Petition to the House of Lords against the imposition of a general tax on coal signed by 134 inhabitants of Newcastle

Draft lease of Cowpen Colliery for 31 years from 11 Nov 1834 from Elizabeth Croft to Sir Matthew White Ridley, including the liberty of making outstrokes into adjoining collieries for a certain rent of £350 p.a

Extracts from the above lease

Agreements, valuations, opinions and abstract of title re the sale of lands at Greene's Field, Gateshead, from John Bowes and Partners to the Brandling Junction Railway Co

Proposal and agreements for contractors to use the Great North of England Railway Company

Lease of coal mines at Urpeth and Kibblesworth for 31 years from 1 Jan 1851 from Calverly Bewicke to Messrs Perkins, Hunt and Co for a certain rent of £970 p.a. subject to various conditions, including plan of the boundaries of the area leased

Deeds and papers relating to Panthead Closes, Gateshead and Bensham Colliery as follows:

Copy will of William Milburn of Newcastle, plumber

Account of the trustees and executors for the will of William Milburn

Copy will of Robert Smith Esq of Shotton

Abstract of and comments on the will of Robert Smith

Copy will of William Leavies, gent of Willington

Extracts from the will of Robert Lawson Esq, 12 Sept 1812, enclosed with a letter from his brother Edward Lawson to John Watson, 17 Aug 1814

Will of Robert Campble (sic) of Willington, collier

Will of Simon Walton of Newcastle, yeoman

Copy will of William Watson of Newcastle, plumber

Bond between Lady Windsor and John Simpson and their employees for work at Lanchester, Harlaw, Pontop and Harperly, including signatures or marks of pitmen

Annual bonds between Messrs Ord, Peareth and Reay and their employees for work at Walker Colliery, including signatures or marks of pitmen, 1780-1, 1781-2, 1783-4, 1784-5, 1788-9, 1791-2, 1792-3, 1793-4, 1795-6, 1796-7, 1797-8, 1798-9

Later copy on which some attempt has been made to reproduce the original signatures.

Copy bond made between John Smith of Witton Gilbert and his employees for work at Charlaw Colliery, including signatures or marks of pitmen, agreements made 23 Nov 1767

Bond between Thomas Noble of Whitefield Pit, Penshaw Colliery, and his employees, signed with marks by Alexander Look, Charles Dixon and John Ferguson, 1841-2, with pencil alterations to a bond with George Wylam, pitman, 1851

Copy bond between the Marchioness of Londonderry and her employees for work at Penshaw Colliery, including signatures or marks of pitmen

Brief for the defence prepared in the case at York Summer Assizes before a King's Bench special jury, The King v William Russell Esq and others. A prosecution brought on behalf of the Tyne Keelmen demanding the removal of the Wallsend staiths from which the coal can be loaded directly onto the ships, thus depriving the Keelmen of work. The brief includes a full statement of the case, comments re the witnesses for the prosecution and evidence for the defence

Estimate of the cost of winning Grange Colliery, Scotland by Amos Barnes

Copy of a report re Grange Colliery including the quality of the coal, description of previous workings and reference to a water-driven pumping engine, prepared for Mr. Potter of Newcastle who wished to lease the colliery

Descriptions and measurements of the various seams of coal at Grange Colliery near Bowness, Scotland belonging to William Belchier Esq, by J. Barnes

Table of fees payable to the customs at Sunderland

Estimate of the cost of producing, shipping and retailing coal from Northumberland and Durham in London

Memoranda on a pamphlet entitled Purjery Displayed etc on coal exported from Sunderland

Estimate of the costs for cribbing and planking for a depth of 2 fathoms, 7' diameter by J. Watson

Estimate of the cost of winning and working Brunton Colliery "given me to peruse by Mr. J...s R...y and made, he says, by Thom. Sopwith"

Estimate of the cost for winning and working Willow Bridge Colliery

Opinion by J. Barnes re the measurement of depths and proposed working methods in the Prospect Pit, the property of Lord Carlisle

Account of the cost of winning coal at Bothel [Bothill] Colliery, including Forlorn Hope and Chance Pits

Account of borings at Hobswell in Shieldfield by Messrs. Rawlings, 1756, Ouseburn in Andrew Nailor's Meadowfield, 22 Feb 1745 and Shieldfield, 22 Dec 1781

Report re Meldon Estate, Westmorland, the property of W. Winder Esq by John Watson, with results of borings and recommendations for future work

