Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/10 Glassworks Stock Book Creation dates: 1772 - 1774 Extent and Form: 33 pp Physical characteristics: Leather bound volume, 32 x 21cm. Scope and Content Volume containing account of materials used in the glassworks [Hartley/Seaton Sluice] weekly 23 Nov 1772 - 11 Dec 1773, daily 30 Nov 1773 - 10 Sept 1774 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/11 Payments for Coal and Salt Shipped Creation dates: 1782 - 1787 Extent and Form: 264 pp Physical characteristics: Leather bound volume, 32 x 21cm. Scope and Content Volume containing copy bill's for payment for coal and salt shipped [from Seaton Sluice] payable by the ship masters or their agents or bankers to the account of Messrs Surtees and Burdon for Sir John Delaval, 23 Oct 1782 - 26 June 1787 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/12 Glassworks labourers Account Book Creation dates: 1796 - 1802 Extent and Form: 116 pp Physical characteristics: Leather bound volume, 32 x 21cm. Scope and Content Volume containing daily accounts of labouring work done at the glassworks at Seaton Sluice, listing names of employees, days worked and wages paid, 25 Nov 1796 - 31 Dec 1802 In back of volume, daily accounts of labouring work done in demolishing the old glasshouse, 1 Jan - 26 Feb 1800, erecting the new glasshouse, 26 Feb - 8 Nov 1800 and cutting seaweed and burning kelp, 3 June 1801 - 25 Aug 1802 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13 Colliery Report Book Creation dates: 1811 - 1829 Extent and Form: 388 pp Physical characteristics: Leather bound volume, 39 x 26cm. entitled Reports Vol 1 on spine, index at front, Scope and Content Volume containing reports, estimates and copy letters of Matthias Dunn and others, 1811 - 1829 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/1 Creation dates: 23 March 1811 Scope and Content Description of the method of conveying coal to the Tyne and Wear from Urpeth Colliery, sent to the Tradesman's Magazine including description of the inclined planes constructed by Mr Cook and the drawing machinary used with plan and elevation of the drawing machine and plan of the line of the waggonway, coloured, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/9 Creation dates: 13 Nov 1813 Scope and Content Report re the salt water spring at South Birtley including drainage methods and the separation of fresh and salt water and the effects on Engine Pit, with plan and section showing the water level at Goodspeed and Engine Pits, scale 2ch: 1" and plan and section of Engine Pit, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/17 Creation dates: 20 April 1814 Scope and Content Estimate of the probable duration of Hebburn Colliery, (incomplete) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/23 Creation dates: 20 Oct 1814 Scope and Content Estimate of working costs for Jarrow Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/29 Creation dates: 28 Nov 1814 Scope and Content Extracts from accounts for Coxlodge Colliery and estimate of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/41 Creation dates: 6 Dec 1824 Scope and Content Report re coal workings on Felton Moor belonging to Messrs Riddell and Davidson including description of previous workings and drainage and recommendations re re-opening the pits, with plan showing area of old workings and sites of pits and landowners, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/50 Creation dates: April - May 1815 Scope and Content Specifications for a Trevithwick Engine required for Jarrow East Way Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/54 Creation dates: 26 June, 14 July 1815 Scope and Content Queries by Hugh Taylor, agent to the Duke of Northumberland re Backworth Colliery and report re the extent and methods of previous workings and the reasons for discontinuing these, by Edward Steel, William Dormont and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/62 Creation dates: 16 Aug 1816 Scope and Content Report re a dispute between the Duke of Northumberland and Miss H. Ellison of Whitley re the laying of waggonways over her copyhold property, with plan showing the line of the waggonway and landowners Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/67 Creation dates: 3 Jan 1817 Scope and Content Report re the method of working over the dyke in Townley Main Colliery with recommendations re ventilation and drainage, estimate of costs and plan of the workings, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/72 Creation dates: 9 Jan 1816 Scope and Content Description of safety lamps designed by George Stephenson and Sir Humphrey Davy with note re trials and drawing of Stephenson's lamp Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/75 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1816 Scope and Content Detailed report on conditions in Heaton Old Pit after the Heaton Colliery disaster 3 May 1815 including descriptions of the state and position of the bodies, plan of the workings showing the position of the bodies and opinion re the causes of death Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/81 Creation dates: 21 May 1816 Scope and Content Report re the situation of the Glebe Coal at Washington, B Pit with section of the seam Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/83 Creation dates: 20 Sept 1816 Scope and Content Description of Dr Claney's steam lamp with note of trials and drawing of the lamp Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/85 Creation dates: nd [c. 1817] Scope and Content Plan of the Royalties belonging to Robert Shafto Esq and the Rectory of Washington, coloured to show royalty owners, position of the glebe coal and position of the pits, no scale, (inserted) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/85 Creation dates: 9 Sept 1817 Scope and Content Report re the coal in the Glebe Hutton Seam to be worked from the A Pit, Washington Colliery, with section of the seam and calculations re produce Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/89 Creation dates: 19 May 1818 Scope and Content Report re problems with water at Townley Colliery and the effects of drainage from Emmerson's Forge, with plan of the workings showing the dyke Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/92 Creation dates: May 1818 Scope and Content Description of samples of various types of coal and other minerals found at Hebburn and Jarrow Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/97 Creation dates: nd [c. 1818] Scope and Content Observations on the strata and various geographical features of the Newcastle coal district with synopsis of the seams as they appear on the Tyne and Year Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/102 Creation dates: 1 June 1818 Scope and Content Note re the water from Emmerson's [...] at Townley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/103 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1818 Scope and Content Report re Gateshead Park Colliery including sections of seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/105 Creation dates: 30 July 1819 Scope and Content Appointment of William Stobart of Pelaw, agent and Matthias Dunn as arbitors in a dispute between Thomas Wade of Hylton Castle and John Watter of Fatfield re interest due Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/106 Creation dates: Feb 1819 Scope and Content Report re coal mines in the Loire Region of France, including working, ventilation and drainage methods, quality and quantity of available coal, numbers of employees and costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/121 Creation dates: 1812 Scope and Content Table showing the extent of coal mines in the Loire Region, France, table of measures and list of French mining terms Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/126 Creation dates: 19 April 1819 Scope and Content Notes re the valuation of Penshaw and Rainton Collieries taken at the marriage of Lord Stuart to Lady Francis [Vane Tempest] Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/128 Creation dates: 20 April 1819 Scope and Content Report re current workings in Dunwell Pit including ventilation with section of the seam and working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/130 Creation dates: 26 April 1819 Scope and Content Report re current workings in Resolution Pit, including drainage Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/132 Creation dates: 30 April 1819 Scope and Content Report re current workings in Hunters House Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/132 Creation dates: 18 Aug, 7 Oct 1819 Scope and Content Valuation of Wallsend Colliery stock consequent to a dispute between Robert Grea of South Shields and the proprietors Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/146 Creation dates: 14 Feb 1820 Scope and Content Report re Eglingham Colliery including section of seam, working methods, working costs and profits with plan showing ancient and current workings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/150 Creation dates: 19 Feb - 9 March 1820 Scope and Content Queries by John Buddle re Hazard Pit, Rainton Colliery including ventilation and pillar working with recommendations re working methods with plan of the workings, scale 4ch: 1" and notes made for the report by Matthias Dunn and Geoege Hill Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/158 Creation dates: 5 Jan 1821 Scope and Content Valuation of Fram Pit stock taken at the marriage of Lord Stuart to Lady Frances Vane Tempest Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/159 Creation dates: 5, 24 Feb 1821 Scope and Content Notes for a report re the results of borings at Usworth Colliery and queries and recommendations based on the above notes, by Thomas Fenwick and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/166 Creation dates: 16 Aug 1819 Scope and Content Note re a subpoena to attend the case of a dispute between Mr Bonner and the Killingworth Owners re outstroke rents, issued to John Buddle, T. Smith, William Stobart, Matthias Dunn, Ralph Fenwick, Hugh Taylor, Edward Steel and Thomas Elliott Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/168 Creation dates: 1819 Scope and Content Plan of the Outstroke and Water Course Drifts at C and D Pits, Killingworth, coloured to show royalty owners, no scale, Refers to case NRO 3410/For/1/13/166-167 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/169 Creation dates: 7 March 1821 Scope and Content Notes re the conduct of the case in NRO 3410/For/1/13/166-168 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/172 Creation dates: 6 May 1823 Physical characteristics: Scale 1ch: 1" Scope and Content Report re Cow Close and West Pits Colliery particularly re the best method of draining and re-opening the colliery with estimate of working costs and plan of the workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/182 Creation dates: 29 Oct 1829 Physical characteristics: No scale Scope and Content Report re current workings at Wilkwood Colliery including section of the seam and sketch plan of the colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/187 Creation dates: 1804-1824 Scope and Content Report re a royalty at Westgate and Gallowgate, Newcastle, to be sold by George Humble, including sections of strata, estimates of working costs and profits, by Matthias Dunn, 20 Feb 1824 and valuation by John Buddle, 1804 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/193 Creation dates: 13 May, 18 Aug 1812 Scope and Content Memorandum from Matthias Dunn's memoranda book re current workings at Elswick with sections of seams and estimates of merchantable coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/196 Creation dates: 28 Feb 1829 Scope and Content Estimate of working costs for North Elswick Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/199 Creation dates: Aug 1801 Physical characteristics: (plan a loose page stuck into the volume). Scope and Content Plan of Callerton Colliery with reference showing the lines of the seams and water levels, marking pits, scale 12ch: 1" with estimate of the quantity of merchantable coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/203 Creation dates: 3 Oct 1823 Scope and Content Report re St Bees Royalty leased by the Earl of Lonsdale from St Bees School, including details of the lease with reference to mineral leases in the Northumberland coalfield, history of the workings, extent of the area leased, current workings and quantity and value of the merchantable coal produced. Refers to evidence given by Mr Peile and by Lord Lonsdale. Includes plan showing the extent of the royalty and workings, scale 150 yds: 1", Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/231 Creation dates: nd [c. 1823] Scope and Content Estimates of the cost of re-opening Aycliffe Heads