Box 1. Catalogued 7/8/2005. Location: Under Centre tables
Records of Brandon Colliery |
Includes a plan of Brandon Village, 1/2500 Strata measurements ARP arrangements |
Engineering statistics, 1978-80 |
Incudes data on Eppleton, Dawdon, Horden, Easington, Murton, bearpark, Houghton, Blackhall, Lynemouth and Wearmouth |
Dipton Colliery Boring and Section Book |
Includes plan of Eden Colliery, 2 chains to 1” Records include Sunniside, stopheap, Dipton and Delight Pit. Plans of Dipton (6” to 1 mile), New Inn to Stockerleyt Burn (1/2500), and Flint Hill (6” to 1 mile) |
Sections of strata for Usworth Colliery |
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Leases Etc. |
Lease of coal, Calverley Beweicke to Pelaw Main Colliery, 1938 Lease of Lands, Calverley Beweicke to Pelaw Main Colliery, 1940 Includes plans of workings at Ouston “E” Mine for Busty (Q) seam, Brass Thill (K), Hutton (L), and for Handen Hold Mine in the Tilley Seam (P), all on a scale of 1/2500 |
Ledger of payments made to various coal companies in the North East |
1906-1950. 601pp. |
Ravensworth Park Shaft sinking record |
1937 |
Abandonment plans and old shafts investigations, 1974 |
Includes plans of Wardley Colliery, Usworth, Wahington F Pit, Wilson’s Foredrift, Hebburn (all in the Harvey (N) seam). Shafts near Marley Hill Old Plan (19th C) of Houghton and Newbottle, 15chains to 1”. Sacriston Colliery, Findon Hill Shafts, Victoria Seam (1/2500) Marley Hill Lodge shaft section Herrington Colliery shaft section. |
Record of Boreholes, 1909-1946 |
Fishburn Colliery, Thrislington Jane Pit, Florence Pit, Adelaide Pit, and Eldon Drift. |
Borehole records |
1904-1914 Weardale ironstone mine Middleridge Colliery Prudhoe Shildon Pit Ricknall Grange Croxdale Colliery Includes notes on two court cases: Sir Wm. Eden Bart. Vs. Weardale Iron & Coal Co. And Sir Wm. Eden Bart. Vs. The Ecclesiatical Commissioners. |
Records of borehole nr. Ingleton, Hilton, Staindrop, nr. Barnard Castle |
Includes a plan, 1/2500, 1943. |
Letters and plans |
Relating to workings in Balydon, Central Gateshead, Annfield Plain, Consett, Chester le Street, Leadgate, Causey, and Benfieldside |
Catalogue of Durham Abandonment Plans |
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Notices of approach etc. |
Agreements between BR and NCB. C.1963 |
Coal Commission and NCB joint records |
List of notices issued by (1) the Coal Commission, (2) the national headquarters of the NCB for publication in the London (or Edinburgh) Gazette an in local press. C. 1959 |
Coal Commission and NCB joint records |
NCB register of alienation cases, 1959 |
Coal Commission and NCB joint records |
NCB register of alienation cases, 1946 |
Correlation of seams in mid-Northumberland |
1963 |
Correlation of seams in north-Northumberland |
1963 |
Plan of Wearmouth Colliery |
1985 |
Plan of Murton, Hawthorn, Vane Tempset, Seaham, Dawdon and Easington Collieries |
1:25,000 with technical details on each mine. 1990 |
Outputs of saleable coal |
Sheets for Easington, Ellington Combine, Vane Tempest/Seaham, Wearmouth and Westoe, 1992 |
Plan of Easington Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Main Seam (F) |
Plan of Easington Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Yard Seam (G) |
Plan of Ellington Combine |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Main Seam (F) |
Plan of Ellington Combine |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Yard Seam (G) |
Plan of Ellington Combine |
6” to 1 mile, 1992 Brass Thill (K) |
Plan of Vane Tempest Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Seam C |
Plan of Wearmouth Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Yard Seam (G) |
Plan of Westoe Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Main Seam (F) |
Plan of Westoe Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Maudlin Seam (H) |
Plan of Westoe Colliery |
6” to 1 mile, 1992. Brass Thill Seam (K) |
NCB correspondence relating to old shafts. 1970s.
