| Description | Include estimates submitted by Josiak Nicholls, January 1784, for three alternative schemes
(i) a stone bridge with two draw-bridges from the Caernarvonshire shore to the Isle of Anglesey;
(ii) part embankment and part bridge
(iii) a temporary wooden bridge at Cadnant Island.
A plan illustrative of the different schemes accompanies the estimate (2311-2). 2314 is the report of the engineer, William Jesson, January, 1784, on a "view and enquiry relative to the making of a road over the River Menai"; discounts the idea of an embankment as detrimental to the safe navigation of the Straits, and plumps in favour of a timber bridge at Cadnant island. A letter from the Mayor of Chester to Holland Griffith, chairman of the Anglesey bridge committee, approving of the Bill to erect a wooden bridge across the Menai (2315). An anonymous letter from a Caernarvon man to the Marquess of Anglesey, scouts the suggestion of erecting a bridge at Bangor ferry, "the very vortex of danger". (2317). 2318-2329 relate to the claims of G.F. Barlow of Treborth in respect of land taken from his estate and damages sustained during the erection of the Menai Bridge. |