1946-1950
Gloucestershire Archives
Minutes from 17 April 1946 to 25 January 1950
Mr Blick was unable to quote for removal of Stonehouse swing bridge and Blockhouse.
Lock Cottage Dudbridge to be let.
Land at Wallbridge to be sold to Stroud Brewery.
No quorum.
Property at Dudbridge. Mr Bassett offered 5s a week rent, subject to Agreement of one or two years. Offer to be accepted but Clerk to see Mr Bassett with view to obtaining a better offer.
Wharfhouse at Wallbridge. Repairs W.C. Tenant complained about bad condition of walls and roof. Mr Hopson had carried out necessary repairs.
No quorum.
Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. Blockhouse and Swing Bridge. Mr Hopson to submit estimate for removal of Blockhouse and repairs to Swing Bridge.
Wallbridge Wharf. Use of Wharf by Public. Door at Lodgemore end of Wharf locked. Notice to be put up at Wallbridge end stating that premises are private. Mr Hopson to supply notice board and lettering.
Moorage at Whitminster. Mr Parker of Portdinerwin N Wales. 5s a week charge.
Overhanging trees at Downfield. Stroud Technical Schools. Copy of Mr Wiggall’s report and account £1 15.0, expenses incurred in removal of branch obstructing flow of water in canal, to be sent to Mr Gadsden, Clerk to Governors.
Blockhouses on Canal property at Whitminster and Eastington. Letter 3 June from War Department Lands Office, Bath. Chairman to settle a reply.
No quorum.
Sperry Gyroscope Co. Lt. No estimate from Mr Hopson for removal of Blockhouse and repair of Swing Bridge. Letter from War Office Lands Officer at Bath. Removal of Blockhouse by Navigation with and at cost of Ministry of Transport. Damage to bridge caused by traffic should be taken up with Sperry Gyroscope Co. or Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Wallbridge Wharf. Public Use. Notice. Mr Hopson to erect notice.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Letter from War Department Lands Office, Bath. Lands Officer to fix compensation as provided by Act of Parliament.
Wallbridge Office. Mr Hopson’s estimate of £35.6.0 accepted.
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received £377.4.10, Balance £203.0.2, Total £580.5.0. Wages £358 12 3. Balance £221 12 9. No dividend. £511.19.5 War Loan Stock value £526 1 0 and £183 .17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £709.18.8.
Committee: W R Bloxam, R J Caruthers-Little, Col J R Morton Ball, G W Morton Ball, G A Evans, M Stewart.
No quorum.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Letter to Lands Officer acknowledged.
Cuckolds Brook next Foundry Lock at Dudbridge. Letter from Mr Redler to Land Drainage Officer at Gloucester.
Wallbridge Offices. Decorating. Estimate of £13.15.0 accepted.
No quorum.
Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. Blockhouse and Swing Bridge. Messrs Sperry suggested inspection of bridge re damage done during their use. Iron swing pole could not be located. Company to give estimate for a replacement. T H & J Daniels to inspect.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Compensation. Clerk to reply to letter from Lands Officer, Bath. suggesting £1.0.0.
No quorum.
Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. Blockhouse and Swing Bridge. Daniels Co. unable to inspect bridge. Clerk to get in touch with King & Co. Newmarket.
Cuckolds Brook. Culvert, Mr Redler. Culvert clear, Navigation not responsible for overflow or flooding. Company has no right to go on land on his side of culvert.
Whitminster. Water from the Canal, Mrs Best. Agreement 25 September 1940. If she has pipe removed and bank of canal made good prior to 25 March, Company will repay her £2.12.0, half a year’s rent.
Stroud Metal Co. Water supply from canal at Dudbridge discussed. Clerk to obtain further information.
No quorum.
Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. Mr King, Newmarket could see nothing wrong with bridge. He could not remove the blockhouse which prevented use of Swing Pole and bridge swinging down canal as designed. He suggested that a pole be fixed on opposite side, making bridge swing up canal. Things might be allowed to remain as at present. No trade passing over canal. Blockhouse partly on canal property. No rent paid. Now used by Admiralty for Police Guard. No action to be taken at present.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Visit by War Department Lands Officer of Bath.
