Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Mar 1835

Tuesday 17th



Took the Estates of Throckley & Whittle in my way from Newcastle.  At the former place the repair of the Mill is completed & its business resumed. The Colliery doing better than the last time I visited it, but still its operations are of trifling account.  I expected that Mr Forster would have viewed and reported upon the different Collieries by this time, but had a letter from him informing me that he had been confined by ill health, but hoped to come up in a fortnight.  Received from Mr Bainbridge the Draft Lease of disputed Ground at Crookburn head, from the Marquis of Cleveland, the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital & Mr Burnett, to the Governor & Company, with an explanatory Letter, both of which I forward for the examination and sanction of the Commissioners.