Colliery including drainage Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/234 Creation dates: 29 March 1824 Scope and Content Report re Great Eppleton Estate at the request of Frances Mascall including estimate of the quantity and valuation of merchantable coal and proposed rents to be charged to the Hetton Coal Co, includes plan of the estimate, naming adjacent royalties, scale 16ch: 1", by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/242 Creation dates: Aug - Sept 1824 Scope and Content Report re a tract of coal at Hetton Colliery leased by Lord Londonderry to be worked from Hazard and Dunwell Pits with estimates of available coal and working costs, sections of seams, abstracts of accounts for Hazard and Dunwell Pits and estimate of profits by Thomas Morris and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/258 Creation dates: 26 Jan - 5 March 1826 Scope and Content Statment of various questions re the costs of facilities offered by the proprietors of Backworth Colliery to the proprietors of Earsdon for the production and transport of coal from Earsdon, submitted for arbitration, with arbitration award by Nicholas Wood and Matthias Dunn re the following charges - erection and maintenance of a pumping engine, making of an outstroke drift, transport of the Earsdon coal using machinary and waggonways belonging to Backworth and costs of the arbitration Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/265 Creation dates: May 1825 Scope and Content Report re Black Rod Colliery, including King Cole Pit and Perberton Colliery, Wigan, Lancashire, belonging to Mr Hollinshead, including working methods, pillar workings, criticism of the small size of the winding engines ecessitating the use of small corves, waggonways and drainage with section of King Cole Pit, no scale, and plan of the workings [Black Rod Colliery]. marking King Cole Pit, scale 150yds: 1", loose in volume Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/278 Creation dates: nd [c. early 19th Century] Scope and Content Statements re standard coal measures by William Harlock and John Scott Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/280 Creation dates: 30 July 1825 Scope and Content Valuation of Whitley Colliery and Ironstone Works awarded by Matthias Dunn for the overseers of Whitley Township, including notes re drainage Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/283 Creation dates: 5 Aug 1825 Scope and Content Report re Edmonstone Colliery, near Edinburgh, belonging to Mr Wauchope including section of seams, drainage, quantity and quality of coal, description and criticism of the "longway" working method, account of working costs and estimate of capital expenditure needed Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/292 Creation dates: Aug 1825 Scope and Content Supplementary report re Edmond stone Colliery, including descriptions of the "longway" and "stoup and room" working methods, ventilation, inefficient carrying methods, pumping and winding engines and tramways with recommendations for improvements Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/299 Creation dates: Aug - Sept 1825 Scope and Content 2 Letters from William Pike, Bucknowle, requesting advice re the wording of a clause in a lease of land for a railway to reserve the right of use of the railway to the lessor if required, with reply by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/306 Creation dates: Sept 1828 Scope and Content List of collieries supplying coal to the port of Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/307 Creation dates: 11 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Section of the seam and notes re current workings, numbers and wages of employees at Etal Colliery, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/309 Creation dates: 19 Sept 1825 Scope and Content Memoranda re borings at Seghill with section showing the position of the Grey Seam Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/310 Creation dates: 1825 Scope and Content Queries re the best method of winning coal from a 250 acre tract at North Hetton with recommendations re the location of the new winning and the sinking of two separate shafts for the working, by Thomas Fenwick, Ralph Fenwick and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/316 Creation dates: 30 Jan 1826 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas Morriss to Matthias Dunn enclosing the opinion of Mr Gregson re the new winning at North Hetton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/319 Creation dates: 1, 2 Dec 1825 Scope and Content Statement of the extent of land leased and conditions of the leases of various tracts of coal leased by Lord Londonderry to be transferred to Mr Russell with request for an opinion and report and valuation by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/326 Creation dates: 20, 25 March 1825 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas Yambe Esq, Wakefield, Yorkshire requesting advice re the legal position of rating railways on profits and reply by Matthias Dunn re the procedure for rating railways in the Tyneside area Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/330 Creation dates: 9 May, 24 Aug 1826 Scope and Content Statement of the case of Gilbert L. Meason against the executors of the late Duke of Queensbury claiming damages for losses incurred early termination of the lease of Sanquhar Colliery with details of the history of the case and opinion with estimate of the losses, by Matthias Dunn and Charles Landale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/342 Creation dates: 25 April 1826 Scope and Content Sections of Black Stone and Grey Seams, Cramlington Colliery, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/343 Creation dates: Aug 1825 Scope and Content Letter from Matthias Dunn to John Wauchope Esq re reports on Edmondstone Colliery See NRO 3410/For/1/13/283 - 298 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/345 Creation dates: 10 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Letter from Matthias Dunn to John WauchopeEsq re criticisms of his recommendations for improvements at Edmondstone Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/348 Creation dates: 14 Sept 1826 Scope and Content Report re current workings at Edmondstone with criticism of the failure to act on his recommendations for improvements in securing more economic workings, abstract of pay bills and estimate of working charges, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/352 Creation dates: 29 - 31 March 1826 Scope and Content Queries re problems with water breaking into the new winning at Seghill Engine Pit, including whether the pit should be abandoned, with recommendations, including comparisons of the costs of a new sinking or drainage for the present one, by John Buddle, John Watson, Nicholas Wood and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/358 Creation dates: 7 March 1827 Scope and Content Report re Gilmerton Colliery at the request of Alex Smith, including details of the seams, previous and present workings, recommendations re the site of the new winning and proposed terms of a lease to Mr Marshall, 28 July, 14 Sept 1826, with additional reports re revised terms, 6 Nov 1826 and Mr Marshall's workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/366 Creation dates: 18 Sept 1826 Scope and Content Report re Wemyss Colliery, Fifeshire, including previous and current workings and recommendations re future working methods, building of an inclined plane, use of flat ropes to replace chains in the engine and the site of a new sinking, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/374 Creation dates: 5 March 1827 Scope and Content Additional report re Wemyss Colliery detailing progress in carrying out the recommendations Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/13/380 Creation dates: 1826-1828 Scope and Content Memoranda and report re Niddrie Colliery, Mid-Lothian, belonging to Wauchope Esq, including details of seams, previous workings, number and wages of employees with recommended terms for a lease, 3, 22 Nov 1826, and plan of the Niddrie Coalfield belonging to Andrew Wauchope Esq, coloured to show the extent of the coalfield, marking adjoining owners and the Edinburgh to Dalkeith Railway, no scale, 1828 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14 Report Book Creation dates: 1826 - 1832 Extent and Form: 435 pp Physical characteristics: Buckram bound volume, 41 x 26cm, entitled Reports Vol II on spine and marked "Matthias Dunn, Jarrow Colliery", on flyleaf. Scope and Content Volume containing reports, estimates, valuations and correspondence, mainly of Matthias Dunn re collieries in Scotland, Ireland and Northumberland and Durham, 1826 - 1832 Index at front. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/1 Creation dates: 15 March 1823 - 10 Aug 1827 Scope and Content Reports and correspondence re Wanlock Head Lead Mines, including details of the veins, results of experimental operations to increase the productivity of the mines and agreements reached with the Duke of Buccleugh Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/36 Creation dates: 16 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Letter from Alex Smith to Matthias Dunn re Skeltie Muir Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/37 Creation dates: 9 March - 23 May 1827 Scope and Content Report re Skeltie Muir Colliery, belonging to the Earl of Dalhousie including sections of seams, previous workings, sketch plan of the colliery, no scale, with recommendations re the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/40 Creation dates: 16, 27 Dec 1826 Scope and Content Queries by Thomas Morriss re pillar working in Benwell and Hazard Pits, North Hetton Colliery, with recommendations by Matthias Dunn and Thomas Fenwick Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/47 Creation dates: 14 Sept 1826 Scope and Content Report re Birslie and Preston Grange Collieries, Haddington, belonging to Sir J. Grant Suttie, including sketch plan of Birslie scale 200yds: 1", section of seams, current workings, ventilation, establishment with recommendations re improved haulage and working methods at Birslie and coal available at Preston Grange with estimate for a new winning, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/58 Creation dates: 20 Nov 1828 Scope and Content Memoranda re Birslie and Preston Grange with recommendations re haulage and working methods, including drawing of a basket, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/60 Creation dates: 21 Feb - 13 June 1827 Scope and Content Reports re Edmundstone Colliery including recommendations re working methods, haulage and drainage and notes re a case between John Wauchope and Alexander Stenhouse, tenant, re the carrying out of provisions of the leases by Matthias Dunn and James Maclaren Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/69 Creation dates: 31 March - 31 Dec 1827 Scope and Content Reports re Castle Comer Colliery, Kilkenny, Ireland, belonging to C.H. Butler-Clark, M.P., including description of seams, selling prices, establishment, available coal, with recommendations re improved working methods including detailed directions re wages, hours and working practices and establishment of a subscription fund for distressed miners, with section of the colliery showing 3' and 4' seams, scale approx one fifth Mile: 1", additional reports re current workings at Rock, Mooneys, Coolbawn, Tourtane, Crutt, Coolaleen and Boneyarrow and letter to the Marquis of Ormond re the construction of a railway to connect the Kilkenny Collieries with the Athy Canal, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/106 Creation dates: Nov 1825 - 3 June 1828 Scope and Content Case for arbitration by the Attorney General re a proposal by the Earl of Lonsdale to give up the present lease and take a new lease of coal under the St. Bees School Charity lands, including statements of coal produced, reserves and selling prices and fixing of the rent, by Matthias Dunn, John Buddle and Nicholas Wood Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/116 Creation dates: 30 Aug, 22 Oct 1827 Scope and Content Report re copper mines at Buncle and Preston, Berwickshire for Lord Douglas, including previous working and possible prospects and proposed terms for a lease, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/121 Creation dates: 27 Sept 1827 Scope and Content Report re Hetton Colliery including working methods, pillar working, rolleyways, pumping and locomotive engines, production and costs, by Matthias Dunn and Thomas Easton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/130 Creation dates: 16 Sept, 1 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Request to John Buddle for a report on the Dundee Railway with observations