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Tanfield Lea Colliery

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Durham Record Office, County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL

  • Ref: NCB 7/2/1 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Durham Coal Owners' agreements and minutes re score prices at Alma Pit, West Pelton Colliery at Bute Pit, Tanfield Lea Colliery, 25 June 1855 - 13 June 1906
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/3 — Labouring bill for Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1869
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/4 — Tolls and petty cash payments at Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1869
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/2 — Receipt from North Eastern Railway Company to Joicey and Company, Tanfield Lea, Annfield, March 1869
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/5 — Bank bill for Tanfield Lea Colliery, 13 March 1869
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/6 — Pay bill for Bute and Ann Pits, Tanfield Lea Colliery, 2 April 1869
  • Ref: NCB 10/1/7 — Pay bill for Bute Pit, Tanfield Lea Colliery, 2 April 1869
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/54 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statement on cost per ton of teaming coal into, and filling out of, heaps at Tanfield and Beamish collieries, 9 July 1920
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/76 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and papers re the construction of screens for the various pits at Handen Hold and Tanfield Lea Collieries, including diagrams referring to details of construction, 9 May 1903
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/43 — Correspondence, statements, particulars and plans re trespass by the South Derwent Coal Co. Ltd. in the Beaumont Seam, Tanfield Lea Colliery, and in the Hutton Seam from West Shield Row Colliery, belonging to Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Collieries, Ltd. and exchange of a portion of West Shield Row royalty, 17 May 1907 - 25 February 1943
  • Ref: NCB 7/4/9 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence between Lord Joicey, Ford Castle, Northumberland, John Humble and Norman Nisbet both of Harperley Hall, Tantobie and others re production losses at Tanfield Lea Colliery and about miners' houses, 2 May 1912 - 12 May 1927
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/42 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements and estimated accounts for modernisation of all collieries, especially Twizell Colliery, Tanfield Colliery and Beamish Colliery, with related correspondence, 5 November 1914 - 23 September 1920
  • Ref: NCB 7/7/2 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement showing the quantity of coal used at Margaret Pit for winding and hauling engines and estimated quantity of coal to be used after the hauling engine has been electrified and the electric pump installed, 1 June 1915
  • Ref: NCB 7/7/4 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement showing the quantity of coals consumed in generating steam for the various engines at Tanfield Colliery, 17 August 1916
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/44 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements and correspondence re the estimated savings per annum by the abolition of the Bute Pit as a coal drawing shaft, 10 August 1916 - 11 August 1916
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/81 — Papers re sections of strata at Tanfield Lea Collieries, losses of coal at Beamish Colliery and quantity of Coal to be left as support for property at various collieries worked by James Joicey & Co. Ltd., 12 March 1917 - 4 May 1917
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/79 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement showing the estimated quantity of coal available in the problematical areas lying to the north of the workings in the Tanfield Moor and Tanfield Lea freehold royalties, 22 September 1917
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/47 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement showing savings to be effected by drawing coals from Margaret Shaft, Bute Pit, 5 July 1918
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/92 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements, Accounts and correspondence showing the effect of the Sankey Award at Twizell, Beamish and Tanfield Collieries, 9 January -22 November 1919
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/83 — Correspondence between James Joicey & Co. Ltd. and M. W. Parrington re an application to work a portion of the Beamish Brockwell Seam at Tanfield Lea Colliery, including plans of Beamish and East Shield Row Collieries, 21 February 1919 - 7 April 1924
  • Ref: NCB 7/7/6 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Quarterly reports of controller re Beamish, Tanfield, Twizell and West Pelton mines, 29 March 1919 - 31 March 1921
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/84 — Correspondence between John Rogers of Tanfield Lea and James Joicey & Co. Ltd., re request to extract coals from Hutton Seam at the north side of Bute Pit, including plan of Tanfield Lea Colliery, 23 April 1919 - 23 May 1919
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/24 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement shewing tons of coal produced per man per shift at Tanfield Lea Colliery of James Joicey and Co., Ltd., 19 September 1921
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/56 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statements on coal cutter and conveyor costs at Tanfield Lea Collieries, 1923
  • Ref: NCB 7/2/7 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements concerning Tanfield Lea Colliery, with covering correspondence re hours at Bute pit, alterations to hewing score prices, hours of mechanics at Beamish and Tanfield Lea collieries conditions relating to the Hutton Bottom Section Seam for stonemen and canchmen; an addition to the filler's agreement; prices and conditions in the Brockwell Seam and Bottom Busty Seam and a reduction in the hewing price in Hutton seam, 8 February 1924 - 19 February 1931
