lO NOTES ON OLD HELPER AND OLD BELPER BOOKS. 



morlar & well graveled — That the Battlements shall be 3 ft. 10 inches high & 

 there shall be no stoon in the coaping less than 3 ft. long & no stoons in the 

 plint less than 2 ft. 6 inches — That the coping shall be well doweld with Iron 

 dowels within the joints & run with lead, that woal Battlements shall be 

 secureley & properley fixed — That the footpaths shall be flagged with York- 

 shire stoons & have a Curb of hewn stoons 12 in. square, that the flags shall 

 be well laid & not less than I ft inches long 2 ft wide & 3 inches thick, that 

 the curbs & flags shall be well & properley laid down upon the rubble backing, 

 That the quoins of the Arches shall be continued up to the Cornish & meet 

 the Ashlor of the spandrils with square joints as is expressed in the drawing 

 hereto anexed — That the Cornice shall be 14 inches high & project 10 inches, 

 that the string to the Wings shall be the same height & project 7 inches, that 

 there shall be a good road formed over the s'' bridge with hard stoons & gravil 

 at least 18 inches thick — That the beds & joints of the Arch stoons the blocks 

 for the peors & the Ashlar for the spandiils & wing walls shall be well 

 broached & knatted with a tool & shall be wrought straight & square & shall 

 not be left hollow or twisted but be finished as true as to rest solid with little 

 or no fixing upon their own beds — That the battlements strings Cornish & 

 every other part of the bridge & wings shall be neatly tooled except the 

 breakwaters which shall have a tool work round the joints & the remainder 

 shall be left rough from the pick & punch — That the two water peors shall be 

 serounded before the arches are turned with long & small rulible stoons & 

 gravil to the height of 7 ft. from the foundations & 2 ft. distance from the 

 peors, that the two land peors shall be done in the same maner at the face & 

 ends & the same height & distance & that the whoal of this work shall be 

 executed in a substansial & workmanlike maner according to the true intent 

 & mening of the anexed plan for the sum of Two Thousand one hundred 



& eighty pounds by us 



Isaac Marshall — Benj" Marshall. 



Refered to M''- Manard M''- Sykes with the approbation of M"'- Poort. 



F. N. C. Mundy, Markeaton, 16 Aug' 1795. 



The contractors agree to suppoort the present Tempory bridge in repairs 

 till the other is passable to be at the expence of providing & paying damage 

 to the owners of grounds adjoining for laying down materials to be Borrow 

 lime below the water. 



Other entries in the same book tell us that the first stone of 

 Belper bridge was laid in the south bank pier, at 8 ft. 2 in. deep 

 from low water mark, on May 25th, 1796. It was not finished 

 till towards the close of 1798. The contract was exceeded by 

 the sum of ^40 os. 5d., for extra work on the south side of the 

 bridge, making the total cost ^2,220 os. 5d. 



