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Reference: NCB 01/RS Catalogue Title: National Coal Board Area: Catalogue Category: Public Records Description: Robert Simpson papers

Covering Dates: 1638-1897

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Robert Simpson (1814 - 1894)

Colliery viewer. From c.1840 to c.1872, when ill-health reduced his role, he was chief managing partner in the Stella Coal Company, through whom his papers descended. A great many of the Stella Coal Company papers were written or collected by Simpson. This section consists mostly of his other business and personal interests: he had a wide practice as colliery viewer and check-viewer.

Father of John Bell Simpson (see NCB 01/JS)

Catalogue Contents

Memorandum books, etc. (Ref: NCB 01/RS 1-28)

With printed information re M.P.s, magistrates, county officers, parishes, banks, fairs, carriers, coal fitters, etc., in the Northern counties

Ref: NCB I/RS 1

Memorandum book: cash account, and note of appointments and bills due; few entries, 1838

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 2

Memorandum book: cash account, and note of appointments and bills due; few entries, 1840

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 3

Memorandum book: cash account, and note of appointments and bills due; few entries, 1841

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 4

Memorandum book: memoranda re Stella Coal Company business: keelmen's agreement, rents, etc., 1842

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 5

Memorandum book: few entries, 1843

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 6

Memorandum book: few entries, 1844

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 7

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1845

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 8

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1846

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 9

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1847

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 10

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1849

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 11

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1850

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 12

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1851

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 13

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, 1853

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 14

Memorandum book: mostly notes of minor cash payments, and some notes of meetings, etc. 1854

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 15

Memorandum book: including notes of meetings and mining affairs, etc., 1855

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 16

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, etc., 1856

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 17

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, and diary entries, 1858

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 18

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, 1861

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 19

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, and diary entries, 1862

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 20

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, and names and ages of the oldest workmen, 1863

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 21

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, 1864

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 22

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, 1865

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 23

Memorandum book: including notes of rents, workings and sales, and a few diary entries, 1867

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 24

Memorandum book: few business notes only, 1868

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 25

Memorandum book: few entries, 1869

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 26

Memorandum book: few memoranda only, 1870

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 27

Memorandum book: very few entries, 1877

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 28

Memorandum book: few mining notes only, 1879

(1 notebook)

Diaries (mostly personal entries) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 29-34)Ref: NCB I/RS 29

1866

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 30

1887

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 31

1889

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 32

1891

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 33

1892

(1 notebook)

Ref: NCB I/RS 34

1893

(1 notebook)

Cash books (receipts, including dividends and salary; payments, including domestic and business) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 35-36)Ref: NCB I/RS 35

1856 - 1875

(1 volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 36

1876 - 1887

(1 volume)

Ledger (personal business: share dividends from various concerns, rents, mortgages, etc.) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 37)Ref: NCB I/RS 37

1869 - 1882

(1 volume)

W.B. Beaumont's Bretton mines and estates (Yorkshire) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 38-40)

See also: NCB 01/JS 3: John Bell Simpson appears to have acted with, and to have succeeded, Robert Simpson, as W.B. Beaumont's agent or viewer

Ref: NCB I/RS 38

Minutes of visits to Bretton, views of the collieries, reports, copy correspondence, etc.; also news-cuttings and invitations re majority and marriage of W.B. Beaumont, birth of children, etc., 1853 - 1860

(1 volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 39

Out-letter book, 1856 - 1857

(1 volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 40

Mineral account book (rents), 1854 - 1870

(1 volume)

Coxlodge Colliery (Northumberland) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 41-48)

[R. Simpson, and from about 1886 J.B. Simpson, were check-viewers to the owners of the royalty, the Riddell family]

Ref: NCB I/RS 41

Conveyances, agreements, and associated correspondence (including copy lease by Ralph Riddell to C. J. Brandling and others, 1821; lease by Thomas Riddell to Matthew Bell, 1838; particulars of sale, with Gosforth, in connection with Brandling v. Plummer, 1859; particulars of sale, with Burradon, 1871), 1821 - 1871

(14 papers and files)

Ref: NCB I/RS 42

Rent, and workings and vends accounts, summaries and awards, 1855 - 1883; with table of workings and vends, 1842 - 1854

(84 papers and files)

Ref: NCB I/RS 43

Correspondence re mining affairs, examination of accounts, etc., 1857 - 1889 [1886: reference to J.B. Simpson flow being Riddell's check- viewer]

(239 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 44

Correspondence and plan re applications by lessees to work the Low Main barrier, 1868 - 1873

(22 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 45

Correspondence re fire clay outstroke rent, 1873

(8 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 46

Correspondence re difference of opinion between R. Simpson and W.R. Cole (for the lessees) as to mode of calculating the royalty rents, 1872 - 1877

(109 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 47

Accounts and correspondence re salary as check-viewer, 1874 - 1889

(23 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 48

Plans and tracings of royalty and workings, 1859 - 1868 and n.d., and account of strata, 1863

(9 plans, 1 paper)

