Sacriston Colliery

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 6th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 6/141 — Miners Welfare Committee, Sacriston Colliery - Miners Welfare Scheme, 1954-1958
• Ref: NCB 6/167 — Miners Welfare Committee, Sacriston (Divisional Architects Correspondence re Pithead Baths), 1944-1951

• National Coal Board — 19th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/6 — 3 August 1857 - (1) James Bennett of Salisbury, Wiltshire, esq., John Hayward of Devizes, Wiltshire, esq., and William Brown, gent. (trustees of Wiltshire and Dorset Banking Company) ; (2) George Elliot, of Houghton Hall, coal owner and William Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne, coal owner. Assignment of Sacriston Colliery and Railway etc. from (1) to (2) on payment of £5,875. Attached: a certified extract from the board meeting of the Wiltshire and Dorset Banking Company confirming acceptance of £5,875 from Messrs. Elliot and Hunter, dated 16 July 1857
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/9 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - A plan showing the network of pipes from the Nettlesworth Pumping Station to Sacriston Pit, not dated. Scale: horizontal 1:2500, vertical 60 feet to 1 inch [1:720]
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/10 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - A sketch 'shewing the position of the proposed new shaft at Sacriston', 1912. No scale
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/101 — 16 February 1867 - (1) William Jobling and Ann, his wife, of Lanchester; Francis Holmes of Findon Hill; and Samuel Holmes of Findon Hill ; (2) William John Pringle, Henry Strachan Pringle, Joseph Dixon Pringle, coal fitters of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Morgan Robinson of Sacriston, colliery viewer. Copy abstract of lease of coal, fireclay and ironstone in royalty belonging to (1) leased to (2) for 21 years from the date of lease
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/206 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - 4 July 1854 - (1) Susanna Jennings of Evershot, Dorset, widow and executrix of William Jennings ; (2) James Bennett of Salisbury, Wiltshire, esq.; John Hayward of Browfoot, near Devizes, Wiltshire, esq.; William Brown of Salisbury, Wiltshire, gent. (trustees of the Wiltshire and Dorset Banking Company). Assignment by (1) to (2) of Sacriston Colliery and Railway
• Ref: NCB 19/2/3/207 — Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Company Ltd. - 3 August 1857 - (1) James Bennett of Salisbury, Wiltshire, esq.; John Hayward of Devizes, Wiltshire; William Brown of Salisbury, Wiltshire (gentleman trustees of the Wiltshire and Dorset Banking Company) ; (2) George Elliot of Houghton Hall, coal owner; and William Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne, coal owner. Deed of indemnity whereby (2) purchased Sacriston Colliery and Railway from (1) for £5,875

• National Coal Board — 24th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 24/73 — Public Relations Office Files - Sacriston colliery, 2 April 1965 - 15 November 1985
• Ref: NCB 24/74 — Public Relations Office Files - Sacriston colliery (press-cuttings), 4 July 1966 - 25 September 1987
• Ref: NCB 24/117 — Public Relations Office Files - Historical and statistical information for specific collieries: Adventure, Bearpark, Blackhall, Boldon, Dawdon, Dean and Chapter, Easington, Eppleton, Garesfield, Harraton, Hawthorn Combined (Murton, Eppleton, Elemore), Herrington, Horden, Houghton, Hylton, Kibblesworth, Kimblesworth, Langley Park, Murton, Sacriston, Seaham, Sherburn, Silksworth, South Hetton, Tudhoe Park, Ushaw Moor, Vane Tempest, Wardley/Usworth, Washington 'F', Washington Glebe, Wearmouth, Wheatley Hill and for groups of collieries (including Northumberland), (c.1950 - c.1980)

• National Coal Board — 25th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 25/23 Interim List — Photographs of Sacriston pit ponies at closure of colliery, not dated
• Ref: NCB 25/24 Interim List — Photographs of named pit ponies at Sacriston Colliery, 1985
• Ref: NCB 25/69 Interim List — Photographs from Sacriston Colliery, not dated

• National Coal Board — 30th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 21/11 — Test reports, Sacriston, January 1982 - April 1985
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 29/3 — Salvage, Sacriston Colliery, March 1978 - November 1985
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 55/13 — Construction maintenance and demolition work, Sacriston Colliery, June 1986 - December 1987
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 60/5 — Non-destructive testing, Sacriston Colliery, June 1978 - June 1985
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 72/1 — Shale extraction, Sacriston Colliery, September 1975 - February 1979
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 86/5 — Five year development plans, Colliery meetings with production managers, Sacriston Colliery, February 1984
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 122/2 — Vacancies and appointments, Sacriston Colliery, January 1976 - February 1984
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 129/4 — Pit head bath buildings, Sacriston Colliery, March 1986 - June 1986
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 145/1 — Medical book, Sacriston Garage, February 1978 - May 1983
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 176/8 — Conditions of hiring, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries, November 1939 - April 1967
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 176/9 — Conditions of hiring, Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries, December 1926 - November 1939
• Ref: NCB 30/Box 212/1 — New starters, Sacriston Colliery, July 1980 - November 1983

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 37/13 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Sacriston Colliery, 1954
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 100/1 — Register of employees, Sacriston Colliery, December 1926 - September 1977
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 100/2 — Hiring book, Sacriston Shield Row Drift, December 1926 - November 1946
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 100/4 — Leaving book, Sacriston Colliery, May 1973 - December 1985
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 100/6 — Employment register, Sacriston Colliery, September 1977 - March 1985

