Catalogue

Ledger of expenditure at [Langdon, Gaunless and Egglestone] lead mills, Michaelmas 1787 - 22 August 1788 Includes: accounts for ore carriage, coal carriage, smelters and refiners, and, at end, abstracts of lead ore delivered from Gaunless Mill mines, 30 March 1826 - 30 July 1827

Ledger of expenditure [at Langdon Lead Mills], 1 August 1788 - 16 May 1818 Includes: accounts for the supply of provisions to smelters, refiners, carriers and smiths, and at end, corn accounts, 1791 - 1793 For enclosures: see D/HLB 1/6 and D/HLB1/114

Day book of Langdon Mines monthly pay bills, 3 February 1844 - 7 October 1859 For enclosures: see D/HLB 1/7

Ledger of Langdon Mines, indexed, 28 May 1844 - 29 January 1848 Includes: accounts of candles, powder and cash loans to workmen, and accounts of ore extracted and labour provided. Also, at front, middle and end, minutes, attendance records and sundry accounts of the Cotherstone Mothers' Meeting, held at the Friends' Meeting House, 24 November 1889 - 21 March 1893

Account book of Skeers lead mine monthly pay bills, 27 January 1849 - 18 June 1862 Includes: accounts of Middleside (Howgill) mine, 1854 - 1862 For enclosures: see D/HLB 1/8

Bill for shoe repairs by John Barnes, and account of payments to Jer[emiah] Roan for work at Middleton, 1792 - 1793 and n.d. [c. 1800]

Bills for the sale of lead ore and the purchase of candles and other supplies by Jacob Allison, Romaldkirk, and related correspondence, 13 December 1852 - July 1857

Letter from Jacob Allison, Cotherstone, to T. F. Scarth, concerning the payment of duty on lead ore, 8 January 1859 Attached: summaries of the sales of lead ore at Alston, 1852 - 1859; invoice for the purchase of shovels from R. Hall & Company, Wolsingham Iron Works, 25 April 1856

Unused monthly pay sheet of an unspecified lead mining company, 1860s

Rules and Regulations of the Society for the Benefit of the Workmen in the Employment of the Corporation of The Lead Company, printed by R. W. Atkinson, Market Place, Barnard Castle, 1884

Rules of the Lead Company's Workmen's Fund Society, printed by R. W. Atkinson, Market Place, Barnard Castle, 1891

Draft scheme of division of the Lead Company's Workmen's Fund by W. J. & H. C. Watson, Barnard Castle, plaintiffs' solicitors, comprising a schedule of workmen's names, year of birth, [work] number, amount of yearly contributions paid, amount of fines paid, and total, n.d. [late 19th c.]

Copy report on the Langdon lead mines by Thomas J. Bewick, civil and mining engineer, London, and Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, 10 August 1871; copy made, n.d.

Circular letter of John Elliott, secretary, the Lead Office, 9 Martin's Lane, Cannon Street, London, enclosing a copy report of H. Bauerman on the mines of the [London] Lead Company, 8 June - 8 July 1875

Copy report on the 'Sir John' silver lead vein at Middleton-in-Teesdale, by William Race, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, late manager to the London Lead Company, 29 January 1912; copy made, n.d.

Copy report, as D/HLB 1/15, with queries, and sketch of the shaft at Spetley Tongue annexed, 1912; copy made, n.d.

3 November 1821 Deed of partnership between Daniel Tuke of the city of York, gent.; Anthony Thorpe of the same place, gent.; John Tuke of the same place gent.; the Rev. John Graham of the same place, clerk; William Barnes of Collingwood House, Yorkshire, gent.; William Gardner Sams of Raby, gent.; Ralph March of Middleton-in-Teesdale, gent.: Mark Sherlock of the same place, gent.; John Tarn of the same place, innkeeper; John Bland of Ormside Lodge, Westmorland, esq.; Isaac Cape Cust of Barnard Castle, plumber; Thomas Wheldon of the same place, gent.; Robert Taylor of the same place, wine merchant; George Clarkson of Bowes, Yorkshire, farmer; William Walton of the same place, common brewer; Richard Hepple of Staindrop, surgeon; William Corner of Raby Park House, farmer; John Barnes of Barnard Castle, gent.; John Wilkinson of Stockton, gent.; William Green of Brignal, Yorkshire, farmer; John Smith of Piercebridge, farmer; Christopher Lonsdale of Arlaw Banks, gent.; the Rev. John Thornhill of Staindrop, clerk; Thomas Ayres of Stockton, wine merchant; Alexander Calvert of Richmond, Yorkshire, gent.: George Bamlett of East Shaws, gent.; John Whinfield of Gateshead, iron-founder; [ ] Ord of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; John Blanchard of the city of York, gent.; Avison Terry of Newland, Yorkshire, esq.; John Terry of Humber Bank, Kingston-upon-Hull, esq.; James Hawkins of Hudswell, Yorkshire, yeoman; Thomas Walton of Middleton-in-Teesdale, tallow chandler; William Bussey of the same place, yeoman; George Oliver of the same place, surgeon; John Rain of Holwick, Yorkshire, farmer; George Benson of Egglestone, gent.; Robert Hutchinson of Middleton-in-Teesdale, innkeeper; John Sharp of West Pitts, coal owner; Timothy Tarn of the same place, yeoman; Thomas Softley of Barnard Castle, ironmonger; Parker Crossby of the same place, merchant; John Atkinson of the same place, stationer; Richard Harrison of the same place, innkeeper; William Harrison of the same place, carrier; Edward Walton of Cotherstone, Yorkshire, joiner; Charles Copeland of Staindrop, gent.; James Rain of Morton, farmer; John Addison of Raby, joiner; Samuel Mitchell of the same place, yeoman; William Rice of the same place, gent.; Walton Atkinson of the same place, yeoman; Richard Dealtry of the same place, yeoman; John Story of the same place, gent.; Cuthbert Howe of the same place, blacksmith; William Hodgson of the same place, yeoman; Robert Williams of the same place, yeoman; Richard Phillips of the same place, yeoman; Elizabeth Frisby of the same place, spinster; John Myers of the same place, yeoman; [ ] Herbert of Thorp, Yorkshire, gent.; John Allinson of Newton House, Yorkshire, yeoman; John Hancock of the city of Durham, gent.; William Proctor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, druggist; James Trenholm of Darlington, gent.; John Allinson of the same place, gent.; Robert Byers of Smeaton, Yorkshire, farmer; John Dixon of Stockton, wine merchant; Christopher Tennant of Norton, esq.; Thomas Allinson Tennant of Stockton, esq.; George William Todd of the same place, raff merchant; Thomas Jennett of the same place, stationer; George Ramsden of the same place, excise officer; Thomas Hardy of Norton; Robert Harbottle of Staindrop, spirit merchant; Jonathan Waistell the younger of Corn park, Yorkshire, farmer; Cuthbert Hall of Hamsterley, farmer; William Harvey of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gent.; Thomas Wharton of Arkendale, Yorkshire, gent.; William Fawcett of Westwick, farmer; William Thompson of Mount Pleasant, Yorkshire, gentleman; Jacob Allinson of Cotherstone [Yorkshire]; John Williamson of Masham, Yorkshire, tallow chandler; William Williamson of the same place, tallow chandler; William Bailes of Barnard Castle, joiner; Anthony Darwin of Hudswell, yeoman; Robert Crampton of Barnard Castle; and [ ] Johnson of [ ], for the formation of the Teesdale Mining Company, and for regulating the manner of conducting and managing the affairs and concerns thereof. Subscribed capital: £6,500

Letter from John Staton, City Accountant's Offices, 20 Market Place, Durham, to W. T. Scarth, Staindrop House, Staindrop, returning a copy resolution for the voluntary liquidation of the Teesdale Mining Company Limited, and explaining his intention as liquidator to offer the mine for sale, 16 and 24 October 1882

25 April 1854 (1) Henry, Duke of Cleveland (2) Jane Beadle of Middleton in Teesdale, widow Agreement for the lease for one year by (2) of a messuage, dwellinghouse and 21a, 2r, 7p of land at Ettersgill, Middleton in Teesdale Consideration: £12 p.a. rent

11 April 1855 (1) Henry, Duke of Cleveland (2) John Church Backhouse of Darlington, esq. Memorandum of agreement for the lease for 14 years by (1) to (2) of Langdon Lead Mine in the township of Forest and Frith Consideration: ¹/6 share of lead ore won

3 October 1884 (1) William Thomas Scarth, agent (2) John Harper Robinson of Newcastle, merchant Memorandum of agreement to suspend the payment by (2), as lessee of the Martha Mining Royalty at Harewood, of royalty dues to the Duke of Cleveland, in respect of lead ore from continuing the level now being driven, until the costs of that continuation have been recouped, thereafter payments to be made in accordance with the present sliding scale

Blank memorandum of agreement for the lease by the Marquess of Cleveland of mines and minerals within the manor of Middleton, 19th c.

