RECORDS - Northern England

Records for Cumberland, Durham, Morthumberland & Westmorland
  • All England Law Reports - Governor and Company for Smelting Down Lead etc versus Richardson Esq. - 1762.
  • British Parliamentary Papers Industrial Revolution - Children's Employment, Vol.7 (1842), pp.678-686.
  • British Parliamentary Papers Industrial Revolution - Children's Employment, Vol.8 (1842), pp.721-772.
  • Depositions by Commission - Stephenson & Whitfield versus Richardson, Mulcaster and others (Tithes in Alston) - 1730.
  • Depositions by Commission - Hamilton and others versus Richardson (title to Garrigill Burn Grove and Taylor Sike Grove) - 1753.
  • List of Blackett-Beaumont Lead Mining Records at the University of Newcastle. List of Lead Mining Scenes c1805-1820 held by the Science Museum.
  • List of London Lead Company plans held by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
  • List of plans held in the Walton Collection at the Cumbria County Record Office, Carlisle. Almond, J.K. "A Fluorspar Producer in County Durham" Mine and Quarry Engineering, Vol.19 (April 1953), pp.109-115.
  • Anon "Settlingstones Witherite Mine" Mining and Minerals Engineering, Vol.4 No.11 (1968), pp.35-39.
  • Armitage, P.D. "The effects of mine drainage and organic enrichment pn benthos in the River Nent system, North Pennines" Hydrobiologia, Vol.74 (1980), pp.119-128.
  • Coombes, L.C. "Lead Mining in East and West Allendale" Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol.36 (1958), pp.245-270.
  • Cranstone, D. Park Level Mill, Killhope: 1987 Excavations, 2nd Archive Report; Eastern Areas (Durham: Durham County Council, 1987).
  • Drury, J.L. "Lead Works in Weardale, County Durham, 1425-1431" Bulletin of the Durham County Local History Society, No.38 (May 1987), pp.3-9.
  • Dufrenoy and Beaumont "Sur les mines de plomb du Cumberland et du Derbyshire" Annales de Mines et des Carburantes, Vol.XII (1826), pp.401-432.
  • Dunham, K.C. "The Production of Galena and Associated Minerals in the Northern Pennines; with Comparative Statistics for Great Britain" Transactions of the Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, Vol.53 (1944), pp.181-252.
  • Fairbairn, R.A. "An Account of a small nineteenth-century lead mining company on Alston Moor" Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol.4 No.3 (Autumn 1980), pp.245-256.
  • Gale, D. Standing Stone Pit, Broughton Moor - Archive Report on Excavations, 1989, 31 pp. George, A.D. "The Newcomen Steam Engine in Cumberland", pp.9-10.
  • Handcock, N.L. "A search for the sixty persons from lead miners' families who emigrated from the village of Allenheads, Northumberland in 1849" (Open University, BA Dissertation).
  • Hasting, R.P. "Strikes without a Union: Labour relations in the Teesdale lead mines 1872- 1892" Bulletin of the Durham County Local History Society, (1981), pp.40-58.
  • Heyes, W.F. "Applications for the position of washerboy with the London lead Company in Teesdale, 1862-1866" (c1995).
  • Houston, W.J. "Weardale Lead" Mine & Quarry Engineering, (March 1964), pp.98-107. Ketelaar, J.P.J. "The effects of rationalisation of the British coalmining industry on mining
  • communities in the north-east of England" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 19 pp.
  • Lewis, A. Some memories of work at the Greenside lead mines, Glenridding (Photocopy of author's notes - 1982).
  • Louis, H. "Lead Mines in Weardale County Durham, worked by the Weardale Lead Mining Company Ltd" Mining Magazine, Vol.XVI (January 1917), pp.15-25.
  • Metcalfe, J.E. "Lead Mines of the Northern Dales" Mine and Quarry Engineering, Vol.18 (January 1952), pp.5-12.
  • Nall, W. "The Alston Mines" Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, Vol.XXIV Pt 4 (1903), pp.392-412.
  • NCB Western Area "Haig Colliery: Thwaite Shaft Winding Engine - Manual of Operations" (1979), 20pp.
  • NCB Western Area "Haig Colliery: No.4 Shaft Winding Engine - Manual of Operations" (1978), 20pp.
  • NCB Western Area "Haig Colliery: No.5 Shaft Winding Engine - Manual of Operations" (1978), 21pp.
  • Raistrick, A. "The London Lead Company, 1692-1905" Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol.XIV (1933-34), pp.119-162.
  • Richardson, B.W. Thomas Sopwith (London: Longmans, 1891).
  • Russell, A. "Note of an occurrence of nicolite and ullmanite at the Settlingstones Mine, Fourstones, Northumberland; and of serpierite at Ross Island Mine, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland" Mining Magazine, (1927), pp.383-387.
  • Smailes, A.E. The Lead Dales of the Northern Pennines" Geography, pp.120-129.
  • Sopwith,T. Observations addressed to the Miners and Other Workmen employed in Mr Beaumont's Lead Mines in East and West Allendale and Weardale (London: 1846).
  • Spence, R.T. "Mining and smelting by the Cliffords, earls of Cumberland, in Westmorland in the early seventeenth century" Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol.XCI (1991), pp.101-117.
  • Trestrail, G. "The Witherite Deposit of the Settlingstones Mine, Northumberland"
  • Transactions of the Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, Vol.XI (1931), pp.56-65.
  • Trestrail, G. "Witherite in Northumberland" Mine and Quarry Engineering, Vol.iii (July 1938), pp.247-251.
  • Tylecote et al "Maryport blast furnace: post mortem and reconstruction" Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol.203 (September 1965), pp.867-874.
  • Walton, J. "The Medieval Mines of Alston" Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Vol.XLV NS (1946), pp.22-33.
  • Wilson, P.N. "The Nent Force Level" Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Vol.LXIII NS (1963), pp.253-280.
  • Woodall, F. Photographs of the iron ore (Haematite) mines in the Millom and Askam District (Photocopy - 1981).
  • Assorted notes (with surveys/diagrams) on lead, copper and cobalt mines in Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham and Northumberland.
  • Force Crag Mine - Sale Catalogue (McKecknie Chemicals Ltd), 16/03/1967. Lease of fluorspar on tips of the North Wiregill Deep Mining Sett, 25/01/1943.
  • Nenthead Mines - Slime tests - Slime blende and waste from slime house, 06/04/1909 to 01/08/1910.
  • Share certificates (photocopies): Lonsdale Mining Company Ltd (1887); Calbeck Fells Consolidated Lead & Copper Mining Company Ltd (1870); Scordale Lead Mines Syndicate Ltd (1892);
  • Weardale Lead Company Ltd - Directors' reports etc, 1962 and 1963.
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