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Journal entry – John Grey – 27 Jul 1833
Saturday 27th July 1833 The Board.
Received Mr Hoopers instructions for the payment of Mr Weatherley’s Salary & Mr Storeys charge for valuations, which shall be attended to, also directions respecting the returns from Alston of the quantities Lead Ore delivered to the Lessees of the Mills, & the average price of lead in each quarter, in the manner prescribed by the Covenants. On this subject I have hitherto had no information, but have written to Mr
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 28 Jul 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London July 28th 1833
I am without your fav[ou]r since I last addressed you on the 23rd inst. I have now to advise you of having yesterday forwarded to your address as usual by Jackson & Co Waggon a piece of fine Silver weighing 941 3/4 Ozs
Journal entry – John Grey – 29 Jul 1833
Monday 29th July 1833
Received the Boards Minutes to the 20th Instant. The various subjects on which it contains directions, shall receive my immediate attention. The Thrashing Machine at West Rattenraw has been disposed of by its owner and removed by the purchaser, the present tenant may therefore erect a new one if he chooses, under the guarantee, of its being taken off his hand by valuation at the end of his lease. Prepared certain papers and accounts to take to Alston in the morning. R
Journal entry – John Grey – 30 Jul 1833
Tuesday 30th July 1833
Haydon Bridge Inn
Set off early to Haydon Bridge. Found that the plan adopted for cleansing the Cellar of the Inn, by means of taking a different course for the conduit, had been effected at very little cost, & that the flags can be now laid down in the Cellar floor with safety. Mr Hetherington showed me an estimate for repairing the brewing utensils belonging to the Hospital, which have been long out of use, amounting to nearly £10. he is desirous to have t
Journal entry – John Grey – 31 Jul 1833
Wednesday 31st July 1833
Examined all Mr Stephen’s accounts comparing the deliveries with the entries in his Ledger throughout. All his transactions seem very accurate and regular. The account of Ore weighed over by him up to the 1st July was 3229 Bings 2Cwts from which he received for duty, and delivered to the Smelting Mill 558 Bings & 2Cwts. After examining his premises and the Receiving house there, I accompanied him & Mr Dickinson to those at Hudgill Butn & Nenthead.
Journal entry – John Grey – 1 Aug 1833
Thursday 1st August 1833
Alston Mill
Went to examine the Corn Mill in Alston, a part of which is in such a state as hardly to be kept going. The end of the water axle, has been so often repaired & is in such a rate of decay that it will no longer hold the Wedges - and the woden cogs of the second or spur wheel, are worn so short as hardly to take any hold of those in which they work. I apprehend it will be necessary to have this examined by a Millwright to have his report upon its co
Journal entry – John Grey – 2 Aug 1833
Friday 2nd August 1833
Langley Mill
Returned to Langley Mill and met Mr Lee, who is to have a meeting with his partners in a few days, when he will call here and discharge the amount of the valuation of Stock at the Mill & their share of the Lease. Examined all the works, and saw a fine Cake of Silver made. Came to Lightbirks to look at the Stable etc fitting up there, and proceeded to Corbridge.
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Locke – 3 Aug 1833
Messrs John Locke & Co London
Sirs
I have duly received your letter of the 1st Inst. Our present price of WB Litharge is Fourteen Pounds ten shillings per Ton delivered at our works at Blaydon. We never undertake to deliver it on Board. The expense of delivery on Board would be <31s/..d> for the 70 Casks and the same charge would be made any less quantity. I shall be in town on Tuesday next and will do myself the pleasure to call at your works.
WB Lead Office Newcastle
Aug
Journal entry – John Grey – 3 Aug 1833
Saturday 3rd August 1833
Received an order from the Railway Company for £151:3:6 due to the Hospital on Account of the allowances for damage, made to the Dilston Tenants, also information from the Board that £1000 had been ordered to be repaid to my Credit, through Sir R Carr Glynn & Co to Sir M W Ridley & Co.
Wrote to Ridley Bigge & Co desiring that they would order £300 to be paid to the Bank of England to Mr Hooper and £176:13:2 to Mr Bicknell.
Wrote to M
Journal entry – John Grey – 5 Aug 1833
Monday 5th August 1833
Whittle
Rode to Whittle to concert with the Tenant and Builder, a change in the purposed arrangement of the Cattle Sheds & Stable to be erected there, which will add greatly to their accommodation & convenience and will not I hope increase the expense.