on the line of the railway from Dundee to the Valley of Strathmore proposed by Mr Landale and projected costs, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/137 Creation dates: 22 June 1827 - 16 Dec 1828 Scope and Content Reports and calculations re the stationary engines required on the Dundee Railway and re progress, including the building of a bridge near Dundee, with sketch plan of site of bridge Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/146 Creation dates: 1828 Scope and Content Reports re coal at Somerside and Sheriff Hall Collieries belonging to the Duke of Buccleugh let to Sir John Hope, including drainage problems and possible drainage caused by barrier working with plan of Somerside Colliery showing pits and workings, scale 320': 1", Dec 1810, and valuation of the coal, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/169 Creation dates: May 1828 Scope and Content Report re coal at St. Helens Auckland by T. Fenwick and estimates of winning and working the Main Coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/173 Creation dates: 1 June 1828 Scope and Content Additional report re Castle Comer Colliery (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/69) by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/188 Creation dates: 1 Aug 1828 Scope and Content Additional report re Edmondstone Colliery (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/60) by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/192 Creation dates: 28 July - 11 Aug 1827 Scope and Content Reports re Dalmellington Colliery, Ayrshire including sections and sketch plans of seams at Camlarg and Auldna, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/199 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1828 Scope and Content Report re a dispute re the charge for drawing water out of Eighton Moor Colliery by the Team engine, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/201 Creation dates: 14, 29 Sept 1828 Scope and Content Request by John Martindale re coal available at Beamish and Stanley Colliery, re an increase in the basis and report by Edward Steel and Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/206 Creation dates: Oct 1828 Scope and Content Additional report re Somerside and Sheriff Hall Collieries, (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/146) by Matthias Dunn and John Williamson Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/210 Creation dates: 11 July 26 Oct 1828 Scope and Content Referral of the case of Dixons v. Buchanan re rights to work coal at Dundyvan to an arbitrator and report by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/219 Creation dates: 22 Oct - 31 Dec 1828 Scope and Content Copy letters between Sir John Hope, John Gibson and Matthias Dunn re Somerside and Sheriff Hall including the renewal of the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/242 Creation dates: Jan 1829 Scope and Content Estimate of the cost of maintaining the Dundee Railway, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/244 Creation dates: 13 Jan 1829, 29 Jan 1830 Scope and Content Reports re the progress of the work on the Dundee and Newtyle Railway with details of costs and drawing of a drum for a 20 h.p. engine Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/261 Creation dates: 2 Feb 1830 Scope and Content Report re current work at Gilmerton Colliery with details of present establishment Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/264 Creation dates: 3 Feb 1830 Scope and Content Minutes re a meeting with Mr Wauchope re Niddrie and Abercorn, including sketch plan Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/266 Creation dates: Feb 1830 Scope and Content Additional report re current workings at Edmondstone (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/60, /188) by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/269 Creation dates: 22 May 1830 Scope and Content Report re Burdie House Limestone Quarry including estimates of costs of improvements including the erection of an engine, by Matthias Dunn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/274 Creation dates: 1827 - 1829, 6 - 13 July 1830 Scope and Content Valuation of Whitley Colliery for rating including letter from Thomas Sanderson, overseer and statement of coal produced Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/276 Extent and Form: 9 pp Physical characteristics: Printed Scope and Content Paper entitled Notice of the Edge Seams of Mid-Lothian with a Description of Gilmerton Colliery... by Matthias Dunn, from the Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle, 16 Aug 1830 Related Material See Transactions of the natural History Society of northumberland, Durham and newcastle, 16 Aug 1830 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/280 Creation dates: 30 Oct 1830 Scope and Content Report re improved working methods in Irish Collieries particularly the introduction of plank tubbing Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/285 Creation dates: 1830 Scope and Content Memoranda and statements of evidence in a dispute between Messrs John and William Dixon and Walter Fredrick Campbell re clauses in the lease of Woodhall Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/342 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content Memoranda re the introduction of railways into County Galway, including estimates of costs and probable traffic, report re the propesed line from Ballinasloe to Galway by Matthias Dunn and Mr Birmingham Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/363 Creation dates: 7 April 1831 Scope and Content Statement of the current establishment at Denby Old Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/367 Creation dates: 16 April 1831 Scope and Content Additional report re Galway Railway (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/342) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/369 Creation dates: 21 May 1831 Scope and Content Additional report re progress on the Dundee and Newtyle Railway, (see NRO 3410/For/1/14/244) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/373 Creation dates: Aug 1831 Scope and Content Memoranda re coal near Twizell with estimate of capital costs for sinking Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/375 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content Report re the coal properties of Col. Macadam Cathcart in Ayrshire including coal on the Darrlers Estate, with recommendations re terms of a lease and estimated capital costs of winning the colliery, current workings at Camlarg, with sketch plan of the workings and plan of Whatriggs Farm, marking coal pits, scale 4ch: 1", by Matthias Dunn, with copy letters between Matthias Dunn and Macadam Cathcart, and estimates of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/392 Creation dates: 8 March 1831 Scope and Content Valuation of Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/396 Creation dates: 23 Feb 1831 Scope and Content Memoranda re coal mines in Derbyshire with estimate of production Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/398 Creation dates: 4 June 1831 Scope and Content Valuation of a tract of coal leased by the Hetton Coal Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/401 Creation dates: Aug 1831 Scope and Content Memoranda re Farnacres Colliery from "old Sam Haggerstone" with letter from William Harvey re the re-opening of the colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/404 Creation dates: Oct 1831 Scope and Content Memoranda re Harvey's Colliery, Norwood taken from old papers dated 1756 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/406 Creation dates: 1831 - 1832 Scope and Content Reports recommending improvements in working methods at the Hetton Coal Company's Collieries including reduced working costs, repairs to the engine and rolley ways and investigations into management and valuation by Matthias Dunn and George Hunter Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/430 Creation dates: 13 Aug 1832 Scope and Content Report re a dispute between the Earl of Minto and Lord Dundas re Cartmore Coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/14/435 Creation dates: 4 Oct 1832 Scope and Content Revised valuation of Hetton Colliery including the Hartlepool Railway establishment |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15 Colliery Report Book Creation dates: 1832 - 1836 Extent and Form: 183 pp Physical characteristics: Buckram bound volume, 39 x 26cm. entitled Reports on front Scope and Content Volume containing reports and copy letters of Matthias Dunn and others, 1832 - 1836 Index at front. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/1 Creation dates: 26 Dec 1832 Scope and Content Reports re the best methods of extending the following collieries in Cumberland - Workington, with reference to improvement of underground carriage of coal, pumping engine and quality of coal, with estimate for a new winning, Harrington and Lowca Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/10 Creation dates: March 1833 Scope and Content Report re Mostyn Colliery, N. Wales including description of the strata, ancient and current workings and drainage with recommendations re future working methods Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/18 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Incomplete unidentified plan [Mostyn] Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/19 Creation dates: Feb 1833 Scope and Content Plan of Two Yard Workings [Mostyn] marking Thomas, Engine and Roger Pits, old and new workings, scale 20yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/20 Creation dates: nd [c. 1833] Scope and Content Plan of Five Yard Coal [Mostyn] marking workings, Engine Pit and rolleyway, scale 40yds: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/21 Creation dates: April 1833 Scope and Content Report re Dee Green Colliery, Flintshire including section of seam, current workings and proposed terms and considerations for a lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/25 Creation dates: 23 July, 12 Dec 1833 Scope and Content Report and opinion re a dispute over the right of Sir John Hope to give up a lease of coal in Brunstone, Scotland, held from the Marquis of Abercorn, because the workings are no longer profitable Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/30 Creation dates: 13 Dec 1833 Scope and Content Notes made by the arbitor in a dispute between the Earl of Minto and Lord Dundas with comments on the report of Mr Dunn re output and valuation, by John Cunningham, Edinburgh Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/33 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1833 Scope and Content Letter from Hugh Watson requesting advise re the coal under the Vogrie Estate near Edinburgh Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/34 Creation dates: 21 Jan 1834 Scope and Content Letter from H.G. Wright re the arbitration of the dispute between Sir John Hope and the Marquis of Abercorn (NRO 3410/For/1/15/25 - /29) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/36 Creation dates: 3 Feb 1834 Scope and Content Letter from Robert Johnson requesting a report re Heaton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/37 Creation dates: 6 Feb 1834 Scope and Content Resolution of the Heaton owners to request reports from Nicholas Wood, Matthias Dunn and Thomas Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/38 Creation dates: 1834-1835 Scope and Content Report re Heaton, Longbenton and Bigges Main, particularly D Pit, Benton Pit and Bigges Main with recommendations re future workings, quitting Heaton and Spanish Closes in May 1835, increasing the power of the Benton engine and the best method of winning Bigges Main, March 1834 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/46 Creation dates: 30 June 1834 Scope and Content Report re current working methods at King's Pit Colliery with table of coal produced 1830 - 1834 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/48 Creation dates: May - June 1834 Scope and Content Report re current workings in Rhewl, Thomas, Roger and March Pits, Mostyn Colliery with table of working costs, details of lease terms and recommendations re the installation of an endless chain system for drawing coal, improvements to the harbour and to the ventilation system Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/61 Creation dates: 30 June 1834 Scope and Content Report re the Royalties of the Lords of Mold including current workings in Mold Town and Argoed Collieries and Coed Talon Iron Works with recommendations re conditions of the leases, appointment of an agent and legislation re ventilation Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/71 Creation dates: 15 March 1832 Scope and Content Letter from Armorer Donkin