1908 (1) Herbert Legard Fife, esq., agent for Hon. Henry de Vere, Baron Barnard of Raby Castle, Staindrop (2) Messrs. William Jacks and Company of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, iron merchants Copy memorandum of agreement for working, until 11 October 1909, the minerals in the Langdon Mining Sett in the township of Forest and Frith [boundaries specified]

Letter from W. T. Scarth to J. H. Robinson, consenting to the latter's assigning to James Monks an undivided moiety of the mines and premises leased to the latter on 6 December 1872, 28 January 1876

Letter from A. Bainbridge, Stockton on Tees, iron and metal merchant and broker, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, forwarding a list of machinery for sale, at Broadley Hill Mine, 20 December 1877

Letter from C. G. Bainbridge, Lead Company's Office, Midddleton in Teesdale, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning repairs and improvements to the small catch reservoir and races for the new water wheel at Gaunless Mill, and referring to a new method of repairing the horizontal flues for conveying and condensing the lead fumes, 7 July 1873

Letter from R. W. Bainbridge, Middleton House, Middleton in Teesdale, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning the exploration and exploitation of veins and levels since the granting of leases in 1869, 9 January 1879

Letter from R. W. Bainbridge, Middleton House, Middleton in Teesdale, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning the Ashgillhead mining lease, and referring to the need for reduction of royalties in lower Teesdale, 16 August 1881

Letter from R. W. Bainbridge, Middleton House, Middleton in Teesdale, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning a new level at Ashgillhead and draining of neighbouring land, and reporting on improved production from the new "Lady's Rakes" levels "¿¿.. there is now some splendid ore being dressed and sent to Eggleston Mill ¿..", 14 September 1882

Copy of letter from W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, to R. W. Bainbridge, Middleton in Teesdale, concerning the proposed sliding scale and the extension of the Ashgillhead boundary, 11 August 1883

Letter from R. W. Bainbridge, Middleton House, Middleton in Teesdale, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning postponement of a visit by a deputation from the Lead Company's Court, referring to their agreement on the Ashgillhead Bounds and the second suggested scale of royalty payments, and to the importance of leadmining to the local economy and arguing for supporting it "at least until an extension of the Tees Valley Railway ¿.. would so open out the other Dale sources of employment ¿..", 24 August 1883

Letter from Thomas Bewick, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, summarising the conclusions of a recent meeting with Scarth and Charles Bainbridge concerning the scale of royalties, proposed developments and explorations, the consolidation of leases, etc., involving the Duke of Cleveland and the London Lead Company, 14 March 1884

Letter from J. Stagg Byers, Stockton, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, proposing the formation of a limited liability company "for the proper development of the Grasshill and Willy Hole mines, 25 October 1877

Letter from G. B. Forster, Backworth, Northumberland, to W. T. Scarth, forwarding reports on the wayleave from Woodland and on Mr. Pease's offer for the Teesdale ironstone, 14 April 1873

Letter from C. W. Harrison, 25 Westgate Road, Newcastle, secretary of the Green Hurth Lead Mining Co., Ltd., to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning a meeting between Scarth and the chairman of the Company concerning the employment of Teesdale labourers or miners, 8 June 1880

Letter from James S. Hyslop, Middleton in Teesdale, to William T. Scarth, Staindrop, concerning the price of duty ore, and a copy of regulations for the payment of duty ore to the Duke of Cleveland from the mines in Teesdale, 21 May 1891

Letter from H. Fell Pease, Darlington, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, forwarding roughly drafted terms for leasing the Duke of Cleveland's royalties in Harewood, together with a copy of Scarth's reply, proposing a meeting, dated 6 December 1872

Letter from T. Richardson, Clerk's Office, Barnard Castle District Highway Board, to W. T. Scarth, concerning "the extraordinary traffic in leading ironstone out of Teesdale to Middleton railway station" and the consequent application for an additional charge for repairs, 6 November 1881

Letter from J. H. Robinson, Riggside, Harwood, to W. T. Scarth, enquiring about old plans or tracings of Cowgreen or Dubby Syke, 19 September 1870

Letter from J. C. Swan, 4 Dean Street, Newcastle, chairman of Greenhurth Mining Co., Ltd., to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, proposing to form a new company to develop the Greenhurth sett and seeking formal consent to sub-let a part of the ground, 12 June 1879

Extract from a letter of J. C. Swan of the Tindales Spelter Company, Newcastle, concerning the royalty basis on the ores of zinc in Alston Moor, calling for a reduction to compete with Spanish and German competition and forseeing the day "¿¿..when English metals, handicapped on all lands by Royalty burdens, would be driven out of the market ¿..", 1 July 1879

Letter from J. C. Swan, 4 Dean Street, Newcastle, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, seeking a reduction of dues by the lord of the manor on the Harwood Mining Co. leases, thereby encouraging the company to proceed further with its mining operation, and commenting on the state of the international market in lead, 5 July 1879

Letter from J. C. Swan, 3 Osborne Terrace, Newcastle, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, forwarding a proposed scale of royalty dues varying with the market value of lead and expressing his belief that its adoption would result in the "energetic development" of the mineral wealth of upper Teesdale, 23 September 1882

Letter from J. C. Swan, Newcastle, to W. T. Scarth, Raby Castle, concerning a proposed visit to Greenhurth mine, 3 September 1885

Letter from [ ] Utrick Vipond, Penrith, to, possibly, Scarth, Raby Castle, forwarding an affidavit concerning his financial interest in the Greenhurth Mine, 28 August 1872

Notice of a general meeting at the Court House, Middleton in Teesdale, for subscriptions for the completion of the road from Middleton to the Abbey Bridge below Barnard Castle in order to afford employment "to the distressed inhabitants of Teesdale", 23 February 1830

Petition by the workmen of the London Lead Company to the Duke of Cleveland praying for his intervention as conciliator "to avert any further diminution of labour ¿¿ during a time of unexampled depression", n.d. [1882]

Copy of a petition by miners, and other inhabitants of the district directly or indirectly interested in mining operations, to the Duke of Cleveland for securing a reduction in royalties, and copy correspondence between Joseph Richardson, Middleton in Teesdale, W. T. Scarth and others, concerning a meeting on the subject of petition, 4 - 17 July 1882; list of the names of signatories to a petition, n.d.

Particulars of agreements for leases of the Duke of Cleveland's lead mines in Teesdale, 1849 - 1853

Statement of facts concerning the royalties reserved in the Duke of Cleveland's leases of 1869, n.d. [1881]

List of average weekly earnings of the pitmen employed in the London Lead Company's Teesdale mines for year ending 31 October 1871

List of average weekly earnings per man on fathom work at specified Teesdale mines for the first and second quarters of 1872

List of average individual weekly earnings of miners in the Weardale and Teesdale districts during the first two quarters of 1872, n.d. [1872]

Teesdale mines bargains, notified by R. W. Bainbridge, 20 July 1872

Notes on the annual consumption of lead in England with a table, for 1869 - 1877, of lead produce, imports and exports, n.d. [1878]

Account of ore raised between 1869 - 1880 from the Duke of Cleveland's mines in Teesdale, and leased to the Governor and Company, February 1881

Summary of returns concerning leases, wages, production, and number of employees, etc., of "sundry lead mines", March 1881

Typescript list of shareholders in the Green Hurth Lead Mining Company Limited, with places of residence, occupations, and numbers of shares held, 5 March 1869

Answer of the Green Hurth Lead Mining Company, Limited, and John Harper Robinson, to the bill of complaint in Chancery by Wylam Walker, 10 August 1872; filed, 14 August 1872

Letter from Messrs. Hoyle, Shipley & Hoyle, 20 Collingwood Street, Newcastle, to J. H. Robinson, Westgate Road, Newcastle, concerning the consent of the Duke of Cleveland to the assignment by Robinson to the Dubby Syke Mining Company, Limited of parts of the mines and premises in the lease of 6 December 1872, together with a copy of the consent, 19 - 28 January 1876

Copy of a report prepared for J. H. Robinson by William Vipond on the Isabella Mine, 28 January 1878; copy made, n.d.

Copy of a report by Thomas Watson of Ireshopeburn on the Isabella mines in the Cowgreen Sett, 31 January 1878; copy made, n.d.

Copy of a letter from J. H. Robinson, Blue Bell Hotel, Alston, Cumberland, to C. W. Harrison, reporting on the veins, following an inspection of the bottom of the Swan shaft, 6 August 1884; copy made, n.d.

Copy of a report by K. C. Dunham on the Greenhurth Lead Mine prepared for the Geological Survey of Great Britain, n.d. [20th c.]

Working plan and sections of Ashgill-Head Mine, n.d. [post 22 February 1830] No scale [2 chains to 1 inch approx.; 1:1584]

'Ground Working Plan of Ashgill-Head Veins', n.d. [post 14 September 1832] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Separate Working Plans of the Collateral Veins at Ashgill-Head Mine', showing Sigsworth's String or North Vein, Sun Vein and Fenwick's Blue Vein, n.d. [post August 1845] Scale: 2 chains or 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: horizontal and vertical sections

'Plan of Ashgill-Head Lead Mine', by J. B[ell], 1847 Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584]

'General Plan of Ashgill Head Mine and Mineral Ground leased by the Governor and Company of the Marquis of Cleveland', by Joe Millican, surveyor, n.d. [post July 1852] Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1:3168] Includes: vertical section through strata

'Plan of Part of the North Vein at Ashgill-Head', surveyed in 1852, by J. B[ell], 1853 Scale: 11 fathoms to 1 inch [1:792] Includes: workings driven by the late Duke of Cleveland, Mr. Beaumont, and the Lead Company; and horizontal section

Plan of low levels, top drifts and shafts of unspecified mine workings, including North Slits Vein and Sun Slits Vein, n.d. [19th c.] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

Plan of Hawk Sikes Hush and proposed hushes at Ashgill Head, n.d. [19th c.] No scale Includes: Ashgill Head Low Shop, Grasshill House and Hawk Sike Shop

Plan, vertical section and table of acreage of the Harwood Royalty, n.d. [early 20th c.] Scale: 2 inches to 1 mile [1:31680] Includes: Ashgill Head Sett, Grasshill Sett, Willyhole Sett, Dubbysike Sett, Cowgreen Sett and Widdybank Sett

'A Section of Lady Rake Shaft' n.d. [19th c.] Scale: 11 fathoms to 1 inch [1:792]

Vertical sections of the Lady Rake Shaft, Harwood section, and the west side of Great Vein, n.d. [19th c.]

