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Documents relating to tolls:
Toll collectors' records: 1840-1843: daily notebooks; weekly summaries
Sheets of free toll tickets
Draft Conditions and Agreement for letting of tolls: 1867
List: 1845: parties to be treated with as to tolls: 7 names
Account: 1843: total toll receipts
Conditions and Agreement: letting of tolls: 1882: John Greenwood
Documents relating to financial matters:
Invoices/receipts: 1840, 1842, 1846, 1855, 1857, 1877-1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1887 tithe apportionment; toll house and toll gate repairs and painting; legal work; court attendance at Knutsford; newspaper advertisement; supply of gas and water; printing
Bank documents: Manchester and County Bank Ltd: cheque books: stubs with entries at various dates: 1879-1901; cancelled cheque: 1880; cheque: 1885, payable to Potts & Roberts; bank books: entries 1876-1901; credit advices: 1882-1886
Cheque books: District bank: stub entries 1863-1865, 1871-1872, 1874-1875
Receipt books: entries: 1865, 1882-1887
Receipts: 1865-1872, 1879-1882, 1887: payments of interest and payments to discharge bonds
Income and expenditure accounts: 1843-1845, 1848, 1850-1855, 1857, 1860, 1863-1864, 1866-1869, 1871, 1874-1875
Income tax documents: 1871-1872, 1884, 1885, 1887
List of bonds and associated minute of trustees meeting: 1853
Statement: interest not called for: entries 1852-1862
Tenders for Composition: 1873
Accounts: disbursements by the clerk: 1882, 1883
Financial notes: 1883
Mortgages of tolls: 1853: Thomas Orford, James Ingham, Charles Brocklehurst, George William Newton, John White; 1854: Thomas Slack, Peter Slack; 1857: Samuel Waterhouse, John Marriott, John Holt Jackson with assignment to J L Vaughan; 1858: John Gee; 1859: Bradbury, Taylor & Wardle; 1860: Robert Rain; 1867: Joseph Pearson, Thomas Bridge, James Jinks
Bond of indemnity (and draft): 1887: Sarah Wilks, formerly Barrowby
Securities: 1865: for £300 and interest: Edward Reddish with assignment to Samuel Wild; 1866: executrix of John Thornley; 1867: executor of Joseph Bowden
List: undated: trustees and bondholders
Release/release and reassignment: 1864: John Taylor to John Hulme; 1867: Anne O Holte; 1869: Edward Reddish to Mrs Barlow and others
1872: Edward Reddish; 1883: (draft) L A & F M Winterbottom
Act of Parliament: Thornsett Turnpike Road Act 1864
Epitome of Petitions against Thornsett Turnpike Trust Bill: undated
Draft notice: 1884: intention to apply for extension of Act
Legislation Abstract: 1882: provisions of the several Turnpike Trust Continuance Acts
Documents relating to building and maintenance of the road and toll houses:
Notebook: entries 1837-1838: labourers' work on the road: names, location of work, task, days worked, hourly rate and total pay
Agreement: 1879: S Howard: repair of Goyt Bridge
Tenders: 1883-1884: painting of toll houses
Notices under Public Health Act 1875: from New Mills Local Board: 1882: damp and dirty conditions of toll house at Potter Hey: requires repair of roof and walls
Newspaper cutting: Ashton Reporter 19 February 1887: an encroaching wall
List: undated: owners of land adjoining toll bars
Draft conveyance: ?1887: John Drinkwater: land at Furness Vale: with sketch plan: 9.5 inches x 9 inches: scale 22 feet to one inch
Draft conveyance: 1887: Francis John Sumner: land at High Hill
Letters and witness/investigation statements: 1886: police inspector Thomas Eyre; witnesses Samson Stott and John Leadbetter: relating to criminal damage to toll houses
Notices: 1886: sale of toll houses
Notice: 1886: from Thomas Hadfield, John Barber, (surveyors of Highways for hamlet of Phoside): requirement to improve road at Oven Hill
Plans and photographs:
Plan: Thornsett Turnpike: undated: 25 inches x 17.5 inches: scale 1 chain to 1 inch
Photographs: sepia, mounted with captions: mount size 12 inches x 15.5 inches; print size 8.75 inches x 10.5 inches; four items, each a different view of Goyt Bridge with wooden supports, seen from below: undated: possibly 1879 when the need for repair was under negotiation
Ground plan: 1886: Furness Toll House: 11 inches x 17 inches: scale 4 feet to one inch
Original newspapers:
Cheshire County News: 26 May 1882, 23 May 1884, 22 May 1885
Ashton under Lyne Reporter: 27 November 1886
The Times: 7 August 1886
Manchester Guardian: 11 January 1882
North Cheshire Herald: 26 May 1883
Manchester Evening News: 25 May 1883
Documents relating to proposed Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway:
Parliamentary Bill: 1854
Draft agreements: 1856
Related correspondence: 1855-1857: Edward Reddish, John White, W H Richings, G B Townsend, James Newton, John Taylor, Henry Notman
Invoice: 1864: legal work, Dyson & Co
Copy: notes of meeting with directors of Stockport Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Co: 1857
Draft statement of case: 1857
Brief, petition against and associated correspondence: Thornsett Turnpike Trust to oppose the Bill: 1854
Letters: various dates 1844-1887: subjects include: business of the trust; financial matters; tenders for tolls and offers to compound tolls for regular coal traffic: correspondents include: William Hooley (treasurer); Edward Reddish (father and son: clerk); Thomas Bennett; Francis Travers Buckley; Ebenezer Adamson (treasurer); John Greenwood (toll contractor); James Ingham; Richard Orford; Joseph Bennett; Peter Warren; John Yates; W Herbert; Samuel Ralphs; John Hudson; John Pollitt; W Williams; Local Government Board. Original bundles of correspondence: (some sealed: not opened for listing): 1870, 1871, 1872 1876
Letter: 1842: from John Slater, Union Workhouse, Low Leighton, to Ebenezer Adamson: sends £15: 15s by hiS daughter: not safe to be here as Rioters have been; expects them to come again: if anything can be done to preserve the workhouse it ought to be done : a chance of it being broken into and perhaps set fire to: they have had money, 2/6 and 2 loaves of bread
Letter: November 1 1886: from John Hudson, Birch Vale: "Your instructions per telegram this afternoon are being carried out tonight at 12 o'clock: viz unhanging gates on all Toll Houses"
Letters: 1898: from County Surveyor, Cheshire to Francis Newton: obtaining copies of relevant legislation and getting sight of related plans
Documents relating to Trustees' meetings:
minutes/meeting notes: ? 1864: committee decision: turnpike finance: with associated letter: and meetings of Trustees: 1884, 1885
copy: resolution of trustees: 1863
notices: 1846, 1873, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886: annual meeting
agenda: 1884: annual meeting
Advertisements/ newspaper cuttings:
Advertisement copies: 1886: claims for principal and interest
Newspaper cutting: 1883: notice of annual meeting of trustees of Elton and Blackburn Roads
Newspaper cuttings: 1883: Manchester and Saltersbrook Turnpike; Manchester and Ashton under Lyne New Turnpike: intention to apply for extension of powers
Dryclough Shaw and Rochdale Roads: notice of annual meeting
Newspaper cutting: 1884: sale of land, buildings and materials: Manchester and Saltersbrook Turnpike Road
Draft notices: 1884: Manchester and Saltersbrook Turnpike Road: to Samuel Wood and Lord Tollemarche: land at Mottram Moor; and to William Mills: land in Openshaw
Draft Claims Notices: 1885: with related newspaper cuttings: Beeding and Old Shoreham Turnpike Road; Horsham and Steyning Turnpike Road
Documents with no evident connection with The Turnpike Trust:
Personal reference: 1843: by John Welch of Furness: addressed to Lloyd Buchan & Welsh: subject George Critchley
Invoice: undated: tithe apportionment: Chinley Bugsworth & Beaconside: John White
Invoice: undated: liquor, hay and corn: Moon Inn, Stoney Middleton: receipt by W Moseley [landlord in 1840s]
Invoice: 1840: accommodation and meals: John Alsop, Three Tuns, Market Place Chesterfield
Invoice: undated: meat: Thomas Neale, Kings Arms, St Mary Gate, Derby
Note: "Thomas Jepson date of marriage Oct 2nd 1872"
Letter: 1883: from J Hadfield, 2 Grosvenor Place Weymouth: encloses £1 postal order for "your school": doubts whether you will get anything from Trustees, but encloses a letter; you can but try. (Has succeeded to the estate of J Waterhouse: please pay any money to Mr Gee)
Personal letter: 1875: from Samuel Wilson, Annfield Terrace, Partick: addressee not named: apology for not calling as promised |