DOCSLIB.ORG

Buddle Collection Vols 15 19

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Buddle Collection Vols 15 19 Reference Code: NRO 3410 Papers of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers NRO 3410/Bud Buddle Collection Creator(s): Buddle, John, d 1843, colliery viewer Buddle, John, d 1806, colliery viewer Immediate Source of Acquisition The papers were presented to the Mining Institute by Buddle Atkinson, a descendant of John Buddle's nephew, in various installments. Scope and Content The Buddle Collection comprises the working papers of John Buddle, d.1843; with some papers of his father, also John, d. 1806 and papers of other viewers collected by the Buddles in the course of their work The major part of the collection is a series of report and memoranda books compiled by John Buddle junior together with colliery journals and diaries of work. The collection also contains colliery notebooks of John Buddle senior, a series of lining books, personal papers and a collection of bound volumes of the papers of Thomas Young Hall, mining engineer, also collected by the Buddle Atkinson family NRO 3410/Bud/1-31 Colliery Memoranda of John Buddle. Extent and Form: 31 VOLUMES Physical characteristics: Half bound leather entitled Colliery Memoranda and labelled with volume number on spine, vols 1 - 28 approx 37cm x 26cm and vols 29 - 31 approx 26cm x 20cm, coat of arms of the Buddle Atkinson family inside front cover of each volume Scope and Content 31 volumes containing reports, correspondence, accounts and borings of John Buddle, senior and junior Arrangement Original numbered series, Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15 Colliery Memoranda Creation dates: 1800 - 1808 Extent and Form: 349 pp Scope and Content Volume containing copy letters of John Buddle, junior, 17 Feb 1802 - 7 Feb 1808 and colliery journal 1 Aug 1800 - 6 May 1801 Copy letters of John Buddle, junior, at Wallsend. The letters are signed John Buddle junior or J.B.J. until the death of his father, Aug 1806, thereafter John Buddle or J.B Pages 112-131 missing In back. Daily Journal of John Buddle re colliery business at Wallsend and elsewhere, 1 Aug 1800 - 6 May 1801. 68pp. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/1 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1802 Scope and Content To Charles Smith, Gwernllwynwith, Swansea, re a dispute between Messrs Lockwood and the Neath Abbey Iron Co re faults in iron castings Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/4 Creation dates: 28 May 1802 Scope and Content To William Wilkinson, South Place, Boston, Lincs re purchase of hay Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/5 Creation dates: 1802 Scope and Content To William Marley, Hunslet, Leeds, re supply of wire fence 28 May 1802 To William Wilkinson, Boston, re purchase of hay 19 June 1802 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/6 Creation dates: 15 Sept 1802 Scope and Content To John Curr, Osborne's Hotel, Strand, London, re arrival of Mr Wade's engine, flat and round ropes at Cowpen and Hebburn, amount of railroad disposed of and carriage charges Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/8 Creation dates: 28 Sept 1802 Scope and Content To John Curr, Dudley, Staffordshire, re charges for ropes and the substitution of flat ropes for round Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/10 Creation dates: 13 Oct 1802 Scope and Content To Messrs Boulton and Watt, Birmingham re a tender for the supply of a drawing engine to Percy Main Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/11 Creation dates: 11 May 1803 Scope and Content To Mr Russell, M.P., Berkley Sq, London re keeping up the supply of coal from Washington during the sinking of a new pit, problems caused by the impressing of keelmen by the navy and vend for Wallsend Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/14 Creation dates: 18 May 1803 Scope and Content To Mr Russell, M.P., Berkley Sq, London, re impressing of keelmen Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/17 Creation dates: 24 May 1803 Scope and Content To John Carr, junior, Sheffield, re specifications of the Percy Main Engine Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/20 Creation dates: 10 June 1803 Scope and Content To A. Mawbray, Durham re sale of shares in Cowpen Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/21 Creation dates: 12 June 1803 Scope and Content To John Carr, junior, Sheffield, re castings