Mainsforth Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: NCB 30/Box 118/1 — Engagement of workmen, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1872 - August 1946
• Ref: D/Ph 232/1 — Account of the strata sunk through in the B pit, Mainsforth, commenced 7 August 1873
• Ref: NCB 01/X 72 — Mainsforth Colliery, working accounts, 1905-1939
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 118/2 — Engagement of workmen, Mainsforth, 1906 - 1909
• Ref: NCB 01/X 73 — Draft letter [from Carlton Iron Company Limited, Mainsforth Colliery?] to Colonel H. C. Surtees re colliery affairs, royalty rent, etc.; and letter noting installation of electric power plant at Mainsforth colliery, 1907
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/21 — Agreements, Mainsforth Colliery, July 1907 - August 1948
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 201/3 — Register of all persons employed below ground, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1908 - April 1926
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/2 — Old agreements, Mainsforth Colliery, August 1911 - December 1949
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/3 — Old agreements, Mainsforth, November 1911 - December 1939
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/19 — Agreements, Mainsforth Colliery, November 1912 - November 1966
• Ref: NCB 13/308 — Correspondence between Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company, Charles Howson, Mainsforth Colliery, and J. H. B. Forster, Whitworth House, Spennymoor, concerning four drifts being driven through the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' barrier, Busty Seam, Bishop Middleham Royalty, 9 - 12 March 1918
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/17 — Agreements, Mainsforth Colliery, July 1920 - November 1939
• Ref: NCB 6/122-124 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths, 1926-1951
• Ref: NCB 13/309 — Correspondence between J. H. B. Forster, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company, Tudhoe Ironworks, Spennymoor, and Charles Howson, Dorman, Long and Co., Mainsforth Colliery, Ferryhill, concerning surveying of land at Bishop Middleham Colliery prior to building an engine house and electric substation, plan attached, 3 December 1927 - 6 February 1928
• Ref: NCB 13/57 — Dorman, Long and Company - Reports by doctors attending on accident cases, Mainsforth Colliery, 27 April 1928 - 25 August 1933
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 201/4 — Register of persons employed below ground, Mainsforth Colliery, June 1928 - August 1945
• Ref: NCB 6/125 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths, Opening Ceremony, 1929-1930
• Ref: NCB 6/127 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Management Committee), 1929-1936
• Ref: NCB 6/134 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Steam Meter Charts), 1929-1931
• Ref: NCB 6/128 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Accounts), 1930-1952
• Ref: NCB 6/130 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Cycle Sheds), 1930-19 31
• Ref: NCB 6/131 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Insurance), 1930-1950
• Ref: NCB 6/132 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Legal), 1931-1952
• Ref: NCB 13/58 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book for ambulance room, Mainsforth Colliery, 28 August 1933 - 14 June 1935
• Ref: NCB 13/59 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book for ambulance room, Mainsforth Colliery, 14 June 1935 - 3 July 1936
• Ref: NCB 13/60 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book for ambulance room, Mainsforth Colliery, 5 July 1936 - 14 October 1937
• Ref: NCB 13/61 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book for ambulance room, Mainsforth Colliery, 15 October 1937 - 30 November 1938
• Ref: NCB 6/126 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Extension), 1938-1951
• Ref: NCB 13/62 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book, Mainsforth Colliery, 1 December 1938 - 30 November 1939
• Ref: NCB 13/63 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book for ambulance room, Mainsforth Colliery, 1 December 1939 - 6 November 1940
• Ref: NCB 4/44 — Mainsforth Colliery - Register of trainees, [c.1940-1947]
• Ref: NCB 13/64 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book, Mainsforth Colliery 4 November 1940 - 6 August 1941
• Ref: NCB 6/133 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (War Damage), 1941-1946
• Ref: NCB 13/65 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book, Mainsforth Colliery 7 August 1941 - 24 August 1942
• Ref: NCB 13/66 — Dorman, Long and Company - Accident report book, Mainsforth Colliery, 24 August 1942 - 31 October 1943
• Ref: NCB 6/129 — Miners Welfare Committee, Mainsforth Colliery - Pithead Baths (Extension, Allocations and Payments), 1945-1949
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 116/1 — Starters book, Mainsforth Colliery, August 1945 - January 1968
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 201/2 — Leavers, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1946 - January 1954
• Ref: D/Ph 285/3 — Photograph of Mainsforth Colliery band at Durham Miners' Gala, 1948
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 40/14 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Mainsforth Colliery, 1954
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/11 — Putters, application for wages increase, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1955 - September 1958
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/12 — Banksmen and onsetters, Mainsforth Colliery, July 1955 - September 1955
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/6 — Application for increase in price for low main seam fillers, Mainsforth Colliery, October 1955 - January 1959
• Ref: NCB 24/54 — Public Relations Office Files - Mainsforth colliery (press-cuttings), 16 November 1956 - 7 December 1968
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/14 — Application for increase in filling price, Mainsforth Colliery, January 1958 - November 1958
• Ref: NCB 24/55 — Public Relations Office Files - Mainsforth colliery, 12 February 1958 - 19 August 1965
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/13 — Application for increase in shifting gear payment, Mainsforth Colliery, November 1959 - January 1960
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/18 — Supports checkers, Mainsforth Colliery, May 1962 - December 1964
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/8 — Joint assimilation, Mainsforth Colliery, July 1962 - March 1966
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/9 — Loader lads, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1962 - August 1964
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/10 — Long wall cutting and disposal of kirvings, Mainsforth Colliery, October 1962
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/15 — Disputed assimilation, Mainsforth Colliery, December 1962 - July 1964
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 260/20 — Agreements, Mainsforth Colliery, November 1966 - March 1967
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 82/8 — Closed collieries, Land use, Mainsforth Colliery, September 1968 - October 1971
• Ref: D/X 531/31 — Plan of section from Mainsforth Colliery West Shaft to Chilton Colliery No. 1 shaft showing pillar workings, goaf, solid barriers and water logged workings. not dated. Scale: 1 : 5,000
• Ref: D/X 531/32 — Plan of Dean and Chapter, Mainsforth and Chilton Collieries - Harvey Seam. not dated. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: D/X 531/46 — Diagram showing Shaft Sections and holdings in S.W. Zone (Divisional Water Survey) from Randolph No. 2 to Mainsforth West Pit. not dated Vertical Scale: 1 : 2,500
• Ref: D/X 1103/39 — Volume includes: Account of strata at Mainsforth Colliery, not dated
• Ref: D/EBF 58 — Mainsforth Colliery, Electric Shaft Signalling Apparatus, not dated

• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/42 — Mainsforth lodge subscription registers [1955-1973]
  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.