Stroud Metal Co. Letter and plan submitted by Metal Company.
Framilode Swing Bridge. Badly needing repair.
Marling & Evans. Use of towing path next Ebley Mills. Renewal of 1936 arrangement. £2.10.0 a quarter
Stonehouse Wharf. Tenancy Admiralty. Released from requisition 28 October 1946.
No quorum.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Messrs Holbrow of Tetbury to visit and submit estimate.
Messrs Marling & Evans agreed to £2 10 0 for use of Towing Path at Ebley.
Stonehouse Wharf Sale, Mr Rowell. No sale at present.
No quorum.
Property at Bristol Road. Mr Hopson to repair chimney on cottage occupied by Mr Bailey.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Kitchen grate to be replaced.
Canal bank at Stonehouse piled and sheeted by Canal Company labour.
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received £430 3.2, Balance £221.12.9, Total £651.15.11. Wages £345.11.8. Balance £306.4.3. No dividend. £511.19.5 War Loan Stock, value £526.1.0. £183.17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £709.18.8.
No quorum.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Messrs Holbrow of Tetbury to communicate with Committee.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Mr Hopson to inspect grate and submit estimate.
Wallbridge Office. Rooms decorated by Mr Hopson.
No quorum.
Blockhouses at Whitminster and Eastington. Messrs Holbrow’s estimate for demolition sent to War Department Land Agent at Bath. Inspection to be arranged.
Framilode Bridge repair. Letter from Mr Cookly, Clerk of Fretherne with Saul Parish Council.
Mrs Best. Water supply from canal at Whitminster. Mrs Best had sold Parklands to Mr Davies. He would continue arrangement with Company and pay rent.
Flood. Heavy flooding of canal waterway 13 March.
Canal Offices, Wallbridge. Recent floodwater in cellar from Thames & Severn Canal. Towing Path needed repair. Damage in recent gale to Lockhouses and Wharfhouse at Dudbridge, Dockhouse at Eastington, Lockhouse at Framilode, Wallbridge Offices, Warehouse at Wallbridge, Wharfhouses at Bristol Road, Whitminster. Necessary repairs to be carried out.
Garage at Stonehouse Wharf. Letter from Mr Hack. In view of rent, proposed repairs and alterations too expensive. Work could be done at his own cost.
No quorum.
Property Bristol Road Wharf. Chimney and roof. Fracture in end wall of house letting in rain to bedroom. Mr Hopson to attend to repairs. Window frames and whole house need attention.
Canal property damaged by recent gales. Clerk had visited properties with Mr Hopson.
No quorum.
Stroud Metal Company. Water Supply at Dudbridge. Supply through 3” pipe, annual rent £30, payable. Agreement at cost of Metal Company.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Spinner to rent portion of Wharf and lean-to shed west of garage premises for two years, £50 a year. Agreement at his expense.
Canoe on Canal. P L Gladstone Smith allowed to pass with canoe over Canal from Junction at Saul to Wallbridge at his own risk and peril, not using locks or bridges.
Eastington Park. Letter sent to Mrs D J de L Bush re trees on her land overhanging the canal between top lock at Newtown and Pike Lock at Eastington.
No quorum.
Framilode Bridge repairs completed. Opened to traffic 13 June.
No quorum.
Tree across Canal at Ryeford. Mr Pearce promised his attention. Nothing done.
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received 3416.0.4, Balance £30.4.3, Total £72.4.7. Wages £414.16.7, Balance £307.8.0. No dividend. £511.19.5 War Loan Stock value £526.1.0, £183.17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £709.18.8.
Committee: W R Bloxam Chairman, Major R J Caruthers-Little, Col J R Morton Ball, G W Morton Ball, G A Evans, M Stewart.
No quorum.
Framilode Bridge. Mr Perry’s report received.
Stonehouse Wharf. Rates payable by Mr Skinner and Mr Hack. Mr Spinner thought arrangement included rates.
