Letters to Walter Salton from, amongst others, Bowler & Jones, jewellers, Piccadilly; Miss Roche, dressmaker, Hanover Square, London; J. Archer, Sledmere; A. Hughes & Sons, Norton Works, Malton; William Rimmington, Craven Iron Works, Skipton; H.W. Pearson, Solicitor, Malton; East Riding Bank, Malton; Thomas Wilson & Sons, Wansford Water & Steam Flour Mills, Wansford; John Gibson & Son, Architects, Malton; Thomas Frank, Eastgate, Pickering; G.R. Jackson, Exchange Street, Driffield; Alfred Watts, School House, Garton; George Longster, Seed Warehouse, Wheelgate, Malton; Lady Jessica Sykes

Reference No:
U DDSY/101/85
Dates:
1878-1880
Description:
Timber; servants; stained glass windows at Thixendale church; bricks; fencing; Bishop Wilton school; meeting of Rye & Derwent Drainage; North Fridingham Day & Sunday Schools subscription; drainage at Sledmere House; repairs to houses & farm buildings; Fimber school; new improved traction engine (which will travel at 2 m.p.h. 'in the quick speed gear'); returning empty 'Schweppes' bottles; St. Margaret's Lodge of Freemasons, Lowestoft; polishing marble floor at Garton church; sanitary conditions of cottages at Colleywood, Sledmere (the water supply is obtained from a pond which is 'infested by frogs toads & other aquatic animals ... the construction of a tank though by no means a pleasant water supply would be more wholesome'); pheasant eggs; site for a reservoir ('the levels proved an ample fall towards Sledmere House'); Beverley & Barmston drainage; cost of erection of new Wesleyan Chapel at Driffield; tenancies of farms & houses; prospectus for the White Hart Hotel, Low Harrogate; farming & estate matters; etc.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
c. 650 items
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Access Conditions:
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of the Sykes family of Sledmere