| Description | Originally 1 large bundle, divided into 2 for ease.
1: Includes reference to proposed improvements in King Street and High Street, Dudley (with letters to and from the Mayor of Dudley) [1907 - 1908]; alteration at the Vicarage and Parish Church of Dudley [1907 - 1908]; bridge over Saltwells Road, with copy agreement [1903 - 1923]; Dudley sewerage [1885 - 1886]; road repairs [1881]; drainage at Woodside and Harts Hill [1883 - 1886]; Northfield Road culvert [1890]; land at Holly Hall for night soil tip [1896]; coal siding at the electric generating station [1901]; land at Bunn's Lane for night soil tip [1894 - 1906]; tramway at the Trindle, Dudley (including plans) [1878 - 1880]; catchpit at Primrose Hill (with plans) [1878]; sale of land [1875]; boundary at Bumble Hole (with plans) [1871]; drainage and watercourse at Bumble Hole [1868 - 1870]; boundary on Northfield Road (with plan) [1869]; and 'crownings in' at Saltwell Colliery (with plan) [1868].
Includes plans [tracings]; draft agreement for the tenancy of nightsoil depot in Bunns Lane, with plan [tracing] [Jun 1894]; agreement for the tenancy of land at Holly Hall for nightsoil tip, with plan [tracing] [15 May 1896]; agreement for the tenancy of land at Bunn's Lane, Dudley for nightsoil tip, with plan [tracing] [21 Jun 1894]; copy draft licence for tramway across the Birmingham Road and along portion of the footpath of the Tipton Road [6 Aug 1878]; and newspaper cutting from the 'Gazette' regarding 'Want of Dwelling Houses in Dudley' [23 Jun 1876].
2: Relates to sewerage/drainage arbitration [1876 - 1928].
Includes: newspaper clipping from the 'Dudley Herald' [5 Feb 1881], the 'Express' [2 Mar 1881], the 'Brierley Hill Advertiser' [5 Feb 1881] and 'Dudley & District News' regarding sewerage award [29 Jan 1881, 5 Feb 1881 and 14 May 1881]; copy printed 'Speech of the Mayor (H. M. Wainwright, Esq.)' upon the arbitration between the Trustees of the late Earl of Dudley and the Corporation to determine compensation for making intercepting sewers [1 Feb 1881]; copy Dudley Sewage Act 1879; mines valuation for the northern intercepting sewer [4 Jan 1881]; printed Report on the Drainage of Dudley by Henry J. Marten and F. C. Stilemand [1876], extract from the Dudley Sewage Act of 1879 as to liability for working mines minerals or substances under main sewage duct or other works of the corporation [1928].
Bundle cover endorsed: '383 - Dudley Corporation - Special Papers' |