New Brancepeth Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: D/X 531/21 — 19 September 1883. (1) George Greenwell of Silver Street, Durham, grocer, and Thomas Ford of Shincliffe Bank Top, Timber Merchant, both executors of Oliver Angus, dec'd. ; (2) William and Brodie Cochrane ; (3) Charles Cochrane and others known as 'The Owners of New Brancepeth Colliery. Duplicate conveyance from (1) to (3) of minerals under 77a 19p. of land as shown in plan attached. Recites: Mortgage to Mary Skipsey, 28 October 1876. Agreement for sale of minerals from Oliver Angus to (3), 29 July 1879. Covenants: (3) to pay to (1) £5 p.a. for every acre of surface land rendered unfit for agricultural use. (3) to pay to (1) compensation for damage to Unthank Farm buildings. (3) to deliver to (1) 20 tons of house coal p.a. free from 1879 for 10 years. Consideration: £4,500
• Ref: NCB 4/136 — Esh, Waterhouses, Ushaw Moor & New Brancepeth (or Sleetburn) Collieries - Reports estimates of hewing costs, statistics etc., 1902-1918
• Ref: D/X 438/1 — New Brancepeth Colliery Welfare Scheme accounts, 1925-1946
• Ref: NCB 14/221 — New Brancepeth Colliery, record of compensation payments, 1 January 1933 - 9 October 1948
• Ref: NCB 14/222 — Schedules and calculations of workmens' compensation liability, New Brancepeth Colliery Company Ltd., 31 December 1933 - 1 July 1937
• Ref: NCB 31/Box 85/16 — Agreement between North Eastern Electric Supply Company and New Brancepeth Colliery Company Limited, covering energy supplies to New Brancepeth Colliery, October 1936 - August 1940
• Ref: D/X 531/27 — Strakers and Love, Statement of interests concerning Oakenshaw, Brandon, Brancepeth, New Brancepeth and Bowden Close Collieries. not dated, c.1940
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 57/8 — Balance sheet audit, New Brancepeth Colliery, 1947
• Ref: D/X 531/28(iii) — Plan of overhead electrical transmission, aerial ropeways and water mains relating to Brandon, Oakenshaw, Bowden Close and New Brancepeth Collieries. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile

• Ref: NUMDA/3/2/46 — New Brancepeth lodge subscription register [1954-1957]
  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.