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Claim for loss of property #4753 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4753 John Hobson Scissor Manufacturer Tapton Elms, Crookes Moor  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Owner   Two Squares of Glass 1/4   2s 8d  
    Paid to Joseph Butler, Mason, for removing Mud Sand etc. from the Bridge Dam Bridgehouses, Sheffield and Adjoining retail shops and for reparing Floors & Walls thereof as heretounder particularized £29.11.1½        
    March 15th to April 19th        
    Masons 49 days time at 5/. £12 5s    
    Labourers 70 days at 3/6 £12 8s 6d  
    Mortar for Labourers work   10s    
    425 Bricks at 3d   12s 9d  
    60 Fire Bricks at 1d   5s    
    19 Yards Inpa [?] Flags at 3/. £2 17s    
    Ground Mortar for Pointing   5s    
    2½ Pecks Plaster at 9d   1s 10½d  
    Carting Ashes for Flagging   2s    
    Carting things there & back   4s    
    Paid John Pearson, Joiner for repairs etc. to the same Property as heretounder particularized £5.11.5½        
    March 19th Paid for lent of Pump   3s    
    Time cutting holes in the Cellars and assisting in cleaning Cellars and making good Joiners work to same 6 days £1 10s    
    6 ft 7 x 3 inches @ 3½d   1s 9d  
    9 ft 3 x 3½ inches @ 2d 1/6 Bags and nails 1/.   2s 6d  
    1 New Lock to Cellar door 2/6, 8 yards sash Coard   3s 6d  
    22 ft 11 x ¾ inch at 2d   3s 8d  
    10 ft 11 x 1 inch @ 2½, 2/1 for Plinth Plug beads etc,   2s 1d  
    Nails Springs & Screws 1/6 18 ft 11 x 1½ inch @ 4d 6/.   7s 6d  
    4 ft 11 x 2 inches @ 6d 2/. for Trap door in Cellar   2s    
    2 New Fastners & Nails to Trap door   3s 6d  
    26th Time Prep at 8/. & fix 8/. Trap door Plinth repairing Doors, Windows etc. 7 days £1 15s    
    5 ft 11 x ¾ inch @ 2d     10d  
    3 ft 11 x 1 inch @ 2½d     7½d  
    1 New door Handle 6d     6d  
    31st Time Fixing Cupboard and repairing Doors etc. 3 days   15s    
    Paid Drury and Smith, Plumbers for repairs to the same Property as heretounder particularized £0.19.1        
    March 26th New Pipe to Boiler Steel Cistern 8d & 3 Soldered joints to the same at 10d   3s 2d  
    Taking out a Sink Pipe unstopping & refixing Sink Pipe New pipe for length 8,, [?]   1s    
    3 Soldered Joins at 10d   2s 6d  
    Plumbers time to the whole   5s 4d  
    Eight Squares of Glass 5d   3s 4d  
    One Square of Glass   1s 1d  
    Expended [?] Frith Brothers and Jenkinson Architects        
    Mem. In sending in this Claim I assume that the Iron Bridge will be rebuilt, otherwise I shall have a large Claim for consequential damages, in respect of depreciation in value of the above property caused by the destruction of the said Bridge        
        £36 1s 8d  
  Certificate Granted
11 May 1865
Assessed by Assent at £38 4s 2d  

Note: Total in 'Amount of Damages Claimed' column in Register seems to have been calculated incorrectly and reads £38.4.2
Line 18: 'Coard' [sic]

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