Byermoor Colliery

Research Notes

• Strathmore Estate (Estate and Family Records)
• Ref: D/St/C3/4/2 — John Daglish: Copy rent accounts, accounts of coals wrought and accounts of leadings over Lord Strathmore's property for Marley Hill, Andrews House, Kibblesworth and Byermoor collieries, 1873 - 1905
• Ref: D/St/C3/4/15 — John Daglish: Letters to John Daglish (and replies), valuations of coal reserves, plans and other working papers relating to a valuation of Marley Hill, Byermoor and Andrews House collieries, 10 September 1885 - 2 September 1886
• Ref: D/St/C3/4/26 — John Daglish: Letters to John Daglish (and replies) concerning rents chargeable on coal drawn at Andrews House colliery and taken to Byermoor coke ovens to be mixed with Byermoor coal to improve the resulting coke, 14 - 26 September 1904

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of John Bell Simpson (1837-1926)
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 27 — Correspondence - D-G: J. Daglish (Tynemouth) re joint account to Durham Defence Association for reports, etc. on Byer Moor colliery claim, etc., 1874-1876 [1-2]

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/248 — 1. John Bowes & Partners: Byermoor and Kibblesworth Collieries

• National Coal Board — 24th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 24/16 — Public Relations Office Files - Byermoor colliery (press-cuttings), 8 April 1964 - 16 December 1967

• National Coal Board — 31st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 31/Box 100/5 — Copy agreement between NESCO and John Bowes and Partners Ltd. for supply of electrical energy to Marley Hill Colliery and Byer Moor Colliery, Monkton Ovens and Jarrow Staiths etc., January 1936. (includes: Copy supplemental agreement to above, October 1941; Copy members agreement Creosote Producers association Ltd., August 1948)

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 25/18 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Byermoor Colliery, 1947 - 1954

• Durham Miner's Association — Archives
• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/12 — Byer Moor lodge subscription registers [1946-1951]
  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: G.URA/1/47 — Photographs, c1970