Burnhope Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: D/X 1103/39 — Volume includes: Account of boring in Burnhope Royalty by the side of the Low Burn, 25 June 1849
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/137 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - Correspondence and plans between the Company and U. A. Ritson & Sons Limited, concerning Burnhope Colliery and problems of water, seam dimensions and the position of the main coal barrier, 17 November 1884 - December 1937
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/138 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - A letter and plant to the Company from U. A. Ritson and Sons Limited, Burnhope Colliery, concerning Burnhope Busty Seam and pumping shaft, 9 July 1912
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/139 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - Correspondence between the Company and U.A. Ritson and Sons Limited of Burnhope Colliery, concerning a sub-lease to Burnhope Colliery in the Shield Row Seam of the Langley Royalty, and the subsequent problems of water and barrier position, 31 January 1920 - 11 September 1935
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/60 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - Correspondence between the Company and the Earl of Durham concerning a settlement for permanent damage to the Langley Estate caused by the workings of Messrs. U.A. Ritson and Sons, Burnhope Colliery, 3 September - 4 November 1930
• Ref: NCB 3/98 — Burnhope Colliery - Photographs of explosion, 1935
• Ref: NCB 31/Box 106/11 — Agreement between North Eastern Electric Supply Company and The Bearpark Coal Company Ltd. covering the supply energy at Bearpark, Burnhope and East Hedley Hope Collieries, January 1936 - April 1946
• Ref: NCB 3 87 — Holmside & South Moor Colliery Co. - Account of Burnhope and Craghead coal led over colliery railway, 1946-1949