Correspondence and papers about the Retreat water supply, cisterns, boilers etc

Date:
1857 - 1867
Reference:
RET/2/2/6/1
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The Retreat Archive
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Correspondence and papers about the Retreat water supply, cisterns, boilers etc. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Most of these items are detailed letters sent by William Williamson to the Retreat Committee about rain water tanks, water supply, wells, and boilers for the laundry and kitchen. There are also notes on water temperatures in laundry boiler, an analysis of the composition of water at the Retreat, and a printed table of the scale of charges of the York New Waterworks Company 1850.

Publication/Creation

1857 - 1867

Physical description

1 file

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Open and available at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. This material is being digitised by the Borthwick Institute for Archives as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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