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Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office, Council Offices, Wallace Green, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1ED
- Ref: NRO1216/B2/5/1 — Accounts of disbursements and receipts for sale of malt and coal from Ford and Gatherick Collieries. Sept 1685 - May 1686
- Ref: NRO1216/E4/36 — Ford Estate accounts (48 documents) 1771 - 72, 1772 - 73, 1773 - 74, enclosed in three brown paper wrappers all endorsed 'Two of the within Books extracted to shew the payment of the Ancient Modus - Knight v. The Marquis of Waterford, Sept.24, 1830'. Booklets contain separate accounts for the Land Estate West of the Till, Sir John Hussey Delaval, Bart., the Pantile and Brick Yard, the Forge and Iron Factory, Flodden Farms, Ford Castle, Ford Colliery, Ford Lime-Kiln and Quarry, Household Expenses, the Land Estate East of the Till, and abstracts of these accounts.
- Ref: NRO1216/B1/40 — Ford Colliery and Limestone Quarry. Draft lease from Lord Delaval to Robert Smith and Adam Sibbit of Ford Colliery and Limestone Quarry for 15 years at a yearly rent of £130. 1783
- Ref: NRO1216/B1/38 — Ford Colliery and Limestone Quarry. Draft proposal of Robert Smith for a 9 - year lease of colliery and quarry from Sir John Hussey Delaval. 31 January 1783
- Ref: NRO1216/B1/39 — Ford Colliery and Limestone Quarry. Proposal of Robert Smith and Adam Sibbit for a 15 - year lease of colliery and quarry. 1 February 1783
- Ref: NRO1216/B1/41 — Ford Colliery and Limestone Quarry. Sheet endorsed 'Proposals for Gatherick and Ford Collierys 1792', otherwise blank.
- Ref: NRO1216/B5/3 — Memorandum relating to the maintenance of roads in the vicinity of Ford Colliery, Kimmerston and Broomridge, and to the renewal of the Ford Turnpike Act. 7 June 1811
- Ref: NRO559/88. 8/19 — Detailed plans by Benjamin Thompson for a railway from Ford Colliery to near the Wooler & Coldstream Turnpike Road. February 1852
- Ref: NRO559/88. a — A sectional scheme for a railway from Ford Colliery to near the Wooler & Coldstream Turnpike Road showing longitudinal scheme of fall gradients, etc.; with detailed explanatory notes by Benjamin Thompson. February 1852
- Ref: NRO559/89. 8/19. b — A Bridge to carry a proposed railway over River Till from the Marquis of Waterford's Colliery at Ford, No. 1. Detailed plan of construction, elevation and descriptive notes by Benjamin Thompson. nd
- Ref: NRO559/90. c — A Bridge to carry a proposed railway over River Till from the Marquis of Waterford's Colliery at Ford, No. 1. Detailed plan of construction, elevation and descriptive notes by Benjamin Thompson. No. 2. Another design. nd
- Ref: NRO559/91. d — A Bridge to carry a proposed railway over River Till from the Marquis of Waterford's Colliery at Ford, No. 1. Detailed plan of construction, elevation and descriptive notes by Benjamin Thompson. Self acting inclined plane. nd
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