| Description | With reference to coal, buildings, deeds and leases, Acts of Parliament, statistics, mechanics etc. Cross refers to letters and 'Special Packets'. Roughly ordered by district/mining concern/business e.g. R. Mills & Co, Parsons & Cooper, Stourbridge Canal, Dudley Brettell Lane turnpike road etc. With index. Includes reference for terms for settlement of the South Staffordshire Miners Strike (p.22); installation of new ropes at collieries with attached newspaper clipping on the preference for hemp, aloe or wire ropes (p.86); list of pits under the care of the Colliery Surgeons 1871 (p.96); table of approximate number of hands employed at the Earl of Dudley's West Side Mines Department for 1872 (p.174); Memoranda of Trucks &c. (p.402). Several loose memoranda including Christmas Beef List for 1873 and Analysis of Beef Lists Christmas 1876 (listing collieries and job titles with number of men and boys working and estimated costs for beef). |