at Wallsend, Percy Main engine and flat ropes Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/23 Creation dates: 22 June 1803 Scope and Content To A. Mawbray, Durham, re Cowpen shares Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/24 Creation dates: 1803 Scope and Content To Mr Stobbart, Lumley Park, re sale of Black Boy Colliery, 26 June 1803 To William Emm, Auckland Castle, re sale of Black Boy Colliery, 26 June 1803 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/25 Creation dates: 29 June 1803 Scope and Content To Thos Wade, Osbourne Hotel, London re problems with water [Wallsend] and water in a drill hole at Crawcrook Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/26 Creation dates: 17 July 1803 Scope and Content To John Curr, junior, Sheffield re Percy Main Engine Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/26-81 Creation dates: 6 Nov 1803 - 12 Oct 1804 Extent and Form: 34 letters Scope and Content (Except where otherwise specified) To Messrs W. Ketland Osbourne, Harrison, Grice and Morris, Underhill and Dutton, at Birmingham. C. Bragge, Col Blackeney and Brig Gen Kerr re the supply of rifles and equipment for the Wallsend Volunteer Rifle Corps Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/27 Creation dates: 4 Dec 1803 Scope and Content To A. Morpeth, Durham re quarry wall Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/42 Creation dates: 26 Dec 1803 Scope and Content To William Emm, Auckland, re a legal case re Coundon coal and Black Boy Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/47 Creation dates: 27 Jan 1804 Scope and Content To John Curr, Junior, Sheffield re 8" pipe for Wallsend Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/48 Creation dates: 27 Jan 1804 Scope and Content To Horace St Paul, Ewart House, Belford, re leases (unspecified) Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/49 Creation dates: 3 Feb 1804 Scope and Content To Edward Inge, Esq, Coventry re Wyken Colliery shares Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/62 Creation dates: 12 Feb 1804 Scope and Content To John Curr, junior, Sheffield, re Wyken Colliery shares Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/64 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1804 Scope and Content To Edward Inge, Coventry, re Wyken Colliery shares Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/67 Creation dates: 7 March 1804 Scope and Content To John Curr, junior, Sheffield, re a tender for a winding engine at Durham and Mr Peareth's engine Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/68 Creation dates: 7 March 1804 Scope and Content To J. Robinson, Belford, and Robert Thorp, Alnwick, re meeting at Belford Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/70 Creation dates: 27 Mar 1804 Scope and Content To John Curr, Sheffield, re Wyken Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/72 Creation dates: 4 April 1804 Scope and Content To Messrs Salvin, Durham, re pit ropes Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/74 Creation dates: 11 April 1804 Scope and Content To John Curr, Coventry, re Wyken Colliery and Mr Wade's account Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/77 Creation dates: 2 and 11 Aug 1804 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content To George Waldie, Ferneyhill, Kelso, re shares in Sheriff Hill, Percy Main workings, and fixing coal prices Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/80 Creation dates: 13 Aug 1804 Scope and Content To John Bowlby, Durham re working of Howden Pans by outstroke Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/82 Creation dates: 1804 Scope and Content To G. Wynn, Lincoln's Inn re inclusion of Limestone quarries in the colliery lease, Newbrough Park, 28 Oct 1804 To J. Curr, Sheffield re Wyken Colliery, 4 Nov 1804 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/85 Creation dates: 22 Nov 1804 Scope and Content To Nathaniel Ogle, Newcastle re Fowler's Close Farm Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/86 Creation dates: 26 Feb 1805 Scope and Content To Jane Elliott, Edinburgh, re account for work at Newton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/87 Creation dates: 26 Feb 1805 Scope and Content To James Luckie, Edinburgh re estimate for a waggonway at Newton Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/89 Creation dates: 25 March 1805 Scope and Content To W. Welasyse, Knaresborough re borings at