Lodgemore Culvert. Messrs Strachan, 15 August, warned Company that they would draw their Mill Pond at Lodgemore Mill and did so that night. Sluices against Painswick Stream failed to hold, water passed into Mill Pond from Canal through defective culvert under Canal. Level normal next day when sluices were lowered.
No quorum.
Framilode Bridge. Copy of Mr Perry’s report sent to County Surveyor. He presumed matter could be dropped but the Company should anticipate repairs on any other bridge carrying a public road over disused canal.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Spinner. Rates and Rent. No appointment made. He could appear before Committee if he wished.
Stroud Laundry Co. Canal at Ebley. Letter from Mr Horsfall.
Stroud Gas Light and Coke Co. Bridge next to Gas Works. Widening on west side. Permission requested to widen bridge next works at Downfield by four feet.
No quorum.
Saul and Walk Bridges. Elimination. Letter from County Surveyor. Committee to communicate with Ministry of Transport before replying.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Spinner-rent. £30 for first year of tenancy, £40 for second, £50 for third. Mr Spinner to pay rates.
Saul Bridge. Saul Parish Council. Letter from Sir Lionel E Darell. Deck planking shortly required. Ironwork needed attention.
Cottage at Framilode. Purchase. Mr Harold F Peachey to be asked to make an offer for the two cottages.
Cottage at Framilode. Mr W J Peachey. Repairs to be carried out. Chimney on cottage next door to be repaired.
Canal. Waste weir at Bristol Road to be repaired.
Towing Path Gates below Eastington. Occupiers of land adjoining towing path had fixed gates to prevent cattle straying. No action.
Intake at Ebley. Sluice gearing repaired.
Bristol Road. Property repairs. Chimneys and roofs on cottages repaired. Window frames and guttering in bad state of repair.
No quorum.
Saul and Walk Bridges. Communication with Ministry of Transport and County Council.
Dockhouse at Eastington. Mr Hopson’s estimate £6.2.6 for fixing grate accepted.
Cottages at Framilode. Mr Peachey’s offer of £400 for two cottages accepted, not to include small piece of garden ground on other side of canal.
Bristol Road Wharf. Cottages. Mr Hopson to repair windows and guttering.
Saul and Walk Bridges. Mr Hopson to replace worn deck planks and obtain licence for materials.
Junction Office. New clerk. Sharpness New Docks Co. had appointed Richard Warner in place of George Holder, retired.
Stroud Gas Light & Coke Co. New pipe in towing path. Permission granted.
Lockhouse at Framilode. Repairs. Lean to and roof. Estimate from Samuel Bradley & Son £9.3.6 accepted.
No quorum.
Agreements in hand. J A Spinner, Stroud Metal Co., L Bassett.
Cottages at Framilode. Sale Mr Peachey. £400 for two cottages, not including small piece of garden ground on other side of Canal, accepted.
London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. proposed purchase of portion of Navigation’s Mud Deposit Tip at Stonehouse. Railway Company offered ten pounds for land coloured red on plan. Navigation willing to sell. £107 for whole piece in 1890. Prepared to accept £25 for about one fifth of it. Railway Company to pay cost.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. G Palmer, tenant, in arrears with rent.
Framilode Cottages sold to M^r Peachey
No quorum.
Saul and Walk Bridges. Letter sent to County Surveyor.
Tithe Act 1946. Apportionment of Annuities – Bisley Stroud. Circular from Messrs Greville Heygate & Co. re No.1047 as per Schedule and Map on deposit at Council Office at Stroud. Lockhouses and garden ground at Dudbridge included, tithe nine pence per year. Tithe to be redeemed voluntarily.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Mr Palmer, tenant, still in arrears with rent.
Canal Dudbridge. Lockkeeper Wiggall intended to give up.ost at Dudbridge. His son had applied for post.
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received £424.1.3, Balance £307.8.0, Total £731.9.3. Wages £360.12.1, Balance £370.17.2. No dividend. £511.19.5. War Loan Stock value £526.1.0 and £183.17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £709.18.8.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Mr Palmer, tenant, had stated that arrears of rent would be paid when kitchen grate and glass lean-to had been repaired.