enclosing a statement by Mr Harrison of London of costs for building a railway from Stanhope to Medomsley for the conveyance of lime Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/76 Creation dates: 4, 31 March 1834 Scope and Content Minutes for a report and report re current workings in Norwood Colliery including estimated working costs, profits and valuation of stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/89 Creation dates: 24 April 1834 Scope and Content Letter from Samuel Barrett requesting a revision of the estimates and valuation of Norwood to concur with an alteration in the vend basis Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/91 Creation dates: 26 April 1834 Scope and Content Revised report of estimated costs, profits and valuation of Norwood Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/94 Creation dates: March 1835 Scope and Content Report re seams of coal in Twizell Colliery with amount of coal available and estimated profit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/96 Creation dates: May 1838 Scope and Content Report re current workings, including the new winning at Crowtrees Colliery with valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/100 Creation dates: June 1835 Scope and Content Report re current workings at Mostyn Colliery including the sinking of the Engine Pit and estimated coal prices and recommendations re the improvement of the harbour and loading facilities Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/105 Creation dates: 19, 20 June 1835 Scope and Content Request by John Buddle to Thomas Fenwick, George Johnson, Nicholas Wood, Matthias Dunn, John Foster and Thomas Morriss for a report re the system of ventilation in the Bensham Seam, Wallsend Colliery and the probable causes of the explosion, with report Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/107 Creation dates: 15, 18 July 1835 Scope and Content Request by John Buddle to George Johnson, Nicholas Wood, Thomas Morriss and Matthias Dunn for a report re the effects of the explosion at Wallsend and possibility of restoring the colliery with report of probable causes, recommendations re improved ventilation and estimate of costs of restoring the pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/112 Creation dates: nd c. 1835 Scope and Content Reports re sections of strata and quality of coal in the following collieries in Scotland, includes some notes re workings, ownership and transport Nithsdale District, Dumfries, including Newark, Sanquhar, Town Muir, Kirkconnel and Cair Burn Collieries with plan marking pits, no scale Dalmellington, Auldna Kilmarnock District, including sketch plan showing the extent of the Blind Coal, no scale Airdrie, Belluckney Mid Lothian District, including Skethe Moor, Vogrie, Crighton and Peth Head East Lothian District Preston Grange Fife Eastern District, including Wemyss Colliery Dunfermline District, including Waterloo and Mary Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/132 Creation dates: 10 July 1835 Scope and Content Report re current workings in the collieries owned by the Lords of Mold including the sinking of the new Engine Pit at Mold Town Colliery, new winning at Argoed Colliery and Coed Talon Iron Works Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/137 Creation dates: 19, 20 Aug 1835 Scope and Content Request by John Buddle to George Johnson, Nicholas Wood, Thomas Morriss and Matthias Dunn for a report re the restoration of ventilation in Wallsend Colliery following the explosion and report describing the ventilation system and recommending the re-lighting of the furnaces, improvements to the ventilation system and the use of safety lamps Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/141 Creation dates: 1 Dec 1835 Scope and Content Report re current workings in collieries in North Wales, - Mostyn Colliery, including the completion of the sinking of the Engine Pit and recommendations for increased engine power and the provision of more colliers houses Flint Colliery, including lack of progress at Brynoch Pit workings Mold Town Colliery Argoed Colliery, with details of prices for ship and landsale coal Coed Talon Iron Works, including tables showing produce and different results achieved from using hot and cold air furnaces Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/154 Creation dates: 27 Feb 1836 Scope and Content Memorandum of an agreement between John Hopper Esq and William Hedley for a lease for 21 years from 13 May 1836 of Crowtrees Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/159 Creation dates: c. 1834-1835 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/1/15/38 - 45 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/168 Creation dates: c. 1834 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/1/15/46 - 47 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/170 Creation dates: c. 1834 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/1/15/61 - 70 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/180 Creation dates: 26 May 1836 Scope and Content Estimates of profits for North Hettön, Norwood, Gordon, Evenwood and Roddymoor Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/15/183 Creation dates: 7 July 1836 Scope and Content Request for a report re the Amble Coalfield belonging to Lady Newburgh and Amble harbour, (incomplete, no report) |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16 Colliery Journal and Report Book Creation dates: 1814 - 1830 Extent and Form: 263 pp Physical characteristics: Buckram bound volume, 41 x 21cm, labelled Colliery Minutes Previous to July 1830 on front. Scope and Content Volume containing colliery reports and accounts, 1814 - 1817 and journal of colliery visits, 1825 - 1830, by Matthias Dunn, relating mainly to collieries in Scotland but also to the North East and Cumberland, 1814 - 1830 Index at front Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/1 Creation dates: 7 May 1813 Scope and Content Report re Catch Pit and Duke Pit, Wallbottle Colliery, including height of seams and the effects of the creep in Catch Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/4 Creation dates: 19 Oct 1814 Scope and Content Notes re past workings in Stanley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/5 Creation dates: 18 April 1815 Scope and Content Account of relative costs of feeding horses on hay and corn and on cut hay and straw, given by John Robson, Felling Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/6 Creation dates: 31 July 1815 Scope and Content Return of statistics re employees at Jarrow and Hebburn Collieries, including numbers killed in accidents, their dependents, amounts claimed in parish relief and numbers of employees Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/8 Creation dates: 23 Jan 1817 Scope and Content Estimate of costs for building double pitman's houses with ground plan and elevation, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/11 Creation dates: 8 April 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Whitehaven Colliery, investigation re the lease of St Bees coal held by Lord Lonsdale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/21 Creation dates: 4 May 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Cramlington and Seghill Collieries, dimensions of pits and engine cylinders and pumps Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/22 Creation dates: 19 July 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Whitley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/25 Creation dates: 9 Aug 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery, Edinburgh Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/30 Creation dates: 12 Aug 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Alloa Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/31 Creation dates: 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Valuation of Orrell coal, Sept 1825 Estimate of costs for the Dundee Railway, Aug - Sept 1825 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/34 Creation dates: [nd Sept 1825] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Statement of coal prices at Dundee [nd Sept 1825] Statement of coal consumption by James Taylor & Co, machine makers and Hackney and Chambers, spinners [nd Sept 1825] Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/35 Creation dates: nd 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Statement of prices for cast iron at Dundee, [Sept 1825] Statement of account by Mr Laing, coal dealer [Sept 1825] Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/36 Creation dates: 5 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wemyss Colliery, including section of Coal and Engine Pits to the Chemmiss and Bush Seams, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/41 Creation dates: 7 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/42 Creation dates: 11 Oct 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Etal Colliery, with plan of the workings and comments re wasteful working methods and plan showing the location of the pits, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/45 Creation dates: 3 Nov 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits North Hetton Colliery, sinking a new pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/46 Creation dates: 19 Dec 1825, 24 - 28 March 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Seghill Colliery, sinking of John Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/50 Creation dates: 1822 - 1825 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Investigation of Mr Mason's coal leases at Sanquar, Dumfries, including Newark Colliery, Knocking Engine Pit, Kirkonnel, Mansfield Colliery and Lime Works and table of profits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/57 Creation dates: 7 June 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wanlock Head Lead Mine, including note of miner's diet, conditions and food prices Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/62 Creation dates: 1808 - 1823 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Table of Mason Barkers coal profits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/63 Creation dates: May 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Flockton Colliery, Yorkshire Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/64 Creation dates: [nd 1826] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Account of Sanquar Glebe living Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/65 Creation dates: 6 July 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits List of persons to whom river sale coal is delivered and vend for 30 June Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/66 Creation dates: 18 July 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Description of the explosion at Townley Colliery with examination of a witness, Samuel Cooper Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/69 Creation dates: 21 Aug 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/73 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wemyss Colliery, with plan of the workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/75 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Newton Pit (Wemyss) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/77 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Maw Pit (Wemyss) Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/79 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birstie Colliery, with details of miners wages and duties, includes mention of women workers, plan showing the location of Lamp, Stair and Working Pits and drifts and abstract of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/87 Creation dates: 31 Oct 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wanlock Head Lead Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/88 Creation dates: nd [c. 1826] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Table of Scottish mining terms Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/90 Creation dates: 4 Nov 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/91 Creation dates: 2 Nov 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Niddry Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/92 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Walliford Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/93 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery and Preston Grange Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/95 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1826 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wemyss Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/96 Creation dates: 9 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Preston Grange Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/98 Creation dates: 10 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/100 