Newton Moor Colliery and North Felton Common royalty (Northumberland) (Ref: NCB 01/RS 49-51a)

R. and J.B. Simpson were check-viewers to the owners of the royalty, the Riddell family

Ref: NCB I/RS 49

Rent, workings and vend accounts and calculations; reports; correspondence re mining affairs, rent, etc.; plans (Felton North Common as divided in 1754; lordships of Helm on the Hill and Bockenfield, Felton parish, belonging to Thomas Riddell, surveyed by Thomas Bell, 1776; Newton Colliery workings, 1839, 1857, and n.d.), 1845 - 1888

(61 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 50

Correspondence (including J.B. Simpson's) re letting the coal, examination of accounts, payment of expenses as check-viewers, etc.; and report by R. and J.B. Simpson (1872), 1850 - 1877

(155 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 51

Correspondence re assurance for £2400 for Mr. Silvertop's interest in Grand Lease royalty, with notes and calculations, and printed pamphlets on the Society for Equitable Assurances, the Metropolitan Counties and General Life Assurance Society, Law Life Assurance Society, Globe Insurance Company, 1847 - 1851

(24 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 51A

Papers and letters relating to Mr. Ramsay's cannel coal (Blaydon Main?), 1848

(9 papers)

Other businesses (Ref: NCB 01/RS 52-60)Ref: NCB I/RS 52

Great Malvern Water Works (Worcestershire): correspondence, estimates, analysis of water, reports on pipes, etc. [some addressed to James Simpson], 1852

(7 papers and files)

Ref: NCB I/RS 54

Sunderland Dock Company: printed reports and accounts, dividend warrants, etc., (including "Sunderland Herald" picture, plan, and cutting re history of the company and new graving dock, 1856; newscutting of letter from Lady Londonderry, 1857; reply of the Company to Admiralty report re Sunderland Dock Bill, 1858; etc.), 1855 - 1868

(24 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 55

Sunderland and South Shields Water Company: printed reports and accounts, 1856 - 1870

(9 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 56

Ship "Palestine": correspondence, etc. re R. Simpson's purchase of one-eighth part of new ship, payment for it, launching, voyages (including details of cargo and ports of call), and eventual sale, at a loss, of "this unfortunate ship", 1857 - 1868

(36 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 57

Newcastle and Gateshead Union Gas-Light Company: letter and receipts re purchase of shares, and printed circulars, notices, reports re meetings, dividends, etc., 1858 - 1877

(78 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 58

Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow: correspondence and printed papers, notices, reports, invitations to launchings, papers re sale of the works, 1865 - 1876

(97 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 59

John A. Craiggy of Crawcrook School: correspondence, subscription lists and news cuttings re presentation after 33 years service, 1869

(43 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 60

Woods Trimdon and Deaf Hill Colliery: Memorandum and Articles of Association, prospectus, allotment of shares, correspondence, circulars, balance sheets, auditor's reports, directors' reports, report by W.H. Wood on working costs, copies of resolutions of general meetings, calls on shares, debenture bonds, and papers and correspondence concerning liquidation, etc., 1873 - 1877

(82 files and papers)

Mining Association of Great Britain (Ref: NCB 01/RS 53)Ref: NCB I/RS 53

Mining Association of Great Britain: circulars re formation, and notices, agenda, and proceedings of meetings, 1855 - 1865

(21 papers and files)

Executorship of Thomas, Jonathan, and Mrs. Isabella Robson (Ref: NCB 01/RS 61-69)

[in original bundles]

Ref: NCB I/RS 61

Accounts and correspondence re affairs of Thomas Robson [died 1856] including re Satley Farm, Lanchester, 1849 - 1854

(65 papers and files)

Ref: NCB I/RS 62

Account book re administration of estate of the late Thomas Robson, 1856 - 1860. [Notes at front re dates of death of Jonathan Robson, 1854, Thomas Robson, 1856, Mrs. Thomas Robson, 1858, Mrs. Wheatley, 1858, and dates of majority of John Robson Cutter, 1859 and Margaret Marshall, 1860]

(1 booklet)

Ref: NCB I/RS 63

Correspondence, accounts, etc. re administration of estates of the late Thomas Robson and Jonathan Robson [died 1854], 1855 - 1861

(71 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 64

Another bundle as above, also including papers re Matthew Marshall and Mrs. Mary Marshall, 1855 - 1873 (and one paper, 1843)

(57 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 65

Correspondence, accounts, valuations, etc. re the estate of the late Jonathan Robson of Gateshead, tallow chandler; including some re the tallow business; 1854 - 1859

(45 papers and files)

Ref: NCB I/RS 66

Vouchers to Jonathan Robson or his executors (for grease, tallow, income tax, insurance, rent, powder, coals, clothing, etc.) and bills of exchange book, 1852 - 1859

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 67

Vouchers with some correspondence and accounts re affairs of the late Jonathan Robson, and Isabella Robson, 1854 - 1859

(2 bundles)

