| Description | Receipted invoices from a number of firms for printing and stationery, 1854-1865
Receipted invoices, 1852-1869. For advertising in local newspapers:
Derby and Chesterfield Reporter
Derby Mercury
Derbyshire Courier
Doncaster Gazette
Leeds Intelligencer
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent
Sheffield Times
Chesterfield Herald
Derbyshire Times
Documents re Road Improvement at Hardy's/Hardhurst Hill, Unstone, 1859-1862. Comprising:
Land Valuation: 1859
Land required for road improvement and land to be offered for sale to owners of adjoining property: also letter, 1859, from George Haslehurst promising delivery of the valuation
Receipted Invoices and Receipts: 1859-1862
For land valuation; purchase of land; road work undertaken and legal work
Individuals named: Gill, Haslehurst, Jenkinson, Pocklington, Rangeley, Walker
Derbyshire Advertiser: 20 November 1875 (complete copy)
Receipts for payments to local authorities for road maintenance:
Sheffield Local Board: 1867-1869
Eccleshall Highway Board: 1856-1863
Surveyors of Highways, Wirksworth: 1859, 1866-1868
Hasland Nuisance Removal Committee:
Receipted Invoices for Hospitality: Toll Letting Auctions:
Stevenson's Commercial Hotel, Chesterfield: 1857
Angel Inn, Chesterfield: 1857 1859 1862 1868
Midland Hotel, Derby: 1868
Receipted Invoices: Annual Salary and Disbursements of Solicitors' Firms appointed as Clerks: 1854, 1855/1856, 1865, 1866 1862 1858 1867 1869. (Milnes and Newbold, Matlock; Shipton and Hallewell, Chesterfield)
Deed of Transfer of Securities in Derby and Sheffield Turnpike Road, 1864. (Cunliffe Shaw, Shipton)
Receipted Invoices:
1854: For payment to J Barber for Income and Expenditure statements
1867: Payment to N E Colbourn for filing accounts
Interest Warrants and Receipts for Payments of Interest and Repayments of Capital, 1854-1869
Copy of Order of Court of Chancery dated 1860, re executors of the will of Thomas Clarke dated 1858
Documents Relating to Road Alteration at Falls Wood, Dronfield.
Comprising:
Receipted Invoice: contract with Thomas Lightfoot: 1863
Contract between Thomas Lightfoot, and Joseph Shipton and John Hallewell, clerks to the Trustees: includes specification of the work, two certificates of completion and two receipts signed by Thomas Lightfoot
Documents Relating to Improvement Work at Heely:
Subscription: George Padley: 1861
Subscription List: undated: lists 5 organisations and 26 individuals
Documents Relating to Work at Heely Toll House:
Invoice and receipts: Richard Ash: 1863
Receipt for payment for plot of land, 1864
Particulars of Fines and Receipts
Breach of Turnpike Act: Sheffield Magistrates
1863/1864: John Waylands
1873: Samuel Hall
Documents Relating to Opposition to Midland Railway (Chesterfield ) Bill : 1864
Receipted Account: Dyson & Co, 24 Parliament Street, Parliamentary Agents
Receipted Account: Shipton and Hallewell
Receipted Account: Samuel F Holmes, Sheffield Moor
Receipt for travelling expenses: John Bradbury
Documents Relating to Income Tax. Comprising:
Receipts: 1865-1869
Assessment Notice: 1865
Copy of Return of Income from Mortgage Debt Secured on the Tolls: 1865
Printed Notice dated 1869 from Bower and Blackburn, Hunslet, Leeds, about Income Tax assessment
Turnpike Freeing Tickets. Four undated; one dated 1865, one dated 1866
Series of document bundles, dated Dec 1859; Dec 1860; June 1861; Dec 1861; June 1862; Dec 1862; June 1863; Dec 1863. Each bundle is contained in a dated paper loop that appears contemporary with the original date. Each contains cheques drawn on the account of Duffield and Sheffield Road at Crompton, Newton & Co, Bankers, Chesterfield; and Interest Warrants. The Dec 1863 bundle also includes a copy, "for the Treasurer", of resolution passed at Trustees Meeting of November 1863
Receipt: 1868. James Haywood, Phoenix Foundry and Engineering Works. 24 mileposts, 5 feet 3 inches high
Receipt: 1868. Payment for land for road improvement: Henry Jenkinson
Documents relating to Work Done near Dronfield:
Account and Letter from Holmes and Johnson, St James Row, Sheffield: letter comments on reasonableness of recently submitted bill: 1869
Receipts for payments to Miles Barber: 1868-1869
Account: details of work done near Nag's Head: 1869
Agreement between Trustees and Albert Smith of Sheffield: alteration of road level at land near Batemoor: unsigned; possibly an incomplete copy: 1869
Letter from Fred Fowler, St James St, Sheffield: submits bill for superintending road improvement at Batemoor: offers a justification of the amount and enquires about settlement of Whittington Charity case with the Midland Railway Company: 1870
Minutes of Meetings:
General Annual Meetings, Midland Hotel, Derby: 1868, 1870
Meetings, Angel Inn, Chesterfield: 1859-"of the above road"; 1870- Trustees adjourned meeting; 1873-General Annual Meeting
Meetings, Commercial Hotel, Chesterfield: 1867- Trustees; 1873-General Annual Meeting
Annual Estimates:
Printed, (as if for display): 1849-1851
Handwritten : 1854-1875.
