1903-1909
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/11
Letters written by William James Snape between August 1903 and March 1909
Complaining about water running off the road and across the wharf [at Ryeford?]
10s charge for sheep washed in the canal near Stonepits Bridge. Your father paid 2s 6d for the towpath gate.
If no reply to my letter of 12 August by Monday next, I will have to consider prosecution.
As you are acting for owners of land at Whitminster aqueduct, please prevent water washing away the bank by the wing walls of the aqueduct which is likely to endanger the structure.
Committee decided that if the two young men Tombs and Lord write an apology, it would meet the case.
Mr Vick (now of Cambridge) says it was you who washed sheep near Stonepits Bridge - please pay 5s
Mr Vick (now of Cambridge) says it was you who washed sheep near Stonepits Bridge - please pay 5s
The aqueduct is 666 yards east of the bridge & lock, and the piling is required on the south side of the canal.
Enclosing share certificates 9, 21, 90 & 104 in your name.
Thanking you for your letter.
Please join me at Ryeford one morning to see the sewerage problem we are complaining about
Acknowledge letter. Will refer matter of aqueduct to meeting of the committee next month.
Money order for £3.4.8 enclosed and please enter Interest of 12s 2d on Cape of Good Hope stock.
Acknowledging receipt of letter. Will refer matter to the Directors at their next meeting.
Our repairs to the aqueduct were completed before the flood. Your other work must now be finished.
The committee have carefully considered the matter of the flooding .It is not our liability. Your lands have always been subject to flooding.
Instructed to forward complaint from captain of Trow Reliance who experienced serious delays due to running off of water in Whitminster Level.
Complaint by Captain of Trow ‘Reliance’, water in Shallow lock was so low due to drawing at Sharpness he had to use a windless, and then came to a dead stop. This has happened 2 or 3 times last month.
Please forward list of assorted iron items.
No urgency for specific item you mention; repairs are still ongoing.
Sending duplicate dividend warrant. Please acknowledge.
Sending duplicate dividend warrant. Please acknowledge.
Sending duplicate dividend warrant. Please acknowledge.
Duplicate dividend warrants have been issued to Rev A H Stanton, Mrs H Ruegg & Miss M J Hallewell
Original dividend warrant has been paid through the bank. Please return the duplicate.
Please return enclosed document and show how the sum of £448 is assessed.
Dividend paid in April was free of tax..
You have sent more angles than I ordered.
Enclosing dividend warrant sent to Miss Hallewell which has passed through your bank..
Certain shares are in the name of W H Harford deceased. The last selling price was £55 each.
Dispersal of shares held by Messrs Harford and Miles now both deceased
Dividend to be paid to the bank you nominated.
Requires reply from Mr Jones to letter regarding Shallow Lock.
Enclosing quotation for stone from Clee Hill & Rowley Regis Quarry Co. Also documents re liability for repair of gates of Shallow Lock.
Refers to the Will of Mr Harford requiring allocation of Shares and Dividends; this must await meeting of the Committee
Receipts for through traffic to and from the T&S Canal were £444.2.11
Refers to the Will of Mr Harford, the share certificates are to hand.
Refers to burial certificate and probate for Messrs Miles and Harford
Find enclosed probate for W H Harford will.
Share certificates of W H Harford enclosed.
Signed Registration Form enclosed.
The canal is not a ship canal and has no docks. In the last 30 years no accidents have occurred to any person
Dividend warrant to the value of £12 sent to London and Smith Bank, Bristol, for the Executor of W H Harford.
Please supply details of the proceedings of the Docks Regulations Enquiry. The company should be given this.
Leakages of liquid manure are occurring from sheds near Stonehouse bridge. Please arrange to stop this.
Trouble in the banks of the canal. They need securing. James Powell will come down tomorrow to help
Please got to Framilode tomorrow and help Pocket repair canal banks.
Authority filled out and enclosed.
There are no tenders submitted for the Rowley Stone. I enclose some prices and can get Arklow stone delivered.
Canal bridges are constructed to carry only ordinary traffic. Altering them for an increased load would be serious.
The canal is in good working order, and no further improvements are contemplated.
My inspector reports that you deposited road rubbish on Dudbridge Wharf. Who instructed this? Stop it.
Gates to Shallow Lock Whitminster. I will raise this matter with the Committee.
You must stop the run-offs from your shed entering the canal, or I shall report the matter to the Committee.
Your car men have damaged the Gas Works swing bridge by using skids under the wagon wheels. Stop it.
Whitminster Shallow Lock – the gates may need attention to make the lock effective.
Enclosed Stroudwater Navigation share certificates numbers 23 24 25 and 27
Enclosed Stroudwater Navigation share certificates numbers 28 29 30 and 95
Enclosed M O for £3.17.8 to be placed on deposit. Please return the Pass Book.
The toll charged for all classes of goods is 8d per ton. Please send cheque to settle account.
Newspaper cutting regarding toll reduction is wrong. Toll is still 8d a ton, except stone which is 4d per ton.
Letter re Shallow Lock will be placed before the committee at next meeting.
Acknowledges decision to raise the water and bank level of Whitminster lock by 6”, but would have preferred more. Care and repair will fall to my company.
Your request to reduce the rent on the warehouse has been rejected by the committee.
Your request to use the towing path to Meadow Mill by the postman on his bicycle has been turned down.
Your request to establish a bathing platform by Hilly Orchard Bridge has been turned down. But if a more suitable site for a platform is found the Committee will make a charge for their permission.
Enclosing cheque for £300 to be placed to Dividend A/C
What would be your charge for a bound book with 200 leaves like the one supplied to us in 1895 as a Minute Book?
Please supply book labelled Minute Book 8
I enclose statement of accounts for the year ended 31st March.
Whitminster Lock and Pound. Will be pleased to meet Mr Jones at any time.
What quantity of land do you require at Stonehouse and what arrangements have been made for payment of rent?
Your application to reduce the toll on coal to Stanley Mill has been rejected.
My Committee agree to rent you 25 sq yards of land at Stonehouse Wharf @ 1s per yard per annum. They were disappointed you did not want 100 yards as you mentioned in your letter. 50 yards would make the rent worth collecting and give you accommodation and enable you to empty the oil tanks and dunnage. We will have to draw up an agreement so you might as well have the 50 yards.
My Committee have agreed on a rate of 3d per ton for Staffordshire Coal. Other tolls are shown.
I am allowing Mr Barnard to put an 1 or 1.5 inch water pipe over Ebley Canal bridge. Please advise when this work is to take place. I will send an inspector.
If Miss M Asbury has authorised you to sign for her and the Bank accepts it, you can sign the Dividend Warrant.
A culvert has given way at this end of the canal and there will be have to be a stoppage.
The Committee will consider your request re the Steam Launch. The charge for a rowing boat is 10d per annum.
I acknowledge the receipt of £3-19-6.
I am told that shortage of water in Framilode Pound has prevented Severn Bridge coming up. Is this correct?
Please supply oak planks as per the attached order.
We intend to close the canal at Saul and Wallbridge from July to August.
Once again you have been washing your sheep in the canal. Please pay 10s or our solicitors will be notified.
I enclose your letter with the points we agreed regarding Whitminster lock signed by the Chairman.
The last document sealed was the Electric Lighting Provisional Order on 21 Jul 1903. I sent you the key. Please search again for this key.
I showed your letter to the Committee. Use of the Steam Launch on the canal would be charged at 3s per month.
At our last committee meeting it was suggested that many of the materials that are required for your gas works could be conveyed by canal. Please suggest this to your Board
We acknowledge receipt of your 5s but the charge is 10s per annum. This is what you paid last year. It was divided between you and Mr Shires. Please refrain from washing you sheep in the Canal.
We have reduced the toll on coal to Cirencester to 3d per ton. Your toll will be reduced by 1d for the rest of the year. The through toll will be 2s 9d as a trial for the rest of the year.
My committee will not accept less than 10s for washing your sheep. Further washing will be regarded as trespass.
Owing to local opposition we cannot allow bathing in the Canal near the sewage works at Ebley. But we have set up a subcommittee which suggested a spot near the swing bridge near the corner of Ebley Mill.
My Committee have agreed that no meeting will be held next month.
My Committee have agreed that no meeting will be held next month.
Mr Ernest Brazington has applied to rent one of the cottages at Framilode. Will he make a suitable tenant?
I seek the sum of £1.19.0 for repairs to the Stonehouse Swing Bridge. We have several witnesses to say that your barge Reliance damaged the bridge. Failure to pay will result in court action.
Ely was supplied with Canal water for his private use. The other purpose would have to be considered by the Committee. For this urgent use there would be a charge of £1.1.0
The works were completed and the stoppage was over on Monday 8th.
I enclose a copy of the letter received from Borax Consolidated Ltd. You may be able to do something.
We are getting regular shipments of Boracite. Can you offer us a through rate and times from Liverpool to Stroud?
Could you please let me know your present and proposed through rates for coal to this and the Thames & Severn Canals.
I will bring before my Committee your request for Through Tolls.
When you are next in the district of Wallbridge please will you test the weights of our weighing machine.
I noticed that at the junction of our canal with the G&B Canal your wires cross the bed of our canal. Do you have any information about this? I will have to raise the matter with my Committee.
I will bring before my Committee your request for a water supply from the canal..
I shall bring this matter before my Committee.
I enclose our invoice of £1.19.0 for damage to Stonehouse swing bridge by the Reliance. I have sent this invoice three times to Herbert but he has returned them claiming they did not do the damage. But we know they did.
I enclose details on our through rates for stone from the Midlands.
Sir William Marling has asked the chairman to consider the question of through rates for stone from Staffordshire to the Thames & Severn Canal. It was agreed to reduce this to £3 per ton.
I refer to the matter of tolls regarding Littleton Colliery. I have received no information to my past correspondence.
I do not follow how you arrive at the charges you make on our balance sheets.
Inspector Hill tells me that you do not raise the sluices when leaving Ebley pound. Do not let it happen again.
Someone closed the gates of the Shallow lock. Please enquire how his happened.
