Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1 North Brancepeth colliery, Tudhoe Colliery, Deerness Valley
Railway. Castle Eden Colliery. Cockfield Fell Royalty. Creation dates: 1855-1870 Extent and Form: 228 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1855 - 1870 Pages 229-278 BLANK Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/1 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content North Brancepeth Colliery 4 letters between Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst and J.W. Swinburne Esq containing reports and valuations including details of leases, sections of seams and quantity and value of available coal, 13 - 17 March 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/23 Creation dates: 1866 - 1868 Physical characteristics: Plans 60 x 70cm. Scope and Content Tudhoe Colliery Reports by Thomas E. Forster to William Elliott Esq and John Rogerson re ventilation with recommendations re methods, notes on current workings by G.B. Forster, sketch plan of workings in Harvey Seams, no scale, and plan of workings in Bockwell Seam, scale 2ch: 1", 29 Dec 1866 - 10 Nov 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/53 Creation dates: c. 1855 Scope and Content Deerness Valley Railway Book of reference giving descriptions of property, owners, lessees and occupiers of lands through which the intended railway will run, nd. c. 1855 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/82 Creation dates: nd. c. 1855 Scope and Content List of County Durham enclosure awards, some dated Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/139 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Request by R.S. Johnson for a report with particular reference to drainage, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/141 Scope and Content Proposed terms for leases of the Castle Eden and Haseldon Royalties to William Cook for 42 years from 2 Feb 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/146 Creation dates: 6 May 1870 Scope and Content Memoranda of agreements to extend the area of coal into Black Hall and Haseldon Estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/150 Creation dates: 1869 - 1870 Scope and Content Accounts of coal produced and sold and working charges, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/182 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Estimates of working charges Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/188 Creation dates: 25 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Report on the best method of draining the colliery, by Benjamin Dawson, for Castle Eden Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/190 Creation dates: nd. c. 1870 Physical characteristics: Plan coloured, 90 x 84cm. Scope and Content Specifications and tenders for the supply of a steam pumping engine by A. Stansfield Rake, for Tangye Bros and Holman, P. Wallan, for Black, Hawthorn and Co and Garrett Marshall and Co with detailed drawing of front and side elevations of steam pumping apparatus at Castle Eden Colliery, scale ¾": 1', 30 Aug - 16 Sept 1870 Plan of Castle Eden, Hardwick, Heselden and Black Halls Royalty, giving boundaries of royalties leased and acreages, scale 30ch: 1", 35 x 50cm Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/203 Creation dates: 27 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report by John Taylor and G.B. Forster recommending measures for draining and pumping and re the extension of the royalty areas, CASTLE EDEN Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/207 Creation dates: 23 Oct 1867 Scope and Content Report re the possibility of mining further coal on Cockfield Fell with recommendations for further trials, by William Armstrong Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/211 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Plans 98 x 55cm and 54 x 30cm. Scope and Content Plan based on 6" O.S. map of the Cockfield Fell area marking possible seams and dykes and a proposed branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and section of the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Gibsnesse, horizontal scale 8ch: 1", vertical 80ft: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/213 Scope and Content Terms and conditions proposed for a lease of Cockfield Fell Coal Mines to Messrs Bouch and Partners for 42 years from 1 Jan 1868. Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/1/278 Physical characteristics: Coloured, 48 x 84cm. Scope and Content Plan of steam pumps at Adelaide Colliery, Bishop Auckland giving dimensions of cylinders, scale ¼": 1', nd Plan of [a steam pumping engine] by Black Hawthorn & Co, Engineers, Gateshead, scale ¼": 1', nd |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2 Northop Estate and Dublin Colliery. St Andrews Auckland
Detached Plots, Shildon Lodge Colliery, Long Cleugh Lead Mine, Albion
Mine, Nova Scotia. Creation dates: 1852-1870 Extent and Form: 117 pages Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1852 - 1870 Pages 1-43 refer to Northop Estate 1860-1867 Pages 75-83 refer to Auckland St Andrews 1870 Pages 113-118 refer to Shildon Lodge Colliery 1869 Pages 123-127 refer to Long Cleugh Mine 1852-1869 Pages 129-167 refer to Albion Mines, Nova Scotia 1863-1869 Pages 44-72, 88-112 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/1 Creation dates: 1860 Scope and Content Lease from Messrs William Hancock, James Hancock and others to Messrs John Bailey, Robert M. Shipman and others of coal under lands at Northop, 1 Jan 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/24 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: Coloured 41 x 73cm and 72 x 60cm Scope and Content A and B, 2 plans of parts of the Northop Estate showing estate boundaries, scales 2ch: 1" and 3ch: 1", nd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/25 Creation dates: 13 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley Esq at Northop Hall Colliery re prospects for Dublin and Northop Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/26 Creation dates: 13 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley containing a report re the Dublin Mineral Property including details of seams, amount of available coal, working conditions, adjoining properties and estimate of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/32 Creation dates: 21 July 1866 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas L. Cottingham to Joseph Rowley containing valuation of the Dublin Mineral Property Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/33 Creation dates: c. 1866 Physical characteristics: 90 x 102cm. Scope and Content Plan of Dublin Colliery, parish of Northop belonging to Messrs Ridby and Hanock, showing the Hollin Hill workings, giving acreages marks old pits and fault lines, scale 2ch: 1", nd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/35 Creation dates: Aug 1867 Scope and Content Report for Messrs Richardson and Co re Northop Hall and Dublin Collieries including details of leases, acreages, details of seams, transport and results of borings with estimates of available coal and profits and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/43 Creation dates: c. 1866 Scope and Content Copy of plan NRO 3410/For/3/2/33 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/75 Creation dates: 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Letter from R. Bowser to T.E. Forster Esq enclosing a plan (No. 1) of fields at St Andrews Auckland, the coal under which Mr Pease desires to purchase Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/77 Creation dates: 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Letter from R. Bowser to T.E. Forster Esq enclosing a plan (No. 2) of detached fields near Bishop Auckland, the coal under which Mr Heckells, on behalf of Sir C. Maclean, desires to purchase Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/79 Creation dates: [1870] Physical characteristics: 39 x 43cm. Scope and Content Plan No. 1, (referred to in NRO 3410/For/3/2/75) coloured to show land belonging to Mr Peacock and Rev H.A. Milton, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/81 Creation dates: [1870] Physical characteristics: 45 x 44cm. Scope and Content Plan No. 2, (referred to in 77 above) coloured to show land belonging to Miss and T. Peacock and R. Bowser, no scale, Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/83 Creation dates: 19 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to R. Bowser containing valuation of coal under the areas covered by plans 1 and 2 above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/113 Creation dates: June 1869 Scope and Content Report for the assignees of T. and G. Marley including details of the lease, acreage, drainage, details of seams including amount of coal left in the Bockwell Seam and valuation of the coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/118 Creation dates: 18 June 1869 Scope and Content Minutes taking in preparing the report (NRO 3410/Fro/3/2/113) by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/123 Creation dates: 1852 Scope and Content Lease by William Ord Esq to Messrs Lee, Short, Clementson, Walton and