Robert Brown Evidence
Sunderland Mayor, Robert Brown, gives evidence towards the 1847 Sunderland Improvement Bill. Brown is questionned on comunications across the Wear and local support for the Bill.
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Robert Brown Evidence
1847
Parliamentary Archives HL/PO/PB/5/13/10
Transcript
...except by water between the two parts of the borough of Sunderland
A: The only mode of communications
Q: Are those parts of the borough of Sunderland on the north and south side practically one town
A: They are
Mr Warren: When you say the only mode there are boats and ferries
A: Yes
Mr Paget: I believe you presided at a meeting of the inhabitants of Sunderland called with regard to the present Bill
A: Yes, there was a meeting called, and I presided
Q: What that meeting called with the usual publicity of town meetings
A: Yes
Q: And very numerously attended
A: Very numerously attended
Q: Was the opinion in favour of this Bill unanimous...