Catalogue

Minute book of the Annual General Meeting, 29 September 1864 - 3 August 1912 [D/Co 44]

Minute book of the Annual General Meeting, 2 August 1913 - 13 August 1947

Minute book, 26 March 1864 - 15 May 1869 [D/Co 29]

Minute book [indexed], 22 May 1869 - 6 September 1873 [D/Co 30]

Minute book [indexed], 30 September 1873 - 24 February 1877 [D/Co 31]

Minute book [indexed], 6 March 1877 - 2 August 1881 [D/Co 32]

Minute book, 3 September 1881 - 1 March 1887 [D/Co 33]

Minute book, 16 April 1887 - 29 September 1891 [D/Co 34]

Minute book, 3 November 1891 - 2 October 1894 [D/Co 35]

Minute book, 6 November 1894 - 5 November 1895 [D/Co 36]

Minute book, 3 December 1895 - 22 January 1898 [D/Co 37]

Minute book, 8 February 1898 - 19 January 1901 [D/Co 38]

Minute book, 9 February 1901 -9 August 1904 [D/Co 39]

Minute book, 6 September 1904 - 7 May 1907 [D/Co 40]

Minute book, 4 June 1907 - 7 December 1909 [D/Co 41]

Minute book, 4 January 1910 - 3 August 1912 [D/Co 42]

Minute book, 3 September 1912 - 2 November 1915 [D/Co 43]

Minute book, 7 December 1915 - 2 December 1919

Minute book, 23 January 1920 - 2 May 1922

Minute book, 19 May 1922 - 3 June 1924

Minute book, 26 June 1924 - 13 April 1926

Minute book, 4 May 1926 - 3 April 1928

Minute book, 1 May 1928 - 4 February 1930

Minute book, 1 April 1930 - 5 April 1932

Minute book, 3 May 1932 - 10 April 1934

Minute book, 1 May 1934 - 3 March 1936

Minute book, 7 April 1936 - 4 January 1938

Minute book, 1 February 1938 - 9 April 1940

Minute book, 7 May 1940 - 2 December 1941

Minute book, 6 January 1942 - 4 January 1944

Minute book, 1 February 1944 - 6 November 1945

Minute book, 4 December 1945 - 6 May 1947

Minute book, 3 June 1947 - 1 February 1949

Minute book, 9 March 1949 - 5 September 1950

Minute book, 3 October 1950 - 4 November 1952

Minute book, 2 December 1952 - 7 September 1954

Minute book, 5 October 1954 - 10 April 1956

Minute book, 1 May 1956 - 3 December 1957

Minute book, 7 January 1958 - 1 September 1959

Minute book, 6 October 1959 - 5 September 1961

Minute book, 2 October 1961 - 3 December 1963

Minute book, 7 January 1964 - 5 April 1966

Index to minute book, 1864 - 1869 (D/Co 2/1) [D/Co 29]

Index to minute book, 1869 - 1873 (D/Co 2/2) [D/Co 30]

not transferred

Index to minute book, 1881 - 1887 (D/Co 2/5) [D/Co 33]

Index to minute book, 1887 - 1891 (D/Co 2/6) [D/Co 34]

Index to minute book, 1891 - 1894 (D/Co 2/7) [D/Co 35]

Index to minute book, 1894 - 1895 (D/Co 2/8) [D/Co 36]

Index to minute book, 1895 - 1898 (D/Co 2/9) [D/Co 37]

Index to minute book, 1898 - 1901 (D/Co 2/10) [D/Co 38]

Index to minute book, 1901 - 1904 (D/Co 2/11) [D/Co 39]

Index to minute book, 1904 - 1907 (D/Co 2/12) [D/Co 40]

Index to minute book, 1907 - 1909 (D/Co 2/13) [D/Co 41]

Index to minute book, 1910 - 1912 (D/Co 2/14) [D/Co 42]

Index to minute book, 1912 - 1915 (D/Co 2/15) [D/Co 43]

Index to minute book, 1915 - 1919 (D/Co 2/16)

Index to minute book, 1920 - 1922 (D/Co 2/17)

Index to minute book, 1922 - 1924 (D/Co 2/18)

Index to minute book, 1924 - 1926 (D/Co 2/19)

Index to minute book, 1926 - 1928 (D/Co 2/20)

Index to minute book, 1928 - 1930 (D/Co 2/21)

Index to minute book, 1930 - 1932 (D/Co 2/22)

Index to minute book, 1932 - 1934 (D/Co 2/23)

