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Collapse D1834 - N V Cowlishaw, mining engineer and local historian - 1870-1973D1834 - N V Cowlishaw, mining engineer and local historian - 1870-1973
1 - Notebooks (/1-26) of N V Cowlishaw, while a student at Heanor Mining and Technical School including mining engineering, surveying, geology etc. - 1932-1938
2 - Prospectuses and other papers (/1-8) relating to Heanor Mining and Technical School, including /2/1-6; Prospectuses 1932, 1937, 1938, 1949, 1958 and 1961. /2/7; Inspection report 1951. /2/8; Inspection report 1961 - 1931-1961
3 - Heanor Mining Society newsletters 1947 and 1949 (/1-2) - 1947-1949
Expand 4 - Printed papers relating to coalmining in Derbyshire, etc.4 - Printed papers relating to coalmining in Derbyshire, etc.
5 - Colliery wage agreements: national, 1924; Derbyshire 1926 and 1933 - 1924-1933
Expand 6 - Brochures - 1946-1950s6 - Brochures - 1946-1950s
Expand 7 - Papers re coalmining in general7 - Papers re coalmining in general
Expand 8 - Printed ephemera - 1956-1960s8 - Printed ephemera - 1956-1960s
9 - Notice and covering letter under Friendly Societies Act re Queen Adelaide Lodge benefits for widows of deceased members - 1892
10 - Newscuttings of newspaper articles on mining in South Derbyshire by Dr Paul Glover - 1970s
Expand 11 - Historical notes and copy documents collected by N V Cowlishaw, chiefly - 1960s11 - Historical notes and copy documents collected by N V Cowlishaw, chiefly - 1960s
12 - Notes and copy documents re Heanor Burial Board
13 - Copy documents re Codnor and Loscoe
15 - Copy documents re Codnor Park and Cromford Canal
16 - Copy documents re Heage
17 - Copy documents re Horsley Woodhouse including church building fund and pedigree of Richardson family of Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse and Stainsby
18 - Horsley Woodhouse: copies of documents [? For exhibition] with captions
19 - Copy documents re Loscoe brickworks
20 - Copy sale catalogue for Stainsby House and lands - 1939
21 - Notes on Denby ironworks, Morley blast furnaces , Arkwright family of Cromford, etc
22 - Copies from printed report of Parliamentary Commission on Employment of children in mines in Derbyshire
23 - Notes on gangway in Belper, furnaces in Morley Park etc
Expand 24 - Aldercar - 20th cent24 - Aldercar - 20th cent
Expand 25 - Ashbourne - 20th cent25 - Ashbourne - 20th cent
Expand 26 - Heanor - 20th cent26 - Heanor - 20th cent
27 - Horsley Woodhouse: King George VI Coronation celebrations programme 1937 - 1937
28 - Article on declining years 1846-63 of Nottingham and Ilkeston Turnpike Trust by Peter Stevenson May 1972 - 1972
29 - Ironville Parish Church Restoration Appeal: history of organs by David Fearn 1973 - 1973
Expand 30 - Langley Mill - 20th cent30 - Langley Mill - 20th cent
31 - Guide to natural history of Derbyshire - 1960s
32 - Notes etc re Ruddington parish, Leicestershire, and framework knitters’ museum - 1960s
33 - 1920s-1950s Cowlishaw family papers (/1-4) including /4 Scholarship examination practice test papers of Anne Cowlishaw, 1955 - 1920s-1950s
Expand 34 - Local history photographs collected by NV Cowlishaw - c197034 - Local history photographs collected by NV Cowlishaw - c1970
35-44 - Photographic prints, various dates /35; Round House, Smalley, before demolition. /36; Original nos. 249-260. /37; Original nos. 440-451. /38; Original nos. 452-464. /39; Original nos. 467-476. /40; Original nos. 477-492. /41; Original nos. 493-503. /42; Original nos. 504-509. /43; Original nos. 510-519. /44; Original nos. 520-527.
45 - Photos mounted on loose sheets [? Intended for album] including ‘last day at Denby Co-Op’. - c1970
46 - Jolly Colliers inn, Horsley Woodhouse
47 - Stainsby Avenue, Horsley Woodhouse
48 - Langley Mill toll house on Cromford Canal
49 - Langley Mill canal basin
50 - Loscoe colliery
51 - Portrait of Enos Knowles
52 - Procession, ? Boys’ Brigade, place unidentified
53 - Sketch map of ancient parish of Heanor also showing Division into ecclesiastical districts
54 - ?Heanor: diagram of top hard coal seam
55 - Diagram of heat principles, illustrated in a flame safety lamp
Expand 56 - Maps56 - Maps
57 - Transparencies (/1-2) of photographs taken by N V Cowlishaw
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