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Amended claim #1220 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  1220 Joshua Bower; Thomas Bower; Enoch Blackburn Toll Contractors All of Hunslet near Leeds in the County of York  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Lessees of the Tolls of the Wadsley and Langsett Turnpike Road 1864 The Sheffield Water Works Company
To Messieurs Bower and Company Lessees of the Tolls of the Wadsley and Langsett Turnpike Road
       
  March To extra loss arising from stoppage of Traffic on the Wadsley and Langsett Turnpike Road during the time elapsed from the Bridge over the Goit at Hillsbro' or Hillsbro' Bridge being washed away until its re-erection        
  August And also to loss arising from payment of Rent for Tolls on the Wadsley and Langsett Turnpike Road which Tolls were lost from the various Mills Wheels and Dwellinghouses on the line of Road being washed away which previously produced regular Traffic on this Road paying Toll but which has since the Flood being discontinued £276 5s    
        £276 5s    
    Assessed in original claim        

Note: Hillsbro' [sic]

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