| Description | Includes: parliamentary petition from the merchants, manufacturers and others; parliamentary petition from Dudley regarding the bill ('to be presented by Ld Hatherton or Lord Ward'); copy petition against by the iron and coal masters of the South West Mining District of Staffordshire; damp press copy letters; resolution of the committee of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Co. [Feb 1849]; list of coal sold from Lord Ward's colllieries and passing into the River Severn 1848; prospectus of the Severn Valley Railway (Shrewsbury to Worcester) [1848 - 1849]; Severn Navigation Bill 1846; petition to the House of Commons for the Severn Canal Navigation Bill from the trustees of the late Earl of Dudley and several merchants, manufacturers, etc.; expenses; copy printed Statement of Promoters in support of the Severn Navigation Bill [1842]; and printed reasons for placing the proposed lock below the entrance of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, etc.
Correspondents include: Lord Lewisham; Richard Smith; Henry Lygon; Lord Hatherton; J. S. Rutter; Richard Godson; J. W. Lea; John Benbow; Clement Ingleby; Henry M. Wainwright; Philip Williams; B. Best; John Corser; Thomas Waters; A. Hardem; and William Cubitt.
Bundle cover endorsed: '2 Severn Improvement Bill Trustees of Earl Dudley' |