Ref: NCB I/RS 68

Accounts, valuations, will, inventory, and correspondence re estate of the late Mrs. Isabella Robson of Middleton One Row, 1856 - 1861

(32 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 69

Correspondence re Mrs. Marshall's affairs, especially re the White Swan Inn, Greenside; also printed advertisement for sale or letting, and plan, 1867 - 1868

(28 papers)

Plans (Ref: NCB 01/RS 70-271A)

These are listed here because they appear to have been kept separately, as R. Simpson's plans, but it should be noted that many of them are complementary to, or copies of, plans listed among the Stella Coal Company records (NCB 01/SC), many of which were also drawn or labelled by R. Simpson. Most of these plans were apparently assembled into bundles in 1912, but as these followed little pattern, nor R. Simpson's own numbering system, they have been broken up where appropriate to give a more logical arrangement.

Ref: NCB I/RS 70

Ryton parish (showing townships, waggonways, etc.) by T. Y. Hall, n.d. (c.1823)

Ref: NCB I/RS 71

Towneley and Crawcrook royalties (showing Crawcrook, Grand Lease, Stella Freehold, Glebe, and Bradley royalties, pits, and sections of pits) "being the original for T. T. Taylor's and R. Simpson's report", n.d. Scale: 16 chains to 1 inch[1:12672]

Ref: NCB I/RS 72

Ryton parish (showing 90 fathom dyke, surface features, landowners, pits, etc., and sections of pits), n.d. Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]

Ref: NCB I/RS 73

Crawcrook open fields (showing the ridges), 1794 Scale c. 6 chains to 1 inch[1:4752] Other copies NCB I/SC 734-736

Ref: NCB I/RS 74-75

Plaintiff's plan, Durham Assizes, Joseph Dunn plaintiff, David Crawford defendant, land near Crawcrook (showing owners, pits, and waggonways), 1796

Ref: NCB I/RS 76

Trespass workings by Mr. Wade at Peatmires, Crawcrook, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 77-78

Tracings of Simms Closes, Crawcrook (showing owners of neighbouring plots), n.d. Scale 1.5 chains to 1 inch [1:1188]

Ref: NCB I/RS 79

Section of boreholes in Crawcrook Freehold (nos. 1-13, between Kepier Pit and the Tyne), n.d See also NCB I/JB 1973

Ref: NCB I/RS 80

Five Quarter seam workings, A pit, Towneley colliery, by James Frazer, wasteman, with his description and criticism of the ventilation, 1803

Ref: NCB I/RS 81

Stone Coal seam workings, Stella Grand Lease colliery, showing extent of workings at termination of Messrs. Dunn's lease (showing also dykes, royalties, and surface features), 1833 Scale 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]

Ref: NCB I/RS 82

Five Quarter seam workings, Stella Grand Lease or Towneley colliery, showing extent of workings at termination of Messrs. Dunn's lease in 1833 and by Stella Coal Company since (showing also dykes, royalties, and surface features), 1833 and n.d. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]

Ref: NCB I/RS 83

Towneley seam, Glebe and B pits, showing water line of Folly pit, c.1838 - 1841

Ref: NCB I/RS 84-91

Workings: Five Quarter seam in A and B pits, Glebe or West Towneley pit, and Emma pit; Towneley seam in Towneley Main colliery; Stone Coal seam in Towneley colliery; section of Towneley seam; sections of Croft's Freehold pit, Comb Hill, and B pits showing position of Towneley seam; n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 92-108

"Glebe or West Towneley pit" and "Glebe or Woodside pit" (also one plan re Stella Freehold pit): workings, levelling, sections of inclines, rolleyway, etc.; and surface arrangements: heap stead and branches (plan and sections), c.1838 - 1840 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 109-114

Emma pit: ground operations, and pumping and winding engines, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 115-125

Emma pit levellings, 1851 - 1862 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 126-131

Stella Freehold pit levellings, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 132-133

Stargate pit levelling and rolleyways, 1839 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 134-136

Towneley colliery levellings, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 137-160

Emma pit pumps, guides and buntons, forcing set, etc., 1860 - 1864 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 161-162

Stella Coal Company's Bank Head waggonway levelling, 1862

Ref: NCB I/RS 163-164

Proposed railway from Crawcrook/Towneley colliery to Derwenthaugh, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 165-192

Owners of land on the Bar Moor, Ryton, 1889; field bought by Stella Coal Company from Archdeacon Thorp, 1860; cottages and gardens at Kepier Chare, near Crawcrook, bought by Robert Simpson, 1865; Folly Cottages and garden ground belonging to the Stella Coal Company, n.d.; land and two cottages sold by Stella Coal Company to Archdeacon Thorp, n.d.; damaged ground round B pit Landsale, n.d.; land and cottages belonging to Thoroton and Croft near Crawcrook Gate, 1862; Thomas Dixon's cottage at Kepier Chare bought by R. Simpson, 1856; John Richardson's house at Greenside, n.d.; Joseph and George Purvis's property at Woodside, 1863; cottages on Bar Moor belonging to owners of Crawcrook colliery and occupied by Matthew Barron and Widow Smith, 1850; cottages at Low Greenside, n.d.; Robert Leadbitter's cottage on Bar Moor, n.d.; George Stark's property on Bar Moor, 1851; Joseph Appleby's land on Bar Moor, 1867; land bought by John Curran on Bar Moor, 1868; J. C. Lamb's land on Bar Moor, 1862

