| Description | Letter (? 1787). Appears to be draft; neither signed nor addressed: comments on influence on turnpike business of men with the least concern or interest in the road. Refers to recent meeting for the ? Dunsford/Dunslow road
Advertisements of Trustees' Meetings: 1861; 1868; 1872
Draft Advertisements:
1850: letting of tolls
1851; 1853; 1855; 1856-1858: Trustees' Meetings
Documents about Disposal of Toll Houses: 1875-1876
Lists and statutory notices of toll houses for disposal; valuations and surveys; offers to purchase; draft deeds and contracts; lists of toll houses sold
Documents about "expiration" of Turnpike Trust: 1875-1876
Surveyors' reports; correspondence about disbursement of outstanding capital; Local Government Board circular
Book of Reference to a Map: 1832
Intended branches of the turnpike within Newbold, Barlow, Holmesfield & Cowley, Dronfield: lists 92 parcels of land, owners and occupiers
Deeds: Transfer of Securities on Derby - Sheffield road
1809: Kinder and Malkin
?1832: Duke of Portland and Lord George Augustus Henry to William Brittlebank
1846: Shore and Shawe
1864: Malkin and Bunting
1865: Greaves and Witham
Abstract of Title: undated
To several principal sums secured by mortgage of the tolls: contains references to documents dated between 1756 and 1834
Lists of mortgages: 1829, 1851-1854 and 1864
Interest Warrants: 1854; 1856; 1868
Letters relating to mortgages: various dates 1847-1868. Concerning payment of interest; terms for composition; death of mortgage holders
Statement of arrears of interest: 1853
Undertakings in relation to lost interest warrants: 1860. Milnes and Newbold.
W E Nightingale, Lea Hurst
Documents relating to telegraph companies: 1862. Comprising:
Pamphlet, excerpt from legal proceedings and other documents relating to trade dispute between UK Electric Telegraph Co Ltd and Electric and International Telegraph Company
Letter from UK Electric Telegraph Co Ltd: seeks leave to erect a line from Bucklands Hollow to Sheffield
Account Book: Duffield-Sheffield Road in account with Crompton, Norton & Co: list of payments to individuals: 1854-1856
Declarations of Trust: 1803
1. Gillett, Radley, Hewitt, Kinder
2. Hunloke
Letters and Accounts about Sale of Flaxseed, 1807-1810, between Robert Kinder, New York and Robert Malkin, Dublin. The letters contain references to constraints of an export embargo imposed by US Government. One letter, addressed "Dear Uncle" from J Barton [perhaps John Barton, (1782-1874), nephew of Robert Malkin]
Financial Statements: Turnpike Securities held by Robert Malkin, undated.
Letters from Home Office:
1853: about recent legislation relating to financial matters
1854; 1856; 1857; 1872: seeking clarification about accounts
1859: asks for statutory return
1870: forwards Memorandum by local residents asking for removal of Oakerthorpe chain bar
Opinion of Counsel, Thomas Gilbert, about liability for maintenance and repair of bridges, 1773
Draft Deed: undated. About sale of land at Hallfield Gate, Shirland: unsigned
Miscellaneous Letters: various dates: 1853-1877. Accompanying substantive documents about financial matters; seeking payments of sums due; relating to complaints about the state of the road; giving reassurance from colliery owners about making good damage to the road; seeking compensation for additional work undertaken by surveyor; explaining source of a payment; referring to contested issues at specific locations; relating to legal dispute about sale of an item of land; seeking permission for installations alongside the road; about alteration or widening of the road at specific locations
Statement of road lengths and outstanding sums of money: undated. Lists 23 parishes in Northern District
Returns of road length per parish and road maintenance cost: 1867; 1871; 1873
Receipts and receipted invoices: various dates 1861-1876. Road maintenance and improvement; refreshments for meetings; supplies of road materials; legal work; payments of interest and repayments of mortgages; newspaper advertising
Correspondence and other documents in relation to construction of Midland Railway Company line between Chesterfield and Sheffield: 1864-1872. The correspondence is with Midland Railway Company, Board of Trade, Branch Patent Office, Sheffield; Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company. Includes: passage of Bill through Parliament; proposals and arrangements for specific aspects of the route, including bridges, level crossings and road diversions
Other railway related correspondence
Proposed level crossings: 1856: Highfield Colliery, Alfreton; 1857: Sheepbridge Iron Work; 1860 & 1861: Coal Lime and Iron Works, Chesterfield
1866: hazard to road users of erection of a railway bridge on Wirksworth branch
1871: letters and plan about proposed diversion of Chesterfield and Worksop road at Tapton
1873: copy letter from Staveley Coal and Iron Company to Midland Railway Company about impact of railway development near Chesterfield Station
Letters from Local Government Board:
1872; 1873: about continuation of the Trust and about transfer of responsibility from Home Office to Local Government Board
1873: extension of local Act until 1875
1875: requirement for an annual report
1878: requirement for annual meeting and submission of accounts
Toll tickets: 1831. Six tickets; one each from different toll gates affixed to what appears to be a rudimentary sketch plan. The locations are on one or more roads in the Chesterfield area, but not on the Derby - Sheffield turnpike
Sketch plan: 1871, showing road alteration at Unstone
Letters to/from B[ernard] Maynard] Lucas:
1853: Correspondence with Inland Revenue about liability to duty; complainants about the poor state of the road; wording of a notice about a special trustees' meeting; Sheffield Gas Company about Turnpike Act of Parliament; letting of the tolls; resignation from office of clerk; about need for inspection of work at Hallfield Gate Quarry. NB: one letter relates to the Chesterfield to Worksop Turnpike: Midland Railway Company taking stone from under the road
1860; resignation as clerk to Derby and Sheffield; Chesterfield; and Worksop and Chesterfield and Matlock Bridge Turnpike Trusts
Letters to/from B[ernard] Maynard] Lucas NOT concerning Turnpike Trust, 1852-1853, re lettings of residential properties in the Chesterfield area and rent collection as agent for owners; and about ending of partnership with Cutts
Trustees' Declaration and Undertaking: Four copies of blank printed proforma
Petition and draft petition to House of Commons for continuation of Turnpike Acts applicable to Derby - Sheffield road: petition bears nine signatures: the names suggest a date of late 18th century
Notice: John Morris, Boston, Lincolnshire: publishes a fortnightly list of tolls to be let, undated.
