Paying for the Glebe House Repairs: Timber for Timber

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Date:1848

Description:Documents accompanying the ‘Specification’ tell us about the workmen who were employed to supply materials for the extensive renovations on the Glebe Land properties. One bill attached to the document is from ‘Samuel Turner & Son, Timber Merchants & Boat Builders’ who traded at ‘Barlaston, near Stone, & 47, Renshaw Street, Liverpool’.

Reverend William Oliver wrote to the Duke’s Agent William Steward about Turner’s bill on 21st March 1848, revealing that Turner was still owed payment ‘for Timber supplied for repairing the Glebe House at Barlaston’. Oliver’s letter suggests that Turner was willing to take payment for his supplies in the form of timber. Oliver informs Steward that Turner had ‘looked at some of the trees now in a state to be used and with your approbation they shall be applied in discharge of his long standing account’.

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Places Barlaston 1800-1850

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