanced as to enable me to run the water in shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and the canal is now open to traffic if your men have got the stank out at the Aqueduct.
Enclosing 18 share certificates in the name of C H Hooper.
Enclosing cheque in favour of Holmes & Co.
A trespass rent of 2s per annum payable in advance will be charged for the gate across the towing path near the Junction.
Enclosing cheque for salary.
Enclosing cheque for cement.
Enclosing cheque for bricks.
Enclosing cheque for bricks.
The men are willing to clear the mud out of the River Frome for a little extra pay. Could I hire or borrow two pairs of water boots?
Your company will be held responsible for any damage to Lodgemore Swing Bridge by your taking a boiler over it.
Your company will be held responsible for any damage to Lodgemore Swing Bridge by your taking a boiler over it.
I have discontinued your monthly credit account and the tolls will have to be paid before your boats pass off the Canal. You can apply for an account at a monthly Committee meeting.
Enclosing cheque for cement.
Enclosing cheque for oak.
I am not aware of our men having stopped up a drain at Whitminster nor of any drain carrying water off the road and under the Canal. If any water is damaging Mr Vick's grass it is up to him to complain and I would meet him on site. I call your attention again to the long-promised Catch Pits.
From 1st January 1892 you will be charged 1s per square yard for stacking coal on the Lower Wallbridge Wharf.
The drain under Bristol Road lock was to take water off the land and not the road. Ask Mr Vick to write to me and I shall meet him. If the water damages your road I will attend to it.
We have a meeting on Tuesday to discuss proposed classification of goods.
You have not cleared out the rubbish from the Canal as requested and the bargemen are complaining. Do it at once or I shall have it dredged out and charge you the expense. The Canal is very narrow at this point.
Enclosing cheque for Company's subscription.
The privy cesspool is just about flowing over into the Canal at Ryeford. Have it cleared out immediately.
A customer will take all I have at 1s 2d per bundle and cut himself. Let me know if you can give a little more and cut yourself.
I went to Bristol Road yesterday as arranged and was much annoyed you did not come. I shall be there again on Tuesday afternoon if convenient but don't want to make a fruitless journey.
Please remove the 'George' which has broken adrift and is stopping traffic entering the back brook to the Workhouse. You are responsible for any hold-ups. If it is not removed by the 31st I shall sell it.
Enclosing cheque for subscription to Stroud Hospital.
I will not pay your account for repairs to the weighbridge until it is correct (details given).
Have the barge docked at once and when floated will be charged at 6d per week and the same when leaving the canal. If she stays as now I shall advertise her for sale.
Please consider the matter of catch pits at Ebley and Stonehouse about which I have written to Mr Phillips over the past two years.
Acknowledging copy of Railway Rates and Charges and enclosing postal order for 3s 3d in payment.
I again return your account as it is incorrect (details given)
Enclosing cheque for salary.