Creation dates: nd [1827] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Preston Grange Colliery, estimated cost of winning Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/101 Creation dates: nd [1827] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie, accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/102 Creation dates: 13 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Wemyss Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/106 Creation dates: 16 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/108 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Skettie Muir Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/113 Creation dates: 31 March - 3 April 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie and Preston Grange Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/116 Creation dates: 1 May 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Montague Main Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/118 Creation dates: 2 June 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Castle Comer, Crut and Skehand Collieries, Queen's County and workings in Kilkenny, with details of miners conditions and diet Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/126 Creation dates: 11 June 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/127 Creation dates: 28 July 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dalmellington Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/129 Creation dates: 3 - 4 Sept 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Castle Comer Collieries including Rock and Wilson's Pits, Fourtane, with sketch plan showing the site of the pit, Boonyarrow, Coolenaleen and Crut Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/136 Creation dates: 22 Sept 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/137 Creation dates: 5 Oct 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Explorations for coal and copper in Lord Douglas' estates, near Duns, Berwickshire Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/139 Creation dates: Oct 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/140 Creation dates: 16 Oct 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/145 Creation dates: 26 - 27 Oct 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Whitehaven, including coal under St Bees School and Croft Pit, with sketch plan of water levels Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/148 Creation dates: 9 Nov 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Elemore Colliery, including Isabella and George Pits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/151 Creation dates: nd; 1827 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Eppleton winning, nd [Nov 1827] Hetton Colliery and waggonway, 14 Nov 1827 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/154 Creation dates: nd [1827] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dimensions of cinder ovens Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/155 Creation dates: 5 Jan 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/156 Creation dates: 8 Jan 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dundee Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/159 Creation dates: 14 Jan 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Sheriff Hill Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/163 Creation dates: 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Colliery, 17 Jan 1828 Acomb Colliery, Jan 1828 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/165 Creation dates: 1828; 1848 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Crut Colliery, 23 April 1828 Mark Wilson's or Brick Pit [Castle Comer ?], 24 April 1848 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/167 Creation dates: 26 April 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Skehana Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/168 Creation dates: May - 7 June 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits New Etherley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/170 Creation dates: 28 June 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/172 Creation dates: 30 June 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/173 Creation dates: 17 July 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/175 Creation dates: 26 Aug 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Team Colliery, dispute re the drainage of water sent from Eighton Banks into Team Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/177 Creation dates: 4 Oct 1835 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/178 Creation dates: 6 Oct 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dalkeith Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/179 Creation dates: nd [Oct 1828] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dundyvan Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/180 Creation dates: nd [Oct 1828] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Calder Iron Works Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/181 Creation dates: 11 Oct 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Drumpellier Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/182 Creation dates: nd [Oct 1828] Scope and Content Beginning at Page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Kirkintillock Railway charges Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/184 Creation dates: 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery, 14 Oct 1828 Preston Grange Colliery, nd. [Oct 1828] Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/185 Creation dates: Dec 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Effects of the Townley Main flooding with calculations re the engine capacity Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/186 Creation dates: Dec 1828 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Sheriff Hall, Brunstane or Duddingstone and Niddrie Collieries, Linlithgow Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/188 Creation dates: 5 Jan 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/189 Creation dates: 12 - 13 Jan 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dundee Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/194 Creation dates: 15 Jan 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/195 Creation dates: 27 Feb 1839 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Stockton, advantages of the Middlesburgh Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/198 Creation dates: 25 March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Caprington Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/201 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Lime Quarry on the estate of Mr Cunningham, Lainshaw, Stewartown Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/202 Creation dates: 26 March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Caprington Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/208 Creation dates: 27 March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Irvine Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/211 Creation dates: March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Belluckney Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/213 Creation dates: March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Arden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/214 Creation dates: 30 March 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/215 Creation dates: 6 April 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Clarence Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/216 Creation dates: July 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Boneyarrow Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/218 Creation dates: 14 July 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Fitzgibbon's property at Glenagower, Limerick Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/219 Creation dates: 13 July 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Loughill Colliery, Limerick Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/221 Creation dates: 15 July 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Knight of Glynn's property, Limerick Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/222 Creation dates: 21 - 22 Aug, 2 Nov 1829 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Tranent, including Splint Coal, New and Sand Pits with sketch plans of workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/227 Creation dates: 22 Jan 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery, including notes re drainage Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/230 Creation dates: 29 Jan 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Dundee Railway costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/232 Creation dates: 1 Feb 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits New Craig Hall and Niddrie Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/234 Creation dates: 1 Feb 1835 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/236 Creation dates: nd [Feb 1835] Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Preston Grange Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/238 Creation dates: 2 Feb 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/241 Creation dates: March 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Analysis of Gofton's report re Halbeath Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/242 Creation dates: nd [March 1830] Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Kiersbeath Estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/243 Creation dates: March 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Burdiehouse Lime Quarries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/244 Creation dates: 31 March 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Halbeath Colliery, including description of drainage and mention of women workers Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/249 Creation dates: 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Craighall Colliery, 10 May 1830 Tranent, 11 May 1830 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/250 Creation dates: nd; 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Preston Grange Colliery, nd [May 1830] Scremerston Colliery, 12 May 1830 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/252 Creation dates: 5 - 16 June 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Curragh Colliery, including sketch plan of the workings and details of materials and costs for the Athy Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/257 Creation dates: 12 July 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Whitley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/260 Creation dates: 16 July 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Birslie Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/261 Creation dates: 20 July 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Edmonstone Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/16/263 Creation dates: 20 July 1830 Scope and Content Beginning at page 11 Journal of colliery visits with notes and observations for the preparation of reports, consisting mainly of sections of seams, descriptions of current workings, working costs, numbers and wages of employees, selling prices and profits Gilmerton Colliery |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17 Colliery Report Book Creation dates: 1820 - 1833 Extent and Form: 127 pp Physical characteristics: Paper bound volume, leather spine, 36 x 24cm. labelled Miscellanea 1831, 32, 33 on front and Mr Thos. Forster, Hetton Colliery, Aug 24, 1828. Scope and Content Volume containing reports, proposals, accounts and copy letters, 1820 - 1833 Pages 1-13 are blank At back of volume loose pages. Table showing the weights of the various pumps used [at Haswell], nd Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/14 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Rough pencil calculations Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/15 Creation dates: 9 Feb 1830 Scope and Content Terms proposed by William Clark of Benton House for a lease for 42 years from May 1830 of Pespool Coal Mine, agreed by John Pemberton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/17 Creation dates: 24 Feb 1829 Scope and Content Letter to Hugh Taylor containing a statement of the produce of merchantable coal from the Hutton and Main Coal Seams at Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/19 Creation dates: nd [c. 1830.] Scope and Content Estimate of the cost of winning Haswell Colliery including the construction of a waggonway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/22 Creation dates: Feb 1831 Scope and Content Section of Haswell Pit shaft, scale 2': 1", with calculations re the number of bricks required to wall the pit, drawing of a wedgeshaped