Saul and Whitminster Bridges repaired. Mr Hopson’s account £79.10.8.
Shallow Lock Bridge. Mr Hopson should replace several planks.
Bristol Road Lock. Temporary repairs of planking on bottom gates which would raise Bristol Road Pound to weir level.
Lockhouses at Dudbridge. Sale. Letter from Stroud Metal Plating Co. Ltd. Committee not disposed to consider sale at present time.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Mr Hopson had not completed repairs. Mr Palmer had sent in rent.
Coleman’s Bridge. Wing Walls etc. Guard walls needed attention. Mr Hopson to erect some temporary fencing.
Sale of two cottages at Framilode to Mr H F Peachey. Company’s Seal affixed to Conveyance.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Spinner permitted to erect temporary shed over his sawbench.
No quorum
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Repairs completed. Mr Palmer had not sent in rent, £11 13.4, due end of March. Application per registered post sent to him, 19 April.
Dudbridge Wharfhouse, Mrs Wood tenant, Flushing Box etc. Mr Hopson to carry out necessary replacement and repairs.
Eastington Dockhouse. Mr Hopson to carry out window repair.
Board of Trade. Census of Production 1948. Clerk to send forms to Mr Dudbridge.
Cottages at Framilode. Sale of two cottages to Mr H F Peachey completed. £390.14.6, proceeds of sale after deduction of legal charge. Purchase of War Stock in names of Trustees, Major R J Caruthers-Little, Col J R Morton Ball, M Stewart.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. Mr Palmer, tenant, had paid rent. £10 outstanding.
Stonehouse Wharf. Lean-to shed fire. Royal Insurance Co. had paid £20. Mr Hopson’s estimate of damage £28.
Canal at Newtown. Six inch pipe drain laid to canal from cottage at Newtown owned by Stroud Brewery Co. Clerk had outlet blocked.
No quorum.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Hopson to repair fire damaged lean-to shed. £20.
Coleman’s Bridge, Whitminster. Mr Hopson had erected some fencing.
Shallow Lock Bridge. Three beams fixed to undercarriage of bridge. Deck planking laid. Fit to carry farm traffic. Not now a swing bridge.
Double Locks Cottage. Repairs Lean-to roof.
Canal Offices Wallbridge. Outbuildings repairs.
Gloucester Corporation. Water Main at Bristol Road Bridge. No reply to Navigation’s letter.
General Half Yearly Meeting
Received £810.14.2, Balance £370.17, Total £1181.11.4. Wages £861.10.7, Balance £320.0.9. No dividend. £511.19.5. War Loan Stock value £526.1.0 and £183.17.8 National Defence Stock. Reserve Fund £1100.13.2.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse Stonehouse. G Palmer rent paid.
Canal Bridges. Meeting with County Surveyor and County Clerk. Council would not consider taking over canal. Concerned with improvement of certain bridges carrying much traffic.
Sewer crossing canal at Ryeford and Stonehouse. Proposed surface water sewer to canal at Stonehouse. Capital payment of £25 for each crossing. Surface water inlet too large for safety of canal banks. G W Morton Ball to write to Engineers.
Eastington Yard. Rates. Letter from rating officer. Graving Dock derelict and unusable. Buildings include a seldom used Carpenter’s and a Blacksmith’s Shop and a store.
Dudbridge Lock Cottage. Tenant to vacate cottage 29 September. W McEvoy to take tenancy.
Canal Association dissolved.
Canal. Continuance of flow of water from old Thames & Severn Canal at Wallbridge. Notice to firms that it might be impossible to provide a supply of water from the canal after a fixed date.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. G Palmer had paid rent.
Eastington Yard. Property to remain rateable for time being.
Double Locks Cottage. Repairs carried out. Roof of outbuilding fallen in Replaced.
Dudbridge Lock Cottages. Repairs to roof and W.C.
Dudbridge Lock Cottage. Mr McEvoy signed Agreement and paid costs.
Ministry of Works, Government Oil Pipe crossing canal at Whitminster Compensation. War Works Act 1948. £10 payment proposed.
