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September Saturday 30
7 1/2
1 55/..
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fine but dullish morning Fahrenheit 49° and breakfast at 8 55/.. with A- [Ann] we lay awake till
after 12 last night talking of one thing or other I told if she would keep me that is the household
taxes sservants wages and all so as to leave me my own income clear I could do very
well she seemed not averse I asked to consider what she would like to be spent~
for we might spend just what she could spare out of her income a thousand a year
would do — and I repeated all this this morning — A- [Ann] came to me for 1/4 hour before breakfast —
A- [Ann] had Samuel Washington and I saw him — according to Mawson’s and Mark Hepworth’s bills for carting from
front of house the stuff would cost 1/. per yard — I said I would take no notice of this — Samuel Washington must settle
it some way — as well as he could — out — about — sat talking to A- [Ann] 1/4 hour till 11 — soon
after when she rode off to Cliff hill to stay all night (as she is to do henceforth every
Saturday) and return tomorrow and the next Sunday afternoon — she wrote to Mrs. Fenton by Samuel Washington this morning to
say George should go over on Thursday to see and pay for the horse Mr. Fenton thought would suit —
I told Samuel Washington about my having paid the land tax of Godley land and cottage and Staups and Barraclough cottage
the tenants to pay it to me in future — some chance of my getting the Godley cottages but I will
not buy them too dear — at my desk at 11 5/.. and till 12 3/4 wrote the whole of yesterday and so far of
today — then out — about — Mr. Harper came at 1 1/2 and staid till near 5 — latterly settling with
Mr. Pollett and his engineer Mr. Wood — longish business — at last allowed as per estimate for the
water wheel 32 feet diameter and 5 feet breast 304.0.0 as per estimate}
Pumps 2 six inch bore . . 176.10.0 as per ditto } of which paid by check no. [number] 171 today
Extras Sundries (there ought to be no sundries) . 53.2.10 } £334.12.10 and the remaining £300
Rolling clow land and its accessories, viz. } to be paid at Xmas —
Pentrough 25.10.0 } whole expense of }
Forbay . 47. 0.0 } rolling clow } For Mr. Harper certifies to there being
Governor . 23. 0.0 } and governor } due only £634.12.10
Back Shuttle 6. 0.0 } . 101.10.0 }
635.12.10 }
wheel . 304.0.0 }
Pumps . 176.10.0 } = 533.12.10
Extras . 53.2.10 }
Rolling clow 101.10.0
635.2.10
among the extras is included £15.7.6 towards connecting the wheel
with other machinery yet nevertheless the estimate Mr. Pollett gave in today
(he said nothing was to be paid for this estimate or that respecting the pumps) for
shafting the gearing for 20 worsted frames = £285. vide line 17 of
Tuesday last page 355. Mr. Matthew Naylor’s estimate = £100.
and Mr. Pollett’s estimate of taking in exchange the present 6 inch bore
pumps for 9 inch ditto ditto = £112.
Mr. Harper went away as Mr. Pollett came in to be paid the £300+ and tried to get me to
pay him the £101.10.0 for the Rolling clow concern now, saying that that was his brother’s and I had said it should
be paid for immediately — yes! said I, but Mr. Harper knows all this and has made the present arrangement;
and as I have confided the matter entirely to him, I shall, of course, adhere to his arrangement, on which
Mr. Pollett thanked me and civilly went away — nor do I nor does Mr. Harper much like the clutches of
Messrs Timothy Bates and sons! — afterwards had Mr. Joseph Culpan in a/c [account] of the garden walls
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and Thomas Hinton to be paid in full for the great main drain at Northgate which will suffice for the shops
to be built in Broad street and for St. Anne’s street — 228 yards taken at 8/6 per yard but Mr. Harper
knew it was too little and with my approbation allowed 10/6 per yard = £119.14.0 — £30 paid in a/c [account] —
then out a few minutes though the 2 Manns were waiting but wanted a little turn out of and fresh air
before beginning the long settling with them — which lasted above an hour till 7 20/.. — dinner at 7 1/2 — coffee —
read the newspaper — came upstairs at 9 50/.. — dinner very dull without A- [Ann] from 9 50/.. (at which
hour Fahrenheit 49°) to now 11 3/4 examining Water wheel account and estimates and wrote all but the 1st 15 lines
of today — the tackling broke (the jenny — the cogs of the new wheel we got yesterday — no fault of the
new wheel — the other large wheel out of order) when the large yew was within an hour of its place —
new wheels to get — Holt, enginner, to come and look at the Jenny — Parkinson and company began the
laundry court wall this morning and have finished their job at the terrace walls and steps except
2 flags laying that are not come — they (the Parkinson men) were likewise at the lowmost wall
today — Booth’s men getting on with the home Gateway and clock-place finished all but coving in —
Baldwin’s man here and began this morning slating the new room adjoining laundry — Robert Mann and company
at rough strong wall against turret passage and kitchen court and in moving large yew tree they had as before
James Sharpe the mason at the Jenny — Nelson’s men finishing up coping etc. about turret —
the 2 outside York joiners putting up awkward steam-doors to cover in brewing copper —
the 2 inside York ditto putting up wood water-spouts against the house — Mr. Harper will be
here again in 3 weeks — the Northgate hotel may be ready for a tenant to move into in a fortnight —
Harper and I agree that Carr is likely to have it at £400 per annum — he will not miss it —
his deepness to get the hotel at a low rent has not profited him much — Greenwood is to
paper the rooms with neat good paper at 2d per yard — Harper told him I should rather break up the hotel
than let it to Carr for less than £400 — I said I should write tonight (but forgot it) to Mr. Parker
to say I had given up all thought of purchasing the coaches of Carr — nor Parker nor Adam were at
home last night when Harper called to tell them this — had just written so far as the clock
struck 12 — fine day — Robert Mann’s son David Mann took possession (‘flitted’) this afternoon
of the Mytham back middle cottage lately occupied by John Green collier — agreement
to be signed and rent settled on Monday — then at accounts till 12 55/.. and went downstairs and, having
told Oddy to leave a kettle of hot water and glass and teaspoon ready, took 2 teaspoons of Epsom salts to try if
these would remove the excessive bilious giddiness I have felt for several days past —
[margin text:] yew tree tackling brooks
David Mann
enters to Mytham
back middle cottage
October Sunday 1
9 50/..
10 35/..
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much rain in the night — rainy morning Fahrenheit 52 1/2° now at 10 55/.. a.m. Have had one largeish motion
but in spite of salts still feel biliously giddy — breakfast at 11 found Mr. Gray having breakfasted but sitting in the room and we sat talking
till 12 10/.. — It is trifles that have given him most trouble — a drop operation (Coliseum steam engine) and a
few bubbles of air (garden apparatus that regularly cooled at 4 p.m. — the gardener then lighted
up a large fire and thus the circulation of hot air somehow stopped, impeded, in the pipes) — coliseum
steam 4 horse power from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. (11 hours) burnt 6 bushels = 1/5 ton of coals — he found the
largest furnace the best — from 12 1/4 to 1 35/.. read Collieries and Coal Trade from page 172 to 191 and from
page 464 to 478 the end of the volume and then looked at Lodge plan — off to church at 2 50/.. yet waited 6 minutes in church (there in 25 minutes)
before service began — Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty — preached 25 minutes from Daniel vi.10. 25 minutes at Cliff hill
Mrs. Ann Walker looking really better than before her illness — home before 6 — dinner at 6 3/4 — coffee read the newspaper — A- [Ann] had letter
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