Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 2067 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Success Pit, Andrew's House Colliery, Tanfield
Covering Dates: 1767
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Catalogue Description
There had been mining at Andrews House Colliery, Tanfield since at least 1726, but the colliery was taken over in 1738 by Sir James Clavering and worked more extensively.The colliery was closed from the late 1770s until 1839, when a new shaft was sunk by the Northern Coal Mining Company.
Similar documents to this are held at Woodhorn Archives, Ashington, Northumberland. Sunniside Local History Society have researched the mine in detail.
Catalogue Contents
Andrew's House Colliery and Success Pit (Ref: D/X 2067/1)Ref: D/X 2067/1
Wages and other expenses for Success Pit, Andrews House [Colliery], Tanfield, 4 November 1767
Hewers named: James Hall; Thomas Dagg; John Stobbs; Robert Stobbs; William Ramsey; Michael Smith; John Anderson; George Pile; George Kirkley; Thomas Thompson; Robert Harding
Drivers named: John Ramsey; William Smith; Mark Surteese; John Murton; George Murton; William Rotherford; Thomas Codling
Viewer: William Unthank
Deputy Viewer: Thomas Hall
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