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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/E10/Box 2/1-2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/13/3
TitleAssistant Hop Market Committee
DescriptionVolume 1: 1915 - 1918 (handwritten); Volume 2: 1918 - 1926 (typed):

Minutes of the Hop Market Committee. At the front of volume 1 is a typed copy of the Hop-Weighers' Oath, pledging to carry out their duties reliably and honestly. Matters discussed include leases, rents and mortgages for properties owned by the Guardians; repairs, maintenance and improvements to properties; applications for salary increases; arrangements for the storage of hops and the charge for storage; resignations, deaths and elections of committee members; list of bills to be paid to named companies and individuals, with amount owed and work carried out; insurance coverage for fire and for potential damage by aircraft; income tax; brief references to the war (World War One) and its impact on hops trade; the hopmarket's arrears to the bank and how best to pay off the debt; 1917 accident involving a faulty lift that injured Master Porter John Kelly; the names, ages and brief career history of men applying for the position of Master Porter in 1917; the Hop Control Committee in London; the transfer of the responsibility for the Hopmarket to the Corporation of Worcester as a response to the Hopmarket Guardians' debts; 1918 decision to transfer the clerkship from the Hopmarket Clerk to the Town Clerk, in line with the rest of Corporation committees; rights of way in Sansome Street; accounts, investment of funds and other financial matters; minor injury sustained by workman C Dance in 1922; English Hop Growers Society Ltd.

At the back of volume 1 are tables of the biannual mortgage repayments and interest and lists of assistants and Hopmarket Standing Committee members for 1918.

Some annotations.
Date1915-1926
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