Catalogued 10/9/05
File 1.
Relates to:
Melkridge; Coanwood; Crystallwell Colliery; Hester Pit New Hartley; Netherton Colliery; Land near the Three Horseshoes Hotel; Lawson’s Main, Brough Park; Bardon Mill return drift; Fourstones Colliery; Stobswood Quarry; Cambois pumping shaft; New Pit, NU23242906; Harton Grange, Bebside; Bothal Park Drift, Pegswood; Bigges Main C; C or Gas Pit, Wallsend; Craggy Wood; East of Billylaw; Bedlington D (John) Pit; Ewart Hill
File 2.
Abandonment plans notes for guidance
Article: The Rise and decline on the typical mining family community: The Charles Wallace Memorial Lecture/ by Tom Fenton, in Mining Technology, Feb. 1985
Paper: NCB Mining Department Instruction Control and securing of disused or abandoned shafts and adits/ By R. B. Dunn, 1975.
File 3:
Plan of Hazard Pit, Blaydon with correspondence on old shafts in general.
Film: 16mm Cine film. Study the rules / by NCB. Copy No. 52. 24 min. Colour. 1975
Book: IMMAGE Thesaurus. Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 1992, A4, 454pp.
Folder 4.
NCB Correspondence 3/1/6 on disused shafts
Refers to: West Stanley Colliery; Mahogany Row Drift; Waldridge Fell; Beamish Mary; South Tanfield Shafts; Pelton; William Pit, South Moor; Craghead Oswald shaft and Back shaft; Cresswell Shaft; Durham Hill Farm, Low Croft;Greencroft Cottages; Machine Pit, Stanley; Wood Pit, Burnhope.
Folder 5. NCB shaft searches.
Refers to: Low Fell; Rowlands Gill; Coxhoe; Whitley Bay; Longbenton; Washington; Eldon; Tanfield; Twizell; Benwell; Blaydon; Benwell; West Chirton; Washington; Fawdon; Lanchester; Hamsterley; Axwell Park; Stanley; Edmondsley; Harraton; Pittington; Cassop Vale; Crook Hall; Otterburn; Rainton; Snook Hill; Portabello; Lofthouse; South Gosforth; Forest Hall; Lambton; North Shields; Lanchester; Low Hauxley; Greenside; South West Crook; Hedley on the Hill; Pelton Fell; Acomb; West Denton; South of Blaydon; Shildon; Crawcrook-Meadowfield; Pelton Vicarage; Leadgate; West Rainton; Winlaton; Staley; Wallsend; Blaydon Burn; Waldridge; Nettlesworth; Chester South Moor.
Folder 6. NCB Memoranda on shafts
Refers to: Acton Hall Colliery; Guyzance Lane; Old Togaton Colliery; Whitley Colliery; Bigges Main Colliery; Havannah Mine; Lofthouse Mine; heaton Collieries; West Moor; eslwick Colliery; Brunton; Cowpen area; Broomhill; Bardon Mill Colliery; Engine Cottage, Acomb; Ford; Etal; Fordhill Farm; Wallsend G Pit; Leamington; Monkseaton; West Cramlington; Bedlington; West Sleekburn; Battle Hill.
