Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1051 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Seaham Colliery records
Covering Dates: 1871-1967
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Seaham Colliery records (Ref: D/X 1051)
- Seaham Colliery Explosion 1880 (Ref: D/X 1051/1-7)
- Accident and Personal Injury Notices (Ref: D/X 1051/8-19)
- Employment and Production (Ref: D/X 1051/20-26)
- Conciliation, Requests and Replies (Ref: D/X 1051/27-28)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: D/X 1051/29-35)
- Agreements relating to payments and working hours (Ref: D/X 1051/36/1-34)
- Title deeds (Ref: D/X 1051/37)
- Other agreements (Ref: D/X 1051/38-42)
- Extracts from minutes (Ref: D/X 1051/43)
- Seaham Colliery Joint Committee (Ref: D/X 1051/43/1)
- Durham Coal Owners' Association General Meeting (Ref: D/X 1051/43/2)
- Wages and score prices (Ref: D/X 1051/44-45)
- Lists of wages and score prices (Ref: D/X 1051/44/1-7)
- Lists of miners/wages (Ref: D/X 1051/45)
- Accidents (Ref: D/X 1051/46-47)
- Correspondence and notes (Ref: D/X 1051/48-55)
- Durham Coal Owners' Association notices (Ref: D/X 1051/56)
- Plans (Ref: D/X 1051/57)
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Seaham Colliery records (Ref: D/X 1051)Seaham Colliery Explosion 1880 (Ref: D/X 1051/1-7)Ref: D/X 1051/1
Report to Parliament on the Seaham Colliery explosion of 8 September 1880, compiled 1881
For enclosures see D/X 1051/2-7 and D/X 1051/29-33
(1 volume card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/2Plan showing the ventilation arrangements near to the shafts in the Hutton and Maudlin seams on 8 September 1880, n.d. [1880-1881]
Scale: 1 : 2500
(1 plan, 53.5 cm. x 47.5 cm., printed with handcolouring)
Ref: D/X 1051/3Plan showing the area affected by the explosion of 8 September 1880, n.d. [1880-1881]
Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1 : 6336]
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 61.5 cm., printed with handcolouring)
Ref: D/X 1051/4Plan as in D/X 1051/3 (with less handcolouring)
Ref: D/X 1051/5'Sketch of area of principal disturbance' during explosion of 8 September 1880, n.d. [1881]
(As printed in D/X 1051/1)
Not to scale
(1 plan, 20.25 cm. x 32.75 cm., printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/6'Vertical plan showing arrangements of shafts, furnaces, drifts, seams and faults, etc.', n.d. [1880-1881]
Not to scale
(1 plan, 43.75 cm. x 52.75 cm., printed with some handcolouring)
Ref: D/X 1051/7Copy poem Seaham Pit Disaster of 1880 by Dave Mountford, n.d. [20th century copy of 19th century poem]
(1 paper, reproduced typescript)
Accident and Personal Injury Notices (Ref: D/X 1051/8-19)Ref: D/X 1051/8Notice of personal injuries, 4 March 1878 - 15 July 1881
(1 volume card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/9Notice of personal injuries, 5 November 1884 - 29 January 1887
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/10Notice of personal injuries, 2 August 1888 - 16 January 1890
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/11Notice of personal injuries, 28 July 1890 - 7 May 1891
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/12Notice of accidents, 22 July 1891 - 20 September 1892
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/13Notice of accidents, 8 October 1892 - 6 September 1894
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/14Notice of accidents, 23 June 1903 - 19 June 1905
For enclosure see D/X 1051/15
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/15Note relating to the accident of J.W. Thomson [December 1903]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/16Notice of accidents, 19 September 1905 - 2 August 1909
For enclosures see D/X 1051/17
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/17Statements of witnesses to 5 accidents included in D/X 1051/16; also statements relating to 2 other accidents not included in above volume
(8 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/18Notice of accidents, 17 May 1923 - 14 November 1925
For enclosures see D/X 1051/19
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/19Statement of a witness to the accident of T. Davis, filler, [1924]
(2 papers)
Employment and Production (Ref: D/X 1051/20-26)Ref: D/X 1051/20Return of putters employed, 18 March 1901
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/21Account of men and boys employed at No.1 pit, 9 April 1912 - 14 August 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/22Account of men and boys employed at No. 3 pit, 9 April 1912 - 6 August 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/23Fortnightly shift register for hewers, deputies, putters and other men, 5 December 1908 - 19 June 1909
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/24Monthly abstract of workings, by lessor, including abstract of outstroke workings, March 1939 - September 1945
(1 volume, half-bound)
Ref: D/X 1051/25Register for deduction of fines from employees, 9 August 1944 - 20 March 1967
For enclosure see D/X 1051/26
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: D/X 1051/26Note regarding a complaint by G. Elliot, hewer, at West Maudlin seam, 10 June 1960
(1 paper)
Conciliation, Requests and Replies (Ref: D/X 1051/27-28)Ref: D/X 1051/27Report of proceedings of Board of Conciliation, 1895
(1 volume, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/28Requests and owners' replies, 15 November 1906 - 11 September 1909
(1 volume, card bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: D/X 1051/29-35)Booklets with ref. D/X 1051/34 and 35, belonged to Frederick William Gleghorn, born 13 March 1920, who was a foreshift overman in Seaham Colliery. He died on 26 August 1988.
