Shire Moor Colliery

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of John Bell Simpson (1837-1926)
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 26 — Correspondence - A-C: J. H. Cox (Sunderland) re private affairs, Shire Moor colliery [in French], finances, state of trade, etc., 1866-1876 [101-107]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 27 — Correspondence - D-G: G. C. Greenwell (Poynton, Cheshire[?]) re Shire Moor colliery; underground drawing engine in a Lancashire colliery, with diagram; urging reconciliation with R. Simpson, etc., 1874-1876 [77-81]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 28 — Correspondence - H-L: Harvey and Co. (Hayle, Cornwall) re Shire Moor colliery matter, etc., 1874, 1876 [19-20, 20A]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 30 — Correspondence - S: Robert Simpson [father] re Stella Coal Company affairs (T. Y. Hall's behaviour, management, etc.) Shire Moor colliery; announcing, explaining and apologising for his second marriage; typhus fever epidemic, etc., 1866-1876 [28-50]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 31 — Correspondence - T-W: Rev. R. F. Wheeler (Whitley, Newcastle) inquiring re possibility of supplying water from Shire Moor colliery, especially for Monkseaton and new part of Whitley, as Shields Water Company cannot cope, 1876 [44]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 32 — File of letters: R. Galloway (Shire Moor) re Seaham pitmen sending in their notice, wage reductions, strike, colliery affairs, etc. [2, 10, 14, 16, 22, 28, 32, 37]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 32 — File of letters: G. C. Hair (Shire Moor) re Shire Moor colliery affairs, etc. [3, 33]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 32 — File of letters: J. Nanson (Newcastle) re strike, Shire Moor colliery, etc. [26, 30]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 32 — File of letters: R. Simpson [father] re strike, Stella and Shire Moor colliery affairs, etc. [1, 7, 9, 18, 20, 21, 31, 38]

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of Robert Simpson (1814-1894)
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 398 — Newspaper Cuttings: Cutting of first sod at Shire Moor colliery, 1873

• User Guide 19B — Collieries
• Ref: DX198/1, DX214/1 — Viewers reports, 1767-1788