1941-1948
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/18
Letters written by Percy G Snape between September 1941 and August 1948
Re Workmen's Compensation Insurance. £6.17.6 cheque on A/c of Premium.
On 15 May a lorry laden with machinery you were supplying to Messrs Strachan & Co.
Company's cheque for 17s as per Remittance Card enclosed.
Salary cheque and details to 24 June for £7.15.6
General Half Yearly Meeting of Company Wednesday 3 July at 3.30 o'clock.
No objection to sump remaining. We take it you have cut off connection at the canal waterway. No flow can now pass to mill without our knowledge. Give us the name of owners of the mill premises.
Workmen's Compensation. Completed form giving wages for past year
Removal of two pill boxes Whitminster and Eastington. I return notice relinquishing the above from 19 May 1947
£1.1 0 cheque enclosed
Re your letter 5 August
Tree not removed as promised from canal at Ryeford. Obstructs water supply on canal
Re your letter 13 August
Re Framilode Bridge. Committee appreciate your kindness. Let them know your response. Copy to be sent to County Surveyor.
Continuation of p412. Copy of Engineer's Report of Inspection of Framilode Bridge.
Continuation of p412. Report continued.
Continuation of p412. Report continued.
Continuation of p412. Report .continued.
Covering letter enclosing copy of Inspection of Framilode Bridge by Chief Engineer of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal.
Income Tax Return Form sent to Company's auditors
Large number of insects through drought and hot weather may disappear. Similar trouble at Eastington. Use of chemical preparation would destroy fish and poison cattle. Could smell come from Council's sewage tanks at Ebley?
Return of your letter of 23 August. Form requested attached.
Difficulty in inspecting canal.
Thank you for £8.8.0 cash. I was unsure of your intended retirement. I have herd nothing from Gloucester & Berkeley Canal. Hope you and your wife live many years to enjoy your retirement.
Framilode Bridge. Re your letter 21 August
Framilode Swing Bridge. If you had any particular bridge in mind
Re Gas House Bridge. No objection to you widening bridge on the west side at Gas Co's expense
Quarter's salary to 29 September
Income Tax. 9s cheque
Re Canal Bridge at Saul. Your letter 9 October will be before Committee at their next meeting.
Pensions and Unemployment Insurance.
I should like Office phone extended to bedroom upstairs. Any changes in Agreement and when would you like to have the work done
Re your letter 21 October
Return of form re Unemployment Benefit Schemes.
Re your letter 9 October. Efforts being made to repair iron and planking. Company liable to maintain bridge for ordinary traffic at time it was constructed. Present day motor traffic unsuitable. Cause of present state of bridge.
Income Tax Return of Retirement Benefit Schemes. Form sent to Company's Auditors
Proposed dam constructed. Gloucestershire County Council has suggested removal of swing bridges at Wheatenhurst (Walk Bridge) and Saul. Class 111 roads and bus routes. Fixed bridges to be erected which would prevent any traffic on waterway. This canal not scheduled to be nationalised.
Offers for cottage occupied by your father and one adjoining occupied by S Meadows will be considered.
Committee will pay £6.2.6 which Mr Hopson informs me is cost of fixing tiled grate and will contribute that amount to total cost of grate.
Re your letter 2 November
Receipt for £3.11.4 Mr Hopson's price for grate only is £11
Thank you for letter 3 November re W Warner's appointment as Clerk at Junction Office.
Rent of wharf house at Stonehouse.
Re your letter 28 October. £2.12.2 cheque
Income Tax re George Holder. Cheque for 2s enclosed.
Your estimate of £9.3.6 re roof at Lock House at Framilode accepted.
Re Income Tax. Copy of employer's certificate re employees leaving.
Stonehouse Slip. Thank you for your letter 8 December. Navigation will be prepared to sell you land coloured pink on your plan. Before Committee for formal approval 17 December. Land freehold
Re your letter 13 October. Your offer of £400 for two cottages occupied by your father and Mr S Meadows accepted. Does not include small piece of garden ground on other side of canal.
Re Bridges at Saul and Whitminster. Ministry's reply to your proposal
Copy of Ministry of Transport's reply to letter 5th November enclosed with p451. County Council's proposal that two swing bridges crossing Navigation at Wheatenhurst and Saul should be replaced by fixed bridges and the Navigation piped.
Stonehouse Slip. Re your letter 12 December. Land can be sold with vacant possession. We do not wish to retain any rights over River Frome coextensive with land you propose purchasing.
