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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 642 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Mills in County Durham, Easington Colliery Disaster

Covering Dates: 1838-1952

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Miscellaneous documents (Ref: D/X 642/1-4)Westgate High Mill, Stanhope (Ref: D/X 642/1-2)

15 June 1940 (1) Ethel Dalkin of 11 Promenade Square, Harrogate, Yorkshire, widow, and Joseph Walton Dalkin of Coxclose, Ravensworth, Gateshead, auctioneer. (2) Marie Ainsworth Marks the wife of Frank Robert Fredrick Marks of 8, The Cedars, Sunderland. Draft conveyance by (1) to (2) of Westgate High Mill in the parish of Stanhope. Recites previous deeds Consideration: £160
(paper, 1 file, typescript)


Schedule of deeds (1838-1940) relating to High Mill, Westgate received by the purchaser Mrs. M. A. Marks, 18 June 1940.
(1 paper, typescript)

Bishop's Mill, Durham (Ref: D/X 642/3)

11 July 1944 (1) John Edward James Smith of Bishops Mill, Durham, ice manufacturer (2) John James Smith, son of (1), ice rink manager (3) The City of Durham Gas Company Grant of easement for a gas main at Bishop's Mill, Durham, by (1), the owner, and (2), the tenant to (3) Consideration: £70 Includes plan and related correspondence, 23 May - 26 June 1944
(7 papers)

George Raw, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Ref: D/X 642/4)

Letter from George Raw, Pilgrim House, 141 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Major Sir Humphrey B. Noble, Walwick House, Humshaugh, Northumberland, expressing his admiration for 'the handling of the shareholders by Anthony and you before liquidation' and mentioning that the Easington Colliery Disaster occurred some years after nationalisation, but refusing to speculate whether nationalisation was to blame, 12 November 1952 [Originally enclosed in 'Explosion at Easington Colliery, County Durham: Report' by H. C. W. Roberts, published by HMSO, 1952]
(1 paper)