Ref: NCB I/RS 193-197

Hedgefield House and lands, 1864; Greenside House, 1867; Moor House, 1860 - 1861

Ref: NCB I/RS 198-200

Greenside School, proposed enlargement, with specification and estimate, 1871

Ref: NCB I/RS 201

Emma pit colliery offices, with house below, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 202

Colonel Towneley's freehold lands in Winlaton, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 203

Garesfield and Barlow Fell borings for a new winning (showing surface features, landowners, old winning, waggonways, etc.) and estimate of cost, 1766

Ref: NCB I/RS 204

Garesfield and Barlow Fell collieries belonging to the lords of Winlaton (showing pits, bore-holes and their dates (1765 - 1897), landowners, surface features, etc., and statement of remaining coal), n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 205

Colliery cottages, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 206

Montague Main colliery, showing Main Dyke and boundaries of Benwell, Denton, and Fenham estates, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 207-210

Benwell levellings, 1859 - 1864

Ref: NCB I/RS 211

Leadgate area, landowners, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 212

Chopwell estates, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 213

Wolsingham district, showing Tow Law iron works, etc., n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 214

Rough plan of Kenton or Coxlodge (?) colliery, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 215

Townships of Ryhope, Tunstall, and Burdon, referred to in agreement between the Dowager Lady Barrington and the Haswell Company, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 216-220

Coke ovens, including Blaydon, 1850 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 221-224

Newbury and Radstock coke ovens (with statement of cost), 1861

Ref: NCB I/RS 225-239

Ground plans of coke works and brick manufactory at Willington, Mr. Potter's office at Howdon, high pressure engine with crane at Potter's works, clay spouts, and unidentified machinery, 1846 - 1849 and n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 240-247

Engines at Axwell Park and Seaham; proposed engine with screw propellor for keel, by John Thorman; machine for drawing coals, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 248

Building land in City Road and Melbourne Street, Newcastle, belonging to Mrs. Gibson, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 249-262

Carlisle Water Works (tanks, reservoir, engine house, etc.), n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 263-264

Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, belonging to W.B. Beaumont, and new cottages on site of old post office at Bretton, n.d.

Ref: NCB I/RS 265

Risca colliery, Monmouthshire, at time of explosion, 1860

Ref: NCB I/RS 266-271

Mineral property belonging to R.H. Cheney at Malinslee and Stirchley, Shropshire, surveyed by T. Sopwith, 1841; tile manufactory near Hexham, 1849; land near Chirton, 1873; "a cage tub and bank arrangement" (showing winding gear and workman), n.d.; uncompleted plans of unnamed colliery, n.d., etc.

Ref: NCB I/RS 271A

Bundle of plans of which one or two are initialled "R.S.": provenance of others uncertain. Estates near Wingate Grange (showing owners and pits; including Littletown, Ludworth, Thornley, Wheatley Hill, Shotton, Hurworth, etc.), 1833; extract from Philip's map of geology of Yorkshire, 1853; estates belonging to George Clark in Bedlington by W. Anson (showing field names, acreages, and bore holes), 1814; Languin colliery, plans to show mode of working, with explanatory notes by T.J. Taylor, 1838; land near St. Helen's Auckland, by W. Kay, 1845; tracing of Auckland district from Lambert's map, n.d.

(1 bundle)

Newspaper Cuttings collected by Robert Simpson, 1848-1886 (Ref: NCB 01/RS 272-468)

(i) Those relating to Durham and Northumberland are listed here; the topics are those with which R. Simpson labelled them. Many of these consist of whole or large parts of the newspapers.
(ii) Also listed are other complete (or apparently complete) editions of newspapers
(iii) The remaining items, not listed here, therefore consist of cuttings relating to non-local items, covering a wide variety of national events and general features. All the papers are in chronological order of year, except for a few bundles apparently kept together by Simpson, which are listed at the end

Ref: NCB I/RS 272

Miscellaneous, including many re coal trade, local affairs, etc., c.1848 - 1859

(1 volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 273

Express, 14 September, 1852; Gateshead Observer, 18 September, 1852

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 274

Number not used

Ref: NCB I/RS 275

Sunderland bridge: Robert Stephenson's report, and pictures of existing and proposed bridges, 1856 - 1857

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 277

Spital Tongues colliery, 1856 - 1863

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 278

Mr. Beaumont, M.P. for South Northumberland, 1859

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 279

Death of John Wales, viewer to Hetton Coal Company, 1859

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 280

Sunderland Dock rate appeal, 1859

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 283

Broomhill colliery (Northumberland) sale advertisement, 1860

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 283A

Tests on wire ropes, 1860

Ref: NCB I/RS 284

Burradon colliery (Northumberland) explosion, 1860

(1 box)

