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  1. Alfreton LETTER from Caleb Watson, Financial Agents, Liverpool. On headed paper, to an unknown correspondent, advising him about a Colliery which is for sale, and giving details of cost, location, production, type of engines '20 inch Cylinder good vertical winding Engine at original pit's mouth also 15 inch winding and pumping Engine...' etc. 2p., 8vo, in a small hand. 18th June, 1873. £15.00
    'It now produces 350 tons weekly... the soft part of which is useful for house Coal and the hard is much in demand in the neighbourhood for Steam purposes'.


  2. Measham VALUABLE PROPERTY at Measham To Be Sold by Auction by B. Cheatle & Son... June 4th, 1847... Poster, size 9" x 11", folds. Describes 2 Lots, comprising four houses fronting the Cross in Measham, with four others in the yard at the back. Gives occupiers. 1847. £20.00

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  3. North Staffordshire & Mid-Derbyshire Railway A BILL For making new Railways in the County of Derby and for other purposes. 22pp., small folio. Folded vertically with docket title. 1898. £14.00

  4. Ripley LETTER from J.S. Fletcher, Codnor, 1st Jany. 1817 to William Hunter at Kilbourn. 37 lines over 3p. 4to. On verso is address panel, remains of wax seal. Apologises for not being able to send the rent 'I cannot get any Money from any One qurter as the Canal is all Stop by Frost we have not one shilling coming in from that quarter and cannot pay our men wages our men have not had one shilling for the last fortnights work... I am at this time under three arrests and Given Bail... if it was not for Mr Kirkland I might have been in jail...' It has been folded and docketed. 1817. £55.00
    Presumably the James Fletcher who was involved with the coal mine at Ripley, where there is a Fletcher Street. The canal would be the Cromford Canal. Hunter was Lord of the Manor and owned Kilburn Hall.


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