| Catalogue Finding Number | SH:7/ML/E/19/0006 |
| Office record is held at | Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service |
| Title | Diary page |
| Description | [Diary Transcription]
2
1836
March
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Mr. Husband returned from York this afternoon — saw him for a minute just before dinner — Mr. Harper had detained him till
his plan was thoroughly investigated — poor Husband quite elated at his plan being quite approved — gave me
the plans and a letter from Mr. Harper — John Booth this afternoon planted at the Cascade bridge the 2 cypresses from the back of the hut.
Thursday 3
7 10/..
11 20/..
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No kiss fine morning Fahrenheit 35° and out at 8 5/.. — at the Lower brook Ing wood with Robert Mann + 4 getting up
oaks ready for the meer puddle-dike — breakfast at 9 1/4 to 10 — had during breakfast had Mr. Husband for a few
minutes — said I had not had time to open Mr. Harpers letter but would read it tonight; and all should be settled about the
wheel tomorrow morning — out again at 10 — with Wood and John Booth planting hollies (holly hedge)
and 3 or 4 fine oaks just above the wood (near the glen bridge) in Parkfarm field till 12 — manured the hollies and
dressed them up with Northgate soil brought yesterday — Mark Hepworth gone to Bradford fair today, and his
carts not here — went down to the meer-source (çi devant Engine-pit) — at 12 20/.. going home for A- [Ann]
met her in the walk — shewed her the line of puddle-dike, the Engine-pit, the 2 cypresses brought to the
Cascade bridge — my new holly hedge in course of planting — went with her to the Lodge, and walked her
about till 1 1/2 — from then to 7 (A- [Ann] went to Cliff hill and then to Holcans) with Robert Mann + 4
and Frank and 2 carts my father’s and my own bringing soil to about the meer-source — soiling over the
old pit-hill stuff — lowering the Engine pit sides down to what will be the level of the water
when it is risen (3 feet higher than at present) to the level of the meer — the last thing got up and
loaded 1 cart with hollies to stand in the barn as last night ready for morning and the other cart
with fine oaks to be planted with the hollies — dressed — dinner at 7 25/.. — coffee — A- [Ann] did her
French — she and I 1/4 hour with my aunt till 9 1/4 — then came upstairs — read Mr. Harper’s letter — much approves
Mr. Husband’s plan — his emendation and simplification will save £123 and some shillings
Mr. Harper had consulted the revered Mr. W. Taylor of York one of the cleverest mechanics
in the country and upon whose opinion I might safely rely — the wheel will have 20 1/2 horse
power — it seems 2 1/2 horse power will do all the coal-water pumping work and
I shall have 18 horse power to spare — enough for a corn-mill — in good spirits about it —
told A- [Ann] I hoped to make from £200 to £300 by the meer eventually, but should receive nothing of
two years — suppose the meer to take up 4 DW [days work] at £3 = £12 + £17 per annum 5 per cent
interest on money laid out = total £30 per annum Suppose I can raise Mytholm
mill (George Robinson) £80 per annum and let a corn mill for £200 and charge £40 or
£50 or double this including all other expenses in loosing the coal per annum on the coal — all this may leave me, after deducting cost of building
corn mill etc., — from £200 to £300 per annum? John Clarke the footman ill
again — went to Mr. Jubb at 9 a.m., and was bled before he returned — wrote the above of today till
10 1/4 at which hour Fahrenheit 33° very fine day — Note this evening from the H-x [Halifax] philosophical society
[margin text:] Mr. Husbands saving power of the water wheel. Observation
3
1836
March Friday 4
7 40/..
11 3/4
V
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No kiss fine morning white frost sun shining and Fahrenheit 39 1/2° at 8 40/.. and breakfast and had Mr. Husband and then
finished breakfast at 10 — Began and read the 1st chapter 9 ppages and cut open great part of Taylor’s history of the overthrow of
the Roman Empire till 10 35/.. — out at 10 40/.. — no! waited 10 minutes for A- [Ann] and then out with her at
10 50/.. to 12 1/4 — went to the new holly hedge in Parkfarm field — then to the Mytholm — Mallinson and his 2
men and a boy there — laying floors — looked about — the cottage-end to the south newly walled up in place of the old
studding — sauntered about — A- [Ann] tired — gave her hot wine and water and biscuit — met Mr. Jubb going
away as we came in — my aunt going on very well — my father better and our servants (John Clarke and Mary)
better — Out again at 12 1/2 having been a few minutes with my father — met my own cart and Robert
Mann and Wood with 3 large trees and some smaller — the 3 larger ones (oaks as well as all the rest)
planted in the afternoon on the embankment in front of the house near to the cascade bridge — the smaller ones planted in Park
farm field above the wood and down to the Wheatfield glen — John Booth and Wood did all the planting and then got up and
planted at the cascade bridge (over the water) the largest of the 4 Portugal laurels at the bottom of the wood below
the hut — Robert Mann and Samuel Booth and John Green and the new man John Gill and Frank and 2
carts getting soil the latter 1/2 the morning and levelling about the meer-source (Godley Engine pit) — It
was after 6 before the Portugal laurel was planted — Mark Hepworth helped us — his carts here today
bringing soil from Northgate to front of house — had Joseph Mann (Robert too late to settle tonight) —
several bills — near 7 before I had done with him — dressed — dinner at 7 10/.. — coffee — A- [Ann] did her French and
went to my aunt at 9 — I came upstairs and wrote the above of today — Mr. Musgrave came to me this afternoon
while planting the 3 oaks in front of the house to ask if A- [Ann] was at home — no! he gave me the
balance 22/. of her bible-account (society bibles for the Sunday school children) — told me the
new Dispensary was to be thrown open to public competition — very civil — the men
the 1st thing in the morning finished planting holley hedge at top of the wood near the glen bridge and pulled
down the low-end bit of wall between the glen and Parkfarm field while Frank carted more clay for puddling
the Long water drift — went to my aunt at 9 1/2 — she went to bed at 10 — sat reading 25 minutes from
page10 to 29 Taylors overthrow of the Roman Empire — very fine day — high towards night and rain from
about 10 p.m. Fahrenheit 41 1/2[°] and rainy boisterous night now at 10 1/2 p.m. —
Saturday 5
7 5/..
11 3/4
No kiss ready in 55 minutes fine frosty morning teaching A- [Ann] arithmetic for 1/4 hour till 8 1/4 at which hour Fahrenheit 35°
out at 8 1/4 — no! a few minutes 1st with my father and A- [Ann] too went with me to ask him how he was
she not having seen him of 2 or 3 days — out for a minute in the barn — the men planting at the
meer-head so did not go down — stood reading in the north parlour — till A- [Ann] came and breakfast at 9 — had Mr.
Husband — the wheel-race will take 8 men 3 months say 10 men allowing for broken time —
wish Booth to have the job — paid Mr. Husband his expenses to York (38/6) paid £2. ordered pony-sled —
etc. had not finished breakfast till 10 — then 10 minutes with A- [Ann] at arithmetic — out at 10 1/4 — went down
to the meer-head to Robert Mann + 4 levelling soil there and having planted several young oaks — took all the
men up to the planting 3 or 4 more large oaks and some young hollies, and getting up rails and set-stone at the bottom
of Park-farm field near the Glen-bridge — left the men there at 12 20/.. and found them there at 2 50/.. and then sent Robert
+ 3 down to the meer-head with Frank and the 2 carts (he had all the morning been carting clay for puddling the Long water drift
and flags and the small trough (from near the Low fish pond) for Listerwick cabin, to hold cold water for tool-sharpening —
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| Date | Mar 1836 |
| Extent | 1 page |
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