Council Meeting – 19th September 1900

September 19th 1900

Sixty-eighth meeting of Parish Council held in the Schoolroom.

Present: Rev. G. Andrew (Chairman), Messrs Dixon, Coe, Ward, Spanton & J. Shimwell (Clerk).

The Minutes of previous meeting having been read and signed, the Council ordered a cheque to be drawn for £1–19–0 to Mr Jasper Johnson for 13 loads of gravel for repairing Cracken Jennell.

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Mr Dixon that the thanks of this Council be conveyed to the Ashford Parish Council for the satisfactory manner in which they had, at this Council’s request, repaired the footpath over Crackendale.

As Mr Eyre has not yet put up the launders on his buildings at Cracken Jennell, the Clerk was directed to again write to him on the matter.

The attention of the Council having been called to the untidy state of the County Highway known as Church Lane, Mr Dixon proposed & Mr Ward seconded:

“That a letter be sent to the County Council Surveyor of the Bakewell District calling his attention to the untidy & dirty state of the road known as Church Lane & asking him to direct that it should be swept clean at least once a week, preferably on a Saturday as the road is much used by people attending Church.”

Complaints having been made that the Village pump opposite the White Lion Inn is out of repair, the Clerk was directed to communicate with Mr Hawley, the District Council Surveyor, and ask him to see that it is put into proper repair.

Signed
Henry Arthur Spanton
Chairman
Oct. 11th 1900