Ref: NCB I/RS 285

Burradon colliery (Northumberland) explosion, 1860

(1 volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 286

London coal tax, 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 288

Pringle v. Cookson and others (case concerning pitmen and Mickley colliery), 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 290

Marriage of the Rev. George West of Ryton, 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 292

Opening of J.C. Lamb's Congregational chapel at Ryton, 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 293

Death of Thomas John Taylor, mining engineer, 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 294

Winlaton Game Cases, 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 295

The Armstrong Gun and Sir William Armstrong, 1861 - 1863

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 297

Miners' delegates meeting about number of shafts at collieries, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 298

H.G. Liddell, M.P., on Foster's report on the mining population of Durham, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 299

West Hartlepool harbour and railway, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 302

Emmaville Reading Society annual soiree, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 303

Duke of Northumberland's paper on use of Alnwick (Northumberland) town sewage for agriculture at Denwick, read to the Newcastle Farmers' Club, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 305

Gladstone's visit to the North, 1862

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 306

Iron trade of the North, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 307

"Our Commercial prospects": Middlesbrough; 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 308

Death of William Blamire, M.P., of Carlisle, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 309

Death of Archdeacon Thorp, rector of Ryton, 1862

Ref: NCB I/RS 310-311

Hartley colliery disaster (Northumberland) [including some complete copies of Northern Daily Express, Newcastle Chronicle and North of England Advertiser, January-February], 1862

(2 bundles)

Ref: NCB I/RS 312

The Hartley beam, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 313

West Hartlepool harbour and railway, report and balance sheet, 1862

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 316

Ebchester bridge opening, 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 317

Burness v. Bowes: demurrage case against Marley Hill owners, 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 318

West Hartlepool harbour and docks, House of Lords recommendation, 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 319

Newbiggin v. Towneley (re tenant right to way-going crops), 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 321

Peerage for W. B. Beaumont, M.P. for South Northumberland, 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 322

Death of James Joicey, coal owner, 1863

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 323-324

Strike at Straker and Love's collieries, 1863 - 1864

(1 bundle, 1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 325

Newcastle gas and water: Town Council proceedings, Bill, Gas Company, etc., 1863 - 1866 [complete copies of Northern Daily Express, 5 February 1863], 1863 - 1866

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 326-327

Cutting the first sod at Addison pit, Stella [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 27 January] 1864

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 328

Blackett v. Bates (Wylam colliery), 1864

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 331

Ridsdale (Northumberland) iron mines, 1864

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 332

Funeral of the Duke of Cleveland, 1864

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 333-334

Death of Thomas Kay, of Bishopwearmouth, merchant and shipbroker, and re commercial fraud by him, 1864

(2 envelopes)

Ref: NCB I/RS 335

Earl Russell in Newcastle, 1864

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 336-337

Low Lights or Northumberland docks, 1864

(1 envelope, 1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 343

Death of Nicholas Wood, mining engineer, 1865

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 344

Death of Duke of Northumberland, and nomination of Joseph Cowen as parliamentary candidate for Newcastle, 1865

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 345

Morning Star, 28 April 1865

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 346

"The great lock-out" in the iron trade [complete copies of Northern Daily Express, 15, 16 and 28 March], 1865

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 350

Cattle plague regulations for Newcastle, 1866

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 351

Robert Eadie, scientific notes on Towneley, Throckley, and Denton collieries, 1867

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 352

Meeting re Newcastle Hoist, at end of High Level Bridge, Newcastle, 1867

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 353

Tyneside Villages, 1867

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 354

Reform demonstration at Newcastle [complete copy of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 29 January], 1867

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 357

Fire on Newcastle quay, 1867

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 359

Lord Warkworth's coming of age (son and heir of Duke of Northumberland) [complete copies of Northern Daily Express, 30 May and 1 June, Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 1 June], 1867

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 359A

"How to Improve Working Men's Houses in Newcastle", a Prize Essay by a labourer, 1867

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 360

Reform Bill (voting of Northern M.P.s, etc.), 1867

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 361

River Tyne Commission and proposed Throckley Coal Company bridge at Ryton, 1868

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 362

Addison Potter and the Newcastle Infirmary, 1868

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 363

North of England iron trade meeting at Newcastle, 1868

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 365

Obituary of Hugh Taylor of Earsdon, mining engineer and agent to Duke of Northumberland, 1868

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 366

Deaths of Dr. David Blair White of Newcastle and George Hardcastle, auctioneer, of Sunderland, 1868

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 368

Report of River Tyne Commissioners' engineer re damage to Tyne piers, 1868

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 369

Competition speeches on strikes by workmen, at Newcastle, 1868

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 370

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 11 May, Morning Star, 12 May, 1868

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 371

Marquis of Bute's majority, and marriage, 1868, 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 372

