Whittonstall Drift

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 3rd Deposit (Items under 30 years old not to be produced)
• Ref: NCB 3/19 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Output statements and wayleave and royalty accounts, 1894-1938
• Ref: NCB 3/20 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Fines book, 1912-1966
• Ref: NCB 3/21-22 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Agreements for workings, 1897-1964
• Ref: NCB 3/23-45 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Engagement books, 1905-1965, Incomplete
• Ref: NCB 3/46-52 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Record of persons employed underground, 1896-1904, 1911, 1918-1964
• Ref: NCB 3/53 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Hewers' agreements and arbitrations, 1897-1899
• Ref: NCB 3/54 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Pit Production Committee minutes, 1941-1947
• Ref: NCB 3/55 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Deputation meetings minutes, 1926-1953

• Miscellaneous documents
• Ref: D/X 1005/1 — Agreement by John Childs, junior, to work the Whittonstall West three-quarter drift, with note of earnings, 8 May 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/2 — List of bargains from Chopwell No. 2 and Whittonstall pits, 1916
• Ref: D/X 1005/3 — Bargain at Whittonstall West three-quarter drift worked by Hetherington and Maughan, with a note on the earnings of the workmen, 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/6 — Tenders for Chopwell No. 3 and Whittonstall stonedrifts, 28 March 1921
• Ref: D/X 1005/8 — Notice of bargains to be let at Chopwell No. 2 and Whittonstall pits, June 1922
• Ref: D/X 1005/18 — Comparison of the number of hands employed underground at Chopwell No. 2 and Whittonstall collieries, 22 June 1912 and 14 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/19 — List of aged and infirm workmen employed at Chopwell No. 2 pit and Whittonstall, 14 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/20 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - List of names and ages of men who have received notice, with reasons for dismissal, 24 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/23 — List of men in receipt of rent and coals at Chopwell No. 2 and No. 3 pits and at Whittonstall, 17 June 1912 - 8 April 1915
• Ref: D/X 1005/24 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Instructions concerning the employment of munitions workers, aliens and person of military age, March 1916 - February 1918
• Ref: D/X 1005/26 — List of men in receipt of rent and coal at Chopwell and Whittonstall pits, November 1916
• Ref: D/X 1005/27 — Comparison of number of men employed underground at Chopwell No. 2 and No. 3, Whittonstall Drift and Milkwellburn pits in July 1914 and in September 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/28 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Letter from H. M. Imrie to W. B. Wilson, junior, manager, concerning optical examinations for deputies, 10 September 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/29 — Memorandum of agreement between the owners of Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, and the workmen, concerning the rules applying to putters and datal hands, 17 November 1921
• Ref: D/X 1005/30 — Appointment of Joseph Martinson as horsekeeper at Whittonstall, 21 December 1919
• Ref: D/X 1005/31 — Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries - Agreement concerning houses, rent and free coal, 20 June 1920
• Ref: D/X 1005/32 — Conveyor men's hours at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, not dated
• Ref: D/X 1005/33 — Colliery owners' offer to workmen concerning overlap at Chopwell No. 1 and No. 2 pits and Whittonstall Drift, not dated
• Ref: D/X 1005/34 — Details of times of foreshift hewers at Whittonstall in connection with a dispute over the loading of tubs, 12 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/58 — Note of the average earnings of Armstrong, Judge and Leaworthy compared to the average earnings of the flats at Whittonstall, 1913-1914
• Ref: D/X 1005/72 — Earnings of Hullich, Holliday and Herdman at Ridding Fall, Whittonstall, 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/78 — Earnings of the Whittonstall stonemen, 1917-1918
• Ref: D/X 1005/84 — Notice of new prices for stonework in Chopwell No. 2 and No. 3 and Whittonstall pits, 16 July 1919
• Ref: D/X 1005/96 — Award for fixing hewing tonnage prices in substitution for "score prices" at Chopwell No. 2 pit and Whittonstall drift, not dated
• Ref: D/X 1005/102 — Memorandum of agreement between owners of Whittonstall Colliery and workmen concerning alteration to tonnage prices, 21 September 1911
• Ref: D/X 1005/103 — Alteration to hewing prices at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, 2 November 1911
• Ref: D/X 1005/104 — Prices of stonework at Whittonstall, 1915-1916
• Ref: D/X 1005/105 — Agreement between workers and owners of Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries concerning the revision of tonnage rates, 13 March 1916
• Ref: D/X 1005/107 — Agreement for temporary tonnage prices at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, 24 September 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/108 — Notice concerning the advance of hewing tonnage rates at Chopwell and Whittonstall collieries, 20 December 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/110 — Temporary alterations to tonnage prices at Chopwell and Whittonstall collieries, 23 September 1918
• Ref: D/X 1005/111 — Agreement for alteration of tonnage prices when turning gateways away from leadings at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, 29 March 1919
• Ref: D/X 1005/113 — Temporary advance on tonnage prices in Chopwell No. 2 and No. 3 pit and Whittonstall for the quarter commencing 29 December 1919
• Ref: D/X 1005/114 — Schedule of tonnage rates at Chopwell and Whittonstall pits, 22 March 1920
• Ref: D/X 1005/130 — Deputation at Whittonstall concerning restrictions in No. 2 pit, "car shed", 30 September 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/131 — Restrictions in working space at Chopwell No. 2 and Whittonstall drift, 1 October 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/134 — Count of coal tubs at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, 6 December 1912, June and September 1913 and January 1916
• Ref: D/X 1005/135 — Letter from H. M. Imrie to the manager of Chopwell No. 2 pit and of Whittonstall concerning the ordering and price of pit props, 13 December 1912
• Ref: D/X 1005/137 — Results of the analysis of Whittonstall domestic water, 2 July 1913
• Ref: D/X 1005/140 — Instructions concerning the division of ventilation in Chopwell and Whittonstall pits, 20 February 1914
• Ref: D/X 1005/143 — Letters from H. M. Imrie to W. B. Wilson, Chopwell and J. P. Kirkup, Medomsley, concerning the washing of pit ponies at Whittonstall, 26 May 1914
• Ref: D/X 1005/144 — Record of water run from old workings in the stone coal seam by advance borehole from rise staple from five-quarter seam near Whittonstall Hall Farm, July 1914
• Ref: D/X 1005/145 — Record of feeder of water in Whittonstall five-quarter seam, 6 July 1914
• Ref: D/X 1005/160 — Inspection reports on Chopwell and Whittonstall Colliery magazines carried out by J. T. Ridley, 1 August - 27 December 1917
• Ref: D/X 1005/167 — Notice warning workmen against "loosing" before scheduled time at Chopwell and Whittonstall Collieries, October 1919