Black Boy Colliery

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 13 — Cockfield Fell and Black Boy collieries, memorandum book (accounts, reports, copy agreements, bonds and list of employees, etc.), 1827-1833
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 20 — Black Boy colliery - Report by John Buddle, 1829; T. Y. Hall's copy letters to Jonathan Backhouse, valuation, and opinion of J.P.s re dispute between agent and workmen, 1829-1831; draft bond, 1830; copy agreement between W. Wharton of Dryburn and T. Wood of Hetton (for J. Backhouse) for lease of coal at Coundon, with covering letter, 1833; abstracts of working charges, 1843-1846
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 61 — Miscellaneous correspondence (including many from T. Wood and others re Black Boy and Hetton colliery affairs and plans), 1831-1832
• Ref: NCB 01/X 4,5 — [Bolckow Vaughan and Company?], wages cost accounts (Woodifield, Whitelee, West Auckland, Shildon Lodge, Byers Green, Hunwick, Newfield, Black Boy, Auckland Park, Leasingthorne, Westerton and Binchester collieries), 1876-1879 and 1886-1900

• National Coal Board — 28th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/20 — Copy lease between Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Dorman Long and Company of coal and fireclay in Blackboy, Binchester and Byers Green Royalties (not dated c.1930) and correspondence concerning lease of Leasingthorne Colliery (1964)

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 1103/17 — Leader's ticket for coal wagons for Old Black Boy Main Coals, 19 January 1828

• Teesside Archives
• Ref: U/CR/3 — Cleveland Railway Company, Minutes of meeting at West Hartlepool involving representatives of the North Eastern Railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the West Hartlepool Railway re: West Hartlepool Goods Traffic, Ironstone traffic, manufactured iron from Middlesbrough, Coal traffic from South Durham and Black Boy Collieries, 25th February, 1863

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: DF/WF/28/1-4 — Viewers reports, 1800-1847