Estimate of the costs of smiths' work at the salt pans at South Shields and Sunderland

Account of borings in the west corner of Mr. Lyn's Meadowfield at Urpeth Colliery

Account of coal transported from Topmoor Colliery to the South Shore staith, 1765 - 1781

Advertisement for a sale of property at High Bridge, Newcastle, to be sold

Account of charges for keel dues at Sunderland Harbour

Proposals for a lease of coal mines at Pitton Common, 1788, buildings at Heaton by James Angus and Robert Anderson, 18 May 1791, and Saltwellside, Field House and Teams, 15 March 1794

Proposals for a lease of Halbeath Colliery by John Morrison to Messrs Campbell, Morrison and Co

Proposals to lay waggonways at Drumglass Colliery by B. Brough, Sept 1789, for carpentry work at pitmen's houses at East Benton by John Straker and the sinking of the Bell Pit by Tubman, Brough and Partners, 28 Oct 1788

Draft letter to the Committee of the Subscribers for the Discovery of Coal near Edinburgh re progress with borings

Accounts of borings by J. Rawlings and details of sinking at C. Pit, Bigges Main Colliery

List of Wear collieries with details of the seams worked by each colliery

Proposals by Robert Smith for a lease of the coal under Cramer's Close

Lists of the vend of coal from Newcastle, 1800 - 1815 and coal imported into-London, 1807 - 1817

List of collieries on the Tyne giving details of lessors, lesees and viewers

Calculations re the weight of a chaldron and a corf of coal

Details of the extent of available coal in Gustav Adolph's Colliery at Schonen, Sweden, by A. Alb.Lundstrom, surveyor of mines

Memoranda of the terms of an agreement between the proprietors of Gustav Adolph's colliery at Schonen and John Henderson for his Services as a viewer at the colliery

Proposal by Mr. Ward for a lease of coal mines at Earsdon from the Duke of Northumberland

Schedules of numbers of hewers bound on the Tyne, Wear and Blyth, including (schedule B) table showing the collieries at which the hewers were previously and are currently bound

Minutes of a resolution made at a General Meeting of Colliery Proprietors for the Tyne re the regulation of binding, includes list of owners in agreement

Report of John Buddle jnr, John Watson and John Straker re binding practices

Estimates of the cost of making a chaldron waggon and laying a yard of waggonway

Estimate of the cost of timbering 2 fathoms of a pit 10½' diameter and laying a yard of waggonway

Pitmen's petition for an increase in wages at Engine, George and William Pits (colliery unspecified)

Pitmen's petition for an increase in wages

Description of the Engine Pit, Bebside Colliery by Richard Small, Bedlington

Conditions for a lease of coal mines at Bebside belonging to Robert Ward Esq

Letter from John Buddle to Mr. Potts re binding regulations, 6 Sept 1806 and copy resolutions of General Meetings of the Coal Trade re bindings

Account of costs for building a boiler at St. Anthony's Colliery

Section of a boiler [? St. Anthony's]

Account of costs for timber and labour for building a waggonway

Details of the length of the Long and West Quays at North Shields and the height of the tides

Table of Keel dues and owner's wages for the Tyne

Working accounts for West or Willy Pit, Flatworth Colliery, by James Hann, overman, listing names of hewers and drivers

Copy lease of Heaton Colliery for 21 years from John Lawson to Messrs Harrison and Co, including wayleave agreement, for a certain rent of £300 p.a. subject to various conditions, the lease to commence 1 May 1808

List of the numbers of hewers bound at various Tyne Collieries

Proposals for an insurance scheme for vessels conveying the best quality coal, by Robert Chapman, Ship and Insurance Broker, Newcastle

Opinions by Robert Hopper Williamson and James Losh re insurance schemes

Table showing the prices obtained for Willington coal compared with the price for first class coal

Table showing the prices obtained for coal sold from various collieries on the London market

Details of coal resting on the bank at Willington, Wallsend, Kenton, Murton, Montague and Collingwood Main Collieries

Statement by Mr Stawpert re the number of hewers employed at Willington with names of those against which warrents were issued and those who first returned to work after the stoppage

Table of prices paid and remarks re fittage of coal from collieries below the Tyne Bridge

Notes re Mr. Atherton's estate near Leominster in Herefordshire

Survey and valuation of an estate at Exning, Suffolk, by George Miller

Vend of coal from Harraton Outside Colliery

Statements of quantities of coal exported from Newcastle and Sunderland

Conditions under which Mrs. Gibson will allow the driving of a watercourse drift through her estate at Pentland to facilitate the winning of the coal under the Dryden estate belonging to Charles Lockhart, Bart