Turner of Long Cleugh Mine lead mine, Whitfield, for 21 years from 1852 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/127 Creation dates: May - Oct 1869 Scope and Content Accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/129 Creation dates: 13 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Letter from James Hudson to J.B. Foord re the amount of coal produced Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/131 Creation dates: c. 1868 Scope and Content Accounts including pay bills, 1868 and abstracts of working costs, 1863 - 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/136 Creation dates: c. [1868] Scope and Content Details of winding, pumping and locomotive engines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/140 Creation dates: 7 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Extract from a letter from R.H. Brown to J.B. Foord re accounts for the Sydney Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/141 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Sydney Mines including pay bill, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/145 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Details of engines, horses and measurements of tubs at the Sydney Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/146 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Section of strata through D. Shaft, Sydney Mine Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/148 Creation dates: 25 July 1868 Scope and Content Extract from a letter from William Routledge to J.B. Foord re accounts for the Lingan Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/149 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Lingan Mines including pay bill, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/153 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Details of engines and horses at the Lingan Mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/154 Creation dates: 25 July 1868 Scope and Content Estimate of costs of production costs for the Lingan Mines by William Routledge, manager Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/156 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Accounts for the Lingan Mines including pay bills, 30 June 1868 and wages costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/161 Creation dates: 12 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to J.B. Foord Esq re the reasons for the increased working costs for the mines belonging to the General Mining Association with recommendations re the reduction of costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/163 Creation dates: 1866 Physical characteristics: 30 x 52cm. Scope and Content Section of strata from the Main Seam to the Deep Seam at Dalhouse Pit, scale 12': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/165 Creation dates: 1866 Physical characteristics: 30 x 117cm. Scope and Content Section of strata through the Forster Pit, Albion Mines, scale 12': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/2/167 Creation dates: 1868 Physical characteristics: 30 x 128cm. Scope and Content Section of strata through the Foord Pit, Albion Mines, scale 24': 1" |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3 Tyne Coal Co. Felling Colliery, Ryhope Colliery, Fishburn
Estate. Creation dates: 1831-1870 Extent and Form: 222 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence and plans, 1831 - 1870 Pages 1 - 20 refer to Tyne Coal Company 1868 - 1869 Pages 49 - 79 refer to Felling + Tyne Main Collieries 1845-1868 Pages 113 - 145 refer to Ryhope Colliery 1863-1865 Pages 185 - 202 refer to Fishburn Estate 1831-1870 Pages 24-48, 89-112, 148-184 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/1 Creation dates: 7 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Letter from J.B. Simpson, Hedgefield, Blaydon to Messrs Forster, Son and Hurst requesting a report on the colliery operations of the Tyne Coal Company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/2 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1868 Scope and Content Report re current workings, particularly drainage at Wallsend and Hebburn, including the installation of Cornish pumping engines at Wallsend with estimates of costs for further drainage work and estimates of working costs and staith and railway costs and list of abstracts of leases of collieries held by the Tyne Coal Co at Hebburn, Wallsend, Willington and Benton, by J.B. Simpson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/16 Creation dates: 30 Jan 1869 Scope and Content Notice of an extraordinary general meeting of the Tyne Coal Co. by R. Burdon Sanderson, chairman, to consider the issue of preference shares to increase the share capital of the company Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/18 Creation dates: 18 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for a report by G.B. Forster re the engines at Wallsend G. Pit and at Hebburn Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/20 Creation dates: 20 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Report and recommendations re drainage of Wallsend and Hebburn Collieries by Thomas E. Forster, G.B. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/49 Creation dates: 1 April 1868 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From George Elliot to James Easton and George Baker Forster requesting a report Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/51 Creation dates: 27 April 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for a report including sections of seams and details of the workings 1846 - 1868, drainage measures and list of collieries on the Tyne, Percy Main, Tyne Main, Jarrow, Wallsend, Willington, Bigges Main and Hebburn with dates of cession of working and amount of water present Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/61 Creation dates: 16 May 1868 Scope and Content Report including amount of available coal, the re-opening of Hall Pit, working of pillars, drainage and conditions of tubbing with recommendations re drainage measures, by James Easton and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/76 Creation dates: 9 April 1868 Scope and Content Minutes for the above report by G.B. Forster including sections of seams and numbers of hewers Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/79 Creation dates: 26 Nov 1845 Scope and Content Memoranda re workings in the High Main Seam under and near St. Peter's Docks, 1842 - 1845 and report to Messrs Smith re the causes of damage to the surface at St. Peter's Dock occasioned by a creep in the workings of the lessees of Gateshead Park Colliery, by Matthew Liddell, Benton Grange Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/113 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Plan 32 x 41cm. Scope and Content Case re the application by John Taylor for an extension of the time allowed under the Coal Mines Act, 7 Aug 1862, for the provision of a second shaft, including extracts from the Act, minutes re the workings, sections of seams and notes re ventilation, section of the furnace drift showing circulation of air, no scale, and report by Thomas E. Forster, 28 June - 5 Dec 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/139 Creation dates: 1863 Physical characteristics: Plan coloured 56 x 94cm. Scope and Content Request by John Taylor for a report re the working of an outstroke to the east of Ryhope Colliery under the sea particularly re dangers from inundations of sea-water and the recommended thickness of the barriers with report including sections of seams, soundings and plan showing the extent of the workings and the barrier, scale 14ch: 1", 16 Nov - 12 Dec 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/145 Creation dates: 2 Jan 1865 Scope and Content Valuation by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/185 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Plan 70 x 102cm. Scope and Content Sale particulars including plan of the estate coloured to show the lots with reference naming lots, scale 4ch: 1", with particulars giving field names, state of cultivation, occupiers and acreages, to be sold 9 March 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/193 Creation dates: 1837-1842 Scope and Content Account of borings at Fishburn by George Stott, 1837 - 1838 and William Coulson, 1840 - 1841 at Trimdon Grange, n.d. Great Chilton, 1831 and Mr Armstrong's borings, 1842 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/3/202 Creation dates: 1870 Extent and Form: 2 copies 1 loose. Physical characteristics: Plans 30 x 50cm and 32 x 60cm. Scope and Content Correspondence between H.E. Briggs, Darlington and Thomas E. Forster re the valuation of the Belmont Ironstone Mines and the Fishburn Estates, including plan of East House, coloured to show freehold and leasehold land, and marking acreages, scale 6ch: 1" and plan of the Township of Fishburn, coloured to show land owners; no scale, 28 Jan - 21 March 1870 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4 The Earl of Glasgow v The Glengarrock Iron Co. Woodhall
