| Description | Originally one bundle containing several smaller bundles: now divided into two bundles for ease of use.
1. Contains correspondence and papers relating to: public convenience at Round Oak (adjoining Frederick Street) with plan [tracing] [1912]; proposed site for new cemetery, with plan [tracing]; proposed recreation ground for Brierley Hill to commemmorate the Queen's Jubilee; stabling and stores for Brierley Hill U.D.C.; damages to streets through mining (Level Street); sale of mines under High Street, with plan [tracing]; mines under the Town Hall; and drainage. Includes newspaper cuttings; draft agreements for the purchase of mines under properties in Brierley Hill between the estate trustees and the trustees appointed by the Brierley Hill Local Board [1884]; and plan [tracing] no.3187 showing mines under High Street.
Correspondents include: Brierley Hill U.D.C.; Claude Tryon; G. H. Claughton; George Taylor; Charles Tylden Wright; Homfray & Holberton; C. Salisbury and Jos. Carpmail; Peter Harris; J. W. Clulow; John Dudley; Benbow & Co.; and William Jeffries.
2. Contains correspondence and papers relating to: Bank Street Wesleyan Chapel, Brierley Hill; damage to wall in Mill Street, Brierley Hill; mining under the Laurels and the public hall, Brierley Hill; mines under the property of Edward Wright; and mines under the Town Hall, with plan [tracing]. Includes: plan [tracing] no.3160 of Wesleyan Chapel Bank Street, Brierley Hill [1880]; plans [tracings] no.s 3079 - 3084 of Brierley Hill High Street [1876]; copy notice of inquiry into borrowing money to purchase mines underneath the office of the Local Board [15 Feb 1876]; newspaper cuttings; and draft agreement with Brierley Hill Local Board for land near No.10 pits Wallows Colliery for the deposit of Cinders [7 Feb 1881].
Correspondents include: Tyndal Wright; J. W. Bell (Trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel Bank Street, Brierley Hill); John Dudley; William Jeffries; J. R. Sawtell; J. L. Holberton; Edward Wright; William Jeffries; Henry Cooke; Edward Fisher Smith; Benbow & Saltwell; J. Walter Clulow; Henry Cooke (Davies' trustees); Edward Lane; Joseph Bird; and William Waldron.
Endorsed: 'B - Brierley Hill Local Board and Mines under High St Brierley Hill - Special' and '437 [crossed out] B16'; many packets labelled '487' |