Ocean Bridge. New deck planks. Mr Hopson to make deck safe for traffic.
Canal Framilode. Mrs Everett. New Window. Opening to remain. One shilling a year rent. No right of entry on to private towing path.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Spinner to give up tenancy.
Strachan & Co. Ltd. Use of private entrance at Wallbridge Offices. Permission for their man to pass through Canal Office garden by private door from Bath Road to get to main entrance gates. Not desirable. Suggestion of small door in entrance gates to wharf. Key to be kept by one of staff.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse G Palmer had paid rent.
Canal Bridges. Meeting with County Clerk and Surveyor arranged.
Ministry of Works. Pipe Line at Whitminster. £2 compensation.
Wallbridge Wharf Gates. Messrs Strachan had small door constructed in entrance gates to Wharf.
Gloucester Corporation. Water Main at Bristol Road Bridge. Proposal agreed. £2 annual wayleave and Agreement.
Copeland Chatterson Ltd. No sale of Lockhouses at Dudbridge.
Ocean Bridge. Hayes & Sons Ltd. to be informed that bridge is private and unfit for highway traffic unless strengthened.
Canal at Ebley. Towing Path Gates. Letter from C Barnard. Gate west of Oil Mills Bridge refixed, two gates east repaired. Users should be warned not to interfere with gates.
No quorum.
County Council Officials stated that Ministry of Transport was of the opinion that the Stroudwater Navigation should apply for abandonment. Area Catchment Board declined to concern themselves with Navigation’s Canal. Stroudwater Navigation would not object to construction of low level road bridges, if urgent, subject to provision for flow of water underneath the bridges. Necessary to ask County Council to discontinue emptying their water into the Stroudwater Canal. Since the abandonment of the Thames & Severn Canal there was no right to discharge the water.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. G Palmer had paid rent.
Gloucestershire County Council. Thames & Severn Canal. Notice to be given to Council as Proprietors of Thames & Severn Canal to discontinue discharge of any water from now abandoned canal into Stroudwater Canal on or before 17 December. Letter as formal notice. In default of County Council doing so or entering agreement, Company to take steps as it may be advised.
Ocean Bridge at Stonehouse. Hayes & Sons to proceed further with possibility of using this route to access their site.
Dockhouse at Eastington. Mr Hopson to repair roof.
Stonehouse Wharf. Mr Fox application to rent. Committee not considering letting for long term or with an option to purchase.
No quorum.
Wharfhouse at Stonehouse. G Palmer had paid rent.
Bristol Road Bridge. Water Main crossing Canal £2 p.a. rent. Committee agreed to headroom and to accept capital payment of £60 to produce £2 if invested in 3½% War Stock.
Stonehouse Wharf. Letter from Thomas Silvey Ltd Bristol re sale of Stonehouse Wharf. To be brought to notice of General Half Yearly Meeting of Shareholders 26 January.
No quorum.
Gloucestershire County Council. Thames & Severn Canal. Letter stating Council’s inability to cease discharging water into Navigation and claiming right to do so.
Gloucester Corporation. Water Main crossing Canal at Bristol Road.. Offer of £30 Capital payment accepted provided Corporation would carry out any alteration necessitated by change of use of land below pipe.
Stonehouse Wharf. Sale Thomas Silvey Ltd Bristol and H S Hack Brimscombe. Committee desire to retain 8 feet frontage along Canal at Stonehouse Wharf but will consider offer to purchase remainder of Wharf.
Stroud Gas Co. New Main in Towing path, Dudbridge to Gas Works. Distance about ¼ of a mile. Extra rent payable £5 per mile of pipe, £1.5.0 per year.
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Received £ 399.17.7, Balance £320 0 9, Total £719.18.4. Wages £363.0.3. Balance £356.18.1 No dividend. War Loan Stock £511.19.5 value £526 1 0 and £381.1.2, National Defence Stock £183.17.8. reserve Fund £110.13.2.
Present: W R Bloxam, J R Morton Ball, G W Morton Ball, Miss H M Morton Ball, H M Morton Ball, Miss G M Hooper, R J Caruthers- Little.