Ref: D/X 1051/29Extract taken from an old diary of a Seaham miner and his family; including a list of miners killed at Seaham and Dawdon, n.d. [post 1942]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/30Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo concerning the centenaries of the opening of Seaham Colliery and the first explosion, 18 June 1952
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/31Newspaper cutting from Daily Express concerning the Seaham Lifeboat disaster, 19 November 1962
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/32Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo featuring the article The picturesque Seaham in which Lord and Lady Byron lived, 7 January 1965
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/33Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo featuring the article Antiquarians' president takes a look at Bygone Seaham, 25 February 1965
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/34Notebook containing newspaper cuttings and names of miners who died in accidents in Seaham Colliery, 1880s-1925, n.d. [c.1925]
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1051/35Seaham Colliery. Stoney Places Agreements for nos. 1, 2 and 3 pits, 1920
(1 booklet, printed)
Agreements relating to payments and working hours (Ref: D/X 1051/36/1-34)Ref: D/X 1051/36/1Regulation of payments for working stone up to certain heights in pits Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 29 July 1880
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/2C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for banking out coal at No. 3 pit from 5d to 3 3/4d, 22 October 1883
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/3R. S. Johnson's award raising the score price for hewing coal in the West Incline of the Maudlin Seam from 6s 10d to 9s 8d, 7 November 1883
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/4C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for bankers at No. 1 pit from 3 3/4d to 3 1/4d and for onsetters from 2d to 1 3/4d, 29 November 1883
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/5G. May's award raising the price for hewing in the Second North Way in No. 2 pit of 12.5% and rise of 7.5% for hewing in the Main Coal Seam at No. 2 pit, 31 December 1884
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/6C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for bankers at No. 3 pit from 3 3/4d to 3d, 27 February 1885
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/7C.R. Barrett's list of premiums paid to banksmen's assistants at No. 2 pit, 7 March 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/8C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for No. 3 pit onsetters from 2d to 11/2d, 10 April 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/9C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for No.2 pit banksmen from 3½d to 2 7/8d, 28 April 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/10R. S. Johnson's regulation listing prices for hewing in the Low Main Seam No. 1 pit, 16 May 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/11R. S. Johnson's agreement increasing shift hours for hewers in No. 2 pit from 10 to 11, 4 August 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/12R. S. Johnson's award listing new score prices for hewing in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 pits, 25 August 1885
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/13C. R. Barrett's agreement increasing shift hours in No.1 and 3 pits from 10 to 11 hours, 8 November 1886
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/14R. S. Johnson's award regulating who is working No. 3 pit East Flat Second East Way, 26 January 1887
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/15C. R. Barrett's award reducing the score price for banksmen in No. 1 pit from 3 1/4d to 2 7/8d, in No.2 pit from 2 7/8d to 2½d and rising the price in No. 3 pit from 3d to 3 1/8d, 9 March 1887
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/16C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for hewing in the First West Broken Flat from 16s 2d to 9s and in the Second West Whole Flat from 13s 7d to 11s 6d, 23 August 1887
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/17R. S. Johnson's award regulating the score price for hewing in the Jubilee District at No. 1 Pit at 10s 9d, 16 November 1887
Includes note by Johnson to Barrett re above
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/18C. K. Barrett's award listing new prices for hewing in No. 2 Pit (Hutton Seam), 18 October 1888
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/19R. S. Johnson's award giving No.1 pit hewers 45 minutes to travel to the shaft, 13 July 1889
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/20R. S. Johnson's award setting score prices for hewing in the Jubilee District of No.1 pit at 10s 9d, 16 November 1889
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/21C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for banking in No. 3 Pit from 3 1/8d to 2 5/8d and rise in No. 2 Pit from 2½d to 3d, 15 December 1889
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/22C. R. Barrett's agreement letting miners work until 1 p.m. on a specific 'Baff Saturday', 10 January 1890
