Documents relating to the purchase of the foreshore at Grimsby by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

Includes correspondence relating to the application, calculating the land proposed to be reclaimed from the River at Grimsby Dock (the written document without the enclosed plans), draft report to the Humber Conservancy Commissioners and the resolution of the purchase of the Foreshore at Grimsby by Company. Report of the inspection of the tidal basin at Grimsby – January 18th 1890. at Grimsby. Correspondence regarding an inspection to ascertain the validity of the ordnance survey at Grimsby Foreshore. Various correspondence regarding a possible Grimsby Dock extension. Correspondence regarding the forwarding of ordnance maps for the Humber Conservancy Line to be marked (no ordnance map enclosed). Newspaper cutting regarding the arbitration case at Grimsby, Eastern Morning News, July 24th 1890. Grimsby Foreshore and price to pay per acre (plans are mentioned but no plans are attached).