Minerals. Creation dates: 1844-1869 Extent and Form: 126 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, correspondence, legal papers and plans, 1844 - 1869 Pages 3 - 49 refer to The Earl of Glasgow v The Glengarrock Iron Co. 1865 - 1868 Pages 72 - 146 refer to Woodhall 1844-1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/3 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Extracts from leases between the disputing parties, 4, 16 Aug and 27 Dec 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/26 Creation dates: 7 Dec 1867 Scope and Content Statement of queries re leases Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/33 Creation dates: 1867-1868 Extent and Form: 6 letters Scope and Content From Tods, Murray and Jamieson to Thomas Forster requesting an opinion re the case, 7 Dec 1867 - 17 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/37 Creation dates: nd.[c.1868] Physical characteristics: 78 x 92cm, LITHOGRAPHED Scope and Content Plan of the Dalry, Kilburne and Glengarnock Mineral Fields showing the Black-Band Ironstone workings, coloured to show areas under which workings lie and boundaries of areas leased, by W. and A.K. Johnson, Edinburgh, scale 900': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/39 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Extent and Form: 2 plans Physical characteristics: 25 x 36cm and 30 x 40cm Scope and Content Of the Black-Band Ironstone workings at Kilbirnie, showing underground workings, scale 200': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/49 Physical characteristics: 58 x 60cm. Scope and Content Sections of borings in Glengarnock and Kilbirnie before and after Whitsunday 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/72 Creation dates: 1835 Physical characteristics: 44 x 58cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Woodhall Estate, Bothwell, Lanark reduced from an original plan of 1811, giving field names and acreages, coloured to show lessees of minerals, scale 10ch: 1", by Andrew Henderson Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/73 Creation dates: 20 May 1844 Scope and Content Terms for a lease between W.F. Campbell Esq of Islay and Alison, Merry and Cunningham of Carnbrae of minerals under Woodhall Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/75 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 25 x 40cm. Scope and Content Sketch section of part of the Woodhall Mineral Field, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/76 Creation dates: 1848 Physical characteristics: 45 x 62cm. Scope and Content Plan of Woodhall Estate, coloured to show the boundaries of the farms, giving farm names and acreages, scale 10ch: 1" Report re the minerals under the Woodhall Estate including sections of strata and quantity and valuation of coal produced, by William McCreath, 18 June 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/94 Creation dates: 4 Jan 1865 Scope and Content Report re mineral workings for the year ending Martinmass 1863, including details of production, by William McCreath Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/101 Creation dates: 1864 - 1866 Scope and Content Report as above Martinmass 1864, Whitsunday 1866, 28 June 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/108 Creation dates: 14 Aug 1866 Scope and Content Supplementary report as above Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/109 Creation dates: 19 May 1868 Scope and Content Letter from Merry and Cunningham to the Woodhall Estate Co re the exhausted state of the minerals in the estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/110 Creation dates: 25 June 1868 Scope and Content Report on the proposal by Merry and Cunningham to give up their lease, by James McCreath Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/113 Creation dates: Feb 1859 Scope and Content Letter from James Brown to Messrs Merry and Cunningham re mineral workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/114 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Physical characteristics: 40 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Woodhall Estate, coloured to show section let to Messrs Merry and Cunningham, giving dimensions of pumping engines, scale 14ch: 1" Letter from James McCreath to Thomas Forster describing the property and mineral workings of Merry and Cunningham, 13 Aug 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/118 Creation dates: 3 - 17 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Correspondence between Messrs Merry and Cunningham and Charles Pearson, manager of the Woodhall Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/123 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Submission by Merry and Cunningham and the Woodhall Estate Co re the giving up of the lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/127 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Objections to Messrs Merry and Cunningham being allowed to give up their lease Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/129 Creation dates: Jan 1869 Scope and Content Remarks re the Woodhall Mineral Estate including sections of seams, amount of available coal and ironstone and management of the colliery, with estimate of the quantity of coal still to be worked in the central portion of the estate, by Dodd and Bailes Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/4/146 Creation dates: 1868 - 1869 Scope and Content Statement by Messrs Merry and Cunningham of their case that the minerals are exhausted and of their desire to give up their lease with responses from the Woodhall Estate Co, with statement of accounts for 1868, 1 March 1869 |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5 Colliery Rating Valuation for Probate, Egton Estate, Eston
Gypsum. Creation dates: 1844-1871 Extent and Form: 100 pp Scope and Content Volume of valuations, reports, correspondence and plans, 1844 - 1871 Pages 1 - 30 refer to valuations for Rating 1865 Pages 69 - 96 refer to valuations for Probate 1844-1871 Pages 140 - 153 refer to Egton Estate 1863-1868 Pages 176 - 178 refer to Eston Gypsum 1868 Pages 32-68 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/1 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seaton Delaval Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/4 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seghill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/6 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Seaton Burn Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/8 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Dudley Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/9 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Cramlington and Shank House Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/10 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/11 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content West Cramlington Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/12 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Bedside Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/14 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Cowpen Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/16 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Walker Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/17 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Backworth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/18 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Killingworth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/19 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content East Holywell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/20 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Gosforth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/21 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Letter from Moses Pye to the Newcastle Daily Journal re colliery rating, 7 Nov 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/22 Creation dates: nd.