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D533 - Shardlow and Harrington Bridge Trust, Sawley (formerly Cavendish Bridge Trust and Harrington Bridge Trust) - 1758-1907

TA - Shareholders

TC - Clerk

1-10 - Accounts: Accounts of John Walker, clerk to the Cavendish and Harrington trusts, for salary and disbursements. - 1881-1890

11-31 - Accounts of John Timms, clerk, for salary and disbursements. - 1890-1898

32-33 - Upkeep of Bridges: Estimated by J and G Tomlinson for work on Sawley Bridge, Oct. - 1882

34 - Report of W Leader Williams upon the Harrington Bridge, 26 Apr. - 1887

35 - Copy report of J Somes Story upon the Cavendish and Harrington Bridges. - 1881

36-38 - Reports by J Somes Story upon the progress of Borrowash Bridge. - 1897

39 - Letter from Jacob Newton about payment for work done by him, nd. - [19th cent]

40 - Cavendish Bridge lamp book. - 1885-1890

41 - Upkeep accounts: Account of w Beaumont Smith for examining the bridges and advising on repairs. - 1881

42 - Account of E William for reporting upon Harrington Bridge. - 1881

43-59 - Accounts of J Somes Story, county surveyor for inspecting bridges and reporting thereon. - 1881-1898

60-62 - Bills for paraffin and tar - 1884-1886

63-206 - Accounts of the Charnwood Forest Granite Works for stone supplied. - 1885-1896

207-214 - Accounts of R Dowell for lighting and cleaning the lights on the Cavendish Bridge. - 1884-1891

215-217 - Accounts of James Kerry for lamp repairs. - 1891-1894

217-222 - Accounts of George Wright for tending the Cavendish lamps and upkeep of roadway. - 1891-1896

223-234 - Accounts of W S Eaton, later Offilers Ltd. for gas for Cavendish lamps. - 1887-1896

235-244 - Accounts of Jacob Newton for work on Sawley Bridge. - 1885-1896

245-254 - Accounts and receipts for work done on bridges. - 1883-1889

255-256 - Bill of Thomas Crump for lamps and fittings. - 1885

257-276 - Accounts of William Roberts for repairs to trust property. - 1884-1895

277-279 - Borrowash Bridge: List of suggested invitations to opening ceremony. - 1898

280 - Lists of officers of Derbyshire County Council, Shardlow RDC, Long Eaton UDC, Alvaston and Boulton UDC, Ockbrook and Borrowash PC, Elvaston PC, and local magistrates, incumbents and school teachers - 1898

281 - Rough notes on cost of Borrowash Bridge. - 1898

282 - Suggested inscriptions for the bridge. - 1898

283 - Copy letter from J Timms informing the recipient that he has been appointed to the committee to make arrangements for the opening of the bridge, 1 Jul. - 1898

284-288 - Estimate by Banks and Son for providing a marquee for the opening, with promotional literature, 12 Jul. - 1898

289 - Notice of the opening of Borrowash Bridge and the winding up of the Cavendish and Harrington trust. Endorsed with an account of the disposal of trust funds, 8 Jul. - 1898

290-292 - Blank invitation cards to the opening ceremony to be performed by the Duke of Devonshire on 3 Aug. - 1898

293-295 - Cards stating that the Midland Railway has arranged for the 2.25 from Derby to stop at Borrowash on 3 Aug. - 1898

296 - Broadsheet hymn, "O God our help in ages past" - [1898]

297 - Page from Derby Daily Telegraph bearing report of the opening of the bridge by Victor Cavendish, MP, nephew of the Duke of Devonshire, 4 Aug. - 1898

298-330 - Miscellaneous correspondence re Borrowash Bridge. - 1897-1898

331 - Card of J Wright, builder, Borrowash. - [1898]

332-347 - Borrowash Bridge Building Account: Certificates of sums due to Pilling and Co., for building bridge, with receipts. - 1897-1898

348 - File correspondence from Pilling and Co., for building bridge, with receipts. - 1898

349 - Account of Pilling and Co., for erecting tent and other expenses connected with opening ceremony. - 1898

350-358 - Receipts from John Hilton for salary as clerk of the works. - 1897

359 - Borrowash Bridge Building A/C bank book with Crompton and Evans' Union Bank Ltd. - 1897-1898

360 - Take over of Harrington Bridge: Copy proposed scheme for vesting the Harrington Bridge in the trustees of the Cavendish Bridge and for removing the toll, Aug. - 1881

361 - Draft agreement between the trustees of the two bridges. - 1881

362-363 - Draft letter to H H Walford re rent charges on Harrington Bridge, 4 Nov. - 1881

364 - Notice of application to parliament 9 Nov. - 1881

365 - Proceedings of the committee of Cavendish trustees relating to the promotion of a bill acquiring Harrington Bridge. - 1881-1882

366 - Circular from W H Whiston to Harrington shareholders, 16 Nov. - 1881

367 - List of paid off shares. - 1881

368 - Report of the Cavendish committee for acquiring the Harrington Bridge, 25 Jan. - 1882

369-370 - Particulars of evidence and petitions required before parliament, nd.

