Catalogue description Vouchers, Bills and Receipts concerning the Whitby Piers and Harbour Board

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Reference: 0112
Title: Vouchers, Bills and Receipts concerning the Whitby Piers and Harbour Board
Description:

This collection comprises 38 wages sheets listing workmen, time employed on Whitby Piers and wages paid 1837-1838; 49 bills and receipts for goods, labour, tarpaulins, timber, ironmongery, services, broken stones, stone, linseed oil, paint, blocks, lighting, glass, pails, casks, rope, cordage, cement, wages, and ballast, the most common names mentioned in these items are George Lockey and William Harland 1837-1838.
Date: 1837-1838
Held by: Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Whitby Piers and Harbour Board
Physical description: 87 items
Access conditions:

Open
Subjects:
  • Harland, William, fl 1837-1838, stone merchant
  • Lockey, George, fl 1837-1902, of Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire
  • Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire
  • Harbours
Administrative / biographical background:

This collection was deposited by Captain P Roberts, Harbour Master of Whitby, 1991.

 

The Whitby Piers and Harbour Board operated under an Act of Parliament of 1702 for the improvement of Whitby Harbour and which provided revenue in the form of "Passing Tolls" and duty on goods landed. The Passing Tolls were abolished in 1861, and the Board in 1906, responsibility for the Harbour being passed to the Whitby Urban District Council.
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