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Trimdon Colliery
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Durham Record Office, County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL
- Miscellaneous documents
- Ref: D/X 411/162 — Abstract of the Act and Special Rules established under the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1887 for Trimdon Colliery, 1888
- National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of Robert Simpson (1814-1894)
- Ref: NCB 01/RS 60 — Woods Trimdon and Deaf Hill Colliery: Memorandum and Articles of Association, prospectus, allotment of shares, correspondence, circulars, balance sheets, auditor's reports, directors' reports, report by W. H. Wood on working costs, copies of resolutions of general meetings, calls on shares, debenture bonds, and papers and correspondence concerning liquidation, etc., 1873-1877
- National Coal Board — 4th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
- Ref: NCB 4/205-209 — Trimdon Colliery - Copy letter books, 1878-1881, 1883-1888 Include details of the sale of coal
- Ref: NCB 4/210 — Trimdon Colliery - Abstract of wages, 1880-1887
- Ref: NCB 4/213 — Deaf Hill & Trimdon Collieries - Abstracts of wages, 1887-1893
- Ref: NCB 4/214 — Deaf Hill & Trimdon Collieries - Valuations of damage from pit falls on various farms, 1868-1947
- National Coal Board — 13th Deposit
- Ref: NCB 13/285 — Trimdon Coal Company - Account of strata sunk through new winning, Trimdon Colliery, 13 August 1868
- Ref: NCB 13/286 — Trimdon Coal Company - Sections of strata sunk through new winning, Trimdon Colliery, 13 August 1868
- Ref: NCB 13/287 — Trimdon Coal Company - Letter from Thomas Watson, Trimdon Colliery to W. H. Wood, concerning report on measures needed to combat water in Low Main and Harvey Seams and necessity for action, 6 December 1882
- Ref: NCB 13/288 — Trimdon Coal Company - Letter from R. S. Tate, Trimdon Grange Colliery, to John Wood, Deaf Hill Colliery, concerning proposed route for overhead cable between Trimdon Grange Colliery and Trimdon Colliery, with blueprint, June 1919. Scale: 1:2500
- Ref: NCB 13/289 — Trimdon Coal Company - Letter from J. W. Lodge, solicitor for Sedgefield R.D.C., to Thomas Watson, Deaf Hill Colliery, and letter from John Wood, Deaf Hill Colliery to J. W. Lodge, concerning proposed new road from Trimdon Grange to Trimdon Colliery, 9 and 13 October 1919
- Ref: NCB 13/290 — Trimdon Coal Company - Letters from J. W. Lodge, solicitor for Sedgefield R.D.C., to John Wood, Coxhoe Hall, concerning proposed new road from Trimdon Grange to Trimdon Colliery, 14 October - 30 December 1919
- Ref: NCB 13/291 — Trimdon Coal Company - Report by T. Watson on Trimdon Colliery and Deaf Hill Colliery, 30 August 1882
- Ref: NCB 13/292 — Trimdon Coal Company - Correspondence between Wilson, Ornsby and Cadle of North Bailey, Durham, Thomas Watson, Deaf Hill Colliery, W. H. Wood, Coxhoe Hall, Mrs. Greenwood, Trimdon Colliery, and F. Marshall, County Court Chambers, Durham, solicitor and town clerk, concerning sale of building land on North Moor Estate, by Wood to Greenwood, 21 July - 17 November 1896
- Miscellaneous documents
- Ref: D/X 498/34 — Account of the abatements and reductions secured in the Trimdon Grange Colliery royalties 1886 to 1890, not dated, c.1891
- Ref: D/X 498/41 — Copy letter from W. H. Wood to W. Armstrong commenting on loss of £2,000 from Trimdon Colliery and therefore refusing to renew his lease but offering to negotiate over the lease of certain farms and houses
- Ref: D/X 498/45 — Extracts from Trimdon Colliery lease concerning roads underground and barriers, etc., 4 November 1892
- Ref: D/X 498/49 — List of engines and machinery to be purchased under conditions of surrender of Trimdon Colliery lease, not dated, c.1892
- Ref: D/X 498/50 — Letter from Stanton and Atkinson to Tate concerning restoring farms and houses etc.,on expiry of Trimdon Colliery leases, 24 December 1892
- Ref: D/X 498/51-66 — Correspondence of Walter Scott and Co. Ltd. concerning the legal case Forster v Forster, 31 January 1893 to 25 July 1894. The case was fought over responsibility for repair and restoration of surface property on expiry of the Trimdon Colliery leases. Responsibility lay with the lessees but there was controversy over whether the cost should be born by the original lessees, the Forster brothers, or by Walter Scott Ltd. who had taken over their leases
- Ref: D/X 498/68 — Calculations of approximate costs of pumping water from Trimdon Colliery, 13 November 1892 - 19 March 1893
- Ref: D/X 498/168 — Letter from Stanton and Atkinson to Tate concerning a legal dispute over Trimdon Colliery, 27 February 1922
- Ref: D/X 832/61 — Samples of the forms used to make overman's reports at Deaf Hill, Trimdon and Haswell Collieries, 1874
- Ref: D/X 865/3 — Statement of work required to put engine houses, workshops, stables etc., at Trimdon Colliery into repair, 23 November 1892
- Ref: D/X 865/4 — Extract from Trimdon Colliery lease as to the condition in which the colliery was to be left on the termination of the lease, 1892
Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- User Guide 19B — Collieries
- Ref: DF/WF/28/3-4 — Viewers reports, 1828-1847
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