Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916
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Inger
The name appears on the Bill for legal work in association with the purchase of Bromley House (1822).

William John Inger
Joiner and builder.
Address: Thoroughfare Yard, 251/2 St James’s Street; home: 34 Park Street [Wright, 1894-95, Wright, 1915]

He did many repairs at the Library on some 29 occasions between October 1900 and 1916 including

Estimate
Paid
Fitting a flagpole -
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£1 13s 6d 9/9/1902
Trimming trees -
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10s 6d 5/5/1908
Shelving £4 7s 0d 9/12/1902 Accepted
£10 17s 0d 13/1/1903
Shelving £5 7s 6d 6/6/1905 Accepted
£6 7s 4d 12/9/1905
Shelving for 3000 volumes 'in the new room at the end of the Reading Room'
(Book Committee Minutes)
 £8 5s 10d 28/5/1907 -
£7 3s 6d -
Mahogany shelves and for covering in the coal place Unrecorded
 2/6/1908 Accepted
£10 4s 7d 4/8/1908
Other sums involved ranged from 10s 0d to £11 15s 8d.






See also - Robert Evans, junior.

Joseph Ingham
He was an applicant for the post of porter on 6/2/1843.

Thomas Inkersley
Newsroom subscriber: 1831.

INSURANCE
There are almost no references to insurance in the early years. Cover was taken out in 1818 with the Atlas Insurance Office in the names of John Wright and Dr John Storer for the Library’s own books (£1000), furniture (£100) and the Standfast Library (£500) (16/1/1818). In 1845 additional insurance was arranged with the Nottingham & Derby Office (22/9/1845) and in 1851 a Mr Johnson was paid £6 0s 0d for insurance (7/7/1851)

From about 1880 the Library very wisely used two insurance companies with John Martin and William Marriott as agents.

Sun Fire Insurance
Initially John Martin was the agent and the premium was £6 18s 0d (1/7/1880) rising to £9 15s 0d in March 1885 and remaining at this level until 1897. In that year the premium was increased to £11 5s 0d, a figure which was maintained until 1902. In 1893 the company became Martin & Son and in 1903 it became part of Sun Fire Insurance with offices at Sun Buildings, 19 Low Pavement and with Arthur Cooper as branch manager (Wright, 1915-16). The premium stayed at £12 15s 6d from 1903 to 1909 falling to £10 12s 6d from 1910 to 1915. So on 30/8/1909 they returned £2 2s 6d to the Library as ‘premium refunded’. In April 1914 the Library received another refund of £1 3s 3d.

In 1915 they were referred to as Sun (Fire) Insurance, Sun Buildings, 19 Low Pavement [Wright, 1915]

John Martin was a perpetual commissioner, commissioner for oaths, steward for the manor of Bulwell, and insurance agent at 7 Low Pavement or 9 Low Pavement [Wright, 1915]) and also 85 Main Street, Bulwell (Tuesday and Friday 5 to 7 p.m.) [Wright, 1894-95]. His home was at Loxley House. [White, 1885].

Imperial Fire Insurance and Alliance Assurance Co
Imperial Fire Insurance initially had William Marriott as its agent and charged £6 12s 0d from 8/7/1871 to March 1884 and then £9 15s 0d until 1897. In 1891 William Marriott & Son were listed as the district agents for the Imperial Fire Insurance Co. at Imperial Buildings, Victoria Street. Then Alliance Assurance took over and the premium stayed at £12 15s 0d from 1904 to 1909. The following year it fell to £11 10s 3d and stayed at this until 1916.

William Marriott acted as branch manager of the Imperial Insurance Co. and was listed as a stock, share and insurance broker and registrar of births and deaths for the Exchange sub-district and for marriages for part of Nottingham (St Mary’s) also at Imperial Buildings, 14 Victoria Street. His home was at Tattershall Drive, The Park. [Post Office, 1876; White, 1885; Wright, 1894-95; Kelly, 1891]

On 6/7/1897 Bromley House was valued at £2000 and this was divided equally between Marriott & Son and Martin & Son with an increase in premium of £1 10s 0d. The sum of £11 10s 0d was paid annually from 1898 to 1902. The valuation was increased to £5000 on 8/7/1902 and was again equally divided between the two insurers with £500 with each for books of special value. This figure for books was increased to £1000 on 14/10/1902. The extra £2 3s 9d was paid in January 1903 and the annual premium paid in July was then £12 15 0d. In April 1914 the Library received a refund of £1 3s 3d.

In 1915 the Alliance Insurance Co Ltd, with William H Macdermott as secretary, were at 20 Low Pavement. [Wright, 1915]
As far as can be ascertained the Library did not make any claims against these policies up to 1916.

Scottish Union & National Insurance
E.W. Whitmore was the resident secretary at Byron Chambers, Beastmarket Hill [Wright, 1915]. The Library used this company for their employers' liability insurance.

Aircraft insurance
J.P. Cullen was paid £21 6s 0d for ‘aircraft insurance on 11/10/1915.

Rev William Ernest Ives
Clerk in Holy orders.
St Saviour’s Vicarage.
Subscriber: 12/9/1910 to 1916.
Share number: 256 (counterfoil dated 28/4/1911).
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History, 1916.


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28 January 2008


Neal Priestland