Catalogue

25 March 1844 (1) John Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) Robert Sommerson of Evenwood, quarryman Memorandum of agreement to let for 1 year and so on from year to year Craggwood blue stone quarry, Evenwood Rent: £30 p.a. With related letter attached

Papers concerning the letting to John Wilson of Dunn House quarry, August 1854 - February 1867

18 October 1876 (1) Margaret Barnes of Langton, spinster (2) James Hartley of Staindrop, stone merchant Lease for 5 years of a portion of Dunn House quarry near Cleatlam (boundaries specified) Consideration: £35 Rent: £61 5s. p.a.

14 July 1899 (1) The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) John Thompson, 34 Baliol Street, Barnard Castle Copy agreement for tenancy of six months and renewable thereafter for East Dunn House quarry near Barnard Castle as specified in annexed sketch plan Consideration: £12 10s. p.a. certain rent

Extracts from leases dated 20 March 1891 and 3 August 1900 of Whinstone royalty and wayleave at Evenwood by the Earl of Strathmore to Messrs. Robert Summerson and Co. relating to Cragwood quarry

Extract from a lease dated 3 August 1900 concerning the working of 'shorts' by Messrs. Summerson at Cragwood quarry, n.d. [1900]

3 August 1900 (1) Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) Herbert William Summerson and several others (named) all trading as R. Summerson and Co. Counterpart lease for 10 years of quarry at Cragwood, township of Evenwood, with plan attached

Accounts of rents due from Messrs. Summerson and Co. for Cragwood and (1902-3 only) Buckshead quarries, with statements of output, 1891 - 1904

Draft statement of royalty rents paid by Messrs. Summerson and Co. for Cragwood quarry, for the years ended 21 September 1890 - 21 September 1900, 29 October 1900

Accounts of rents due from Messrs. Hartley Brothers for Dunn House West quarry, 1890 - 1922

Accounts of rents due from Messrs. J. and W. Thompson for Dunn House East quarry, 1894 - 1922

Accounts of royalty rents due from Barnard Castle Highway Board and subsequently from Barnard Castle R.D.C. for stone worked from Hetherick quarry, with statements of stone worked and related correspondence, 1893 - 1920

Accounts of rents due from Messrs. Summerson and Co. Ltd. for Cragwood wayleave, with related papers, 1903 - 1922

Notebook concerning principally the winning of stones in the vicinity of Streatlam estate, including details of reminiscences of various persons, list of Barnard Castle masons and other notes, covering period c.1706 - c.1757, n.d.

Information of Ralph Simpson concerning slate quarry at Shipley, October 1753

Legal opinion concerning quarries under unenfranchised property at Evenwood, 15 August 1832

List of stones in Stainton quarry, 19 May 1852

List of quarryman's prices for stone from Dunnhouse quarry, n.d. [19th c.]

Reports from M.H. Douglas, Houghton-le-Side, to John Daglish concerning examination of an old limestone quarry, of Houghton Bank sandstone quarry and of borehole at Legsacross, Bolam, 5 - 6 September 1876

Copy letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Lord Strathmore concerning unauthorised working of whinstone quarries in Evenwood by Messrs. Summerson and Co., with related papers covering period c.1802 - 1900, including copies of leases, correspondence, plan and vouchers for payment of tentale rent on coals and quarries worked out of Norwood and Evenwood royalties, etc., 1900

Copy legal opinion on case concerning ownership of Cragwood quarry, Evenwood, 31 October 1900

Extract from the Barnard Castle Moor Inclosure Award of 5 March 1799 relating to the 'setting out' of Hatherick quarry, copied 7 May 1912

Extract from the provisional valuation of minerals at Streatlam Grange which Lord Strathmore will acquire from Lord Barnard in exchange for an equivalent area of his minerals under Houghton-le-Side Farm, 4 September 1914

Statement as to minerals not owned by Lord Strathmore (in vicinity of Streatlam estate), 6 February 1922

Extract from lease for 1000 years dated 4 November 1607 concerning reservation of mines of coals, metals and ore and quarries of marble in Mickleton, Lune, Thringarth, Bowbank and Holwick and in the forest of Lune, 1919

Copy of discharge sent to John Barker of Bowbank from winning limestones on Lune Moor, 6 March 1803

5 June 1803 (1) John Dent and several others (named) (2) John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore Deed of covenant (and draft) concerning limestone quarrying on Mickleton Moor, Mickleton East and West Pastures and Mickleton Town Fields

Notes on leases of minerals at Lunehead, Hargill Beck and Stotley, 13 May 1844

11 November 1860 (1) John Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) John Robert Ord and Henry Maddison, both of Darlington, merchants Draft lease for 21 years of whinstone in Holwick Rent: £30 p.a. and 2d. per ton of whinstone above 3600 ton p.a.

