Catalogue

Andrew's House Colliery: Success Pit pay bill [photocopy], 1777

Beamish Colliery: Second Pit, pitmen's bond, 1866

Benwell Colliery, Northumberland: (22 papers) (1) "A noate of Lady Howland's businesse for Sir George Baker who is of her counsell in an ejectione firme wherein William Astell is p[laintiff] against Michaell Angus, John Selby and others, defendants", n.d. (post 1646) [Counsel's opinion recites leases of coal-mines in Greenelaw or Greaneley in Whickham parish, from 1621; traces descent of property to "my Lady Howl and " through her mother who was the relict of Henry Chapman the elder, who with Robert Shaftoe and others took a lease of the mines] (1 paper) (2, 3) Accounts or balance sheets for Benwell colliery, 1699 [Including entry 'received of my cosin Fra. Baker on my account ... "] (2 papers) (4) Ralph Parmeley and Samuel Dunn's account of Benwell and Kenton corveing, 1702 (1 paper) (5) Glebe Pit sinking account: list of "gear" and cost due to sinkers, and note of depth of shaft and amount due to sinkers for it, 1703 (1 paper) (6-11) Vouchers for fees for views taken "at some pits in Benwell Ground, in the Gleeb colliery, for the owners of Benwell Colliery", by Michael Fairlam; also notes and figures re workings at Oxclose, Park, Dawson's and Eastfield pits, and re number of shares and amounts due to the owners [?] (Shaftoe, Horton, Witham, Carr, Jamison, Blaigdon, Johnson), 1702 -1705 (12) Sinkers' agreement with the Honourable Charles Montague, to sink a shaft at Benwell colliery "near the west part of Gowland", including details of work and prices. Endorsed with note that George Laws and partners broke ground on West pit on 25 April 1705, and list of sinking gear received, 1705 (1 paper) (13, 14) Sinkers' agreement with the Honourable Charles Montague, to sink a shaft at Fenham colliery (near Gowland in Benwell). Including details of work and prices. Also note from Ralph Hall re payment of his share of the wages, 1706/07 (2 papers) (15) Estimate of how much coal the pits in Benwell and Stumplewood colliery will cast (Mill Hill, Hope Hill, Glebe, Spittleflat, Oxclose - working; East and West pits in Gowland - sinking; seven pits still to sink), 1705 (1 paper) (16) "Acomputation of the extraordenary charge of sinking - Pit in the East Gowland in Benwell colliery", by Arthur Seaton; addressed to Francis Baker, Whickham, 1707 (1 paper) (17) "Schedule of utensils" at Northbanks and Benwell colliery, n.d. (early 18th century?) (1 paper) (18-20) Specifications of work and prices, per ten; refers to "my lady's paper" for some prices, n.d. (early 18th century?) (3 papers) (21) Estimation of cost of working the colliery, per ten., n.d. (early 18th century?) (1 paper) (22) Copy of part of lease of grounds at Benwell by "C.M.", n.d. (early 18th century?)

Castle Eden Colliery, report and valuation by Matthew Heckles for George Pyman, 1882; letter from Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, to E. R. Whitwell, re his knowledge of the colliery over 20 years and proposed new pits, 1898; letter from J. F. Lee to J.J. Prest re his knowledge of the colliery gained while manager, 1883 - 1893, in connection with new pits on Hardwick and Hesledon estates, 1908 [copies]

Copy of Grand Allies' articles of agreement, 1726 (1) The Honourable Sidney Wortley of Wortley, Yorkshire; his son and heir, Edward Wortley; Thomas Ord of Newcastle (2) Sir Henry Liddell of Ravensworth Castle, an infant; his trustee and guardian, George Liddell of Ravensworth Castle (3) George Bowes of Gibside (4) William Cotesworth of Gateshead park

Elswick colliery pay bill, for Joseph Lamb, 1842

Follonsby colliery, agreements and awards, 1905-36

Garesfield colliery, agreement or bond for working the colliery, 1866

[Bolckow Vaughan and Company?], wages cost accounts (Woodifield, Whitelee, West Auckland, Shildon Lodge, Byers Green, Hunwick, Newfield, Black Boy, Auckland Park, Leasingthorne, Westerton and Binchester collieries), 1876 - 1879 and 1886 - 1900 (2 volumes) Bowden Close Colliery: see under Stanley, Wooley and Bowden Close Brancepeth: see under Strakers and Love

Harton Coal Company, offers and acceptances of coal [name of firm, quantity, quality, market [including abroad], delivery, price quoted, accepted or declined], 1885 - 1913

Harton Coal Company Limited, private roads: statements re attendance of workmen in charge of daily stopping of private roads and railways, with plan, 1887 - 1954

Harton Coal Company, photographs, c. 1887 - 1900 [Some duplicates of those in NCB 2/18, 19 and NCB 3/105, 106; also photographs of subsidence damage; and reprint from "Engineering" showing photograph of self-propelling steam coal shipping crane, with technical details, as used at the Company's Low Shipping Staithes, Mill Dam, South Shields; also gives frontage, height and water depth of wharves, 1897]

[Harton Coal Company?] newscuttings re coal-mining affairs, especially in Boldon and Whitburn area, 1906-15 and [infolded], 1954

