Pontop Colliery

Research Notes

• Strathmore Estate (Estate and Family Records)
• Ref: D/St/C3/4/18 — John Daglish: Profit estimates, valuations of coal reserves, plan and other working papers relating to a valuation of Dipton and Pontop collieries, October 1885

• National Coal Board — 15th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 15/3 — Report printed by Durham Coal Owners' Association on the case of Press v Bowes and partners, concerning the refusal of workmen at Pontop Colliery to descend the mine with a non-unionist, 13 November 1893

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 115/2 — Pontop Colliery - Colliery pays, 1818
• Ref: D/X 115/3 — Pontop Colliery - List of fitters and their accounts for coal vended at Dunston staith, 1823
• Ref: D/X 115/4 — Pontop Colliery - River vend account, 1824
• Ref: D/X 115/5 — Pontop Colliery - Colliery farms' husbandry receipts, 1823-1824
• Ref: D/X 115/6 — Pontop Colliery - Rents received for colliery houses, 1824
• Ref: D/X 115/7 — Pontop Colliery - Miscellaneous accounts and receipts for repair and craftsmen's work at the colliery, supplies etc. 1813-1837
• Ref: D/X 115/9 — Account for transport of cinders and small coals to Cronstadt for owners of Pontop Colliery, 1822
• Ref: D/X 115/10 — Freightage accounts for West Main and Bute Wallsend coals vended from Pontop, 1823
• Ref: D/X 651/5 — 1832. (1) Charles Smythe of Brambridge House, Esquire ; (2) William Harrison of the Grange, near Monkwearmouth, Esquire; John Fairweather Harrison of London, Esquire; Thomas Barnard of London, Esquire, co-partners in the Stanhope and Tyne Rail Road Company. Draft sub-lease from (1) to (2) of all those mines and quarries demised by D/X 651/4 within recited comprising the Pontop Colliery for a term expiring on 14 January 1852. Rent: £1300 p.a. plus tentale rent as specified

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: DX198/1, DF/WF/28/1-4 — Viewers reports, 1779-1847