Horizontal section of Lady Rake shafts and strata 'from Mr. T. Beadle's section', n.d. [c. 1900] Scale: 5.5 fathoms to 1 inch [1:396]

Plan of Lady Rake mine workings, marked on a section of Ordnance Survey, Durham Sheet XXX.6, first edition, post July 1901 Scale: 1:2500

'Plan showing Lady's Rake and Grasshill Mines', by L. H. Gimson, August 1907 Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: Main Drive, Griffith Vein, McNab Vein and Grasshill Mine

Plan of mineral workings, including Low Level, Langdon Head Old Level, Botnay [sic] Bay Level and Green Low Level, n.d. [early - mid 19th c.] Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1:3168 Includes: low levels, top drifts, top levels, shafts from surface, and buildings in perspective, including old mine shop

'Plan of Langdon Head Lead Mines', 4 September 1854 Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792]

'A Plan of Langdon Head Lead Mine' n.d. [early 19th c.] No scale

'Plan of Proposed Cow Green Mining Sett', by James S. Hyslop, Middleton-in-Teesdale, 19 November 1890 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Longitudinal sections of Cowgreen Mines, Harwood, Teesdale, and Isabella Mine, n.d. [early 20th c.] Scale: vertical 25ft. to 1 inch, and horizontal 10 fathoms to 1 inch [1:300 and 1:720]

Plan of East Cow-Green Lead Mine, Harwood, and horizontal section of vein, n.d. [c. 1900] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Plan of Fairy Level, Harwood', 1901 Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584]

Plan of Cowgreen Mining Sett, by T. A. Walton, March 1910 No scale Includes: copy plan of Isabella Mining Sett, 1878

'Plan of Flushamie [Flushiemire] Vein C', and horizontal section, n.d. [post August 1845] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

Plan of Flushiemere Mine workings, marked on Ordnance Survey, Durham Sheets XXXI.10, XXXI.14, XXXIX.2 and XXXIX.6, first edition, as copied from the Lead Company's plans, February 1897 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile ] [1:2500] Includes: dates of workings from 1821

Plan of Wiregill connected with Little-Eggles[hop]e Vein, n.d. [post 30 August 1824] No scale [2 chains to 1 inch approx.; 1:1584]

'Wiregill General Ground Plan', n.d. [post 16 February 1833] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: annotations to 1841

[No.] 2, Mining Plan of Wiregill (West End) and Lodge Sike Mines, including a section of Lodge Sike Vein, marked on Ordnance Survey Durham Sheets XXXI.12, XXXI.16, XXXIX.4 and XXXIX.8, first edition, n.d. [post 1855 - 1857] Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500] Includes: dates of workings from 1821, and the crosscuts of individual named mines (1 plan, 99cm. x 261cm., linen backed, coloured) 1/92 'Wiregill enlarged plan of low sump and new sinking', n.d. [c. 1900] Scale: 5.5 fathoms to 1 inch [1:396] Includes: horizontal section

'Enlarged Plan of Workings about Shaft, Little Eggleshope Mine', n.d. [post June 1901] Scale: 5.5 fathoms to 1 inch [1:396]

Plan and enlarged plan of Eggleshope Bottom Level, n.d. [post 7 July 1896] Scales: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584] and 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]

'A Section of Sharnbury Vein, taken in Div. 13, Sub. 12', 11 December 1840 Scale: 11 fathoms to 1 inch [1:792] Includes: explanatory notes

Plan of Sharnberry Mine, and sections of the north and south veins, n.d. [post October 1885] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: dates of shafts sunk since 9 August 1821

'Working Plan of Mannergill North Vein', n.d. [post August 1843] Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: horizontal section and section of strata at Sump No. 1

'Working Plan of Hudshope-Head, Old Marlbeck, and part of Lodge-Syke Levels', n.d. [post 19 September 1829] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584] Endorsed: 'Lodgesyke, Old Marlbeck & Hudshopehead alias Pikestone Brow Level, by Jo. Millican'

Working plan and horizontal section of Lodge Syke Vein and strings, , n.d. [post 31 May 1855] Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: dates of commencement of workings from 1821, and named crosscuts

Working plan of Lodgesyke Vein and Strings between Hudshope and Eggleshope Becks, and horizontal section, n.d. [19th c.] No scale Endorsed: Dodd's Lodgesyke Old Plan

Plan of Dusty Gill mine, n.d. [post 11 March 1822] Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792]

'Working Plan of Dusty Gill Mine', including horizontal section, n.d. [post 24 January 1826] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Working Plan of Dusty Gill Mine', including horizontal section, n.d. [post July 1827] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Working Plan of Dustygill alias Lodgesyke Vein at Wiregill', including horizontal section, n.d. [post 22 September 1829] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584] Includes: annotations to 1845

'Working Plan of East Rake and Dustygill Levels; n.d. [c. 1827] Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Working Plan of Eastrake Vein', including horizontal section, n.d. [post 2 April 1885] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Working Plan of Highdike Mine' by J. Bell, 1836 Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1: 1584]

'Plan of Harthope Levels', n.d. [post 28 March 1890] Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]

Plan and horizontal section of the 'Main Lead', n.d. [19th c.] No scale

Plan of Cadger Well Mine, n.d. [post February 1900] Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584]

'Plan of Estates belonging to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Darlington in the Townships of Middleton and Newbiggin in the Parish of Middleton and County of Durham' by J. Machell, 1827 Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1:6336] Shows: inclosures belonging to the Earl of Darlington and others, names of landowners, plot numbers, acreages, and the direction of mineral veins, worked and unworked.

'Plan of Fryer House Estate in the parish of Middleton-in-Teesdale, the property of J. Ingram Esq., containing 50a 2r 6p', n.d. [c. 1834 - 1841] Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1:3168] Includes: cartouche, orientation, field names and acreages, River Tees, Fryer House, Brigg House and East Fryer House

'Plan of Land North Side of Main Road between Hodsman's Quarry and High Force Hotel', Raby Estate Office, Middleton-in-Teesdale, August 1945 Scale: 1:2500

Sketch map of Park End Farm, south of the River Tees, owned or occupied by William Ed[ward] Raine, n.d. [20th c.]

Part notebook belonging to James Longmire of Middleton-in-Teesdale, draper, containing a list of claims to stints and sheepgates in the Inner and Outer Pastures of Middleton-in-Teesdale; copy memoranda and notices relating to the conveyance of stints on the inclosure of Middleton Pastures; and a record of the nuisance caused by the horse shoeing trade carried on adjacent to Longmire's house, 3 November 1833 - 1835

Verses 'in memory of George Readshaw of Middleton-in-Teesdale, aged 17 years & 5 months, who was killed accidentally at Coldberry Mine on 18 February 1880' by Richard Watson, Holwick, Yorkshire, 1880

Press cutting book of Reginald Parkin, Sutton House, Thornaby Road, Thornaby, containing copies of his contributions to the Northern Echo, Teesdale Mercury, and other newspapers, concerning the history, people and poets of Teesdale, 15 November 1934 - 10 July 1946 For enclosures see D/HLB 1/118 - 121

Articles by Reginald Parkin concerning the Teesdale area, submitted for publication in local newspapers, 27 May 1946 - 15 September 1948

Copy letter from Reginald Parkin, 12 Milton Street, Saltburn-by-Sea, Yorkshire, to Sir William Gray, Dock Yard, West Hartlepool, supplying information about Wodencroft [Yorkshire], and its school, c. 1800, and the latter's acknowledgement, 27 October - 1 November 1948

Transcripts of two deeds relating to the conveyance of the manor of Mickleton by the Bowes family, 1607 and 1621; transcripts made, n.d.

Notes on the family of Surtees by an unidentified writer, n.d. [20th c.]

Correspondence of Philip Beadle, High Force Garage, Forest-in-Teesdale, and Messrs. Philip Beadle, Limited, Bowlees Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, with Messrs. J. Dawson Fawcett (Darlington) Limited, Haughton Engineering Works, Darlington, concerning the supply of tar macadam and quarrying plant, 19 January 1935 - January 1956

Records of Messrs. Philip Beadle Limited, Bowlees

Letters from H. Whitworth Jones, for Wrentnall Baryta Company Limited., London, to Philip Beadle, Limited, Bowlees Quarries, Middleton-in-Teesdale, accepting tenders for construction of a dressing plant building at Mine Head, Cowgreen, and a roadway from Langdon Beck to Cowgreen mine, 5 May - 10 September 1937

Correspondence between Philip Beadle, Middleton-in-Teesdale, quarry owners, and P. B. Oughtred, Raby Lodge, Brough, concerning road repairs on the Birkdale Road, 13 July 1959 - 19 September 1962

Analyses and test reports of ironstone, limestone, ganister, barytes fines and silica stone, prepared for Messrs. Philip Beadle, Limited, Bowlees Quarries, Middleton-in-Teesdale, 9 December 1927 - February 1966

Details of the costs of constructing the Cow Green road; and the cost of erecting a dressing mill at Cow Green for Wrentnall Baryta Company Limited, 1937

Form of annual return of the Durham and Yorkshire Whinstone Company Limited, Wearhead, to 31 December 1941, and covering letter from Sansom, Bell and Company, chartered accountants, Priestgate, Darlington, to H. L. Beadle, Messrs. Philip Beadle and Son, High Force Garage, Forest-in-Teesdale, 2 December 1944

Letter from an unidentified firm of solicitors to an unidentified addressee enclosing copies of the annual return of the West Hunwick Silica and Firebrick Company to 18 December 1944, and supplying details of registered charges on the company, received from the Companies Registration Office, 23 October 1947

Correspondence of Messrs. Philip Beadle and Son, Teesdale Transport Co., Ltd., High Force Garage, Forest-in-Teesdale, with Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton, Bedfordshire, requesting technical information for the servicing of Vauxhall vehicles; and correspondence of Harold L. Beadle, Richmond, Yorkshire, with local Vauxhall dealerships and Vauxhall Motors, concerning the purchase and maintenance of a new Vauxhall vehicle, 3 September 1954 - 7 June 1995

Copy plan of Ettersgill Mine, Forest-in-Teesdale, for Non-Ferrous Minerals Development Ltd., March 1943 Scale: 20ft. to 1 inch [1:240]

Plan of a mining royalty boundary extending north west of Middleton-in-Teesdale to Widdybank Fell, and sites of limekilns, marked on Ordnance Survey Durham, Sheet XXXVIII, for Philip Beadle, Limited, 25 January 1952 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Plan of a mining royalty boundary extending north west of Middleton-in-Teesdale, and sites of limekilns and old quarries, marked on Ordnance Survey Durham, Sheet XXXIX, for Philip Beadle, Limited, 25 January 1952 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Tracing of Cowgreen and Forest Setts, n.d. [20th c] Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]

Plans of the area leased to Philip Beadle Ltd. by the Raby Estate, including Forest Sett, Ettersgill Sett, Stable Green Sett, Ettersgill Extension Sett and Snaisgill Sett in Teesdale, February 1951 Scales: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]; 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]

Copy article by Harold L. Beadle, 'The Lead Smelting Mills of Teesdale and District', and associated correspondence of Beadle with the Durham County Local History Society, 19 May 1969 - March 1990

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Garrigill, Alston'; associated correspondence between Beadle and John K. Harrison, Guisborough, Yorkshire, North Riding, and J. F. Herdman, Crossgill, Garrigill, Alston, and copy drawings of the Tynehead water wheel, 11 January 1971 - August 1976

Correspondence of Harold Beadle with Robert Guthrie of the Northern Mine Research Society, Billingham, Teesside, commenting on an article on peat fuel making at Little Eggleshope which appeared in The Engineer journal, 6 November 1876, and copy of same; and an article by Beadle on Little Eggleshope Lead Mine, and supporting papers, 5 August 1976 - 18 August 1977 and 29 August 1995

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'An Attempt to Revive Mining and Continue to Operate Wiregill Lead Mine after the London Lead Company gave up the Lease'; associated correspondence between Beadle and Jake Almond, Eston, Middlesbrough, Teesside, and supporting papers, 15 April 1978 - 26 December 1992 Includes: draft and photocopy reports and agreements of the Wiregill Deep Mining Company Limited, and typescript transcript of a time and memorandum book of Ernest Allinson, Middleton-in-Teesdale, miner at Great Eggleshope, 1903 - 1910; copies made, n.d.