(i) "The copey of a veiwe that was made May 23rd 1745" - rough notes of statement re flooding between North Biddick and Fatfield, re water levels when Thistle pit was sinking, flooding at Jarmount, Gosforth, Lambton and Birkley (?), etc.; (ii)"observations and opinion with respect to a new winning under the Thistle pit dike at Heaton ..." (re impossibility of sinking to the necessary depth of probably 90 fathoms, due to water and danger of fire) by Nicholas Walton, Amos Barnes, Edward Smith, George Claughton, William Dryden and Richard Peck; (iii) notes (by un-named writer of the notes re flooding) re his length of service at various collieries (Bensham, Ravensworth, Heaton, North Biddick, Chatershaugh) and re acres wrought and unwrought at Heaton, 1745

Names and depths of the pits, water, etc., 1747

Calculations re fall of seam (?) between Thistle pit and Eastern boundary, called Spanish Closes, 1747

Calculations re working costs, 1747

Calculations or memoranda re flooding, etc., 1747

'Hetton Colliery in the County of Durham. Perspective view of the Works of the Colliery, the Horizontal, Inclined and Self-Acting Planes with the Loco Motive and other Engines used on the Rail Way and the Staiths and Self Discharging Depot on the Banks of the River Wear near Sunderland', by [Thomas Robson], n.d. [c. 1823] Shows a panorama of the countryside between the colliery and the River Wear, with a brief description of the opening-out of the colliery and the names of principal officials, and section of strata. Vignettes of the colliery and the staithes.

Hetton Colliery: valuation, with investigation of affairs, by Messrs. Hunter and Dunn, 1831 Endorsed by W. C. Blackett: "This is by Joseph Hunter my grandfather . Attached: newscutting obituary of Colonel W. C. Blackett, of the Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Limited, 1935

South Hetton, plan of workings, "referred to in the report of Messrs. Wood and Johnson dated 5th February 1834, P. Forster", n.d. (1834)

Share transfer book, 1874 - 1885

Fitter's bond (John Berkley of Seaham Harbour and his sureties), 1885 (1 paper) [42-60 Transferred from the Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic, University of Durham]

Correspondence and other papers, re agency agreements, accounts, dividends and shares, powers of attorney, insurance policies, shipments, reports, receipts, agreements for telephone and electricity, etc., 1835 - 1946 Especially: 1835 Deed re shares, Matthew Forster to John Burrell [no. 565]; 1837 Assignment of shares, J. Burrell to Thomas Rawsthorne [no. 566] 1853 - 1875 Agreement with Lord and Lady Londonderry for leading and shipping coals [no. 581] 1859 Agreement with Haswell Coal Company for leading coal (copy) [no. 67] 1874 - 1882 Directors' remuneration [no. 50] 1879 Minutes of committee meeting [no. 29] 1882 Letter from J. R. Breckon re resignation [no. 71] 1887 Petition against North East Railway Bill [no. 58] 1887 - 1889 Notices to alter Articles of Association [no. 60] 1897 "The Story of a Negotiation" re negotiations for the Haswell Company' s Easington and Under- sea royalties (printed) [no. 398] 1905 Presentation to W Bailey Hawkins after 25 years as chairman [no. 233] 1905 Proposed amalgamation with Londonderry Collieries Ltd. [No. 608] 1907 Christmas bonuses [No. 260] 1908 - 1910 Port of London rates [no. 284] 1909 Dispute [no. 286] 1910 Murton strike [no. 285] 1912 Trimdon Coal Company, Memorandum and Articles of Association [no. 583] 1929 - 1936 Shareholders' statements of interest in other companies [no. 640] [These papers were filed by the Company in numbered envelopes. They are now arranged in chronological order]

Papers concerning the reconstruction of the Company [due to liabilities attached to the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1897], 1898: (lA) "List of documents in this parcel" (1 paper) (1) Ratifications of agreement (1 bundle) (2) Returned allotment letters (1 bundle) (3) List of ratifications of agreement for exchange of stock (1 paper) (4) Certificate (copy) of resolutions for reconstruction (1 paper) (5) Replies to request for allotment letters (1 paper) (6) Letter from Blyth Dutton Hartley and Blyth, solicitors, re powers of the Company to join the Coal Owners' Association, 1896 (1 file) (7) Receipts for payment of shares (7 papers) (8) Draft directors' report, draft chairman's circular, and suggested amendments, with letter (5 papers) (9) Agenda and minutes of Extraordinary General Meeting, 24 February (2 papers) (10) Minutes of Extraordinary General Meeting, 24 March (1 paper) (11) Minutes of General Meeting, 2 September (1 paper) (12) Agenda and minutes of General Meeting, with liquidators' statement (final meeting of the old company), 21 October (1 file, 1 paper) (13) Agreement for adoption of exchange agreement (2 copies) (2 printed files) (14) Circulars issued re reconstruction, 1897 - 1898 (1 printed file) (15) Chairman's circular re reconstruction (printed) (1 bundle) (16) List of stockholders of old company (1 file) (17) List of shareholders (exchange of stock for shares) (1 file) (18) Correspondence re Clark and Pearson's assent to agreement for reconstruction, with counsel's opinion, etc. (21 papers) (19) Draft notices, resolutions, etc. (8 papers and files)