[1865] Scope and Content Valuation of the Blyth and Tyne Railway and proportionment of the value between the various townships Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/27 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Valuation of the Tynemouth section of the North Eastern Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/30 Creation dates: 1865 Scope and Content Valuation of the Berwick section of the North Eastern Railway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/69 Creation dates: 31 May 1844 Scope and Content Humble Lamb Esq in Haswell and Shotton, Percy Main, Backworth and Earsdon, West Cramlington, East Holywell, West Townley, Elswick and Fenham and Grand Lease Coal, by Thomas Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/75 Creation dates: 24 Aug 1846 Scope and Content Thomas Taylor in Backworth and Earsdon, West Cramlington, East Holywell, Holywell, Shilbottle, Haswell and Shotton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/81 Creation dates: 1854 Scope and Content William A. Clavering Bart, part of the estate of Sir Thomas Clavering Bart, d. 1794, in Greencroft, Iveston, Causey and Woodhouses, by Thomas Forster, 27 Nov 1854 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/83 Creation dates: 13 Oct 1854 Scope and Content The executors of the late Sir Thomas John Clavering in Greencroft, Iveston, Andrews House and Jarrow Grange Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/85 Creation dates: 7 Feb 1859 Scope and Content William Standish Carr Standish in Cocken, Ludworth and Duxbury, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/87 Creation dates: 29 March 1865 Scope and Content William Cory in Haswell and Shotton, by Messrs Forster and Boyd Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/89 Creation dates: 1 April 1868 Scope and Content William Cory in Ryhope, Haswell and Whotton, by Thomas E. Forster and John Taylor Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/92 Creation dates: 20 Nov 1868 Scope and Content Hugh Taylor in Haswell and Shotton, Ryhope, East Holywell and Shilbottle, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/96 Creation dates: 6 Feb 1871 Scope and Content Colonel Maude in Backworth, West Cramlington, Haswell and Shotton and Ryhope, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/140 Creation dates: 4 Oct 1863 Scope and Content Report to Willoughby Rackham Esq re the ironstone deposits in Egton Estate and proposed terms for leases of 100 acre plots of the estate for 63 years Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/148 Creation dates: 4 July 1868 Scope and Content Report by Thomas E. Forster and G.B. Forster to Willoughby Rackham Esq containing report and valuation of the minerals in the Egton Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/153 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Calculations re the valuation of the Egton minerals Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/176 Creation dates: 18 March 1868 Scope and Content Letter from J.J. Smith and Samuel Fredrick Okey to G.B. Forster containing a proposal for a lease of the gypsum under the estate of Lady Hewley, Eston Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/177 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Scope and Content Account of borings at Eston East Farm for Messrs Smith and Okey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/5/178 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Physical characteristics: 25 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of land at Eston belonging to Lady Hewley's Charity marking boreholes, no scale, with reference to the above plan giving acreages |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6 Lawton and Harecastle Collieries, East and West Shirland,
Park End and New Fancy, Forest of Dean, Great Western and London Coal
Consumers. Creation dates: 1857-1870 Extent and Form: 253 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans. 1857 - 1870 Pages 3-37 refer to Lessees of Lawton and Harecastle Colliery and Others v. North Staffordshire Railway Co. 1866 Pages 75-92 refer to East and West Shirland Colliery 1866 Pages 113-215 refer to Parkend and New Fancy Collieries, Forest of Dean 1870 Page 255 refers to Great Western and London Coal Co. 1857 Pages 276-287 refer to Moseley Green Colliery, Forest of Dean 1867 Pages 38-72 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/3 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Observations re the effects of working the Banbury Coal Seam under the Trent, Mersey and Macclesfield Canal and Harecastle Colliery, including evidence by Messrs Elliot, Hewlett and Gilroy, 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/23 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Section of Lawton Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/28 Creation dates: 1 Oct 1866 Scope and Content Report re Lawton Pit including sections of seams, by John Taylor Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/33 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Physical characteristics: 40 x 54cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Banbury Coal Workings, Slappenfield Colliery, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/35 Creation dates: nd.[1866] Physical characteristics: 60 x 74cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Slappenfield Pit, Harecastle Colliery, coloured to show different seams, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/37 Creation dates: 1864 Extent and Form: 86 pp Physical characteristics: Printed volume, inserted. Scope and Content Copy of the proceedings of the case between the lessees of Lawton and Harecastle Colliery v. the North Staffordshire Railway Co, 18, 19 Jan 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/75 Creation dates: 9 Aug 1866 Scope and Content Schedule of stock at West Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/83 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Details of the extent of the royalties and of leases of East and West Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/88 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Section of seams through Shirland coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/90 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content Description of the seams at Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/92 Creation dates: nd. [1866] Scope and Content List of wages paid at Shirland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/113 Creation dates: 29 March 1870 Scope and Content Statement of terms of a submission to arbitration between James Wood Sully and the executors of Thomas Wood Sully re the apportionment of shares Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/117 Creation dates: 21 April 1870 Scope and Content Correspondence re the appointment of arbitrators Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/118 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Report including sections of seams, amount of coal, working charges, details of engines and valuations of stock, 11, 13 May 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/154 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Sections of strata, table of specific gravities from the award map of Mr Thomas Sopwith and acreages of available coal in the Dean Forest Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/158 Creation dates: 19 May 1870 Scope and Content Details of employees, including list of names and their wages and materials used, by Walter Trotter Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/164 Creation dates: 1858-1869 Scope and Content Accounts of coal shipped and sold by landsale, salaries and working expenses, 1866 - 1869 and accounts of selling prices, 1858 - 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/175 Creation dates: 3 Oct 1870 Scope and Content Report including details of leases, acreages, thickness of seams, transport costs, description of current workings, sections of seams and details of engines and valuations of coal, property and stock, by Joseph Cooksey Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/215 Creation dates: 3 Oct - 15 Nov 1870 Extent and Form: Report and two plans Physical characteristics: Plans 108cm x 134cm, and 30 x 18cm. Scope and Content Report including section of seams and valuation of the collieries including the Smith, Little Delf, Starkey, Rocky and Churchway High Delf Coal, with tables of coal sold, costs and profits and award by G.C. Greenwell re partnership agreement with plans showing colliery boundaries, scale 32ch: 1" and workings in the Smith Coal and High Delf Coal, marking surface features, scales 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/255 Creation dates: [1857] Scope and Content 3 provisional prospectuses of the company proposing mining in the Forest of Dean, giving prospects for the collieries and possibilities for coal distribution and transport costs, including plan showing the area between London and the Forest of Dean marking railway lines, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/276 Creation dates: March 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moseley Green Colliery including sections of seams, working costs and possible production of fireclay, by W.L. Goth Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/279 Creation dates: 13 April 1867 Scope and Content Report re Moseley Green Colliery including details of tenure, section of seams, available coal, duration and profits, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/6/287 Creation dates: 13 April 1867 Scope and Content Letter from John R. Liddell to Messrs Gillespie and Swithenbank re the report 279 above |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7 Ulgham Grange, Chevington, Coldmartin Budle, Widdrington
Estate, Burradon, Shilbottle, Togston Stock. Creation dates: 1807-1871 Extent and Form: 219 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1807 - 1871 Pages 1-41 refer to Ulgham, Chevington, Coldmartin & Budle 1854-70 Pages 77-119 refer to Widdrington 1854-1871 Pages 145-195 refer to Burradon and Coxlodge Collieries 1848-1863 Pages 213-262 refer to Shilbottle Colliery 1807-1869 Pages 282-299 refer to Togston Stock 1868-1869 Pages 42-72, 120-144 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/1 Creation dates: 1869 Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans for the following estates - Ulgham Grange, including mineral rights East and West Chevington Estate, including - Whitefield House, Woodside, Broomhill and Maiden's Hall farms, with mineral rights Coldmartin farm, parish of Chatton Budle Estate, parish of Bamburgh Particulars include field numbers, acreages and state of cultivation, descriptions of minerals and railway communications, with plans coloured to show lots and ground plan of Budle farm, scale. 10ch: 1" 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/32 Creation dates: 1866 Scope and Content Terms for a lease of part of Ulgham Grange Colliery from Earl Grey to Messrs Wood and King, 23 May 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/34 Creation dates: Aug 1854 Scope and Content Account of borings at Linton Lane, Ulgham Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/37 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1870 Scope and Content Minutes by Mr G.B. Forster re Ulgham Grange Colliery including section of the seam, estimated coal available and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/39 Creation dates: 19 Feb 1870 Scope and Content Letter from G.B. Forster to E. Lawson Esq re Ulgham Grange Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/41 Creation dates: 17 March 1870 Scope and Content Newspaper cutting from the Newcastle Daily Journal re the sale of the above estates Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/77 Creation dates: 1854-1862 Scope and Content Accounts of borings at Widdrington, 1854, June - Dec 1855, 10 Feb. 1862 and 20 April 1860 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/90 Creation dates: 29th Nov 1865 Scope and Content Terms for a lease of part of Widdrington Royalty from Lord Vernon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/93 Creation dates: 1865-1866 Scope and Content Agreement to the above terms by A.H. Vernon and William Barkers junior, 28 Dec 1865 - 8 Jan 1866 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/94 Creation dates: April - May 1866 Scope and Content Account of borings at Widdrington by G. Stott Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/95 Creation dates: 25 Aug 1868 Scope and Content Section of strata between the Top and Main Seams at Widdrington, by J.A. Ramsay Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/98 Creation dates: 6 Jan 1871 Scope and Content Note including the extent of the Royalty, sections of seams and hewing costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/101 Creation dates: 23 Jan 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster and George G. Greenwell to Lord Vernon re the valuation of the Widdrington Estate Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/104 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Calculations re the amount of coal available Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/109 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 51 x 52cm. Scope and Content Plan of part of the Widdrington Estate belonging to George John Warren, Lord Vernon, showing farms, pits and bore holes, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/111 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 78 x 74cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Widdrington Estate belonging to George John Warren, Lord Vernon showing farms, pits and boreholes, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/113 Creation dates: 7 June 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Arnold W. White to G.C. Greenwell requesting a further report and valuation of the Widdrington minerals Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/114 Creation dates: 20 June 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster and G.C. Greenwell to Arnold C. White re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/118 Creation dates: C.1871 Physical characteristics: Printed, bound in. Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans of the Stobswood Estate and minerals, particulars giving field numbers, acreages and state of cultivation and plan of estate, scale 7ch: 1" to be sold 20 July 1871 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/119 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1871 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to Benjamin Bullock re the coal under the Stobswood Estate in relation to the Widdrington coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/145 Creation dates: 11 Aug 1848 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon Colliery including details of the lease, valuation of stock, engines, thickness of the seam and wayleave owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/146 Creation dates: 11 Sept 1848 Scope and Content Report re current workings at Burradon and the prospects for winning the Low Main Seam including details of the engines, extent of the royalty, available coal, estimated working costs, rents and wayleave rents and estimated profits, by Charles Carr Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/153 Creation dates: nd. [1848] Scope and Content Estimates for opening out the Low Main Seam and winning and working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/155 Creation dates: 31 March 1849 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon including extent of the royalty and working charges, Carr's Hartley Office Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/159 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Valuation of materials at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/161 Creation dates: 1849-1850 Scope and Content Correspondence of Thomas E. Forster with Nicholas Wood and Charles Carr re the valuation of Burradon, 2 April 1849 - 1 Jan 1850 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/166 Creation dates: 1850 Scope and Content Estimates for sinking and working the Burradon Pit, 13 Jan - 11 March 1850 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/170 Creation dates: 9 April 1850 Scope and Content Report re the best method of working the Low Main Coal and whether to continue holding the High Main Coal at Burradon, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/171 Creation dates: nd.[1850] Physical characteristics: 45 x 65cm. Scope and Content Plan showing the Burradon Estate and surrounding estates of Killing-worth, Weetslade, Wideopen, Seaton Burn, Arcot and Seghill marking depths of boreholes and seams at various locations, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/174 Creation dates: 2 June 1863 Scope and Content Calculations re the amount of available coal at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/176 Creation dates: 25 June 1863 Scope and Content Table giving numbers of employees and their wages at Burradon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/177 Creation dates: C.1863 Scope and Content Measurements of air in the rolleyways, n.d Estimate of remaining coal and working costs for the High Main Seam, Coxlodge Colliery, July 1863 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/179 Creation dates: 11 July 1863 Scope and Content Table giving numbers of employees at Burradon with list of employees names Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/183 Creation dates: nd. [1863] Scope and Content Working costs for Burradon including rents and wayleave rents Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/185 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Notes re current workings in Jubilee and Regency Pits and Coxlodge, including amount of available coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/186 Creation dates: 25 May 1863 Scope and Content Request of Joshua Bower for a report re Burradon and Coxlodge Collieries with report and current workings by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/189 Creation dates: 1 July 1863 Scope and Content Notes re Burradon Colliery including sections of seams, hewing costs and measurement of air by anemoneter Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/191 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Details of wages paid and list of names of employees at the Regent Pit, Coxlodge (excludes hewers and putters) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/195 Creation dates: 10 July 1863 Scope and Content Details of wages paid and list of names of employees at the Jubilee Pit, Coxlodge (excludes hewers and putters) Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/213 Scope and Content Section of strata in Northumberland north of the River Coquet, with details of the location of coal workings, borings made 1865 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/220 Creation dates: 21 Feb 1862 Scope and Content Account of borings made at Beadnell, near the Lime Kiln Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/222 Creation dates: 1864 - 1865 Scope and Content Account of borings made at Shortridge House Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/225 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata in the Mountain Limestone in Northumberland Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/232 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Section of strata in the Mountain Limestone between the Tweed and the Coquet Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/245 Physical characteristics: Printed map with manuscript additions. 55 x 62cm. Scope and Content Map of North Northumberland, coloured to show county boundary, railway lines, mountain limestone area and lines of strata referred to in 232 above, published by G.F. Cruchley, Map Seller and Glove Maker, Fleet Street, London, scale 2 miles: 1", n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/247 Scope and Content Report re Shilbottle Colliery including details of the lease, description of the pits, available coal production costs, selling prices, profits and valuation, for John Taylor Esq by Thomas G. Hurst 20 Feb 1869 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/254 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Notes including available coal, synopsis of seams, details of lease, production costs, dimensions of pumping engine and estimate of cost for a new winning Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/257 Creation dates: 1807 Scope and Content Section of strata sunk through in the Engine Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/258 Creation dates: 1846 Scope and Content Section of strata sunk through in the Working Pit Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/259 Creation dates: 19 Jan 1869 Scope and Content Valuation of stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/261 Creation dates: 1864 - 1868 Scope and Content Abstract of working costs, by R. Bell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/262 Creation dates: 1867 - 1868 Scope and Content Abstract of working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/282 Creation dates: 10 Dec 1868 Scope and Content Valuation of stock, by R.P. Clark, valuer Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/294 Creation dates: nd. [c.1868] Scope and Content Valuation of stock by the Broomhill Co Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/7/299 Creation dates: 8 Feb 1869 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas G. Hurst to G.B. Forster re the valuation |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8 Pelton Colliery Report and Balance Sheets. Creation dates: 1791-1873 Extent and Form: 242 pp Scope and Content Volume of reports, balance sheets and plans re Pelton Colliery, 1791 - 1873 Pages 97-115, 234-259 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/5 Creation dates: 5 Nov 1861 Scope and Content Letter from W.J. Hutchinson, for the Owners of Pelton Colliery to William Armstrong, requesting a report and recommendations for the more efficient management of the colliery with particular reference to possible mis-management Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/7 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1861 Scope and Content Report including the duration, working costs, with details of wages and colliery houses, winding engine costs, the winning of the Harvey Seam, saddlery, storekeeping, sale of landsale coal, duties of colliery workers including allegations of fraud against Messrs Temple and Wanless and recommended checks to protect the interests of the colliery, by William Armstrong Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/44 Creation dates: 8 July 1871 - 29 June 1872 Scope and Content Weekly Manager's reports and fortnightly abstracts of pay bills Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/116 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1861 - 4 Jan 1873 Scope and Content Detailed half-yearly balance sheets including debtors, creditors and valuations of property and stock Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/260 Creation dates: 18th Century Physical characteristics: 32 x 27cm. Scope and Content Plan of Pelton and Whitehall Commons with reference giving acreages of commons and various intakes and copyhold tenements in Urpeth, Pelton, Chester West Moor and Edmondsley Fell, original dated 1748, copy n.d Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/262 Creation dates: nd. 18th Century Scope and Content Notes re the leases of lands on the plan NRO 3410/For/3/8/260, 1749 - 1792 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/263 Creation dates: nd.[18th century] Scope and Content Abstract of a lease of Flatts Colliery from the Bishop of Durham to Edward Montagu made 11 May 1771 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/266 Creation dates: Jan 1791 Scope and Content Report re Pelton otherwise Urpeth and White Hall Common Collieries including details of the lease, acreage, seams, old workings, current state of the workings and machinary and possible future prospects Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/275 Creation dates: 26 Feb 1825 Scope and Content Report re the current state of Pelton Colliery and the value of Mr Montagu's interest in the lease for lives, by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/278 Creation dates: nd.[1868] Physical characteristics: 29 x 35cm. Scope and Content Plan of land at Flatts, Pelton to be sold by Stephen Wheldon to Henry Morton, giving acreages, type of tenure and surrounding owners Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/279 Creation dates: 16 Jan 1868 Scope and Content Agreement between 1. Stephen and Mary Ann Wheldon and 2. Henry Morton, for the sale of land at the Flatts, Pelton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/8/282 Creation dates: 25 Jan 1868 Scope and Content Letter from Mr Story to Mr Wooler re the above sale |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9 Newton Colliery, Wooley Colliery, Yorkshire, Adderbury Mines,
Banbury, Barlow Minerals, Kirklees Hall, Standish and Shevington
Collieries. Creation dates: 1859-1871 Extent and Form: 320 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1859 - 1871 Pages 1 - 64 relate to Newton Colliery 1868-1870 Pages 77 - 151 relate to Wooley Colliery 1861-1871 Pages 159 - 181 relate to Adderbury Ironstone Mine's, Banbury 1870 Pages 222 - 263 relate to Barlow Minerals 1859-1868 Page 295 relates to Kirklees Hall 1865 Page 331 relates to Standish and Shevington 1865 Pages 195-222, 264-294 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/1 Scope and Content Lease by Thomas D. Bland Esq to Henry King Spark Esq of Newton Colliery, parish of Ledsham, for 42 years from 31 Jan 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/22 Creation dates: 5 July 1870 Scope and Content Valuation of plant Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/40 Creation dates: 15 July 1870 Scope and Content Letter from H.K. Spark to T.E. Forster re a report and valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/41 Creation dates: July 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including extent of the royalty, duration of the coal, description of old and current pits, working costs, sections of seams and railway and canal connections, lime works and workings of the Wheldale Coal Company and Allerton Bywater Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/49 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Section of strata at New Pit, Newton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/53 Creation dates: 4 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Report based on the minutes, 41 above with valuation, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/63 Creation dates: nd.[19th century] Physical characteristics: 64 x 82cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Warren House Seam at Newton Colliery, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/64 Creation dates: 28 Dec 1870 Scope and Content Agreement between Henry Currer Briggs of Saltburn and Henry King Spark of Darlington re the valuation Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/77 Creation dates: 16 May 1861 Scope and Content Memoranda by Mr Marsden and comments by Mr Woodhouse re the inundation of water Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/81 Creation dates: 1862 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs, 18 Nov - 2 Dec 1862 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/82 Creation dates: 12 May 1863 Scope and Content Letter from James Hudson to G.B. Forster re the Barnsley Coal plan Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/83 Creation dates: 1863-1864 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs, 29 Dec 1863 - 28 June 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/84 Creation dates: 13 - 27 Nov 1866 Scope and Content Account of coal produced and production costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/85 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Binding agreement for the Wooley Coal Company, not completed Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/86 Creation dates: 30 June 1869 - 30 June 1870 Scope and Content Accounts of working costs, coal produced and wages accounts Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/118 Creation dates: 30 June 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including section of the Barnsley Bed, description of the system of working by banks, rent accounts and accounts of coal produced and description of Wheatley Wood Pit including dimensions of the engines, section of seam and system of working the winter coal, by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/119 Creation dates: nd.