Beamish Colliery

Research Notes

• Strathmore Estate (Estate and Family Records)
• Ref: D/St/C3/3/4 — Copy letter from Edward Montague, London, to unknown person concerning the leading of coals from Beamish colliery over Parkhead, 4 July 1748

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/X 2 — Beamish Colliery: Second Pit, pitmen's bond, 1866

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/1 — Beamish Colliery - Pay bills 1859
• Ref: NCB 2/300 — Vertical sections of the whin dykes in the Jane Pit, Lawson's Main Colliery, Beamish Colliery and Delight Pit, Walker Colliery, not dated [early 19th cent]

• National Coal Board — 7th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 7/2/2 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Durham Coal Owners' agreements re score prices at Mary Pit, Beamish Colliery, 1 May 1883 - 20 November 1905
• Ref: NCB 7/2/3 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements re alterations to hewing prices at Beamish Second Pit, 4 May 1887 - 9 June 1904
• Ref: NCB 7/2/5 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements for: working, cutting, drilling, hewing etc.; prices in Busty, Brockwell and Shield Row seams; usage of scraper-type conveyor in Brockwell and Busty seams; drilling and coal cutting for all seams; stonemen's and enginemen's agreements in Busty and Brockwell seams; fatal accident and group hewing rules for all seams at Beamish Mary pit, 14 July 1904 - 20 September 1934
• Ref: NCB 7/2/6 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Arbitration awards of Thomas Lambert to settle dispute between Frederick Octavius Kirkup, the appointed referee of Durham Coal Owners and Thomas Henry Cann, financial secretary of Durham Miners Association at Beamish Colliery over the fixing of prices and conditions to be fixed for longwall working, 23 January 1913 - 9 January 1918
• Ref: NCB 7/2/9 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements made on score price changes at Second Pit Shield Row and Low Main at Beamish Colliery, 5 July 1927 - 18 November 1932
• Ref: NCB 7/2/15 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements and correspondence between owners of Beamish Second Pit and the Beamish Park Drift and their workmen re fatal accident agreement, score prices and duties of coal hewers, 10 November 1933 - 30 November 1933
• Ref: NCB 7/3/26 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Returns to the Mining Association of particulars of shafts, manshifts worked, persons employed, output, free coal, housing for Tanfield Lea, East Stanley, Beamish, Twizell, Handen Hold and Twizell Burn Pits, 1925
• Ref: NCB 7/3/42 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements and estimated accounts for modernisation of all collieries, especially Twizell Colliery, Tanfield Colliery and Beamish Colliery, with related correspondence, 5 November 1914 - 23 September 1920
• Ref: NCB 7/3/54 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statement on cost per ton of teaming coal into, and filling out of, heaps at Tanfield and Beamish collieries, 9 July 1920
• Ref: NCB 7/3/61 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements showing estimated costs of production for West Pelton Colliery, Beamish Colliery, Twizell Colliery, with related correspondence 1 December 1926 - 30 January 1928
• Ref: NCB 7/3/66 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statement of the cost of running Beamish Railway from Mary Pit to the Peel's House Sidings, 5 July 1933
• Ref: NCB 7/3/69 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statements re the effects and cost of closing Beamish Colliery, 5 May 1936
• Ref: NCB 7/3/83 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Estimates of amount of coal remaining in reserved area under Beamish Hall, including plans of Beamish Colliery, 19 June 1922
• Ref: NCB 7/3/92 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements, Accounts and correspondence showing the effect of the Sankey Award at Twizell, Beamish and Tanfield Collieries, 9 January -22 November 1919
• Ref: NCB 7/3/101 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Special attendance and productivity returns for Tanfield Lea, Tanfield Moor, Beamish, Mary and Beamish Second Pits, belonging to James Joicey and Co., Ltd., 18 January - 21 February 1947
• Ref: NCB 7/4/5 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence between Mining Office and James Joicey & Co. Ltd. re permission to work piece coal at Beamish Pit, 4 May 1896 - 3 December 1907
• Ref: NCB 7/4/14 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence between Mining Offices and James Joicey & Co. Ltd. re Busty Seam external barrier, Beamish Royalty, 8 November 1915 - 6 July 1916
• Ref: NCB 7/4/39 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re Beamish Royalty at Mary Pit, 10 January 1940 - 11 January 1940
• Ref: NCB 7/5/9 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and particulars re analysis of coal sample taken from Busty seam, Beamish Mary Pit, 30 June - 15 July 1941
• Ref: NCB 7/5/11 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Minutes and reports of the Pit Production Committees of Tanfield Moor, Tanfield Lea, Beamish Mary, Beamish Second, Handen Hold and Twizell Burn Pits, 5 January - 5 December 1945
• Ref: NCB 7/5/21 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and papers re claims for compensation for damage done to the Board Inn, Shield Row, including plans of seams worked under the inn by Beamish Colliery, 1 February - 5 December 1901
