Council Meeting – 12th October 1899

The Fifty-Ninth Meeting of the Great Longstone Parish Council was held in the School Room, Great Longstone
on Thursday October 12th 1899.

Present:
W. R. Pitt Dixon Esq. (Chairman)
Messrs Coe, Orr, Spanton, Ward and Shimwell (Clerk).

Rev. G. Andrew having sent word that he should not be able to attend, Mr Dixon was unanimously appointed Chairman.

The minutes of the last meeting were then read and confirmed.

Mr Orr stated that the committee appointed at the last meeting had met to inspect Gilder Quarry.

Gilder Quarry

The Clerk stated to the meeting that he had applied to Mr Wright for the rent of the herbage of Gilder Stone Quarry for the year ending 25th March last, but Mr Wright refused to pay any rent and repudiated the tenancy. Several letters to and from Mr Wright on the subject were read, when the following resolution was proposed by Mr Dixon and seconded by Mr Spanton and passed unanimously:

That the Clerk be directed to write to Mr Wright respecting the fences of the quarry; that as the fence on the east side had been put up by Mr Wright’s predecessor that he take to that fence and the north fence, and the Parish Council take the west and south fences.

Also that inasmuch as Mr Wright repudiates the tenancy of the quarry that he be requested to put a gate in his fence to keep cattle from trespassing on the quarry land.

Telegraph

On the motion of Mr Dixon seconded by Mr Orr it was unanimously resolved that the Clerk be directed to take steps to get the Telegraph fixed at Longstone Post Office instead of Longstone Station, and that the Council guarantee the sum of £7 12s per year, and also to see if an earlier delivery of letters in the afternoon could not be obtained.

Signed

W. R. Pitt Dixon