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National Coal Board – Thomas Young Hall papers

PAPERS OF THOMAS YOUNG HALL (1802-1870) Colliery engineer, and early partner in the Stella Coal Company. For an outline of Hall’s career, see Fordyce’s History of Durham, vol. II, pp. 682-684 (in the Record Office library) Also R. Welford, Men of Mark twixt Tyne and Tweed, vol. 2, p. 421 James Hall d. 1841; father of T.Y. Hall; served under and succeeded John Buddle, senior, at Stella For records in this catalogue check the section below.

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National Coal Board – Thomas Young Hall papers records

id	title id	ref	sorting number	level	title	item physical	description
236330	167512	NCB I/TH 1	513852	I		1 volume	Memorandum book: copy correspondence, reports, etc., re various collieries, railways, etc., 1830 – 1835 [The first item is headed “Wm. N. Hall’s Memorandum Book”]
236331	167512	NCB I/TH 2	513853	I		1 volume	Memorandum book, 1835 – 1838
236332	167512	NCB I/TH 3	513854	I		1 volume	Memorandum book, 1838 – 1841
236333	167512	NCB I/TH 4	513855	I		1 volume	(James Hall?) Garesfield colliery rent accounts, 1825 – 1829
236334	167512	NCB I/TH 5	513856	I		1 volume	(James Hall?) Farm cash book, 1823 – 1828
236335	167512	NCB I/TH 5A	513857	I		1 bundle	Ryton Woodside farm pay bills, 1839 – 1840 (including women; work and rate of wages sometimes specified)
236336	167512	NCB I/TH 6	513858	I		13 papers	Correspondence, valuation, estimates, etc. re Wylam colliery, 1825 – 1832
236337	167512	NCB I/TH 7	513859	I			Vouchers for colliery work for Messrs. George and Matthias Dunn (Whitfield colliery, Steldane Grayne Lees colliery, Grandmoor colliery, etc.), 1806 (7 papers) [See also: NCB I/SC/337, 341 and NCB I/TH/56, 57]
187348	167512	NCB I/TH 8-13	513860	S			Thomas Young Hall Letter and Memorandum Books
422859	167512	NCB I/TH 8	513861	I		1 volume	Letter and memorandum book (including copy agreements, surveys, accounts, etc.), 1824 – 1847
422860	167512	NCB I/TH 9	513862	I		1 volume	Letter and memorandum book, 1847 – 1848
422856	167512	NCB I/TH 10	513863	I		1 volume	Letter book, 1854
422862	167512	NCB I/TH 11	513864	I		1 volume	Memorandum book (including Stella Coal Company, Chesterfield Mining Company (America), etc.), c. 1833 – 1848
422863	167512	NCB I/TH 12	513865	I		1 volume	Memorandum book (mostly description of the Newcastle coalfield; also re Chesterfield Mining Company), 1853 – 1854 [writing very faded]
422864	167512	NCB I/TH 13	513866	I		1 volume	Cockfield Fell and Black Boy collieries, memorandum book (accounts, reports, copy agreements, bonds and list of employees, etc.), 1827 – 1833
187349	167512	NCB I/TH 14-15	513867	S	South Hetton colliery [Hall was engineer and agent, 1832 – 1836]
422857	167512	NCB I/TH 14	513868	I		24 papers	Monthly reports by T.Y. Hall, correspondence, report by Hunter and Buddle, etc., 1830 – 1836
422858	167512	NCB I/TH 15	513869	I		1 volume	Memorandum book (correspondence, reports, accounts, etc.), 1833 – 1834
187350	167512	NCB I/TH 16-30	513870	S	Stella Coal Company [Hall was one of the original partners, with Buddle and Potter]
422889	167512	NCB I/TH 16	513871	I		20 papers	Correspondence and accounts, etc., 1836 – 1861
