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Consett Iron Company

Reference: D/Co Catalogue Title: Consett Iron Company Area: Catalogue Category: Business and Industry Records Description: Other organisations

Covering Dates: 1873-1927

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Consett Iron Company

Catalogue Description

The original arrangement and numbering of the collection was as follows:

1. Annual General Meeting minutes
2. Board minutes
3. Indexes to board minutes
4. Letter books
5. Newspaper cuttings
6. Share records
7. Registers of ore properties
8. Coal royalty books
9. Indexes to contracts
10. Correspondence and reports
11. not used
12. Photographs
13. General manager's agenda book
14. Directors' attendance fees
15. Visitors' books
16. Accounts of cost charges
17. Private cost books
18. Stock books
19. Make (Production) books
20. Smith's forge accounts
21. Selling price books
22. Profit and loss accounts
23. Cash accounts
24. Reports of directors
25. Finance Committee minutes
26. Manufacturing journals
27. Seal books
28. Journal
29. Deed books
30. Plans
50 The Consett Spanish Ore Company
51 The Orconera Iron Ore Company
52 The New Jarrow Steel Company Limited
53 Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron and Steel Trade of the North of England
54 North of England Iron and Steel Manufacturers' Association
55 Consett British Schools

The collection has now been rearranged, but original numbers have been retained

Catalogue Contents

Consett Iron Company (Ref: D/Co)Orconera Iron Ore Company (Ref: D/Co section 01)

51/1-27

Ref: D/Co 51/1

Reports of the directors to the Annual General Meetings, 23 March 1905 - 22 June 1927 [D/Co 135] and duplicate [D/Co 134]

(1 volume, leather bound, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/2

Copy Memorandum of Association of the Orconera Iron Ore Company Limited, 2 July 1873 and contracts, 1873 [D/Co 146]

(1 volume, leather bound, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/3

Copy Memorandum of Association of the Orconera Iron Ore Company Limited, as modified by Special Resolutions up to April 1895 [D/Co 147]

(1 volume, leather bound, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/4

Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Orconera Iron Ore Company as modified by a Special Resolution of 18 June 1924; combined, 16 July 1924 [D/Co 148]

(1 volume, paper bound)

Ref: D/Co 51/5

Special resolutions, 1908 and 1916 Originally enclosed in D/Co 51/2

(6 papers)

Ref: D/Co 51/6

Album of photographs of aerial ropeways and Poreña Washery erected April 1909 - October 1910 [D/Co 131]

(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: D/Co 51/7

Duplicate of D/Co 51/6 [D/Co 132]

(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: D/Co 51/8

Album of photographs of 'Orconera Mines, calcining kilns, shipping, staithes, etc., October 1925 [D/Co 133]

(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: D/Co 51/9

Special resolutions of the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. passed on 6 August 1920, confirmed 30 August 1920, filed 10 September 1920

(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/10

Statement of accounts of the Orconera Iron Co. Ltd. for the year ended 30 June 1875

(1 file, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/11

Directors' report and statement of accounts of the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. for the year ended 31 December 1880

(1 file, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/12

Directors' reports and statements of accounts of the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. for the years ended 31 December 1888 - 1905

(16 papers and 2 files, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/13

Directors' reports, statements of accounts and minutes of annual general meetings of the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd., 23 March 1905 - 22 June 1927 [D/Co 134] Duplicate of D/Co 51/1

(1 volume, leather bound, printed)

Ref: D/Co 51/14

15 August 1873 (1) Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. (2) Consett Iron Co. Ltd. Agreement, for 99 years, for the supply by (1) to (2) of iron ore from mines which (1) acquired by an agreement dated 1 July 1873 from Messrs. Ybarra [D/Co 59(xiv)]

(1 file, printed form)

Ref: D/Co 51/15

Plan of the area of the iron mines near Bilbao, Spain, for the Orconera Iron Ore Co., by Robert Scott, 9 June 1880 Scale: 1:10,000

(1 plan, 72 cm. x 43 cm., blueprint)

