Northam: Local Board: The first meeting of this Board, after the election of new members was held on Saturday: … (list of members) … Mr. W. Pickard proposed and Mr. Penhorwood seconded “That A. B. Wren, Esq., be the Chairman for the ensuing year”. This was carried. It was proposed and carried that Messrs. Williams, W. Pickard and Captain Sangster should be the Westward Ho! Committee …. (local business then) … A letter was then read by the Chairman, as follows … (from the Local Government Board, Whitehall, acknowledging that the Northam board had abandoned its original proposal for sewerage at Westward Ho and now needed L. 350 for their revised plan. The Board ask for a copy of the resolution and say they will sanction it) … “provided they are satisfied that the scheme will suffice for the drainage of Mr. Pynsent’s houses. In order that this may be ascertained, they request to be furnished with a section of the proposed main sewer, showing the level of its invert with referent to the level of the basement of these houses …
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GRO0835 Hennock: Thomas Pynsent: 1808 – 1887