brick, giving dimensions, calculations re the relative costs of using stone and brick for walling and details of the size of brick moulds at Backworth Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/25 Creation dates: Jan 1831 Scope and Content Specifications and conditions for the building of chaldron coal waggons for the St Helen's Coal Company with drawings of sheaths and wheels, signed by Thomas Storey and D. Burn Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/28 Creation dates: 26 Feb 1831 Scope and Content Plan and section of the proposed lines of a railway at Haswell Colliery, scales 4ch: 1" and 40': 1" and report re the advantages of the various proposals by Thomas Taylor and Thomas Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/31 Creation dates: 29 June 1829 Scope and Content Instructions to the contractors for the building of the Seaham Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/33 Creation dates: 19 Dec 1830 Scope and Content Table showing the descent of each plane on the Seaham Railway with the size of engine needed for each, by George B Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/34 Creation dates: nd [c. 1831.] Scope and Content Estimate of the comparative costs of transporting coal by horse or by fixed engine for a distance of 800 yards from Haswell Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/35 Creation dates: 7 March 1831 Scope and Content Proposal for the construction of an engine house at Haswell Colliery, by John Ranson and F. White, masons Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/36 Creation dates: 19 Jan 1831 Scope and Content Proposal for masonary work for walling [Haswell] Pit, including carrying the stone from Newbottle or Penshaw Quarry, by Anthony Hill and Sons, 31 Jan 1829 Account of metal plates needed for the construction of a boiler with drawings of the boiler giving dimensions Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/38 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content Proposal to transport coal from Elemore Pit to Haswell Pit and stone from Penshaw to Haswell, by C. Adamson, 3 March 1831 Proposal to transport stone from Penshaw Quarry to Haswell and coal from the Hetton Pits to Haswell, by Thomas and John Burton, 3 March 1831 Proposal to transport coal from Hetton Colliery to Haswell, by Henry Hutchinson, 9 March 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/39 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content Estimate for the supply of carts and waggons [Haswell], by Thomas Williamson, cartwright and William Moody, blacksmith, 4 March 1831 Proposal for the supply of carts for Haswell Colliery, by Nicholas Willis, 7 March 1831 Proposal for the supply of tiles to Haswell Colliery, by John Swan, 28 Feb 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/40 Creation dates: 11 Feb 1831 Scope and Content Proposal to work the limestone quarry at Haswell, by James Pattison Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/41 Creation dates: c. 1831 Scope and Content Table of costs for the supply of cart, shaft and gin harnesses, by John Bolam Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/42 Creation dates: 1830, 1831 Scope and Content Table showing the consumption of hay and corn by the horses at Ouston Colliery, 1830 Prices of waggon wood, by T. Richardson, 28 Feb 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/44 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content List of collieries on the Tyne with basis for 1831 and their representatives Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/45 Creation dates: 22 March 1831 Scope and Content List of numbers of employees above and below ground at Felling Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/47 Creation dates: 1 Jan 1831 Scope and Content List of collieries on the Tyne with prices charged per chaldron Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/52 Creation dates: 1825 Scope and Content Plan and section of the proposed railway from Dundee to New Tyle, surveyed by William Corsar under the direction of C. Landale, coloured to show various estates through which the railway passes, marking major residences and woodland and Dundee Harbour, scale 3 furlongs: 1", 1825 Plan of the County of Angus showing the proposed line of the Railway, marking the line from Dundee to New Tyle with a branch to Forfar and line not yet surveyed from Coupar Angus to Forfar, scale 3 miles: 1", nd. [1825] Arrangement The above 2 maps stuck into the volume. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/53 Creation dates: 30 Sept 1825 Scope and Content Report re the proposed Railway between the Strathmore Valley and Dundee, including details of roads and carrier-services, survey of the proposed trading and employment advantages with estimates of revenue, including estimates of grain, lime, coal, yearn, flax, iron, stone and other goods to be carried and of construction and maintenance costs, by Charles Landale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/70 Creation dates: nd [c. 1825] Scope and Content Observation by Matthias Dunn re the above report with revised estimates Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/75 Creation dates: nd [c. 1825] Scope and Content Revised proposal for the line of the above Railway in consequence of the descision to abandon the branch line over Lawrence Hill, by Charles Landale Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/77 Creation dates: 3 May 1833 Scope and Content Terms proposed by John Flintoff for a lease for 34 years of Etherley Grange Colliery, with letter from John Flintoff to William Bolam enclosing the above terms Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/79 Creation dates: 1820 Scope and Content Notes on a treatise on coal mining by Mr Bald, including improvements to the Bolton and Watt Engine with drawings of a V-Bob and Balance Wheel, methods of contructing a barrier to prevent the spread of creeps with estimate of costs, ventilation systems and methods of boring into unknown wastes with diagram showing direction of bore holes Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/85 Creation dates: 4 Feb 1831 Scope and Content Letter from Matthew Plummer listing specifications for a 90 h.p. pumping entine to be erected at Haswell Colliery by Mr Hawthorn, with list of tender received for the construction of the engine Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/86 Creation dates: 17 Sept 1831 Scope and Content Letter from M. Hudson enclosing sketches of 1 and 11/3 chaldron waggons with details of dimensions Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/88 Creation dates: 18 Aug 1831 Scope and Content Sketch plans of chaldron waggons designed by Hugh Taylor with details of dimensions Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/89 Creation dates: 1832 Scope and Content List of prices of goods supplied to Haswell Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/93 Creation dates: nd [c. 1825] Scope and Content Report and estimates re the amount of coal to be carried on the Hartlepool Railway with maintenance costs, revenus and protected shareholders profits Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/97 Creation dates: 8 Dec 1831 Scope and Content Prospectus for the building of the Hartlepool Railway and enlarging the port Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/101 Creation dates: Aug 1831 Scope and Content Prospectus for the Gateshead and Blaydon Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/105 Creation dates: 25 April - 9 May 1833 Scope and Content Account of levellings from the Engine Pit at Haswell to the Thorley Borehole Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/113 Creation dates: 14 March 1833 Scope and Content Detailed accounts of the building costs for the New Main Engine at Haswell Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/17/125 Creation dates: 1832 Scope and Content Table giving the weights of various kinds of nails used at Haswell, Ouston and Jarrow Collieries |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18 Coal Trade Papers. Creation dates: 1811 - 1837 Extent and Form: 168 pp Physical characteristics: Buckram bound volume, 37 x 24cm. entitled Coal Trade etc on front Scope and Content Volume containing coal trade papers re vend regulation, 1811 - 1829 and coal exports, 1815 - 1817 with statistics from 1793, broadsheets and songs re the pitmen's strike, 1831 - 1832 and colliery reports, 1829 - 1837 Index at front Pages 5-16 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/1 Creation dates: 9 May - 8 June 1829 Scope and Content Sections of the Hutton Seam in the Minor Pit, Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/17 Creation dates: 30 Dec 1826 Scope and Content General regulations drawn up by the Committee of the Coal Trade for its regulation Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/20 Creation dates: 21 Jan 1827 Scope and Content Instructions to examine the basis for the Wear Collieries and allocate new totals Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/21 Creation dates: 27 Jan 1827 Scope and Content List of collieries on the River Tyne with selling prices and their representatives, marking committee members Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/24 Creation dates: 12 Jan 1827 Scope and Content Copy of AP NRO 3410/For/1/18/20 issued to Messrs Stobart, Thompson and Plummer Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/25 Creation dates: 12 Feb 1827 Scope and Content Evidence from owners and viewers of the Wear Collieries for the allocation of new vend basis including details of coal produced and sold, includes the following collieries - New Washington, North Hetton, Marquis of Londonderry's Collieries, Hetton, Elemore, J.G. Lambton's Collieries, Rickleton and Harraton Outside, Lord Ravensworth's Collieries and Beamish Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/37 Creation dates: 2 March 1827 Scope and Content Reports re Hetton and Rainton Collieries for Messrs Plummer, Thompson and Stobart, including details of current workings and future prospects, by George Hill and George Johnson Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/43 Creation dates: 16 March 1827 Scope and Content Allocation of basis to the Wear Collieries, by Benjamin Thompson, Matthew Stobart and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/47 Creation dates: 16 April 1827 Scope and Content Letter from John Martindale to Messrs Thompson, Plummer and Stobart enclosing a copy of a resolution re an irregularity in the allocation of the Basis for the Wear Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/48 Creation dates: 17 April 1827 Scope and Content Minutes of a meeting of the Coal Trade Committee re the resolution, see NRO 3410/For/1/18/47 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/49 Creation dates: 22 May 1827 Scope and Content Revised allocation of the basis for the Wear Collieries, by Benjamin Thompson, Matthew Plummer, William Stobart, George Hill and George Johnson Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/50 Creation dates: 7 Sept 1827 Scope and Content Allocation of the basis for the Wear Collieries, by George Robinson, R.W. Brandling, George Hill and George Johnson Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/54 Creation dates: 9 Nov 1829 Scope and Content Allocation of the basis for the Wear Collieries by Charles William Bigge, James Losh and Robert William Brandling Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/55 Creation dates: 12 March 1831 Scope and Content Minutes of a General Meeting of the Coal Owners of the Tyne and Wear re binding agreements and wages, Coal Trade Office, 50 Westgate Street Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/57 Creation dates: 28 March 1831 Scope and Content Minutes of a General Meeting of the Coal Owners of the Tyne and Wear re binding agreements, wages and the measurement of corves, Coal Trade Office, 50 Westgate Street Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/59 Creation dates: 28 Feb 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content List of Tyne Collieries with average weekly earnings, number of days worked Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/60 Creation dates: [1831] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled The Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear (Extracted from the Tyne Mercury, April 5, 1831) printed by R. Stobbs, Durham Related Material See also the Tyne mercury April 5, 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/61 Creation dates: 7 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet warning against illegal assemble issued by Vane, Londonderry, R. Burdon and G. Robinson, Justice Room, Houghton le Spring, printed by J. Beckwith, Houghton le Spring Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/62 