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CA539 - Sheffield Town Council, contracts, correspondence, plans etc., relating to the building of the Town Hall, Pinstone Street
1 - Letter from the Local Government board to John Yeomans esquire, the Town Clerk, relating to the purchase of surplus land as the site for the new municipal buildings
2 - Letter from the Borough Surveyor's Office giving details of the area of the site for the municipal buildings
3 - Copy of letter from the Town Clerk to the Local Government Board relating to the cost of purchasing the site for the municipal buildings
4 - Copy of letter from HM Treasury to the Local Government Board relating to the terms by which a loan of £49,000 would be made to Sheffield Town Council
5 - Draft memorial from Sheffield Town Council to HM Treasury for their approval to the borrowing of £49,000 for the purchase of the site for the Town Hall and Municipal Buildings
6 - Copy of a valuation of the site for the new municipal buildings, made by Charles Goff, of Bradford [West Yorkshire], surveyor
7 - Draft schedule of room sizes for the proposed municipal buildings
8 - Draft schedule of room sizes
9 - Instructions to architects engaged in the first competition to design the new municipal buildings
10 - Instructions to architects engaged in the first competition
11 - Plan of the site for the proposed municipal buildings as referred to in the Instructions to Architects
12 - Questions asked by architects who have received instructions for the first competition, with answers thereto
13 - Copy of Edward Mountford's description of design for the first competition
14 - Instructions to the six architects whose sketch designs have caused their selection for the final competition
15 - Letter from William Harvey and Bernard Smith, of Whitehall Place, London, to the Town Clerk, requesting a copy of the schedule of accommodation for the new Town Hall
16 - Letter from Flockton and Gibbs, of Sheffield, architects, to the Town Clerk stating that their patent design for the municipal buildings had been incorporated in the Supplemental Instructions for the final competition, and in Mountford's successful design
17 - Draft agreement between the Corporation of Sheffield and Edward W. Mountford, of Chandos Chambers, 22 Buckingham Street, Strand, Middlesex, to be employed as an architect in the erection of the new municipal buildings in Sheffield
18 - Agreement: The Corporation of Sheffield with Edward W. Mountford, of Chandos Chambers, 22 Buckingham Street, Strand, Middlesex to be employed as an architect in the erection of new municipal buildings in Sheffield
19 - Draft case for counsel's opinion regarding the proposal to pay a minimum wage to contract labour employed on the building of the Town Hall (A resolution passed by the Town Council in Sep 1890)
20 - Tender for the erection of the new municipal buildings offered by Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool [Lancashire] builder
21 - Contract: Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool (Lancashire), contractor, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the erection of new municipal buildings in Sheffield for the sum of £83,945
22 - Copy of the Contract between Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool (Lancashire), contractor, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the erection of new municipal buildings in Sheffield for the sum of £83,945
23 - Draft agreement: James R. Scales of 18 Elthiron Road, Fulham, Middlesex, clerk of works, and the Corporation of Sheffield, agreement to serve the Corporation in the capacity of Clerk of Works in the erection of the new municipal buildings, at a weekly wage of £4 4s
24 - Agreement: James R. Scales, of 18 Elthiron Road, Fulham, Middlesex, clerk of works, and the Corporation of Sheffield, agreement to serve the Corporation in the capacity of a Clerk of Works in the erection of the new municipal buildings, at a weekly wage of £4 4s
25 - Draft bond: Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, contractor, and others and the Corporation of Sheffield, to secure due performance of an agreement for the erection of the municipal buildings in Sheffield
26 - Further draft bond: Edmund Gabbutt, Thomas Riley, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, contractor, Charles Wells, of 13 Edmond Road, Bootle, Lancashire, esquire, and the Corporation of Sheffield, to secure due performance of an agreement for the erection of the municipal buildings in Sheffield
27 - Bond: Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, contractor, Thomas Riley, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, contractor, and Charles Wells, of 13, Edmond Road, Bootle, Lancashire, esquire, and the Corporation of Sheffield, to secure due performance of an agreement for the erection of municipal buildings in Sheffield, bound in the sum of £8,394 10s
28 - Information to be forwarded to the Local Government Board with applications for approvals of leans under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, relating to loan for erection of the municipal buildings
29 - Clerk of the Works' progress report (No.1.) on the building of the Town Hall
30 - Copy of engraving of the South-West angle of the Town Hall
31 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding tenders for the wiring of the Town Hall, and instructions regarding the water supply
