Journal entry – John Grey – 22 Jul 1833

Monday 22nd July 1833



Ridley Bank

Wrote to Sir M W Ridley &C:  respecting the disagreement between their statement of the Bank Account, as noted by the Clerk of the Checks, & ours requesting them in future, to send to this Office a copy of the weekly statement, as forwarded to Greenwich Hospital, that I may have the means of comparing the account & detecting any omissions.



Railway 

Wrote to Mr Johnson calling his attention to the sum of £151.3.6 due by the Railway Company to the Hospital for money advanced to the Dilston tenants on account of damage.



Stublick Colliery 

       Also to Mr Bell acknowledging the receipt of certain Plans of the workings of Stublick Colliery, which are of little use, telling him that that which I particularly wanted, related to the Working at the west point in the main Coal, at ‘the covered in Shaft’, which he must certainly have; and requesting him to search for & send it to me without delay, as he must be well aware of the danger to the men & the Colliery of working in that quarter, where so much water is lodged, without a plan to ascertain its situation.   

       Rode afterwards over the Farms at Newtonhall and Thornbrough - examining some draining now in progress at Thornbrough High Barns, and advising the Tenant as to the direction in which they should be laid, to render them effective.  Mr Hunt has been looking to the clearing away of the brushwood from the embankment in Widehaugh, where repairs are wanted, & to the providing of piles & other materials for the purpose.  He must now go for a couple of days into Hexhamshire, to attend to some young hedges & drains in that quarter.