Wednesday, October 14, 1835

1835

October

Wednesday 14

7 20/..

12 5/..

No kiss.

Fine morning.  F 53 1/2° now at 8 25/.. a.m., at which hour, breakfast –

Ann off to the school to meet Washington and Joseph Hepworth there about removing the partition in the low school room, and Mrs. Ann Lee to be there also –

I out at 9 going to the Cascade bridge, but had not got there when Messers Critchley Holt,

Joshua Keighley, and Stewarts from Mr. Rawson’s bank came about the Spiggs Loose – Joshua came for his father in-law, Samuel Holdsworth – Said I had nothing at all to say about the matter, the water was stopt and I meant it to remain so – I stopt if from no ill nature – I wanted the water – Critchley Holt said I had told him that I should not stop it – Never, said I – Yes! Critchley Holt said, I had – If, said I, you persist in that, you give me the lie direct, and that won’t do in my own house – 

He saw I should be angry and said no more on that point – but would I let them have the water till I wanted to use it myself – No! They had put me to the expense of getting an agreement to the effect drawn up, and then they would not sign it – This not the only circumstance of the kind I had met with – This the 2nd agreement I had drawn up and paid for for nothing (alluding to Mr. Rawson) and now that the water was stopt, it should remain so, unless they could burst down the stopping and put it out of my power to stop it –

They should have got their rail out (a £150 worth) in time; they had warning enough – I would not now give them an opportunity of driving the 2 heads they begin of, and loosing themselves in spite of me and John Oates and Hinscliffe junior with whom they must now agree, as well as with me – But they might loose themselves another way – No! They could not – Yes! said I, you can, by driving a galloway gate, for which you will want only a corner of Mr. Emmett’s land or my Staups land – But don’t come to me – You had better agree with Mr. Emmett – Told Joshua Keighley he had sold Samuel Holdsworth a good bargain – Sam was the best collier among them and he would know how to manage – 

Said at last, that they had heard what I had said today; but I would answer for nothing – I would not answer for being in the same mind tomorrow; but it was probable that I should be in the same mind tomorrow as today – I would not pother myself anymore about the loose – It was stopt – They should have come to terms before –

It was 10 before they left me and I could get to the Cascade bridge – 

Till 12 1/2 (Nelson’s 4 men and Mawson’s 2 men, Richard and Jagger, and Robert Mann and his 3 men and Frank and Mark Hepworth) before we got the great square stone set – Close up against the chair stone – Nelson’s head man, Thomas, then mentioned a large stone that would just finish up against the great square stone, and recommended my going to see it – Walked up with him to the quarry – Agreed to send the tackling up and try to get the stone down this afternoon –

Back at the Cascade bridge at 12 3/4 – Loitered about looking and considering.  Robert Mann and his 3 men at work again at 1 1/4 – Walled up beyond the 5-ton stone and excavated a little for the footpath up to the bridge – Stood over them till 3 50/.., then went to the quarry (Whiskum) and staid there with Nelson’s men and Mawson’s 2 and Frank till 5 3/4, when it was getting dusk –

One Hurry load (3 horses) of tolerable stones had come down and a 2nd load consisting of a great stone meant for a through over the top of the 5-ton stone – Found Mr. Husband at the Cascade bridge – Mr. Nelson’s tackling wanted – To have done with it tomorrow – Will get and bring all the stone wanted by tomorrow night and set them by and by – All hands to be at the quarry tomorrow –

Came in at 6 20/.. – Dressed – Dinner at 6 3/4 – 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – Coffee – read the newspaper upstairs till 10, then ten minutes with my aunt – Then till 10 55/.. wrote the whole of today –

Fine day, F 54° now at 10 55/.. p.m.

Note tonight (circular) from Mr. Wortley’s committee to attend a meeting on Saturday to consider upon the best means of supporting the registration of conservative voters ‘for this Borough, on the approaching Revision of the Lists by the Barristers’ – of course, there will be a subscription and I must subscribe something –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0111 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0112