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'Lady's Rake Lead Mine, Harwood-in-Teesdale', published in The Cleveland Industrial Archaeologist, no. 7, 1977; copy illustrations, 1977; correspondence between H. L. Beadle and John K. Harrison, Guisborough, Yorkshire, concerning publication of the article, 12 April - 15 September 1977

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'Willyhole Mine, Harwood-in-Teesdale', and supporting papers, 6 February 1979 - 24 December 1996 Includes: copy documents of the Teesdale Lead and Zinc Mines Limited, 1906; copies made, n.d.

Correspondence between Harold Beadle, 22 The Avenue, Richmond, Cleveland; Jake Almond, 11 Rutland Avenue, Marton, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; A. E. Shayler, 44 Zetland Road, Redcar, Cleveland; the Institute of Geological Sciences, North England Unit, Windsor Court, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; concerning the sale of Lead Mining and Smelting in Swaledale and Teesdale : Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, Research Report, no. 2, by A. E. Shayler, J. K. Almond and H. L. Beadle, 1 February 1979 - 1 November 1984 Includes: list of persons to whom the publication has been sold, April 1979 - May 1985; invoices from the Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 24 October 1982 - 23 May 1984

Draft by Harold L. Beadle of his proposed book of photographs, provisionally entitled Lead Mining and Smelting, Iron Mining and Smelting, Zinc and Barytes Mining in Teesdale, and supporting papers and correspondence with various parties regarding publication, 6 September 1979 - 31 January 1983

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'Early Barytes Mining at the Cowgreen Group of Mines including Dubby Sike and Isabella'; correspondence concerning publication, and supporting papers, 28 October 1980 - 8 November 1996 Includes: correspondence between the Hedworth Barium Company Limited, 1 St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (in liquidation) and Messrs. Price, Waterhouse and Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, receiver, 22 December 1921 - 23 February 1923

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'The Teesdale Mining Company, 1821', and supporting papers, including a transcript of the deed of partnership and correspondence concerning publication, 18 November 1980 - 16 October 1981

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'The Quarry Industry in Teesdale', and supporting papers, and correspondence concerning publication, 24 November 1986 - 11 April 1996

Copy articles by Harold L. Beadle which appeared in various issues of The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, May 1988 - May 1996

Correspondence between H. L. Beadle and Bryan Chambers, 18 Cheveley Walk, Belmont, Durham, concerning Beadle's articles on 'Jagger Galloways in Upper Teesdale' and 'A Mid-Nineteenth Century Lead Mining Lease' [to John Church Backhouse] with drafts and copies, 27 October 1989 - 2 July 1991

Article by H. L. Beadle on Holme Head Level and High Dyke Mine, 15 February 1992; and copy of forwarding letter, 11 July 1992

Article by H. L. Beadle on "Boundaries, Boundary Stones and Boundary Disputes" with supporting correspondence and notes, 17 February 1992 - 6 April 1995

Article by H. L. Beadle on the Smelt Mills of Blackton, Eggleston, and the felling of the Mill Chimney and supporting papers, 1932 - 6 March 1993

Article by H. L. Beadle on the ventilation of lead mines and supporting papers, 1 July 1993 - 5 July 1993

Typescripts and photocopies for an article on Ashgillhead Low Level Water Regulating Valve, 13 December 1995

Article by Harold Beadle on the 'Dubby Syke Lead Mining Company Ltd.', from The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, no. 37, May 1996, with supporting correspondence and notes, 1995 - 1996

Article by Harold L. Beadle, 'Dirt Pit Zinc Mine, Ettersgill', and covering letter concerning publication, 31 December 1996

Copies of correspondence between H. L. Beadle, and various parties, concerning mining and quarrying history in Weardale and Teesdale, 22 May 1967 - 22 December 1969

Correspondence between H. L. Beadle and various parties concerning the water regulating valve from Ashgill Head Mine, Harwood in Teesdale. Includes: copies of Newsletter of Friends of the North of England Open Air Museum, 19 July 1972 - October 1986

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Russell Wear, editor of The Industrial Railway Record, and others, concerning the mines and railways of Teesdale, 11 January 1973 - 3 July 1980

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Jake K. Almond, 11 Rutland Avenue, Marton in Cleveland, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, concerning their research and writing on the industrial history of Teesdale, 20 July 1973 - 17 December 1978

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Jake Almond, Redlands, 61 High Street, Eston, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, concerning their research and writing on the industrial history of Teesdale, 1 January 1979 - 3 April 1996

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Jake Almond, Redlands, 61 High Street, Eston, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, concerning their research and writing on the industrial history of Teesdale, 15 May - 4 December 1996

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and the Warden of Bonawe Iron Furnace, Taynuilt, Nr. Oban, Argyllshire; Argyll and Bute District Council; and Jake Almond, concerning the Lorn Iron Furnace at Bonawe, and accompanying copy articles and guide, 23 June - 12 September 1981

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and J. Lawrence Barker, Area Warden for Swaledale, Yorkshire, and notes and press cutting concerning Beldi Hill Lead Mine, 2 August 1982 - 12 September 1985

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Dorothy Bainbridge, East Carnigill, Baldersdale, Barnard Castle, concerning the history of the Langdon lead mines and lead miners, and supporting notes, 1973 and 27 January 1988 - 28 February 1996

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and the North Pennines Heritage Trust, concerning the Skears quarry limekilns in Middleton-in-Teesdale, and papers concerning a lead mining heritage seminar, 23 June 1988 - 24 June 1996

Correspondence and copies of replies between H. L. Beadle and W. F. Hayes, High Dyke House, Stanhope Road, Middleton in Teesdale, concerning lead mining in Teesdale, 2 September 1989 - 24 July 1995

Information sheets, press cuttings, and correspondence, between H. L. Beadle and various parties, concerning Killhope and the Teesdale Fault, 24 June 1985 - 30 December 1993

Papers and correspondence of H. L. Beadle with various parties concerning the Killhope Mining Centre, 10 February 1994 - 8 January 1997

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Bob Tuck, Low Worsall, Yarm, Cleveland, road transport writer, concerning the former's associations with road transport in Teesdale, and the loan of photographs to the latter for a forthcoming publication, 24 October 1994 - 30 August 1995

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and various Methodist Church authorities, concerning Beadle's resignation as circuit auditor and circuit chapel secretary in protest at the mismanagement of the Teesdale Methodist Circuit, 4 August 1972 - 30 January 1973 Includes: typescript notes and statements concerning the disposal of the contents of Bowlees Methodist Chapel, n.d.

Letters from Charles and Wilma Tyrell of Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America, to H. L. Beadle, concerning the history of Primitive Methodism in Teesdale and elsewhere, 27 April 1972 - 6 December 1996

Correspondence of H. L. Beadle with various parties concerning the activities of the Wesley Historical Society, 24 January 1973 - September 1976

Press cuttings concerning Methodism in Weardale and The Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn, 14 April 1984 - 15 March 1986

Correspondence between Barnard Castle Rural District Council; Norman Brown, Westville, Wearhead, Bishop Auckland; and Harold Beadle; concerning the registration of common land under The Commons Registration Act, 1965, with accompanying list of commons, notes and press cutting, 17 February 1966 - 19 May 1967

Correspondence of H. L. Beadle with The Teesdale Mercury and other publications, on various topics, 1 May 1967 - 30 May 1995

Correspondence of H. L. Beadle, with various parties, concerning the Teesdale Record Society, 11 May 1970 - 1 May 1993 Includes: T. R. S. Bulletin, New Series, Nos. 1 - 3, 1971 - 1973; and T. R. S. Journal, Third Series, Vol. 1, 1993

Correspondence of H. L. Beadle, with various parties, concerning the Society of Cirplanologists, 13 March 1974 - 25 September 1986

Correspondence between Harold Beadle and Durham County Conservation Trust Limited; Robert Meadows, Peterborough, designer; and others; concerning the development of the disused Methodist chapel at Bowlees as the Upper Teesdale Interpretive Centre, and the use of Beadle's photographs for display, and associated press cuttings, 30 October 1974 - 25 June 1976

Correspondence from Harold Beadle to Peter Wenham [ ], concerning the transcription of the will of Roger Baynbrig of Frere House, Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1563, and associated photocopies and transcripts, 21 February - 1 April 1977

Correspondence of Harold Beadle concerning his contributions to the summer exhibitions of the Teesdale Heritage Group, and associated press cuttings, 13 February 1992 - 7 June 1994

Correspondence of Harold Beadle with the Companies Registration Office, and the Public Record Office, concerning the location of records of the Teesdale Mining Company, and associated notes, 16 May - 8 September 1980

Notes relating to the working of Old Lady Rake and Sir John's Vein mines in Garrigill and Teesdale, and P. Beadle's theories concerning the same, 19 February 1949

Notes for various talks, lectures and articles on the history of Teesdale and history of lead mining in the area, delivered by Harold L. Beadle, 20 June 1968 - 3 November 1991

'Information on lead mining': transcripts of mining output figures, London Lead Company reports, a summary of Teesdale miners' weekly earnings, and extracts from a thesis and local newspapers, 1828 - 1968; compiled by Harold L. Beadle 1960s Indexed

'Information and sources of information on mines, mining, quarrying, transport and other items of interest, book no. 2': 18 - 20th c.; notes and press cuttings for the Teesdale area, compiled by Harold L. Beadle, 1990s Indexed

'Who's who in connection with metalliferous mining, quarrying, transport, agriculture and teaching etc.': notes and press cuttings for the Teesdale area, 19 - 20th c.; compiled by Harold L. Beadle, 1990's Indexed