Index to minute book, 1934 - 1936 (D/Co 2/24)

Index to minute book, 1936 - 1938 (D/Co 2/25)

Index to minute book, 1938 - 1940 (D/Co 2/26)

Index to minute book, 1940 - 1941 (D/Co 2/27)

Index to minute book, 1942 - 1944 (D/Co 2/28)

Index to minute book, 1944 - 1945 (D/Co 2/29)

Index to minute book, 1945 - 1947 (D/Co 2/30)

Index to minute book, 1947 - 1949 (D/Co 2/31)

Index to minute book, 1949 - 1950 (D/Co 2/32)

Index to minute book, 1950 - 1952 (D/Co 2/33)

Index to minute book, 1952 - 1954 (D/Co 2/34)

Index to minute book, 1954 - 1956 (D/Co 2/35)

Index to minute book, 1956 - 1957 (D/Co 2/36)

Index to minute book, 1958 - 1959 (D/Co 2/37)

Index to minute book, 1959 - 1961 (D/Co 2/38)

Index to minute book, 1961 - 1963 (D/Co 2/39)

Index to minute book, 1964 - 1966 (D/Co 2/40)

General Manager's agenda book, 22 July 1905 - 12 September 1907 [D/Co 45]

General Manager's agenda book, 5 November 1907 - 8 February 1910 [D/Co 46]

General Manager's agenda book, 1 March 1910 - 2 July 1912 [D/Co 47]

General Manager's agenda book, 25 January 1921 - 6 November 1923 [D/Co 48]

General Manager's agenda book, 4 December 1923 - 4 May 1926 [D/Co 49]

General Manager's agenda book, 1 June 1926 - 4 September 1928 [D/Co 50]

General Manager's agenda book, 2 October 1928 - 2 December 1930 [D/Co 51]

General Manager's agenda book, 6 January 1931 - 4 April 1933 [D/Co 52]

General Manager's agenda book, 2 May 1933 - 3 September 1935 [D/Co 53]

General Manager's agenda book, 1 October 1935 - 4 January 1938 [D/Co 54]

General Manager's agenda book, 1 February 1938 - 13 June 1940 [D/Co 55]

Finance Committee minute book, 25 February 1930 - 22 May 1931

Finance Committee minute book, 24 June 1931 - 25 October 1932

Finance Committee minute book, 29 November 1932 - 23 January 1934

Finance Committee minute book, 23 February 1934 - 25 March 1935

Finance Committee minute book, 26 April 1935 - 25 February 1936

Finance Committee minute book, 24 March 1936 - 23 December 1936

Finance Committee minute book, 25 January 1937 - 26 November 1937

Finance Committee minute book, 23 December 1937 - 27 February 1939

Finance Committee minute book, 27 March 1939 - 27 November 1939

Finance Committee minute book, 26 January 1940 - 26 August 1940

Finance Committee minute book, 23 September 1940 - 26 May 1941

Finance Committee minute book, 27 June 1941 - 10 August 1943. The Finance Committee deliberations now recorded as a special minute in Board Meeting minutes

Correspondence between Cooper & Goodger, solicitors, 27 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; Sir David Dale, [Darlington] and Edgar J. Ellgood, Lincoln's Inn, London, concerning the drafting of new memorandum and articles of association of the Consett Iron Co. Ltd., 7 March - 3 August 1900

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited, and the Consett Spanish Ore Company Limited, 6 April 1864 - 7 August 1897

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited, and the Consett Spanish Ore Company Limited, 6 August 1898 - 6 August 1910 [D/Co 56]

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited, and the Consett Spanish Ore Company Limited, 5 August 1911 - 2 August 1913

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited and the Consett Spanish Ore Company Limited, 1 August 1914 - 7 August 1935 [D/Co 57]

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited and the Consett Spanish Ore Company Limited, 23 March 1936 - 31 July 1952 [D/Co 58]

Reports of Directors of the Consett Iron Company Limited, 5 February 1952 - 1 April 1967

Directors' report and audited statement of accounts of Consett Iron Co. Ltd., for the 26 weeks ended 30 September 1967

Audited statement of accounts of Consett Iron Co. Ltd., for the 52 weeks ended 28 September 1968

Audited statement of accounts of Consett Iron Co. Ltd. for the 52 weeks ended 27 September 1969

