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Stanley Urban District Council

Reference: UD/Sta Catalogue Title: Stanley Urban District Council Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Colliery Disasters

Covering Dates: 1909-1967

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Stanley Urban District Council (Ref: UD/Sta )Colliery Disasters (Ref: UD/Sta )West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund (Ref: UD/Sta 128-235)Minutes, agendas, notices (Ref: UD/Sta section 01)Minutes (Ref: UD/Sta 128)

Trustees' minute book, 27 June 1910 - 5 August 1931
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Agendas (Ref: UD/Sta 129-130)

Agenda of trustees meeting, 4 February 1916
(1 paper)


Agenda of annual meeting, 26 January 1921
(1 paper)

Notices (Ref: UD/Sta 131-136)

Copies of notice of annual meeting of the Fund and lists of stocks held, 20 January 1910
(2 papers; 1 file)


Notice of the Annual Meeting of the Trustees of the West Stanley Disaster Fund, 6 March 1915
(1 paper)


Details of annual meeting, 4 February 1916
(2 papers)


Annual meeting of trustees and list of Fund beneficiaries, 6 February 1917
(1 paper)


Notice of annual trustees' meeting, 21 March 1923
(1 paper)


Notice of Fund meeting, 15 December 1927
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: UD/Sta section 02)Finance (Ref: UD/Sta 143-145)

Cash book, 15 June 1910 - 31 December 1931
(1 volume, leather, half-bound)


Bank book of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, January 1911 - January 1918
(1 booklet)


Bank book of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 1918-1929
(1 booklet)

Miscellaneous financial correspondence (Ref: UD/Sta 165-172)

Correspondence between Hulton Colliery Explosion (1910) Relief Fund, Town Hall, Bolton, and J.G. Ridley, Secretary, West Stanley Disaster Fund, concerning details of the rejection of the Stanley Fund's claim to money held by Hulton, 8 April - 15 April 1915
(3 papers)


Miscellaneous correspondence with J.G. Ridley, Fund Secretary, including beneficiaries' receipts, stock certificates, letters from various beneficiaries and from J.H. Burn, colliery owner, 1915
(1 file)


Letter from H.W. Cole, Mines Department, Millbank, London, to J. Hamilton, Clerk, Stanley U.D.C., asking for information about the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 31 October 1924
(1 paper)


Letters from C.J. Meadon, Mines Department, Cromwell House, Millbank, London to the Clerk to the Fund's Trustees, asking for details of the Fund, 17 June - 3 August 1935
(3 papers)


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Miscellaneous correspondence between J.G. Row, Manager, Martin's Bank, Stanley, and J. Hamilton, Fund Secretary, 2 November 19 - 11 March 1929
(3 papers)


Letter from U.C. Row, Manager, Martins Bank, Stanley, to J. Hamilton, Council Offices, Stanley, concerning West Stanley Disaster Fund, 24 October 1929
(1 paper)


Letter to J.G. Row, Manager, Martin's Bank, Stanley, asking for official notification that the West Stanley Disaster Fund's account could no longer be overdrawn, 28 October 1929
(1 paper)

Accounts (Ref: UD/Sta 173-187)

Accounts of the fund for years 1911 and 1912 and miscellaneous correspondence to J.G. Ridley concerning buying and selling of stock; and miscellaneous correspondence relating to a proposed central mines relief fund, 1913 - 1915
(1 file)


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Accounts and details of annual meeting, 5 March 1914
(1 file)


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Copy of Fund's accounts, 1 March 1915
(1 file)


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Income and expenditure accounts, audited by J.M. Nicholson, Blackhill, Durham, 16 February 1909 - 31 December 1926
(1 file)


Details of Fund's annual meeting, and review of Fund accounts, for the years 1926 to 1930, 4 August 1931
(4 papers)


Accounts of the fund for the year ending 31 December 1931
(3 papers)


Statement of relief paid out in the period February 1909 - 31 December 1931
(1 paper)

Auditors' papers (Ref: UD/Sta 188-199)

Letter from J. McDonald F.I.A., 2 Broomfield Avenue, Palmers Green, London, to J.G. Ridley, Clerk to Stanley U.D.C. concerning the setting up of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 29 November 1909
(3 papers)