Coxwold Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/90 Creation dates: 25 March 1805 Scope and Content To James Elliott, Edinburgh, re watercourses on Mr Wauchop's estate Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/93 Creation dates: 21 April 1805 Scope and Content To Richard Wilson, Lincoln's Inn, re building sites in South Shields Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/94 Creation dates: 29 Aug 1805 Scope and Content To Thomas Pix, Lamberhurst, Kent re supply of rods and pit props Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/96 Creation dates: 10 May 1805 Scope and Content To Thomas Bowes, Darlington re Benwell Park wayleave Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/97 Creation dates: 6 June 1805 Scope and Content To William Burrell, Broompark, Alnwick, re Doddington Colliery, including estimate for a new winning. Copy letter loose Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/98 Creation dates: 4 Sept 1805 Scope and Content To William Peareth, Buxton, re Urpeth Colliery new sinking Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/99 Creation dates: 26 Sept 1805 Scope and Content To J. Urwick, London re Mr Laybourne's order for claret sent to Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/100 Creation dates: 12 Jan 1806 Scope and Content To Col Wauchop, re Newton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/101 Creation dates: 12 Jan 1806 Scope and Content To Mr Leitch, Engineer, Mussellborough, re failure of the air pump at Newton Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/103 Creation dates: 26 Jan 1806 Scope and Content To William Surtees, Bath, re sale of shares in Harton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/107 Creation dates: 26 Jan 1806 Scope and Content To Col Wauchop, Edinburgh, re lease of Newton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/132 Creation dates: 17 Feb 1806 Scope and Content To Thomas Ismay, Newcastle re Elswick Pit and Killingworth coal Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/134 Creation dates: 27 Feb 1806 Scope and Content To John Curr, re flat ropes at Washington, Lambton and Penshaw Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/138 Creation dates: 3 March 1806 Scope and Content To Cornelius Elliott, Edinburgh, re Newton Colliery lease Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/139 Creation dates: 22 March 1806 Scope and Content To George Burrell, Alnwick re interest on a loan from the Tyne Bank Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/140 Creation dates: 13 April 1806 Scope and Content To Thomas Ismay, Newcastle re Elswick Colliery workings Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/15/143 Creation dates: 9 and 20 May 1806 Extent and Form: 2 letters Scope and Content To H.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Buddle Collection Vols 20 24
    Reference Code: NRO 3410 Papers of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers NRO 3410/Bud Buddle Collection Creator(s): Buddle, John, d 1843, colliery viewer Buddle, John, d 1806, colliery viewer Immediate Source of Acquisition The papers were presented to the Mining Institute by Buddle Atkinson, a descendant of John Buddle's nephew, in various installments. Scope and Content The Buddle Collection comprises the working papers of John Buddle, d.1843; with some papers of his father, also John, d. 1806 and papers of other viewers collected by the Buddles in the course of their work The major part of the collection is a series of report and memoranda books compiled by John Buddle junior together with colliery journals and diaries of work. The collection also contains colliery notebooks of John Buddle senior, a series of lining books, personal papers and a collection of bound volumes of the papers of Thomas Young Hall, mining engineer, also collected by the Buddle Atkinson family NRO 3410/Bud/1-31 Colliery Memoranda of John Buddle. Extent and Form: 31 VOLUMES Physical characteristics: Half bound leather entitled Colliery Memoranda and labelled with volume number on spine, vols 1 - 28 approx 37cm x 26cm and vols 29 - 31 approx 26cm x 20cm, coat of arms of the Buddle Atkinson family inside front cover of each volume Scope and Content 31 volumes containing reports, correspondence, accounts and borings of John Buddle, senior and junior Arrangement Original numbered series, Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/20 Colliery Memoranda Creation dates: 1786 - 1838 Extent and Form: 105pp.
