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Archive Reference / Library Class No.NCB/A/STV/12/19
Former ReferenceN14/4
TitleMarkham Colliery costs account book for Pits No. 1 and No. 2
DateOct 1915-Feb 1917
DescriptionSummary figures only for 19 Oct-23 Nov 1915 on page at front. Detailed figures for 4 Jan 1916 onwards. Columns for dates, tons, coal getting, bank bars, sundry face work, face ripping, pony putting, main road haulage, officials, onsetting, main road datalling etc, faults and drifts, horsekeeping, lampkeeping, allowance, total underground costs, smiths and carpenters, shunters, carters and labourers, enginemen, tipping dirt etc, banking, screening, total surface, compensation and totals for Pits No. 1 and No. 2 (all after tons have sub-columns for cost per ton), and for 1916 unloading timber and war bonus on face work.
At the back are monthly figures for 25 Jan 1916-6 Feb 1917, with columns for date, sales tons, carpenters and smiths, carters labourers and storekeepers, winding enginemen, shunters and brakesmen, tipping dirt, banking weighing and tipping, screening loading and stacking, total bank, coal getting, sundry heading cutting etc, ripping and repair gates, roads and airways, pony putting, main road haulage, ventilators trappers and fanmen, overmen-deputies, pit bottom, new road-airways, faults and stone drifts, total underground, total bank and underground, pumps - materials and labour, winding hauling fan engines stoes and materials, electric light power, pit trams repairs materials and labour, pit timber, sundry stores grease etc, safety lamps repair and storage, horsekeeping, ropes and chains, wrought iron, castings, bricklayers bricks lime and stone, home consumption, colliers coal, insurance, rails and chairs, total stores and materials, totals for Pits No. 1 and No. 2.
Book described on label as for "No. 1 Underground", but information includes Pit No. 2 and surface costs.
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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