Thomas Heath's Accounts: Account of Coal got at Hanley Colliery
This document is dated January to June 1796, and concerns coal got at different mines at Hanley Colliery.
Seams were, Top coal, New Coal, Peacock, Spencroft, Great Row, Cannel Row, Rowhurst, Burnwood, ...
Thomas Heath's Character in Disrepute: Heath versus the Gentlemen Potters
This letter dated the 16th September 1790 tells us about a disagreement between the Marquis of Stafford's Colliery Superintendent Thomas Heath and a number of Gentleman Potters at Hanley.
The letter ...
Thomas Heath's Correspondence
Thomas Heath worked for the Leveson-Gower family as a mining Superintendent, overseeing Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), Marquis of Stafford's collieries in North Staffordshire.
This letter from ...
Thomas Heath's Papers: Working Conditions
This undated document describes terms and conditions of employment at the Sutherland collieries.
Every sound good workman to have 2 shillings and 6d per day in proportion, also coal in proportion ...
Trentham Gardens
The Sutherland Papers contain an enormous wealth of documents relating to Trentham Gardens. Accounts, correspondence, maps, plans and advertisements provide a fascinating insight into this famous local ...
Voters' Lives: Who Voted in the Newcastle Elections?
The Sutherland Papers contain a wide range of documents relating to the Newcastle local elections of the early 1790s, from printed poll books to reports on the treating of the electorate. However, these ...
Vouchers for the General Election at Lichfield, 1796
The Sutherland Papers contain many vouchers for purchases made during election campaigns. Vouchers such as the one featured above tell us about the money spent on election campaigns in the eighteenth ...
What Happened at the Scrutiny?
The image above shows an extract from a volume of notes which was produced by a man named Mr. Goodiwn concerning events at the Lichfield Election in 1761.
Mr. Goodwin’s notes include a section describing ...
Wood Mine Coal Agreement, 1792
A transcription of this document features below:
This day agreed with Thomas Heath to get and draw woods mine coal in the pit we now work in at two shillings and sevenpence a cart load.
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