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Claim for loss of property #5114 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5114 Alfred Unwin Steel Manufacturer Blonk Street, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Damage to Personal Property   Two loads of new Charcoal £4 10s    
    Two loads of new Charcoal half used £2 5s    
    Two Charcoal Baskets @ 1/6   3s    
    Totley Clay 15 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 7/~   5s 3d  
    Wire 6 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 12/~ £3 12s    
    To decrease in value upon 11 Bundles of round and square steel weighing 19 hundredweights 1 quarter 6 pounds stored in charcoal place requiring to be remelted £11 11s 8d  
    Six Melting holes spoiled half used £3      
    12 Pots in anealing grate and cokes spoiled   12s    
    Derby Clay 60 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 26/~ £3 18s    
    Stannington Clay 40 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 25/~ £2 10s    
    Sand for Furnace use 5 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 8/~   2s    
    Coke dust (Ground) 5 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 1/9   8s 9d  
    16 Pots and sundry for boards washed away £1      
    Lamp Cotton oil Brushes etc.   10s    
    Hard Cokes 60 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 14/~ £2 2s    
    Sheet Steel and Cast and dobe [?] Shear Octogon and Round £3      
    New pots and putting in same for Number 1 Converting furnace £30      
    New pots and putting in same for Number 2 Converting furnace £30      
    2 Bundles Cast Steel sheets loss to remelt 2 hundredweights 3 quarters 20 pounds @ 13/~ £1 18s    
    23 Bundles spindles and square 26 hundredweights 0 quarters 4 pounds £15 12s    
    Paid Men 2 Weeks wages for removing Sludge Washing Scraps etc. £13 14s 8d  
    2 Carts and Horses and Men engaged 3 days leading sludge out of Yard £2 2s    
    Damage caused to Business by reason of stoppage for three Weeks £18      
        £150 16s 4d  
  Certificate Granted
27 March 1865
Assessed by Consent at £125      

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