| Description | Comprising records of Moss, Lowe and Taylor, solicitors, Hull and consisting of family and estate records, deeds and clients' papers received from the solicitor's office
Includes deeds and other documents relating to Cottingham 1766-1910 with copy enclosure plan of Cottingham Common; Hedon 1693-1711; Hull 1747-1937 with plan of Hull, prospectus of Hull South Bridge Co, memorial of High Steward of Hull; list of Hull ship owners; plans of Alexandra Dock; plan of Hull for Kelly's Directory; Ottringham 1685-1726; Ulrome1300-1668; Withernwick 1743; other documents 1788-1873 with settlement of Anglo-French Steamship Co Ltd, patent of Wakefield Pim of Hull for improvements to boilers and funnels of steam engines.
Acts of Parliament 1773-1905 with the Preston Enclosure Act, Aire and Calder Navigation Amendment Act, Cottingham Enclosure Act, Hessle, Anlaby and Tranby Enclosure Act, Elsternwick Enclosure Act, Beverley and Skidby Drainage Act, Holderness Drainage Act, Hull Improvement Act, Hull Gas Acts, Hull Corporation Bill and Hessle Gas Act.
Correspondence 1501-1920 with letters and genealogical notes relating to the Blundell family.
Legal papers in cases Robert Harrison v Holderness Drainage Commissioners 1840 and Messrs Smith Brothers, bankers v William Fisher West, corn merchant of Hull 1876-1877.
Papers relating to railways 1849-1913 with volume of the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Acts, petitions against North Eastern Railway (Hull Docks) and North Eastern Railway Bills; plan of River Pier, Hull.
Miscellaneous documents with collection of printed facsimiles bound together with references to national events such as Magna Carta; warrant for execution of Mary Queen of Scots; Fire of London; Battle of Waterloo; the funeral of Lord Nelson (1215)-1815; also illuminated addresses concerning Alderman William Henry Moss, Mayor of Hull 1857-1863.
Correspondence and papers of Sibree family of Hull 1842-1890.
Plans 1851-1911 with chart of Spurn Point from the Admiralty Survey 1851, plan of Cottingham Drainage 1862. |