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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 |