Letter from J. McDonald, F.I.A., 142 Holborn Bars, London E.C. to J.G. Ridley, Stanley, concerning a valuation of the allowances granted by the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 1 March 1915
(5 papers)


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Letter to J. Hamilton, Trustee, from J.M. Nicholson, accountant, relating to the return of the Fund accounts, 28 May 1926
(1 paper)


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Papers concerning purchase and sale of stocks (Ref: UD/Sta 200-229)

Miscellaneous contract notes for shares in railway stock, issued by J.H. and T. Richardson, stock brokers, Newcastle, 12 July 1910 - 7 February 1913
(10 papers)


List of stocks and shares held by the trustees of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 22 September 1910 - 22 February 1911
(1 paper)


Correspondence relating to purchase and disposal of shares, 1 July 1910 - 22 January 1921
(1 file)


Record of rail stocks bought by the Fund, 1 January 1915
(2 papers)


Letter from J.H. & T. Richardson, stock and share brokers, 40 Dean Street, Newcastle, to J.G. Ridley, Fund Secretary, concerning alteration of share certificate held by the Fund, 13 February 1915
(1 paper)


Letter to J.G. Ridley from J.H. and T. Richardson, giving Ridley power of attorney for the sale of stock, 24 March 1915
(1 paper)


List of stocks held and memoranda, n.d. [post 31 December 1916]
(2 papers)


Stock certificates and related correspondence from J.H. and T. Richardson, stockbrokers, Newcastle upon Tyne, 10 March - 8 September 1919
(1 file)


Correspondence between J.H. and T. Richardson, stock and share brokers, Newcastle upon Tyne, and J.G. Ridley concerning the sale of railway stock to the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 14 March 1921 - 2 November 1921
(1 file)


Letter from J. Hamilton to J.H. and T. Richardson, 40 Dean Street, Newcastle, asking about the whereabouts of the scrip for London and South Western railway stock, 25 April 1923
(1 paper)


Letter to J. Hamilton, Clerk, Stanley U.D.C., from J.H. and T. Richardson, stock and share brokers, Newcastle, concerning sale of stock in the Southern Railway, 5 March 1925
(1 paper)


Correspondence between J.H. Richardson and James Hamilton re sale of railway stock, 18 February 1925 - 26 May 1926
(7 papers)


Letter from J.M. Nicholson, chartered accountant, Ebchester, to J. Hamilton, Council Chambers, Stanley, concerning sale of stock in Southern Railway, 28 May 1926
(1 paper)


Miscellaneous correspondence relating to stock transactions and transfers between the Fund and the Southern Railway Company, July 1928 - October 1931
(36 papers)


Miscellaneous correspondence relating to the transfer of stock held by William McClenning, late trustee of the Disaster Fund, 13 - 21 March 1929. Includes copy of Death Certificate
(6 papers)


Letter from J.G. Low, Manager, Martins Bank Ltd, Stanley Branch, to J.G. Ridley, Secretary of West Stanley Disaster Fund, concerning purchase of stock in the Southern Railway, 28 October 1929
(1 paper)


Death certificate of Matthew Graham Armstrong, 15 February 1930
(1 paper)


Letter from W.S. Armstrong, 1 Clifford Road, Stanley, concerning the transfer of stock held by the late M.G. Armstrong, trustee of the West Stanley Colliery Relief Fund, 24 December 1930
(1 paper)


Miscellaneous correspondence relating to transfer of stock held by M.G. Armstrong, late Trustee of the Fund, 19 December 1930 - 7 August 1931
(6 papers)


Letter from W.S. Armstrong, Clifford Road, Stanley, to J. Hamilton, Clerk, Stanley U.D.C., naming the executors of M.G. Armstrong's will, 27 December 1930
(1 paper)


Letter from W.S. Armstrong [?], to J.H. and T. Richardson, share brokers, concerning sale of rail stocks, 6 July 1931
(1 paper)


Contract note issued by J.H. and T. Richardson, relating to sale of shares in the Southern Railway Company by J. Hamilton, 24 September 1931
(1 paper)


Booklet listing highest and lowest prices of various active securities issued by J.H. and T. Richardson, stock and share brokers, Newcastle upon Tyne, n.d.
(1 booklet)


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Details of payments to trustees of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, n.d.
(1 file)


Receipts of payments to Trustees of West Stanley Disaster Fund, January - December 1917
(4 papers)