422890	167512	NCB I/TH 17	513872	I		30 papers	Correspondence (including R. and J.B. Simpson, A. Potter, etc.), memoranda, etc., 1862 – 1866 [Including copy out-letters opposing proposed increase of salary for the Simpsons, notice to convene special meetings to appoint a better colliery manager, etc.] See also: NCB I/TH/64
422891	167512	NCB I/TH 18	513873	I			Accounts, balance sheets, minutes, etc. (including re colliery housing), 1839 – 1863 (14 papers) N.B. Bundles 16-18 appear to be original bundles and have been kept in order numbered by Hall
422892	167512	NCB I/TH 19	513874	I			Memorandum re shares held by T. Y. Hall in Stella Coal Company, letter from R. Atkinson, etc., 1840 and n.d. (3 papers) Black Boy colliery
422893	167512	NCB I/TH 20	513875	I			Report by John Buddle, 1829; T.Y. Hall’s copy letters to Jonathan Backhouse, valuation, and opinion of J.P.s re dispute between agent and workmen, 1829 – 1831; draft bond, 1830; copy agreement between W. Wharton of Dryburn and T. Wood of Hetton (for J. Backhouse) for lease of coal at Coundon, with covering letter, 1833; abstracts of working charges, 1843 – 1846 See also: NCB I/TH/61 (19 papers) Prudhoe Main colliery (Northumberland)
422894	167512	NCB I/TH 21	513876	I			Correspondence re errors in accounts, 1838 (8 papers) Ovingham bleachery (Northumberland)
422895	167512	NCB I/TH 22	513877	I		14 papers	Pay abstracts, 1831
422896	167512	NCB I/TH 23	513878	I		1 bundle	Receivings and delivery accounts, 1831 – 1833
422897	167512	NCB I/TH 24	513879	I		1 bundle	General and stock accounts and lists, 1847 – 1854
422898	167512	NCB I/TH 25	513880	I		1 volume	Bleaching book (accounts and prices), 1847
422899	167512	NCB I/TH 26	513881	I		1 volume	Letter book, 1848
422900	167512	NCB I/TH 27	513882	I		91 papers	Out-letters (orders for materials, accounts, etc.), 1850
422901	167512	NCB I/TH 28	513883	I		1 plan	Plan, n.d.
422902	167512	NCB I/TH 29	513884	I		1 bundle	Legal papers: includes: (1) draft abstract of title of Mrs. William Newton (Christiana Ann Hall), 1780 – 1793 (2) draft abstract of mortgage to T. Y. Hall, 1841 (3,4) agreement and memorandum re letting a house, 1856, 1857
422903	167512	NCB I/TH 30	513885	I		10 files	Hall v. Whittle Dean Water Company, copy agreements, evidence, plan and reference showing alleged damages, etc., c. 1839 – 1860 See also: NCB I/TH/63
187351	167512	NCB I/TH 31-40	513886	S	Molyneux v. Hall: litigation release of land at Blaydon from P.E. Towneley [See Fordyce’s History of Durham, vol. 2, p. 684, for the circumstances of the case]
423433	167512	NCB I/TH 31	513887	I		9 files	Copies of correspondence, memoranda, etc., 1838 – 1846
423434	167512	NCB I/TH 32	513888	I		1 bundle	Correspondence and other papers (including opinion on defence evidence, printed report of Durham Assizes (1851)), 1840 – 1853
423435	167512	NCB I/TH 33	513889	I		1 file	Draft arbitration bond, 1848
423436	167512	NCB I/TH 34	513890	I		3 files	Brief bill in Chancery, 1850
423437	167512	NCB I/TH 35	513891	I		4 files	Interrogatories to be answered by defendant, and instructions for answer, 1850
423438	167512	NCB I/TH 36	513892	I		4 files	Particulars of the land, n.d.
423439	167512	NCB I/TH 37	513893	I		8 files	Statements of facts, n.d.
423440	167512	NCB I/TH 38	513894	I		4 files	Memoranda and statement of Hall’ s case for counsel, n.d.
423441	167512	NCB I/TH 39	513895	I		1 paper	“Substance of statement of plaintiff’s objections to the lease etc.”, 1850
423442	167512	NCB I/TH 40	513896	I		2 files	Statements of improvements made by T. Y. Hall, n.d.
