Weardale Steel, Coal, and Coke Co., Ltd.

Research Notes

• Durham Coal Owners' Mutual Protection Association Records
• Ref: D/DCOMPA 338 — Schedule of workmen in receipt of compensation for accidents and industrial diseases, at 31 December 1946, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company Limited, 1948

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/D 59 — Deeds - Thornley: Thornley Hall Farm, Gore Hall Farm, Whitehouse Farm, Thornley Moor Farm, etc., 1873-1920 (Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company)
• Ref: NCB 01/D 70 — Deeds - Tudhoe: land and Wesleyan chapel, site for St. Andrew's mission room and Sunday schools, blast furnaces, ballast heaps at Tudhoe Iron Works, agreements re supply of electricity and gas, etc.; also Weatherhill and Rookhope Railway; Spennymoor: "The Brick House property" and foundry, 1845-1946 (Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company)

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/283 — Miscellaneous papers concerning industrial disputes, legal opinions and legal judgements on working conditions, 1888-1914. Includes Smith v Moody 1902, and Herd v Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Company, 1914

• National Coal Board — 13th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 13/299 — 1902 - (1) Gustavus Russell, Viscount Boyne ; (2) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company ; (3) Joseph Horatio Love of Hawk Hills, Easingwold, Yorkshire, coal owner. Licence by (1) to (2) to underlet to (3) coal and fireclay under lands at Thornley and Cornsay, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 13/300 — 1902 - (1) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company ; (2) Joseph Horatio Love of Hawk Hills, Easingwold, Yorkshire, coal owner. Underlease for 4 years by (1) to (2) of coal under lands at Thornley and Cornsay, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents specified
• Ref: NCB 13/301 — 1905 - (1) Louis Gabriel Agricol Eugene Depertius, Baron de-Montfaucon of 25 Avenue de Maringy, Paris, France, and of Greencroft Park, and Anatole Thomas Edouard, Baron de Knyff of 32 Rue Washington, Paris, France, and of Greencroft Park ; (2) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company. Lease and abstract of lease for 42 years by (1) to (2) of all coal, ironstone and fireclay under Stow House Farm, containing 150a., in parish of Cornsay, with detailed provisions for working coal. Consideration: £150 p.a. certain rent plus other rents as specified
• Ref: NCB 13/302 — 5 September 1907 - (1) The Right Hon. Gustavus Russell, Viscount Boyne ; (2) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company. Copy lease for 21 years by (1) to (2) of coal, ironstone and fireclay under townships of Thornley and Cornsay, parishes of Wolsingham and Lanchester, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents as specified
• Ref: NCB 13/303 — 27 February 1931 - (1) The owners of lands with rights of commonage on Cornsay and Hedley Commons ; (2) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company. Agreement for user of certain parts of the Commons for mining operations and works with (2) to restore surface on determination of lease (16 April 1928). Consideration: £200 for damages and £25 p.a. by(2) to (1)
• Ref: NCB 13/306 — 28 February 1908 - (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company. Lease by (1) to (2) for 42 years of coal and fireclay under lands at Bishop Middleham and Nunstainton, plan attached, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents as specified
• Ref: NCB 13/307 — 23 May 1910 - (1) Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company ; (2) Carlton Iron Company. Copy sublease for remainder of term of 42 years by (1) to (2) of coal and fireclay under Bishop Middleham and Nunstainton, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents as specified. Recites lease of 28 February 1908. Plan attached
• Ref: NCB 13/308 — Correspondence between Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company, Charles Howson, Mainsforth Colliery, and J. H. B. Forster, Whitworth House, Spennymoor, concerning four drifts being driven through the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' barrier, Busty Seam, Bishop Middleham Royalty, 9 - 12 March 1918
• Ref: NCB 13/309 — Correspondence between J. H. B. Forster, Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company, Tudhoe Ironworks, Spennymoor, and Charles Howson, Dorman, Long and Co., Mainsforth Colliery, Ferryhill, concerning surveying of land at Bishop Middleham Colliery prior to building an engine house and electric substation, plan attached, 3 December 1927 - 6 February 1928
• Ref: NCB 13/310 — List of notices to the London and North Eastern Railway Company concerning coal extraction by Weardale Steel and Coal Company, Ramshaw Coal Company and Randolph Coal Company, 1877-1933
• Ref: NCB 13/314 — Correspondence between North Eastern Railway Company and Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company, concerning intention to work coal in Busty Seam, Croxdale Colliery, under railway between Croxdale and Durham stations, plan included, 24 January 1905 -10 February 1921
• Ref: NCB 13/315 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Papers concerning coal being left unworked in Busty Seam, Croxdale Colliery, to support Croxdale Viaduct, and receipt for compensation paid in respect of that coal by North Eastern Railway Company, 28 February 1930 - 2 June 1932
• Ref: NCB 13/316 — Papers concerning notice by Weardale Steel and Coal Company to the London and North Eastern Railway Company of intention to work coal in Hutton Seam, Croxdale Colliery, under Newcastle - York railway between Ferryhill and Croxdale stations, plans attached, 14 November 1931 - 2 December 1932
• Ref: NCB 13/317 — Correspondence between Weardale Iron and Coal Company and North Eastern Railway Company concerning notice of intention to work coal in Hutton Seam, Bishop's Close Colliery, under the Clarence Railway, parish of Whitworth, plan included, 22 October 1891 - 22 November 1892
• Ref: NCB 13/319 — Papers concerning notice by Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Company to North Eastern Railway Company of intention to work coal in Ballarat Seam, West Thornley Colliery, Tow Law, 21 July 1902 -19 November 1903
• Ref: NCB 13/320 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Particulars, plan and conditions of sale, Wheatley Hill, Thornley and Ludworth Collieries, 9 August 1877
• Ref: NCB 13/320 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Particulars, plan and conditions of sale, Wheatley Hill, Thornley and Ludworth Collieries, 9 August 1877
• Ref: NCB 13/320 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Particulars, plan and conditions of sale, Wheatley Hill, Thornley and Ludworth Collieries, 9 August 1877
• Ref: NCB 13/321 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Theodolite surveys, Thornley and Wheatley Hill Collieries, c.1945
• Ref: NCB 13/321 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Theodolite surveys, Thornley and Wheatley Hill Collieries, c.1945
• Ref: NCB 13/322 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Letter book of Philip Cooper, Thornley Colliery, 3 July 1877 - 11 May 1882
• Ref: NCB 13/323 — Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company - Letter book, Thornley Colliery, 19 July 1910 - 18 November 1919

