| Description | Bundle of miscellaneous papers. Contains prospectuses for the Peterborough, Wisbech, King's Lynn and Boston Junction Railway and the Port of Wisbech, Peterborough, Birmingham and Midlands Counties Union Railway; a report of a Committee appointed at a Special Meeting of the Commissioners held on the 17 November 1858; a printed application form for shares in the Wisbech and Ely Railway; notices about the dissolution of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Junction Railway; a memorial of the inhabitants of Whittlesey, asking for a wet dock to be built next to the railway at Whittlesey; a petition of several owners of lands in Bluntisham, Earith, Colne, Somersham, Pidley, Warboys, Wistow and Ramsey, in support of a proposed branch line to Ramsey; clauses in the Great Eastern Northern Junction Railway Bill to protect the drainage and navigation of the Bedford Level; lists of parishes affected by the railway line between Somersham and Peterborough; an almanac for 1846; a release from Samuel Wells and the Reverend David Bowker Wells to Swan Scabrow, of two annuities charged on premises at Gamlingay; resolutions; and correspondence. |