Throckley
Proceeded to Throckley to see the new working of Coal there, & come to an agreement with the Lessees respecting it. Messrs Bones having both gone to Newcastle, I did not see them but wen
Journal entry – John Grey – 6 Aug 1833
Tuesday 6th August 1833
Alston Road Trust
Attended at Hexham a Meeting of the Trustees of the Alston Road, to which the report of their Committee upon the state of their funds (a copy of which I already have the honor to forward to the Board) was submitted. An opinion was universally expressed, that it would be impossible for them to make good the monthly payments to the Commissrs of the Hospital and the annual one to the Lead Company, without abandoning the maintenance of the Roads, sev
Journal entry – John Grey – 7 Aug 1833
Wednesday 7th August 1833
Tyne Banks
Having set some men to work to repair the damage done to the Stone breast work along the Shore of the Tyne from the Nursery Ground downwards, along the west side of Widehaugh, where on account of the depth of the Water, it can only be well done in the present low state of the River, I got into the float or raft made for conveying Stones join the river, & paddled along the whole length of the works, which can be best seen, & the breaches best as
Journal entry – John Grey – 8 Aug 1833
Thursday 8th August 1833
Dilston Road
Went by appointment to attend a meeting of the Gateshead and Hexham Road Trustees at Riding Mill, to discuss the proposed change of Road at Dilston hill a proposition respecting which from the said meeting, I shall have the honor to forward for the consideration of the Board. Some of the Trustees spoke of a former correspondence on this subject with Mr Brandling, & entertained the idea that a grant of land to form the new Road had already been pr
Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Aug 1833
Friday 9th August 1833
In consequence of a message I left at Throckley Colliery a few days ago, when I did not find the Lessees at home, they waited upon me this morning, and after some conversation and explanations, signified the willingness to agree to the proposal I made to them, viz to pay the rent of £40 a year for the Colliery from the commencement of their term (the three past years of which have been spent in unsuccessful attempts without any rent being paid) on condition of their
Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Aug 1833
Saturday 10th August 1833
I this morning sent Mr Hunt to look after some draining at Shawhouse and the building at Newtonhall & Whittle, wishing myself to attend to the operations on the Tyne, when I spent most of the day among the Workmen. Besides the work of repairing the Stone breast against the west end of Widehaugh, I am anxious to take advantage of the present low state of the river, to secure from further encroachment, the shores above & below the mouth of the Devils Water,
Journal entry – John Grey – 12 Aug 1833
Monday 12th August 1833
Dilston Road to Snokoe Quarry
Had various letters to write & several matters to attend to in the Office. Also a long conference with Mr Walker of the Railway Company, who stated that he had seen the contractors for the Bridges, in leading the Stones to which, the injury had been done to the roads in Dilston South Farm. That they denied ever having complied with the terms, respecting the repair of the road, proposed by Mr Sample, that they had also left a q
Letters – George Backhouse to John Stagg – 13 Aug 1833
J[oh]n Stagg Esq 13 Aug 1833
Sir
In Mr Johnsons absence I am favoured with yours of the 11th Inst. & in reply have to say we have no Common Lead to dispose of at present but can supply you with the quantity of Slag inquired after at £13..5/- for an fodder. Six Mo[nths] Credit
I am d[ear] Sir GB
Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Aug 1833
Tuesday 13th August 1833
Stublick Colliery Crops
Had an interview this morning with Mr Shield of Stublick Colliery respecting the dilemma he is in with regard to the Corn upon the lands attached to the Colliery, which matter I have fully stated to the Board in my Letter of this evening to Mr Hooper.
Fewster
Also saw Fewster tenant of Newlands Haugh Farm, wishing to talk to me about the Wood for the Bridge, but evidently to discover my opinion respecting their prospect of continui
Journal entry – John Grey – 14 Aug 1833
Wednesday 14th August 1832
Ore in 1822? and 1832
Received three Copies of the Agreement for Lands attached to Langley Smelt Mills, & forwarded them to Mr George Lee, requesting to have two of them returned to me, with the signature of the parties. Forwarded to Mr Hooper a comparative view of the produce of Ore from the Hospitals Mines in the years 1822 and 1832, as furnished by Mr Thomas Dickinson.
Simpson, Painter
Rode to Thornbrough & thence to Newtonhall & Wh
Journal entry – John Grey – 15 Aug 1833
Thursday 15th August 1833
Attended to some matters in the Office and with Mr Parkin, regarding the Woods. Passed some hours with the Workmen at the Tyne Banks and afterwards engaged in drawing up conditions to submit to the Board, for the future management of such farms as may come to be let upon fresh Agreements.
Letters – George Backhouse to John Stagg – 16 Aug 1833
J[oh]n Stagg 16 Aug
Sir
In reply to your favour of yesterday I have to say I accept your offer of 13/5 pour F[odde]r 6 Mo[nth]s Credit for Three Hundred p[iece]s of Ref[ine]d Slag Lead, if it suit your arrangement you may have Five Hundred on these terms.
I am Sir GB
P.S. I have the goodness to give orders to your shipping Agents here.
Journal entry – John Grey – 16 Aug 1833
Friday 16th August 1833
After receiving and answering Letters, rode to the Works on the Tyne Banks, which it is most desirable to get forward with while the river continues low. Thence proceeded to examine the Woods of Dilston Park and the Devils Water in both of which there is much Larch and Scots Fir at its full growth. In the latter is, toward the high part of the river, a fine growth of Oaks, but many of them seemed to be sustaining injury from the Ivy which is clinging around them an
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 17 Aug 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London Aug 17 1833
Annexed you have a statement of the Stock of Lead unsold at Blaydon and the respective Mills on the 31st July after sales of last week are deducted, and 15,000 P[iece]s of the Ordinary refined Lead are supposed to be recast into Common of 11 St[one] Pieces.
The Lead at the Mills will be delivered at Blaydon by the end of next Month
I have considered only 15.000 of the 23.000 to be recast to leave a sufficient quantity of
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Aug 1833
Saturday 17th August 1833
Met Mr Parkin this morning by appointment and went with him through all the Woods on the Tyne Banks, deciding on such as it seemed necessary to remove, both from the embankments themselves & from the brink of the River, to admit if getting the Banks sufficiently sloped and secured, of the latter there are many so, much undermined, as to make it likely the next flood would carry them off. We then proceeded to examine particularly the Woods on both sides of the
Journal entry – John Grey – 19 Aug 1833
Monday 19th August 1833
Bell Stublick
Received the Boards instructions to inform Mr Bell, late Agent of Stublick Colliery that unless he shall satisfy me immediately both regarding the Colliery Plans and his claim to away going Crop on the land he held as Agent, the Board will consider that he has forfeited all talk to the gratuity ordered him. Enclosed a copy of the Minute to Mr Bell & forwarded by Coach, informing him that I should be at Haydon Bridge tomorrow, where, if he chose,