Monkwearmouth colliery strike, 1869

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 373

Shipment of North Country coal, 1869

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 374

Visit of South Staffordshire mining engineers to the North, 1869

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 376

Inquest on Mrs. Grace Cooler, daughter of the late Archdeacon Thorp, 1869

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 377

Annual conference of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, at Newcastle [complete edition of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 4 August, and Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 7 August], 1869

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 378

Conference on National Education in Newcastle [complete edition of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 25 and 26 November], 1869

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 379

Morning Star, 9 April, 1869

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 380

Daily News, 16 February, 1870

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 381

Aberdeen Herald, 5 March, 1870

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 382

Countess of Derwentwater's claims, and speech by Mr. Cowen, M.P. [complete editions of Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 29 January; Newcastle Daily Journal, 26, 29, 31 January; Daily Telegraph, 29 January], 1870

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 383

Daily News, 18 February, 1870

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 385

Engineering strike [complete editions of Newcastle Daily Journal, Northern Daily Express, Northern Weekly Express, Daily News and Standard, May - October], 1870

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 386

Fatal accident to a waggon-driver on waggonway at Stella staith, 1871

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 387

Inauguration of Newcastle College of Physical Science, 1871

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 389

Northumberland Royal Agricultural Show [complete editions of Newcastle Daily Journal, 16 August; Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 16 August], 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 390

Standard, 7 March; Northern Daily Express, 23 and 29 February; 11 and 15 March; Daily News, 7 March, 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 391

Standard, 14 March; Newcastle Daily Journal, 9 March; Northern Daily Express, 13 and 14 March, 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 392

Gateshead Town Clerk, J. W. Swinburne, as a preacher, 1872

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 393

Beaumont's lead miners' strike [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 15 and 22 April], 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 394

Standard and Northern Daily Express, 28 February, 1872

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 395

Ryhope colliery strike [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle and Newcastle Daily Journal, July], 1872

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 397

"Traditions and Mysteries of the North": Crowley's Crew [history of] 1873

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 398

Cutting of first sod at Shire Moor colliery, 1873

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 399

Wesley conference at Newcastle, 1873

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 400

Pioneers of the Cleveland iron trade [biographies], 1873

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 401

Manhood suffrage demonstration and cooperative meetings in Newcastle [Newcastle Weekly Chronicle supplement, 19 April], 1873

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 402

Prize essays in Newcastle Weekly Chronicle on effects of shorter hours of labour, 1873

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 403

Coal cutting by machinery, 1873

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 404

Industrial progress in Cumberland, 1873

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 405

Announcement of Robert Simpson's marriage to Caroline Mackey of Newcastle, 1874

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 406

Joseph Cowen's Newcastle election campaign [complete copy of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 2 February] 1874

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 407

Results of Newcastle election [complete copy of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 5 February], 1874

Ref: NCB I/RS 408

General election, including biography and engraving of Thomas Burt, M.P. for Morpeth [bundle also includes posters, broadsheets, circulars, polling cards, etc. re North Durham campaign], 1874

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 409-410

Laying foundation stone and opening of new Danish chapel in Newcastle, 1874, 1875

(2 envelopes)

Ref: NCB I/RS 411

Murders in Newcastle and Northumberland [complete copies of Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 4 and 11 December], 1875

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 412

Ouseburn engine works and the Cooperative Mining Society Limited, 1875

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 413

List of local events in 1875

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 414

Extract from will of the late Sir Joseph Cowen, 1876

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 415

Shaftoe v. Elliott (dispute over colliery lease), 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 416

Haltwhistle Board of Guardians and the rector of Ryton re a widow's relief, 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 417

Principal landowners in Northumberland and Durham, 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 418

Durham Miners' Association on proposed reduction of wages, 1876

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 420-421

Northumberland Coal Trade Arbitration and Award re wages, 1876

(2 envelopes)

Ref: NCB I/RS 423

Percy Street Academy (Newcastle) examination, 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 425

Death of Colonel Charles Towneley, 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 426

Bishop of Durham and patronage, 1876

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 427

Speeches by Joseph Cowen, M.P., 1877

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 428

Presentation to G.C. Greenwell on leaving Poynton colliery for Tynemouth, 1877

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 429

Proposed enclosure of Stainmore Common, Westmorland, 1877

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 430

Reopening of St. Nicholas' church, Newcastle, 1877

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 431

Iron and Steel Institute meetings, and General Grant's visit to Newcastle [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 18-22 September, and Newcastle Daily Journal, 19-21 September], 1877

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 432

Northumberland election [complete copies of Northern Evening Express, 18 April, and Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 19 April], 1878

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 433

Conclusion of Berlin Congress and return of Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury [copy of Newcastle Daily Chronicle], 17 July 1878

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 434

Death of Earl of Ravensworth [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Journal and Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 20 March], 1878

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 435

Daily News, 29 May 1878

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 436

Presentation to the Rev. Emerson Humble, Greenside [complete copies of Hexham Herald, 4 October], 1879