Folder 7. NCB correspondence on Shafts
Refers to: Brass Pit, Dewley; Piggery Shaft, Dewley; West Throckley; Belsay; Burn Pit, Forms Dene; Ewart Hill; Mill Pit, Seaton Sluice; Silver Hioll, Old Harley; North of Fell End, Greenhead; Plashetts; Newborough; Fourstones; Goatstones; Oakwood; Le Moor; Howard, Hillbankgate; Barcombe Back Drift; Rose Pit, Nelson Village; Newton on the Moor; West of Broomhill; Forestburn; Bracken Cottage West of Alnwick; Brinkburn; Chrim; Coltyards; Bolam; Nunnykirk; Lickarlea, Haggerton; Seghill; Earsdon Grange; Luddick Drift, North Walbottle; Heddon Colliery; East Walbottle; Callerton; Newbiggin; Carville and Wallsend; Isabella Straker; Longframlington; Netherton; Shoreswood; Felkington; Widdrington; Throckley Maria; King Pit, Heddon; Bothal Barns; Lambley; Hastings, New Hartley; Melton, New Hartley; Gloria New Hartley; Duke Pit Walbottle; High Main Drift, Sunnyside; Furnace, Scremerston; Cooper Eye Scremerston; Tiverton Avenue, Benwell; Charlotte Pit Benwell; Thistle Pit, Walbottle; Winning East Walbottle; Winning West Walbottle.
Folder 8. NCB correspondence on Shafts
Refers to: Seaton Burn, Engine, South and East pits; Hazelrigg; Williams pit; Dovecote A or Stanfiled; Dovecote Colliery; New Tranwell Colliery; Plessy Colliery; Briery Hill; Arcot; Queen and Brass, Throckley Collieries; Kenton, Engine and Granery Mines; Rookwood Road; Gloria Upcast; Brunton, Burn and Middle Pits; Wake Scaffold Hill; Quarry, Scaffold Hill; Apple, Benton Square; Old Wideopen A and B Pits; Hartford, Scott and Daisy pits; Low Steads; Seaton Delaval C, D, E and F pits; Cramlington Betsy, Ann and Lamb pits Relief Pit; Joy Pit; Richard Pit; Stickley Drift; Engine Pit; Prestwick; Weetslade No 2 and No 3; Jack Tar Scremerston.
Shelf 26
Output figures for 1947-1953.
Choppington A and B Pits
Harton Grange
Bedlington A, B, D, E, F Pits.
Barmoor
Netherton
Newbottle
NCB “A” Group
Shelf 26. Plans of Easington and Shotton Collieries. NCB, c. 1950. In one roll
Shotton Colliery
Low Main Seam
5/4 seam, West 1 South
High Main Seam East 1st North
High Main Seam, No.8 Face
Easington:
Low Main Seam 10 North 1 South
High Main Seam
4th North Convergences
Low Main seam. 14th South
Low Mian. 3rd, 4th North
Low Main 10 North East
Hutton seam, 11 North East
East. Low Main Seam
5/4 seam
High Main seam, 1st West
High Main seam 3rd North
East. High Main seam with haulage
West. High main seam (two)
Box of overhead projector slides.
Six plans of Lynemouth Colliery workings
3 photos of a cable reel shuttle car
2 photos of roof bolting
Shelf 29
Air speed notes, measurements and tables, 5pp.
Day wage notes for years 1951, 1953-4
Notes on CO2, respiration, 5pp.
Brochure: 4pp. on the P S CO detector by Siebe, Gorman & Co, Tynemouth, 1950
Mining Qualification Board: examinations for Deputies. Notes for candidates
NCB Northern Division (N & C). Scientific: CO in reference to safety in the chemistry laboratory/ H A J Pieters and J W C Greyton
Brochure: 250W ultrasonic drill/ Mullard Ltd., 4pp.
Brochure: Ultrasonic cleaning/ Mullard Ltd.
Ultrasonics in industry, Research, v.6 (July 1953), 271-282
The treatment of wounds, burns and ulcers by envelope irrigation/ Irrigation Envelopes Ltd., London, 54pp. (2 copies)
Shelf 29 Roll 5.
Plans of Easington Colliery
High Main Seam Face Conditions, 3 South 1 West
High Main Seam 3 South 2 West Support of Tailgate
High Main Seam 3 South 2 West Ventilation
High Main Seam 3 South Cross section
High Main Seam 3 South retreating face
Development of 3 South 1 West
Pressure arches, 3 South West
High Main Seam 3 South 1 West
3 South 1 West Ventilation
3 South 1 West Ventilation
All to scale of approx. 75 yd:1”, c.1950