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Archive Reference / Library Class No.NCB/A/STV/12/10
Former ReferenceN14/11
TitleMarkham Colliery coal cutting and tonnage book
DateDec 1907-Apr 1913
DescriptionAssorted sections (1) overall daily figures for Pits 1-4, subidivided into day and night shifts, 9 Feb-7 Apr 1909: (2) record of coal cutting in the Ell Coal with the Bar Machine, 3 Jan-18 Mar 1909: (3) record of coal cutting with the Hurd Bar and Rigg Machines, 7 Apr-31 Aug 1909:(4) tonnage figures for Markham Collieries Nos. 1-2, broken down by bank (carpenter and smiths, carters labourers and storekeepers, winding enginemen, other enginemen, firemen, shunters and brakesmen, tipping dirt, banking weighing and tipping coals, screening loading and slacking coals, clerks), underground (getting coal by contract, sundry headings cutting and packing, ripping and repairing gates, maitaning roads and airways, pony putting, main road haulage, ventilators trappers etc, overmen and deputies, running on attending pit bottom, new roads and airways, faults and stone drifts, lampkeepers, horsekeepers) and compensation, for period 4 weeks ending 10 Nov 1909 to week ending 1 Apr 1913: and (5) at end, monthly figures for tonnage, bank and underground (both broken down as above), and stores and materials (capital, electric lights, electric powers, pumping engine pumps and other waterworks, winding hauling and fan engines, pit trams and repairs, pit timber, sundry stores grease nails etc, safety lamps reapirs lamp stores and attendance, horses and horsekeeping, ropes and chains, rails and chairs, unclassified (wrot up iron, castings, bricklayers bicks lime stone etc), Dec 1907-Sep 1912
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorMarkham Colliery
Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited
National Coal Board
TermHorses
Coal mining
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