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/23C. R. Barrett's regulation of shift hours in all three pits on all 'Baff Saturdays', 22 February 1890
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/24W. Coxon's decision, acting as an arbiter between the colliery owner and workmen, not to raise prices for hewing in Straight West Way in Hutton Seam, 22 May 1890
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/25C. R. Barrett's agreement providing new schedule of hours and listing advances and reductions of score prices in all three pits, 7 November 1890
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/26C. R. Barrett's award raising the score price by 5% and 12.5% in No. 2 pit, 7 August 1891
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/27I. Lishman and J. Wilson's award scheduling prices for hewers in the East Maudlin Seam, Straight East District, 5 November 1895
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/28Schedule of awards from the following collieries: Brandon, Hebburn, Wardley, South Tanfield, Tudhoe, Seaham, Rainton, East Hetton 13 May 1889- 23 December 1895, 23 December 1895
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/29Award setting score prices for the mine in places 4 yards wide at 20s and for working the broken or long wall at 16s, 23 March 1896
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/30Draft regulation of payment for No. 3 pit hewers depending the price on the height of the seam, 14 July 1902
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/31W. Wilkinson's verdict not to raise score prices for No. 1 pit hewers working in North Flat in Low Main Seam, 5 February 1903
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/32Agreement regulating work hours before the 'Pay Saturday' for shifters and stonemen, 15 September 1905
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/33T. Brough's award with a schedule of pays for hewers working different shifts, 9 May 1906
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/36/34Regulation of shifts for No. 2 pit pumping engine men and winding engine men, 16 April 1909
(1 file)
Title deeds (Ref: D/X 1051/37)Ref: D/X 1051/3716 April 1885
(1) Charles Rollo Barrett, Seaham Colliery manager
(2) John Murray of the New Seaham Inn
Lease by (1) to (2) of 300 sq. yards of land adjacent to the Inn
Consideration: 5s
(1 paper)
Other agreements (Ref: D/X 1051/38-42)Ref: D/X 1051/3814 September 1885
(1) C. R. Barrett, Seaham Colliery manager
(2) J. Northway and J. Dixon, contractors
Agreement for driving of a stone drift in No. 1 pit 3rd East
Consideration: £3 for a linear yard and £3 for a refuge hole
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/3919 March 1888
(1) Thomas Lishman on behalf of the Elemore Colliery
(2) C. Dickinson and J. S. Walton on behalf of workmen of the above colliery
Agreement setting rules for commencing work after fatal accidents
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/4011 February 1901
(1) Thomas Brough, Seaham Colliery manager
(2) F. Coulson of Sherburn Hall
Agreement for putting boreholes from the Maudlin Seam to No. 2 pit Hutton Seam
Consideration: 30 s per fathom and 3 guineas (£3 3s) for other costs
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/4131 May 1901
(1) Thomas Brough, Seaham Colliery manager
(2) James Hoy, secretary of the Seaham Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association
Memorandum of agreement that hewers would be paid another flat score prices after starting working on coal of another flat. This agreement also abolishes the holing pillar system
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/42Agreement signed by John Atkinson, that he will move from Doctor Dillon's New Houses back to his own house, after it is repaired from damage caused by a storm, 5 March 1903
(1 paper)
Extracts from minutes (Ref: D/X 1051/43)Seaham Colliery Joint Committee (Ref: D/X 1051/43/1)Ref: D/X 1051/43/1/1Extract from Seaham Colliery Joint Committee minutes regulating shifts on 'Baff Saturdays', 31 March 1876
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/43/1/2Extracts from minutes relating to dispute on working hours 13 March 1885- 21 June 1889, n.d. [c. 1889]
Includes copy of E. J. Meynell's award increasing wages for longer shift hours for all colliery men, 15 April 1878
(1 file)
Durham Coal Owners' Association General Meeting (Ref: D/X 1051/43/2)Ref: D/X 1051/43/2Extract from Durham Coal Owners' Association General Meeting minutes relating to working hours and wages in Durham County and applications from Bolckow Vaughan and Company Limited to admit West Auckland, Woodifield and Hunwick Collieries, 19 December 1900
(1 paper, printed)
Wages and score prices (Ref: D/X 1051/44-45)Lists of wages and score prices (Ref: D/X 1051/44/1-7)Ref: D/X 1051/44/1List of average wages of banksmen and onsetters at No. 3 pit from 25th pay 1884 to 2nd pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/2List of average wages of banksmen and onsetters with their reduced estimates from 4th to 6th pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/3List of estimate wages for No. 2 pit banksmen from 7th to 8th pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/4List of score prices for hewers in the Low Main Seam from 15 October 1892 to 5th pay 1905, March 1905