[1870] Scope and Content Plan of [Wooley Colliery] marking seams, workings and proposed new winning and proposed railway, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/124 Creation dates: 30 June 1870 Physical characteristics: 70 x 41cm. Scope and Content Table of wages paid and notes re workmen at Wooley Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/126 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From John Marsden to Thomas E. Forster requesting a report re increased efficiency at Wooley Colliery, 18, 22 June 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/127 Creation dates: 27 July 1870 Scope and Content Report based on the minutes 118 above with recommendations re improved working methods, by G.B. and T.E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/134 Creation dates: 28, 30 July 1870 Scope and Content Letter from John Marsden re quantity of coal available with reply by Thomas E. and G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/135 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Section of the Cupola Shaft coloured to show strata with dates of sinkings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/137 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Section of the Wheatley Wood Engine Pit coloured to show strata with dates of sinkings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/139 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Scope and Content Plan of the incline plan for an endless rope, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/141 Creation dates: nd. [19th century] Physical characteristics: 100 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the workings in the Winter Bed, coloured to show different dates of workings, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/143 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 75 x 100cm. Scope and Content Plan and section of the water course drift, scale 50': 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/145 Creation dates: 1870 - 1871 Scope and Content Notes re working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/149 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 90 x 130cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings by the Wooley Coal Company in the estate of Godfrey Wentworth Esq, copies by G.J. Burnley, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/151 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 100 x 145cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in the Barnsley Bed by the Wooley Coal Company in the estate of Godfrey Wentworth Esq, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/159 Extent and Form: 10 letters Scope and Content Between Gurney Pease at Darlington, Samuel Lloyd, at Birmingham and G.B.Forster re arrangements for Forster to make a report re the Adderbury Mines, 22 Aug - 23 Sept 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/170 Creation dates: 26 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Letter from G.B. Forster to Gurney Pease at Darlington re the reports on the Adderbury and Clattercotts Ironstone Workings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/171 Creation dates: 26 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report re Adderstone, Clattercotts and Burton Dasset Ironstone Workings including sections of seams, quantities of stone worked, working costs and amount of tallic iron extracted with proposal to build a wire rope tramway from Clattercotts to the Great Western Railway and to a proposed blast furnace at Fenny Compton Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/178 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Letter to Edward Crewdon Esq re an agreement with Mr Lloy re the delivery of ironstone Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/179 Creation dates: 12, 17 Oct 1870 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From Samuel Lloyd to G.B.Forster, re the report on the ironstone mines Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/181 Creation dates: 14 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Minutes for the report 117 above including reports from furnaces re the quality of the ironstone, calculations re the best site for a blast furnace and sections of the proposed tramway Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/222 Creation dates: 7 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 55 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Barlow Mineral area, coloured to show land leased by the Duke of Portland to Messrs John and William Fowler and adjoining lands of the Duke of Devonshire and the trustees of Mrs Smith, marks Monkswood, Nesfield and Cobnar Wood Collieries, coal and ironstone outcrops and mineral railways, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/223 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Instructions to T.E. Forster for a survey of the Barlow Minerals belonging to the Duke of Portland, with reference to an act of ejectment brought by the Duke against John and William Fowler, lessees, including terms of the lease, details of the alleged failure to conform to the conditions and accounts for mineral workings, 1859 - 1867, 1868 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/239 Creation dates: 30 Nov 1866 Scope and Content Report re Cobnar Wood Colliery including dimensions of pits and pumping engines, quality and quantity of coal available and future prospects, including mortgage arrangements with ground plan of surface buildings, by G.C. Greenwell Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/244 Creation dates: C.1868 Scope and Content Minutes re the Dunston and Barlow Minerals including the state of the workings for coal and ironstone and section of the Blackshale Seam Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/247 Creation dates: 29 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Report re the Dunston and Barlow Minerals with reference to the minutes 244 above and alledged failure to adhere to the conditions of the lease, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/253 Creation dates: 29 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 60 x 70cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Barlow Mineral area marking Nesfield Monkwood and Cobnar Wood Collieries with section of strata taken at various points on the plan, by R.G. Coke, Mining Engineer, Chesterfield, scale 12ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/255 Creation dates: [1868] Scope and Content Section of the Blackshale Ironstone at Tapton, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/259 Creation dates: March 1868 Scope and Content Section of the Blackshale Ironstone in Rough Piece Wood Openwork, taken at Point E on the surface plan, by R.G. Coke, Chesterfield, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/261 Creation dates: 22 Feb 1868 Physical characteristics: 46 x 46cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings in Monkwood Colliery in the Blackshale Coal with table of quantities of coal worked and section of the seam, by R.G. Coke, Chesterfield, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/263 Creation dates: 1868 Physical characteristics: 60 x 105cm. Scope and Content Plan of Blackshale Ironstone Workings in Barlow, showing dates of working each section, with table of quantities worked, by R.G.Coke, Chesterfield, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/295 Creation dates: 27 March 1865 Scope and Content Report re Coal and Iron workings at Kirklees Hall, Hindley, West Leigh and Gidlow Lane including descriptions of the state and current workings of the collieries, duration of the coal, working charges, profits and valuations and description and valuation of the iron foundaries, by Thomas E. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/9/331 Creation dates: 27 March 1865 Scope and Content Report re Standish and Shevington Collieries including amount of available coal, duration, working charges, selling prices and valuation, by Thomas E. Forster |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10 Shincliffe Hall, Chopwell Woods, Hamsterley, Smalls Estate,