Papers from accountants' department re reconstruction of the Company, 1898

Dividend authorities, 1876 - 1898

Number not used

Presentation to Thomas Jones, managing director, 1902

Report on screening and cleaning of coal, 1887

Plans of Murton and South Hetton colliery premises, 1904

Correspondence and other papers re provisions of 1907 Companies Act, 1908

Correspondence and other papers re dispute and arbitration with Durham Coal Owners' Association over tax on strike compensation, 1910 - 1913

Correspondence re defalcations in shipping agent's accounts and re bank accounts, 1913 - 1914

Papers re debentures, 1941 - 1948

Cancelled debenture bonds, 20th century

Testimonial account: cash-book, list of people circularised, and receipt counterfoils, etc., 1900 - 1902

Bankers' references for tradesmen, etc., 1923 - 1954

High Heworth, workings, leadings and sales accounts, 1822 - 1900

Agreements and awards, 1873 - 1911

Brickworks accounts, rates and taxes, etc., 1874 - 1917

Pay abstracts, 1875 - 1879

Letter book (copy out-letters), 1878 - 1896

Wages cost accounts, 1914 - 1931

[Miners' Welfare and Ambulance Committee?] minutes, 1939 - 1945

Miners' Welfare Scheme, day [cash] book, 1943 - 1952

Houghton Colliery: working accounts (Hope, Success and Bounder pits), 1768; working and leading account (Hope, Success and Bounder 'pits), 1768; "account of the labouring men days", 1771

[Lambton Collieries?] Manager's daily reports, by R. Fowler, 1890 - 1891

Lambton Collieries Limited, letter and accounts re East Herrington sinking cost, and water supply, 1901 - 1902 (6 papers) Ludworth Colliery: see under Thornley, Ludworth and Wheatley Hill

Mainsforth Colliery, working accounts, 1905 - 1939

Draft letter [from Carlton Iron Company Limited, Mainsforth Colliery?] to Colonel H. C. Surtees re colliery affairs, royalty rent, etc.; and letter noting installation of electric power plant at Mains forth colliery, 1907

Murton Colliery: agreement or bond for working the colliery, 1864

Newbottle Colliery: staith and leading account, 1780; John Nesham's account with C. Hodgson (personal), 1780; receipt for river duty on coals, 1799; receipt for payment for a horse, 1771

Newbottle Burnmoor Colliery: paybill, 1787

Minutes of evidence, 1875

Statements of witnesses and other supporting evidence including cost of freeing the colliery from water (1874), estimate of the coal available (1874), estimates of pumping costs, etc., 1862 - 1875

Minutes of meeting held at Wearmouth and measurement of unworked coal at Oxclose, 1874

Copy of lease of Oxclose Colliery by Robert Shafto to Jonassohn and Elliot, 1851

Account of the coals wrought, 1849 - 1862

Shafto's royalty accounts, 1850 - 1872

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1872 - 1875

Plan of neighbouring royalties, n.d. (1 plan) [77-88 received from Mr. C.D. Robinson, Durham via Washington Area Office, National Coal Board, 3 September 1965 and 25 April 1972]

Seaton Delaval Colliery Company (Northumberland): proposal by W. Dees and Company for work at Lysdon quarry for Seaton Delaval Colliery Company, 1838

Seaton Delaval Colliery (Northumberland) poster re terms and conditions agreed between owners and workmen, 1854

Shilbottle Colliery, memorandum book (agreement between owners and workmen, reports, arbitration, strata, etc.), 1873 - 1876

1895 - 1901

1919 - 1923

1923 - 1925 (1 volume) The Holmside and South Moor Collieries Limited:

1925 - 1927

1928 - 1931

1932 - 1935

1936 - 1939

1940 - 1944

1944 - 1947 (1 volume) National Coal Board Holmside Unit/South Moor and Morrison Busty Groups:

1948 - 1950

1951 - 1953

1954 - 1955 (1 volume) Photographs:

(i) Annfield Plain - Morrison North and South pits (closed c. 1957) (ii) Annfield Plain - Morrison North and South pits (closed c. 1957) (iii) Craghead - Edward and Busty pits (closed c. 1969) n.d. [c. 1920 - 1930?]

Stanley, Wooley and Bowden Close collieries [Pease and Partners], agreements and awards, 1873 - 1900

South Brancepeth Colliery pays, 1872 - 1873

Journal, 1936 - 1949

Debenture register, 1936 - 1949

Ledger ["impersonal"), 1936 - 1950

Ledger, 1937 - 1949

Share certificates, 1941 - 1946

Journal (sales, purchases, etc.), 1942 - 1949

Cash book, 1946 - 1949

Bank cash book, 1950 - 1951 [Ownership of this volume by Strakers and Love not definite: unnamed, but accessioned by Record Office as belonging to Strakers and Love]

Correspondence and other papers from British Hard Coke Association, Durham District War Emergency Coke Association, Durham Coal Owners' Association, Durham Colliery Owners Mutual Protection Association, etc. Including re Greene Minimum Wage, Central Coal Mines Scheme (1930), etc., 1938 - 1946