187352	167512	NCB I/TH 41-49	513897	S	Coalbrook and Broadoak collieries, (Glamorgan)
423443	167512	NCB I/TH 41	513898	I		1 file	Copy correspondence, 1865
423444	167512	NCB I/TH 42	513899	I		14 files	Valuations and reports by T. Y. Hall, heads of agreement for sale to a company formed by T. Y. Hall, copy correspondence, etc., 1866
423445	167512	NCB I/TH 43	513900	I			Case by T. Y. Hall against the owners of the collieries re non-fulfillment of contract for sale of leases, n.d. (c. 1866) (2 files) Blackheath Mines, Virginia, U.S.A. [Hall and Frank Foster restored the mines to a working state for the managing owner, Colonel Heth, in 1839, after which the concern was sold to an English company, in which Hall was given shares and appointed resident superintendent and manager]
423446	167512	NCB I/TH 44	513901	I		1 file	Agreement for hiring and service of workmen, 1840
423447	167512	NCB I/TH 45	513902	I			Agreement by workmen for making allowances to wives, 1840
423448	167512	NCB I/TH 46	513903	I		1 file	Alterations to a draft re a dispute between T.Y. Hall and the Chesterfield Mining Company, 1849
423450	167512	NCB I/TH 47	513904	I		34 papers	Various papers, including pay bill, account of money due to 8 miners sent from England, minutes of shareholders’ meeting re sending T.Y. Hall to America, lists of men and property, valuation of negroes, directors’ instructions to T.Y. Hall, working and sales accounts, etc., 1839 – 1841
423451	167512	NCB I/TH 48	513905	I		10 papers	Letters and accounts from John Farrer at “Rocketts coalyard” to T.Y. Hall at Richmond, 1839 – 1842
423452	167512	NCB I/TH 49	513906	I			Letters from Alexander Reid (Richmond)
187353	167512	NCB I/TH 50-51	513907	S			re mining affairs, 1841 – 1843 (49 papers)
423449	167512	NCB I/TH 50	513908	I		1 file	Report by A. Hopper to the Chesterfield Mining Company, on the mines, 1850
423453	167512	NCB I/TH 51	513909	I		17 papers	Correspondence with John Rynex (St. Louis) et al., and other papers, including draft copy of paragraph for the New York Herald, about General Tcheffkine, “chief of the engineering department of the Russian empire”, 1840 – 1842
187354	167512	NCB I/TH 52-58	513910	S	Robinson family of Houghton-le-Spring
423454	167512	NCB I/TH 52	513911	I		1 bundle	Papers re the affairs of George Robinson, deceased (law bill re purchase of Captain’s Closes in Houghton, vouchers, valuation of farming stock, bonds, etc.), 1841 – 1853
423455	167512	NCB I/TH 53	513912	I			Correspondence with and about the Robinson family (re estate of George Robinson, obtaining an articled clerkship with Newcastle attorneys and the premium to be paid, etc.), 1848 – 1850 and n.d. (40 papers) Miscellaneous business papers
423456	167512	NCB I/TH 54	513913	I			Statement of seams of coal in Garesfield colliery, 1823; report to John Gregson, advising him on letting his coal, 1831; valuation of coal at East Herrington belonging to G.F. Minton, by Hall and T.E. Foster, 1839; valuation of coal in Cutler Hall estate, n.d.; draft report on Sunderland and Durham railway, n.d.; printed list of persons holding minimum of 50 shares in the Newcastle, Shields and Sunderland Union Joint Stock Bank, 1849; anonymous letter re Sunderland and Durham railway, n.d. (9 papers) Deeds, etc. [kept together as original bundle]
423457	167512	NCB I/TH 55	513914	I			Draft abstract of title (1785 – 1839) to copyhold premises at Greenside, for counsel’s opinion, 1839; the mayor aldermen and burgesses of Newcastle, licence to erect a jetty at Blaydon for shipping coals, 1840; agreement to let land at Blaydon to N. Snowball, keelman, 1844; draft agreements with Anthony Thatcher of Blaydon Haugh, glass bottle manufacturer, for use of railway, 1853 (5 papers) “Estate of James Hall, deceased” [56 and 57 kept together as original bundles]
423458	167512	NCB I/TH 56	513915	I		17 papers	Law bills [including some addressed to James Hall] ; correspondence with solicitors from Mrs. C.A. Hall, W.N. Hall; estate duty claims; etc. 1827 – 1857
423459	167512	NCB I/TH 57	513916	I		1 bundle	T.Y. Hall to James Hall re dispute with M. Dunn, letting the Lead Company premises and coal at Stella, Mr. Towneley’s affairs and Dunn’ s position in general, 1837; J. Hall to A. Donkin (solicitor) re arranging mortgage of land at Ovingham with Buddle, 1839; correspondence re John Taylor’ s estate and trust, 1843; James Hall’ s account with Christopher Blackett, owner of Prudhoe Main colliery, 1838 – 1839; “sundry memoranda” and vouchers re payments due to J. Hall’s executors, n.d. (1841), etc.
