Works of sewage disposal : with some historical notes on problems arising in connection with the treatment of effluents from the textile industries, 1870-1931.

  • Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Date:
1931
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Credit: Works of sewage disposal : with some historical notes on problems arising in connection with the treatment of effluents from the textile industries, 1870-1931. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hardly saved alive.” Some sort of “employer’s liability” seems to have been proved, and Thompson was ordered to pay £1,000. To evade payment he made his estate over to his father-in-law, Walter Stanhope, of Horsforth, and disappeared into Cumber- land, but when in some legal way not quite clear the verdict was set aside, Thompson was “sore put to it to get his estate again from Stanhope, and was not quite loosed till later end of Mr. Calverley’s time, after Stanhopes had gotten vast sums out of it.” This at least is one gossip’s account of the matter. This Henry Thompson left his estate to an only daughter, Frances, who married Walter Calverley, of Calverley, and it was their son Walter who erected the existing hall. A very interesting Memorandum Book kept by the latter The Erection of Walter, and now in the British Museum, the Hall. was edited by Mr. Samuel Margerison some years ago for the Surtees Society. This gives us much interesting material for a picture of the local life of the early eighteenth century. In 1700 Walter’s mother, then a widow, made the property over to him, and in 1706, when Walter was 33 years of age, he set about building a new hall on the site of the nunnery. The old buildings had been much lower than the existing ground level and had apparently been subject to floods. The level was consequently raised very considerably, a circumstance which would probably account for the fact that so few relics of the nunnery have been turned up in the gardens, and encourages the expectation that considerable remains lie awaiting some day the spade of the antiquarian excavator, beneath the lawns and shrubberies. It 1s interesting to notice that Walter Calverley did not engage the services of an architect, a profession then growing into general recognition, but followed the medieval plan of committing the work of his new house to a chief mason,’ who in this case was one Joseph Pape, of Farnley. The Renaissance style, which was only just then in West Yorkshire overcoming the traditional debased Gothic, was followed. In the first week of May, 1706, the foundations of the new house were laid, and a few weeks later Walter, as his note-book shows, “went towatds Newcastle” with the task of seeking the hand of Mistress Julia Blackett, the eldest daughter of the late Sir William Blackett, Bart., of Wallington, Northumberland, a 88]