Ref: D/Co 51/16

Correspondence between William Jenkins, Consett Iron Works, Blackhill; David Dale, Darlington; A. Butchart, Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, and G.E. Woof, Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Apartado 42, Bilbao, Spain, assessing whether the Consett Iron Co. Ltd. at the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. should acquire iron ore mines at Solares or Santander, northern Spain, 3 October 1892 - 16 May 1905

(14 papers)

Ref: D/Co 51/17

Copy letter from William Gill to Edward P. Martin, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, concerning the iron ore mines in Legrano, 12 December 1892; copy letter from Richard P. Williams, 47 Victoria Street, London, to the Orconera Iron Ore Co., Bilbao, Spain, 8 December 1892

(1 file)

Ref: D/Co 51/18

Analyses and laboratory report on cargoes of Santander, San Salvador and Obregon iron ore, 13 January - 10 September 1897

(3 papers, typescript)

Ref: D/Co 51/19

Translation of a letter from F. de Laiglesia, D. Martin 49, Madrid, Spain, to the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd. acknowledging their confirmation of his status as representative of the Company, 17 March 1898

(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: D/Co 51/20

Letter from F. Prot de Vieville, La Coruna, Hotel de Europe, Spain, to the manager of the Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd., 2 Queen Anne's Gate, London, offering an iron ore mine, 16 June 1899

(3 papers, typescript)

Ref: D/Co 51/21

Letter reporting on the Soto de Agues Mines in Astorias, addressed to David Dale, Orconera Iron Ore Company, Darlington, by Henry Louis, Grand Hotel, London, 4 July 1904

(1 file)

Ref: D/Co 51/22

Letter from Henry Louis, 11 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, to David Dale, Darlington, concerning his report on the Soto de Agnes Mines, 8 July 1904

(1 paper)

Ref: D/Co 51/23

Correspondence between Sr. Roig, Seville, Spain; the Consett Iron Company; Sir David Dale, concerning the iron mines at Soto de Agnes, 19 August - 1 September 1904

(5 papers)

Ref: D/Co 51/24

Report on the Soto de Agnes Mines in Asturias by Henry Louis, 11 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 1904

(1 file)

Ref: D/Co 51/25

Bundle labelled, 'Section 34: Ramon Vitoria and Spanish Mines' comprising correspondence between Ramon Vitoria & Co., 27 King Street, Cheapside, London; Sir David Dale, Darlington and G.E. Woof, Orconera Iron Co. Ltd., Apartado 42, Bilbao, Spain, concerning the offer for sale of iron ore mines at Candina in the province of Santander, Spain, 13 May - 8 June 1903

(9 papers and 1 file)

Ref: D/Co 51/26

Correspondence between Ramon Vitoria, 27 King Street, Cheapside, London; Sir David Dale, Darlington, and G.E. Woof, Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Apartado 42, Bilbao, Spain, concerning the appraisal of iron ore mines near Castro-Urdiales in northern Spain, 16 - 20 June 1903

(2 papers)

Ref: D/Co 51/27

Letter from G.E. Woof, Orconera Iron Ore Co. Ltd., Apartado 42, Bilbao, Spain, to Sir David Dale, Darlington, concerning the Vivero Mines, 17 October 1904

(1 paper, typescript)

Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron and Steel Trade of the North of England (Ref: D/Co section 02)

53/1-2

Ref: D/Co 53/1

Copy minutes of meetings of the Standing Committee, 24 August 1882 - 30 November 1917

(1 file)

Ref: D/Co 53/2

Copy minutes of meetings of the Standing Committee, 18 January 1918 - 9 June 1922

(1 file)

North of England Iron and Steel Manufacturers' Association (Ref: D/Co section 03)

54/1

Ref: D/Co 54/1

Minutes of meetings of the Association, 24 March 1920 - 28 February 1922

(1 file)

Consett British Schools (Ref: D/Co section 04)

55/1

Ref: D/Co 55/1

Minute book of managers' meetings, 5 February 1898 - 22 January 1900

(1 volume, calf bound)