East Hetton Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: D/X 1140/1 — 'Particulars for sale by tender of the important leasehold seasale Collieries called East Hetton Colliery and Trimdon Grange Colliery in the County of Durham ... also the adjacent well-known (principally Leasehold but partly Freehold) Raisby Hill Limestone Quarries and Lime Works ... a Freehold Estate Containing 140 Acres... A Plot of Freehold Land Containing about 6 Acres ... A Freehold Property, called The Foundry Comprising One Acre, or thereabouts, on which 33 Workmen's Cottages are now standing', to be sold in one lot by order of the Master of the Rolls in the case of Forster v. Forster, September 1878. At end: plan of East Hetton Colliery, 1878. Scale: 32 chains to 1 inch [1 : 25344]. plan of Raisby Hill Quarries, 1878. Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1 : 792] .plan of Emmerson's freehold estate, 1878. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1 : 10560]. plan of Trimdon Grange Colliery, 1878. Scale: 16 chains to 1 inch [1 : 12672
• Ref: D/X 498/4 — Statement and epitome of leases of East Hetton and Trimdon Grange Collieries, 13 March 1878
• Ref: D/X 498/5 — Epitome of several leases of Trimdon Grange and East Hetton Collieries, not dated, c.1880
• Ref: NCB 01/D 39 — Deeds - Trimdon Grange Colliery and East Hetton Colliery, 1880
• Ref: D/X 498/7 — Marquis of Londonderry's tentale calculations for East Hetton Colliery, 1 July 1883 - 31 December 1883
• Ref: D/X 832/98 — Letters to Philip Cooper, manager of Thornley Colliery, from William Hall of East Hetton Colliery and William O. Wood of Durham, concerning the amount of dirt out of their coal and the cost of washing coal, 1 and 3 October 1883
• Ref: D/X 498/25 — Calculations of rents paid under the several leases of Trimdon Grange and East Hetton Collieries ending 25 October 1886, not dated, c.1887
• Ref: D/X 498/33 — Table of rents paid under the several leases of the East Hetton and Trimdon Grange royalties, not dated, c.1891
• Ref: D/X 498/38 — East Hetton and Trimdon Grange Collieries, royalty plan for the New Main Seam., not dated, c.1892. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 101/1 — Agreements and cases, East Hetton Colliery, February 1897 - June 1942
• Ref: D/X 498/77 — Plan of area around Kelloe showing the course of a proposed new railway from East Hetton Colliery to Kelloe Winning Pit, not dated, c.1898. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]
• Ref: D/X 498/105 — Letter from William Armstrong to Simon Tate sanctioning the removal of a barrier between Blanshard's royalty in the East Hetton Colliery, 28 August 1900. With attached plan, scale 6 chains to 1 inch
• Ref: D/X 498/146 — Letter from Tate to V. W. Corbett concerning tonnage rent from the Maudlin Seam at East Hetton in Lord Londonderry's Kelloe royalty, 23 March 1910
• Ref: D/X 865/14 — Statement of estimated costs of working 8, 7½ and 7 hour shifts at East Hetton Colliery, not dated [1923]
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 101/3 — Schedule of terms of employment of mineworkers, pit agreements, East Hetton Colliery, June 1936 - March 1963
• Ref: NCB 9/7 — East Hetton Colliery - Register of complaints and settlements, 1937-1946
• Ref: NCB 33/Plan 106-116 — East Hetton Collieries, 1943 - 1945
• Ref: NCB 33/Plans 117-126 — East Hetton Collieries, 1943 - 1945
• Ref: NCB 33/Plans 127-136 — East Hetton Collieries, 1943 - 1945
• Ref: NCB 33/Plans 137-145 — East Hetton Collieries, 1943 - 1946
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 13/1 — Record of employees leaving colliery, East Hetton, January 1947 - October 1968
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 13/3 — Register of men commencing work, East Hetton Colliery, January 1947 - April 1983
• Ref: NCB 2/312 — East Hetton Colliery. Schedules of underground shift times commencing 4th May and 2nd November, 1947, and surface shift times commencing 4th May, 1947. Surface plan of East Hetton Colliery; plan showing position of shot holes, 1944
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 1/4 — Vesting of properties, East Hetton Collieries, June 1948 - February 1952
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 1/3 — Vesting of properties, East Hetton Collieries, February 1952 - November 1953
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 40/8 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results and correspondence, East Hetton Colliery, 1954 - July 1959
• Ref: NCB 24/22 — Public Relations Office Files - East Hetton colliery, 23 February 1960 - 27 June 1983
• Ref: NCB 24/23 — Public Relations Office Files - East Hetton colliery (press-cuttings), 6 August 1966 - 5 July 1983
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 13/2 — Leavers, September 1968 - July 1985
• Ref: D/X 411/81 — Photograph of East Hetton Colliery, 1970
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 12/3 — Face design meetings, East Hetton Colliery, January 1970 - July 1979
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 92/1 — Pit meetings, East Hetton Colliery, October 1970 - February 1974
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 28/24 — Monthly accountability, East Hetton Colliery, May 1972 - October 1977
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 12/5 — Quarterly planning meetings, East Hetton Colliery, June 1972 - December 1979
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 225/14 — Accidents and incidents at pits, East Hetton, July 1972 - March 1974
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 12/7 — Accountability meetings, East Hetton Colliery, February 1973 - July 1979
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 223/2 — Colliery review procedure, East Hetton Colliery, September 1973 - June 1983
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 12/1 — Special meetings, East Hetton Colliery, June 1974 - January 1979
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 12/2 — Progress reports, East Hetton Colliery, October 1976 - December 1979
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 101/2 — Book for record of defects, action taken and operations affecting tip security, East Hetton Colliery, March 1977 - September 1980
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 60/6 — Salvage procedure/colliery closure, East Hetton Colliery, August 1978 - June 1985
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 131/3 — East Hetton Colliery Closure, June 1983 - January 1985
• Ref: D/X 498/6 — Plan of the East Hetton and Trimdon Grange Collieries, Durham, by Farebrother, Ellis and Clark, The Strand, London.Scale: 40 chains to 1 inch
• Ref: NCB 25/70 Interim List — Photographs from East Hetton Colliery, not dated
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 29/2 — Motors in use, East Hetton Colliery, not dated

• Ref: 3015 — Viewers reports, 1870-1892