Thursday, 12 December 2019

20 Days of Orkney Trees #10

Today we bring you a couple of vouchers for work carried out in 1838. Alexander S. Graham of Crantit paid William Crear 16 shillings at the rate of 2 shillings per day for 8 days of pruning and transplanting trees and pruning the hedges in the grounds surrounding the ruins of the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall.



Orkney Archive Reference D9/10



The 1883 OS map detail and Tom Kent image below show the Bishop's Palace and its trees several years later:


1883 Ordnance Survey

Tom Kent image reference 3412











Archive reference D9/10 also contains a letter from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and it has a lovely seal on the envelope...













Posted by at
Labels: , , , ,

1 comment:

  1. GenKnit17 December 2019 at 13:14

    That is a gorgeous seal. So many times, the seals are broken or completely disintegrated. It's nice to see one that's nearly complete.

    ReplyDelete

Are you delighted by what you have just read? Are you revulsed and appalled? Do let us know, we'd love to hear from you.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)