1 January 1845 (1) Derwent Iron Co. (2) Stockton and Darlington Railway Co. Draft agreement for the sale by (1) to (2) of the 11 miles of railway from Stanhope to a point on the Stanhope and Tyne Railway Company's line at Medomsley where the Medomsley Branch diverges to Medomsley Colliery; 1 mile of branch railway connecting the Pontop and Shields and the Brandling Junction Railways near Annfield, and limestone quarries comprised in a lease dated 4 July 1843 Consideration: £40,000

Accounts of the Derwent Iron Co., comprising balance sheet; balance sheet and stock account; account with the Consett Iron Works; profit and loss account and account with the Bishopwearmouth Iron Works, for the year ended 31 December 1847

Accounts of the Derwent Iron Co., comprising plant account; stock account with Mounsey, Ianson & Co., bankers; profit and loss account; account with the Bishopwearmouth Iron Works; combined accounts of the Derwent Iron Co., and Mounsey, Ianson & Co.; account with the Consett Iron Works and account with the Ridsdale Iron Works, for the year ended 31 December 1848

1 June 1858 (1) Jasper Capper Mounsey and Charles Ianson, both of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchants and co-partners (2) William Backhouse of St. John's Wolsingham, esq.; John Mounsey of Bishopwearmouth, coal owner and Charles Bragg of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant, representing the Derwent Iron Co. (3) Anna Maria Gilkes of Darlington, widow Assignment by (1) to (3) of 2 life assurance policies, with Norwich Union Life Assurance Society, one numbered 26825 and dated 11 August 1851 and the other numbered 28039 and dated 25 July 1853, total value £2,000, in trust to secure the repayment of a debt of £1385 by (2) to (3)

30 August 1859 (1) William Bernard Ogden of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq. (2) John Fogg Elliot of Elvet Hall, esq.; William Bainbridge of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq., barrister at law and James Edward Coleman of Tokenhouse Yard, London, accountant, liquidators of the Northumberland and Durham District Banking Co. (3) Jonathan Richardson of Woodlands in the parish of Lanchester, esq. (4) William Backhouse of St. John's near Wolsingham; Edward Richardson of Torquay, Devon; Thomas Richardson of Snows Green; John Mounsey of Sunderland; Matthew Robert Bigge of Stanhope; Caleb Richardson of Sunderland; Charles Bragg of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Mary Mounsey of Sunderland, widow, representatives, together with (5) of the Derwent Iron Co. proprietors (5) Elizabeth Smith of Clifton, Derbyshire, widow (6) Derwent & Consett Iron Co. Ltd. (7) Stockton & Darlington Railway Co. (8) Joseph Pease and Joseph Whitwell Pease of Darlington, merchants (9) Edmund Backhouse of Darlington; Edward Backhouse the younger of Sunderland, and Alfred Backhouse of Darlington, bankers and partners trading as Jonathan Backhouse & Co. (10) Northumberland and Durham District Banking Co. (11) John Fogg Elliot, James Edward Coleman, Joseph Whitwell Pease, and David Dale of West Lodge, Darlington, engine builder Assignment by (1), (3), (4) and (5) to (6) of the business of iron manufacturers carried on at East Consett by the Derwent Iron Co., together with all the plant and machinery, stock, assets and liabilities of the business; (6) agrees to fulfil all agreements entered into with (7) and (8); (4) and (5) convey to (11) all the copyhold property at Bishopwearmouth with the ironworks built on it; mineral rights and royalties comprised in agreements dated 30 September 1844, including Lanchester Common; East and West Consett; Crook Hall & Hownes; Iveston and Loftus; railway between Consett and Crook Hall; the iron works, collieries and coke ovens, railways, and other property at East Consett; Langley and Whitlow Royalties, Alston Royalties and Halleywell Royalties Consideration: £575,000 Includes: 12 schedules of property; map of the Bishopwearmouth Estate and ten maps of the Consett Estate and Royalties