• Ref: NCB 7/5/32 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and papers re damage to Beamish church and vicarage, including plans of seams worked by Beamish Colliery near to and under the church, 22 September 1920 - 14 November 1932
• Ref: NCB 7/5/38 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence, papers and plans re electric light installation by Tanfield U. D. C. and Urpeth P. C. at Stanley and Mary pits via Philadelphia power station, 12 September 1921 - 6 September 1934
• Ref: NCB 7/5/47 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re permission to extract Busty Seam barrier in Beamish and East Stanley royalties, including plans of areas to be extracted, 12 December 1918 - 23 March 1937
• Ref: NCB 7/5/48 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re proposals to work in the Shields Row Five Quarter and High Main Seams of the Chester Common royalty, Beamish Second Pit, including plans of the areas to be worked, 8 February 1919 - 19 November 1930
• Ref: NCB 7/5/53 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence between Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Collieries, Ltd and A. Mundle (Mining Engineer and Surveyor) re Towneley Royalty at East Stanley pit, including plan of Beamish Colliery, 12 March 1923 - 16 March 1923
• Ref: NCB 7/5/60 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and plans re the working, in the Busty Seam, Mary Pit, of part of the external barrier of Urpeth royalty, 12 April 1926 - 31 January 1929
• Ref: NCB 7/5/68 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re East Stanley and Beamish royalties at Beamish Colliery, including plans of Brockwell seam at Mary Pit, 10 July 1934 - 6 December 1934
• Ref: NCB 7/5/82 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence concerning the viability and profitability of working the Shield Row Seam at the Second Pit, Beamish under the plantation of Mr. Shafto, including plan of workings (Shield Row Seam at Beamish Colliery, Second Pit), 22 March 1918 - 27 October 1919
• Ref: NCB 7/5/83 — Correspondence between James Joicey & Co. Ltd. and M. W. Parrington re an application to work a portion of the Beamish Brockwell Seam at Tanfield Lea Colliery, including plans of Beamish and East Shield Row Collieries, 21 February 1919 - 7 April 1924
• Ref: NCB 7/5/85 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re coal left to support South Lodge, Beamish Park, with plan of Mary Pit, Busty Seam, 16 July - 16 August 1920
• Ref: NCB 7/5/86 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and plans re position of the workings in the Brockwell Seam Mary Pit with relation to the school at Shield Row, 16 December 1920 - 30 September 1932
• Ref: NCB 7/5/89 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statement re the effect of abandoning Tanfield Moor, East Stanley, Second and Handen Hold Pits and Twizell Drift and the present cost of maintaining the pits at present idle, January - August 1928
• Ref: NCB 7/5/91 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and plan re permission to extract coal from Bottom Busty Seam, Mary Pit, 22 February 1929 - 4 March 1929
• Ref: NCB 7/5/94 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and plans re coal to be left to support shaft and surface buildings at Hutton Seam, Mary Pit, Beamish Colliery, 7 February - 4 March 1930
• Ref: NCB 7/5/96 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statements re costs of re-opening and working of Tanfield Lea and Beamish Mary Pits, 16 January 1931 - 2 January 1932
• Ref: NCB 7/5/97 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and reports re a coal survey concerning samples of the Hutton and Main Coal Seams from Tanfield Moor, Tanfield Lea, Beamish, Herrington and Silksworth; the Busty Seam at Tanfield Lea, Beamish Mary and West Pelton pits; and the Victoria Seam at Tanfield Lea, 24 April 1931 - 30 October 1939
• Ref: NCB 7/5/102 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and tracing re workings in the Shield Row Seam, Second Pit, 10 October 1933
• Ref: NCB 7/5/137 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence, agreement and papers re pneumatic pick dispute at Beamish colliery, 28 December 1934 - 19 June 1936
• Ref: NCB 7/6/7 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Plan of Shield Row Seam, Second pit, Beamish Colliery, with covering letter, 12 November 1919. Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]
• Ref: NCB 7/6/13 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Plan of Busty seam, Stanley East district, Mary Pit, Beamish Colliery, with related correspondence, 29 June 1932. Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [1:1584]
• Ref: NCB 7/6/18 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Plan showing position of bore-holes at Beamish Colliery, 10 October 1935. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]
• Ref: NCB 7/6/20 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Plan showing position of boreholes to prove Five Quarter Seam, Second Pit, Beamish Colliery, with related correspondence, 4 January 1938. Scale: 25.344 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
• Ref: NCB 7/7/6 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Quarterly reports of controller re Beamish, Tanfield, Twizell and West Pelton mines, 29 March 1919 - 31 March 1921

