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Hetton Colliery

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Durham Record Office, County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL

  • National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
    • Ref: NCB 01/TH 61 — Miscellaneous correspondence (including many from T. Wood and others re Black Boy and Hetton colliery affairs and plans), 1831-1832
    • Ref: NCB 01/X 37 — Hetton Colliery: "perspective view of the works of the colliery, the horizontal, inclined and self-acting plans with the locomotive and other engines used on the railway, and the staiths and self-discharging depot on the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland". Also brief description of the opening-out of the colliery, with names of chief officials, and section of strata, not dated (c. 1823)
    • Ref: NCB 01/X 38 — Hetton Colliery: valuation, with investigation of affairs, by Messrs. Hunter and Dunn, 1831. Endorsed by W. C. Blackett: "This is by Joseph Hunter my grandfather. Attached: newscutting obituary of Colonel W. C. Blackett, of the Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Limited, 1935
    • Ref: NCB 01/X 191 — Copies of Hair's engravings, c. 1844: Hetton Colliery
  • National Coal Board — 19th Deposit
    • Ref: NCB 19/2/5/8 — Harton Colliery Coal Co. Ltd. - Minutes of miners' deputations, including reference to Boldon, Hetton and Easington Collieries, 24 February 1949 - 29 December 1951
  • National Coal Board — 30th Deposit
    • Ref: NCB 30/Box 161/1 — Installation agreement and specification for the reduction of surface accidents, Hetton Colliery, October 1982 - January 1983
    • Ref: NCB 30/Box 188/3 — Starters and leavers, Hetton property department, December 1965 - January 1987
  • Miscellaneous documents
    • Ref: D/X 999/72 — Extracts from diary of 'G. N. R.' relating to sinking pits at Seaton, Hetton, Ryhope [Hetton] Downs, 25 March 1848 - 28 February 1851

North East England Mining Archive and Research Centre, Special Collections Room, Murray Library, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD

  • Durham Miner's Association — Archives
    • Ref: NUMDA/3/2/34 — Hetton Lyons lodge subscription register [1957-1962]
      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.

Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA

  • User Guide 19B — Collieries
    • Ref: DX17/1 — Account of explosion, 1836
    • Ref: 730/3 — Notebook of Andrew White, ship and coal owner, 1835-1850
    • Ref: 707/10 — Steamer insurances, 1883-1890
    • Ref: DX198/1, DF/WF/28/1-4 — Viewers reports, 1821-1847

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