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/5List of score prices for 3 West North West Flat and 3 West North Flat from 7 October 1900 to 23rd pay 1901, n.d. [c. 1901]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/6List of score prices for the long and broken wall in No. 1 Low Main Seam from 20 October 1900 to 15 November 1902 with an extract from the colliery regulations explaining that the prices apply after working an area of 100 sq. yards and the whole price is given for working beyond 60 yards distance from the goaf, n.d. [c. 1902]
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/44/7List of prices for drawing timber in the Main Coal Seam, 15 March 1913
(1 paper, printed)
Lists of miners/wages (Ref: D/X 1051/45)Ref: D/X 1051/45List of miners employed at No. 3 pit Shaft Bottom with their wages, 13 March 1903
The miners' names are: J. Ducker, R. Proud, I. Smith, J. Adamson, I. Metcalfe, W. Weatherall, H. Cooke, I. [Flen?], O. Gallagher, W. Anderson, R. B. Burns, D. Graham, B. Rochester, I. Commer, R. N. Burns, I. J. Bagley
(1 paper)
Accidents (Ref: D/X 1051/46-47)Ref: D/X 1051/46List of fatal accidents in all three pits in Seaham Colliery 2 October 1871- 20 August 1885
Does not provide names or any details of accidents
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/47Official accident form for J. W. Thompson (17), a landing lad, who was injured by a fully loaded tub on 17 December 1903 and died on 21 July 1908, with follow up documents including his wages and correspondence between Thomas Brough, the colliery manager and Reginald Guthrie [secretary of Durham Coal Owners' Association], followed by statements by Edward Temple, wagonwayman of 25 California Street [Seaham] and Silas Cowley, airwayman of Seaton Lane Cottages, witnesses of the accident, 23 July- 29 September 1908
(1 file)
Correspondence and notes (Ref: D/X 1051/48-55)Ref: D/X 1051/48Note from Robert W. Fletcher, Londonderry Offices, Seaham Harbour, with excerpts of [Seaham Colliery] Joint Committee minutes relating to working hours on 'Baff Saturdays' 31 March 1876- 28 October 1878, n.d. [c. 1878]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/49Note from [M] Brown, Durham Coal Owners' Association, Neville Hall, Coal Trade Office, Newcastle on Tyne to C. R. Barrett, esq., [Seaham Colliery manager], referring to an arrangement made in 1873, that reduced shift hours from 12 to 10.5, 30 November 1883
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1051/50Answered questionnaire form from Reginald Guthrie, [secretary] of Durham Coal Owners' Association, Coal Trade Office, Newcastle on Tyne sent to Thomas Brough, [manager] of Seaham Colliery, requesting information on the colliery customs relating to hewers being paid extra for any 'helping up', 3 April 1894
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/51Letter from George May and William Crawford, Newcastle on Tyne, arbitrators to R. S. Johnson, esq., Sherburn Hall, Durham, relating to payments for hewing coal, 9 May 1885
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/52Letter from M. Brown, Durham Coal Owners' Association, Neville Hall, Newcastle on Tyne to Thomas Brough, esq, [Seaham Colliery manager], referring to working hours of boys under and over 16, 3 March 1903
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/53Note relating to No.1 Low Main Seam, 3rd North District, in which the score prices were reduced by 15% in 1900 with two little maps of the discussed area enclosed and two extracts from Durham Coal Owners' Association minutes regarding the above from 22 December 1902 and 13 March 1903 respectively, n.d. [c. 1903]
(5 papers)
Ref: D/X 1051/54Letter from M. Brown, Durham Coal Owners' Association, Neville Hall, Newcastle on Tyne to Thomas Brough, esq, [Seaham Colliery manager], referring to working hours of miners employed in the output of coal, 14 March 1903
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/55Correspondence between Thomas Brough, [Seaham Colliery manager] and M.W. Brown, Durham Coal Owners' Association, Neville Hall, Newcastle on Tyne relating to so called New Seaham agreement of 9 May 1906 that was rejected by District and Joint Committees, 9 May- 7 November 1906
(1 file)
Durham Coal Owners' Association notices (Ref: D/X 1051/56)Ref: D/X 1051/56/1Durham Coal Owners' Association notice on 10 hours coal drawing, 3 January 1891
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 1051/56/2Durham Coal Owners' Association notice scheduling agreements regarding enginemen's hours 12 June 1890- 5 August, 1903, n.d. [c. 1903]
(1 paper, printed)
Plans (Ref: D/X 1051/57)Ref: D/X 1051/57/1/1Copy plan of ventilation system in Hutton and Maudlin Seams, Seaham Colliery, 8 September 1880
(1 plan, 46 cm x 54 cm, print, coloured)
Ref: D/X 1051/57/1/2Plan of workings under sea, Hutton Seam, Seaham Colliery, October 1901
(1 plan, 58 cm x 53 cm, waxed linen, coloured)
Ref: D/X 1051/57/2Copy plan of Seaham town showing the town centre as it was in early 20th C. providing names of people occupying the houses, n.d. [1970s]
(1 plan, 74 cm x 45 cm, print)
