| Description | Includes papers relating to Adlingfleet and Whitgift Drainage including assessments, specifications, bills [1760s]-1917, drainage rates and assessment records 1768-1906, rental assessments for West Hale 1752-1762, South Cave manor overseers' account book, 1779-1780, Adlingfleet Drainage account book 1815-1828, Goole Poor Law Board of Guardians letter book 1837-1844, taxation accounts for Adlingfleet 1855-1873, Fockerby field book 1863, Adlingfleet field book 1875, Reedness tithes assessments [1855]-1875, Award for Snaith, Cowick and Rawcliffe copy [19th century]
Goole Rural District Council records: surveyor's reports 1899-1913, copy letter book 1896-1958, records relating to roads [19th-20th century], file relating to flood 1947, Rawcliffe Drainage Plan map 1888, Goole UDC boundary map 1904, title deeds for Swinefleet, Reedness, Garthorpe, Airmyn, Goole 1674-1891, Plewes family records 1898-1969, Dominick family records 1929-[1950s], Fockerby School file 1886-1905
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| AdminHistory | Adlingfleet Drainage Act was passed in 1767 after several landowners contacted the civil engineer John Smeaton to draw up proposals for a drainage scheme. The Act authorised drainage commissioners to be appointed and John Grundy junior, Smeaton's colleague, was appointed engineer. David Buffery was the resident engineer and Charles Tate was the land surveyor. The contract to excavate the main drain was awarded to James Pinkerton and John Dyson, these two men went on to work together on Driffield Navigation.
Robert Plewes was the Goole Rural District Council Surveyor in the early to mid-20th century. His father was also called Robert Plewes and employed as a surveyor. The similarity in names has made it difficult to work out which Robert Plewes was responsible for acquiring these records before they were donated. The son of Robert Plewes senior was also a Mayor of Goole. He worked for more than 40 years as a local government officer before retiring in 1958 as a surveyor to Goole Rural District Council. He received his early training in surveying from his father who was surveyor to the Council before the First World War.
Frank Dominick was an American who married the sister of Mrs Buckingham who was the daughter of Robert Plewes. Frank Dominick was interested in American naval development and submitted various articles for publication. |
| CustodialHistory | Received via Goole Local Studies Library. |