Pease and Partners Ltd.

Research Notes

• Durham Coal Owners' Mutual Protection Association Records
• Ref: D/DCOMPA 320 — Schedule of workmen in receipt of compensation for accidents and industrial diseases, at 31 December 1946, employed by Pease and Partners Limited, 1948

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/309 — Plan of royalties owned or leased by Messrs. Pease & Partners Ltd., not dated [c.1930]
• Ref: NCB 2/159 — Wearmouth Coal Company - Officials' Pension Fund - Bundle containing:- Pease & Partners Superannuation Society Rules.

• National Coal Board — 4th Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 4/46 — Pease & Partners - Statements of production costs, 1916, 1926-1931
• Ref: NCB 4/47-53 — Pease & Partners - Copy letter books, 1916-1919, 1922-1926
• Ref: NCB 4/54-55 — Pease & Partners - The Coal Trades Diary And Managers Guide, 1921, 1923
• Ref: NCB 4/56-57 — Pease & Partners - Manager's rough notes, 1926-1928
• Ref: NCB 4/58 — Pease & Partners - Agreements re workings, wages etc. mainly with Durham Coal Owners' Association, 1885-1936

• National Coal Board — 13th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 13/193 — Pease and Partners - Account of coal taken from Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 5 May 1917 - March 1948
• Ref: NCB 13/194 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 22 January 1920 -26 April 1924
• Ref: NCB 13/195 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 18 April 1925 - 6 July 1927
• Ref: NCB 13/196 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses, Esh and Ushaw Moor Collieries, 19 April 1930 - 18 February 1933
• Ref: NCB 13/197 — Pease and Partners - Managers' reports, Waterhouses colliery, April 1939 -November 1942
• Ref: NCB 13/198 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Waterhouses Colliery, January 1943 - November 1946
• Ref: NCB 13/199 — Pease and Partners - Managers' monthly reports, Esh Colliery, January 1943 - October 1947
• Ref: NCB 13/200 — Pease and Partners - Annual report, Waterhouses Colliery, 31 March 1933
• Ref: NCB 13/201 — Pease and Partners - Annual reports, Waterhouses and Esh Collieries, 1939-1943
• Ref: NCB 13/202 — Pease and Partners - Annual reports, Waterhouses and Esh Collieries, 1939-1946
• Ref: NCB 13/203 — Pease and Partners - Agreement book, Wooley Colliery 28 June 1920 -10 May 1961
• Ref: NCB 13/204 — Pease and Partners - Papers concerning re-opening of Esh Colliery, 4 February 1937 - 5 March 1942
• Ref: NCB 13/205 — Pease and Partners - Sales and cost statements, Waterhouses Colliery 30 September 1937 - 30 September 1946
• Ref: NCB 13/206 — Pease and Partners - Manager's report on civil defence etc., Waterhouses Colliery, December 1942
• Ref: NCB 13/207 — Pease and Partners - Cost of production, Waterhouses Colliery, 31 March 1947
• Ref: NCB 13/208 — Pease and Partners - Letters, leases, bills and receipts covering Alma Farm, Stanley, Crook, owned by Pease and Partners, 31 July 1911 - 14 August 1945
• Ref: NCB 13/209 — Pease and Partners - General file including: payment of contributions to Northumberland and Durham Miners' Permanent Relief Fund; Esh and Waterhouses Recreation Association; power cuts and electric repairs at Waterhouses; numbers, ages and occupations of employees and arrangements for their shifts; overtime etc.; a list of goods in stock at Hopetown warehouse; report on horses and ponies; 1926-1928
• Ref: NCB 13/210 — Pease and Partners - Map of royalties of Peases West Collieries, Etherley area, not dated. Scale: 6 in. to 1 mile (1:10560)
• Ref: NCB 13/211 — Pease and Partners - Map of royalties of Peases West Collieries, Randolph area, not dated. Scale: 6 in to 1 mile (1:10560]
• Ref: NCB 13/297 — 9 December 1872 - (1) H. Elliott acting for the Weardale Iron Company ; (2) T. Douglas acting for Messrs. Pease and Partners. Deed of arrangement that (2) shall lease to (1) for 4 years the coal adjoining Hedley Hill, held by them from Lord Boyne, plan attached, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents specified. (1) will lease to (2) for 14 years the main coal under such portion of royalty leased by them from Mr. Pickering, plan attached

