Catalogue

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

Plan 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

Plan showing the area affected by the explosion of 8 September 1880, n.d. [1880-1881] Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1 : 6336]

Plan as in D/X 1051/3 (with less handcolouring)

'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

'Vertical plan showing arrangements of shafts, furnaces, drifts, seams and faults, etc.', n.d. [1880-1881] Not to scale

Copy poem Seaham Pit Disaster of 1880 by Dave Mountford, n.d. [20th century copy of 19th century poem]

Notice of personal injuries, 4 March 1878 - 15 July 1881

Notice of personal injuries, 5 November 1884 - 29 January 1887

Notice of personal injuries, 2 August 1888 - 16 January 1890

Notice of personal injuries, 28 July 1890 - 7 May 1891

Notice of accidents, 22 July 1891 - 20 September 1892

Notice of accidents, 8 October 1892 - 6 September 1894

Notice of accidents, 23 June 1903 - 19 June 1905 For enclosure see D/X 1051/15

Note relating to the accident of J.W. Thomson [December 1903]

Notice of accidents, 19 September 1905 - 2 August 1909 For enclosures see D/X 1051/17

Statements of witnesses to 5 accidents included in D/X 1051/16; also statements relating to 2 other accidents not included in above volume

Notice of accidents, 17 May 1923 - 14 November 1925 For enclosures see D/X 1051/19

Statement of a witness to the accident of T. Davis, filler, [1924]

Return of putters employed, 18 March 1901

Account of men and boys employed at No.1 pit, 9 April 1912 - 14 August 1948

Account of men and boys employed at No. 3 pit, 9 April 1912 - 6 August 1948

Fortnightly shift register for hewers, deputies, putters and other men, 5 December 1908 - 19 June 1909

Monthly abstract of workings, by lessor, including abstract of outstroke workings, March 1939 - September 1945

Register for deduction of fines from employees, 9 August 1944 - 20 March 1967 For enclosure see D/X 1051/26

Note regarding a complaint by G. Elliot, hewer, at West Maudlin seam, 10 June 1960

Report of proceedings of Board of Conciliation, 1895

Requests and owners' replies, 15 November 1906 - 11 September 1909

Extract 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]

Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo concerning the centenaries of the opening of Seaham Colliery and the first explosion, 18 June 1952

Newspaper cutting from Daily Express concerning the Seaham Lifeboat disaster, 19 November 1962

Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo featuring the article The picturesque Seaham in which Lord and Lady Byron lived, 7 January 1965

Newspaper cutting from Sunderland Echo featuring the article Antiquarians' president takes a look at Bygone Seaham, 25 February 1965

Notebook containing newspaper cuttings and names of miners who died in accidents in Seaham Colliery, 1880s-1925, n.d. [c.1925]

Seaham Colliery. Stoney Places Agreements for nos. 1, 2 and 3 pits, 1920

Regulation of payments for working stone up to certain heights in pits Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 29 July 1880

C. 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

R. 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

C. 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

G. 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

C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for bankers at No. 3 pit from 3 3/4d to 3d, 27 February 1885

C.R. Barrett's list of premiums paid to banksmen's assistants at No. 2 pit, 7 March 1885

C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for No. 3 pit onsetters from 2d to 11/2d, 10 April 1885

C. R. Barrett's reduction of the score price for No.2 pit banksmen from 3½d to 2 7/8d, 28 April 1885

R. S. Johnson's regulation listing prices for hewing in the Low Main Seam No. 1 pit, 16 May 1885

R. S. Johnson's agreement increasing shift hours for hewers in No. 2 pit from 10 to 11, 4 August 1885

R. S. Johnson's award listing new score prices for hewing in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 pits, 25 August 1885

C. R. Barrett's agreement increasing shift hours in No.1 and 3 pits from 10 to 11 hours, 8 November 1886

R. S. Johnson's award regulating who is working No. 3 pit East Flat Second East Way, 26 January 1887

C. 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

C. 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

R. 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

C. K. Barrett's award listing new prices for hewing in No. 2 Pit (Hutton Seam), 18 October 1888

R. S. Johnson's award giving No.1 pit hewers 45 minutes to travel to the shaft, 13 July 1889

R. S. Johnson's award setting score prices for hewing in the Jubilee District of No.1 pit at 10s 9d, 16 November 1889

C. 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

C. R. Barrett's agreement letting miners work until 1 p.m. on a specific 'Baff Saturday', 10 January 1890

C. R. Barrett's regulation of shift hours in all three pits on all 'Baff Saturdays', 22 February 1890

W. 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

C. R. Barrett's agreement providing new schedule of hours and listing advances and reductions of score prices in all three pits, 7 November 1890

C. R. Barrett's award raising the score price by 5% and 12.5% in No. 2 pit, 7 August 1891

I. Lishman and J. Wilson's award scheduling prices for hewers in the East Maudlin Seam, Straight East District, 5 November 1895

Schedule 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

Award 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

Draft regulation of payment for No. 3 pit hewers depending the price on the height of the seam, 14 July 1902

W. Wilkinson's verdict not to raise score prices for No. 1 pit hewers working in North Flat in Low Main Seam, 5 February 1903

Agreement regulating work hours before the 'Pay Saturday' for shifters and stonemen, 15 September 1905

T. Brough's award with a schedule of pays for hewers working different shifts, 9 May 1906

Regulation of shifts for No. 2 pit pumping engine men and winding engine men, 16 April 1909

16 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

14 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

19 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

11 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

31 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

Agreement 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

Extract from Seaham Colliery Joint Committee minutes regulating shifts on 'Baff Saturdays', 31 March 1876

Extracts 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

Extract 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

List of average wages of banksmen and onsetters at No. 3 pit from 25th pay 1884 to 2nd pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]

List of average wages of banksmen and onsetters with their reduced estimates from 4th to 6th pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]

List of estimate wages for No. 2 pit banksmen from 7th to 8th pay 1885, n.d. [c. 1885]

List of score prices for hewers in the Low Main Seam from 15 October 1892 to 5th pay 1905, March 1905

List 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]

List 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]

List of prices for drawing timber in the Main Coal Seam, 15 March 1913

List 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

List 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

Official 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

Note 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]

Note 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

Answered 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

Letter 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

Letter 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

Note 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]

Letter 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

Correspondence 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

Durham Coal Owners' Association notice on 10 hours coal drawing, 3 January 1891

Durham Coal Owners' Association notice scheduling agreements regarding enginemen's hours 12 June 1890- 5 August, 1903, n.d. [c. 1903]

Copy plan of ventilation system in Hutton and Maudlin Seams, Seaham Colliery, 8 September 1880

Plan of workings under sea, Hutton Seam, Seaham Colliery, October 1901

Copy 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]