A package (divided into 2 folders) containing papers accumulated in connection with Aire and Calder Navigation Lease No. 9B: Nos. 39 and 41 Aire Street in the town of Goole, Yorkshire. It includes the following:

[Part 1]

Deeds (1848–1877)

1. Conveyance of Leasehold premises (29 January 1848): Adam Smith (with the consent of the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation) to William Meanwell. The Deed is signed and sealed by the aforementioned parties, and Joseph Priestley on behalf of the Navigation.

2. Attested copy (created 29 January 1848) of Leasehold premises (29 January 1848): Adam Smith (with the consent of the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation) to William Meanwell. The Deed is signed and sealed by the aforementioned parties, and Joseph Priestley on behalf of the Navigation.

3. Mortgage by way of underlease of premises with power of sale for securing £700 and interest (31 January 1848): William Meanwell (with the consent of the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation) to Sarah Hankes. The Deed has been signed and sealed by William Meanwell, and Joseph Priestley on behalf of the Navigation.

4. Assignment of Leasehold premises (11 May 1853): William Meanwell (with the consent of the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation) to Thomas Bromley. The Deed is signed and sealed by Willy Stennitt, Frederick Clark, Thomas Bromley, and John Drinkrow Hall representing the Navigation.

5. Assignment of Leasehold Hereditaments and premises (1 November 1871): Messrs Robert Bell Bromley and Charles Bromley (with the consent of the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation) to James Armitage. The Deed has been signed and sealed by the aforementioned parties, and Marmaduke Storr Hodson on behalf of the Navigation.

6. Surrender of Leasehold premises (31 July 1877): James Armitage to Andrew Montagu and others (Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation. The Deed has been signed and sealed by James Armitage, and Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope on behalf of the Navigation.

[Part 2]

Consent to Underlease (1898–

1. James Armitage to Richard Hickson (3 August 1898).

2. The Representatives of James Armitage (deceased) to Fred Taylor (10 September 1909).

3. Fred Taylor to Eleanor Drury (20 September 1909).

4. Eleanor Drury to John Goodworth Claybourne (29 March 1920).

5. John Goodworth Claybourne to Willie Crapper (9 April 1937).

Other Documents (1877)

1. Instructions for Lease to James Armitage (1877).

2. Application for renewal of Lease 9B (June 1877).

3. Particulars of Settlement of Real and Personal Estate (6 January 1906): James Armitage to James Armitage and others.

4. Memorial of Assignment (10 April 1937).

Correspondence (1898–1937)