NB: For the years 1854-1856 there are working documents as well as formally laid out estimates. In the 1868 document there are no figures entered in some columns
Handwritten sheets of figures: 1854-1857; 1859, 1860: (the contents tally with figures attributed to "Northern District" entered in the formal estimates (above)
Petition ("Memorial") of 1869, "praying for entire removal of the Chain Bar in Clay Cross" and "Toll Bar at the top of Holgate Lane". Bears signatures and occupations of 66 local residents
Order (draft) relating to Revision of Tolls, 1869. Handwritten: details of Tolls. Space for implementation date is blank
Agreements - Composition in Lieu of Tolls: 1855. Comprising:
1. Abraham Clegg: for passage by his colliery wagons of a chain bar near Clay Lane, Clay Cross
2. Joseph Hayes: for passage to Stretton station by his colliery wagons
Estimate, undated. James Hill, Stretton. For provision and installation of red deal floorboards at Stretton Toll Gate
Lease of tolls for one year, 1869, to Thomas Bower, Hunslet, John Richard Bower, Newcastle and Enoch Blackburn, Hunslet
Extract from Minutes, ordering payment for land purchased for road improvement at Unstone, 1870.
Documents relating to a complaint and court case, 1859. Comprising:
Letters of complaint from Joseph Lockwood, Norton, about stones left against a wall:
Copies of correspondence with Gould and Son, Sheffield, about the complaint and about consequent court case
Court Summons: to appear at Court House, Eckington:
John Bradbury, surveyor, Unstone; Henry Saxleby, Labourer, Upper Heeley; John Robinson, Labourer, 13, Little Sheffield
List of Land "to be paid for": 1858. Seven items listed
Documents relating to Heeley Bridge, 1870. Comprising:
Estimate: Bridge widening at Heeley: turnpike over river Sheaf
Correspondence: ten letters about correspondence with Midland Railway Company about costs.
Working note: early 1870s. Lists locations between Sheffield and Oakerthorpe with specific sums of money
Summary Lists of Expenditure: Northern District: 1871-1872. 1871 list gives detailed amounts for 18 sections of road between Heeley and Pentridge [sic]
Surveyors' Report on State of Road: 1871. John Bradbury and John Tomlinson.
Includes estimated costs for recommended repairs and/or improvements at seven locations
Copy of 1851 Act of Parliament re Derby-Sheffield and Duffield-Wirksworth Turnpike.
Documents about land in Dronfield required for railway construction:
Draft Statutory Declaration and Submission for counsel's opinion and counsel's opinion: plan of part of Dronfield attached: undated - ca late 1860s
Memorandum of Agreement: between Local Board of Health and Midland Railway Company: about sale of land in Dronfield: 1866
Copy of Correspondence: five letters between Local Board of Health and solicitors for Midland Railway Company about title to land: 1867-1869
Conditions for Letting Tolls and Agreements by Successful Bidders: 1832-1840; 1842-1844; 1847; 1848; 1850-1854; 1856-1862; 1865; 1868-1873
Names of winning bidders: Aldred, Argile, Barber, Bates, Blackburn, Bower, Fell, Gillot, Hambleton, North, Pearson, Poyser, Spendlove, Turton, Wheatcroft, Winson
Bidding Lists. Lists names of bidders, amounts of bids and names of toll gates,
1838, 1839 and five undated.
Notices of Tolls to Let: 1869, 1870, 1872
Draft Bill: undated (? late 18th cent) for road widening: Wirksworth to Cross in the Hand, Hulland Ward and from Wirksworth to Steeple House
Bundles of accounts and receipts: 1784-1785; 1785; 1785. For work done and supplies for Duffield-Wirksworth Turnpike
Letters to Shipton and Hallewell:
From S Whitaker, Infirmary, Derby, about a cheque: 1863
From Joshua Bower and Sons, Glue Works, Hunslet, Leeds: not in agreement with proposition made about Cattle Toll: 1869
Certificates of Entitlement: Start dates 1756 and 1759. With added notes, usually each year, of payment of yearly interest. Names: Burrow, Coape, Eyre, Hunloke, Rodes, Shore, Simpson, Sitwell, Slater, Tissington.
Bundles of Financial Documents: Duffield -Wirksworth Turnpike: 1783-1808. Including: invoices and receipts for work done; gate receipts for various toll gates; receipts for payment of interest. The 1787 bundle includes a letter from William Edwards to Mr Ince, (clerk), about enclosure of a bank bill
List of Compoundages; 1784. Liberty of Belper to the Wirksworth Turnpike. List of 82 names and monetary amounts
Balance Sheet: 1860, for Matlock Road Sinking Fund
Copy of Order: 1863. From General Annual Meeting: about payments for repairs in Alderwasley and Wirksworth
Copy of Draft Agreement about details of railway construction, 1838. Trustees of Duffield and Heage Turnpike and North Midland Railway Company
Copy of Advertisement, 1869, giving notice of Trustees Meeting |