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 List of Colliers Names with Details of the Pits they Mined, 1799
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A Man of Dubious Character
This letter from Mr. Farbeck refers to the conduct of an 'insolent man' involved with the Marquis of Staffo...
Agreement with Colliers for the Sale of Coals, c.1790s
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Boilers at the Coal Works
The letter above dated January 22nd 1797 refers to a man named Stephen Chesworth who was responsible for ma...
Canal & Railway Investment
exhibition Writing about the development of transport in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Profe...
Description of Meir Heath Collieries, April 1792
Using documents in the Sutherland Collection, North Staffordshire Mining History Group Volunteer Geoff Moul...
Details of Men Hired by Thomas Brundred, 1796
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Developing the Railways and Accommodating the Canals: William Huskisson & James Loch
The letter featured above was written by James Loch to William Huskisson, a politician and close associate ...
Different Views of Coal in Meir Heath Colliery, 13th December 1787
The Horizontal Distances of the Coal Mines in Mear Heath. 1. SILVER MINE on Grange coal. 2 foot thick, ...
Fishing Incident, 1794
exhibition This letter from Mr. Jervis complains to Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803)Marquis of Stafford that one of...
Garage Development in London, 1906
In a letter dated April 1906 Mr. W. B. Peat wrote to the Duke of Sutherland to inform him that ‘The City an...
George Stephenson and the Development of Railway Schemes in 1824
Mr. Fenton wrote to James Loch with information about the railways at the end of August 1824. Fenton writes...



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