| Description | From:
Leeman and Clark, York, solicitors (ten pieces); George Leeman, Scarborough, Wakefield, York (seven pieces); James Atkinson, Norton; H Wilkinson, London; Richard Demes junior, Knaresborough (five pieces); A Keir, North Cave; W J Clark, York; Edward Green, Pocklington; Robert Weightman, Lorworth, Bawtry, etc (six pieces); Thomas Hatfield, Sutton on Derwent; Robert Meggitt, Howden; William Parvin, Allerton Park (three pieces); Henry Powell, Leeds, Manchester (two pieces); Reverend H B Boothby, Nunburnholme Rectory; Robert Denison, Waplington; George Legard, Fangfoss (two pieces); Dr Thomas Kettlewell, Pudsey (two pieces); Thomas Danby, Stamford Bridge; Richard Dorsey, Warter; Edward Page, Market Weighton, Beverley, Manchester (five pieces); Robert Tonge, Driffield, solicitor; Thomas Hopper, Kelleythorpe (six pieces); R L Weatherill, Lazenby; C Anderson, Lea, Gainsborough; W H Rudston Read, York (five pieces); John Walker Ord, Guisborough (three); Reverend F Stourton, Holme; J G Carlill, Secretary, York, Hull and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway, Hull (two pieces); J Coverdale, Ribston Rail, Wetherby; J Jewison, Raisthorpe (two pieces); Thomas Weatherill, Guisborough; Reverend J Shooter, Bishop Wilton; Francis Raines, Bawtry; Reverend John Ponsonby, Pickering; Reverend R Taylor, Barmby Moor (two pieces); John Foster, Driffield, solicitor; Reverend G Read, Sutton; England and Shackles, Hull, solicitors (five pieces); Edward Carter, Market Weighton; Reverend William Blow, Hull
Concerning:
York and Hull Railway prospectuses
Purchase of Market Weighton canal
Applications for shares
References to George Hudson; his purchase of Londesborough; 'treated the Canal as an old song'; etc
Line will not injure Warter estate
Driffield-Selby line
Purchase of shares by Lord Stourton's butler
Requisitions ('perhaps they had better be varied') to be available for signature (in support of the railway) in every village within five miles, 6 Oct 194
'The Goole People give me their Testimonial on Friday when there are to be great rejoicings and a dinner'
York-Pocklington line
Notices received from tenants of Warter estate warning not to proceed with survey for the line
'List of townships which the Driffield Committee will obtain Memorials from'
'Mr Hudson's friends are withdrawing their names from your provisional committee'
Whitby-Guisborough-Stockton line
Surveyor in Sutton on Derwent stopped in his work by General Ayre
Inhabitants of Bishop Wilton more likely to favour Mr Hudson's line, being nearer to the village; whether station to be at Pocklington or River Head
Line too near to house of Thomas Hopper, Kelleythorpe
Preparation of Book of Reference
Manchester and Leeds Company 'have made you their tools in completing a treaty with Hudson', 5 Nov 1945
Objections to Mr Powell's account |