• National Coal Board — 14th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 14/46 — 23 February 1906 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Lease of coal and fireclay under lands in the township of Croxdale
• Ref: NCB 14/47 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding concessions by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as to rental for the Croxdale Royalty, November 1914
• Ref: NCB 14/51 — 1917 - (1) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. ; (2) Bell Bros. Ltd. Heads of proposed sub-lease of the Croxdale and Low Burn Hall Royalties
• Ref: NCB 14/52 — 14 February 1918 - (1) Gerard T. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of Counterpart Lease of coal etc. under the Sunderland Bridge, Low Burn Hall and Croxdale Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/53 — 14 February 1918 - (1) Gerard T. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy agreement extending existing leases of coal under the Sunderland Bridge, Low Burn Hall and Croxdale Estates
• Ref: NCB 14/54 — 13 June 1919 - (1) Lord Gainford and Sir John Horner ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. ; (3) Bell Bros. Ltd. Copy of underlease of coal under parts of the Croxdale and Low Burn Hall Estate correspondence with Dorman, Long and Co. Ltd. re liquidation of subsidiaries and terms of above lease, 1923-1933
• Ref: NCB 14/55 — 22 July 1919 - (1) M. H. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of Agreement to lease coal etc. below the Hutton Seam under the Burn Hall and Farewell Hall Estates, with letter (1921) attached
• Ref: NCB 14/56 — 28 January 1922 - (1) M. H. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy lease of coal etc. below the Hutton Seam under the Burn Hall Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/62 — Counter Notice from the L.N.E.R. to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. and others specifying coal to be left unworked for the support of Croxdale Viaduct with plan, 15 August 1928
• Ref: NCB 14/74 — 28 February 1908 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Lease of coal and fireclay under lands at Bishop Middleham
• Ref: NCB 14/75 — 29 April 1910 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of supplemental lease of coal and fireclay at Bishop Middleham
• Ref: NCB 14/76 — 23 May 1910 - (1) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. ; (2) The Carlton Iron Co. Ltd. Sublease of coal and fireclay under lands at Bishop Middleham
• Ref: NCB 14/79 — 13 June 1929 - (1) The Ecclasiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. ; (3) Dorman Long & Co. Ltd. Copy of deed authorising the removal of part of the barrier in the Bishop Middleham Royalty
• Ref: NCB 14/80 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - File of correspondence with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. and the Ecclesiastical Commission regarding the surrender of Bishop Middleham Royalty, and regarding debenture debts of Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd., 2 January - 20 February 1936
• Ref: NCB 14/98 — 27 November 1906 - (1) Coeln-Muesener Bergwerks Actien Verein ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Licence to use a patant fusion process
• Ref: NCB 14/100 — 9 July 1915 - (1) The Waste Heat and Gas Electrical Generating Stations Ltd. ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy supplemental agreement regarding proposed. installation of a gas engine plant and letting land for a cooling tower
• Ref: NCB 14/122 — 8 June 1906 - (1) M. H. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Licence to work barrier and demise of barrier coal, ironstone etc. in the Hutton Seam of the Tudhoe royalty, plan endorsed
• Ref: NCB 14/123 — 16 March 1916 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy Lease of coal and fireclay in the butcher race royalty
• Ref: NCB 14/126 — 1 September 1930 - (1) Lt. Col. H. C. J. Salvin and another ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of reversionary lease of coal etc. under the Tudhoe Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/127 — 13 November 1930 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of Lease of coal and fireclay in the Butcher Race royalty
• Ref: NCB 14/135 — 7 September 1921 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Agreement for the lease of mines, Bishops Close royalty, Whitworth
• Ref: NCB 14/139 — 15 April 1926 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. Copy of Lease of coal etc. at Ricknall Grange with miscellaneous correspondence and statistics regarding Ricknall Grange royalty

