| Description | File No. 82.B. Agreement (draft) dated 1958, between: 1. Round Oak Steel Works Ltd., Brierley Hill (the Vendor). 2. The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Dudley, Worcester (the Corporation). Refers to part of the Pensnett Canal which was sold by #1 to #2 for the sum of £1,250. Includes plans of the section of canal referred to; correspondence; a newspaper cutting about two children who fell into the canal and contracted paratyphoid due to pollution by sewerage in January 1958; and a newspaper cutting about the proposed closure of the Dudley Canal in December 1961.
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