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Claim for loss of property #3317 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  3317 Edward Smith Gentleman Fir Vale, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Freehold   Damage done to the Wicker Rolling Mills etc.        
    To Cleansing and removing Rubbish and rebuilding and restoring the same - Loss of Rent and other expenses incident to the damage done by the Flood £293.17.0½        
    Labourers cleansing the Yard, the Mills & Offices & removing 557 Cart Loads of Rubbish etc. £52 18s 3½d  
    Bricklayers Bill of repairs per Rockingham £93 7s 6d  
    Joiners Bill of repairs per Turner £56 17s 9d  
    Joiners Bill of repairs per Feltrup £2 19s 3d  
    Painters Bill of repairs per Kirkby only two thirds charges £7 7s 7d  
    Evans for overlooking the repairs and examining the Accounts £4      
    Loss of House Rent by Tenants being driven out by the Flood £5 1s 6d  
    Tender for Rebuilding Coolings Shop demolished by the Flood £12 2s 6d  
    Tender for Restoring Coalshoots carried away £11 11s 9d  
    Tender by Bricklayer for restoring Boiler Furnace £6 5s    
    Tender by Engineer for Steam and Water pipes repairing £8      
    Estimated Cost of lifting the underground Shafts and Wheels from their Brass bearings and cleaning them from sand - 2 Men 20 days each at 5/6 per Man per day £11      
    Interest from several dates of payment to 5th October 1865 at 5 per cent per annum £17   11d  
    Law Charges etc. £5 5s    
        £293 17s 0½d  
  Certificate Granted
16 January 1865
Assessed by Consent at £281 6s    

Note: Line 11 of particulars: 'Coalshoots' (sic) is probably an old spelling of Coal chutes. (CD)

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