 | George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 616 pages
...Findlay, Assoc. Inst. Civil Engineers, on Modern Improvements of Facilities in Railway Travelling, ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave.... | |
 | George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 602 pages
...Railway Travelling. ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect i?20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery... | |
 | Henry Frith - Engineering - 1895 - 406 pages
...of such means. Thus Roger North, the. ancestor of the present youthful Lord Guilford, writes: — " Men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river. They sell leave to lead coals over the ground. . . . The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland, Fred Wilbur Powell - Railroad trains - 1909 - 394 pages
...description of these mines, way North said: "Another thing, that is remarkable, is their way-leaves; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...coals over their ground; and so dear that the owner of the rood of ground will expect 20 1. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying... | |
 | John Macaulay, Cyril Hall - Railroad engineering - 1912 - 224 pages
...the manner, of railway lines. Roger North, writing near the close of the seventeenth century, said: "When men have pieces of ground between the colliery...dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect twenty pounds a year for this leave. The manner of carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...the Newcastle district, says : " When men have pieces of land between the collieries and the rivers, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, and...dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 2ol. per annum for this leave." In some instances the total payment for a way-leave seems to have amounted... | |
 | International Railway Congress Association - Railroads - 1926 - 1366 pages
...Guildford, to Newcastle, remarks that among the curiosities of the region were the « wayleaves ». Me says, When men have pieces of ground between the colliery...and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1922 - 936 pages
...to obtain right of way. " Another thing that is remarkable is their way-leaves," says Roger Xorth, " for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave."'10 In 1739 a pamphleteer inveighed against the abuses connected with this. He declared that... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1922 - 974 pages
...to obtain right of way. " Another thing that is remarkable is their way-leaves," says Roger North, " for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave."60 In 1739 a pamphleteer inveighed against the abuses connected with this. He declared that... | |
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Another thing that is remarkable is their wayleaves, for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this... 