Memorial to the Treasury for an equalisation of the duty on sea-carried and canal coal, printed

Letter from Mr. Row giving calculations re the cost of shipping coal to Hamburg for use in the gas lighting of the town

Details of the vend for Hebburn Colliery

Remarks re the regulation of the vend for

Accounts for rents paid by Messrs Bells and Dixon for wayleaves over the property of Messrs Orde, Collingwood and Shadforth at Willington

Statement by Charles Weatherby of coal produced at Killingworth and Burradon

Details of the vend for various Tyne Collieries from the Keelman's Fund Book, 1825 - 1826, for Walker, 1823 - 1826, for an unspecified colliery, 1823 - 1826, keel dues

Estimate for completing the winning of the colliery at Ryd, Sweden, by F. Stawford, Stockholm

Inventory of stock at Hogunas Colliery, Sweden, 1818, with additions by F. Stawford 9 April 1824

Queries re the winning of the coal mines at Hogunas, Sweden, submitted at John Watson by F. Stawford

Draft recommendations re the queries 71 above

Queries by F. Stawford re recent improvements in steam engines including those in use in Swedish mines, particularly with reference to fuel consumption, with answers by Matthew Murray

Statement of the quantity of coal imported into London 1824 and the vend from Willington

Valuation of estates at Stanton, Little Thorpe, Broughton, Astley, Hinkley and Ryton, Leicestershire, by M. Ingle

Observations on the regulation of the vend and general management of the coal trade on the Wear

Opinion by Arthur Mawbray re the reduction of duty on coal

Agreement re the measurement of tubs and corves [at Hartley?] incorporated into bonds of 1810, 1820 and 1826

Opinion of James Leigh re the estates at Exning, Suffolk and in Leicestershire and Warwickshire

Valuation and report re the Exning Estate, Suffolk, owned by Messrs Franks and Hewitt and occupied by Thomas Bryant

List of prices obtained for coal sold on the Wear by Mr Mawbray

Table of rates for the vend

Draft estimate for colliery work

Extracts from George Hill's reports of workings at Tanhill Colliery, 1824 - 1829, with account of coal produced, 1823 - 1828 and abstract of a lease of 1822, June 1829

Measurements of working tubs at Tanhill Colliery

Account of borings in Byers Green by John Manners and by Mr. Maddison

Account of borings in the Bishop of Durham's land at Byers Green by Mr Maddison

Estimate of port charges for a ship loading 200 tons or 15 keels of coal at Sunderland for London

Account of the average weekly earnings of coal hewers at Cowpen

Statement of the earnings of six families employed at Cowpen Colliery

Statement of deductions made to the workmen at Cowpen Colliery, lists names of all the workmen employed

Petition from the pitmen at Cowpen for an increase in wages

Copy of 2 petitions from the pitmen at Cowpen Colliery with comments by John Watson, petitions presented

Note of grievances by the pitmen at Cowpen Colliery

Agreement re alterations to be made in the hiring of coal workers [? Cowpen 1831]

Account of the coal produced at Cowpen

Statement showing the wages demanded by the workers at Walker compared with those paid the previous year

Minutes of a meeting between viewers and delegates from the pitmen including demands by the pitmen and counter-propositions by the viewers

John Watson's notes re the above meeting, endorsed "Hartley"

Account of the number of yards paid for holing the walls at Heaton

Account of coal sold from Tanhill Colliery, for 3 years to

Account of costs for hewing at Jesmond Colliery

Draft proposals for a lease of part of the coal mines under the Town Moor, Castle Leazes and Nun's Moor, Newcastle

Valuation of the coal mines under the Arbour House Estate belonging to Donald Esq

Notes from an Act of Parliament re the regulation of the vend

Minutes of resolutions of a general meeting of the Coal Owners of the Tyne and Wear

Minutes of resolutions of a meeting of the Hetton Coal Company sent by John Wood to Mr Giles for the Coal Trade Office

Memorandum re a lease of premises at Stamfordham made 6 Aug 1772

Accounts of borings at Hunwick, Willington and Byers Green by William Coulson

Accounts of borings in the Hunwick Royalty by William Coulson

Account of borings in the Willington Estate by William Coulson

Results of experiments conducted by Nicholas Wood on the consumption of coke and the performance of engines and waggons on the Great Western and Grand Junction Railways

