Heaton Colliery

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/X 32 — Heaton colliery - (i) "The copey of a veiwe that was made May 23rd 1745" - rough notes of statement re flooding between North Biddick and Fatfield, re water levels when Thistle pit was sinking, flooding at Jarmount, Gosforth, Lambton and Birkley (?), etc.
• Ref: NCB 01/X 32 — Heaton colliery - (ii)"observations and opinion with respect to a new winning under the Thistle pit dike at Heaton ..." (re impossibility of sinking to the necessary depth of probably 90 fathoms, due to water and danger of fire) by Nicholas Walton, Amos Barnes, Edward Smith, George Claughton, William Dryden and Richard Peck
• Ref: NCB 01/X 32 — Heaton colliery - (iii) notes (by un-named writer of the notes re flooding) re his length of service at various collieries (Bensham, Ravensworth, Heaton, North Biddick, Chatershaugh) and re acres wrought and unwrought at Heaton, 1745
• Ref: NCB 01/X 33 — Heaton colliery - Names and depths of the pits, water, etc., 1747
• Ref: NCB 01/X 34 — Heaton colliery - Calculations re fall of seam (?) between Thistle pit and Eastern boundary, called Spanish Closes, 1747
• Ref: NCB 01/X 35 — Heaton colliery - Calculations re working costs, 1747
• Ref: NCB 01/X 36 — Heaton colliery - Calculations or memoranda re flooding, etc., 1747

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/331 — Sketch of Heaton Colliery Stone Drifts, 1813
• Ref: NCB 2/332 — Plan of Heaton Middle Pit, 1813
• Ref: NCB 2/335 — Plan showing Jane Pit Dyke and Thistle Pit Dyke at Heaton (Northumberland), not dated [early 19th cent.]

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: 3415/CK/1, 4, 7-8 — Accounts, correspondence, deeds, rentals, legal papers and agreements, 1520-1737
• Ref: DF/WF/30, DX844/1 — Accounts, 1840-1858
• Ref: DF/WF/35/1 — Valuation, 1900
• Ref: DX198/1, DF/WF/28/1-4, DX214/1 — Viewers reports, 1736-1847