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 437

Death of Earl of Durham, 1879

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 438

Death of G. H. Ramsay [complete copy of Newcastle Daily Journal, 29 November], 1879

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 439

Death of Peter Tate, engineer, 1879

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 441

Speech at Newcastle by Joseph Cowen, M.P. [complete copy of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 10 November], 1879

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 442

Opening of Stephenson Memorial Hall at Chesterfield (Derbyshire) [complete copy of Derbyshire Times with supplement, 19 July], 1879

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 443

Lord Hartington's visit to Newcastle [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Journal, 20 September, Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 18 September, Daily News, 19 September], 1879

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 444

Extract from Rev Mr Humble's speech at schools in Manchester, 28 February 1880

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 444/A

Receipt for three sacks of bran bought for Beamish Colliery from Thomas Sill, flour dealer, High Street Gateshead, December 1859 Originally enclosed in NCB I/RS 444

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 445

Extract from completion of the Gothard Tunnel 29 February 1880, 1 March 1880

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 446

Extract from an account of a memorial to Countess Waldegrave, July 1880

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 447

Extract from Bruton King's school prize day, listing prize winners, including sons of Mr and Mrs Murtrie, July 1880

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 448

Extract from the Lamb Bottom caves at East Harptree in the Mendip hills, July 1880

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 449

Seaham colliery explosion, and opening of Newcastle Public Library, with plans of library [complete copies of Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 11 and 18 September], 1880

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 450

The Police Courts, "Last night in Parliament", births, deaths and marriages from Daily News, 28 January 1881

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 451

Science Lecture for the people at Chesterfield by Professor Boll, from Derbyshire Courier, January 1882

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 452

Newspaper cuttings relating to a fine ball in Geelong; and land held by squatters in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 452/A

Assassination of Czar Alexander II, copy from Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 14 March 1881

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 453

Newcastle Daily Journal and Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 20 April 1881

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 454

Institute of Mechanical Engineers annual meeting at Newcastle [supplement to Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 6 August], 1881

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 455

Reopening of St. Andrew's Auckland church [complete copy of Auckland Times and Herald, 30 September], 1881

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 457

Church Congress in Newcastle [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Journal, 3-7 October; Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 4 and 8 October; Newcast1e Weekly Chronicle, 8 October], 1881

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 458

Tudhoe and West Stanley colliery explosions [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 19 April, Newcastle Daily Journal, 20 April], 1882

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 459

Standard and Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 8 May 1882

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 460

Opening of naval exhibition at Tynemouth [complete copies of Newcastle Daily Chronicle and Newcastle Daily Journal, 7 September] 1882

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 461

Opening of Sunderland Deaf and Dumb Institute [complete copy of Sunderland Herald and Daily Post, 28 July], 1882

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 462

Frauds on Insurance Clubs by ship-owners at Shields [complete copies of Fairplay, 27 July and 3 August], 1883

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 463

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 2 September, 1884

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 464

Various colliery explosions, etc.: An Elegy ... by Peter Dennison, on Harraton colliery explosion, 1817; Walker colliery, 1862; Coxlodge colliery, 1863; Pelton Fell colliery, 1866; Nitroglycerine explosion on Newcastle Town Moor, 1867; etc.

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 465

Various Church items, etc.: Review of "The Midshipman and the Minister" (Rev. Arthur Rees of Sunderland) by Rev. James Everett, 1868; Durham University in extremis, 1861; Opening of a Lutheran church at North Shields, 1868; Church Conference at Middlesbrough, 1869 etc.

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 466

Various criminal cases, etc.: Broadsheet re Winlaton murder case, accusations of complicity by Joseph Cowen junior, etc., 1860; Forgery by George Wardell, son of Rev. C. Wardell of Winlaton, 1861; Executions at Newcastle (1306-1863), 1863; Trial and execution of the Spen murderer, Matthew Atkinson, 1865; Forgery by chief cashier of Lambton's Bank, 1866

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 467

Various, including presentation to J.A. Craiggy of Crawcrook school, n.d. (1869); examination results of Training College for Schoolmistresses, Durham, n.d.; proposed lease of Newcastle Town Moor coal, n.d. (1868); prosecution for embezzlement of treasurer to Greenside Female Friendly Society, n.d.

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 468

Coal industry, etc., 1886

(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: NCB 01/RS 469(a-x)-484)Ref: NCB I/RS 469(a)

Accidents Compensation Bill, statement in opposition to bill, n.d.