A bibliography of Teesdale and Weardale, 6 September 1991

Details of bore holes in Dufton Moss, and near the River Tees, Forest-in-Teesdale, completed by Cementation Limited, 25 February - 15 April 1957

Notes concerning barytes and lead deposits at Scales Fell, and Brundholme, Keswick, Cumberland, from information supplied by H. A. Hayton, Keswick, and from observation by H. L. Beadle, 2 September 1960

Notes concerning the advantages and further considerations respecting the whinstone deposit at Widdy Bank, April 1963

Notes concerning Greenfoot quarry, 2 June 1963

Summary of information obtained [probably by H. L. Beadle] concerning companies acquired by Tarmac Limited, and their former managers and shareholders, 27 August 1963 - 11 June 1964

Notes by H. L. Beadle describing the level driven into black shale at 'Near Hole', beside the road from West Cowgreen to Duby Syke, 19 October 1964

Notes by H. L. Beadle on the Cowgreen Shaft sunk on Winterhush Vein by Wrentnall Baryta Company, between 1936 and 1937, and later extended by Anglo Austral Mines Ltd.; further comments following the Parliamentary Select Committee hearing on the proposal to construct a dam at Cowgreen, 25 November 1964 - 20 May 1966

Notes concerning aspects of leadmining in upper Teesdale, May 1966 - September 1967

Notes from T. Sopwith, Land and Mine Surveyor, 1833, containing an account of the mining districts of Weardale and Teesdale, etc., 15 July 1968

Notes of geological and historical information relating mainly to Teesdale Weardale, c. 16 March 1968 - 5 July 1991

Information and particulars of sources arranged by subject relating to mining and industrial activity; quarrying; schools and chapels; families; trades and leisure; landholding; communications, etc.; mostly in upper Teesdale; compiled, December 1968 For enclosures see D/HLB 1/198, 221, 239 and 360

Notes and drawing arising from a visit to Cronkley Pencil Mill, 11 January 1969 Originally enclosed in D/HLB 1/197

Copies of Teesdale poems and ballads, 1830 - July 1971

Biographical sketch of Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879), 9 March 1989

Notes, compiled by Harold Beadle, concerning Jacob Readshaw of Middleton-in-Teesdale (1828 - 1912), including a copy memoir and press cuttings, 1992

Draft notes by Harold Beadle concerning the three Wiregill lead mine levels, n.d. [c. 1995]

Notes by Harold Beadle concerning the Forest-in-Teesdale School war memorial, erected in 1920; and the recording of additional information by Beadle; transcripts of monumental inscriptions; and associated correspondence, 28 December 1995 - 8 August 1996

Transcript of the day book of Langdon Mines, 1844 - 1859; extracts from the ledger of Langdon Mines, 1844 - 1857; and from the account book of monthly pay bills of Skeers Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1849 - 1862, compiled by Harold Beadle from originals in the possession of Miss Andrews of Cotherstone, c. 1971 For originals see D/HLB 1/3 -5

Transcripts of T. W. Mercer, 'A Century of Co-operation in Teesdale - being a short account of the Teesdale Workmen's Industrial and Provident Society', from Co-operative News, 24 & 31 January 1942; and the 'Rules of the Lead Company's Teesdale Workmen's Corn Society', 1848

Copy views of lead mining on Alston Moor, taken from originals, c. 1805 - 1820, acquired by the Science Museum, London, and a copy section of the strata to the south of Redgleam in Harwood, 19th c., both annotated by Harold Beadle; and notes on places of interest on Alston Moor, 1987

Copy articles on geological and mineral testing topics, from various mining and quarrying journals, including an article on the Stotsfield burn mine and fluorspar plant of the Weardale Lead Company Ltd., and typescript details of a Rookhope borehole, 1959 - 1971

Notes from J. Erskine Clarke (ed.); Parish Magazine [St. Andrew's Church, Litchurch, Derbyshire], 1869

Copies of chapters from George Fiedler's Mineral Point [Michigan], U.S.A., in the 1820s and 1830s; extracts concerning New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.; and the description of a leadmine in Joe Davies County, 1878

Details of local history classes on Teesdale in the 16th and 17th centuries, run by the University of Durham Department of Extra-Mural Studies, and attended by Harold Beadle, 1973

Papers concerning local history classes on the housing and landscape in Upper Teesdale, 1600 - 1850, run by the University of Durham Department of Extra-Mural Studies, in association with the Barnard Castle branch of the W. E. A., and attended by Harold Beadle, 1974 - 1975 and 1975 - 1976

Papers concerning local history classes on lead mining in Teesdale, run by the University of Durham Department of Extra-Mural Studies in association with the Barnard Castle branch of the W. E. A. and similar classes at Darlington, attended by Harold Beadle, 1977 - 1980

Reprint of The Teesdale Advertiser and Monthly Chronicle, No. 1., 7 June 1854, issued as a supplement to The Teesdale Mercury, 17 June 1925

The Teesdale Mercury (part) containing reports on the settlement of the Teesdale miners' strike, the Teesdale miners, the restoration of the tower of Barnard Castle church, 17 July 1872

The Teesdale Mercury (part) containing a report on the meeting at Middleton in Teesdale between the Duke of Cleveland's agent and solicitor, a deputation of miners, and representatives of the London Lead Company, 26 July 1882

Reprints of pages from The Teesdale Mercury for 29 December 1875, 3 January 1877, January 1879, 29 October 1879, 29 December 1880, December 1881, December 1882, December 1884, December 1886, December 1887, December 1889, December 1890, December 1891, December 1892, December 1893, December 1894, 19 February 1902, 12 February 1913, January 1934

The Teesdale Mercury, containing a report of the accidental death of Stanley Beadle, 20 August 1930

The Teesdale Mercury, pp 7 - 10, containing an historical report on Middleton-in-Teesdale, 12 October 1938

The Teesdale Mercury, pp 9 - 10, containing an article by F. E. Coates on leadmining in Middleton in Teesdale, 19 October 1938

The Northern Echo, pp 3 - 4, containing an editorial on leadmining in Teesdale, 1 September 1883

Newspaper cutting concerning the coming in 1757 of the Staley family to Teesdale, 15 March 1975 Originally enclosed in D/HLB 1/197

'Proposed Conservation Areas', a supplement to The Weardale Gazette (no. 59), describing the areas village by village, April 1993

The Northern Echo, pp 3 - 4, containing an account of Wolsingham Agricultural Show, 12 September 1883

Copies of the report prior to the statutory meeting, 27 September 1924; and annual general meeting papers and accounts for the Middleton-in-Teesdale Farmers' Mart Ltd., 14 August 1956 - 13 August 1981

Annual reports of the Barnard Castle and Teesdale Farmers' Auction Mart Company, Limited, y/e 30 June 1970 - y/e 30 June 1981

Press cuttings, and notes, concerning the acquisition by Tarmac Limited, of Taylors (Crook) Limited, blast furnace slag processors, and of Ord and Maddison Limited; and obituary notices of former managing directors, 1960 - 1962 and 1992 - 1995

Press cuttings and other papers relating to the activities of London and Northern Securities Ltd., 13 December 1962 - 20 April 1996

Papers relating to the Hargreaves Group and the take-over by Hargreaves Quarries Ltd. of George Hodsman & Sons (1928) Ltd., 10 April 1963 - 15 September 1993

Cuttings from The Tees-side Journal of Commerce concerning site preparation for the Portland Cement Company's new works near Eastgate in Weardale, July to August 1964

Copy article from Steel News concerning Shapfell Quarry, Cumbria, March 1993

Press cuttings concerning the development of the Cow Green reservoir, and copy minutes of evidence submitted to the House of Commons and House of Lords by the promoters of the 'Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Bill', 20 April 1955 - 4 October 1993

Press article on leadmining in Teesdale, coinciding with the beginning of work on the Cow Green reservoir, October 1967

Illustrated souvenir booklet of the inauguration of Balderhead Reservoir for the Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Board, 8 October 1965

Illustrated souvenir booklet of the official opening of Cow Green Reservoir, for the Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Board, 22 July 1971

Summary of technical data relating to Cow Green Reservoir for the Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Board, n.d. [1971]

Guides to the Cowgreen Reservoir, Widdybank Fell, Gibson's Cave, and Bowlees nature trails, produced by the Durham County Conservation Trust, the Nature Conservancy Council, and Durham County Council Planning Department, c. 1970 - 1983

Interim Report on Water Resources in the North, Water Resources Board, London, 1967

Quarterly preaching plans and directories of the Barnard Castle and Teesdale Methodist circuit, 1 October 1978 - 23 February 1997

Copies of pp 268 - 273 of the Primitive Methodist Magazine 1825, relating to religious activity in Weardale in the period 1823 - 1825, n.d. Originally enclosed in D/HLB 1/197

'A Fruitful Bough : Methodism Up and Down Teesdale', an article in The Methodist Recorder, 14 January 1909

The Industrial Archaeology Group for the North East Bulletin, Nos. 1 - 5, Industrial Archaeology Group for the North East, July 1966 - March 1968

The Industrial Archaeology Society for the North East Bulletin, Nos.6 - 16, The Industrial Archaeology Society for the North East, July 1968 - Autumn 1972

North East Industrial Archaeology Council Newsletter, Nos. 1 - 4, Summer 1972 - Autumn 1973

'End of an Era' ; Transactions of the Teesside Industrial Archaeology Group, Vol. 1, No. 1, Teesside Industrial Archaeology Group, 1967

The Cleveland Industrial Archaeologist, Nos. 1 - 9, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1974 - 1978

The Cleveland Industrial Archaeologist : memoirs of the Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, Nos. 10 - 23, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1979 - 1996

Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society Newsletter, Nos. 1 - 30, September 1976 - February 1984

Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society Newsletter, nos. 31 - 60, June 1984 - July 1994

Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society Newsletter, nos. 61 - 66, November 1994 - November 1996

A. E. Shayler, J. K. Almond and H. L. Beadle, Lead Mining and Smelting in Swaledale and Teesdale; Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society Research Report No. 2, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1979

Harold L. Beadle, Mining and Smelting in Teesdale : Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Research Report No. 3, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1980

J. S. Owen, Staithes and Port Mulgrave Ironstone : The Cleveland Industrial Archaeologist Research Report No. 4, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1985