Sale of cottages at Framilode. Land on opposite side of canal not included in sale. Reasonable rent on half yearly tenancy acceptable. Perhaps you will make an offer.
Rent A/c Wharf house at Stonehouse
Peachey from Stroudwater Navigation Co. Receipt of letter 13 December which will be handed to Company's solicitors
Your 543/36 ECB/FM is receiving attention.
Stonehouse Slip. Proposed purchase of land. Committee not prepared to accept offer of £10. £107 paid in 1890 for whole piece. £25 for about a fifth you wish to purchase.
Our suggestion that The County Council should take over the Navigation because several bridges carrying important roads would be under Council's control. Important that waterways should not become completely derelict and a menace to health. Council enabled to pass water from old Thames & Severn Canal in times of flood. Several owners of land bordering canal agree.
Demolition of Pillboxes Whitminster to Eastington. Messrs Holbrow & Sons Tetbury have demolished Pillboxes. Payment £75 as set out in your letter 29 May.
Your offer of £1 per annum for ground on other side of canal at Framilode accepted.
Stonehouse Slip. Land can be sold with vacant possession. In our own occupation. No question of tenants' rights. Understood that you will erect fences to divide this land from the rest.
Great Western Railway does not abut on to any of our property. Enclosed notice must refer to Thames & Severn Canal.
Wards Coal Wharf at Stonehouse. Re your letter 31 December this Company does not intend to claim for compensation re this Wharf.
Removal of Pillboxes at Whitminster and Eastington. Company's cheque for £75 enclosed.
Tithe Redemption Commission. Schedule & map deposited at Council Offices Stroud No.1324. Item appears to be situated next waterway of old Thames & Severn Canal & Gt Western Railway above Stroud
Tithe Redemption Commission Stroud. I shall be glad to have a reply to my letter.
Tithe Redemption Commission Stroud No.1324. Re your letter 12 January I send you a reply? with a tracing. Return circular re 1324 as requested.
General Half Yearly Meeting of Company Wednesday 28 January at 3.30 o'clock pm.
Tithe ...1946. Apportionment of Annuities Bisley & Stroud. Thank you for your letter 13th January. Before Committee 28th January.
Roving Bridge has been repaired. Let me have half year's rent
Thanks for your letter 15 January enclosing cheque for £4.4.0. No. 42 paid to end of last year. Re charges
Pillbox near canal at Whitminster. Pillbox does not stand on land belonging to this Company.
Tithe. Dudbridge Lockhouse - item 1047. Thank you for your letter 12 January re house property at Dudbridge Lock. Committee agree to tithe being redeemed voluntarily.
Income Tax. Please let me have a Monthly Tax Table for first period of 1948/49
Income Tax 1947- 48 ending 5/4/48. W R Bloxam
Ending of Tenancy Agreement between Company and yourself on Wharf at Dudbridge. Rent due £6.4.0.
Rent A/c. £11.13.4 due.
Fire Claim Stonehouse. Re your letter 30 April. On badvice of Company's Solicitors
Board of Trade. I enclose form re Consent? Of Production 1948
Notice 7 May re H S Hack forwarded to Auditors
I have informed Inspector of Taxes that Insurance Tax No. 089990 has been forwarded to you.
Bridge at Bristol Road. Your letter 26 May before Committee 16 June. Let me have elevation showing where pipe is to be fixed to bridge. Normal wayleave charge £2.subject to agreement prepared by solicitors
Receipt of Certificate for £381.4.2 3.5 per cent War Stock in names of Trustees purchased with proceeds of cottages at Framilode.
Rent due for wharfhouse at Stonehouse Nov
Income Tax 089990 H S Hack
Copy of letter from County Surveyor. I have agreed to proposed hearing. You might wish to attend.
Re your letter 16 June. Date and time are convenient.
Copy of letter from County Surveyor enclosed. I have agreed to proposed meeting. you might wish to attend.
Employers Liability Policy. Cheque for £6.17.6 enclosed.
Crossed out. See 493 O.
You have wood logs for sale. Please quote for two tons delivered to 13 Wallbridge
Canal Wharf at Stonehouse. Re your letter 17 June
Re your letter 12 June
Income Tax. Cheque
Receipt of your letter 25 June. I enclose copy of Navigation's letter 20 December to County Surveyor. Next Half Year Committee Meeting Faded
Audit of A/c. General Meeting of Company fixed for Wednesday 28 July at 3.30 o'clock pm.
Asst. No.089988 J A Spinner. Notice 23 July sent to Company's Auditors