Miscellaneous correspondence re payment of dividends, outstanding debts, etc., and vouchers for coal and coke supplied, 1938 - 1947

Monthly and annual reports, financial statements, and rough calculations [Incomplete], 1943 - 1946 (1 bundle) Brandon Colliery:

Wages and prices: memoranda of joint committee meetings, awards and agreements, 1872 - 1904

Thornley, Ludworth and Wheatley Hill collieries memorandum book (reports, abstract of leases, sections of seams, tentale rents, particulars of machinery, houses, working and sales abstracts, etc.), 1882 - 1883

West Thornley Colliery, pay bill, 1889

Minutes of meetings with workmen's deputations, 1913 - 1915

Minutes of meetings with workmen's deputations, 1915 - 1917

Minutes of meetings with workmen's deputations, 1917 - 1918

Minutes of meetings with workmen's deputations, 1920 - 1936

Minutes of meetings with workmen's deputations, 1934 - 1948

Agreements between owners and workmen, and awards, 1886 - 1908, and infolded, 1930 - 1947

Agreements and awards, 1910 - 1927, and infolded, 1930 - 1932

Wallbottle Colliery: list of nailor's prices, n.d.

Washington Coal Company Limited, workmen's fines book (giving details of offence), 1898 - 1944

Washington Coal Company Limited, "F" pit, miners' lodge deputation and minimum wage committee minutes, 1929 - 1946

Notes of meetings with deputations from Washington Glebe Miners' Lodge, 1933 - 47

Washington Coal Company Limited, Coal Industry Value: estimates of future outputs and costs, with tables, graphs, and photographs, 1947 - 1976

Tow Law Iron Works, letter book, 1848 - 1849

Royalty rent accounts (including details of amounts worked), 1875 - 1896

"Private journal": accounts, 1863 - 1869

"Personal ledger": ledger, 1869 - 1873

Wearmouth Coal Company: total shipments with average prices (each pay), 1903 - 1948 (1 booklet) Wheatley Hill Colliery: see under Thornley, Ludworth and Wheatley Hill Wooley Colliery: see under Stanley, Wooley and Bowden Close

Wylam Colliery (Northumberland): accounts of coals led, 1832 - 1835 (1 volume) Unidentified collieries:

Expenditure account (materials, and leading and shipping charges), 1850 - 1857

Expenditure account, 1857 - 1869

Fitters' [?] ledger (naming fitters [?] and ships), 1855 - 1864

Hewers averages, 1880 - 1884

Heads of agreement amongst coal-owners on the Tyne, 1731

Heads of agreement amongst coal-owners on the Tyne, 1746

Heads of agreement amongst coal-owners on the Tyne [draft], 1773

Circular from William Ord, Coal Trade chairman, soliciting opposition to proposed Bill for regulating the Tyne coal trade [copy], 1787

"An account showing the actual price of coals on the Tyne, Wear, and Tees and also their relative position as compared with the average price borne by the best Wear and Tees coals in the London market", 1842

Account of coals led to Dunston Staith from Burdon Moor, Hedley, Causey, Tanfield, Lanchester Common, Beamish South Moor, etc., for Sir Henry Liddell and Partners (for one week). Including list of fitters and their quantities for the year, 1742

Voucher, George Silvertop to the Heirs of Pontop, for waggonway rails and sleepers, 1784 [Possibly John Buddle's]

Extract from "Newcastle Journal" showing distances from various Wear collieries to Seaham Harbour, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Shields, 1834 [Possibly John Buddle's]

Agreement for lease of coal-mines in Bondgate, St. Andrew Auckland, between Dowager Viscountess Barrington and John Flintoff, 1834

"A brief compendium of the natural, political and commercial history of coal", manuscript, n.d. [post 1836]

Henry T. Morton's strata book (various collieries), 1844

Letter and account from John Elliot Simpson to G.N. Clayton re damage to High Bradley Farm by Consett Iron Company colliery workings, 1874

Description of two collieries for sale in Lancashire and near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1876

Plan of workings, Preston's pit near Pendleton Main fault [unidentified colliery], 1883

Blank loading certificates for various collieries (fitters' certificates re amount and type of coal shipped on which vessel); ornate bill-headings, some showing views of collieries or river; early 20th century

Railway tickets for the South Shields - Marsden Colliery railway, n.d. (early 20th century)

Plan of Fenham estate, showing also Benwell colliery's Edward pit, beginning of outstroke, etc., and Denton's Betty pit, n.d. (18th century?)

Petition for increased wages: "Gentlemen we your humble petitioners desire to let you know our intensions: Advance 3d. per score, 2d. per yard for narrow work, and pay for all lost time", n.d. (late 18th century?)

Transcripts (typescript) from Shafto - Eden manuscript (n.d., c. 1795 - 1803) re cost of working collieries (giving detailed calculations re working and vending charges, shipping dues, etc.), n.d.

"The Chaldron", short typescript article, n.d.