Letter: 1868. From Clerk to Turnpike Trustees at Worcester: seeks support for objection to a Bill for abolition of Turnpike Trusts
Accounts: undated. Cash paid and estimates of expense: road improvement at Newbridge, Wirksworth
Financial Returns: 1858: Parliamentary expenses; 1867: statutory return
Annual Income and Expenditure Accounts: 1850-1875. For most years there are separate accounts for one or more of the Derby - Sheffield Turnpike Trust districts and for the Trust as a whole. For a few years there are also working sheets. Also: Sinking Fund Accounts: 1854-1856; 1858-1860; 1863-1864
Income and Expenditure Account: 1857: Cavendish Bridge and Hulland Ward Road
Correspondence of Chesterfield and Worksop Road Trustees with Home Office: 1854
Application to extinguish liability to pay arrears of interest and to reduce rate of interest paid on mortgages
Notice of Expiration of Mansfield and Chesterfield Turnpike Trust: 1878
Letters about tolls:
1854: from D Wheatcroft, Bucks Hollow: seeks details of amounts for which some toll gates have been let
1861: from E[rnest] Milliken, Surveyor, P[ost] O[ffice] about compensation for loss of tolls if the coach is allowed to carry mail and become exempt from tolls
1865: from Joseph Newport, Tibshelf: objects to system of toll letting
1866: from Staveley Coal and Iron Company: challenges obligation to pay two tolls for a return journey: refers to Chesterfield and Worksop Turnpike
1869: from Bower and Blackburn, Hunslet: losing money - traffic reduced by poor state of the road at Dronfield
1872: from Falshaw, Askew Grange, Bedale: supplies names of sureties
1873: from T Bower, Hunslet: rate of tolls is inadequate
1872; 1873: from Mr Sale asks about future letting of tolls
County Court Summons and related letter: 1853. Summons for alleged debt for supply of limestone: between Samuel Lucas and Thomas Fall. Letter from C S B Busby seeking evidence that Samuel Lucas was a turnpike trustee and therefore disqualified from supplying material for the road
Income Tax: 1869. Assessment Notice: refers to Derby - Sheffield; Chesterfield - Worksop and Chesterfield - Matlock roads
Letter from Bower and Blackburn: proposal to challenge recent decision of IT Commissioners about taxation
Work Specification: undated. For retaining wall on Mr Smith's land
Letters: seeking permission for laying services under the road:
1856: Notice to Landowners: Clay Cross Waterworks
1856: Dronfield Gas Lighting Company: gas main
1863: Wenlock Iron Works, London: gas main
1872: Hawksley and James: drain pipes
1872: Duke of Devonshire: sewer
Medical Certificates: 1854. Two certificates and endorsement about unhealthy dampness and poor drainage at Dronfield toll house
Draft Resolution: undated; and copy of resolution: 1854. Payment of accounts
Letter: undated. From H Hodding, Worksop: about consequences of construction of Mansfield to Worksop road
Letters: 1872. From Norton, Hasland, Pentrich and Shirland: wish collection of tolls to continue
Tender 1868; letter and account 1869. From Miles Barber, Barlborough, for road repair work
County Court Summons: 1869. Complaint by William Barker, Dronfield: broken cart axle
Insufficiency of Funds for Road Repair: Chesterfield and Worksop Road at Barlborough: 1852.
Notice of presentation to Justices at Eckington. Information Laid before Justices
The box also includes an undated "Schedule of Documents", listing categories of document. Presumably this is an early attempt at listing rather than part of the archive itself. |