Medway towpath unsafe (1915)

Post date: Apr 25, 2014 4:26:19 PM

Medway archives S/MB/AC22/37

Typed letter

ALBERT HUTSON,

BARGE OWNER & LIGHTERMAN

Coal, Coke, Sand, Gravel

And

Ballast Merchant

Barge Building works:

Price’s Wharf,

Hart street,

Fair Meadow,

Maidstone

Feb 16th 1915

Mr. Carrick

The Medway Upper Conservany

Tonbridge

Dear Sir,

I beg to inform you that the Tow path between here and Banbridges is not safe for a horse to travel on.

My men report that the bridge just before Teston Lock is very unsafe & that a fence belonging to Yalding Manufacturing Comp^y is falling over on the Towpath, which you no doubt are aware of as being very narrow and dangerous there.

I have 3 Lighters now ready to go up & if the Towpath is not put right after these are up there, I shall refuse to take any more barges up there as now there is no tug there is no other means of getting up, & I do not feel inclined to run the risk any longer of having a horse injured.

Yours faithfully,

ALBERT HUTSON