Staith bills: accounts of coals led to Dunston Staith for Sir Thomas Clavering, 1767, 1779 - 1780

Reports on various collieries: (i) Cotherstone Royalty, n.d. (ii) Kind and Chaudron system of sinking pits at Whitburn, 1877 (iii) Silksworth Colliery Engines (with diagrams), 1877 (iv) Curmamam Long Wall Working (South Wales) (with plans), 1878 (v) Feed Water Apparatus, Silksworth Colliery: plan only, 1878 (vi) Shamrock Colliery [? abroad] for Sir George Elliot, 1887 (vii) North Biddick Colliery Valuation (with plans) for Sir George Elliot, 1889 (viii) Cottam Colliery, for C. E. Hunter, Messrs. Appleby and Company, M. Morrison (with plan), 1889 - 1891 (ix) Sheriff Hill Colliery (with plans), 1892 (x) Valuation of Waldridge and Chester Moor Collieries, for C. E. Hunter (sold to Priestmans et al. 1894) with photographs and plans), 1893 (xi) Eaglesbush Colliery (Wales) for Sir G. W. Elliott (with photographs and plans, 1899 (xii) Wiregill lead mine (with plan), 1899 Infolded: Report on Framwellgate Moor Colliery, for Major W. Nimmo, by M.H. Kellett

Subsidence cases.. correspondence, reports, newscuttings, plans, etc. (Framwellgate, Edmondsley, Sherburn Hill, Shincliffe South Grange Farm, St. Joseph's Church West Stanley, Redheugh, Priestmans Collieries Limited), 1906 - 1916

Subsidence cases involving Durham County Council: correspondence, reports, plans, photographs, etc. (Winlaton School and Blaydon Burn Colliery; Tanfield Lea, Wingate Council, Greencroft, Collierley, Flint Hill, New Shildon, New Brancepeth Council, Pelton Council and Swalwell schoo1s, 1911 - 1914

Legal cases: reports, memoranda, newscuttings, plans, photographs, etc. (Madjin v. North Brancepeth Coal Company; Joseph Proud v. North Brancepeth Coal Company; Thomas Greenwell v. Low Beechburn Coal Company; Bentley's Yorkshire Breweries v. Bolckow Vaughan and Company; Henry Lightfoot v. Bolckow Vaughan; Secretary of State v. Mr. F.O. Kirkup; Pinkney v. Pease and Partners; Seed Morgan and Quinn v. Elvet Colliery Company; claim for S. Bee for compensation for two heifers; Walter Scott Limited v. Bell Brothers; Burns v. Manley; Dunn v. Stella Coal Company; Blaydon Main Colliery Company; Axwel1 Colliery Shaft), 1887 - 1918 (1 volume) Received from Mr. Mein, Assistant Deputy Regional Solicitor, National Coal Board, Team Valley, 24 July 1969

Defendants' brief, proofs of evidence, pleadings and other legal papers, 1920

Reports on the Brick Company's affairs and premises, and copies of prospectuses, 1906 - 1921

Conveyances (copies) of lands and clay to the Brick Company, 1875 - 1906

Bills for quantities of bricks delivered, 1917

"Evening Chronicle" recording the conclusion of the case, 1921 (1 newspaper) Plans of the Colliery and Brick works drawn up for use in the case, c. 1920 (about 40 plans):

Milburn' s plans 1 - 15

Dinning's plans 1 - 4 (no. 1 shows the claypit in 1901 and 1920)

Union Blyth and Ravensworth brick-works

Plans of the workings and strata in Ouston pits

Section and surface plan of the area through the claypit, roadway outside works, etc.

Plans of the Brick Works kilns, etc. showing damage

Plans and sections of clay workings at Portobello, Edinburgh

Miscellaneous photographs [with index written on the back of accounts for the ship "Telemachus" etc. (Bradshaw' s trustees) 1838]

Photographs taken in connection with the case and used as evidence (numbered series 1 - 33, two sets selected for preservation)

Garesfield Colliery

Fawdon Colliery, A Pit

Hetton Colliery

Coxlodge Colliery, Jubilee Pit

Hartley Colliery

St. Hilda's Colliery, Wallsend

Photographs: Bearpark "old winding engine", interior and exterior views, including one showing engineman, n.d.; Nettlesworth Drift, "old horse-driven gin pump", n.d.; Edmondsley, Littletown, Sherburn, Sherburn Hill, and Sherburn House, general views of pit heads, n.d.

Two pictures of Dilston hall and castle (Northumberland), n.d. (1 paper) For photographs, see also NCB I/X 13-30, 104, 132, 165-167, 186-188

Brancepeth Manor, Castle and Park: sale particulars (Christie's) with plans, 1773

Brancepeth ("Miss Belasyse"), showing tenants, farm and field names, acreages, etc., 1772

Brancepeth, Miss Belasyse' s estate, sketch plan, 1771 (1 plan) See also Brancepeth Estate Collection (D/Br/P 6), plan by Ralph Richardson, 1771

"Mr. Hudson's Scouts House, near Brancepeth, by Richard Richardson junior", showing field names, acreages, land use (e.g. "laid with seeds in 1764"), 1770

