Saturday 1 July 1837

Fine morning Fahrenheit 54 at 8 - out at 8 5/60 no stone to go on with at the new pool, and with Robert + 5 throwing the soil up along the east side of the back Lodge road and about till breakfast at 9.

Had Mr. Samuel Washington and then Hardcastle - the former gave me the note and measurement of Mawson's jobs strengthening and pitching with stone the embankment and wearing the brook = £133+ and at last settled with Hardcastle to give him £20 for the road (6 yards wide) up to the bit of wood I have just bought of him - Booth shewed me Parkinson's estimate of garden wall footings 1 yard high and levelled over at the top ready for the brick work at 5/- per rood and finding lime and sand and everything and I finding everything Hay barn to be done at 6/6 per rood walling and 1/- a yard for corners - Booth thought it very fair and so did I

Off with Ann and little Mary at 10 1/2 by the Lodge to Spa house to see about Mr. Samuel Washington's setting out about 11 or 12 roods of walling along the road side down to the house - pheying away about 15 or 16 inch deep of wall-race, 1/6 per rood
walling 2/6 putting on tops with lime 8d = 4/6 labour and}
lime 6d per rood and stones 2/- and carting 8/- = 10/6 materials} = 15/- per rood = £8
Job let to Robert Schofield.

Left Ann with Mr. Hornor, making a little sketch of the little glen near Spa house, and then to sketch Haystocks - left Ann about 11 1/2

Went by the Stump Cross Inn and the new road to Hipperholme quarry - stood sometime talking to Mawson - he will engage the hay as a constant yearly job at 13/- per Day Work - explained about manure laying up at the top of the bank and told him to consider about it

Some while at the quarry and a little while at the meer in setting - the water escapes again near corner of the clow-house - came in about 1 1/2

Very hot and thirsty and drank the juice of 6 oranges in warm water and then till 2 wrote the above of today - sent off (Ann sent him for navigation money to Mr. Samuel Washington) by John Booth junior my Note to 'Messrs. Alexander, Solicitors, Halifax' written last night in answer to theirs received on Thursday night - sorry I forgot this note last night

Then I had Mawson and paid him in full for the meer strengthening embankment with 482 yards of stuff from near the hut at 8d and 1364 (Booth made it 1298) yards of lagging (pitching with stone) at 1/3 and 50 2/3 yards, all face measure, ditto top of bank at 1/3 and 409 running yards , about 18 inches deep, at 6d and 186 yards running measure of wearing the brook at 2/-

Then a little while with Ann on her return from Haystocks - then had Mark Hepworth - said I should begin mowing next week - then out with Joseph Mann putting away corves and pit-ropes from Walker pit the pipes came home this morning - then with Booth till 4 and gave him £20 in cash in account and then out had Mawson on his return from Halifax and on his way to examine where the water escapes into the meer-drift - Mr. Gray came and said the water that ran along the drift slipt down at pond behind the wheel-race masonry - Mawson to look after this and take Charles Howarth

It was now about 4 1/2 when seeing Robert Mann in the barn called him up about the escape of water and about gearing the pumps in the engine pit - brought down Holts (the engineer) stood some time out of doors and then had him in the little parlour with Mr. Gray plan, and stood talking it over till 6 3/4 - Mr. Gray stay and settle the matter for me on Monday morning - to have Mr. Husband up and Joseph Mann and Booth - tired of talking

Wrote the last 7 lines till 6 50/60 - told Mawson to mow Park farm Wood land (late Walsh-land) where the platform is to be, or indeed the whole, on Monday afternoon and begin mowing the old paddock adjoining the wheatfield on Tuesday - to let me know on Monday whether he could do the platform sod job at 2d per superficial square yard or not , sods 6 inches thick - carted and walled on the embankment opposite the front of the house

Dinner at 7 1/2 - asleep on the sofa by Ann downstairs - coffee at 9 - asleep again on the sofa by Ann till we both came upstairs at 11 - then in my study looking at Welman's carte routiere till 12 - very fine day - Fahrenheit 50 at 11 p.m

Printed circular postage paid respecting the vacancy in the navigation clerkship by the resignation of Mr. (William) Norris - the selection to be on the 17th instant.  

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/20/0083 & SH:7/ML/E/20/0084

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