3 November 1866 (1) John Fogg Elliot of Elvet Hall, esq.; James Edward Coleman of Tokenhouse Yard, London, accountant; Joseph Whitwell Pease of Darlington, merchant, M.P., and David Dale of West Lodge, Darlington, engine builder (2) Northumberland and Durham District Banking Co. (3) William Bainbridge of Newcastle upon Tyne, esq., barrister at law and James Edward Coleman, official liquidators of (2) (4) Joseph Pease of Darlington, merchant and Joseph Whitwell Pease (5) North Eastern Railway Co. (6) Edmund Backhouse of Darlington; Edward Backhouse of Sunderland and Alfred Backhouse of Darlington, bankers and co-partners, trading as Jonathan Backhouse & Co. (7) Derwent and Consett Iron Co. Ltd. (8) David Dale, liquidator of (7) (9) Jonathan Richardson of Woodlands in the parish of Lanchester, esq. (10) William Bernard Ogden of Sunderland, esq. (11) Mary Mounsey of Sunderland, widow; Edward Mounsey of Denham, Buckinghamshire, gent. and Joseph Capper Mounsey of Greenhithe, Kent, commission agent (12) Edward Richardson of Torquay, Devon, esq. (13) William Backhouse of St. John's near Wolsingham, esq. (14) Consett Iron Co. Ltd. Conveyance and assignment by (7), with the consent of (1) - (6), to (14) of the business of iron masters and manufacturers carried on by (7) at East Consett, including all assets, liabilities and contracts; all the rights of (1) - (8) in the business, together with the interests of (1) - (13) in the iron works, blast furnaces and collieries; coke ovens, railways and rolling mills; property at East and West Consett except lands leased from Sherburn Hospital; mineral rights, wayleaves and easements; tithes and rent charges conveyed by (7) to (14) Consideration: £308,166 10s. 8d. shared between (2), (4), (5) and (6) Includes: 8 schedules of property conveyed to (14) Annotated with memoranda as follows: 8 November 1866 Document produced in evidence in case of the Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 1857 and the Northumberland and Durham District Banking Co. Ltd. 12 April 1948 Conveyance by (14) to Consett Urban District Council of a piece of land at Bradley Square, Leadgate 24 October 1949 Conveyance by (14) to Joseph Carr of 47 Edith Street, Consett 15 September 1950 Conveyance by (14) to Ernest Hogg of 4 Curry Street, Consett 20 September 1950 Conveyance by (14) to Joseph Nicholson and Jean Elizabeth Nicholson of 15 Victoria Street, Consett 14 November 1955 Conveyance by (14) to John and Jean Harper of 15 Constance Street, Consett 26 February 1951 Conveyance by (14) to James Graham of 41 Constance Street, Consett 21 March 1951 Conveyance by (14) to Alfred Arras Malpas of 30 Edith Street, Consett 13 April 1951 Conveyance by (14) to Robert and Edith Lilian Fowler of 37 Edith Street, Consett 15 June 1951 Conveyance by (14) to Reginald and Rhoda Pooley of 5 Nelson Street, Consett 5 May 1955 Conveyance by (14) to Joseph and Christine Snaith of 15 Steel Street, Consett 22 June 1955 Conveyance by (14) to Robert Francis Bowman of 47 Constance Street, Consett 12 July 1955 Conveyance by (14) to William and Bertha May Whitley of 9 Spencer Street, Consett 18 November 1955 Conveyance by (14) to Thomas William Heslop of 4 Spencer Street, Consett 23 June 1956 Conveyance by (14) to Consett Urban District Council of 18 - 32 Princes Street, Consett 18 July 1956 Conveyance by (14) to Thomas and Margery Pattinson of 5 Constance Street, Consett 15 August 1956 Conveyance by (14) to Freddie and Ethel Stobbs of 11 Victoria Street, Consett 7 September 1956 Conveyance by (14) to J.S. Robson Ltd. of 4340 sq. yds. of land at Consett 17 December 1956 Conveyance by (14) to Almira Hannah Walker of 26 Spencer Street, Consett 5 December 1956 Conveyance by (14) to Peter and Mary Annie McCarle of 18 Edith Street, Consett 20 January 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Vera Atkinson of 3 Edith Street, Consett 25 April 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Consett Urban District Council of 2.574 acres of land in West Row and Bottle Bank, Blackhill 15 March 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Sidney Barron of 17 Victoria Street, Consett 16 May 1957 Conveyance by (14) to National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations (Inc.) of the Old Infirmary, Parliament Street, Consett 27 August 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Allan Stewart Hayes of 27 Steel Street, Consett 13 November 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Maurice Watts Burdon and Margaret Burdon, his wife, of 23 Spencer Street, Consett 18 December 1957 Conveyance by (14) to Clara Isabella Charlton of 8 Nelson Street, Consett 11 March 1958 Conveyance by (14) to John Edward and George Humble of 33 Steel Street, Consett 12 March 1958 Conveyance by (14) to John McGuigan of 18 Spencer Street, Consett 30 May 1958 Conveyance by (14) to Matthew Walton of 9 Constance Street, Consett 24 September 1959 Conveyance by (14) to John William Newby Leonard of 51 Edith Street, Consett 13 November 1959 Conveyance by (14) to John Thomas Pledger of 17 Constance Street, Consett 29 April 1960 Conveyance by (14) to Thomas McKeown of 31 Edith Street, Consett 18 December 1961 Conveyance by (14) to Consett Urban District Council of 17 - 33 Trafalgar Street, Consett 8 February 1963 Conveyance by (14) to Matthew and June Gill of 10 Constance Street, Consett 9 April 1963 Conveyance by (14) to George William Dixon of 12 Constance Street, Consett 25 July 1963 Conveyance by (14) to John Farrar of 8 Constance Street, Consett 1 October 1963 Conveyance by (14) to Matthew Hall of 6 Constance Street, Consett 8 November 1963 Conveyance by (14) to Thomas Nichol of 6 Victoria Street, Consett 22 January 1964 Conveyance by (14) to Alice and Jean Humble of 10 Edward Street, Consett Register of sales of properties forming part of those comprised in the deed dated 3 November 1866, detailing purchaser's name(s), address of property and area of property, 27 January 1964 - 20 October 1972 Enclosed: Register of property sales, as above, 7 October 1960 - 13 October 1980