• National Coal Board — 27th Deposit
• Ref: NCB 27Interim List/37 — Factual Information forms (Houses), Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd. Unit, Area 3, not dated. (c.1950)
• Ref: NCB 27Interim List/54 — Analysis of wages, cost per ton and other particulars of Thornley and Ludworth Collieries, 1909-1916. Enclosed: Lease of Coal, Ironstone and Fireclay from M. H. Salvin, esq., to Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., 28 January 1922

• National Coal Board — 31st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 31/Box 100/2 — Agreement between South Hetton Coal Company Ltd. and County of Durham Electrical Power Supply Company, January 1929 - September 1931. (includes Correspondence between South Hetton Coal Company Ltd. and Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company Ltd., July 1923 - November 1923)

• National Coal Board — 33rd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 7/2 — Vesting of properties, Weardale Steel, Coke and Coal company, July 1948 - March 1951
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 8/15 — Vesting of properties, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company Limited, March 1951 - January 1954
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 46/4 — Claims under the coal industry nationalisation (subsidence) regulations, 1946, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company Limited, November 1949 - December 1949
• Ref: NCB 33/Box 49/15 — Inventories, Stocks and stores, Weardale steel and coke company Limited, November 1947 - September 1950

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 403/1 — Hedley Hill Colliery (Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co.) Agreement as to Fines Book (under Truck Act, 1896) in which fines incurred by employees against the Coal Mines Regulation Acts were recorded, 1900-1924. (Also contains one page of entries for West Thornley Colliery, 1952-1963)
• Ref: D/X 403/1 — Hedley Hill Colliery (Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co.) Agreement as to Fines Book (under Truck Act, 1896) in which fines incurred by employees against the Coal Mines Regulation Acts were recorded, 1900-1924. (Also contains one page of entries for West Thornley Colliery, 1952-1963)
• Ref: D/X 498/187 — Cancelled mortgage indentures between Edward William Beddell and the Weardale Steel Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. concerning a freehold dwelling house and land in South Terrace Thornley, 1924
• Ref: D/X 832/10 — Indexed letter book of John W. Laverick [Agent and Manager, Thornley Colliery, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company Ltd., until 30 January 1907 when he was succeeded by George A. Curry] concerned with matters such as coal orders, Thornley Colliery, Wheatley Hill Colliery and houses, new colliery engines and royalties, 29 March 1900 - 11 September 1907
• Ref: D/X 832/12 — Letters arranged in an alphabetical index sent to George A. Curry, manager of Thornley Colliery, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., from J. H. B. Forster, Tudhoe Iron Works (Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd.) and others, 10 May 1912 - 24 January 1913
• Ref: D/X 832/19 — Extracts from the Crows House lease granted by J. Botterell, Woodgreen, Middlesex and John James Dumville Botterell, London, to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Tudhoe, for 42 years for a certain rent of £400 p.a., 1 July 1899
• Ref: D/X 832/23 — Letters to J. W. Laverick, Thornley Colliery, from G. H. Wraith, commercial manager, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Tudhoe Iron Works, Spennymoor, concerning Green Hills farm and Green Hills leases, 7 and 25 June 1901
