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Claim for loss of property #4945 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4945 John Watson Brewer Spring Lane, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Yearly Tenant under the late John Staniforths Trustees   To loss of one Year's Rent in consequence of above House being uninhabitable, also having lost its trade £30 17s    
    To loss of profit for one Year, at the rate of 10 per Cent on £107.16.4 averaged from the turn over of the 3 Months previous to the Flood £10 15s 6d  
    To tenant washed out by the Flood house rendered uninhabitable, by which he lost a part of his Income and consequently could not pay a Debt of £27 6s 10½d  
    To re setting 3 Fire Ranges, To 1 New Range and Fitting, To 1 New Mantel and Jaumb, To Papering 4 Rooms, To 30 feet of Glazing, To 4 New Doors for inside, To 1 New door and Casing, To 3 doors to repair To 7 Yards of New Wood Seating To 25 yards of New Wood Seating refixing, To 56 feet of New Shutters and Bars etc., To 40 Yards of Walls pointing To repairing 3 flagged floors, 60 Yards, To repairing Plastering, To 900 feet of Painting To repairing Wall, Flags, and Steps in 3 Cellars. £83.13.5        
    For damage to the Boatman Inn Ball Street Green Lane Sheffield
See Annexed Schedule
£83 13s 5d  
    Sheffield October 20th 1864        
    I Jonathan Needham, 52 Johnson Street agree with Mr. John Watson Brewer of Broom Spring Lane To Rebuild and repair the Property known as the Boatman Inn Ball Street Green Lane, destroyed by the late Flood, as specified below.        
    To 2 Fence Walls, To Stable 15 feet 6 inches by 15 feet, To Slating, To Ridging, To Woodwork in Roof, To Racks, Stalls, Mangers and Door, To 5 Pig Coats Coal-Place, To Petty, To Boarding, Roofing and Felt Covering Pig Styes, and 7 Doors to the same.        
    Inside House        
        £152 12s 9½d  
  Certificate Granted
21 June 1865
Assessed by Agreement incl costs at £105      

Note: Line 7: Pig Coats [sic]. Lines 6 to 9 are followed by an additional Award Stamp, "Assessed by Agreement including Costs at" but with no amount entered, and signed again by John Jobson Smith and M J Mills

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