The London Gazette , including a notice of the winding up of the Derwent and Consett Iron Company on 25 September 1878, 20 August 1878 [D/Co 59(xv)] [189]

Notices of the final winding up meeting of the Derwent and Consett Iron Company, 28 September 1878 and 1 October 1878 [D/Co 59(xv)]

List of allottees, persons to whom shares have been allotted, [108] n.d., 19th c.

Allotment list of new shares, n.d., 19th c. [280]

Allotment list of 9,200 New Shares, October 1872 [285]

List of allotment and registration of 9,200 New Shares, 1872

Northumberland and Durham District Banking Company, no. 1, shares in Consett Iron Company (Limited) Applied for and Allotted to Creditors, A - L, April 1862

Northumberland and Durham District Banking Company, no. 1, shares in Consett Iron Company (Limited) Applied for and Allotted to Creditors, M - Z, April 1862

Northumberland and Durham District Banking Company, no. 2, Additional List of Shares in Consett Iron Company (Limited) applied for by Creditors, April 1862

'Summary of Alphabet', possibly numbers of shares claimed by persons whose names begin with each letter of the alphabet, c.1862 Originally enclosed in D/Co 6/7

Share ledger, vol. 4, A to Z, c. 1898 - c.1913

Share ledger general index, n.d., 19th c.

General index, n.d., 19th c.

Record of the sealing of preference stock certificates, 4 October 1949 - 28 July 1953

Iveston, Crook Hall, and Hownes royalty book, 27 October 1860 - 31 December 1869 [D/Co 64]

Account of fees paid to named directors of the company, 26 March 1864 - 31 March 1952 [563]

Private cost book, labelled 'C.W.C. Henderson, The Riding, Hexham', Northumberland, half year ending June 1906 - half year ending June 1912 [D/Co 98]

Private cost book, labelled 'C.W.C. Henderson, The Riding, Hexham', Northumberland, half year-ending June 1912 - half-year January 1915 [D/Co 99]

not transferred

Private cost book, labelled 'George Ainsworth, Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending December 1909 - half-year ending March 1926 [D/Co 101]

Private cost book, labelled 'E.J. George, Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending December 1909 - half-year ending March 1926 [D/Co 102]

Private cost book, labelled 'Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending September 1926 - half year ending March 1933 [D/Co 103]

Private cost book, labelled 'Half-Yearly Costs' 'Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending September 1933 - March 1940 [D/Co 106]

Private cost book, labelled 'Monthly Costs' 'Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending October 1926 - half year ending September 1933 [D/Co 104]

Private cost book, labelled 'Monthly Costs' 'Consett Iron Company Limited', half-year ending September 1933 - half-year ending March 1939 [D/Co 105]

Profit and loss account book, July 1871 - 30 December 1893 [D/Co 89]

Profit and loss account book, half-year ending 30 June 1917 - half-year ending 27 March 1937 [D/Co 90]

Cash book, 20 June 1864 - 2 July 1864

Journal, 20 June 1864

Index to contracts by personal name giving subject of contract, 1850s - 1960s

Index to contracts by place and subject, giving names of those involved, 1850s - 1960s

Seal book, 13 August 1864 - 16 November 1892

Seal book, 19 January 1893 - 6 April 1905

Seal book, 10 April 1905 - 24 May 1911

Seal book, 6 June 1911 - 5 February 1924

Seal book, 5 February 1924 - 23 July 1935

Seal book, 23 July 1935 - 2 May 1950

Seal book, 4 May 1950 - 29 December 1960