Traces of the Industrial Past in Cleveland : Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society Report No. 6, Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, 1992

'Early Iron and Steel Making in Cleveland' : Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Historical Metallurgy Society in collaboration with the Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society, Middleton-St-George, Teesside, 17 - 19 September 1976, The Historical Metallurgy Society, 1976

Lynn Willies and David Granstone (ed.), Boles and Smelt mills : Report of a Seminar on the History and Archaeology of Lead Smelting held at Reeth, Yorkshire, 15 - 17 May 1992, Historical Metallurgy Society Ltd., 1992

Industrial Heritage, No. 4, the journal of the Durham University Group for Industrial Archaeology, October 1973

The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, nos. 1 - 20, February 1985 - February 1991

The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, nos. 21 - 30, May 1991 - May 1994

The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, nos. 31 - 36, September 1994 - February 1996

The Friends of Killhope Newsletter, nos. 37 - 38, May - September 1996

Bryan Chambers (ed.), Men, Mines and Minerals of the North Pennines, The Friends of Killhope, 1992

Harold L. Beadle, Killhope Lead Crushing Mill, Weardale, Occasional Paper No. 2 of Durham County Council Schools Museum Service, November 1972

Interim Excavation Report on Park Level Mill, Killhope, by David Cranstone for Durham County Council Planning Department, 1985

The Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society Bulletin, No. 8, March 1970

D. Milburn (ed.); Parish Histories from the Northern Catholic Calendar, Durham County Local History Society, 1986

Firestone, occasional publication no. 4 of the Durham Dales Mining Society, July 1989

Memoirs of the Northern Cavern & Mine Research Society, Vol. 2, Nos. 2 - 4, August 1972, September 1973 & June 1974

British Mining No. 3 : Memoirs of the Northern Mine Research Society, 1976

Roger Burt, Peter Waite, Michael Atkinson and Ray Burnley, The Yorkshire Mineral Statistics : Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845 - 1913, University of Exeter Department of Economic History, in association with the Northern Mine Research Society and the Peak District Mines Historical Society, 1982

Roger Burt, Peter Waite and Ray Burnley, The Durham and Northumberland Mineral Statistics : Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845 - 1913, University of Exeter Department of Economic History, in association with the Northern Mine Research Society and the Peak District Mines Historical Society, 1983

North Pennines Heritage Trust Newsletters, from Summer 1996; North Pennine Heritage, nos. 12 - 28, Winter 1992 - Summer 1996; copy extracts from the Northern Mines Research Society Newsletter, December 1996; and the Head Wrightson Magazine, Winter 1969

Martin F. Critchley, 'The History and Workings of the Nenthead Mines, Cumbria' : Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd., Vol. 9, No. 1, The Peak District Mines Historical Society, Summer 1984

J. K. Almond, 'Design and operation of a Government mineral-processing laboratory, Uganda', reprinted from Transactions/Section C of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 82, 1973

J. K. Almond, 'British technical education for mining - an historical survey to 1920 : 2 - developments from 1873', reprinted from Transactions/Section A of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 84, 1975

D. A. Greenwood and F. W. Smith, 'Fluorspar mining in the northern Pennines', reprinted from Transactions/Section B of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 86, 1977

Review of K. C. Dunham and A. A. Wilson's Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield : Volume 2, Stainmore to Craven by G. P. Riddler in the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Bulletin, no. 965, April 1987

T. I. Elliott, 'Anhydrite Mining at Sandwith, Near Whitehaven', reprinted from The Mining Engineer, No. 124, The Institution of Mining Engineers, January 1971

The Swiss Aluminium mining project at Weardale by Gary Hughes, Swiss Aluminium Mining (UK) Ltd., published in Industrial Minerals, no. 173, February 1982

J. K. Almond, 'Tindale Fell Spelter Works, East Cumbria, and its Closure in 1895', reprinted from Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Volume LXXVIII, 1978

David W. A. Laurence, 'The Muirshiel Mine', reprinted from The Western Naturalist, Vol. 3, pp. 15 - 18, 1974

A Brief Chronological History of Mining at Leadhills by W. Harvey, 1972

Conglomerate, a bi-monthly news bulletin of geological information for the North-East, parts 1 - 8, March 1972 - March 1974

Conglomerate Society Newsletter (from 1977 Conglomerate Newsletter), parts I - XV, December 1974 - September 1979

Conglomerate Newsletter (from 1985 Conglomerate : The Magazine of the North Eastern Geological Society), parts XVI - XX, and 21 - 26, January 1980 - October 1986

A. J. G. Notholt & D. E. Highley, Fluorspar, Mineral Dossier No. 1, of the Mineral Resources Consultative Committee, London, 1971

R. S. Collins, Barium Minerals, Mineral Dossier No. 2 of the Mineral Resources Consultative Committee, London, 1972

Heavy Metals in Northern England : Environmental and Biological Aspects, edited by P. J. Say and B. A. Whitton, Department of Botany, University of Durham, 1981

Teesdale Symposium - Durham, [a synopsis of papers concerning environmental and ecological aspects of the Cow Green reservoir site], March 1970

Derwent View : Report of the Derwent Valley Advisory Committee, No. 1, January 1972

'Wearhead School 1874 - 1974', souvenir booklet by W. N. Peart, headmaster, 1974

G. Patterson (ed)., Middleton in 1861 : an analysis of the census returns, produced by the students of the University of Durham Department of Extra-Mural Studies class held in Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1974

Cockfield in 1851, compiled by students of the Historical Association Annual Vacation School for Revision Courses in History, University of Durham, 1977

Billingham, Port Clarence and Haverton Hill in 1851, compiled by students of the Durham University Department of Extra-Mural Studies class held at Grangefield Community Centre, n.d. [post September 1975] (1 booklet) MAPS AND PLANS

Ordnance Survey 'Ten Mile' Map of Great Britain : Sheet 1 [North] : index to the Ordnance Survey Maps at scale of 1:10,560 (six inches to the mile) on national grid sheet lines, 1958 Scale: 10 miles to 1 inch [1:625,000]

Ordnance Survey 'Ten Mile' Map of Great Britain : Sheet 2 [South] : [as D/HLB 1/286 above], 1958 Scale: 10 miles to 1 inch [1:625,000]

Ordnance Survey Diagram of Durham, showing parliamentary county divisions, county, parliamentary and municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts, and civil parishes, 1943 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 mile [1:126,720]

Ordnance Survey Diagram of Yorkshire (North Riding), showing county, parliamentary and municipal boroughs, parliamentary county divisions, urban and rural districts, civil parishes and catchment area boundaries, 1936 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 mile [1:126,720]

Ordnance Survey Diagram of Derbyshire, showing the boundaries of the administrative county, county borough, municipal boroughs, urban districts, rural districts, civil parishes, and parliamentary constitutencies, 1968 Scale: 1:100,000

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXII, 1923 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXI, 1924 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile, [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXVIII, 1st edition, 1859 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXVIII, 1924 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile, [1:10560]

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXIX, 1st edition, 1859 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXIX, 1923 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheets LIII. NW & NE and Yorkshire, North Riding, Sheets XIII. SW & SE. 1915 and 1919 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY63SW, Cumberland - Westmorland, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY65SE, Northumberland, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY72NW, Westmorland, provisional edition, 1956 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY72NE [Westmorland - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1956 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY73NW, [Cumberland], provisional edition, 1956 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY73NE [Cumberland - Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY73SW, Cumberland - Westmorland, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY73SE, [Cumberland - Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560 Includes: annotation by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY74NW [Northumberland - Cumberland], provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY74NE, [Northumberland - Cumberland], provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY74SW, [Cumberland], provisional edition, 1956 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY74SE, [Cumberland - Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY82NW [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY82NE [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY83SE [Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY84NW, Northumberland, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560 (1 plan, 54cm. x 67cm., printed) 1/314 Ordnance Survey Sheet NY84NE, [Northumberland] provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY84SW [Northumberland - Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560 Includes: annotation by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY84SE [Northumberland - Durham] provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY91NE, Yorkshire, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY91SE, Yorkshire, provisional edition, 1957 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY92NE, [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NY92SE, [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ01NW, [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ01SW, [Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1956 Scale: 1:10,560 Includes: annotation by H,. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ02NW, [Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ02NE, [Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ02SW, [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ02SE, [Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ11NW, [Durham : Winston], provisional edition, 1954 Scale:1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ11NE, [Durham : Gainford], provisional edition, 1954 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheet NZ12SW [Durham : Staindrop], provisional edition, 1954 Scale: 1:10,560

Ordnance Survey Sheets NY73SE, NY83SW [Westmoreland - Durham] and part sheets to the south, provisional edition, c. 1953 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheets NY83NW and NY83SW [Durham], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheets NY93SW and NY92NW, [Durham - Yorkshire], provisional edition, 1953 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Copy of Ordnance Survey Yorkshire [North Riding] Sheet XXXVI. SE, 1895 [orig] Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Copy of Ordnance Survey Yorkshire [North Riding] Sheet XXXVII. SE, covering the Reeth and Marrick area, 1895 Scale: 1:10,560

Number not used

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXII. 16, 3rd edition, 1921 Scale: 1:2500

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXX. 5, 1st edition, 4 May [1857] Scale: 1:2500 Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Sheet XXX. 6, 1st edition, 18 May 1857 Scale: 1:2500 Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Durham Sheet XXXI. 14, 1st edition, 25 May 1857 Scale: 1:2500 Includes: annotations by H. Beadle

Ordnance Survey Cumberland Sheet XLII. 14, 2nd edition, 1899 Scale: 1:2500

Ordnance Survey Limestone Map of Great Britain : Sheet 1 [North], compiled by the Department of Health for Scotland and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in collaboration with the Geological Survey, 1955 Scale: 1:625,000

Ordnance Survey Limestone Map of Great Britian : Sheet 2 [South], compiled by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1955 Scale: 1:625,000

Map of Limestone of the North Eastern Area, compiled by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, from maps of the Geological Survey, December 1952 Scale: 1/4 inch to 1 mile [1:253,440]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of Great Britain (England and Wales), Sheet 25 : Alston, 1965 Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360] Includes: vertical and horizontal sections

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales), Sheet 31, Brough-under-Stainmore, 1974 Scale: 1:50,000

