Humber Conservancy Minute Book

Reference No:
C DIMA/1/3
Dates:
22 Aug 1881-25 Jun 1888
Description:

Contains minutes of meetings held at The Conservancy Offices, Kingston upon Hull. The volume is not indexed and the minutes of individual committees do not run consecutively.

The Wrecks Removal Committee

The General Purposes Committee

The Revisions of Lists of Shipowners of the Ports of Hull, Grimsby and Goole

Committee to inquire as to the Water Bailiffs dues received by the Corporation of Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Hull

Includes reports on Bills for The trent Navigation, Hull Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway & Dock, Hull and North Western Junction Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, North Eastern Railway, Hull Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock and other Companies, East and West Yorkshire Union Railways, Birmingham and Humber Navigation.

Also includes accounts of the Humber Conservancy Commissioners for the year ending 31 Dec 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886 in respect of the foreshores demised to them by the leases granted pursuant to the Humber Conservancy Acts 1868 and 1871 in respect of Read's Island.

At the back of the volume are four pencil drawings signed by of:

300 yds above Killarney [12 Dec 1884]

Half a mile below Killarney [12 Dec 1884]

Killarney from high water mark [12 Dec 1884]

Boiler casing from bow [12 Dec 1884]

Plus a loose photo of the Waverley preparing to berth stern first at Southampton's Royal Pier

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 volume
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Records relating to The Humber Conservancy