Receipts of payments to trustees of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, January -December 1918
(5 papers)


Receipts of payments to trustees of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, January - December 1919
(1 file)


Receipts of payments made to Trustees of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, December 1919 - December 1920
(6 papers)


Receipts for salary paid to J. Hamilton, trustee, February - October 1933, and to J.M. Nicholson, auditor, 14 February 1933
(3 papers)

Beneficiaries (Ref: UD/Sta section 03)Lists of beneficiaries (Ref: UD/Sta 137-142)

List of beneficiaries no longer eligible, 1911
(1 paper)


List of dependants and beneficiaries, 1 January 1912
(4 papers)


List of widows, children and dependants, 1 January 1915
(1 file)


List of children no longer eligible for relief, 15 January 1917
(1 paper)


List of fund beneficiaries, 8 February 1918
(1 paper)


Lists of beneficiaries of fund, 1918-1920
(5 papers)

General correspondence and receipts of payments to beneficiaries (Ref: UD/Sta 146-164)

Receipts for payments made to Disaster Fund beneficiaries, June-August 1910
(1 file)


Sick notes for survivors of 1909 explosion, signed by Dr. W.A. Benson, June - December 1910
(1 file)


Receipts for payments made to beneficiaries of the West Stanley Disaster Fund, September - October 1910
(1 file)


Receipts for payments made to West Stanley Disaster Fund beneficiaries, November - December 1910
(1 file)


Receipts for payment to Fund beneficiaries, July - December 1918
(1 file)


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Receipts for payments made to beneficiaries of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 3 January - 31 December 1921
(1 file)


Receipts for payments made to beneficiaries of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund, 31 March - 31 December 1922
(1 file)


Receipts of payments made to beneficiaries, March -December 1925
(1 file)


Confirmations of ages of Fund beneficiaries, 24 December 1926, and correspondence from Mrs. E. Chaytor (Fund beneficiary), 15 Beaconsfield Road, Stanley, 11 July 1927
(1 file)


Receipts for payments to Fund beneficiaries, March - December 1927, and miscellaneous correspondence with the Fund secretary, 1927
(1 file)


Receipts for payment to Fund beneficiaries, 30 March -31 December 1928
(1 file)


Receipts for payments to Fund beneficiaries, 31 March - 31 December 1929
(1 file)


Receipts of payments made to beneficiaries, 1930
(1 file)


Receipts of payments to Fund beneficiaries, 31 March 1931 - 30 September 1931
(1 file)


Circular from Fund to beneficiaries informing them of a reduction in benefits, 6 February 1920
(1 paper)


Letter from J.G. Ridley (secretary) to beneficiary of West Stanley Colliery Disaster Fund relating to changes in method of benefit payment, 4 February 1921
(1 paper)


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Circular (unused) from J. Hamilton (clerk, Stanley U.D.C.) to beneficiaries of the Fund stating that no further funds were available, n.d. [c.1933]
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: UD/Sta section 04)

230-235


Details of measures taken by the Middlesbrough Miners' Relief Fund to aid those who had been rendered unemployed by the 1912 coal strike, n.d.
(8 papers)


Accounts of The Hulton Colliery Explosion (1910) Relief Fund, n.d.
(3 papers)


Letter from R. Hannant pleading case of J. Whitfield and his dependants, 1 August 1914
(1 paper)


Letter from F.O. Kirkup, The Manor House, Medomsley, to W. House, Durham Miners' Association, concerning J. Whitfield, 31 August 1914
(1 paper)


Letter from R. Hannant, Low Beechburn, Crook, to W. House, Durham Miners' Association, asking for aid to be given to the family of J. Whitfield, who had assisted in the rescue operations at the West Stanley Colliery in 1909, 2 November 1914
(1 paper)


Letter from W. House, Durham Miners' Association, to J.H. Burn pleading the case of J. Whitfield and his dependants, 5 November 1914
(1 paper)

Morrison Colliery Disaster (Ref: UD/Sta 249-250)

Morrison Colliery Disaster fund cash book, 20 December 1947 - 25 November 1967
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Morrison Colliery disaster fund, copy of trust deed and particulars of trust fund, 23 August 1947 (originally enclosed in UD/Sta 249)
(1 booklet, printed, card bound)