| Description | Includes copies of reports compiled by Robert Plewes and reflects the type of work with which the surveyor was concerned. They reflect local drainage concerns and relate mainly to rollering of roads in the area (the roller often needing repairing) and the use of tarmacadam.
Includes the odd account for road repairs, a table showing the cost last year of the several townships in the Marshland district of the Snaith Highway Board, the impact of the Motor Car Act 1907, an report on a house at Back Street, Sherburn which is found to be unfit for human habitation, an account for the Rawcliffe Gas Company for tar, c.1907, cost of Reedness and Swinefleet common roads, cost of bye roads 1906-1907 for Whitgift Highfield Lane, Pollington Heck Lane, Gowdall Lane, Snaith and Cowick, Airmyn.
Also includes reports of the sanitary inspector, 1910-1912, (which appears to have been Robert Plewes) which refers to uncovered ashpits, the extension of a sewer at Gowdall the proposed sewer in Church Lane, Swinefleet, provision of privies at the Clog Sole Mill, Snaith, nuisances at Mr Morfitt's houses, Swinefleet, disinfection of houses after infectious diseases and a report on Gowdall sewers. |