Minutes Of A Special General Meeting..
Some darkening and fraying of edges, partly repaired, with centre fold reinforced at front; otherwise in good condition and quite legible.
£45.00
Publisher
Trustees of the New Cross Turnpike Roads.,
Place
[Blackheath]
Date
1803
Item Description
MANUSCRIPT. 8 x 12.75 inches. Single sheet folded, last page blank.
Notes
Minutes of a Special General Meeting of the Trustees of the New Cross Turnpike Roads held at the Green Man Inn, Blackheath in the Parish of Lewisham, 27 January 1844. The meeting was called to recommend the erection of a new toll gate at the west end of Deptford Bridge. The proposal was formally agreed and it was ordered that the new gate and toll house shall be constructed in order to levy tools on 'Horses and other Cattle' from midnight on 31 March. The 38 trustees who attended, seventeen of whom, signed the order, included a General, an Admiral, three doctors, and two reverends, one of these being an honourable also. The New Cross Turnpike, established by the Act of 1717, ran from Southwark in Surrey to Lewisham in Kent, and was the third oldest of the Kent trusts and the first in the immediate vicinity of London. In the first half of the nineteenth century it was responsible for some forty miles of road, with revenues amounting to about £1500 per annum and is shown here expanding its sphere of revenue collecting.
[Stock No. 22409]
Subjects
19th Century • Kent • London • Roads • West Kent