Creation dates: [1831] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet calling for a meeting at Morpeth, 7 April 1831, to mediate between Coal Owners and the miners, issued by C.J. Clavering, William Burrell, A.J. Cresswell Baker, M. de L. Lawson, William Orde, A. Atkinson Jnr, Thomas Riddell, Charles J. Bigge, E. Collingwood, Robert Hedley and Bertram Mitford, printed by Edward Walker, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/64 Creation dates: 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled A Few Facts in Reply to a Handbill Purporting to be an Extract from The Tyne Mercury, 5 April 1831. (see NRO 3410/61/1/18/60), issued by the Wear Colliers, J. Beckwith, printer, Houghton le Spring, 9 April 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/65 Creation dates: [1831] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Newspaper cutting including statements from the Coal Owners, 9 April 1831, the Colliery Workers, 23 March 1831 and resolutions of a Coal Trade Meeting, 28 March 1831 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/66 Creation dates: [1831] Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled The Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear, printed by R. Stobbs, Durham Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/67 Creation dates: 15 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet offering a reward for information leading to the conviction of persons who attacked the horse-keepers of the Hetton Coal Company, printed by Beckwith, Houghton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/68 Creation dates: 15 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet giving notice of the use of an armed patrol to protect the lives and property of miners wishing to resume work. printed by Beckwith, Houghton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/69 Creation dates: 16 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet appealing to the cities of Durham, Sunderland and Wearmouth for assistance to the striking miners, issed by William Chaple, George Bowden and James Buddick Watson for Durham, Thomas Morrison and John Dobson for Sunderland and T. Duncan and C.P. Skinner for Wearmouth, printed by Beckwith, Houghton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/70 Creation dates: 18 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet appealing for assistance from the public to the striking miners, issued by Robert Cuthbertson, William Miller and Barnabas Shipley, printed by Beckwith, Houghton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/71 Creation dates: 18 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled To the Public, The Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear. In Answer to the Tyne Mercury and Other Publications, J. Marshall, printer, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/72 Creation dates: 19 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet giving an account of damage at Jesmond Colliery belonging to Richard Burdon Sanderson, Douglas and Kent, Printers, 50 Quayside, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/73 Creation dates: 20 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled Caution to Pitmen and Others giving an extract from an Act of 7th and 8th George IV, Cap. 30 re riotous assembly, Edward Walker, printer, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/74 Creation dates: 28 April 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled The Pitmen, To the Public, From the Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear, laying out the pitmen's grievances, Marshall, printer, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/75 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Pamphlet entitled An Appeal to the Public from the Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear, printed by T. and J. Hodgson, Union Street, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/76 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Song entitled First Drest Man of Seghill or the Pitman's Reward for Betraying his Bretheren, with woodcut illustration, printed by J. Marshall, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/77 Creation dates: c. 1831 Scope and Content Pamphlet entitled An Earnest Address and Urgent Appeal to the People of England in Behalf of the Opressed and Suffering Pitmen of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham...etc. by W. Scott, printed by John Marshall, Newcastle, 1831. Printed. Song entitled The Opressions of the Pitmen, by Joseph Hall, Collier, Sheriff Hill, printed by Douglas and Kent, Newcastle, nd. Printed Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/78 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled Dreadful Riot and Battle Between Soldiers and Colliers, describing an incident in Monmouthshire, printed by J. Marshall, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/79 Creation dates: 1825 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Pamphlet entitled A Voice from The Coal Mines or a Plain Statement of the Various Grievances of the Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear, printed by J. Clark, jun, Market Place South Shields Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/80 Creation dates: 6 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Resolutions of a General Meeting of Coal-Owners of the Rivers Tyne and Wear, printed by Preston and Heaton, 96 Side, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/81 Creation dates: 17 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet advertising 100 Guineas reward for information re the cutting of a rope on the inclined plane from the engine at Cramlington Colliery Railway, printed by Preston and Heaton, 96 Side, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/82 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled Coal Owners and Pitmen etc. To the People of Northumberland and Durham, by Vinder, printed by Mitchells, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/83 Creation dates: 18 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Statement of a meeting of pitmen's delegates with observations on the behaviour of the coal owners towards the pitmen, printed by J. Marshall Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/84 Creation dates: 6 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet issuing a statement by Lord Londonderry re differences with the miners at Penshaw Colliery, printed by J. Beckwith, Houghton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/85 Creation dates: 16 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet giving rates for hewing at Jarrow Colliery, printed by G.W. Barnes Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/86 Creation dates: 6 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled An Appeal to the Public from the Pitmen giving details of queries from a pitmen's delegate meeting to the coal owners and their response, printed by T. and J. Hodgson, Union Street Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/87 Creation dates: 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Rules and Regulations of the Coal Miner's Friendly Society, established 4 June 1831, printed by W., E. and H. Mitchell, St. Nicholas Churchyard, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/88 Creation dates: 1831 Scope and Content Pamphlet entitled The Two Subjects which Remain in Dispute Between the Coal Owners and the Pitmen...etc, printed by Edward Walker, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, 1831. Printed. Notice issued by the committee of the Hetton Coal Company to William Hunter to quit his colliery house, printed by James Beckwith, Houghton, 16 May 1831. Printed with manuscript additions Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/89 Creation dates: 3 June 1831 Scope and Content List of wages paid in 1830 and intended to be paid in 1831 at Felling Colliery, issued by Thomas Forster, Printed with manuscript additions. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/90 Creation dates: 8 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet containing a statement by Lord Londonderry requesting a return to work Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/91 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled A Dialogue between a Lady and a Coalowner while at Dinner, printed by Douglas and Kent, Quayside, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/92 Creation dates: 5 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Resolution of the Coal Trade Office re the making of returns of hewer's wages, printed by Preston and Heaton, 96 Side, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/93 Creation dates: 18 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet advertising the sale of coal from Berwick at Newcastle Quay, printed by R.T. Edgar, 68 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/94 Creation dates: c1831 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting advertising the sale of colliery at Amble, 16 March 1831 Newspaper cutting reporting the meeting of the pitmen on the Town Moor, 21 March 1831 Song entitled The Grievances of the Pitmen written by a pitman at Gateshead Fell, printed by Douglas and Kent, 50 Quayside, Newcastle, nd. Printed Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/95 Creation dates: 7 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled Points of Difference Existing Between the Coal Owners and Their Men...from a Sincere Friend, printed by J. Beckwith, Houghton le Spring Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/96 Creation dates: 9 May 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet offering 100 guineas reward for information re the cutting of a rope on a gin at Team Colliery, printed by Preston and Heaton Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/97 Creation dates: 5 Sept 1829 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Particulars of the letting of Woodland Colliery, Cockfield, belonging to the Marquis of Cleveland, printed by W. Heppel, Staindrop Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/98 Creation dates: 11 June 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet offering 200 guineas reward for information re the cutting of 2ropes on the inclined plane at Benwell Colliery, printed by Preston and Heaton, 96 Side, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/99 Creation dates: 14 June 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet issued by John Buddle offering wages and working conditions at Wallsend Colliery, printed by W., E. and H. Mitchell, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/100 Creation dates: c1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Song entitled The Pitmen's Complaint, by J. Knox, printed by J. Marshall, Newcastle, nd. Printed Pamphlet entitled A Second Letter Addressed to the Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear on the Subject of Their Dispute with the Coal Owners by Philanthropists, printed by Edward Walker, Pilgim Street, Newcastle, 1831. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/101 Creation dates: 14 April - 28 Oct 1830 Scope and Content Accounts for Felling Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/102 Creation dates: 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet offering £50 reward for information re the stopping of the engine and other damage at Waldridge Colliery, printed by M. Atkinson, Chester le Street, 26 Dec 1831. Printed Poster advertising the non-union hewers and putters for Waldridge Colliery, printed by M. Atkinson, Chester le Street, 24 Dec 1831. Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/103 Creation dates: 10 Jan 1832 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet offering 500 guineas reward for information re damage at Waldridge Colliery, issued by Lord Melbourne, Whitehall, printed by W., E. and H. Mitchell, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/104 Creation dates: 21 March 1831 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Broadsheet entitled An Account of the Public Meeting of the Pitmen on Newcastle Town Moor, printed by W. Douglas, 50 Quayside, Newcastle Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/114 Creation dates: 1801 - 1816 Scope and Content Account of coal imported into London, with calculations of averages for 5 years Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/115 Creation dates: 18 April 1815 Scope and Content Account of coal imported into London by inland navigation on the Grand Junction Canal, with account of duty paid, 1805 - 1814, signed by J. Reynolds collector and A. Garey, comptroller, Customs, Grove Park, Watford Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/116 Creation dates: 21 April 1815 Scope and Content Account of coal imported into London by costal vessels with account of duty paid, 1804 - 1814, signed by Richard Harrass, collector and W. Bishop, comptroller, Custom House, London Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/118 Creation dates: 1814 - 1816 Scope and Content Account of coal consumed in London with calculations of surplus Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/120 Creation dates: nd c. 1816 Scope and Content Account of the quantity of coal transported by canal and railway and sold duty-free, with observations re such sales Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/122 Creation dates: nd c. 1816 Scope and Content Accounts and observations re duties on coal sent to London and other ports by sea Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/126 Creation dates: 1817 Scope and Content Statement of the quantity of coal exported from Newcastle to foreign ports with account of duty paid and observations re the reduction of duties Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/130 Creation dates: nd c. 1817 Scope and Content Memorial to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury from the proprietors of collieries on the River Wear and Sunderland shipowners re the unfair competition offered by coal conveyed by canal and railways on which no duty is payable Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/133 Creation dates: 1815 - 1818 Scope and Content Report of a committee to investigate the canal and railway coal trade, with details of developments, 1815 - 1818, 29 Jan 1818 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/142 Creation dates: 1811, 1815 - 1819 Scope and Content List of the vend and bases allocated to the Tyne collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/152 Creation dates: 1793 - 1815 Scope and Content Account of duties payable under various Acts of Parliament, 1795 - 1814 Table of the quantities of coal exported from Newcastle and Blyth, 1795 - 1815 Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/154 Creation dates: Sept 1816 Scope and Content List of collieries on the Tyne, Wear and Blyth with their proprietors and acting agents Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/18/161 Creation dates: 1822 Scope and Content List of collieries on the Tyne, Wear and Blyth with their proprietors and acting agents |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/1/19 Colliery Report and Account Book Creation dates: 1766 - 1835 Extent and Form: 71 documents Physical characteristics: Buckram bound volume, 42 x 28cm. containing individual documents, Various sizes, bound together, labelled Loose Papers, Hartley 1784. Walker. 1766 - 1824 on front. Scope and Content Volume containing reports, accounts, agreements and letters relating mainly to Winlaton, Risemoor, Hartley and Walker Collieries, 1766 - 1824 and printed account of colliery accidents, 1658 - 1835 Section 1 and 2 include details of provenance. Arrangement Each document is numbered. Creation dates: 23 March 1934 Extent and Form: 6 pp Scope and Content Account of the cost of winning Winlaton Colliery owned by Lord Mountstuart, Lord Beauchamp and John Simpson Esq, 1781 - 1782. Presented by Major John English Creation dates: 19th c Extent and Form: 7 pp Scope and Content Report re Risemoor or Hedley Fell Colliery, including details of the leasing of the colliery since 1763, previous and present workings, results of borings, drainage and ventilation, by Christopher Bedlington, Robert Donkin, George Johnson and William Gibson, 28 April 1781, and report on the history of the workings, 1710 - 1780, by William Brown, nd. [1781]. copy, Presented by the Newcastle upon Tyne Society of Antiquaries, 29 March 1934 Creation dates: 1835 Extent and Form: 2 pp Physical characteristics: Printed with manuscript additions. Scope and Content List of colliery accidents which have taken place in coal mines in Northumberland and Durham, 1658 - 1829, giving date, name of colliery, cause of accident and number of lives lost, with additional notes re some of the explosions, by John Sykes, Newcastle, 1 Jan 1830, with manuscript additions listing further accidents, 1776 - 1835 by John Sykes, 24 Leases Crescent, 24 June 1835. Creation dates: 19 April - 3 May 1780 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Fortnightly account for Hartley Colliery and Salt Works compiled by John Ocheltrie and John Brotherick Bond in £200 by George Raffield of Monk-Wearmouth, master mariner and William Dobson of Seaton Sluice a gent to Sir John Hussey Delaval of Ford Castle for the repayment of a debt of £100, 5 Sept 1770. 1pp. Fortnightly account for work at Hartley South Estate by John Ocheltrie and John Brotherick, 28 April - 11 May 1784. 1 pp. Creation dates: 11 June 1796 - 24 June 1797 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Profit and loss account for Hartley Colliery and Salt Works Account of payments at Hartley Colliery and Salt Pans, 23 July 1770. 1pp. Statement of prices for bottles given by the River Tyne manufacturers, agreed by Isaac Cookson sen, Isaac Cookson jun, Mr. M. Hewitson, Mr Rutherford and Francis Blackett, with draft letter [from Lord Delaval's agent] re bottle prices, 10 - 13 Dec 1799. 2pp. Accounts for Hartley Colliery, including accounts of coal produced, daily pay bills giving names of miners and days worked and waggon-way work, includes Fortune, Lane, Spring, Godspeed Delight and Goodluck Pits, 1780 - 1784. 22pp. Fortnightly account for work on the Seaton Estate, by John Ocheltrie and John Brotherick, 19 April - 3 May 1780. 1pp. Creation dates: 1803 - 1804, 1808 - 1809 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Tentale accounts of Messrs Ord, Peareth and Reay with the Corporation of Newcastle for coal produced and sold from Walker Colliery Tentale account of the Walker Owners to the Dean and Chapter of Durham for coal produced from South Hebburn, 1807 - 1808. 1pp. Estimate of the water in the Walker Colliery feeders and the pumping capacity required, 12 Sept 1807. 2pp. Rent account for Battle Hill and Wincombe farms occupied by the Walker Colliery Owners belonging to Newcastle Corporation, 1767 - 1774. 1pp. Account of coal carried by waggon from pits on the Walker Estate to Walker Colliery Staith, 1766 - 1774. 1pp. Letter from Dr J. Rotheram containing a proposal to build a new winding engine at Walker, 5 May 1768. 2pp. Table showing charges for stone quarrying and masonry work, 28 March 1777. 1pp. Description of the sinking of Gosforth Pit [Walker], by Ralph Elliot, 14 April 1780 - 13 Jan 1782. 2pp. Statement of the case in a dispute between Messrs Goldburn, Dodd and Brown and Messrs Redheads and Robson re payments of rent for coal mines in the Birdhope Craig Estate, lease dated 1 May 1783, nd. [c. 1786.] 2pp. Creation dates: 19 Oct 1781 Extent and Form: 1 pp Scope and Content Report re current workings in Walker Colliery, by John Smith Agreement between Messrs Ord, Peareth and Reay and Ralph Elliot, sinker for the sinking of Jane Pit, Walker Colliery, 30 March 1790. 1pp. Creation dates: nd [c. 1796] Extent and Form: 3 pp Scope and Content Abstract of a lease of Walker Colliery for 41 years from Mid-summer, 1796. Account for installing tubbing at King Pit, Walker Colliery. 13 June 1798. 2pp. Notice to Sir Mathew White Ridley by Messrs Ord, Peareth and Reay that they are to quit Byker Colliery, copy delivered by John Blenkinsop to Roger Fenwick, agent to Sir Matthew White Ridley, 7 Feb 1804. 2pp. Queries re the re-opening of Walker Colliery including working expenses, drainage, damage done by water and the creep and the effectiveness of the barrier with recommendations by Thomas King and James Jobling, 15, 18 Jan 1817. 4pp. Proposals by John Carr Esq and Co. to Messrs Orde, Stanhope and Shadforth for a lease of East Benton and to Messrs Bigge, Brown and Clarke for Little Benton, 26 March 1817. 3pp. Query by Thomas King re the best place for siting the pumping engine at Walker with recommendations by John Watson and James Jobling, 19 April 1817. 2pp. Proposal by James Gordon to undertake smith work at South Gosforth, Colliery, 3 Sept 1817. 1pp. Report at the request of Thomas King on the measures to be undertaken for the re- opening of Walker Colliery, particularly re drainage and installation of pumping engines, by John Buddle and John Watson, 5, 15 Dec 1818. 6pp. Report and recommendations re the measures to re-open Walker Colliery particularly re drainage, by Thomas King, 4 Dec 1818. 5pp. Letter from Thomas King to J. Grace Esq re drainage measures at Walker, refers to differences with Messrs Buddle and Watson re measures to be taken, 31 Dec 1818. 2pp. Account of coal carried over the lands of the Dean and Chapter from Walker Colliery, 1823 - 1824. 1pp. Creation dates: 10 Nov 1823 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Calculations and estimates re amounts of coal available in Walker Colliery after drainage, by Messrs Fenwick, Johnson and Wood Queries from Edward Henderson and Robert Johnson for the lessees of Walker re the amount of Coal available in Walker Colliery and re the possibilities of working Bigges Main, South Hebburn, Old Byker, Walker Hill, St Anthony's or Lawson Main Collieries, with recommendations by Thomas Fenwick, George Johnson and Nicholas Wood, 11 Nov 1823. 3pp. Sinking account for Bog Hall or Kirkheaton Colliery with memoranda re current workings, Nov 1823. 2pp. Valuation of stock at Walker Colliery, 31 Dec 1823. 1pp. Account of the number of employers at Walker, their jobs and wages, 23 Jan 1824.2pp. Report re current workings in Henry, Gosforth and Fair Pits, Walker Colliery with recommendations for improvements including the sinking of Gosforth Pit to the Metal Coal Seam and the erection of a pumping engine there, with sketch section of Gosforth Pit shaft and estimate of capital expenditure required, the sinking of a new pit alongside the Engine Pit, with estimate of costs and the construction of a waggonway, by Matthias Dunn on taking over the management of the colliery, 10 Feb 1824. 5pp. Estimate and memoranda re the cost of opening Charlotte Pit, Walker Colliery, by Matthias Dunn, 10 Feb 1824. 1pp. Estimate of the cost of winning the coal under the dyke at Gosforth Pit, Walker, 10 Feb 1824. 2pp. Proposal and copy by Joseph Smith to build a high pressure pumping engine for Walker Colliery, 16 Feb 1824. 2pp. Comparison with copy of the costs of laying a rolley-way from Fair Pit to Engine Pit, the sinking down of the Engine Pit and the opening out of the Charlotte Pit, 20 Feb 1824. 4pp. Proposal by Ralph Coulthard to install pumps at Walker Colliery, 23 March 1824. 2pp. Sketch plan of the Metal Coal driftings at Gosforth Pit, Walker Colliery, 7 April 1824. 1pp. Creation dates: 12, 26 April 1824 Extent and Form: 2 pp Scope and Content Proposals by Thomas Pratt to supply ropes to Walker Colliery Draft queries by Matthias Dun re the advisability of sinking a new pit close to the Engine Pit, the best methods of working Charlotte, Delight and Engine pits, Walker Colliery and the prospects for winning Bigges Main with recommendations by John Buddle, 15 April, 3 May 1824. 4pp. Valuation of materials in the Gosforth Pit winding engine, 16 June 1824. 3pp. Tentale accounts of the owners of Walker with the Corporation of Newcastle, 7 - 18 May 1824. 2pp. Agreement by John and Robert Moor to sink the new pit at Walker Colliery, 11 June 1824. 1pp. Estimate for brass and iron work at Walker, 1824. 2pp. Report re current workings at Walker including accounts for the previous 6 months and progress with the sinking of the new pit and drainage of the colliery with estimate of the amount of available coal and working costs and valuation of stock, by Matthias Dunn, 5 Aug 1824. 10pp. Memoranda re future prospects for Walker Colliery including estimate of available coal, capital investment required and working costs, by Matthias Dunn, Sept - Oct 1824. 5pp. Letter from Matthias Dunn to John Buddle requesting his opinion re lowering the pumps in the Engine Pit down to the Main Coal Seam to help the drainage of Fair Pit, with reply by John Buddle. 30 Sept 1824. 2pp. Warrent to arrest George Thompson, bound putter at Walker Colliery for breaking his agreement, 9 Sept 1824. 1pp. Queries by Matthias Dunn arising from a dispute re the viability of carrying on Walker Colliery including the amount of available coal, profitability of the workings and effectiveness of the drainage with opinion, estimates and recommendations by George Hill, 23 Oct 1824. 9pp. Plan of the Charlotte Pit workings, Walker Colliery, no scale, c. 1824. 1pp. Calculations re the amount of available coal at Walker, c. 1824. 2pp. Queries by Matthias Dunn re the feasibility of lowering the pumps in the Engine Pit to drain Fair and Ann Pits and whether it is worth continuing to work the colliery, with opinion and recommendations by George Hill, 6, 13 Nov 1824. 2pp. |