Brancepeth Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: D/X 531/23 — Copy Valuation of Brancepeth Colliery by E. Boyd, 30 December 1847
• Ref: D/X 531/17 — An exercise book, concerning coal mining belonging to A. F. Moffatt of Brancepeth Colliery, Willington. Including notes on ventilation, gases, analysis of coal, engines, boilers, copy letters and accounts relating to Brandon and Brancepeth Collieries. October 1868
• Ref: D/X 531/58(i) — Willington Colliery Steam Pipe burst. Copy of letter to the President of Board of Trade from R. J. Weeks for Strakers and Love of Brancepeth Colliery Offices telling of the burst steam pipe. 10 January 1906
• Ref: NCB 8/102 — Brancepeth Colliery, Willington (Messrs. Straker and Love) - Agreement and specifications for the erection of:- (i) 120 Semet Solvay Coke Ovens (ii) Sulphate of Ammonia Plant by John H. Darby, Brymbo, Wrexham, 1907
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 98/1 — Register of persons employed underground, Brancepeth Colliery, October 1909 - June 1959
• Ref: NCB 6/4,5 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Institute and Recreation Ground, 1923-1952
• Ref: NCB 6/6-8 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Pithead Baths, 1928-1952
• Ref: NCB 9/11 — Valuation of Strakers and Love's colliery equipment at Willington, Brandon and Brancepeth, 1932
• Ref: NCB 8/103 — Brancepeth Colliery, Willington (Messrs. Straker and Love) - Tender and Specification with draft agreement (1935) for erection of a Becker Coke Oven Installation capable of carbonising 1,000 tons per day by the Woodhall-Duckham Company, 1933
• Ref: D/X 531/54 — Plan of Browney and Littleburn Waterline in relation to Brancepeth 'B' Seam. 1935. Vertical Scale: 100 feet to 1 inch
• Ref: NCB 6/3 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Cycle Stores, 1938-1947
• 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: NCB 6/10 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Accounts), 1940-1948
• Ref: NCB 6/11 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Insurance), 1940
• Ref: NCB 6/9 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Pithead Baths (War Damage), 1941-1945
• Ref: NCB 6/1,2 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Canteen, 1942-1951
• Ref: NCB 6/13-19 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1945-1949, 1951-1958
• Ref: NCB 6/12 — Miners Welfare Committee, Brancepeth Colliery - Welfare Scheme, 1953-1957
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 30/7 — Audit working papers, Brancepeth Colliery, November 1953 - March 1955
• Ref: D/X 531/25 — National Coal Board Durham Division No.5 Area Group 'A' Estimate of future surface wayleaves to the Duke of Westminster at Brancepeth Colliery. 1954-1964
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/8 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Brancepeth Colliery, 1954
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 98/3 — Register of persons employed underground, Brancepeth Colliery, March 1957 - March 1967
• 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(ii) — Plan of Brancepeth Colliery railway sidings. 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
• Ref: D/X 531/33 — Plan of workings at Brancepeth Colliery. not dated. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 411/80 — Photograph showing a street of houses (possibly Willington) and Brancepeth Colliery waste heap, not dated

• Ref: SGD 51/1-28 — Deeds re Brancepeth colliery and Beechburn colliery in North Bedburn township, County Durham, and a Methodist New Connexion chapel in Monkwearmouth, County Durham, and Pearson, Love and Ferens family deeds, wills, correspondence and papers, ca.1846-1876.

• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/8 — Brancepeth No. 2 lodge subscription registers [1942-1978]
  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.
• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/7 — Brancepeth No. 1 lodge subscription register [1970-1982]
  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.

• Ref: U/HO/20/1 — 3 Reports: Re-organisation of Coal Mining; Industry, Brancepeth Colliery Explosion. Mr Bell's Report. 1872; 1896; 1931