R4/705

Memorandum to Duke; concerning sale of larch for railway sleepers: "The contractors... decline buying anything but larch though when the London and Birmingham Line was making there was consumption for anything no matter how rough and coarse for temporary sleepers. This...is an unfortunate change for the owners of woodlands."

Oct 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

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timber, larch, railways, building work, contractors, London to Birmingham Railway, London, Birmingham, woods, private land use