Dalton le Dale, Dean and Chapter, showing field names, acreages, land use, occupiers' names and pictorial representation of buildings in village, paths, etc. Infolded: letters from Bowlby, Dean and Chapter register, to Ralph Richardson re resolution by Dean and Chapter that he should survey the township, and to persons holding estates under them (listed, with rental) to permit "Ralph Richardson of Darlington, land surveyor, to view, measure, inspect and survey ... in order to making an actual plan or survey thereof for the use of the ... Dean and Chapter". Also letter from Richardson to Bowlby enclosing plan and field book; "there is not one freeholder, lessee, or owner of a cottage living in the place and the tenants of the lessees have been frequently changing", 1781

Elvet: John Tempest's Broom Hall estate, giving field names, acreages, land use, 1777

Elvet: John Tempest's Old Durham estate, showing field names, acreages, land use, paths, etc., 1776

Hart: "Mr. Scurfield's Crimdon House, near Hart"; rough plan showing some field names and acreages, and some other features, 1752

Haswell: "John Nesham's estate called Pespool in the township of Haswell", showing field names, land use, etc.; and note re Nesham' s responsibility for repair of roads, 1764

Hedworth: "Simonsides in Hedworth, Southwick, Fulwell", showing tenants, acreages, field names, land use, 177-

Hesledon: Miss Hall's Sheraton and Hazzledon [Hesledon] estate, rough sketch plan, giving some field acreages, trees and other features, c. 1756

Hesledon: Mr. Pewterer s estate at Haseldon [Hesledon] and Hart, rough sketch plan showing field names, acreages, some land use, roads and other features (e.g. "here tradition says coal was worked"; "here old town stood"), 1762

Heworth, "with Smith's and Gibbon's [estates]"; showing field names, acreages, pictorial representation of buildings, etc.,, n.d. [1770's] Scale: 3 chains : 1 inch

Houghall, by J[ohn] M[owbray], showing field names, acreages, land use, totals of clear land and woods and waste, etc., 1794

Hungerhill: John Scurfield's estate at Hungerhill near Neasham, giving field names and acreages, and total acreages of arable, meadow, and pasture in Cold Comfort and Hungerhill farms, 1757

Kelloe: John Tempest's estate at Town Kelloe, by John Mowbray, giving field names, acreages, land use, lists of farms with tenants and acreages, paths, etc., 1772 See also Londonderry Papers (D/Lo/P 2), plan by John Mowbray, 1772

Merrington: Garmonsway's estate at Kirk Merrington, rough sketch plan, showing few details, 1756

Merrington "for Mr. Garmonsway, now Grange and Sadler" [or Whitelock], rough sketch plan, showing few details (including trees), 1768 Scale: 3 chains : 1 inch

Merrington (Dean and Chapter) showing tenants, acreages, and some field names, n.d. (late 18th century?; post 1776) References to page numbers [of missing schedule?]

Penshaw (John Tempest) by J. Mowbray, showing tenants, acreages, field names and land use, wagon - ways, etc., 1775

East and West Rainton, showing tenants, acreages, field names, land use, n.d. (late 18th century)

Seaham: an estate near Seaham (covering Dalton, Seaham, Seaton and area); little detail given, n.d.

Sherburn: John Tempest's leasehold estate called the Parks, by J[ohn] M[owbray], rough sketch plan, showing few details, 1776

Sherburn Hospital, lands "that are let at rack rent and in the Master's possession", showing field names, tenants, land use, acreages, etc., 1777

Sherburn Hospital, rough sketch plan, showing only outlines of fields, 1777

Shincliffe (Dean and Chapter) by J[ohn] M[owbray], showing field names, acreages, tenants' names, paths and roads, other features (e.g. mill, turnpike bar) and list of lessees and their rent and acreages, 1793

Shincliffe: paper addressed to Mr. Richardson, surveyor, containing list of tenants and type of holding (e.g. "Amb. Millers homestead belonging to his two tenements) (N.B. reference letters do not appear to refer to the map above); "names of lessees ... taken in 1789" with rents, etc., n.d. (c. 1789)

Shincliffe (?) smaller scale version of part of 233 above, showing only some tenants' names, n.d. (1793?)

Shotton: Rev. R. H. Brandling's estate; little detail given, except outline of estate and names of neighbouring land-owners, n.d. (late 18th century)

Stranton: "Wilson's Coldknuckles and Ryebread House", giving field names, acreages, land use, etc.; note infolded re tithes, and re "there are no fences where the red lines are drawn in the plan - I suppose that the hedges would be best placed there, so I cast up the closes accordingly, that the new fields hereby made might need no other measuring", 1767 or 1776

Sunderland: Messrs. Scurfield and Donnison's estate called High Ford, near Sunderland; gives field names, acreages, land use, pictorial representation of farms, list of farms and tenants, paths and land near Wear covered by high and flood tides, 1779

"Westoe and Harton, Dean and Chapter", including South Shields; very detailed, showing field names, acreages, owners' names, land use, pictorial representation of buildings, paths and roads, pin fold, tilery, blacksmith shops, glass house, etc., n.d. [1770's]

Witherholme: John Scurfield's estate at Witherholme (near Scewby and Dalby, Yorkshire?), rough sketch plan, giving few details: some field names, and acreages, also types of trees, 1753

