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Bill of Quantities

Titled 'Bill of Quantities of the several works and materials required in the additions and alterations to a Mill at Whitley Bridge, R86, Yorkshire for Messrs John Croysdale & Sons Ltd.' Instructions for submitting tenders for the works are specified on the title page. Produced by J.W.Bennett, Surveyors, W.Manchester. Entirely hand written.
Three pages of general notes and preliminary items are followed by detailed specifications for the various trades; Excavation & drainage, Bricklayers, Concretors, Masons, Carpenters & Joiners, Ironfounder, Slater, Plunber & Glazier. Each specified item has a value pencilled against it

J W Bennett, surveyors

Ledger

Ledger containing 382 pages covering transactions from 1921 to 1940 titled 'Private Ledger J.C & Sons, Ltd'. Entries include records of regular payments in cash to Charles Croysdale and to the Executors of Thomas Croysdale. Fastened inside the back cover is a list of securities held by Barclays Bank Ltd, Pontefract, on behalf of Messrs John Croysdale & Sons Ltd dated 2nd November 1936. They include deeds for freehold properties costing about £34,00, and War Stock valued at £20,000.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

Supply of Electricity to the premises 1928

Quotation from The Yorkshire Electric Power Company to John Croysdale & Sons ltd for supply to the premises for the intake plant and the whole of the mill lighting, estimating that a supply of 30 kVA would meet requirements. A substation will be required on the premises for the transformer and other equipment. The minimum payment per annum is £120.

Yorkshire Electric Power Company

Supply of Electricity to the premises 1936

Quotation from The Yorkshire Electric Power Company to John Croysdale & Sons ltd for supply to the premises for complete electrification, estimating 150kVA will meet requirements. The minimum payment will be £750 per annum.

Yorkshire Electric Power Company

Ledger

Ledger containing 400 pages covering transactions from 1944 to 1961 titled 'Private Ledger J.C & Sons, Ltd'. Entries include records of regular payments by cheque to Charles Croysdale until 1958 when he died and payments were then made to Mrs Annie Croysdale. The Capital Account shows reserves of £43,500 in 1944 and £87,000 in 1961.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

'Old Lady of Whitley Bridge'

Press cutting from the Yorkshire Evening Post of 26th June 1953 sub-headed '1860 Steam Engine goes into retirement at last'. The article commemorates the 200 hp engine which had powered all the machinery in the mill for 100 years, now replaced by modern electric motors. The accompanying photographs show the senior engineman, Mr George Jackson, turning off the engine, a presentation to him of a tankard and a party of senior managers.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

Plan of proposed electricity lines

Yorkshire Electricity Board plan for a new overhead line feeding underground cables along Selby Road past Whitley Bridge. Note railway distribution lines to the Mill from the main line.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

Drawing of proposed silos

Drawing produced by Goodes Engineering Co ltd, Heath Works, Royston showing the proposed installation of 10 silos for Mssrs John Croysdale & Sons Ltd. Received by OsgoldCross Rural District Council on 13 February 1956 and approved on 17 March 1956. In pencil on outside 'File in Osgoldcross'.

Goodes Engineering Company Ltd

Planning permission notice

Notice of approval of the Goldcross Rural District Council, Pontefract, for the erection of a grain silo adjoining Whitley Bridge Flour Mills, Eggborough. addressed to Messrs J Croysdale & Sons Ltd, deposited 13 February 1956, approved 19 March 1956.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

General Register for Factories

Booklet of forms for general register including young persons employed by the works. Contains names and addresses of employees, accidents from 1948 to 1977 (6 pages), and records of painting and whitewashing.

John Croysdale and Sons Ltd

Certificate and Schedule as to means of escape

Factories Act 1961 Certificate and Schedule to the Certificate as to Means of Escape in Case of Fire in respect of the Factory at Eggborough, Whitley Bridge, Near Goole, occupied by John Croydale and Sons Ltd. Lists buildings on site and escape routes from the areas within the buildings. States 32 men and 4 women are employed in the factory and that 1000 gallons of petrol is stored on site. Signed by the clerk of the West Riding of Yorkshire County Council and replacing the Certificate issued by Osgoldcross Rural District Council.

Yorkshire County Council

Plan of Mill location

Printed location plan taken from Ordnance survey of the Mill site on Selby Road, showing the mill outlined in red, the surrounding residential and industrial area and the railway. Prepared by Fuller Peiser, Chartered Surveyors.

Fuller Peisor, surveyors

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