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Appendix to claim #4590 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4590 Edwin Marsden Engineer Pilot Works, Cotton Mill Row, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
    [Total claimed for Store Room] £20      
    Iron Shed        
    1 5 ft Wheel Pattern damaged        
    1 New Metal Wheel        
    A quantity of Metal Castings and Iron and Dog Cart Cleaning        
    [Total Claimed for Iron Shed] £5      
    Spring Shop        
    1 4 ft 2 Inch Wheel Pattern Washed away        
    1 Pig entirely lost 24 Stone £7 13s 6d  
    15 Cwt Gas Cokes washed away   7s 3d  
    2 Ton Cone for making Soft Cokes Washed away   15s    
    2 Ton Cokes Washed away   18s    
    Bone Grease Washed away   10s    
    Damage to T. Worse [?] by being nearly drowned for Medicine etc.   12s    
    Damage to Harness and Horse Corn etc. in Stable £1 10s    
    Damage in Store Room        
    1 Large Slide Rest damaged        
    1 Small Slide Rest damaged        
    2 Cwt 2 Qrs 0 lbs of Axle Bolts damaged        
    2 Joiners Tool Chests with Tools damaged        
    10 Sets Axle Brushes Redressing and Cleaning        
    6 Sets Axles Regetting up and Painting        
    2 Metal Drum Rim Metal Patterns Regetting up and Painting        
    7 Metal Pulley Patterns getting up        
    Drawing Boards with Working Drawings for a 4 Horse Engine Drawings Spoiled        
    Drawing Boards with Working Drawings for a 6 Horse Engine Drawings Spoiled        
    New Iron Work, New Castings and Tools damaged        
    Pattern for Large Punching Machine Damaged        
    Pattern for Large Pair of Shears Damaged        
    1 Set of Patterns for 16 Inch Engine Damaged        
    Side Pipe Patterns for Pilot Works Engine Damaged        
    1 Bevil Wheel pattern, partially spoiled        
    2 Metal Wheel Patterns damaged        
    1 Metal Wheel Casting damaged        
    2 Large Metal Drums Cleaning and Repairng        
    Patterns for 6 Punching Machines damaged        
    Timber consisting of Dry Pine etc. for making Patterns, Lost and damaged        
    [Total for Spring Shop] £35      
    Large Workshop        
    1 Pair of New Lever Shears for Cutting Iron taking to pieces, cleaning, repainting and Bright Work getting up again £3 10s    
    Large Lathe taking to pieces, cleaning and putting together again £3      
    Large Planing Machine taking to pieces, cleaning and putting together again £7 11s 6d  
    4 Lathes and 1 Drilling Machine taking to pieces, cleaning and putting together again £4 10s    
    1 Pair of Bellows damaged £2 10s    
    2 Fire Irons, Bellows Pipe, Taps and Dies, Files, Turning Tools, Oil Cans, Holland Covers, Tools in Chest, Washed away and damaged £12      
    1 vertical Engine partly finished and Erecting, taking to pieces, cleaning and putting together again £2      
    Engine Work for Small Engine cleaning and regetting up £2 10s    
    Engine House        
    Engine and Flues and Boiler, Cleaning and getting ready for Work £5      
    Boiler House        
    1 Vertical Engine erected nearly finished ready for delivery, pulling to pieces, Cleaning, Repairing and putting together again £4      
    1 Ton Axle Brushes Cleaning, 1 Ton New Castings Cleaning, 1 4 Ft Metal Wheel pattern regetting up £3      
    Damage to Block Rope £1      
    Damage to Leather Driving Bands £4 6s    
    Damage to Property belonging to me in Pilot Works Yard £10      
    Emptying House and Store Room, Cellars and Cleaning £1 10s    
    Removing and getting Rubbish out of House, Yard and Works £10      
    Coals for Drying House, Store Room and other parts of the Works and Premises and other Articles for Cleaning £1 18s    
    Emptying Hot Water Trough £3 10s    
    Emptying Cold Water Trough and Engine Well and making good again. March 14th & 15th May 2nd & 9th &16th, June 2nd, July 2nd 3rd & 4th £9 10s    
    Horse and Cart taking the Rubbish away that came out of the Sough   16s    
    Loss sustained by the Machinery Standing first week after the flood and during the time the Sough was cleaned out £18 4s 6d  
    Claim of my Workmen made by them to me for lost time        
    Richard Taylor 3¼ days @ 4/2 Peter Butler 2 days @ 2/8   18s 10d  
    I Employ 20 Work people but the above are all that have claimed upon me        
    Wood Patterns for a Pair of Lever Shears damaged        
    Work Benches and Cisterns washed away        
    Wheel Rents allowed to Grinders for Wheel Standing first week after the Flood £2 8s 6d  
    Wheel Rents allowed to Grinders for Wheel Standing until the Sough was cleaned after the first week £2 8s 6d  
    William Coup 2¾ days @ 5/. James Morton 2¾ days at 2/6 £1   7d  
    William Talent 4 days @ 5/. Peter Conner 1¾ days @ 3/. £1 5s 3d  
        £190 13s 5d  
           

Note: Line 15: 'Damage to T. Worse by being nearly drowned for Medicine etc.' [sic]

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