Letter from George Greenwell to Mr. Richardson "survaer", 1771

Law bills: John Airey's bills to Francis Nicholls' executors for various legal business, including re Colliery [sic; Collierley?] colliery; (including bill for business done "by my agent Mr. John Dixon of Durham"); and Edward Stewart's bills to John Airey as one of the trustees and executors of Francis Nicholson, for business in connection with a suit by William Ellison (an infant) against them, 1741 - 1756

Correspondence and other papers, apparently belonging to John Airey, Newcastle: (1) Charles Sanderson (Inner Temple) to John Johnson (Newmarket) re legal matters, including problems of serving a process on a duke newly arrived from Newcastle, 1718; (2)-(13) Wilson v. Robinson, a case re trespass on highway at Swalwell, 1745 - 1746: (2, 3) copy writ and affidavit of serving a writ; (4, 5) counsel's opinions by Thomas Rudd; (6, 7) "the plaintiff's witnesses names with what they can say": re common cart way from Whickham to Swalwell and wayleave dues exacted by the Peescod family; "these men can all witness the ground that wee have taken in was a peace of very bad ground ... and the high ways is no way straitened but is now as good and better than ever they knew them"; and statement re Sir James [Clavering's] men [the defendants] pulling down the "garding wall" three times; (8) statement by Robert Wood re state of roads down Swalwell Bank, repaired "at the charge of Ambrus Croley": "there never was any kings street down this bank"; (9) "minutes of Crowley' s proofs" re routes to Swalwell and re Crowley "who carries on a great iron factory there" having to repair the road himself; (10) points to be proved by "our witnesses" re nature of the ground enclosed, straitening of the way, etc.; mentions pit sunk by Nathan Wetherell forty years ago, and sinking started eighteen years ago; (11) "Mr. Wetherell ... to show the main way or church way by Wigham' s Hole to Archdeacon Bells into Swalwell ... to show also the byway down by Wilson's house and Pescodd's fold which we say was a private way and no highway; to show that where Wilson's house stands there was a great hill and a cole pit; to show ... the way better than it was before the house was built''; (12) R. Draper's statement; (13) questions to be asked of defendant's witnesses [the defendants were apparently Sir James Clavering's men, who had pulled down a garden wall belonging to the plaintiff's house, on the grounds that the latter encroached on the commons or on a highway] (14 - 35) Various legal matters and cases: (14) Counsel's opinion by William Cuthbert re Mr. Noble's case, concerning promissory notes for value received in coals, 1735; (15) John Dixon's account with John Airey, 1748; (16)-(27) letters from John Dixon (Durham), G. Wilson and J. Peele (Symonds Inn) and T. Airey (London) to John Airey re legal matters and cases (Rasden v. Hylton, Ellison v. Airey, Mowbray v. Crow, Errington v. Werge concerning renewal of Wallick Grange lease, etc.), 1752; (29, 30) order and law bill in case Mary Wordsworth v. Lord Ravensworth and others, 1753 - 54; (31) P. Bowlby to Edward Stewart, attorney (Newcastle), 1758; (32) Christopher Johnson (Durham) account with Edward Stewart, 1758; (33) T. Collingwood (barrister) account with Edward Stewart, 1768; (36) Letter from M. Ridley (Heaton) to Airey (?) re patronage in the Excise, 1753. [Apparently used as wrapper for Wilson v. Robinson papers]

Fawcett v. Belasyse (John Fawcett, Right Honourable Lord Ravensworth, Edward Wortley, George Bowes and William Ord v. William Belasyse, George Humble, Meaburn Smith, James Smithson and Richard Chandler): case concerning Birtley colliery: correspondence and other papers [including statements of evidence re mining in early eighteenth century on Birtley common, by Robert Greenwell of Chester, pitman, born 1670, Ralph Sampson of Pelaw, yeoman, born 1664, John Greenwell of Chester, pitman, born 1667, et al. (3-5, 37, 39-41, 43); "persons' names who led coles from Birtley after the tryall and the quantitys" (28); minutes of decree (36)], 1748 - 1758

Crook and Billy Row enclosure award (copy, 1895), 1769

Account for meals provided "on the second meeting of the reference between the freeholders of Birtley and my master"; receipted for payment by freeholders for their half, by Francis Courtney, 1745

Commission for examination of witnesses in Lord Archd. [sic] Hamilton and others v. Christopher Ricardson, 1753

Notes re births of members of the Rashaw family, especially family name of Priscable, 1796 - 1856

Recommendations to bishops by the Commissioners for the sale of the land tax, from W. Young, Chancery Lane, 1799

Apprenticeship indenture [part torn and missing]: Charles Taylor, to George Dunn of Newcastle [and Matthias Dunn of Stella?] coal owner, as blacksmith, 1821/22

Iron: extract from letter from Pennsylvania to F. B. Deane junior, re cost of producing pig iron with anthracite coal, 1841; and cost of producing pig iron at Birtley, Lemington and Wylam, Ridsdale, Scotland, and Wales (including delivery to Newcastle for the latter three), n.d.

