Thornsett Turnpike: Box 2 The following text summarises the content of the box. Documents are bundled, but the contents of each bundle are not sorted by theme, date or type of document. Letters: 1833-1836 : relating to the finances and operations of the Turnpike Trust: correspondents include in particular: Ebenezer Adamson of Hayfield and Glasgow (treasurer); Edward Reddish of Stockport, (clerk); J K Winterbottom, (clerk); John Taylor of Ollersett, (agent) Documents relating to land, bridges, state of the road: Request for, and valuation by John Taylor (father of John Taylor): 1833: land (Potters Hey, Ned Mill) taken from Mr Jodrell's estate: with sketch map Note: 1833: land taken and damaged by road construction: list of names, acreages and monetary value Notice: 1838: from Joseph William Beswick, agent to William Jodrell, to J K Winterbottom: removal of toll gate west of Ned Hill Copy indictment: 1840: poor state of road at Goyt Bridge Original survey of Goyt Bridge and copy: 1856: Charles Nicholls Letter: 1878: James Howard, surveyor, to Edward Reddish: Beard Terrace Bridge Documents relating to Tolls: Toll Bar collectors' records: 1838-1839; 1842-1843, 1848-1849 and undated: daily lists of monetary amounts and names: presumably tolls paid Statement of tolls: 1864: Marsh Lane Bar List of Bidding for Tolls: 1858 Conditions and Agreement for letting of Tolls: 1851, 1853, 1856, 1861, 1873: John Greenwood Documents relating to trustees and meetings: Notices of annual meeting: 1856, 1857, 1883-1886 Newspaper cutting: 1885: notice of annual general meeting and letting of tolls Minutes: 1884-1885: special meetings of trustees and bondholders Notes : 1861: meeting of trustees Draft notice of meeting: 1843 Draft notices: 1854: special meeting and election of trustee Financial documents: Receipt: 1835: payment to James Berry Credit notes: 1835 and ?1851: George Bower to be paid: authorised by Abraham Wardle Bank book: entries 1884-1901: Manchester and County Bank Ltd; four cancelled bank cheques: 1879-1882 Cheque book: stubs only: 1886-1887 Cheque book: stubs 1885-1886 and one cancelled cheque dated 1885 Cheque book: entries 1869-1870: District Bank: contains stubs only Receipt book: entries 1863-1864 Notes: undated: financial calculations Credit notifications: 1886: Manchester and County Bank Ltd Receipts for interest payments: 1849, 1865-1867, 1870, 1882, 1884-1886 Letter and calculation: 1884: interests due to executors of James Ingham Draft financial statements: undated: bondholders Accounts: 1853, 1855, 1856, 1865, 1884-1886: disbursements by the clerk Income and expenditure accounts: 1837 & 1838, 1870, 1877-1879, 1881-1886: some with references to Samuel Ralphs, auditor Schedule: undated: discharged bonds List of bondholders: 1885 List: entries 1876-1881: receipts and vouchers handed to Mr Newton Income tax assessments: 1873 and 1884: and demand note: 1885 Schedule: 1876: unclaimed interest Reassignment of mortgage: 1873: Robert Marriott Securities: 1833: to George William Newton and Thomas Price Financial statement and road repair estimate:1836 Financial statement: 1885 Circulars to landholders: 1882: discharge of securities: 7 items Tenders for Composition: 1881-1884: 17 items Draft mortgage: 1862: Anne Orford Holte List of payments in discharge of debt: entries refer to 1874-1884 Draft mortgage of tolls/release and reassignment: 1867 and 1868: Joseph Pearson, Anne O Holte, John Hulme, Edward Reddish, Mrs Thornley, Thomas Bridge, James Jinks, Samuel Wild, Robert Rain, C Brocklehurst, executors of John Thornley, executors of Joseph Burden, J L Vaughan: 1884: Miss L A Winterbottom and Miss F M Winterbottom Invoices: 1883: Anderton's Hotel, London 1884: White Horse Hotel, Disley 1882, 1884 & 1885: Rams Head Hotel, Disley 1882: building work, New Ash Pit 1865-1866: repairs to toll houses and gates 1886-1887: F Newton 1886: Inspector Eyre: enquiries into burning of Hyde Bank toll bar 1847 James Richmond, ironmonger 1849: building materials, stationery 1834: Robert Kay: materials and road work 1833: J Ridgeway 1835: land purchased for road diversion: G W Newton: measured by Richard Bennett 1886 & 1887: Joseph Hudson: work at Over Hill toll house 1857: Edward Reddish to Robert Roberts junior 1831-1840: painting, refreshments 1852: provision of a coach 1857: legal work, Dyson & Co 1883-1885 Francis Newton 1845-1850: work undertaken by Edward Reddish 1884: Cheshire County News: advertisements 1839: legal work Notebook: entries May-June 1840: "Trustees to John Walker": appears to be a daily record of sums due for provision of labourers, horses and carts Documents relating to a dispute about paying