Friday 16 June 1837

Very fine morning Fahrenheit 70 at 9 1/4 and breakfast in about 1/2 hour

Mr. Samuel Washington being waiting the last 1/4 hour then out with him at the meer and Lodge road and in the front of the house measured off a plot of their old garden stuff to be moved at per yard cube 3 1/2d filling and 4 carting Mawson would take it if the Manns did not – Samuel Worthington thought 1/3 per yard face measure for the meer-bank stoning and same for the wearing not too much – thought the stuff shifting barrow-runs should be the usual price, 5d for the 1st and 1d each for the other 2 = 7d per yard cube – but Mawson said afterwards he really could not do it for this – the run-laying, great balks belonging to Booth, had cost 20/- and would cost as much more moving and taking away – agreed that the price of the stuff shifting should be settled when it was seen what quantity was taken – suppose 8d per yard cube – settled to have the End of the meer from a yard or 2 down the side of the bye-wash to where the present run ends, 100 yards?, stoned at the top at 1/3 per yard running measure – agreed to mend the road rubbling job from 15/2 per rood to 10/- for the 1st coat of rubble and 11/- for the 2nd per rood of the Lodge road and 7/- per rood for one ton of dress laying and wall breaking on it – and the back Lodge road to be as before 17/- per rood for 1 foot of rubble 10 feet broad and 1 foot thick

Samuel Washington measured the pieces of the Lodge road now rubbled with the 1st coat – kept him till near 12 – then with Booth about the rain-water cisterns to take the water from the house roof

About – with Robert Mann + 5 at the Lodge stuff moving – brought them away in the afternoon to hack up level the lodge road just cutting the wheat field and dig out the house rain water cisterns – and had Booth and gin horse from 3 p.m. carting scraplings to the glen bridge

Frank and Zebedee carting bricks from Swan banks to the Coney garden Booth and his men at the wash-house – dressing flags for west tower roof and laying flagged way along the house, began it yesterday, and repainting the corner of the buttery next the out entrance door

The gardener + 3 at his garden wall-races digging and stuff getting out for borders as he has been this week past or more – shewed Robert Mann this afternoon what Samuel Washington had set out in the old garden but on telling him the price and that if he did not take it at that Mawson would, Robert Mann well! then he would let him have it

Mark Hepworth happened to be just come with stuff from Northgate – he said Mawson had been speaking to him about it this morning – would engage it – going to Mawson immediately – they would make the road on Monday and begin carting away the stuff on Tuesday

Then out in the court about the rain water cistern &c. till 6 1/2 – then with Blythe about the ceiling &c. of my uncle’s room

Dressed – dinner at 7 1/4 – coffee at 8 1/4 – hide and seek with little Mary till 9 1/2 - then read the paper – the King not expected to continue long

Ann come round her headaches not being noticed she was as cheerful for her as ever and I tho grave talked enough tho with measure

Mr. John Priestley and Miss Priestley and 2 Miss Millhouse Rawsons called about 3 p.m. and sat about 1/2 hour with Ann luckily I was out

Wrote all the above of today till 11pm – Fahrenheit 58 at 10 1/2 p.m. very fine day till a few drops of rain between 5 and 6 and from 6 1/2 p.m. very rainy evening and night

So Ann is getting right again but I must be off sometime I must be prepared for it

Samuel Washington recommended a stone pentrough – large rag – I afterwards thought of ashlar and talked it over with Booth suppose 24 feet long 6 feet 7 inches deep and 5 feet 6 inches broad for neither Samuel Washington nor Booth nor I could see the use of having the pentrough 6 feet 3 inches broad the breast of the wheel being only 5 feet – 24 x 6 feet 7 inches = 316 feet supposed delivered at 9d per foot cube, 12 inches in the bed the wheel race and labour of squaring and setting 1/- per foot cube and say 3 barrels of cement and ashlar was 15 inches in the bedding at 18/- per barrel – sit the ashlar on 2 feet broad rag footings projecting 1 foot and lay the floor flagging (2 inches flags) on these projections, a tight fit as at the wheel race after the walling is done – not
covered bolted, but cramped across the top with iron bars – say 316 feet at 9d = 13.1.0
                                    ditto “ 1/- = 15.16.0
the pentrough of red deals supposed to take 30
at 12/- with 46 iron bolts about £10 and labour Footing and flagging 5.0.0
£10 = £38 say £40                 cement and carriage 3.0.0
the stone pentrough would be done for as little as the Iron cramp bars         } 36.17.0
deal one and would last ‘for ever’ - to be added suppose } 3.3.0
                                        40. 0.0

Booth to inquire for what he can get the ashlar – had just written the above at 11 25/60 p.m.

Ate 5 oranges just before getting into bed, and 9 between 1 and 2 today, and 9 last night just before getting into bed.

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/20/0077