| Reference Number | DSCAM/4/5/8 |
| Title | Miscellaneous material relating to the Sedgley Roads Turnpike Trust |
| Description | DSCAM/4/5/8/1-30: General correspondence received by William Fellows/Fellowes junior as Clerk, much of it from the Home Office with queries about annual returns and accounts; proposed South Staffordshire Railway (1849); the Bilston Improvements Bill (1849-50), including notices and press cutting, 'professedly with a view to Sanitary Improvement but the main objects being ... that the parties who pay tolls to a considerable amount may be relieved from those payments ...' and that all turnpikes within the township shall be vested in the new board/commission; complaints about state of road; occasional replies; 5 Feb 1839-Apr 1852. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/31: Estimate for canal bridge at Tipton, n.d. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/32: Agreement of Joseph Johnson of Tipton, glass cutter for the removal of a corner of a house at Upper Green, Tipton conveyed to him by the trustees of the Sedgley turnpike by deed of even date.; plan attached; 14 Nov. 1849. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/33-46: Estimates, tenders, specifications, references and related correspondence for improvements to the turnpike at Gospel End, June 1849 and May-June 1850. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/47: List of subscribers, Sedgley Roads, 1850; with details of arrears. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/48-49: Correspondence received from the Clerk of the Bilston Town Commissioners as to taking over a section of road and removing the toll bar at Coseley Street, Sept.-Oct. 1864. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/50: Draft notice of the erection of the Groveland Side toll bar at Tividale, 1866. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/51: Receipt for cheque, Prior Field Coal and Iron Works, Bilston, Mar. 1867. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/52: Correspondence received from Messrs Joseph Wright and Company, Neptune Forge, Chain and Anchor Works, Tipton Green, Dudley as to small piece of land used for road improvements by the turnpike, July-Nov. 1868. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/53-54: Correspondence received from the General Post Office concerning the erection of telegraph poles, Oct-Nov. 1869. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/55: Note from Messrs Crowley and Company, Wolverhampton concerning state of road bridge near Linleys Furnaces, 2 Dec. 1871. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/56: Agreement of William Mott Hancox of Bilston, Staffordshire, surgeon to sell a parcel of land and buildings at the Bull Ring, Sedgley for £20 for road widening, 30 Sept. 1872. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/57: Agreement, pursuant to a resolution of 14 Dec. 1866, permitting Thomas Walton to erect a bridge for wheelbarrows across the turnpike near Mr Hopkins's furnaces at Dudley Port, 16 Dec. 1872. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/58: 'Answers to questions', being a draft of returns concerning the trust and its finances, n.d. [c.1840]. |
| DSCAM/4/5/8/59: Draft letter from Joseph Green Bourne to Messrs Benbow and Tucker concerning the late Lord Dudley and Lord Ward's mortgages of the tolls, 10 Mar. 1857. |
| Date | 1839-1872 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 59 items |
| Level | Item |