• National Coal Board — 14th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 14/9 — Copy of arrangement between the Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. and Joseph Pease and Partners re sublease of Hedley Hill, 1872 and 1877
• Ref: NCB 14/10 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence from Pease and Partners relating to an extension of time for working Hedley Hill, April 1881
• Ref: NCB 14/158 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Reports for Pease and Partners, profit and loss accounts, valuation of plant and plans relating to the Adelaide Colliery, 1922
• Ref: NCB 14/198 — 1 December 1932 - (1) Pease and Partners Ltd. ; (2) Sir Nigel Courtenay Musgrave Bart. ; (3) The Ramshaw Coal Co. Ltd. Underlease of the Harvey and Busty Seams under part of the St. Helen, Auckland Estate, plan attached

• National Coal Board — 15th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 15/338 — 12 January 1918 - (1) North Eastern Railway Company ; (2) Pease and Partners. Agreement regarding working traffic past the benzol plant at Pease's West Colliery, Crook
• Ref: NCB 15/339 — 15 May 1930 - (1) British Sulphate of Ammonia Federation ; (2) Pease and Partners. Agreement that (2) shall hereinafter deliver and sell through (1) the whole output of sulphate ammonia
• Ref: NCB 15/340 — 24 June 1931 - (1) Pease and Partners, and others ; (2) Pitch Marketing Company ; (3) Victor Blagden and Co., Sir S. W. Royse and Co., Shields and Ramsay, Tar Residuals. Agreement concerning the control of the sale of pitch
• Ref: NCB 15/341 — 19 December 1939 - (1) Henry Stobart and Co. ; (2) Pease and Partners. Agreement for the sale and purchase of crude benzole
• Ref: NCB 15/342 — Pease and Partners, Piecework prices for various classes of work in Waterhouses Colliery, not dated [c. 1947]

• National Coal Board — 28th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/9 — Agreement between Pease and Partners and Arthur Askwith relating to Billy Hall Farm, 27 November 1945
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/12 — Agreement for lease of Rowley Farm, Cornsay Colliery, from Pease and Partners to M. & J.E. Suddes, not dated [1918]
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/15 — Agreement for lease of land at Sunniside from Pease and Partners to W.H. Harman, 25 October 1921
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/36 — Copy agreement between Pease and Partners and Crook and District Social Service Committee for laying of water pipe, 20 May 1936
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/37 — Copy agreement between Pease and Partners and Crook and District Social Service Committee for lease of building site at Stanley (Crook), 15 April 1935
• Ref: NCB 28 Interim list/40 — Pease and Partners and Henry Stobart and Company, terrier of freehold land marked on 1 : 10560 O.S. sheets.

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 619/1 — Memorial and Record, European War, 1914-1918 issued by Pease and Partners Ltd., Darlington, November 1920. [The volumes lists all men employed by Pease and Partners who served in the First World War]

• Mining Records deposited by the Trustees of the Skelton and Gilling Estates
• Ref: U.SG/6/8 — Bell Bros. Mines, Monthly Return of Ironstone wrought from J. T. Wharton esq.'s Royalties 1882; Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd. - Ironstone worked from North Skelton and Longacres Mines 1882; South Skelton Mines, Monthly Return of Ironstone wrought from J. T. Wharton esq.'s and other royalties 1882 Pease and Partners Ltd., Lingdale Mines, wayleave account for ironstone and other things over Branch Railway for half year ending 30th June 1882 and 31 Dec. 1882
• Ref: U.SG/9/14 — Correspondence between Pease and Partners and W. H. A. Wharton concerning Lingdale Wayleave 1895-96, and Suggested Sliding Scale for Wayleave. Oct. 1895