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales), Sheet 32, Barnard Castle, 1969 Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales), Sheet 41, Richmond, 1970 Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXX, and upper section of Durham Sheet XXXVIII, 1870s, reprinted 1948 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXX, 1880 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXXII, 1875 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXXII, 1875 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXXIII, 1875 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Durham Sheet XXXIII, 1875; reprinted 1942 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Northumberland Sheet CI, 1875 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of England and Wales, Westmorland Sheet VI, 1879 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Ordnance Survey Geological Survey of Great Britain (England and Wales), Sheet NZ02SW [Teesdale -Marwood], provisional edition, 1968 Scale: 1:10,560

Sketch plan and typescript notes concerning the New Lady Rake Mine, worked by Harwood Mining from c. 1924 to 1927, and managed by P. Beadle, 24 February 1949 Scale: ? inch to 1 fathom [1:576] and no scale

Section of strata at Mount Pleasant bore hole, Startforth, by H. L. Beadle, 23 December 1955 Scale: 24 feet to 1 inch [1:288]

Sketch details of Cowgreen and Dubby Syke veins, and typescript comments on the same, by P. Beadle, 4 February 1960 No scale

Section of strata of Lady Rake Level west from Jansen's shaft, n.d. [c. 1970] Originally enclosed in D/HLB 1/197

Tracing of the Silver Band Mine, Cronkley, Yorkshire, from the Geological Survey sheet, 20 November 1972 No scale

Idealised drawings and sections of a northern Pennine lead mine, prepared by H. L. Beadle for the making of a lead mine diorama at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, December 1974 Scale: 1 foot to 1 inch [1:12] and 4 fathoms to 1 inch [1:288]

'Map showing mining centres, smelt mills and pencil mills' [in Teesdale], by Harold L. Beadle, n.d. [1980s] Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]

Photocopy of a plan of mine workings [unspecified] between Tynehead and Dubby Sike, reproduced from an original in the Public Record Office, London, c. 1880; copy made, n.d. Scale: 10 chains to 1 inch [1:7920]

Photocopy plan and horizontal section of Little Eggleshope and Wiregill mines, n.d. post April 1892; copy made, n.d. Scale: 22 fathoms to 1 inch [1:1584]

Photocopy maps of Wiregill Middle Level and Little Eggleshope Level mine workings, n.d. 19th c.; copy made, n.d.

Photocopy maps of Middleton Tyas mine shafts and the Merrybent mine workings, n.d. 20th c.; copy made, n.d.

Copy plan of Ashgillhead Level, for Exsud Limited, March 1973 Scales: 1:500 and 1:1,000

Copy plan, elevation and cross section of the transporter bridge at Middlesbrough, by Edwin Shaw, County Surveyor and Engineer for the County of Cleveland, 28 November 1975 No scale

Copy plan, elevations and cross section of the Tees - Newport Bridge, Middlesbrough, by Edwin Shaw, County Surveyor and Engineer for the County of Cleveland, 12 December 1975 Scale: 120 feet to 2.5 inches [1:576]

Photocopy map of Alston Moor, reproduced from W. Wallace, Alston Moor, Its Pastoral People, Its Mines and Miners, 1890

Slide showing pipes with leaded joints, 1980s

Slide showing a T shaped chair rail, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Buddles Greenhurth, 1980s

Slide showing remains of dressing shed and water wheel, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Water Race control, 1980s

Slide showing remains of "Trunk" settling tank, 1980s

Slide showing remains of wheelcase balance beam foundation, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Swans Shaft and buildings, 1980s

Slide showing remains of wheelcase, 1980s

Slide showing remains of shaft incline and team, 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing rake dam, 1980s

Slide showing heaps and remains of dressing area, 1980s

Slide showing wheelcase, line of rods and swans shaft, 1980s

Slide showing view of Greenhurth, 1980s

Slide showing settling pond and remains of wheelcase, 1980s

Slide showing remains of water wheel case, 1980s

Slide showing remains of water race and control and wheel case, 1980s

Slide showing remains of pipe with leaded joints, 1980s

Slide of Swans shaft showing the remains of a bolt in a wooden box, 1980s

Slide showing bolts by roadside, 1980s

Slide showing a view of the remains of Greenhurth, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of dressing shed, water wheel case and conduit, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Buddles, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Greenhurth mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Greenhurth mine, 1980s

Slide of a section of an Ordnance Survey plan, at the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, showing Green Earth, 1857; slide made 1980s

Slide of a section of an Ordnance Survey plan, at the scale of 6 inches to 1 mile, showing Green Earth, 1980s

Slide showing sepia photograph of a waterwheel, works and house, 1980s

Slide of a sepia photograph of mine headgear and, possibly, a whim [horse powered winch], 1980s

Slides showing monthly pay bills for 12 October 1844, 25 January 1851 and 15 March 1856; slide made 1980s

Slide showing an unused monthly paysheet, 1980s

Slide of a plan of Landon Head low level and Langdon low level, 1980s

Slides showing keys to maps, 1980s

Slide of a plan showing Low Langdon level and other workings, 1980s

Slide of an account for lead ore from Haggerleases, 1856; slide made 1980s

Slides of a page from a Langdon account book, showing monthly pay bills, 1847 and 1856; slides made 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Langdon Head Low Level Shaft Heaps, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Botany Bay level mouth, 1980s

Slide showing hushes, Langdon head, 1980s

Slide of a contract to supply candles between James Lind and Jacob Allison, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide of an account for candles from James Lind to Jacob Allinson, 1855; slide made 1980s

Slide of an account for lead ore from Jacob Allison to W. J. Cookson & Co., 1855; slide made 1980s

Slide of a contract between Jacob Allinson and Jonathan Barker for work at Langdon Mine, 1854; slide made 1980s

Slide of an account for equipment from R. Hall & Co. to Jacob Allison, 25 April 1856; slide made 1980s

Slide of a typescript of the lease of Langdon Mine, 1782; slide made 1980s

Slide of a plan showing Langdon Head level and other workings, 1980s

Slide of a plan showing Low Langdon shop pre 1840, 1980s

Slide of the headstone of Josiah Wagstaff's grave in Middleton in Teesdale Churchyard, 1980s

Slide of an account for the supply of gunpowder to Langdon Mine Co., 2 January 1856; slide made 1980s

Slide of the remains of Langdon Low Level and Dead Heaps, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Tip End Washing Place, Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing remains of level at Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of the old washing place, Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of the blacksmiths shop, Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing the site of Langdon low shop and level, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Langdon Head shops and washing rake, 1980s

Slide showing hushes, Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide of Harthope Gill, Langdon, showing hushes, 1980s

Slide showing hushes, Langdon Head, 1980s

Slides of shaft heaps showing line at Langdon Head level, 1980s

Slides of a piece of limestone in western beck, Langdon, showing plug and feather method, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Langdon Head low level of shaft heaps, 1980s

Slide showing Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing levels at Langdon Head, 1980s

Slide showing old 'Chair Rails' near Langdon Mine, 1980s

Slide showing old man's level, Langdon, 1980s

Slide showing Langdon Valley with low Langdon level shaft heaps, 1980s

Slide showing Langdon Head low level shaft heaps, 1980s

Slide showing barrell arch, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slides of a sepia photograph of Wire Gill low level and remains of shop, 1980s (2 slides) 2/3/3 Slide showing remains of hoppers used for ore from Wire Gill Mine, 1980s

Slide showing Middlend and Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide showing the ford at Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide showing Lonton water race approaching Wire Gill Foot, 1980s

Slide of Wire Gill Mine showing area where teams stood, 1980s

Slide showing West Rake Hush overlooking the remains of Great Eggleshope dressing plant, 1980s

Slide showing Wire Gill Mine hoppers on Hillside, 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide of Wire Gill Mine, showing shaft filled by tipped ore, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Teams, Wire Gill Mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of water race near dressing plant, Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide showing remains of hoppers used for ore from Wire Gill Mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide showing remains of hoppers used for ore from Wire Gill Mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Wire Gill Mine, Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide showing remains of hoppers used for ore from Wire Gill Mine, 1980s

Slide showing washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Wire Gill low level and ruins of shop, 1980s

Slide showing fireplace, Great Eggleshope Mineshop, 1980s

Slide showing remains of steeping room fireplace, Great Eggleshope Mineshop, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Great Eggleshope Mineshop, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Wire Gill Mine, Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide of East Rake Hush, Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide of a section of an Ordnance Survey plan, at the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, showing Great Eggleshope Mine, 1897; slide made 1980s

Slide showing Great Eggleshope, 1980s

Slide showing remains of fireplace at Great Eggleshope Mineshop, 1980s

Slide showing remains of fireplace at Great Eggleshope Mineshop, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Tom Allinson, a miner, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slides of black and white photographs of Tom and Ralph Allinson, with horse and wagons of ore leaving Wire Gill Low Level, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide showing remains of washing kiln, Wire Gill, 1980s

Slide of a plan of Wire Gill Middle Level, 1849; slide made 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Great Eggleshope Mineshop and Manor Gill level mouth, 1980s

Slides showing a control valve, Ashgill Head Level, 1980s

Slide showing Ashgill Head Shop, Harwood, 1980s

Slides showing a selection of parts from a control valve, Ashgill Head Mine, 1980s

Slides showing parts of a water control valve, Ashgill Head Mine, 1980s

Slides showing Ashgill Head Level, 1980s

Slide showing parts of a water control valve, Ashgill Head Mine, 1980s

Slide showing a control valve, Ashgill Head Level, 1980s

Slide showing Hauksike Hush, Grass Hill shaft and Hush debris, 1980s

Slide showing Hauksike Hush, Harwood, 1980s

Slide showing a Cornish pump pipe, Lady's Rake, Harwood, 1980s

Slide showing remains of winding rope control block and dam valve, Lady's Rake Mine, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Lady's Rake Mine, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of three wheel and dray with J. T. Emmerson and J. T. Corragh, c. 1908; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Lady's Rake Lead Mine, c. 1890; slide made 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Jack Emmerson with horses and carts on Peth Bank, Harwood, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide of Lady's Rake Mine dam valve, 1980s

Slide showing shaft top and Cornish pump pipe, Lady's Rake, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of a traction engine drawing trailer and boiler from Lady's Rake, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Lady's Rake Lead Mine, with traction engine, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a plan showing a section of Lady's Rake Shaft by T. Beadle, 1980s Scale: 5.5 fathoms to 1 inch [1:396]

