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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1255 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Accounts and memoranda of Francis Thornton, civil engineer working for coal and railway companies

Covering Dates: 1831-1881

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Catalogue Description

Records given

13 October 1999 Acc: 2630(D)

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 1255/1

Account and memorandum book of Francis Thornton, civil engineering contractor, recording work for Hetton Coal Company, the Durham and Sunderland Railway, and the Hartlepool Junction Railway Company, at Garmondsway, Murton and Benridge Bank, Houghton-le-Spring; memoranda concerning the Thornton family of Houghton-le-Spring, and the Baines family of Pelton; and miscellanea, 12 February 1831 - 7 February 1881
(1 volume, leather half-bound)



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