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National Coal Board

Reference: NCB 17 Catalogue Title: National Coal Board Area: Catalogue Category: Public Records Description: Colliery records and mining books

Covering Dates: 1852-1928

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  • National Coal Board
    • Ravensworth (Ref: NCB 17/1-4)
    • Pelaw Main Collieries, Birtley (Ref: NCB 17/5)
    • Printed books (Ref: NCB 17/6-7)

Catalogue Contents

Ravensworth (Ref: NCB 17/1-4)Ref: NCB 17/1

16 July 1867 (1) Rt. Hon. Henry Thomas, baron Ravensworth (2) William Wharton Burdon of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esq. Copy lease, for forty two years from 1 January 1867, from (1) to (2) of all coal mines and seams and beds of coal, ironstone and fireclay in Manor of Ravensworth called Eighton Colliery or Team Colliery [indicated on accompanying map by colour green] except Spring Pit [shown in red] Includes: right to heap room, waggonway and air pit Rent: £2000 p.a. and 6s per ten of coal wrought in new workings, £40 p.a. and 6½d per ten for ironstone and fireclay For plan: see NCB 17/2
(1 file)

Ref: NCB 17/2

Plan of land demised as Eighton or Team Colliery in NCB 17/1, 16 July 1867 Scale: 12 chains to 1 inch [1:9504] Originally enclosed in NCB 17/1
(1 plan, 66 cm x 94 cm, oiled linen, colour-wash)

Ref: NCB 17/3

Copy memorandum of agreement that the lessee named in NCB 17/1 shall draw no water from the area of land coloured blue on the plan, NCB 17/2, 19 February 1870
(1 paper)

Ref: NCB 17/4

Sale catalogue of the Ravensworth Estate, near Gateshead, to be sold by John D. Wood and Co. at the County Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 13 December 1928 Attached: plan of the estate plotted on Ordnance Survey plan at scale of 6" to 1 mile, 1928
(1 booklet, printed)

Pelaw Main Collieries, Birtley (Ref: NCB 17/5)Ref: NCB 17/5

Plan of Pelaw Main Collieries, Birtley, showing the areas of royalties, labelled J. Aitchinson, post 1921
(1 plan, 123 cm x 96 cm, colour-wash)

Printed books (Ref: NCB 17/6-7)Ref: NCB 17/6

A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries; including numerous statistics regarding ventilation and the prevention of accidents in mines, and illustrated with explanatory engravings and colliery plans by Matthias Dunn, second edition, London, 1852
(1 volume, printed, cloth bound)

Ref: NCB 17/7

Traverse Tables with an Introductory Chapter on Coordinate Surveying by Henry Louis and George William Gaunt, second edition, Edward Arnold, London, 1919
(1 volume, printed, cloth-bound)



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