| Description | Refers to sale of mines at Merry Hill, with plan [tracing]; damage to roads (Quarry Bank Urban District Council); Stour Hill Bridge, Bower Lane; and Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Cradley Forge, Quarry Bank. Includes: duplicate copy receipts [1904]; copy agreement between Quarry Bank U.D.C. and the Earl of Dudley regarding further mining support at Quarry Bank [14 Aug 1900]; newspaper cuttings regarding controversy over mine subsidence and purchase scheme at Quarry Bank [May - Sep 1897, Sep 1899 and Sep 1900]; copy circular letter regarding the lantern lecture syllabus of the 'English Land Restoration League' ('Object: The Abolition of Landlordism', with 'A Study in Landlordism' being 'Lord Dudley and Quarry Bank') [1901]; and plans [tracings].
Correspondents include: Burgess, Taylor & Tryon; Claude Tryon; Mobberley & Perry Ltd; M. Peake; C. Fred. E. Griffiths; G. H. Claughton; Alfred Homfray (Quarry Bank U.D.C.); Saltwell & Tryon; Albert Shaw; Samuel Newton & Sons; John Stevens & Co.; H. Ashton Hill; F. R. Garrard (North Worcestershire Breweries); Henry M. Jackson (Brierley Hill District Gas Light Company); John Stevens (Quarry Bank Bedstead Works); James and Edith Cutler; J. Meachem; W. Waldron; Mrs B. Harper; E. Smith; A. H. Hingley; Alfred Price; Makepeace, Cooper & Co.; Brooke Robinson; Herbert Chosley; John Tristam; M. Baker; J. Priest; James Richards; and John Hughes.
Bundle cover endorsed: 'No.525 Quarry Bank Mines' and 'Special' Includes several smaller wrapped bundles (one endorsed '459 B16 Quarry Bank Mines: Further purchase for the sum of £1000 - Special') |