371 - Remarks by John Walker re Lord Harrington's rent-charge, nd.

372 - Statement by John Walker on the accounts of the Harrington Bridge 1806-1881. - 1882

373 - Statement of dividends paid 1809-1881 - 1882

374 - Draft petitions. - 1882

375 - Petition for leave to introduce bill in parliament. - 1882

376-377 - Petition of Earl of Harrington against the bill. - 1882

378-379 - Additions to clauses. - 1882

380 - Copies of witnesses statements. - 1882

381 - Report of trustees' committee, 6 Sep. - 1882

382 - Memoranda re Sawley Bridge, 7 Sep. - 1882

383 - Amounts to be paid by Cavendish trustees. - 1882

384-387 - Offer of £11 towards repairs by Harrington trustees with related correspondence, 24 Nov. - 1882

388 - Receipt by Sir J Harpur Crewe for £25 in extinguishment of a rent charge, 4 Oct. - 1882

389 - Receipt by the Earl of Harrington for £1500 in extinguishment of a rent charge, 4 Oct. - 1882

390 - Receipt by W H Whiston for £50 compensation for loss of office as clerk to the Harrington Trust, 9 Mar. - 1883

391 - Memorandum re Harrington shares with remarks on payment of compensation. - [1882]

392-407 - Correspondence concerning the take over, mainly from H O Soutter. - 1882

408-410 - Transfer to County Councils: Extract from Castle Donington inclosure award relative to a rent charge due to the parish from the Cavendish Bridge, with sketch plan and covering letter, 3 Mar. - 1890

411 - Copy letter from H O Sutter re the proposed bill, 14 May. - 1891

412 - Copy suggestions for transfer of bridges to County Councils. - 1892

413 - Page from Derby Mercury (16.11.92) bearing notice of application to parliament, 12 Nov. - 1892

414 - Particulars of Willington Bridge, nd. - [19th cent]

415 - Memorandum re trustees, nd. - [19th cent]

416-417 - Trustees' requisition for holding of special meeting with notice of same. - 1895

418 - Draft letter to J H Powell, clerk to Willington Bridge, giving notice of proposed bill. - 1895

419 - Draft letter to J Hughes Hallet, clerk to Derbyshire County Council giving notice of proposed bill, Nov. - 1895

420 - Memorandum re proposed bill, Nov. - 1895

421 - Derby Mercury (20.11.95) bearing notice of application of parliament, 16 Nov. - 1895

422-425 - Trustees' requisition for special meetings, with notices of the same. - 1895-1896

426 - Revised clause in bill. - (1896)

427-428 - Petitions of Derbyshire and Leicestershire County Councils against the bill. - (1896)

429 - Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Cavendish and Harrington sub-committee and the Bridges and Highways Committee of Derbyshire County Council, 20 Dec. - 1895

430 - Page from Derby Express with item recording that the bill had passed the House of Lords Committee on Unopposed Bills - 23 Mar 1896

431 - Page from Derby Daily Telegraph with item recording that the bill has been ordered to be reported for its second reading in the Commons, 11 Apr. - 1896

432 - Schedule of deeds and papers relating to a rent charge due to Viscount Melbourne, 13 Oct. - 1896

433 - Receipt from Castle Donington R D C for extinguishment of a rent charge, 21 Nov. - 1896

434-435 - Draft and conveyance of Cavendish Bridge to Leicester County Council (with plan), 25 Nov. - 1896

436-437 - Draft conveyances of Harrington Bridge to Derbyshire County Council (with plans), Jul. - 1898

438 - Receipt from Derbyshire County Council for £5000 to endow Harrington Bridge, 2 Aug. - 1898

439 - Letter from the Inland Revenue pointing out that duly stamped conveyances of Harrington and Willington Bridge have not been produced, 10 Sep. - 1898

440 - Receipt for £1,064 12s 11d from Derbyshire County Council for the balance in hand of the trust, 11 Nov. - 1898

441 - Schedule of trust records handed over to Derbyshire County Council - [1898]

442-561 - Miscellaneous correspondence re transfer to County Councils, mostly from H O Soutter and J Hughes Hallett, clerk to Derbyshire County Council. - 1889-1896

562-589 - Derbyshire County Council correspondence and related papers re transfer of bridges, mainly from Wynn, Holmes and Wynne. - 1896

590 - 1905 Rebuilding: Specification of works for the rebuilding of Harrington Bridge. - 1905

591 - File of correspondence re damage suffered by land owned by R F H Crewe and occupied by William Bates, during the rebuilding of the bridge. - 1905-1907

592-594 - Arbitration of T H Richardson in the above case with covering letter and bill, Jun. - 1907

595 - 1957 Rebuilding: Notice of "The London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road (Leicestershire) Compulsory Purchase (No 38) Order, 25 Sep. - 1952

596-598 - Press cuttings re. the blocking of the baily bridge at Shardlow by a bulldozer, the original stone structure having been swept away by floods in 1948, Nov. - 1952

599-600 - Two files of correspondence (formerly DCC file 2.406) re the building of Harrington Bridge, concerned mostly with the campaign to get a new bridge built and the opening ceremony. - 1949-1958

