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Garesfield Colliery
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Durham Record Office, County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL
- Strathmore Estate (Estate and Family Records)
- Ref: D/St/B1/3/30 — Letter from George Hill at Kenton to Messrs. George Johnson and Joseph Gray giving his judgement concerning the amount of rent payable to John Bowes and Miss Simpson by the Garesfield Colliery Co. for wayleave across Garesfield Farm and Bate House, with enclosed sumary of terms of the lease of 1837, December 18[3]7
- Ref: D/St/B1/3/31 — Letter from Nathaniel Wood at Killingworth to Ralph Fenwick at Marley Hill detailing the terms of wayleave granted by Miss Ada Simpson and John Bowes to Garesfield Colliery Co., 19 August 1838
- Ref: D/St/B1/3/36 — Letter from Joseph Cowen at Blaydon Burn to Ralph Fenwick at Marley Hill applying for coal and fireclay in Winlaton Lordship which the owners of Garesfield are to quit, 1 February 1839
- Ref: D/St/B1/15/1 — 21 March 1863 - (1) The owners of Garesfield colliery (trustees of the late Marquis of Bute and representatives of the late Lady Ravensworth). (2) The employees of Garesfield colliery. Pitmen's bond and condition book: agreement for the employment of (2) by (1) setting out terms of employment and pay for each class of workman for one year from 5 April 1863
- Ref: D/St/C3/4/4 — John Daglish: Copy rent accounts, accounts of fireclay and coal worked and letters to John Daglish relating to outstroke and watercourse rents owed by the Consett Iron Co. to the Lords of Winlaton for the Chopwell and Government royalties at Garesfield colliery, 1887 - 1893
- National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
- Ref: NCB 01/TH 4 — (James Hall?) Garesfield colliery rent accounts, 1825-1829
- Ref: NCB 01/TH 54 — Statement of seams of coal in Garesfield colliery, 1823; report to John Gregson, advising him on letting his coal, 1831; valuation of coal at East Herrington belonging to G. F. Minton, by Hall and T. E. Foster, 1839; valuation of coal in Cutler Hall estate, not dated; draft report on Sunderland and Durham railway, not dated; printed list of persons holding minimum of 50 shares in the Newcastle, Shields and Sunderland Union Joint Stock Bank, 1849; anonymous letter re Sunderland and Durham railway, not dated
- Ref: NCB 01/X 10 — Garesfield colliery, agreement or bond for working the colliery, 1866
- Ref: NCB 01/X 189 — Copies of Hair's engravings, c. 1844: Garesfield Colliery
- National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of John Bell Simpson (1837-1926)
- Ref: NCB 01/JS 28 — Correspondence - H-L: J. Humble (Garesfield colliery) re dismissing a new employee (Sam Pletts) who had not served his notice with J. Simpson, 1866 [39]
- National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of Robert Simpson (1814-1894)
- Ref: NCB 01/RS 204 — Plans, Garesfield and Barlow Fell collieries belonging to the lords of Winlaton (showing pits, bore-holes and their dates (1765-1897), landowners, surface features, etc., and statement of remaining coal), not dated
- National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
- Ref: NCB 2/5 — Consett Iron Company Collieries - Garesfield Bute Pit, pay bills, 1890-1893
- National Coal Board — 10th Deposit
- National Coal Board — 24th Deposit
- Ref: NCB 24/117 — Public Relations Office Files - Historical and statistical information for specific collieries: Adventure, Bearpark, Blackhall, Boldon, Dawdon, Dean and Chapter, Easington, Eppleton, Garesfield, Harraton, Hawthorn Combined (Murton, Eppleton, Elemore), Herrington, Horden, Houghton, Hylton, Kibblesworth, Kimblesworth, Langley Park, Murton, Sacriston, Seaham, Sherburn, Silksworth, South Hetton, Tudhoe Park, Ushaw Moor, Vane Tempest, Wardley/Usworth, Washington 'F', Washington Glebe, Wearmouth, Wheatley Hill and for groups of collieries (including Northumberland), (c.1950 - c.1980)
- National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
- Ref: NCB 33/Box 25/9 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Garesfield Colliery, 1947 - 1954
Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
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