Brandon Colliery

Research Notes

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 411/87 — Notes on Brandon miners' lodge, post 1963

• Enginemen's, Boiler-Minders and Firemen's Association
• Ref: D/EBF 69 — Case files re cases submitted by the following branches:- Brandon, 1921
• Ref: D/EBF 107 — Brandon Branch - Minutes of meetings, 9 December 1924 - 8 March 1955
• Ref: D/EBF 109 — Brandon Branch - Minutes of meetings, 5 April 1955 - 6 February 1968

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/X 118 — Strakers and Love: Brandon Colliery, Wages and prices: memoranda of joint committee meetings, awards and agreements, 1872-1904

• National Coal Board — 4th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 4/135 — Esh, Waterhouses, Ushaw Moor & Brandon Collieries - Abstracts of paybills. 1894-1897 Include also details of stores

• National Coal Board — 6th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 6/168 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brandon 'C' (Divisional Architects Correspondence re Pithead Baths), 1947-1963

• National Coal Board — 9th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 9/5 — Brandon Colliery - Agreements of conditions of working, 1905-1932
• Ref: NCB 9/6 — Brandon Colliery - Abstracts of pit bills, 1911-1914
• Ref: NCB 9/11 — Valuation of Strakers and Love's colliery equipment at Willington, Brandon and Brancepeth, 1932

• National Coal Board — 13th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 13/356 — Minutes of deputations, 29 October 1928 - 21 November 1939 and index to Proceedings of Joint Committee of Durham Coal Owners' Association concerning Brandon Colliery, August 1872 -December 1890

• National Coal Board — 30th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 164/4 — Minutes and averages, Brandon, December 1952 - June 1959

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/6 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Brandon Colliery, 1954
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 92/1 — Register of persons employed, Brandon Colliery, February 1926 - December 1966
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 92/10 — Register showing starters and leavers, Brandon Colliery, October 1943 - January 1947

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 531/27 — Strakers and Love, Statement of interests concerning Oakenshaw, Brandon, Brancepeth, New Brancepeth and Bowden Close Collieries. not dated, c.1940
• Ref: D/X 531/28(i) — Plan of mineral interests at Brandon, Sunnybrow, Brancepeth, Bowden Close and Oakenshaw Collieries. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/28(iii) — Plan of overhead electrical transmission, aerial ropeways and water mains relating to Brandon, Oakenshaw, Bowden Close and New Brancepeth Collieries. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/28(iv) — Plan of Brandon Colliery railway sidings. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/28(xii) — Plan of freehold and leasehold property in Brandon Colliery and Village. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/28(xiii) — Plan of freehold and leasehold property of farms and smallholdings in Bowden Close, Sunnybrow, Brancepeth, Brandon and Oakenshaw. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/28(xiv) — Plan of water and Electricity Supply interests in Brandon, Brancepeth, Bowden Close and Sunnybrow. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile