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Reference: D/X 1731 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Archives transferred from Sheffield Archives

Covering Dates: 1877-1981

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Archives transferred from Sheffield Archives (Ref: D/X 1731)Sir B Samuelson and Company Limited (Ref: D/X 1731/1-2)

This company was in existence by 1888 when it owned collieries at Hedley Hope and at Guisbrough, Yorkshire. By 1896 the Spawood ironstone mine was in operation at Guisbrough and by 1914 Samuelson and Company also owned the Sherburn collieries (Sherburn Hill and Sherburn House).
Sir B Samuelson and Company Limited was taken over by Dorman, Long and Company Limited in 1923.
The records included in this deposit were passed to Sheffield Archives by British Steel's Northern Regional Record Office prior to their transfer to Durham County Record Office.

Cost ledgers (Ref: D/X 1731/1-2)

The cost ledger is arranged in three main sections covering Spawood, Hedley Hope and Sherburn collieries.

The Spawood section contains the following headings: wages, National Insurance, horse expenses, stores, wire ropes, iron and steel, railway repairs, sundry disbursements, coal, cottages, timber, gunpowder, fines, rates and taxes, electric power and light, Hollin Hill Farm, Aysdalegarth Farm, mineral rights duty, royalty and wayleave, carriage/sales, ironstone stock, rent of damaged land, installation of electric light at cottages (Charlton's Terrace), and alteration of engine house into two cottages (Slapewath).

The Hedley Hope section contains similar headings to Spawood, with additional headings for compensation to workmen, pit tubs, school account, coal stock, freehold farms, Miners' Betterment Fund, coal award, compensation under Coal Mines Contract Agreement, and opening up Lyons Way District.

The Sherburn section contains similar heading to Spawood and Hedley Hope, with additional headings for horses and ponies, coal washing, brick making, water, fire coal leading, depreciation, motor lorry account, pumps, new washer, plant (various), Shincliffe royalty sub-lease to Messrs. Bell Brothers, and repairs to cottages, South Street, Sherburn.

The half-yearly trading accounts for all three mines are recorded at the end of the volume.


Cost ledger [No. 3] of Spawood ironstone mine, Guisbrough, Yorkshire, Hedley Hope Colliery and Sherburn collieries, 1 April 1915 - 30 June 1923
(1 volume, leather bound)


Index to cost ledger, 1915 - 1923
(1 volume, leather bound)

Consett Steel Works (Ref: D/X 1731/3)

A.J. Eyles, Diary of a closure. B[ritish] S[teel] C[orporation] Consett Works, December 1979-December 1980, March 1981
(1 file, printed)

West Hunwick Colliery (Ref: D/X 1731/4)

West Hunwick Colliery. Particulars of sale, 30 October 1877
(1 file, printed)

Chopwell estate (Ref: D/X 1731/5)

Chopwell Estate and Garesfield Colliery wagonway and lands in parishes of Winlaton and Ryton. Particulars of sale by auction, 1881
(5 papers, printed)


Plan of Chopwell Estate and Garesfield Colliery showing Garesfield Colliery wagonway going from High Spen to Garesfield Smith on River Tyne; North Eastern Railway (Newcastle and Carlisle Section); Scotswood Newburn and Wylam Railway; North Eastern Railway (Team Valley Branch); North Eastern Railway (Consett Branch); Pontop and Jarrow Railway; Pontop and South Shields Railway; Tanfield Branch; and relevant train stations. Plan No. 1, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 48 cm x 31 cm)


Plan of Chopwell Estate and Garesfield Colliery in the Parish of Ryton showing Ryton Local Board's Proposed Line of Water Pipes going from Ashtree old level near Labourns Fell to Garesfield Colliery near High Strothers east of Bucks Nook South. Plan No. 2, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 49 cm x 63 cm)


Plan of Chopwell Estate and Garesfield Colliery in the Parish of Ryton showing Ryton Local Board's Proposed Line of Water Pipes going past Bute Arms Inn in High Spen and land of George Handyside, Ramsay Esquire's Trustees, Townell Trustees, H.C. Silvertop, Thorpe Trustees, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, Sir Henry Clavering. Plan No. 3, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 47 cm x 63 cm)


Plan of Greenhead and West Chopwell Farms in the Parish of Ryton showing Ryton Local Board's Proposed Line of Water Pipes going through Fanny Bush, land of James Fewster, land of Misses Surtees, land of The Thorpe Trustees, land of J.F. Thorpe, land of Robert Jewitt and land of The Commissioners of Woods and Forests. Plan No. 4, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 41 cm x 57 cm)


Plan of Coalburns Estate in the Parish of Ryton showing land of Coalburns Farm, land belonging to Henry Charles Silvertop, land of The Representatives of the late Aubone Surtees, land of George Handyside, land of the Thorpe Trustees. Plan No. 5, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 73 cm x 50 cm)


Plan of Wagonway from Garesfield Colliery to Derwent Haugh going through land belonging to the Clavering Trustees, Earl Ravensworth, Marquess of Bute and Earl of Dumfries, Towneley Trustees and Winlaton Partnership. Plan No. 6, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 73 cm x 50 cm)


Plan of leasehold premises at Derwent Haugh in the Parish of Ryton showing North Eastern Railway (Blaydon and Gateshead Branch), Garesfield Wagonway. Plan No. 7, 1881 Alfred S. Dunnin, Land and Mine surveyor, Newcastle upon Tyne
(1 plan, 46 cm x 32 cm)