Friday, October 16, 1835

1835

October

Friday 16

6 25/..

11 5/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour.  Fine morning and F 54 1/2° at 7 25/.. a.m., at which hour, breakfast in 25 minutes –

Then went direct to Whiskum quarry – Ordered the hurry to be kept carting large stone the whole day –

Thomas (Hinton) is a native of Beverley – said there were 72 1/2 cubic feet of stone in the 5-ton stone – that 11 cubic feet of it = one ton, the stone is so heavy.  Therefore the stone weighed 6 1/2 tons –

Some of the blocks at Whiskum so good, Thomas 1/2 envied them for Northgate – The stone they have is from Ringby Cast. – Take it of William Stocks, mason, who had it of Michael Stocks senior at 5/. a yard – Nelson pays 1/. per cubic foot delivered at Northgate – Some of the stone is 12 feet thick – What they are getting at present is 6 feet 6 inches thick – But there are 6 yards (18 feet) of baring on it –

From the quarry to the Cascade bridge till 12 1/2 when the men dined, then to the new road and bridge.. The upper side parapet wall nearly at its height –

Met Holt in the Godley road – Will come at 12 tomorrow –

At Whiskum quarry at 1 20 for near 1/2 hour, then again at the Cascade bridge till the men left off work at 5 3/4; too dark to see to do anything –

Robert Mann and his 3 men and Mark Hepworth helping get a large stone down into the pool up against the little arch, so as to widen the walk – and Robert and his men walling up and barrowed away scale and forming the walk – Nelson’s 4 men, Thomas, etc. and Mawson’s 2 men, Richard and Jagger, getting and loading large stone –

Mr. Nelson junior came to look at us at the Cascade bridge this afternoon – Explained to him the objections made to the plan of the Casino – He thought putting it back would spoil the effect–

A Captain Barford came to me to ask me to subscribe to the 2nd, or natural history, volume of Captain Ross’s last voyage – Gave my name, wrote myself in pencil (‘Miss Lister Shibden hall’) – the work to be 30/. as I had subscribed to the 1st volume to be £2.12.6 to nonsubscribers –

Ann at the school all the day from 8 1/2 a.m.  Home at 5 50/.. – Very much tired –

Dinner at 6 1/2 – coffee – 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – 3/4 hour with my aunt till 9 3/4 – She had been very poorly all the day –

Fine day – F 56° now at 10 1/4 p.m., after writing all the above of today –


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0113

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