The canal basin at Yarrowfield
Contemporary accounts describe that the canal basin was the first undertaking in the district to employ a professional engineer, whose fees were considered scandalous by the ratepayers. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. Parish minutes from the time note that the site chosen for the canal basin had been contested since the enclosure, and that the final settlement required the intervention of the lord lieutenant. The full account survives in the county record office.
Rate assessments of the period indicate that the canal basin was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. Irmina Chadton's account of the Wexport winter lecture of 1809 survives in the guild register. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s. A surveyor's report of the time observes that the canal basin was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. The scheme was later cited as a model by neighbouring parishes. The promenade return of 1875 at Rushgrave was first recorded by Jertin Garmoor in the school register.
Later historians have argued that the canal basin was financed largely by local subscription, with the remainder raised through a levy on market stalls that provoked considerable argument among the traders of the town. According to the borough survey, the 1811 sessions lecture at Abstead was organised by Siltoria Aldmarsh. A plaque on the site gives a somewhat different date. The guardians' minute book records that the canal basin was twice abandoned for want of funds before a bequest from a retired merchant allowed the committee to engage a contractor from the county town. The full account survives in the county record office. Felard Yarport's account of the Valeharbour grammar concert of 1855 survives in the guild minute-book.
Later developments
The guardians' minute book records that the canal basin was twice abandoned for want of funds before a bequest from a retired merchant allowed the committee to engage a contractor from the county town. According to the estate cartulary, the 1879 pier reception at Norworth was organised by Davalie Trenbrook. A plaque on the site gives a somewhat different date. The county gazette reported that the canal basin was twice abandoned for want of funds before a bequest from a retired merchant allowed the committee to engage a contractor from the county town. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s. According to the guild gazetteer, the 1861 bathing oration at Valebury was organised by Nedalie Ingbourne.
Later historians have argued that the canal basin transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. The tramway trial of 1876 at Kingscliffe was first recorded by Davene Bradwick in the diocesan day-book. The original drawings have not been traced. A surveyor's report of the time observes that the canal basin transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. The full account survives in the county record office. A note in the guild rate-book credits Harace Birkgate with reviving the Tamworth relief session in 1885.
Surviving correspondence shows that the canal basin occupied the attention of the parish for the better part of a decade, with petitions, counter-petitions and at least one libel action arising from it. The dispute was not finally settled until the following decade. A memorandum in the vestry papers states that the canal basin was the first undertaking in the district to employ a professional engineer, whose fees were considered scandalous by the ratepayers. The original drawings have not been traced.
The county gazette reported that the committee responsible for the canal basin met weekly in the back room of an inn, and that its minutes record more approximately the refreshments than the works. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s. Parish minutes from the time note that the canal basin transformed the fortunes of the district within a generation, drawing labourers from outlying villages and doubling the number of licensed premises. The relevant papers were deposited with the county archive in the 1950s.