Report and recommendations by Nicholas Wood to the Directors of the Great Western Railways, including results of his experiments with engine performance, rail types, coke consumption and gradiants on the Great Western, Grand Junction and London and Birmingham railways, printed

Abstract of title, 1839 - 1840, details of mortgages, 1833 - 1840 and details (incomplete) of the sale of the Prattman Estate

Memorandum re keel berths at Team Gut referring to a surrender of 21 Oct 1760, account received by Mr Armstrong from Miss Griffith

Resolutions of a meeting of representatives of the Tees Collieries re the movements of workers

Report on the copper mines at Ecton, Staffordshire by William Watson

Statement of wages paid for hewing and putting at Northumberland Collieries

Statement of wages paid for underground labour at the Northumberland Collieries

Statement of wages paid for above-ground labour at the Northumberland Collieries

Statement of average earnings for hewers and putters

Observations re the damage to the coal trade arising from the imposition of high duties, endorsed W. Brown

List of collieries on the Tyne, Wear and Blyth with their lesees, owners and agents, lists of fitters, brokers and tradesmen in Newcastle and lists of ship owners for the ports of Newcastle, Blyth and Hartley to which Mr Watson has sent Messrs Charlton and Watson's circulars

Sections of seams at Jarrow

Abstract of title, 1766 - 1771, and memoranda re the present ownership of Bebside Colliery

Proposals by Cameron, Jeffrey and Co to erect and work machines

Part of a report on an unspecified colliery, references to borings in Redhouse Close and the working of barriers with Heaton

Details of the vend from various Tyne Collieries

Specifications for an iron screw steamship to carry 350 tons

Memoranda book of leases granted by Newcastle Corporation, John Orde, Messrs Brown and Clarke, William Pawson Esq, Lord Carlisle, Henry Pulleine Esq, Rev R. Croft and Sir Matthew White Ridley, leases dated 1806 - 1821

Report re Pegswood Bank or Bottle Bank Colliery, Morpeth, the property of the Countess of Oxford, by Gabriel Dunn and Thomas Penman

Plan showing the location of Pegswood Banks Colliery in relation to the River Wansbeck and Iron Burn, with boring account

Report re Morpeth Banks Colliery with recommendations re future workings with estimate of working expenses by John Watson

Memoranda re Morpeth Banks Colliery including linings and accounts

Estimate of working costs for Morpeth Banks Colliery

Memoranda book containing notes re Morpeth Banks Colliery including linings, working accounts and sketch plans of the workings

Letter from John Bailey, Chillingham, requesting a report re Pegswood Colliery

Letter to Mr Bailey, Chillingham, re terms for a lease of Morpeth Banks Colliery

Draft terms for a lease of Morpeth Banks Colliery

Proposed terms for a lease of Morpeth Banks Colliery from 12 May 1808, with covering letter from John Bailey, 7 June 1808

Letter to Mr Bailey, Chillingham, re terms for the Morpeth Banks lease

Request from Mr Bailey for details of the number of hewers and putters employed at Pegswood Colliery and valuation of the engine

Letter and draft letter to Mr Bailey reporting on Pegswood or Morpeth Banks Colliery

Letter to John Bailey reporting on Pegswood Bank Colliery

Estimate and draft estimate of the cost of working Morpeth Banks Colliery

Notes re Pegswood Colliery including working costs

Letter to Mr Bailey reporting re Morpeth Banks or Pegswood, including account for salary

From John Bailey, Chillingham, re the giving up by Mr Spearman of Pegswood Colliery, valuation of the colliery and re-letting to Richard Short of Ulgham

Valuation of iron materials at Morpeth Banks Colliery taken by Richard Short

Valuation of materials at Morpeth Banks

Account of rents and working costs, Morpeth Banks Colliery

Account of coal produced at Morpeth Banks by Thomas Nelson

Plan of workings at [? Morpeth Banks]

Account of working costs for Warnell Fell Colliery

Account of working costs for Hewer Hill Colliery

Queries re Warnell Fell and Hewer Hill collieries, parish of Castle Sowerby, including the amount of coal available and the best methods of winning and working the coal, with recommendations by John Watson

Report re Warnell Fell and Hewer Hill collieries including a recommendation to install a fire engine at Hewer Hill with estimate of costs