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/26 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Returns to the Mining Association of particulars of shafts, manshifts worked, persons employed, output, free coal, housing for Tanfield Lea, East Stanley, Beamish, Twizell, Handen Hold and Twizell Burn Pits, 1925
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/58 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statements re the cost of re-opening Margaret pit, Tanfield Lea Colliery, November 1925
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/88 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and reports re complaint by the Royal Commission on the inefficiency of Tanfield Lea Colliery, 9 - 23 January 1926
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/136 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and papers re disputes at Handen Hold and Tanfield Lea Collieries, 12 July - 16 November 1929
  • Ref: NCB 7/1/58 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - [March] 1930 - (1) Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Collieries, Ltd. ; (2) Annfield Plain and District Gas Co. Draft agreement for the maintenance and use of gas mains at or near Tanfield Lea Colliery, With plan and covering correspondence, 11 March - 19 May 1930
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/96 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statements re costs of re-opening and working of Tanfield Lea and Beamish Mary Pits, 16 January 1931 - 2 January 1932
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/97 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and reports re a coal survey concerning samples of the Hutton and Main Coal Seams from Tanfield Moor, Tanfield Lea, Beamish, Herrington and Silksworth; the Busty Seam at Tanfield Lea, Beamish Mary and West Pelton pits; and the Victoria Seam at Tanfield Lea, 24 April 1931 - 30 October 1939
  • Ref: NCB 7/2/14 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Agreements made for Tanfield Lea Colliery re conditions for enginemen, mechanics, workmen and stonemen; prices and conditions for hewing and filling into tubs and hand-putting and pony-putting: prices and conditions for operating coal-cutting machines, filling coal into tubs, and drilling holes in coal by hand at Longwall. Also agreements concerning the group hewing system, group filling system and the shifters short shift and fine coal agreement, 19 November 1931 - 8 May 1934
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/67 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re Tanfield Lea and East Shield Row royalties including statements of the amount of coal left to be drawn at Tanfield Lea Colliery, seam sections and coal available at 31 December 1932, 31 December 1932 - 3 May 1933
  • Ref: D/X 1175/12 — Welfare Institute Section games account, probably from Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1935-1962
  • Ref: D/X 1175/13 — Welfare Institute Section shop account book, probably from Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1935-1963
  • Ref: D/X 1175/14 — Tanfield Lea Colliery, Welfare Institute Section cash book (combined schemes), 1935-1942
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/109 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and papers dealing with underground fire at Tanfield Lea Colliery, with plans showing position of fire, 11 June 1935 -3 August 1935
  • Ref: NCB 7/4/36 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence re dispute at Tanfield Lea Colliery, 17 September 1936, 18 September 1936 - 21 September 1936
  • Ref: D/X 1175/9 — Portion of Welfare Institute Section account book, probably from Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1937-1946
  • Ref: D/X 1175/20 — Programme of proceedings at the Tanfield Lea Collieries Annual Dinner held on 8 January 1938
  • Ref: NCB 3/159 — Tanfield Lea Colliery - House rent book, 1939-1949
  • Ref: D/X 1175/4 — Tanfield Lea and Tanfield Moor Colliery Canteen Committee minutes, 1941-1953
  • Ref: D/X 1175/10 — Portion of Welfare Institute Section account book, probably from Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1942-1947
  • Ref: D/X 1175/5 — Tanfield Lea and Tanfield Moor Colliery canteen account book, 1943-1946
  • Ref: D/X 1175/15 — Tanfield Lea Colliery, Welfare Institute Section cash book (combined schemes), 1943-1951
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/11 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Minutes and reports of the Pit Production Committees of Tanfield Moor, Tanfield Lea, Beamish Mary, Beamish Second, Handen Hold and Twizell Burn Pits, 5 January - 5 December 1945
  • Ref: NCB 7/5/12 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and statements re the awarding to five men of war savings certificates for their bravery during an accident at Tanfield Lea Pit, 22 January - 24 February 1945
  • Ref: NCB 33/Box 25/23 — Colliery specification, working and projection of results, Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1947 - 1954
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/101 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Special attendance and productivity returns for Tanfield Lea, Tanfield Moor, Beamish, Mary and Beamish Second Pits, belonging to James Joicey and Co., Ltd., 18 January - 21 February 1947
  • Ref: D/X 1175/6 — Tanfield Lea Colliery canteen wages book, 1948-1952
  • Ref: D/X 1175/11 — Tanfield Lea Colliery, Welfare Institute Section income and expenditure account book, 1948-1962
  • Ref: D/X 1175/7 — Tanfield Lea Colliery canteen account book, 1950-1952
  • Ref: D/X 1175/17 — Tanfield Lea Colliery, Welfare Institute Section cash book (indoor), 1951-1963
  • Ref: D/X 1175/16 — Tanfield Lea Colliery, Welfare Institute Section cash book (combined schemes), 1952-1963
  • Ref: D/X 1175/8 — Tanfield Lea Margaret Pit canteen wages book, May-June 1952
  • Ref: D/X 1175/18 — Welfare Institute Section subscription lists (?), probably from Tanfield Lea Colliery, 1962-1963
  • Ref: NCB 7/3/31 — James Joicey & Co. Ltd. - Statement showing the increase and decrease in tons per man per shift at [Tanfield] Colliery, Margaret Pit, not dated

Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA

  • Ref: DX198/1, DF/WF/28/1-4, 3415/CG/4/81 — Viewers reports, 1722-1846

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