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Wm. Cochran Carr Ltd.

Warning: This is not intended to be an exhaustive history of the company, but an indication of the changes of ownership and the links between companies and directors in those companies. Only collieries, pits etc. in the North of England are shown - the company may own other properties etc. outside this area and there may have been other changes of ownership etc. for which we currently do not have details.


1914

Collieries/Mines Owned

Employees
Name of Mine  Locality  Manager  Under Above
 ground  ground
Benwell "Charlotte"  Newcastle-on-Tyne  G. E. Young  314  81  


1921

Collieries/Mines Owned

Employees
Name of Mine  Locality  Manager  Under Above
 ground  ground
Benwell "Charlotte"  Newcastle-on-Tyne  G. E. Young  445  96  


1923

Company Details

Registered Office: 28 Mosley Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Class of Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing
Other Minerals Worked: Fireclay
Source: 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

Company Directors

Chairman: Cochran-Carr, Wm., Lower Condercum, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Managing Director: Cochran-Carr, Wm., Lower Condercum, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Directors: Cochran-Carr, Mira, Mrs., Lower Condercum, Newcastle-on-Tyne
 Renwick, George, Benwell House, Corbridge-on-Tyne
Secretary: Innes, W. K.
Chief Engineer: Cochran-Carr, Wm.
Source: 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

Collieries/Mines Owned

Employees
Name of Mine  Locality  Manager  Under Above
 ground  ground
Benwell "Charlotte"  Newcastle-on-Tyne  G. E. Young  479  105  


1925

Collieries/Mines Owned

Employees
Name of Mine  Locality  Manager  Under Above
 ground  ground
Benwell "Charlotte"  Benwell  G. E. Young  467  121  


1930

Collieries/Mines Owned

Employees
Name of Mine  Locality  Manager  Under Above
 ground  ground
Benwell "Charlotte"  Benwell  F. R. Allen  343  94  


1933

Company Details

Other Information: (The Benwell Pit, hitherto owned by this company, has been sold to the Elswick Coal Co. Ltd., which see)
Source: 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.


Sources
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

Further Research

  Research Notes for Wm. Cochran Carr Ltd.

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