32 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the wiring of the Town Hall
33 - Letter from E. Gabbutt to the Town Clerk regarding payment for work done on the Town Hall
34 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding doorways for the Town Hall and the execution of a pictorial frieze in the Council Chamber by a student at the School of Art
35 - Contract between The Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co. Ltd., of Commercial Street, Sheffield, and the Corporation of Sheffield for wiring the New Town Hall for electric lighting, at a cost of £750
36 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the wiring of the Town Hall and the problems with the basement heating chamber. He also encloses two letters relating to the insuring of the building and inspection of the wiring
37 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the Committee's decision to let Mountford design the fixtures for the Town Hall
38 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the installation of telephones in the Town Hall
39 - Clerk of the Works' progress report (No.43) on the building of the Town Hall
40 - Miscellaneous tenders offered for the execution of the several fittings required in the New Town Hall
41 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to H. Sayer, the Town Clerk, regarding the fittings in the Town Hall
42 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to Batty Langley esquire, MP regarding tenders for fittings in the Town Hall
43 - Contract: William Cockayne, of Sheffield, general furnisher, and the Corporation of Sheffield, for the fitting and furnishing of upholstered chairs and seats for the council chamber of the Town Hall at a cost of £1,315
44 - Bond. William Cockayne, of Sheffield, general furnisher, Herbert Noel Lucas, of Dronfield, Derbyshire, solicitor, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the due performance of the contract [CA539/43], bound in the sum of £200
45 - Contract: Thomas Green Woof, of Sheffield, cabinet maker, William Foster and William Henry Foster, of Nottingham, cabinet makers and upholsterers. and the Corporation of Sheffield, for the fitting and furnishing of the Medical Officer's Department in the Town Hall at a cost of £2,235
46 - Grant: Thomas G. Woof, W. Foster, W. H. Foster, and Francis Ebenezer Smith, of Sheffied, share and stockbroker, and the Corporation of Sheffield for due performance of the contract [CA539/46], bound in the sum of £300
47 - Contract: Johnson and Appleyards Ltd., of Leopold Street, Sheffield, and the Corporation of Sheffield, for the fitting and furnishing of the City Accountant's Department for £2,199 10s. 3d. and the Council Chamber, Committee Rooms, and Cloak Room in the Town Hall, at a cost of £1,448 13s 6d
48 - Contract: William Powell Hampton, and George Hampton, of Pall Mall East, London, cabinet makers and furnishers, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the fitting and furnishing of the Town Clerk's Department for £1,335 8s 9d, and of the Weights and Measures Department in the Town Hall, at a cost of £800
49 - Contract: E. Goodall and Co. Ltd., of 15, King Street, Manchester, Lancashire, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the fitting and furnishing of the Water Department in the Town Hall, at a cost of £4,069 19s 7d
50 - Contract: Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, contractor, and the Corporation of Sheffield for the fitting and furnishing of the City Surveyor's Department, in the Town Hall, at a cost of £4,318
51 - Bond: Edmund Gabbutt and Alfred Henry Rigmaiden, of Chapel Walk, Liverpool, Lancashire, iron merchant, for performance of the above contract bound in the sum of £500
52 - Correspondence and tender offered by J. W. Singer and Sons, of Frome, Somerset, art metal workers, for electric light fittings in the Town Hall
53 - Contract. Henry Longden and Charles Frederick Longden, of Sheffield, ironfounders, and the Corporation of Sheffield, for the supply and fixing of cooking apparatus and other fittings in the Town Hall, at a cost of £468
54 - Contract: The Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co. Ltd., of Commercial Street, Sheffield, and the Corporation of Sheffield, for the electric Light installation at the Town Hall, at a cost of £720
55 - Letters from Edmund Gabbutt, of Oakes Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, to the Town Clerk regarding the Corporation taking possession of parts of the Town Hall before the completion of the whole of the building
56 - Draft authority to pay moneys to sub-contractors out of sums due to Edmund Gabbutt
57 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding payment to Mountford and his commission for designing furniture and fittings for the Council Chamber
58 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the settling of accounts
59 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk regarding the settling of accounts
60 - Letter from E. W. Mountford to the Town Clerk thanking him for cheque for £250
61 - Site plan for the Town Hall
62 - Sketches for decorative glass in the Council Chamber and Reception Rooms designed by E. W. Mountford
63 - Designs for furniture and fittings for the Water Department in the Town Hall submitted for the contract [CA539/49] given to E. Goodall and Co. Ltd.
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