Stella Coal Co.

Research Notes

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 19 — Memorandum re shares held by T. Y. Hall in Stella Coal Company, letter from R. Atkinson, etc., 1840 and not dated
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 64 — Miscellaneous correspondence (most with R. and J. B. Simpson et al., re Stella Coal Company, etc.), 1855-1866
• Ref: NCB 01/TH 66 — Miscellaneous correspondence, 1866. Includes: (8) from W. Fairley (Loughor, South Wales) re Gethin colliery explosion: due to faulty ventilation, pressure on viewers by managing partners, and undisciplined Welsh colliers; suggests public payment of mining engineer/managers; (10) detailed description of Gerynt (North Wales) slate quarries; (21) from C. J. Lamb requesting support for his claims in Crawcrook royalty; (25-35) from D. Mossman (London) re Hall's publication on China; (40) from Thomas Prendergast [1806-1886] re his "mastery" system of learning languages; (50) Messrs. Watson (Newcastle) re C. Potter's shares in Stella Coal Company and advising "be moderate and try to get all matters amicably settled"; (53) T. Hall to R Simpson giving notice that he has convened a special meeting of Stella Coal Company to consider financial arrangements and extent of A. Potter's authority

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of John Bell Simpson (1837-1926)
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 26 — Correspondence - A-C: W. Armstrong (Chester-le-Street) re Stella Coal Company affairs, 1874-1876 [14-20]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 27 — Correspondence - D-G: R. Galloway (Blaydon) giving news of Stella Coal Company and Acomb collieries and of Simpson family; and adoption of "Billy Fairplay" by Northumberland coal owners, 1874-1876 [57-63]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 27 — Correspondence - D-G: J. Gibson (Hexham, Northumberland) re Stella Coal Company contributing to upkeep of Gateshead and Hexham turnpike road, 1866 [65-67]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 29 — Correspondence - M-R: J. Nansen (Newcastle) re Stella Coal Company affairs including re management, T. Y. Hall's difficult behaviour, labour relations, etc., 1866, 1874 [20-31]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 29 — Correspondence - M-R: A. Potter (Newcastle) re Stella Coal Company affairs; including "outrageous" wage demands (1866) and private affairs, 1866, 1875-1876 [46-55]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 30 — Correspondence - S: Robert Simpson [father] re Stella Coal Company affairs (T. Y. Hall's behaviour, management, etc.) Shire Moor colliery; announcing, explaining and apologising for his second marriage; typhus fever epidemic, etc., 1866-1876 [28-50]
• Ref: NCB 01/JS 31 — Correspondence - T-W: S. Wardell (Ryton) re Stella Coal Company affairs: "one of the West Country men started at the Addison this morning"; "T. Y. Hall ... seems pretty mad I think"; and mining matters, 1866 [32-34]

• National Coal Board — 1st Deposit, Papers of Robert Simpson (1814-1894)
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 4 — Memorandum book: memoranda re Stella Coal Company business: keelmen's agreement, rents, etc., 1842
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 82 — Plans, Five Quarter seam workings, Stella Grand Lease or Towneley colliery, showing extent of workings at termination of Messrs. Dunn's lease in 1833 and by Stella Coal Company since (showing also dykes, royalties, and surface features), 1833 and not dated. Scale 8 chains to 1 inch[1:6336]
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 161-162 — Plans, Stella Coal Company's Bank Head waggonway levelling, 1862
• Ref: NCB 01/RS 165-192 — Plans, Owners of land on the Bar Moor, Ryton, 1889; field bought by Stella Coal Company from Archdeacon Thorp, 1860; cottages and gardens at Kepier Chare, near Crawcrook, bought by Robert Simpson, 1865; Folly Cottages and garden ground belonging to the Stella Coal Company, not dated; land and two cottages sold by Stella Coal Company to Archdeacon Thorp, not dated; damaged ground round B pit Landsale, not dated; land and cottages belonging to Thoroton and Croft near Crawcrook Gate, 1862; Thomas Dixon's cottage at Kepier Chare bought by R. Simpson, 1856; John Richardson's house at Greenside, not dated; Joseph and George Purvis's property at Woodside, 1863; cottages on Bar Moor belonging to owners of Crawcrook colliery and occupied by Matthew Barron and Widow Smith, 1850; cottages at Low Greenside, not dated; Robert Leadbitter's cottage on Bar Moor, not dated; George Stark's property on Bar Moor, 1851; Joseph Appleby's land on Bar Moor, 1867; land bought by John Curran on Bar Moor, 1868; J. C. Lamb's land on Bar Moor, 1862

• National Coal Board — 2nd Deposit
• Ref: NCB 2/41 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Freehold Pit and Five Quarter, Brockwell and Townley seams. Analyses of Pit and Overmen's bills, 1862-1864
• Ref: NCB 2/42-45 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Brockwell and Five Quarter Seams. Accounts of work wrought, 1859-1864
• Ref: NCB 2/46 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit, Townley and Stone Coal Seams. Account of work wrought, 1876
• Ref: NCB 2/47 — Stella Coal Company - Emma Pit. Diagram of ventilation in some of the workings where an accumulation of gas took place on 1 December, 1857 not dated
• Ref: NCB 2/48 — Stella Coal Company - Townley Main and Stella Collieries. Colliery Rules, not dated [c.1861]
• Ref: NCB 2/49 — Stella Coal Company - Colliery Stores accounts, 1838-1841
• Ref: NCB 2/50 — Stella Coal Company - G. C. Greenwell's Valuation of the Towneley, Stella and Blaydon Main collieries, 1883
• Ref: NCB 2/51 — Stella Coal Company - Various rough or unfinished plans, not dated and 1842. Include elevation of engine erected at Axwell Park by Robert Simpson, not dated; sections of coal in Townley (Glebe) Colliery, 1842; sketch of proposed method of drawing coals from the dip workings of the Ruler Coal Seam - to the shaft, not dated; plan of rolleyways in Stargate Pit, not dated; and section of proposed stone drift from Stargate to cut the Towneley Seam at Entercommon, not dated
• Ref: NCB 2/52 — Stella Coal Company - Hedgefield Tunnel and Incline Railway. Tenders and specification, 1911
• Ref: NCB 2/53 — Stella Coal Company - Stargate and Greenside Railway. Schedule of work done by contractor, 1907
• Ref: NCB 2/54 — Stella Coal Company - An account of Towneley, Stella and Whitefield collieries, not dated [19th century]