Tuesday, October 6, 1835

1835

October

Tuesday 6

7 20/..

11 40/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour – Damp, foggy morning.  F 53° now at 8 20/.. a.m.

Out at the Cascade bridge till 9 1/2, then breakfast in 3/4 hour – Had Mr. Washington in the room who came to speak to Ann (She was poorly and had breakfasted before I came in)

Out again at 10 1/4 and from then to near 1, at the Cascade bridge. 

Then an hour with Ann, who set off to Heckmondwike at 1 50/.. and I returned to the workmen and staid with them till 6 at the Cascade bridge.

Very busy all the day there – Robert Mann and his 3 men, and 2 of Mawson’s men – finished up altogether the head of the basin – Got down a great many rough, heavy stones and completely marked the timber formally of the smooth rag side stones Mr. Gray had left –

Levelled up about the entrance to the great arch, and made preparation for a footway, and as Mr. Husband and all said, did Mr. Gray’s work for him – Lowered the long line of stiff wall on the East side just above the basin, had Frank and Mark soiling and sodding, and made all look as if getting into trains –

But all the men in despair this morning – the weight of water had made the clay slip downwards, so that we shall be obliged to barrow up a strong burr wall from the bottom – a terrible business, but we cannot help it –

Nobody at the new road or farm yard today –

Robert Schofield and Joseph Sharpe at the drain in the court yard –

Ann returned at 6, had been 1/2 hour at Cliff hill in her return – Dinner at 6 40/.. – Coffee – 3/4 hour with my father and Marian –

Had Mawson and paid him for all his men up to Saturday night and for the Supper to the Northgate workmen – Read the paper – 25 minutes with my aunt till 10 1/4

Rainy morning from 8 1/2 to after 9, afterwards fine November like day.  F 56° now at 10 1/2 p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0109

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