    [Show full text]
  • Hackworth Family Archive
    Hackworth Family Archive A cataloguing project made possible by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives Science Museum Group 1 Description of Entire Archive: HACK (fonds level description) Title Hackworth Family Archive Fonds reference code GB 0756 HACK Dates 1810’s-1980’s Extent & Medium of the unit of the 1036 letters with accompanying letters and associated documents, 151 pieces of printed material and printed images, unit of description 13 volumes, 6 drawings, 4 large items Name of creator s Hackworth Family Administrative/Biographical Hackworth, Timothy (b 1786 – d 1850), Railway Engineer was an early railway pioneer who worked for the Stockton History and Darlington Railway Company and had his own engineering works Soho Works, in Shildon, County Durham. He married and had eight children and was a converted Wesleyan Methodist. He manufactured and designed locomotives and other engines and worked with other significant railway individuals of the time, for example George and Robert Stephenson. He was responsible for manufacturing the first locomotive for Russia and British North America. It has been debated historically up to the present day whether Hackworth gained enough recognition for his work. Proponents of Hackworth have suggested that he invented of the ‘blast pipe’ which led to the success of locomotives over other forms of rail transport. His sons other relatives went on to be engineers. His eldest son, John Wesley Hackworth did a lot of work to promote his fathers memory after he died. His daughters, friends, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and ancestors to this day have worked to try and gain him a prominent place in railway history.
    [Show full text]
  • Born in 1834 at Killingworth Hall, Northumberland, He Was The
    Sir Lindsay Wood Born in 1834 at Killingworth Hall, Northumberland, he was the youngest son of Nicholas Wood, colliery owner and engineer who worked alongside George Stephenson during the early years of locomotive development as well as experimenting with a miners’ safety lamp. He was educated at Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring and Kings College ,London. He served an apprenticeship as a mining engineer while working at the Hetton Collieries owned by the Hetton Coal Company. His father was manager of the Hetton Collieries and in 1858 Lindsay was appointed viewer (manager) of the North Hetton Colliery (Moorsley Pit). Shortly afterwards he became assistant to his father as manager of Hetton Collieries and when his father died in 1866 he became Managing Director of the Hetton Collieries which comprised the Lyons Colliery, Moorsley Colliery, the Hazard Pit as well as Eppleton and Elemore Collieries. He continued in this position until the company was sold in 1911 to Lord Joicey’s company. Lindsay Wood was married in 1873 to Emma Barrett of Heighington Hall near Darlington. They initially lived at Hetton Hall but moved to The Hermitage at Chester-le-Street. They had four sons and two daughters the eldest son being Mr. Arthur, Nicholas Lindsay Wood born in 1875. Mr Wood, like his father became a mining engineer and was also a captain in The Northumberland Artillery, a territorial regiment. In 1891 Mrs Emma Wood died suddenly in the late spring at the Hermitage, a great loss to the family. BY the 1870s Lindsay Wood was a managing partner in the North Hetton Coal Company as well as the Harton Coal Company.
    [Show full text]
  • Old Newcastle
    N O R T H U M B E R L A N D S T St Andrew’s Tyneside Cinema Explore Church A B C D E Find 1 Central Arcade Old Newcastle T EE Theatre Royal TR Amen Corner D3 T S The RKE Bigg Market C2 Gate MA Black Gate D3 Bridge Hotel D4 Grainger Town Castle Keep D3 Castle Stairs D4 Cloth / Flesh Market C2 Blackfriars Cathedral Church of D2 St. Nicholas & Chinatown Rutherford Fountain Church of St. John the Baptist B3 2 BI George Stephenson Monument B3 GG MK Grey Street Literary & Philosophical Society C3 T C North of England C3 LO map and guide heritage Free TH Gateshead Institute of Mining / F LE and Mechanical Engineers S begins story the Where Old G H R O M A Millennium Bridge A Old General Post Office C3 T R K Newcastle M E A T Statue of Queen Victoria D2 R Old Newcastle K E Vermont Hotel D3 T Heritage The Tyne Quayside Y Statue of Queen Victoria R A All Saints’ ChurchTheatre E M N Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas E A S L BALTIC 3 Church of St. John the Baptist ST Explore O OD Centre for Contemporary Art R O NER W S OR G E T C Bessie Surtees House Brandling IN AR MEN Village LL H N A O C I C N C The Sage TO H George Stephenson Monument N Quayside Newcastle E Old General O University Jesmond Vale D Medical L Trinity House School Library Post Office A Welcome to Old Newcastle, Where the Story Begins North of England Institute of Mining S S Discovery & Stephenson Great North Museum and Mechanical EngineersOne square T Black Gate T represents Northern NewcastleE S approximately Visit Old Newcastle to explore nearly There are many more subtle layers and Discovery Museum St.