Note of consideration necessary as to Mr. Bowes' letting of ironstone workings (with references to Middleton, Holwick and Cotherstone), December 1869

5 March 1879 (1) John Bowes of Streatlam Castle (2) James Tait of Garmondsway House, Coxhoe Counterpart lease for 21 years of quarry, strata beds and boulders of limestone as shown on attached plan within the townships of Holwick and Lune Rent: £30 p.a. and 2d. for every ton of limestone above 3600 tons

24 July 1886 (1) The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) John Robert Ord, Darlington, and Henry Maddison, Darlington, merchants Abstract of a lease for 14 years from 1 May 1886 for quarries of whinstone in Holwick Consideration: £1200 p.a. and additional payments

24 August 1897 (1) The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) George Hodsman, 8 Feversham Terrace, York, whinstone merchant at the Lunedale Whinstone Company, near Mickleton Counterpart lease for 30 years of whinstone and limestone quarries in Lunedale and Mickleton as specified within and on annexed sketch plan Consideration: £90 p.a., with additional payments

8 August 1900 (1) The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) John Langstaff, Mickleton, North Riding, quarry lessee Counterpart agreement for one year for the letting of a quarry on Mickleton Moor Allotment, as specified within and illustrated on annexed plan Consideration: £3 14s. for six months and other rents as specified

31 October 1903 (1) The Earl of Strathmore of Kinghorne (2) Messrs. Ord & Maddison Ltd., Northgate, Darlington, quarry owners Lease for 10 years from 1 May 1900 of quarries in the township of Holwick, with conditions and considerations as specified within

Proposed alterations in draft lease from the Earl of Strathmore to Messrs. Ord and Maddison Ltd. concerning whinstone quarries, drawn up by J. Hanby Holmes, 1903

Account of royalty rent due from the Lunedale Whinstone Co. for stone worked at Lunedale quarry, 9 October 1885 - 31 December 1886

Statement of rents paid by Messrs. Scott & Co. for stone worked from Catty Crag and Yew Scar quarries, 1 January 1885 - 31 December 1895

Statements of royalty rent due from Messrs. Ord & Maddison for whinstone wrought out of Middleton quarry, 30 April 1886 - 30 April 1899

Mickleton limestone royalty accounts, with statements of daily output, 1892 - 1901

Accounts of rents due from George Hodsman and from Messrs. George Hodsman and Sons Ltd. for Lune Bridge, Whin Hill and Greengates quarries, with statements of workings, 1892 - 1921

Accounts of rents due from John Langstaff and subsequently from R. Allinson for Mickleton Moor Allotment quarry, also known as Bail Hill quarry, 1900 - 1926

Account of rents due from the Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd. for Mickleton quarry, 6 April 1903 - 16 February 1904

Account of royalty due from the Lunehead Lead Co. on sulphate of barytes, 1 July 1903 - 16 February 1904

Account of rent due from Messrs. Davidson and Bolam for [Knobly's] Lane quarry, 23 November 1903 - 16 February 1904

Copy accounts of payments for damaged land and of rent for occupation of land taken for the Park End railway, due from Messrs. Ord & Maddison Ltd. in connection with Middleton quarries, 1912 - 1918

Accounts of rents due from Messrs. G. Hodsman & Sons Ltd. for barytes crushing plant, Lonton South, 1925 - 1926

Copy report by Mr. Daglish, addressed to John Bowes, on ironstone in Holwick, including references to damages and to workings at Park End, 12 August 1871

Forms of the North Eastern Railway (Stockton and Darlington section) recording limestone from Mickleton weighed at Barnard Castle, October 1872 - December 1874

Accounts of whinstone vended from Middleton-in- Teesdale quarry, by Ord & Maddison, Darlington, 1882 - 1892

Annual statements of output from Lunedale quarries by the Lunedale Whinstone Co. and by G. Hodsman & Sons Ltd., October 1900, October 1912, October 1917

Memorandum of terms for sale, by the Earl of Strathmore to John Robinson of Valley Street, Darlington, of quarry chippings at Greengates quarry, Lunedale, with related correspondence, 19 April 1922 - 8 July 1922

Copy of an extract from the Mickleton Inclosure Award of 21 February 1810 relating to the common quarries of Greenrigg and Blackrigg, with plan of the two quarries and neighbouring area, 23 July 1926

n.d. [1872 - 1900] (1) Trustees of the late Sir William Aloyzius Clavering, bart. of Axwell Park, Wentworth Blackett Beaumont esq. of Monk Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, Claude Bowes, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, John Patrick Crichton Stuart, Marquis of Bute and Earl of Dumfries and Joseph Cowen esq. of Stella Hall, Blaydon-on-Tyne (2) Margaret Alice Armstrong of Blaydon Bank, builder Draft lease of a freestone quarry on the west side of Blaydon Bank turnpike, Winlaton, on a yearly tenancy

Account of rents received for Blaydon quarry, 1858 - 1873

Accounts of rents due from Mrs. Armstrong's trustees and from Messrs. Davidson and Bolam for Blaydon Bank quarry, 1904 (2 papers) Note: For 'Lishman's quarry' on the east side of Blaydon Bank turnpike road, see D/St/C3/4 (Correspondence of John Daglish)

'Quarry rents' ledger for rents due from various firms and individuals for Middleton, Catty Crag and Yew Scar, Mickleton, Lune Bridge, Green Gates, Hetherick, Cragwood, Dunn House, Bail Hill, Blaydon Bank, Knobby's Lane, Crookgate, West Pasture, Clockburn and Kirk Arran quarries; also for Lune Head and Silverband lead mines and for Cragwood wayleave, 11 October 1889 - 13 May 1816