Slide of a drawing of a Cornish spear pump, 1980s

Slide of a plan showing a section of Lady's Rake Mine by T. Beadle, 1980s Scale: 5.5 fathoms to 1 inch [1:396]

Slide showing remains of water balance box and shaft top, Lady's Rake, Harwood, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Lady's Rake Lead Mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of explosives magazine, Cowrake, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing remains of rise on Green Hush Vein, Lazy Hill, Cow Green, 1980s

Slides showing opencast behind The Knott, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing Dubby Sike and Hunters Level, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Oval Shaft, Muses Level, at Bother Mere water wheel casing, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Cow Green Mine, Winter Hush Vein and Hush, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Winter Hush, Cow Green, 1980s (1 slide, colour) 2/6/8(i-v) Slides showing Angle Vein in Slapestone Syke, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing remains of rise on Green Hush Vein, Lazy Hill, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing Sandsike Dam, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing opencast on Hopkins Vein, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing remains of a mine wagon bogie at Hunters Level, Dubby Sike, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of a mine wagon at Hunters Level, Dubby Sike, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of opencast behind the Knott, Cow Green, 1980s

Slide showing Cow Green Water Race Head on River Tees, 1980s

Slides showing Dubby Sike Vein in Force Burn, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Cow Green Water Race Box Crossing, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Cow Green Engine Shed, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Cow Green Mine, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of Cow Green Barytes Miners, c. 1910; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of two Cow Green Miners, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of a group of men at Cow Green Mine, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides of black and white photographs of Cow Green Mine buildings after a snowstorm, n.d.; slides made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph from the Cow Green Mine buildings from the south, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of a river crossing at Wearhead, Cow Green, c. 1925; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a black and white photograph of one engine shed at Cow Green, c. 1939; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a plan of a Cornish spear pump, 1980s

Slide of Dubby Sike Vein and Mines on the Ordnance Survey Geological plan on the scale 6 inches to 1 mile, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of Forceburn and Dubby Vein taken from the Ordnance Survey Geological plan on the scale 6 inches to 1 mile, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides of photographs of Sharnberry Mine Shop, n.d.; slides made, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of Sharnberry Mill, built by Dale Minerals, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides of photographs of Sharnberry dressing plant, 1980s

Slide of Sharnberry Lead Mine, on the Ordnance Survey plan on the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, 1857; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Sharnberry mine ore hopper at foot of incline connecting mines, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of High Sharnberry Mine, 1980s

Slide showing a behive cover over a shaft at Hudshope, Middleton in Teesdale, 1980s

Slide of a phototograph of Little Eggleshope Mineshop in ruins, 1980s

Slides showing The Dam, California, United States of America, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Little Eggleshope foundation stones of the peat mincing machine, 1980s

Slides of a plan of a fireplace for burning peat, 1980s

Slide showing a stump wearing out of peat at Flake Brig, 1980s

Slides of Little Eggleshope Mine and Dams, on the Ordnance Survey plan on the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, 1897; slides made, 1980s

Slide of Flake Bridge Mine, Little Eggleshope, on the Ordnance Survey plan on the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, 1852; slide made, 1980s

Slides of plans of a pugging and mincing machine for peat fuel, 1980s

Slide of a plan of Little Eggleshope Mine, 1980s

Slide of a plan showing Little Eggleshope Mine dressing plant, 1980s

Slide of a plan of Little Eggleshope Mine, on the Ordnance Survey plan on the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, 1897; slide made, 1980s

Slides of Clargill Burn Waterfall, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing remains of rocking or balance beam timbers at Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Sir John's Mine water wheel bucket ring, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Sir John's mine water wheel crank, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of water wheel, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of base shaft and bearings which carried Rocking Arm or Spear, 1980s

Slide showing water wheel axle, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing remains of water wheel, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slides showing remains of pump pipe and spear in shaft, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of St. John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of water wheel hub assembly, Sir John's Mine, 1980s

Slide showing a group of people at the remains of Sir John's Mine, Garrigill, Alston, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of the wheelcase, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide of a plan of Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, on Ordnance Survey plan on the scale of 25 inches to 1 mile, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of the waterwheel, Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Cumberland, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Sir John's Mine, Tynehead, Garrigill, Cumberland, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of White House Colliery, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of White House Colliery, Egglestone, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide showing Red Groves Hushes, 1980s

Slides showing remains of water balance, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide showing water race which fed the dam operating the water balance, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Tom Allinson's Lead Washing Rake, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Slate Sill Mine and mine shop, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Low Level, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide of a stone in Red Grooves Hush showing ripple marks, 1980s

Slide showing Hudeshope Grains and Gill from Coldberry High Level, 1980s

Slide of a boundary stone at Whistle Jacket Dam, showing the markings P TWH, 1980s

Slide showing Coldberry Gutter (Hush), Coldberry, Middleton in Teesdale, 1980s

Slides showing Red Grooves Hush, Red Grooves, Newbiggin, 1980s

Slides showing Red Grooves Mine and Hush, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of two hotching tubs at Coldberry, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide showing a hotching tub, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of water wheel with wood arms gear and stamp operation, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of a water wheel and gear, steam engine shed and revolving buddle arms, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides showing Coldberry mine, mill and shop, 1955; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of workmen sorting and dressing lead ore, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing a lead weigh at Coldberry, 1980s

Slide of a photograph showing Koske, Meynell and Jonathan Hunt waiting to inspect mine, Low Skears Level, n.d.; slide made 1980s

Slide of a photograph showing hotching tubs and washing rake, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides of a photograph of a circular Buddle with revolving arms, Coldberry, n.d.; slides made, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Lowe with two unidentified females at Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of the remains of waterwheel and jaw crusher at Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing a revolving Buddle Rake, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of a dolly tub, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide of a photograph of a mine wagon or tub, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing a hotching tub, Coldberry, 1980s

Slide showing Coldberry Mine, Hudshope, Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1980s

Slides of a plan of Coldberry lead mine, on the Ordnance Survey plan on the 25 inch to 1 mile scale, 1897; slide made, 1897

Slide showing North level, Coldberry, n.d.; slide made, 1980s

Slides showing remains of rollers at Silver Band, 1980s

Slide of an object at Silver Band, 1980s

Slide showing a broken stone flywheel, Silver Band Mine, 1980s

Slides of part of a plan of Silver Band Mine, Cronkley, 1980s

Slides of part of a plan showing Silver Band Mine and washing floors, Cronkley, 1980s

Slide showing a contract between James Beadle Sheild and C. Bainbridge to raise ore at 60 shillings per bing, 9 February 1877; slide made, 1980s

Slide showing sheep on Jonathan Hush, Holwick Fell, Yorkshire, 1980s

Slides showing Jonathan Hush, Holwick Fell, Yorkshire, 1980s

Slide showing remains above Blackton Beck, Eggleston, 1980s

Slides showing Ore Pit Holes, Holwick Fell, Yorkshire, 1980s

Slide showing Willie Hole, Reddycombe Mines and Lady Rake Shop, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Willie Hole Mine (Reddycombe Sike), Harwood, 1980s

Slide showing remains of dressing plant, Willie Hole Mine, 1980s

Slide showing Reddycombe Mine site, 1980s

Slide showing Willie Hole and Reddycomb Mines, 1980s

Slide showing remains of Screen Shaft and arms, Reddycomb Sike, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Buddle floor with large base, Reddycomb Sike, Harwood, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of dam and shop, Reddycomb Mine, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of Willie Hole Mine, (Reddycomb Sike), Harwood, 1980s

Slide showing a plug and feathers, Moss Shop Mine, Birkdale, 1980s

Slides showing the remains of Birkdale Mine, 1980s

Slide showing remains of site washing rake, Birkdale Mine, 1980s

Slide showing Birkdale Hushes, 1980s

Slide showing Maizebeck Falls and Maizebeck Mine Shop, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of a hollowed tree trunk, Ramshaw Mine, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of a balance beam casting with spindle, Ramshaw Mine, 1980s

Slide of an unidentified group of people at the remains of Ramshaw Mine, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of a balance beam casting with spindle, Ramshaw Mine, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of a water race, 1980s

Slide showing a reservoir and dam, 1980s

Slide showing a reservoir, 1980s

Slide showing the remains of a beam engine pedestal, 1980s

Slide showing Jeffrys Smelt Mill Chimney, 1980s

Photographs showing Lady's Rake Mine, Harwood and a traction engine, 1980s

Photographs showing Green Hurth Mine, waterwheel and main shaft, 1980s

Photographs of Rigg Side, Harwood; Langdon Beck Bridge; Mr. Hope, sub-agent for the Teesdale estate of Lord Barnard; and Mr. May, Teesdale Estate Woodyard Manager, with Mrs. May, 1980s

Photograph of the London Lead Company Hude Top Workshops, with workmen, Middleton in Teesdale, c. 1900

Photograph of Middleton in Teesdale Primitive Methodist Chapel Christian Endeavour Group, c. 1905

Photograph of W. J. Watson, Mr. Griffiths, W. T. Scarth, Mr. Downward, Col. F. Beadon, Hon. Louis Johnson, Stephen Woombwell and H. J. Trotter at Rigg Side, Harwood, c. 1900

Photograph showing Jack Gowling, George Swainston, Mr. Howe and Jet Morton, Middleton in Teesdale, c. 1920

Photograph showing a group of quarrymen at the foot of Low Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, n.d. [c. 1900]

Photograph showing a group of quarrymen at the foot of Low Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, n.d. [c. 1900]

Photograph showing a group of quarrymen at the foot of Low Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, n.d. [c. 1900]

Photograph showing the crushing and screening plant at Low Quarry, Middleton-in-Teesdale, n.d. [late nineteenth century]

Photograph showing the crushing plant at Dine Holme Quarry, Forest-in-Teesdale, n.d. [c.1932]

Photograph showing an E.R.F. van owned by Philip Beadle and Son, 1939 The bodywork is painted according to blackout regulations issued in 1939

Photograph showing a Maudsley eight-ton tipper-truck owned by Philip Beadle and Son, 1948

Photograph showing a Leyland Type QH6 van, 1928

Photograph showing a Leyland Badger, 1934

Photograph showing a 240 H.P. Petter semi-diesel oil engine, n.d. [c.1930-1934]