    [Show full text]
  • Nicholas Wood (1795 – 1865)
    Nicholas Wood (1795 – 1865) Nicholas Wood was born at Ryton, a small village on the banks of the River Tyne. He was the son of Nicholas and Ann Wood and he was born on the 24th April 1795. His father was the mining engineer at Crawcrook Colliery close to Ryton, and it was he who would influence his son to follow in his footsteps. Nicholas junior attended the village school in Crawcrook and by 1811 he had started work as an apprentice colliery viewer (manager) at Killingworth colliery some miles to the east of his birthplace. It was here that he became a close associate and friend of the colliery enginewright George Stephenson. Early in their careers both became interested in a revolutionary safety lamp for miners. Wood followed up Stephenson’s work and made drawings of the lamp which eventually was referred to as the “Geordie Lamp” made under supervision by Stephenson. Stephenson who by 1815 had also become interested in the development of the locomotive “Blucher” at Killingworth encouraged Wood to take an active part in the development of the locomotive. Nicholas Wood designed a system of actuating valves and eccentrics for the locomotive and by 1818 he was carrying out experiments on the laminated springs and lubrication of the locomotive’s working parts as well as measuring. There is no question that Wood played a significant role in determining the best type of early locomotive while experimentation was going on. In 1814 he described a single cylinder machine with a flywheel at Wylam colliery as being very troublesome.
    [Show full text]
  • Stephenson's Newcastle
    Literary and Philosophical Society. Philosophical and Literary the Mining Institute and nearby nearby and Institute Mining the Robert left generous bequests to to bequests generous left Robert The Institution of Civil Engineers North East North Engineers Civil of Institution The that institution in 1847. In his will, will, his In 1847. in institution that who was Founder President of of President Founder was who 1849 and 1853 following his father father his following 1853 and 1849 of Mechanical Engineers between between Engineers Mechanical of also president of the Institution Institution the of president also of the Mining Institute and was was and Institute Mining the of Robert was elected vice president president vice elected was Robert was 15 years old. years 15 was commencing employment when he he when employment commencing INSTITUTION OFCIVILENGINEERS apprenticed to Nicholas Wood on on Wood Nicholas to apprenticed Robert Stephenson was was Stephenson Robert and friend of George Stephenson. Stephenson. George of friend and (manager), associate, colleague colleague associate, (manager), was a prominent Colliery Viewer Viewer Colliery prominent a was Wood Memorial Library. Nicholas Nicholas Library. Memorial Wood The building houses the Nicholas Nicholas the houses building The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Mechanical and Mining of Institute England of North The 5 Stephenson’s Newcastle Stephenson’s ICE 200 ICE projections housing figures depicting Stephenson’s spheres of activity. of spheres Stephenson’s depicting figures housing projections The monument depicts George Stephenson on the pedestal with corner corner with pedestal the on Stephenson George depicts monument The widened in 1894.