Findon Hill Colliery. Creation dates: 1832-1872 Extent and Form: 196 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports, correspondence and plans, 1832 - 1872 Pages 3-13 relate to Shincliffe Hall 1867 Pages 27-41 relate to Chopwell Woods Royalty 1867-1868 Pages 64-71 relate to Hamsterley Royalty 1867 Page 103 relates to Smales Estate 1864 Pages 141-272 relate to Findon Hill Colliery 1832 - 1872 Pages 251-271 are blank Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/3 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 75 x 40cm. Scope and Content Plan of workings under [the Shincliffe Hall Estate], scale 4ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/4 Creation dates: 1866-1867 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content From W.E. Wooler to Thomas E. Forster re an application by Mr Story for the purchase of coal under Shincliffe Hall Estate, 21 April 1866, 2 March 1867 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/6 Creation dates: 7 March 1867 Scope and Content Letters from Joseph Love to T.E. Forster enclosing a statement of the amount and value of Mr Prince's coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/8 Creation dates: 13 March - 3 May 1867 Extent and Form: 3 letters Scope and Content To T.E. Forster, 2 from W.E. Wooler and 1 from Joseph Love re the valuation of the coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/9 Creation dates: 1 May 1867 Scope and Content Letter from A. Story to W.E. Wooler Esq re the valuation of Mr Prince's coal at Shincliffe Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/10 Creation dates: 20 April 1867 Scope and Content Letter from Thomas E. Forster to W.E. Wooler Esq containing a report including valuation of Mr Prince's Royalty Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/13 Creation dates: 11, 21 April 1867 Scope and Content Sections of seams made by G.B. Forster Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/27 Creation dates: 11 April 1868 Scope and Content Report by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst including details of the lease, sections of seams, quantity of coal available, estimated profit and valuation of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/32 Creation dates: 24 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Minutes including details of leases, synopsis of seams, estimated costs of a railway and wayleaves required Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/36 Creation dates: 1867 Scope and Content Account of borings Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/41 Creation dates: nd. [1868] Physical characteristics: 125 x 132cm. Scope and Content Plan of Chopwell Woods Estate and Plantations marking boreholes and the outcrop of the Brockwell three quarter and five quarter seams, scale 3ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/64 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 32 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan of the Hamsterley Estate, belonging to the trustees of R.S. Surtees, coloured to show area of surface operations, marking North Eastern Railway, Blaydon Branch, no scale Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/65 Creation dates: 19 Nov 1867 Scope and Content Minutes for a report re the Hamsterley Estate including details of the lease, sections of seams, boring reports, current workings at Top Busty, railway links, selling prices and duration and valuation of coal Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/71 Creation dates: 23 Nov 1867 Scope and Content Report containing information as 65 above, by Thomas E. Forster and Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/103 Creation dates: 1864 Physical characteristics: Printed. Scope and Content Sale particulars and plans for the sale of the estate of the late Henry Smales Esq at Bickerton, Caistron, parish of Rothbury, Wheelbirks and Kipper Lynn, parish of Bywell St Peter, Colt Park and Broomhill, parish of Lanchester, Crossgate, Durham and Fishburn, parish of Sedgefield, containing plan of each estate giving acreages and reference giving field names and state of cultivation, to be sold, 6, 7 Sept 1864 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/141 Creation dates: 10 Sept 1870 Scope and Content Report to Messrs Chartes and Youll including details of the lease, rents, shafts, engines, sections of seams, previous and current workings, workmen's housing, estimated future working costs and recommended borings, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/148 Creation dates: nd.[1870] Scope and Content Abstracts of leases from John Hodgson Hinde from Holmes Jopling and others and from Edward Jopling Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/153 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 48 x 32cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill Colliery Royalty, coloured to show different owners, scale 3.156ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/155 Creation dates: nd. [1870] Physical characteristics: 60 x 60cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill and adjoining royalties coloured to show different owners, scale 6": 1 mile Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/157 Creation dates: 3 Feb 1868 Scope and Content Lease from J.H. Hinde Esq to Messrs Pringle and Robinson of coal and fireclay under White House Farm, Witton Gilbert Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/172 Creation dates: 16 Feb 1867 Physical characteristics: Plan 25 x 18cm. Scope and Content Lease for 21 years from Messrs Jopling and others to Messrs Pringle and others of coal at Witton Gilbert including plan, coloured to show area referred to scale 6.312ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/187 Creation dates: 3 Dec 1869 Physical characteristics: Plan 25 x 16cm. Scope and Content Lease from Mr Edward Jopling to Mr W.J. Pringle and others of coal and fireclay at Witton Gilbert, including plan of the area leased, scale 2ch: 1" Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/197 Creation dates: 13 Nov 1832 Physical characteristics: 74 x 56cm. Scope and Content Plan of Findon Hill and Potter Moor with other lands in the parish of Chester [le-Street], shows the area under which coal mines were leased by the Bishop of Durham to John George Lambton Esq, surveyed by Thomas Davison Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/211 Creation dates: nd Scope and Content Account of borings at Findon Hill Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/217 Creation dates: 1852 Scope and Content Account of borings at Kepier Royalty near the old Engine Pit, by George Stott Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/219 Creation dates: 1861 Scope and Content Account of strata sunk through in Nettlesworth New Pit, by Samuel Coxon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/221 Scope and Content Copy of NRO 3410/For/3/10/148 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/225 Creation dates: 1870 Scope and Content Pay bill for 6 - 20 Aug 1870 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/227 Creation dates: 6 - 20 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Pay bill for Main and Shield Row Seams Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/228 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Notes re wayleave rents at Findon Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/229 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Queries re Findon addressed to T.G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/230 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1870 Scope and Content Minutes including details of the leases, seams, engines, previous workings. working methods and estimated working costs Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/234 Scope and Content Copy of report NRO 3410/For/3/10/141 above including copies of plans NRO 3410/For/3/10/153 and NRO 3410/For/3/10/155 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/241 Creation dates: 17 April 1871 Scope and Content Report to Findon Hill Coal Co including the discovery of a fault and drainage problems with recommended working methods, by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/244 Scope and Content Copy of plan NRO 3410/For/3/10/197 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/245 Creation dates: 5 May 1875 Scope and Content Report re Findon Hill Colliery including details of the lease, description of the seams, amount of available coal, description of the engine and pumps and transport, with recommendations for further work by Thomas G. Hurst Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/10/272 Creation dates: nd Physical characteristics: 36 x 47cm. Scope and Content Plan of property belonging to the late R.S. Surtees, no scale |
Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11 Elsecar, Seaton Moor, Rabbit Banks, Gateshead, Montague Main,
Acomb, Moseley Green, Dean Forest, Avon Valley, Glamorganshire, Team, Lord
Harewood's Sandstone Quarry, Pontefract, Greenhome Hematite, Norley
Hall. Creation dates: 1866-1873 Extent and Form: 145 pp Scope and Content Volume of colliery reports and plans, 1866 - 1873 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/1 Creation dates: 1869-1873 Scope and Content Series of reports re Elsecar and Parkgate Collieries, Simon Wood Pit and Skiers Spring Ironstone mines including descriptions of working methods, pillar working and ventilation with section of seam and plan showing working methods at Simon Wood and description and plan of walling at Skiers Spring with recommendations re improved working, for Earl Fitzwilliam by Thomas G. Hurst, Thomas E. Forster and Thomas Cooper, 1869 - 1873 Reference: NRO 3410/For/3/11/37 Creation dates: 1868 Scope and Content Notes re Seaton Moor Colliery CUMBERLAND, including details of the lease, synopsis and sections of seams, results of trials, working and selling costs and report including the above information and rec |