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Claim for loss of property #56 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  56 John Unwin Out of Business 131 Brunswick Road Andover Street  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Owner   Damage done to 6 Houses and Sale Shop at Hillfoot - Three Houses have all 2 rooms on a floor and one of them three        
    Paid 3 men for 3 days each cleaning yard & cellars of 6 houses & shop at Hillfoot of mud and opening Drain 4/6 paid for ale for ditto and 4/6 & candles 4d £2 6s 4d  
    Allowed Kirkland for temporary repair of front door   1s    
    Allowed Bonser, 5/'6 Saxton 7/. Johnson 7/. Collis 10/. for coal £1 9s 6d  
    Paid Morfitt for Coal   4s 1d  
    Paid Pallitt for joiners Work £1 1s    
    Paid Newton for paint   11s    
    Self 3 days Whitewashing cellars & painting low rooms 5/.   15s    
    Self 3ΒΌ days painting Walls & painting 4/.   13s    
    39 pieces Room paper for 6 houses (bottom rooms) £1 2s 6d  
    Paid for Hanging 18 pieces paper to William Powell   6s    
    Paid Charwoman for scouring and whitewashing 4 houses   17s    
    Paid Watson for Mason work   18s 9d  
    New Grate for sink pipe - washed away     6d  
    Putty, Lime, & plaster of Paris   1s 0½d  
    Paid William Hague for painting outside one year before - usual time 64/. Say one fourth   16s    
    Paid George Hooker for cokes and Carriage   5s 6d  
    Self attended to make coke fires 3 weeks   5s    
    Allowed Saxton for opening and closing shutters daily   4s 6d  
    Allowed Collis for painting & cleaning house he occupied   8s    
    4 Panes glass broken by flood   1s 4d  
    4 House unoccupied in the aggregate 30 weeksat 3/. per week £4 10s    
        £16 17s 0½d  
  Certificate Granted
2 June 1865
Assessed by Assent at £16 17s 0½d  

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