    [Show full text]
  • R O B E Rt S Te P H E N S O N • H Is to Ry ROBERT STEPHENSON AGREAT
    ROBERT STEPHENSON A GREAT 19 TH CENTURY ENGINEER EARLY YEARS Robert Stephenson was born in a small cottage in Willington Quay, a few miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne, on October 16th 1803. His father was the now famous George Stephenson. At this time George was a brakesman at Ballast Hills Colliery, Willington Quay working on low-pressure stationary engines. In 1804 Richard Trevithick, the Cornish inventor of the high-pressure steam engine visited the area and called on the Stephensons in their small house. In that same year the Stephensons moved to a cottage in Paradise Row, West Moor near Killingworth because George had accepted work as a brakesman at the West Moor colliery which was owned by the Grand Allies (an alliance of powerful coal-owning families formed in 1726). Richard Trevithick continued to visit the Stephensons and in 1805 he demonstrated one of his new locomotives at Whinfi eld’s Pipewellgate works in Gateshead. Unfortunately in the same year Robert’s sister died and in 1806 his mother died. George was so upset he moved to Montrose and took up work there but he left Robert with Ann Snaith, George’s housekeeper. In 1808 Ann Snaith married Robert’s uncle also named Robert. George returned to Killingworth and set up a business to repair low pressure stationary engines and also went back to work as a brakesman. Robert Stephenson • History Cottage at Willington Quay, North Tyneside SCHOOL DAYS Robert was sent to school at Longbenton in 1810 because his father wanted him to be a “viewer” (mining engineer) in the mines and he was determined that Robert would have a proper education.
    [Show full text]
  • George Stephenson
    George Stephenson Early Life. On the 9th June 1781 in a small stone labourer’s cottage in Wylam, a few miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne, George Stephenson was born. The cottage was called High Street House, its location being on the old road between Wylam and Newburn. Although it had four rooms the Stephenson family occupied a single ground floor room. The colliery waggonway ran past the front of the house so it must have been a noisy location. George was the second son and he was followed by a further two brothers and a sister, all born within a few years of each other. Their father Robert was a Scotsman and he was employed as engine fireman at the nearby Wylam Colliery. He earned 12 shillings (60p) a week so the family were not exactly well-off. His mother Mabel was born into a family who came from the nearby village of Ovingham where her father George Carr was a dyer. In his younger years George would be familiar with the comings and goings along the nearby waggonway and it is likely that he came to recognise the men and horses which pulled the coal chaldrons (wagons). He would also have visited the colliery on a number of occasions even if it was only to take his father’s lunch bait (sandwiches). On the way to the colliery he would have passed another small cottage, the home of the Hackworth family, near to the colliery workshops. It was here that John Hackworth the foreman colliery blacksmith worked. It was in this small cottage that his son Timothy was born in December 1786 and it is remarkable how the lives of both George and Timothy would in later years become intertwined in the construction of locomotives.
    [Show full text]
  • North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
    NORTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. TRANSACTIONS. VOL. XXIX. 1879-80. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE: A. REID, PRINTING COURT BUILDINGS, AKENSIDE HILL. 1880 [iii] ERRATA. The translation of the Report mentioned on page 112 was placed at the disposition of the Institute by Mr. James Ashworth. On page 159, par. 3, line 9, for "which have been translated by Mr. C. G. Jackson," read " which has been translated by the writer with the co-operation of Mr. C. G. Jackson." CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIX. PAGE. Report or Council ............ v. Finance Report.................. ix. Account of Subscriptions ... xii. Treasurer's Account ......... xiv. General Account ............... xvi. Patrons.............................. xvii. Honorary and Life Members xviii. Officers ........................... xix. Original Members ............ xx. PAGE. Ordinary Members ............ xxxv. Associate Members ............ xxxv. Students ........................... xxxvii. Subscribing Collieries ...... xl. Charter.............................. xli. Bye-Laws........................... xlvii. Barometer Readings............ 249 Index................................. 257 GENERAL MEETINGS. 1879. PAGE Sept. 6.—Paper by Mr. John Daglisli, " On an Improved Expansion Gearing for Winding Engines" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Discussed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 Paper by Mr. W. J. Bird, " Condensation in Steam Pipes" ... ... 7 Discussed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 Oct. 4.— Paper communicated by Mr. D. P. Morison, "Notes on Coal Dust Explosions"