• National Coal Board — 30th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 30/4 — Audit report, Beamish Mary and Second Collieries, 1960
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 30/5 — Audit report, Beamish Mary and Second Collieries, 1961
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 30/6 — Audit programme, Beamish Mary and Second Collieries, 1959 - 1963
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 86/15 — Balance sheet audit, Beamish Colliery, 1947

• National Coal Board — 32nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 32/Box 7 — Explosion at Louisa Colliery; Explosion at Horden Colliery; Transport of Products and Materials, Seaham Harbour; Situation Reports - N.U.M. Dispute 1984-1985; Re-organisation Schemes at Beamish Mary Colliery; Fishburn Coke Ovens, 1950s - 1960s

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/21 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Beamish 2nd Colliery, 1954
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/22 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Beamish Mary Colliery, 1954

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 285/1 — Beamish Colliery - accounts of coals wrought vended, accounts for work done at the colliery, receipts and related papers. Include bond and pay bill, 1859
• Ref: D/X 462/2 — Lambton Hetton and Joicey Collieries Ltd. - Correspondence re electricity supply to Beamish Mary Pit, 1923, Bush Blades farm, 1945, officials' houses at Beamish, 1945, Twizell Colliery, 1946
• Ref: D/X 672/1 — Pitmen's bond, made between John Joicey on behalf of the Owners of Beamish Colliery and colliery workers, giving names of each, for winning coals at Beamish Colliery, 19 March 1864
• Ref: D/X 672/2 — Pitmen's bond, made between John Joicey on behalf of the Owners of Stanley Pit, Beamish Colliery, and colliery workers, giving names of each, for winning coals at Stanley Pit, 4 March 1871
• Ref: D/X 797/2 — Receipts from William Bell & Partners for wayleaves over and allotment rent on Beamish South Moor, 9 March 1832
• Ref: D/X 865/16 — Sketch of Beamish Mary Pit, to be used as design for new banner, not dated

• Durham Miner's Association — Archives
• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/14 — Chophill lodge subscription register [1958-1962]
  The subscription registers record payments by members to national, district and local funds, with space to record exemptions from national and DMA political levy. Many registers list members alphabetically by surname with some indication of status (full member, half-member, widow etc), but this was not always possible because of changes in the workforce. Some registers include brief information on death, transfer, leaving mining.

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: 3415/CG/7/14 — Deed, 1723
• Ref: DF/WF/28/1-2 — Viewers reports, 1800-1838