Working accounts for Hewer Hill Colliery

Letter from John Charlton, Stanhopegate, requesting a meeting at Carlisle

Account of the water drawn from Hewer Hill Colliery

Estimate of the costs of working Warnell Fell Colliery

Report re Warnell Fell and Hewer Hill collieries with recommendations for future work by John Watson for Mr. Charlton

Estimate of working costs for Warnell Fell and Hewer Hill collieries

Estimates of costs for erecting and maintaining a fire engine on a wood frame at Hewer Hill Colliery

Proposal by Messrs Liddell and Reavely for a wayleave through the Duke of Portland's estate at Jesmond from the Kenton and Coxlodge collieries to the Ouseburn

Terms of an agreement proposed by Messrs Liddell and Reavely for a wayleave over the Duke of Portland's estate at Jesmond

Letter from H. Brumell, Morpeth re the size of waggons to be used for coal from Kenton and Coxlodge to be transported over the Duke of Portland's ground

Letter from Lawson and Brummell, Morpeth re the Kenton wayleave

Letter from John Charlton, Stanhope enclosing accounts of the Kenton and Coxlodge owners with the Duke of Portland for wayleave rents, extracts from the wayleave agreements and copy notice to quit the wayleave from the Kenton and Coxlodge owners

Letter from John Charlton, Stanhope re the Jesmond waggonway

Letter from John Charlton, Bolton, referring business re the Jesmond Royalty to Mr Bailey, now agent for the Duke of Portland in the north

Letter from John Bailey, Chillingham, requesting information re the costs of steam engines and railways

Letter to John Bailey describing Trevithick's steam engine and detailing costs for the engine and the railway

Calculations of the differences in the cost between the use of a steam engine, including the construction of a metal railway, and the use of horses at Kenton

Letter to Mr Bailey re the division of the coal mines under Jesmond

Letter from John Bailey, Chillingham, re a proposal by Sir Thomas Burden to take the coal under Jesmond

Letter to John Bailey re the legal rights of various claimants to coal under the Jesmond Estate

Letter from John Bailey, Chillingham, re the rights to the coal under the Jesmond Estate

Letter from N. Bailey, Chillingham, requesting a report on the coal under Jesmond

Notes re the length of the Kenton Waggonway over the Duke of Portland's grounds

Notes re the dimensions of a locomotive engine used for pulling waggons at Coxlodge

Calculations re the produce of a seam of coal

Letter from unspecified correspondant, Ouseburn, re the mining of lead, copper and other ores

Letter from Thomas Rawling, Marshall Lands, giving charges for boring

Letter from Thomas Simpson, Jarrow, re Watson's opinion on the regulation of the Coal Trade

Letter to Mr Buddle re the opinion of Messrs Bells and Brown on increasing their coal prices

Letter to Mr Buddle re the number of men which he proposes to bind at various collieries

Letter to John de Ponthieu Esq, Portland Place, London, re Capt Blair's machine for kirving

Letter from William Smith, Horton, re financial affairs

Letter from the Duke of Northumberland, Syon, to Robert William Brandling re the release of John Macpherson, one of the disputing seamen, arrested during disturbances, and reply by Brandling giving his reasons for the release and describing the general conduct of the military and the seamen concerned in the dispute

2 letters from Arthur Mawbray, Sunderland and the Colliery Office, re duties on coal including a resolution passed at a meeting of the Coal Trade Committee for the Wear

To Jos. Lamb re a meeting with Lord Liverpool re the reduction of duty on coal, one sent to Thomas Robson Esq

Letter to the Coal Trade Committee re a meeting with Lord Liverpool re the reduction of a duty on coal

Letter from W. Greenwell, enclosing a statement of the amount of duty paid on coal shipped

Notification from Lord Liverpool and Mr Vansittart to Sir Matthew Ridley that nothing can be done re the reduction of duty on coal in the present session

Letter from William Richardson, Percy Street, North Shields to Rev G. Jackson re his address to the King

Letter from Lord Sidmouth to Rev George Jackson re the loyal address to the King by the inhabitants of Wallsend

Letter from William Stobart jnr, re settlement of leases for the vend

4 letters from Thomas Halford, Newington, Surrey re a new ventilation method for coal mines developed by Mr Neville

Letter from J. Russell, 14 Holburn Court, Grays Inn, re the improvement of safety lamps

2 letters from William Martin, Carville Place, Shields Road, re the improvement of his safety lamps

Letter from John Watson jnr, London, re the will of Robert Lawson and family matters

2 letters