• Ref: D/X 832/83 — Correspondence between Messrs. Sparks and Blake, Crewkerne, Somerset and T. H. Warwick, Tudhoe Iron Works (Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd.), concerning proposed extension of sidings at Thornley and difficulties in assessing a proper rent for the land involved, 9 May 1904 - 5 November 1907
• Ref: D/X 832/84 — Copy of the specification for the sinking of a shaft at Thornley Colliery for the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., 5 October 1904
• Ref: D/X 832/99 — Plan of Wheatley Hill electric supply (Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd.), prepared by C.S. Verey Brown, M.Inst. C.E., 18 June 1906. Scale: 1 inch to 208.33 feet [1 : 2500 approx.]
• Ref: D/X 832/100 — Letter to Messrs. W. T. Glover & Company, Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester, from the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., concerning the installation of the main shaft cable at Thornley Colliery, 10 February 1910
• Ref: D/X 832/109 — Poster setting out the charges for the supply of water supplied by the Weardale Iron and Coal Company and enforced by Easington Rural District Council, 18 November 1898
• Ref: D/X 832/115 — Correspondence between T. H. Warwick, Secretary of Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Tudhoe Iron works, Spennymoor, from J. W. Laverick, Thornley Colliery, and others, concerning the laying of water pipes to Fat Close Farm to replace water supply disrupted by mine workings, 7 July 1905 - 13 February 1906
• Ref: D/X 832/131 — Letter to J. W. Laverick, Thornley Colliery, from T. H. Warwick, secretary, The Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Tudhoe Iron Works, Spennymoor, concerning letter from Messrs. Stanton, Atkinson and Hodson, relating to a proposed road at Wheatley Hill, 15-16 December 1904. Includes: plan of the land which the company had agreed to surrender to the Easington Rural District Council, 1904. Scale: 1 inch to 40 feet [1 : 480]
• Ref: D/X 832/132 — Copy letter to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Thornley Colliery from George Gregson, Surveyor's Office, Durham Rural District Council, 38 Saddler Street, Durham, concerning the repair of the road from Paradise to the entrance of the village at Ludworth and the possible contribution towards the cost by the company, 15 December 1909
• Ref: D/X 832/181 — Correspondence between H. W. Hollis, Managing Director of the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Ltd., Tudhoe Iron Works, Spennymoor; J. W. Laverick, Thornley Colliery and Rev. J. Richardson, the Villas, Thornley, concerning the surrender by the company of some land for the building of a Primitive Methodist Chapel, 10 and 12 January 1901
• Ref: D/X 832/225 — Rough sketch of heads of agreement between the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. and Thornley Parish Council whereby the company will supply electric lighting for the parish upon payment of price to be agreed and to be paid by the council and correspondence concerning the agreement, 17 August - 21 November 1900
• Ref: D/X 865/13 — Account book of Thomas Ashford under the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company's Thornley Colliery housing scheme, 3 January 1924 - 25 April 1931
• Ref: D/X 1103/12 — Pay bill for the Rookhope and Middlehope Railway, belonging to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. (Limited), 21 February 1914
• Ref: D/X 1103/13 — Pay bill for the Stanhope Burn Iron Works, belonging to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. (Limited), 21 February 1914
• Ref: D/X 1103/14 — Pay bill for the Weardale Ironstone Mines, belonging to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. (Limited), 21 February 1914
• Ref: D/X 1103/15 — Pay bills for Heights Quarry, belonging to the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. (Limited), 22 May 1920