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 Stafford's Collieries. Farbeck remarks that the unnamed man was considered 'bad' by 'every person', ...
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 making boilers for the coal works. Chesworth's boilers were said to be 'worth double the sum of ...
Canal & Railway Investment
Writing about the development of transport in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Professor Eric Richards describes ‘two structural changes’ which took place between 1750 and 1850. ...
Description of Meir Heath Collieries, April 1792
Using documents in the Sutherland Collection, North Staffordshire Mining History Group Volunteer Geoff Mould has produced a description of Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803) Marquis of Stafford's collieries ...
Details of Men Hired by Thomas Brundred, 1796
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Jan 30th 1796
Thomas Brundred informs me that he has hired Thomas Moss aged 26 John ...
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 of the Leveson-Gower family. Huskisson was extremely influential in the development of the railways ...
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, roof mingled with red. A bad sulphurous coal.
2. FENTON LOW, coal 27inches thick, black clod ...
Fishing Incident, 1794
This letter from Mr. Jervis complains to Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803)Marquis of Stafford that one of the Marquis's servants named 'Crump' had 'spoiled' his fishing of the River Trent at Tittensor. ...
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 and Suburban Electric Carriage’ company’s “Niagara” garage was being sold to the ‘Wolseley Tool ...
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 that the Prospectus for ‘the Birmingham Railway…is not yet published’. He adds that the reason ...
George Stephenson: Success at the Rainhill Trials and Competing Railway Interests, 1829
As well as the competition which new railways would bring to the canals, as an investor in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, the Marquis of Stafford faced competition from other railway companies ...
Henry Hazlehurst Brick Making Agreement, Meirheath Colliery, 1796
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Mearheath colliery Dec 14th 1796
Henry Hazlehurst agrees with T Heath to make one hundred thousand bricks at Poole Dole for the Marquis ...
Human Interest Stories in the Mining Papers
Joyce Wilson from the North Staffordshire Mining History Group has examined many of the letters surviving amongst mining documents in the Sutherland Papers. The letter featured above involves an old lady ...
Instructions for Managing the Colliers
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Instructions
Take care of the sale of coals, visit all the pits twice a day, examine the brick bank and see as none are stolen or disposed of without ...
Interesting Details in the Colliery Accounts, 1766
This document provides a list of trials of Lead Mines of Grindon including the cost of working. Richard Annables was paid for 19 days at one shilling a day for gun powder.
Mr. Adams was paid Expenses ...
James Brindley Canal Plans
The Leveson-Gower family were instrumental in the development of navigable waterways in Britain. In the middle of the nineteenth century Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803)invested ...