423460	167512	NCB I/TH 57A	513917	I		1 bundle	Copy of James Hall’s will, 1841, with vouchers, 1844; minutes of executors’ meeting, n.d. (1841)
423461	167512	NCB I/TH 58	513918	I		1 file	Account of money paid by executors of John Taylor of Greenside for bringing up his family, 1827 – 1839, and copy memoranda and correspondence, 1839 – 1843 [James Hall had been one of the executors]
187355	167512	NCB I/TH 59-66	513919	S	Correspondence
423462	167512	NCB I/TH 59	513920	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1830
423463	167512	NCB I/TH 60	513921	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1831 – 1859 and n.d.
423464	167512	NCB I/TH 61	513922	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence (including many from T. Wood and others re Black Boy and Hetton colliery affairs and plans), 1831 – 1832
423465	167512	NCB I/TH 62	513923	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence (most from W. I. Dixon of Stockton), 1847
423466	167512	NCB I/TH 63	513924	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence (most re flax for Ovingham bleachery), 1847 – 1854
423467	167512	NCB I/TH 64	513925	I		1 bundle	Miscellaneous correspondence (most with R. and J.B. Simpson et al., re Stella Coal Company, etc.), 1855 – 1866
423468	167512	NCB I/TH 65	513926	I		1 bundle	Correspondence with B. Woodman, solicitor (Morpeth), 1855, 1865 – 1866
423469	167512	NCB I/TH 66	513927	I			Miscellaneous correspondence, 1866 Includes: (8) from W. Fairley (Loughor, South Wales)
187356	167512	NCB I/TH 67-70	513928	S			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 (53 papers)
423470	167512	NCB I/TH 67	513929	I		1 file	Copies of correspondence between G. Ainsley, M. W. Dunn, and T.Y. Hall re the taking and repairing of Stella House, 1836 – 1843
423471	167512	NCB I/TH 68	513930	I		1 bundle	Vouchers, c. 1848 – 1858
423472	167512	NCB I/TH 69	513931	I		21 plans	Plans, including: (1) Iron Ore District, Weardale Iron Company, by I.T.W. Bell [printed], 1855 (2) Europe [Printed], 1854 (3) Cross-section of levelling to Derwent Haugh, n.d. (4 i) Regulating Screen, patented by T.Y. Hall, 1852 (2 plans) (4 ii) Nixon’s Ventilator at Navigation Colliery, n.d. (5) End view of engines at South Hetton Colliery, n.d. (6) Elevation of coke oven, n.d. (7) First fire engine in Newcastle, from original drawings made in 1804 by John Steel; by John Moore, Whitehaven, 1859 (8) Intended railway from Stockton by Darlington to the collieries near West Auckland, and branches [Printed], 1822 (9) Circular vibrating screen, patented by T.Y. Hall, 1852 (10) Longitudinal section of coke oven, n.d. (11) Plan of air drift and water drift, Stella Colliery, n.d. (12) Section of an arch, n.d. (13) Plans of a house, n.d. (2 plans) (14) Pit shaft, n.d. (15) Plan and transverse section of coke oven, n.d. (16) South Hetton pit shafts (Adelaide, Edward, and Blossom Pits), n.d. (17) Map of France [printed], n.d. (18) Elevation of crane, n.d. (19) Plan of land at Blaydon [part only], n.d.
423473	167512	NCB I/TH 70	513932	I		1 paper	Letter from John Buddle, Benwell Colliery, to T.Y. Hall, Stella, requesting that a tub be sent to Messrs. Cargill, Johnson and Co. at Gateshead, as a pattern for tubs for Benwell, 15 November 1830 With note from T.Y. Hall to R. Simpson, n.d.