Emma Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: NCB 01/RS 74-75 — Plans, Plaintiff's plan, Durham Assizes, Joseph Dunn plaintiff, David Crawford defendant, land near Crawcrook (showing owners, pits, and waggonways), 1796
• Ref: NCB 2/299 — Plan of levellings at Towneley Colliery, not dated [early 19th cent.]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 80 — Plans, Five Quarter seam workings, A pit, Towneley colliery, by James Frazer, wasteman, with his description and criticism of the ventilation, 1803
• Ref: NCB 01/P 5 — Plans - Blaydon, c. 1833. Plan showing Towneley Colliery and proposed waggonway. Scale: 1 in. = 6 chains
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 81 — Plans, Stone Coal seam workings, Stella Grand Lease colliery, showing extent of workings at termination of Messrs. Dunn's lease (showing also dykes, royalties, and surface features), 1833. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 82 — Plans, Five Quarter seam workings, Stella Grand Lease or Towneley colliery, showing extent of workings at termination of Messrs. Dunn's lease in 1833 and by Stella Coal Company since (showing also dykes, royalties, and surface features), 1833 and not dated. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 473 — Summons to W. Greener of Stella for neglect of duty as a bound servant to Thomas Hall and Co. of Towneley Main colliery, issued by H. Lamb, J.P., 1837
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 83 — Plans, Towneley seam, Glebe and B pits, showing water line of Folly pit, c.1838-1841
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 92-108 — Plans, "Glebe or West Towneley pit" and "Glebe or Woodside pit" (also one plan re Stella Freehold pit): workings, levelling, sections of inclines, rolleyway, etc.; and surface arrangements: heap stead and branches (plan and sections), c.1838-1840 and not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 132-133 — Plans, Stargate pit levelling and rolleyways, 1839 and not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/P 42 — Plans - Towneley Colliery, c. 1850. Plan of brickworks at Stargate Pit. Scale: 1 in. = 8 ft.
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 115-125 — Plans, Emma pit levellings, 1851-1862 and not dated
• Ref: NCB 2/47 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit. Diagram of ventilation in some of the workings where an accumulation of gas took place on 1 December, 1857 not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/P 43 — Plans - Towneley Colliery, 1858. Plan of Towneley Colliery Railway adjoining Stargate Pit. Scale: 1 in. = 11 yards
• Ref: NCB 2/42-45 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Brockwell and Five Quarter Seams. Accounts of work wrought, 1859-1864
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 137-160 — Plans, Emma pit pumps, guides and buntons, forcing set, etc., 1860-1864 and not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 165-192 — Plans, Owners of land on the Bar Moor, Ryton, 1889; field bought by Stella Coal Company from Archdeacon Thorp, 1860; cottages and gardens at Kepier Chare, near Crawcrook, bought by Robert Simpson, 1865; Folly Cottages and garden ground belonging to the Stella Coal Company, not dated; land and two cottages sold by Stella Coal Company to Archdeacon Thorp, not dated; damaged ground round B pit Landsale, not dated; land and cottages belonging to Thoroton and Croft near Crawcrook Gate, 1862; Thomas Dixon's cottage at Kepier Chare bought by R. Simpson, 1856; John Richardson's house at Greenside, not dated; Joseph and George Purvis's property at Woodside, 1863; cottages on Bar Moor belonging to owners of Crawcrook colliery and occupied by Matthew Barron and Widow Smith, 1850; cottages at Low Greenside, not dated; Robert Leadbitter's cottage on Bar Moor, not dated; George Stark's property on Bar Moor, 1851; Joseph Appleby's land on Bar Moor, 1867; land bought by John Curran on Bar Moor, 1868; J. C. Lamb's land on Bar Moor, 1862
• Ref: NCB 2/48 — Stella Coal Company - Townley Main and Stella Collieries. Colliery Rules, not dated [c.1861]
• Ref: NCB 2/41 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Freehold Pit and Five Quarter, Brockwell and Townley seams. Analyses of Pit and Overmen's bills, 1862-1864
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 28 — Correspondence - H-L: Luke Hall (Stella staith) re daily workings at Emma Addison and Bog pits, and re stroke suffered by T. Y. Hall, 1866 [6-13]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 28 — Correspondence - H-L: J. Harrison (Hedgefield) re Stargate and Emma pit mining affairs, and employment of Fletcher from Cumberland, 1866 [15-17]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 29 — Correspondence - M-R: J. A. Maughan (Ryton) re Stella colliery affairs including complaints re wages and question of putters' riding time, 1866 [13-14]
• Ref: NCB 2/46 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Townley and Stone Coal Seams. Account of work wrought, 1876
• Ref: NCB 2/50 — Stella Coal Company - G. C. Greenwell's Valuation of the Towneley, Stella and Blaydon Main collieries, 1883
• Ref: NCB 3/165 — Emma Colliery - Putters' agreements, 1910-1959
• Ref: NCB 3/166 — Emma Colliery - General agreements, 1911-1954
• Ref: NCB 3/173 — Emma Colliery - Deputations Meetings minutes, 1912-1918, 1945-1955 (Emma, Stanley Burn)
• Ref: NCB 3/167 — Emma Colliery - Five-Quarter Seam, agreements, 1914-1957
• Ref: NCB 3/168 — Emma Colliery - Three Quarter Seam, agreements, 1920-1966
• Ref: NCB 3/169 — Emma Colliery - Ruler Seam, agreements 1931-1966
• Ref: NCB 3/170 — Emma Colliery - Stone Coal, agreements 1937-1965
• Ref: NCB 3/171 — Emma Colliery - Old Five-Quarter Seam, agreements 1943-1959
• Ref: NCB 3/172 — Emma Colliery - Pit Production Committee minutes, 1945-1947
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 25/11 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Emma and Stanley Burn Colliery, 1947 - 1954
• Ref: NCB 24/28 — Public Relations Office Files - Emma (and Stanley Burn) colliery (press cuttings), 15 April 1966 - 25 March 1974
• Ref: NCB 24/29 — Public Relations Office Files - Emma (and Stanley Burn) colliery, 16 February 1968
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 32 — File of letters: R. Simpson [father] re strike, Stella and Shire Moor colliery affairs, etc. [1, 7, 9, 18, 20, 21, 31, 38]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 71 — Plans, Towneley and Crawcrook royalties (showing Crawcrook, Grand Lease, Stella Freehold, Glebe, and Bradley royalties, pits, and sections of pits) "being the original for T. T. Taylor's and R. Simpson's report", not dated. Scale: 16 chains to 1 inch[1:12672]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 72 — Plans, Ryton parish (showing 90 fathom dyke, surface features, landowners, pits, etc., and sections of pits), not dated. Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 79 — Plans, Section of boreholes in Crawcrook Freehold (nos. 1-13, between Kepier Pit and the Tyne), not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 84-91 — Plans, Workings: Five Quarter seam in A and B pits, Glebe or West Towneley pit, and Emma pit; Towneley seam in Towneley Main colliery; Stone Coal seam in Towneley colliery; section of Towneley seam; sections of Croft's Freehold pit, Comb Hill, and B pits showing position of Towneley seam; not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 109-114 — Plans, Emma pit: ground operations, and pumping and winding engines, not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 126-131 — Plans, Stella Freehold pit levellings, not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 134-136 — Plans, Towneley colliery levellings, not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 163-164 — Plans, Proposed railway from Crawcrook/Towneley colliery to Derwenthaugh, not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 201 — Plans, Emma pit colliery offices, with house below, not dated

• Ref: 1370/70 — Deed, 1658
• Ref: 707/11-17 — Emma Pit, employees registers 1908-1956