Committee: W R Bloxam, J R Morton Ball, G W Morton Ball, Miss H M Morton Ball, G A Evans, Miss G M Hooper, R J Caruthers-Little, P G Snape, M Stewart.
No traffic over Canal for many years. Application should be made to Ministry of Transport for Order of Abandonment of the Canal.
Gloucester Corporation. Water Main Bristol Road Bridge. Corporation noted that Navigation was prepared to accept Capital payment of £30 easement for trunk water main over canal. Matter passed to Town Clerk.
Stonehouse Wharf. Sale. Offers sent in by Thomas Silvey Ltd Bristol and H S Hack Stonehouse not high enough. Clerk to ask Mr Hooper to make an offer
Stroud Gas Company. New Gas Main at Ryeford Bridge. No objection to six inch main across Canal at bridge. Usual form of Agreement, solicitors at expense of Gas Company. Wayleave £2 per annum.
Claim of Share No. 62. Walter Charles Stanton, Albert Henry Peek and John Wyndham Stanton, executors of the will of Arthur William Stanton deceased sole executor of will of Ethel Sophia Martha Stanton deceased.
Claim of Shares No. 7 & 63. John Copeland Poole, surviving executor of will of Rev Samuel Swire deceased, sole executor of will of Alice Maud Stanton deceased.
Claim of Shares No. 8, 137, !75. Walter Charles Stanton and Albert Henry Peek, executors of will of Arthur William Stanton.
No quorum.
Stonehouse Wharf . Sale. Mr Silvey to see Rating Officer and write to Committee. Mr Hack’s final offer £200, W A Hooper of Stonehouse £400.
Wallbridge Wharf. UDC Car Park. Mr Gibbons, Clerk to Council considered Wharf unsuitable for car park.
Stroud R D Council, Sewerage Scheme. First Section. Plan no.3 considered by G W Morton Ball.
Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health had included the canal in the Severn River Board's area.
Shares No.59 & 60. Charity of Charles Ballinger. Bisley and Chedworth. Shares in 1798 bequeathed to Navigation for ever. 16 September 1884 shares transferred to Official Trustee of Charitable Funds. No interest on shares since 1922. Falling off of traffic on Canal. No dividend.
Share No.22. Leycester Penrhy Purnell, Trustee Department, Westminster Bank , executor of Mrs Kate Gibbs Stonecroft Knowle, near Braunton, Devon, executive of Elizabeth Bond, Perry Elm, Wellington, Somerset.
No quorum.
Stonehouse Wharf Sale. Letters from Thomas Silvey, Bristol, H S Hack and W G Hooper. Wharf rental £50 a year. No offer considered unless income when invested produced practically that amount.
Stroud R D Council Sewerage Scheme. Letter and plan from Bateman & Partners submitted to W G Morton Ball. No objection to proposals.
Canal at Whitminster. Motor Yacht “Mayne”. Capt. G L Northmore. Application to open café. No power to grant such permission.
Stroud R D Council. Sewerage Scheme. Crossings of Canal. Mr Morton Ball’s observations on plan submitted by Bateman & Partners.
Dudbridge Lockhouses and Garden. Tithe Redemption. The annuity had been redeemed.
Application to place raft on Canal at Dudbridge. Edward Dyer. Agreed providing raft did not exceed 6ft x 3ft. Yearly charge 10s.
Canal Swing Bridges. Repairs required on Ocean Bridge, Stonehouse Bridge, Ryeford Bridge. Mr Hopson to carry out necessary work.
Wallbridge Offices. Mr Hopson’s estimate for high flushing cistern for low level suite approved. Reduced price not exceeding £50.
No quorum.
Stroud R D Council. Sewer Crossings at Stonehouse. Chairman to settle letter on the lines of G W Morton Ball’s notes re indemnities and charge for crossings.
Wallbridge Offices. Installation of electric light had been carried out. Amended estimate for installation of lavatory accepted.
Inspection of Canal. Interview with Sir William Halcrow & Partners.
Sale of land at Stonehouse to British Railway Executive. Sealed.
