Friday, September 11, 1835

1835

September

Friday 11

7 20/..

12 5/..

No kiss.

Ready in 35 minutes.  Rainy night and morning till after 7 – fair and F 56° now at 7 55/.. a.m.

Breakfast at 8 –

Had Frank Day – Said if he thought it worthwhile to come for the winter I would engage him for over then, but he was not scholar enough for me to engage him more permanently – but we should see – His present wages 16/. per week and two drinkings a day – Said I would give him 16/. a week, and consider about the drinkings – He lives at Hove Edge – pays £4 a year – Said I would put him into Mytholm, to hold his cottage there on the same terms as his place – To leave both at a month’s notice – I would see about the rent – Agreed for him to come next Monday week the 28th instante mense –

Breakfast in 3/4 hour – had Mr. Husband and Cockroft – ordering about Farm yard wall, and setting the great door posts and getting the covers over the drain under the doorway – Ordering about loop-hole windows for farmyard wall – and Mr. Husband directed Cockroft how to put in these and finish the great buttress at the low corner of the wall – Then went with him to set out the Lodge bridge to be called Adney bridge –

Robert Schofield bodding at the little drains on each side the main drain at the cascade bridge and Mark Hepworth levelling on the other side the road –

In and out with one workman or other – Nelson’s 2 masons at the Hall and Linen closet flues – Finished both this evening – Made fire in the one, and put the stove (originally got for the library passage) into the Linen closet – All seems to answer –

Had Holt about 11 – Will come again on Monday after seeing Turner and making an agreement about the tail-goit stones that can be managed with – The bottoms Turner had brought are  rag instead of flag and won’t do –

Walked with Holt to Ann’s Hipperholme lane water drift – He thinks my plan of making a large cistern and piping the water down the Tan house the best plan – Ordered the Stump Cross Inn cistern to be instead of 4 feet square, 8 feet long by 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep – Holt and Mr. Holme have bought 20 acres of yard-thick coal of North in Shelf  (under lease from Mrs. Beaumont of Britton) for £600 – Very cheap –

Parted with Holt in Hipperholme (leaving him to go to Turner and gave him the agreement made by Washington to settle about) and home through the walk at 12 1/2 –

Had met George Robinson by the way – Said I was sorry to have inconvenienced him about the Spiggs water but it could not be helped and he would soon have the water back as usual – George Robinson very civil –

Sat with Ann at her luncheon – 1/4 hour with my father and Marian till about 2 –

Sent John to Dobson with pencil-written order for 15 yards 3 foot long and 3 inch thick rag bottoms, and 15 yards 3 foot 6 inch long and 4 inch thick tops, and 5 yards 5 foot long 4 or 5 inch thick covers for the Cascade drain –

Had Mr. Husband – Blasting at Northgate and a piece of stone (40 lbs. pounds) fell on the Northgate Chapel and broke in a slate, which however Nelson immediately repaired – But Mr. Husband wished to know if I would allow blasting – No! Certainly not – dangerous and illegal in that situation, and there must be no more of it –

In and out – Washington here all the day at Ann’s accounts – I sat in the drawing room and by bit and bit in the course of the afternoon and a little in the evening read from page 8 to 67 Bakewell’s Geology (3rd time over) –

Dinner at 6 1/4 – Some time with my father and Marian – Coffee – read over the newspaper – Tea at 9 1/2 – 10 minutes with my aunt till 10 10/.. then till 10 50/.., wrote all the above of today –

Rainy day – F 55° now at 10 50/.. p.m.

Letter this evening from Messers Henry Bates and son, Warton  lane, respecting the water wheel.

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0095 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0096