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(a-x)

"Sundry papers' [mostly printed; in order of Simpson's list on bundle label]

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(b)

Literary and Philosophical Society and Coal Trade, re memorial to George Stephenson, 1858 - 1862

(3 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(c)

Railway and Canal Traffic Protection Association, 1856

(3 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(d)

List of collieries and their representatives, 1857

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(e)

Household Coal Trade meeting re prices, 1865

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(f)

South Yorkshire Viewers' Association, 1857

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(g)

Metropolitan and County Association for the Equalisation of Poor Rates, 1858

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(h)

Advertisement for portrait of Hugh Taylor, M.P., 1860

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(i)

T.J. Taylor, Coal Trade, and Societe Parisienne re supplying Paris with English coal, 1856

(3 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(j)

Civil engineering instruction prospectus, 1859

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(k)

Dickson v. Doubleday, case re county rates, 1861

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(l)

Rating of coal mines for poor and highway rates, 1860

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(m)

Proposed bond for steam coal collieries, 1863

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(n)

Miners' Provident Association, 1859

(3 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(o)

South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, 1856

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(p)

Steam Boiler Assurance Co. and Lancashire Insurance Co., c.1859

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(q)

Navy (Consumption of Smoke): return to House of Commons order, 1860

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(r)

Steam Collieries Association report on Hartley coals in marine boilers, and re wages and strike compensation, 1857, 1864

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(s)

A. Beanland re his new mining survey system, 1856

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(t)

Durham Diocesan Training School, 1856

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(u)

Colliery signal bells, corve plates, steam pressure guage: advertisement with diagrams by H. J. Morton and Company, Leeds, 1857

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(v)

Lubricators: advertisement with diagrams by R. Tidmarsh, London, n.d.

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(w)

Weighing machines advertisements with diagrams of various types in operation, and pit-head engines, etc., by Smith Brothers and Company, Glasgow, n.d.

(2 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 469(x)

Association for Advancement of Education in the mining and manufacturing districts of Northumberland and Durham, 1854 - 1855

(4 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 470

Printed Acts, reports, etc., apparently belonging to R. Simpson as some are labelled by him: (1) Poor Law Act, 1834 (2) Highways Act, 1835 (3) Commutation of Tithes Act, 1836 (4) Whittle Dean Water Works Act, 1845 (5) Act consolidating provisions re taking of lands for undertakings of a public nature, 1845 (6) Act consolidating provisions re railways, 1845 (7) Sunderland Gas Act, 1846 (8) Commutation of Tithes Act, 1846 (9) Poor Rate and Highway Rates (Small Tenements) Act, 1850 (10) Succession Duty Act, 1853 (11) Sunderland Gas Amendment Act, 1853 (12) Sunderland Gas Act, 1857 (13) Newcastle and Gateshead Waterworks Act, 1863 (14) Newcastle and Gateshead Gas Act, 1864 (15) Report of commissioners re selection of stone for new Houses of Parliament, 1839 (including de la Beche) (16) 4th Report of Select Committee on Accidents in Coal Mines, 1854 (17) Report of Select Committee on Crown Forests, together with proceedings of the Committee; 1854 (18) Museum of Practical Geology, 2nd report on coals suited to the steam navy (by de la Beche and Lyon Playfair), 1849 (19) Museum of Practical Geology, 3rd report on coals suited to the steam navy (by de la Beche and Lyon Playfair), 1857 (20) Summary of Report for 1876 - 1877 of Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1877] (21) Land Law (Ireland) Act: supplement to the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1881

Ref: NCB I/RS 471

Copy of Chancery decree, Tempest Bart. et al. v. French et al., 1638

(1 file)

Ref: NCB I/RS 471A

Apprenticeship indenture of Robert Simpson jun. of Ions Wood, Ovingham, Northumberland, to John Ord of Swalywell, carpenter and joiner, 1722

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 472

Copy of enclosure award for East Sleekburn, 1764

(1 file)

Ref: NCB I/RS 472A

Plan of part of Mr. Greaves' and Mrs. Riddell's collieries at Swarland (Northumberland), 1791

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 473

Summons to W. Greener of Stella for neglect of duty as a bound servant to Thomas Hall and Co. of Towneley Main colliery, issued by H. Lamb, J.P., 1837

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 473A

Papers re "Jane Newton's case", 1860 - 1861

(1 envelope)

Ref: NCB I/RS 474

Copy of affidavit re inability to attend Quarter Sessions as a Grand Juror, 1863

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 475

Tyne Wire Drawing Company, notes on meeting re winding-up the partnership, 1877

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 476

Proposed presentation to the bishop of Durham, 1877

(3 papers)

Ref: NCB I/RS 477

Colliery Rules for B Pit Landsale, altered to apply to South Benwell, n.d.

(1 printed paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 478

Draft case for counsel's opinion re W.C. Carr's coal at Benwell and the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, n.d.

(1 file)

Ref: NCB I/RS 479

Weather record, 1884 - 1890

(1 booklet)

Ref: NCB I/RS 480

Flora Simpson's history exercise book, n.d.

(1 booklet)

Ref: NCB I/RS 481

Various papers, mostly n.d.

(1 bundle)

Ref: NCB I/RS 482

Julia de Roubigné Atale, vol. I (London, 1777)

(1 printed volume)

Ref: NCB I/RS 483

Elswick Colliery pay bill, copy, 1879 [in R. Simpson's hand?]

(1 paper)

Ref: NCB I/RS 484

List of books, n.d.

(1 file)

Ref: NCB I/RS 474A-B

Memoranda re Chopwell Government royalty, 1865

(2 papers)