Esh Colliery

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/308 — Esh Colliery. Plans of workings, not dated [c.1930]

• National Coal Board — 4th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 4/63 — Reports on the Deerness Collieries 1926-1934. Include reports on Esh and Waterhouses Collieries, 1934
• Ref: NCB 4/67 — Esh Colliery - Index to agreements 1873-1922
• Ref: NCB 4/68 — Esh Colliery - Agreements re workings, 1879-1948 (with index. Includes related papers and plan of five quarter seam Doctors and Hagwood districts, 1942 and plan of Brockwell Seam Soap Hill main coal seam, 1946)
• Ref: NCB 4/69 — Esh Colliery - Accounts of yard work at the North Pit 1914
• Ref: NCB 4/70-86 — Esh Colliery - Annual Reports, 1920-1924, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1933, 1935-1938
• Ref: NCB 4/87-95 — Esh Colliery - Manager's diaries, 1921-1929
• Ref: NCB 4/96 — Esh Colliery - Half-yearly cost statements, 1920-1931
• Ref: NCB 4/97 — Esh Colliery - Application for money for the extension of the compressed air range, 1930
• Ref: NCB 4/98-100 — Esh Colliery - Manager's reports, 1935-1942
• Ref: NCB 4/101 — Esh Colliery - Papers concerning the re-opening of the colliery, 1935f.
• Ref: NCB 4/129-130 — Esh Colliery Manager's annual report. 1925. 1927-1928. Waterhouses Colliery Manager's annual report, 1925, 1927, 1928 and 1931
• Ref: NCB 4/131 — Esh, Waterhouses & Ushaw Moor Collieries - Details of coking costs. 1897-1916
• Ref: NCB 4/132-134 — Esh, Waterhouses & Ushaw Moor Collieries - Manager's notebooks, 1928-1932
• Ref: NCB 4/135 — Esh, Waterhouses, Ushaw Moor & Brandon Collieries - Abstracts of paybills. 1894-1897 Include also details of stores
• Ref: NCB 4/136 — Esh, Waterhouses, Ushaw Moor & New Brancepeth (or Sleetburn) Collieries - Reports estimates of hewing costs, statistics etc., 1902-1918
• Ref: NCB 4/218 — Esh Winning Miners' Memorial Hall Committee and Annual Meetings minutes, 1923-1927

• National Coal Board — 13th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 13/193 — Pease and Partners - Account of coal taken from Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 5 May 1917 - March 1948
• Ref: NCB 13/194 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 22 January 1920 -26 April 1924
• Ref: NCB 13/195 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 18 April 1925 - 6 July 1927
• Ref: NCB 13/196 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 19 April 1930 - 18 February 1933
• Ref: NCB 13/199 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Esh Colliery, January 1943 - October 1947
• Ref: NCB 13/201 — Pease and Partners - Annual reports, Waterhouses and Esh Collieries, 1939-1943
• Ref: NCB 13/202 — Pease and Partners - Annual reports, Waterhouses and Esh Collieries, 1939-1946
• Ref: NCB 13/204 — Pease and Partners - Papers concerning re-opening of Esh Colliery, 4 February 1937 - 5 March 1942
• Ref: NCB 13/209 — Pease and Partners - General file including: payment of contributions to Northumberland and Durham Miners' Permanent Relief Fund; Esh and Waterhouses Recreation Association; power cuts and electric repairs at Waterhouses; numbers, ages and occupations of employees and arrangements for their shifts; overtime etc.; a list of goods in stock at Hopetown warehouse; report on horses and ponies; 1926-1928

• National Coal Board — 24th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 24/30 — Public Relations Office Files - Esh colliery, 7 February 1961 - 31 May 1968
• Ref: NCB 24/31 — Public Relations Office Files - Esh colliery (press-cuttings) 19 July 1961 - 29 June 1968

• National Coal Board — 30th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 82/5 — Closed collieries, Land use, Esh Winning Colliery, May 1968 - October 1968
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 235/1 — Register of workmen, Esh Colliery, 1960

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/1 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Esh Colliery, 1954

• Photocopies and photographs
• Ref: D/Ph 101/8 — Photograph of houses at Esh Colliery village, 1973
• Ref: D/Ph 101/9 — Photograph, and copy, of Esh Colliery village, 1973
• Ref: D/Ph 101/10 — Photograph of Esh Winning, 1973
• Ref: D/Ph 101/11 — Photograph of Esh Winning, 1973
• Ref: D/Ph 101/14 — Newspaper cutting re closure of Esh Winning pit, 1968

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 390/1 — Esh Colliery - Cavilling Rules, 1967

• Durham Miner's Association — Archives
• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/23 — Esh lodge subscription register [1970]
  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.
• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/24 — Esh Hill Top lodge subscription registers [1937-1963]
  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: 3015 — Viewers report, 1889