601 - Trent Navigation Acts: Map showing river and canal connections with the Upper Trent Navigation, nd. - [19th cent]

602-604 - "An Act for making and keeping the River Trent in the Countyes of Leicester, Derby and Stafford Navigable" (copy printed 1887) - 1699

605 - "A Bill to provide for the transfer to the Mayor Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Nottingham of the Undertaking of the Trent Navigation Company; and for other purposes". - 1885

606 - Copy petition of the Cavendish and Harrington trust against the Nottingham Corporation Trent Navigation Bill, 25 Feb. - 1885

607 - Copy of Derby Express (29.7.87) bearing a prospectus of the Trent (Burton-on-Trent and Humber) Navigation Company (Ltd), 27 Jan. - 1887

608-610 - Copies and petition of the C and H trust against the Upper Trent Navigation Bill, 9 Feb. - 1887

611 - Observations upon the Upper Trent Navigation and Trent Navigation Bills. - 1887

612-616 - New clause for the protection of the C and H trustees. - 1887

617 - "A Bill to alter and amend the Tolls Rates and Duties leviable upon the Navigation of the River Trent between Wilden Ferry and Burton-on-Trent and for the other purposes". - 1887

618 - "An Act to provide for the Improvement and Maintenance of the Navigation of the River Trent from Wilden Ferry….to the River Humber….". - 1887

619 - "An Act (as amended in committee) to provide for the Improvement …. from Wilden Ferry …..to Gainsborough ……." - 1887

620 - "An Act to provide for Improvement ….(Royal Assent 19th July, 1887)" - 1887

621 - As D533 A/TC 620 but different format, 19 Jul. - 1887

622 - Prospectus of The Upper Trent Navigation Company, Ltd., Jan. - 1888

623 - Copy of the Morning Post with an item entitled "The Proposed Ship Canal to Birmingham", 14 Feb. - 1888

624 - "A Bill for incorporating the Birmingham and Humber Navigation Company and empowering them to make the River Tame and Trent navigable between Birmingham and Burton-on-Trent and for other purposes" - 1888

625 - File of letters from H O Soutter re opposition to the Trent Navigation Bills. - 1887

626 - Copy letter from J Somes Story to H O Soutter re. the effect of the Trent Navigation Bill upon the bridges, 14 Apr. - 1887

627 - Letter from Dumford and Co. re. the Birmingham and Humber Navigation Bill, 24 Jan. - 1888

628 - Long Eaton Waterworks: Notice of intent to lay water pipes between Long Eaton and Melbourne. - [1889]

629 - Memorandum re waterworks proposals, Jun. - 1889

630 - Cutting from the Derby Mercury re. waterworks proposals, 19 Jun. - 1889

631 - Plan of proposed installation of waterpipes across Harrington Bridge, Jun. - 1889

632-633 - Memoranda of agreement between the trustees and Long Eaton Local board referring to D533 A/TC 631. - 1889

634-637 - Memoranda of agreement between the trustees and Long Eaton Local Board, referring to a plan of 1892. - 1892

638-639 - Draft and copy grant by the trustees to Long Eaton Urban Sanitary Authority of rights re. water mains over the bridge (with plan dated 1892) - 1893-1895

640-643 - Miscellaneous correspondence re. water mains. - 1889

644 - National Telephone Company: Report of the select committee appointed to consider the law relating to the control over telephone, telegraph and other wires, 12 May. - 1885

645-653 - Correspondence re the placing of telegraph poles on Harrington Bridge by the National Telephone Company Ltd. - 1885

654 - Letter from the General Post Office, London stating that they cannot continue to undertake payment for the poles on Harrington Bridge but are prepared to make a final payment of 30s, 27 Aug. - 1898

655 - Miscellaneous: Memoranda re. Jacob Newton, Sawley Bridge toll house, nd. - [19th cent]

656 - Extracts from Jacob Newton's rent book. - 1885

657 - Surrender of possession of a house at Cavendish Bridge by Richard Dowell - 6 Jan 1891

658 - Copy tenancy agreement between John Timms, clerk to the trust and George Wright re cottage at Cavendish Bridge, 20 Jan. - 1891

659 - Rent demand for the cottage on Sawley Bridge due to Sir J Harpur Crewe. - 1886

660 - Notice to quit from John Shaw, agent of Hugo Harpur Crewe, to the trustees re Sawley Bridge cottage, 20 Mar. - 1895

661 - Fire insurance policy with the London Assurance upon the cottage on Harrington Bridge, 25 Oct. - 1897

662-666 - Letters from the Royal Exchange Assurance to Derbyshire County Council re. insurance. - 1898

667-673 - Letters, estimates and specifications from the Haslam Foundry and Engineering Company, Ltd re the provision of a new safe for the trust office. - 1885

674 - Price list of the Mountsorrel Granite Company, Ltd. - 1892

675 - Correspondence: Cavendish and Harrington letter books 1885-1897 - 1885-1897

676 - Cavendish and Harrington letter books 1885-1897 - 1885-1897

TT - Trustees

UL - Cavendish Bridge Trust and Shardlow & Harrington Bridge Trust, Sawley: unlisted records

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