Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1172 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Colliery and brewery business letterheads
Covering Dates: 1876-1934
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Catalogue Description
Records given15 August 1997 Acc: 2466(D)
This gift was put together by a collector of old-fashioned letterheads; letters bearing no relation to County Durham have been discarded. The sequences of business letters below have an unclear provenance, though some at least may derive from the solicitors, Proud, Robinson and Roddam, Bishop Auckland
Catalogue Contents
Business correspondence including letterheads (Ref: D/X 1172/1-97)Ref: D/X 1172/1-25
Letters from Mainsforth Colliery, Witton-le-Wear, to J.G. Chapman of Middleton St. George, probably a shareholder, concerning investment in the mine, 10 March 1876 - 20 July 1881
(25 papers)
Ref: D/X 1172/26-70Letters from the West Auckland Brewery Company to J. and R.D. Proud of Bishop Auckland, solicitors (later Proud, Robinson and Roddam), concerning their properties in Wolsingham, Crawley Side, Rookhope, Darlington, Willington, Framwellgate Moor, Bishop Auckland, Middlesbrough, Bildershaw, and other places, 10 April 1883 - 31 July 1934
Includes: a list of properties owned by the Company, October 1912
(45 papers)
Ref: D/X 1172/71-87Letters from the Robinson Patent Coal Washing Machine Company to various collieries, concerning the installation and operation of their coal washing machine, 30 September 1887 - 3 August 1897
(17 papers)
Ref: D/X 1172/88-92Letters from the Framwellgate Coal and Coke Company to J. and R.D. Proud concerning their property at Hartside, 13 January - 6 June 1905
(5 papers)
Ref: D/X 1172/93-97Land duty returns and valuations for properties in Little Stainton, 13 October 1910 and 15 July 1913
(5 papers)