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 531/43(iii) — Diagrams of Pumping Arrangements Eldon Colliery, Chilton Colliery, Dean and Chapter Colliery, Leasingthorne and Sacriston Colliery

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 1354/59 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for a temporary advance in prices for consideration in wide boards, 19 October 1898
• Ref: D/X 1354/60 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement instead of a temporary advances in cross cut prices, 11 February 1899
• Ref: D/X 1354/61 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Memorandum under the existing conditions of whole and rib workings for the value of explosives, 7 April 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/62 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Memorandum for a temporary advance in prices for cross cut coals, 7 April 1900-16 June 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/63 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Memorandum of an agreement for hewing prices, 16 June 1900 - 8 September 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/64 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for the temporary advances for hewing prices, 8 September 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/65 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for west cross cut prices, 17 November 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/66 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary hewing prices, 27 December 1900
• Ref: D/X 1354/67 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for hewing prices for whole cross cut workings, 15 March 1901
• Ref: D/X 1354/68 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for cross cut prices for tubs, 31 August 1901
• Ref: D/X 1354/69 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for a reduction in cross cut hewing prices, 23 September 1901
• Ref: D/X 1354/70 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for prices and conditions for filling onto conveyors, 17 May 1904
• Ref: D/X 1354/71 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for a reduction for standard hand putting prices, 26 October 1904
• Ref: D/X 1354/72 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for reductions in hewing prices in all workings, 23 January 1905
• Ref: D/X 1354/73 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Memorandum of agreement for a reduction in the hewing score prices, 2 March 1908
• Ref: D/X 1354/74 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for a reduction in all basic piece rates for stone work and putting, 7 December 1908
• Ref: D/X 1354/75 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement that short shift given to stonemen and shifters to be worked on pay Sundays, 13 February 1909
• Ref: D/X 1354/76 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for side coal prices in the Shield Row seam, 10 March 1911
• Ref: D/X 1354/77 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Award in arbitration by Thomas Lambert of Gateshead, solicitor, for laying out tubs for brat, 2 June 1911
• Ref: D/X 1354/78 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for hewing score prices in the Shield Row seam, 6 September 1911
• Ref: D/X 1354/79 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for a temporary advance of hewing prices, 6 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1354/80 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for hewing prices in the north and west flats, 28 November 1912
• Ref: D/X 1354/81 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for score prices, 7 August 1913, Attached: plan of the Shield Row seam, 19 August 1913. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]
• Ref: D/X 1354/82 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for prices in cross cut winnings, 30 October 1913
• Ref: D/X 1354/83 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for score prices for diving split bords in pillars, 12 December 1913
• Ref: D/X 1354/84 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for continued operation and increase in hewing prices in cross cut seams, 22 January 1914
• Ref: D/X 1354/85 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances on standard score prices, 16 April 1914
• Ref: D/X 1354/86 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for riding on underground trains, 14 September 1914
• Ref: D/X 1354/87 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances of hewing prices, 2 September 1914 and 23 January 1915
• Ref: D/X 1354/88 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances for cross cut prices, 22 March 1915
• Ref: D/X 1354/89 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances in score prices, 14 June 1915
• Ref: D/X 1354/90 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances in cross cut prices, 27 November 1915
• Ref: D/X 1354/91 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances of prices for whole and second workings, 23 February 1916
• Ref: D/X 1354/92 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for renewal of temporary advances of prices, 2 June 1916
• Ref: D/X 1354/93 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary hewing score prices, 5 August 1916
• Ref: D/X 1354/94 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary advances in the Shield Row seam for pay, commencing 28 October 1916
• Ref: D/X 1354/95 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for local advances in pay, for the quarter ending 14 April 1917
• Ref: D/X 1354/96 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary cross cut prices, 22 December 1917 and 16 February 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/97 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices for the quarter ending 11 May 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/98 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for the temporary prices for the quarter ending 3 August 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/99 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary score prices for whole and broken coal, 3 August 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/100 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement that the three shift system is suspended for the duration of the war, 15 February 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/101 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices in the Shield Row seam, 23 October 1918
• Ref: D/X 1354/102 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices for whole and broken coals, 18 January 1919
• Ref: D/X 1354/103 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices for whole and broken workings, 5 July 1919
• Ref: D/X 1354/104 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices for whole and broken workings, 22 September 1919
• Ref: D/X 1354/105 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for temporary prices for whole and broken workings, 16 December 1919
• Ref: D/X 1354/106 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for hewing broken prices, 11 March 1922
• Ref: D/X 1354/107 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for whole score prices in the Main cross cut district, 12 December 1922
• Ref: D/X 1354/108 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - List of prices paid by agreements in all districts, 20 June 1924
• Ref: D/X 1354/109 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Agreement for prices and conditions working in the Five Quarter seam, 3 December 1927
• Ref: D/X 1354/110 — Sacriston Pit, Shield Row Drift - Tender for stone drift from Shield Row to Shield Row, in the new North district, 6 February 1928
• Ref: D/X 1354/111 — Sacriston Pit, Brockwell Seam - Agreement in arbitration for prices and conditions, 10 July 1919
• Ref: D/X 1354/112 — Sacriston Pit, Busty Seam - Agreement for temporary prices and conditions, 13 March - 5 June 1920

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: DF/WF/28/1-2 — Viewers reports, 1800-1838