Catalogue description Elswick Coal Co Ltd

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of DP.ELW
Reference: DP.ELW
Title: Elswick Coal Co Ltd
Description:

Company Records
Date: 1806-1952
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Elswick coal Co. Ltd., c1881-1940
Physical description: 26 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 2877 (part)

 

These records were deposited with those of Stanton Croft and Co, solicitors (DT/SC)
Subjects:
  • Coal mining
Administrative / biographical background:

Operators of collieries in the Newcastle area including Elswick Colliery, Glue House Lane, Newcastle which was the Company headquarters.

 

Elswick Colliery was first owned by William Cochran Carr Ltd, but in 1874 William Cochran Carr formed a partnership with others to operate the colliery as The Owners of Elswick Colliery. This partnership was dissolved in 1880 and the colliery sold to the newly-incorporated Elswick Coal Co Ltd in 1881.

 

Elswick Coal Co Ltd converted to a private company in 1935. The company went into receivership in 1940.
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