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Claim for loss of property #5446 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5446 William Groves, George F. Glossop and Albert H. Groves trading under the Firm of "Richard Groves & Sons" Steel File and Saw Manufacturers Bee Hive Works, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
    For the Loss of and damage to goods in the process of Manufacture washed away from Broadhead Wheel, aforesaid particulars of which are set forth in the fifth Schedule hereto £50 10s 10d  
    For Wages to Workmen unemployed in Consequence of the Inundation during parts of the 3 Months Next thereafter as follows        
    George Skelton Saw Grinder £3 7s    
    For Grinding Stones washed away perquisites of Workmen ~        
    George Skelton £1 12s 6d  
    For extra Expenses incurred in hiring 4 Saw Troughs at £25 each per year and 4 File Troughs at £13 each per year for 2½ Years until the reinstation of the above Works £380      
    For Legal expenses incurred in consequence of the above Inundation prior to the preparation of this Claim £12 12s    
    William Sayles File Grinder £5 12s 5d  
    William Broadhead File Grinder £6 9s 2d  
    William Marples Saw Grinder £5 19s 8d  
    William Marples £2 5s 6d  
    For damage to the Broadhead Wheel on the River Loxley in the Parish of Ecclesfield in the County of York and the Land and River Banks adjoining thereto exclusively occupied by the Claimants and for the expense of Making good, the same particulars of which are set forth in the first Schedule hereto. £1094 3s 4d  
    For damages to the Millwrights Work belonging thereto particulars of which are set forth in the second Schedule hereto £453 10s 6d  
    For One half of the damages to the Dam Goight, Work Race Water Courses and Banks adjoining Broadhead Wheel, aforesaid in the joint occupation of Mr. Francis Huntsman and the Claimants particulars of which are set forth in the third Schedule hereto £222 18s 9d  
    For expence of obtaining estimate of the above damages including surveying levelling, and drawing plans £53      
    For the Loss of and damage to tools and Grinding Stones Washed away from Broadhead Wheel aforesaid and expenses consequent thereupon particulars of which are set forth in the fourth Schedule hereto £183 14s    
        £2475 15s 8d  
      For particulars see Appendix        
  Certificate Granted
14 February 1865
Assessed at £1652 11s 1d  
      Also Interest on the above Sums of £183.14 and £50.10.10 from March 12 1864 until the Assessment of the damages hereby Claimed.        

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