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Journal entry – John Grey – 20 Jul 1833
Saturday 20th July 1833
Having remained in the neighbourhood all night, I passed some hours in looking over the farms & making myself better acquainted with the quality of the soil & the management and characters of the respective Tenants. I went through a good deal of the Woodland too, seeing the bark which had been peeled & laid up & the wood that had been cut and sold, & consulting with the Woodman as to that which was best suited & the most conveniently situated fo
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 21 Jul 1833
John Hodgson Esq
Having Business in London on my own acc[oun]t I shall leave NC [Newcastle] on Sat[urday] the 3rd August by the Steam Boat and will call upon you on the Wednesday following. I do not intend to remain more than three days. BJ
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 Comp
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 23 Jul 1833
Finlay Hodgson 23rd July 1833
D[ea]r Sir
I am in receipt of your letter of the 19th Inst advising of your having sold, two pieces of Silver & of payments of the net proceeds £ 567.1.11 after deducting £19.17.2 charged upon a former piece to Mr B[eaumon]ts credit with Messrs Glyn& Co as usual. I have this day forwarded by Jackson & Co Waggon to your address another piece of fine silver from Blagill Mill weight 1243 1/4 Ozs.
As our cash balance with Messrs Ba
Journal entry – John Grey – 23 Jul 1833
Tuesday 23rd July 1833
Engaged in the Office in the forenoon. Rode to Hexham being Market day to see some of the Tenants & to direct the Plumber about the Water pipes at East Rattenraw & consult him respecting these at Haydon Bridge. Afterwards rode to Highside, a small Farm that is out of the way & seems to have been much neglected - nothing having been done to put the Buildings in any kind of order for the present Tenant. He is satisfied with moderate things, &
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Jul 1833
Wednesday 24th July 1833
Haydon Bridge
I found that the conduit from the Cellar could not be cleansed in its present situation, being so small and choked completely up - but that a much shorter conveyance might be had by carrying it into the passage leading by the Brewhouse to the River, & avoiding the Garden Walls altogether. I propose laying a piece of metal pipe, into the Cellar with a Plug to stop the Influx of the river in high floods & from the end of the pipe, t
Journal entry – John Grey – 25 Jul 1833
Thursday 25th July 1833
Received the Leases of Langley Mills and Stublick Colliery, which I shall deliver to the parties on my way to Alston on tuesday. Also the Boards minutes & instructions to discharge Mr Fenwick’s account for Law Charges together with one to Mr Bicknell of £176:13:2 and a payment of £300 to himself. Having no intimation of such demands & being anxious to keep my balance in the Bank as low as might be I paid £1,500 to the Bank of England, I suspect I sha
Journal entry – John Grey – 26 Jul 1833
Friday 26th July 1833 Hexhamshire
Gairshield Planation
After writing letters & in the Office I rode over to Wooley & thence forward into Hexhamshire, to join Mr Hunt, who had been there a day before, looking into the Condition of the farms, fencing & draining, and where I had appointed to meet Mr Parkin, Woodkeeper, to examine the condition of a slip in the steep bank of Gairshield Plantation caused by the undermining of the stream. On the top of the bank, the plantatio
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
