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Claim for loss of property #5719 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5719 The Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Sheffield acting as the Local Board of Health Town Clerk's Office, 10 Bank Street, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Cost of restoring damage to Roads, Sewers, Fence and Bank Walls and for Cleaning the Streets caused by the said Inundation in the Township of Brightside Bierlow   To Team Work cleansing Streets and Sewers £60 7s 6d  
    To Labour in cleansing Streets and Sewers £162 6s 4d  
    To Cinders in the Heep in various places washed away £42      
    To Cinders put upon the roads immediately after the flood, to repair dangerous holes £35 10s    
    River walls rebuilding at Farfield opposite the Gas Works at Neepsend, Neepsend Lane, and at Brightside Lane £94 11s 4d  
    To Damage to Farfield Lane, Neepsend Lane, Nursery Street, Spitalfields, Stanley Street, Joiner Street, Johnson Street, Andover Street, Walker Street, Willey Street, Boyds Lane, and Brightside Lane £365      
    Iron Works charge for restoring the Iron rails Nursery Street and Blonk Street £25      
    [The Mason's claim has been made seperately by Mr Claybrough]        
    Paid Offices for extra services £50      
    Books and papers destroyed £5      
    Repairing and Cleansing Highway offices £10      
        £849 15s 2d  
    Withdrawn        

Note: Claim amount incorrectly calculated by the Commissioners @ £849.15.4 (CD)

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