for road repair in the hamlet of Beard: which involved a case in the High Court Queens Bench: 1842: case for legal opinion and opinion by H H Griffin draft special case: Queens Bench: Regina v Derbyshire Justices court orders, affidavit & document schedule: Derbyshire, The Queen v John White Draft special case: 1841 and draft brief for respondents: 1842 1839: appears to be draft Justices order, with draft amendments: refers to Thomas Barnes and John Sheldon, surveyors of the highway Letters: 1840 and 1842: from Bowen & Back, solicitors Original newspapers: Stockport Advertiser: 18 November 1845, 22 May 1885, 21 May 1886 Manchester Examiner: 24 June 1885 Ashton under Lyne Reporter: 7 & 14 August, 16 October & 6 November 1886 Cheshire County News: 13 August 1886 Manchester Courier: 25 February 1854 Documents relating to winding up of the Trust: Notice: 1886: (nine copies): advertisement of the expiry of the Trust Letters: 1885 & 1887: from Local Government Board Letters: 1885-1887: to F Newton: aspects of Trust finances and property Notice: 1885: from Local Government Board: attendance at House of Commons Select Committee Invoices and receipts: 1886: Brady & Son: sale of toll houses Documents relating to railway development, especially a dispute about whether the proposed Hayfield branch railway should cross by a bridge or a level crossing: Parliamentary Bill: 1854: Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Letters: 1853-1858: proposed Hayfield Railway: Thomas Orford, J Adamson, Edward Reddish; G B Townsend, John White and others Record of Committee decision: in favour of a level crossing, not a bridge Notice of special meeting: 1854: Notices: 1860: Additional Works, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway: with reply proforma and associated letter from Board of Trade; 1856 & 1857: Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway; 1844: Manchester and Buxton Railway; 1854: Disley and Hayfield Railway Copy report: Board of Trade: H W Tyler Committee minutes: 1856 Statement of Evidence of Charles Bridge: undated Statement: 1856: in favour of a level crossing Draft notice: 1857: special trustees meeting Requests for special trustees meetings: 1854 by J A Newton and Thomas Orford: 1856 by John White and Thomas Orford Notice: 1856: from Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway: intention to ask Board of Trade to resolve the disagreement List of "proposed terms": undated Notice to Treat: 1861: Disley and Hayfield Railway: plus minute of associated trustees meeting; plus plan : ca 44cm x 30cm: scale 2 chains to one inch Draft petition: 1857: against Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Bill Bond: 1861: Trustees and Disley and Hayfield Railway Company Documents relating to a dispute with Charles Saxby of Furness Vale about maintenance and repair of walls: Draft case for legal opinion: 1875: Yeardsley cum Whaley Local Board and Charles Saxby: with draft notice to repair walls at Furness Vale Case for, and legal opinion by W C Glen: 1876 Associated letter and other documents: 1875 Miscellaneous: Extract from "The Justice of the Peace": undated: case report Draft proof: undated, but 1865 or later: R v New Mills Local Board Letter: 1843 from Richard Orford to Richard & Thomas Orford Leaflet: 1850: William Jackson, painter, Disley Parliamentary Bill: 1843: Turnpike Road The following items appear not to be documents of the Thornsett Turnpike Trust. Draft indenture: 1887: Alfred Thorold Hornby and John Cash Arnfield: sale of druggist business Documents relating to state of a road at Taxal: Draft indictment for non-repair: undated Surveyor's report: 1843: J Barrett Note: undated: required procedures, (vestry meeting, Justices review) in relation to an unidentified road Notice to Surveyor: 1843: to repair highway at Taxal List of Trustees: undated: Chapel en le Frith and Enterclough Road: 39 names Documents relating to property/locations transferred from Cheshire to Derbyshire (Chester Derby Order 1935): Correspondence file: items 1921-1934: legal responsibility for canal bridge at Furness Vale: (includes copies of Acts of Parliament, 1831, 1833 and 1864 relating to Thornsett Turnpike Trust) Correspondence file: 1921: Main Road Bridgmont Correspondence file: 1937-1938: Overton Quarry, Taxal Correspondence file: 1937; store room, Longhurst Lane, Mellor Agreements: Overton and Windgather Quarries: Dorothy Lynch Ramsden-Jodrell Letterbox, Taxal Lane: Postmaster General Cable under playground, Yeardsley cum Whaley Council School: Trent Valley and High Peak Electricity Co Use of land at Taxal as a Road Tip: Dorothy Lynch Ramsden-Jodrell 19th-20th cent