Share certificate of Armorer Donkin and W. G. Armstrong of Newcastle, in Northumberland and District Banking Company, 1845

Rev. W. Webb' s sermon on occasion of resignation of rectory of Sunderland, 1848

Ouseburn Bridge and approaches, plan and prospectus, 1851 (1 printed paper

Farm account book (weekly labour accounts, harvest expenses, sale of crops and livestock etc.). Unspecified farm. 1856 - 57

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Mechanics' Institute Soiree, programme, 1857 (1 printed paper

South Hetton Workman's Institute and Club, committee minutes, 1896 - 1914

Hutton Henry manor court book, 1693 - 1916 [Lords of the manor were successively the Maire family; William Harry, Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland, and his trustees; Hutton Henry Coal Company (1875 - 1887) and Horden Collieries Limited (from 1901)] (1 volume)

Number not used

Memorandum book [James Y. Feggeter?] re building materials and supplies, etc. Infolded: four group photographs [unidentified], c. 1922 - 1923

Printed broadsheet, "Lindsay and the Shipping Interest" - memoir of William Schaw Lindsay, M.P. for Tynemouth; from the Sunderland Herald; n.d. [post 1857] (1 printed paper

Report of inspection of Edrington estate, near Berwick, in connection with Prole v. Loady [?], n.d. [By R. or J.S. Simpson?]

Thornley, public carriage roads, and private and public foot roads - details of breadth, route, etc., of various roads or lanes [part only], n.d.

Part of letter [latter part missing] to the proprietors of Durham and Sunderland railway, criticising landowners' attitude, the line proposed, etc.; refers to the Haswell Company, the engineer, and to the owner of the Burdon estates (Mr. Gregson - deleted), n.d.

Plan of Old Burdon estate and schedule giving field names, land use and acreage, n.d. [eighteenth century?[

Plans of Crookhall and area (near Consett), one showing bore holes, n.d.

Index to unidentified accounts and ledger, n.d.

Incomplete or unidentified items, including copy deliberations of a committee of enquiry into coal-owners' combination, n.d.; copies of plans of Greencroft estate referred to in an abstracted lease, n.d.; "case about the manner of swearing" [oaths], n.d.; supplement to colliery agreement between C.J. Brandling, M. Bell, R.W. Brandling, J. Watson and R. Riddell, n.d.; part of agreement between T. Riddell and M. Bell, n.d.; recipe for cakes, 1863; calculations re working and selling price of coals, n.d. (early nineteenth century); results of test of Stephenson oil engine pumping water from Brockwell Atkinson drift, 1905; letter from James Robson (Stockton) to Miss Young re birth of son, 1847; letter from Adam Jaggar (Wakefield) to John Robinson (Bretton) requesting meeting, 1899; list of stock of materials on railway, n.d.; conditions of sale ex parte Mitchell and Sovereign Life Assurance Company, 1847; printed circulars or advertisements for North British Agriculturist and Daily Review (1861), steam gauge [Russian?, n.d.], H. J. Morton of Leeds (oil, tallow, safety lamps, etc., 1858), and Henry Watson, brassfounder, of Newcastle (safety lamps, boiler alarm whistles, gas fittings, etc., n.d.); newscutting re Wardley colliery dispute, 1872; printed description of Wilkins and Company's new safety lamp, 1858; printed account of improvement in manufacture of coal-gas, n.d.; printed advertisement for portraits of Fellows of the Geological Society by Maull and Polyblank, n.d.; printed programme for visit of Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers to the Royal Arsenal, 1876; printed copies of umpire's awards to brakesmen and mechanics, 1876; various blank forms, incomplete items, etc.

England's Grievance Discovered, in relation to the Coal Trade, with the map of the River Tyne, and Situation of the Town and Corporation of Newcastle ...", by Ralph Gardiner; London 1655; reprinted Newcastle 1796

A Treatise on the Coal Mines of Durham and Northumberland ..., by J.H.H. Holmes, 1816 (1 volume) [Another copy in the Record Office library]

"A Treatise on the Abuses of the Coal Trade" [by R. Edington], 1817

Bishop Auckland Industrial Co-operative Flour and Provision Society Limited v. Butterknowle Colliery Company Limited: printed transcripts of notes of case in Court of Appeal, re subsidence at Hamsterley, 1904

Coal Mines Act, 1911

Coal Mining Industry of the United Kingdom ... and the Principal Foreign Countries, by F. A. Gibson (Institute of Engineers, Cardiff): supplements of statistical tables to accompany his book, 1922 - 1925

Wakefield Corporation Waterworks Arbitration, between Messrs. R. Holliday and Sons and the Wakefield Corporation, minutes of evidence, 1884 - 1885 and 1885

Minutes of evidence, 6th day, 20 February 1924

Extracts (photocopies) from minutes of evidence, 1924

First Report, Doncaster area, 1926

Final Report (photocopy), 1927

Durham Miners' Association: Acts of Parliament and County and National Agreements, 1930

British Hard Coke Research Association, Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1943

Report (two copies), 1926

Evidence, parts A and B, 1926

Appendices and Index, 1926

Ordnance Survey 6", 1921 edition, sheets I SW and SE, II SW, 5 NW and NE, 6 NW

Newscuttings re Coal Commission, 1919

National Coal Board, District Agreements [list at front of file], 1951 - 1953

Durham Coalfield, showing "titles of mineral properties", names and position of pits, persons working the royalties, railways, etc. Published by the Business Statistics Company Limited, n.d. (late nineteenth to twentieth century) Scale 1" to 1 mile.