R3/4958

Letter Talks about felling timber on the Woburn Estate, the price to be obtained for it and the uses to which it is put. The tall tree in the pleasure ground measures 240ft of timber and fetched 3/6d per foot. The Cople ash timber sold for 3/3d per foot to London Coach makers and the best elm goes to them for railway coaches. Mention is made of Chapman, a bricklayer and Garnett, a carpenter, both over 70 and both having been in the employment of the Duke for more than 50 years under Mr Salmon and his successors. Mr Bennett encloses copies of drain pipe circulars and advertisements, and comments on prices. Mr Bennett has been laid up again but is better. "He was incautious in exposing himself too much in the cold weather".

20 Apr 1845

From: 1845 To: 1845

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Haedy, C,
Chapman,
Garnett,
Salmon,
Bennett

timber trade, railways, bricklayer, WATER & DRAINAGE, letters, WOBURN, Woburn Abbey