    [Show full text]
  • (1773 - 1843) Agent and Entrepreneur in the North-East Coal Trade
    Durham E-Theses John Buddle (1773 - 1843) agent and entrepreneur in the north-east coal trade Hiskey, Christine E. How to cite: Hiskey, Christine E. (1978) John Buddle (1773 - 1843) agent and entrepreneur in the north-east coal trade, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7452/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 Christine E. Hiskey John Buddie (1773 - 1843) Agent and Entrepreneiir in the North-East Coal Trade Thesis submitted for the M. Litt, Degree University of Durham, Department of History 1978 Contents £ase List of Illustrations i Acknowledgements ii Statement of Copyright iii Note on G-lossary iii Abstract iv I Introduction: 1 Outline of Career. The Sources. Early Life. II "The Craft call'd Viewers" 7 III "The 'Mighty Chiefs' of Oppression" 22 IV G-entlemen and Adventurers 30 V "Know the Man" 37 VI Wallsend and TanfieldMoor 65 VII Consultant Viewer and Engineer: 77 Head Viewer.
    [Show full text]
  • The Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
    THE RAINHILL TRIALS ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY AN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LANDMARK RAINHILL, ENGLAND INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 Forward The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), the world’s first inter-city railroad designed and built between its namesake cities for the efficient, commercial transportation of passengers and freight, was designated an International Civil and Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on 14 September 2016. While this was a joint designation, only ASME’s History and Heritage Program requires a written document describing a landmark’s features and significance. Accordingly, this brochure will focus on the mechanical engineering aspects of the railway, with the most significant aspect being the locomotive trials held at Rainhill during October 1829. The Rainhill Trials are one of the earliest known examples of an engineered program to evaluate competing machines in a real- world environment. All aspects of the Liverpool and Manchester contribute to its significance as an engineering landmark, including the company’s early decision to use only steam power to move trains. Any railway is an intimate combination of both civil and mechanical engineering, as neither the track nor the train would be of any use without the other. Significantly, this railway remains in active service. The rolling stock has changed many times since the line opened, and the modern trains are much heavier and faster than the line’s builders could have imagined, but the modern trackage is still supported by the original roadbed and most of the original bridges.
    [Show full text]
  • Where Railways Were Born
    WHERE RAILWAYS WERE BORN The Story of Wylam and its railway pioneers Philip.R.B.Brooks Wylam Parish Council First published in 1975 under the title “Wylam and its Railway Pioneers”. Revised edition published as “Where Railways were born” in 1979, with minor revisions in 2003. © Philip R. B. Brooks 1975, 1979, 2003. ISBN 0 9504646 2 7 The author and publishers wish to thank all that have assisted in the production of this book. Contents Eighteenth Century Beginnings – Construction of Colliery Waggonways 3 Early Years of the Wylam Engineers 4 The First Locomotives 5 The Stockton and Darlington Railway 9 The Rainhill Trails of 1829 10 Newcastle to Carlisle – The First Railway to cross Britain 11 Wylam Ironworks Locomotives 13 Achievements of the Local Pioneers 14 Industrial Decline 17 The Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway 17 1 A Century of Change 19 Bibliography 21 Events in Local and National Railway History 22 An Epitaph to Steam 24 Preface If the Northumberland village of Wylam is known outside the North East of England it is almost certainly because it was the birth-place of George Stephenson, the “Father of Railway”. Although “Wylam Geordie” – as Stephenson was affectionately know on Tyneside – is undoubtedly Wylam’s most famous “son”, several other important early railway pioneers have lived and also worked in the village, which was the scene of historic experiments with locomotives early in the 19th century. The major contribution which Wylam and its engineers made to the history of railways and the development of steam locomotives has not always been recognised.
    [Show full text]