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Ford Colliery Working Methods (January 1753)

 

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Ford Colliery Working Methods - Click for bigger imageThis is a report written by J Barnes on the 6th and 8th January 1753. It relates to recommendations made to improve working methods at Ford Colliery. The item has been extracted from a collection of report books relating to various eighteenth and nineteenth century viewers, collected by Thomas Emmerson Forster. This item comes from the papers of The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers [NEIMME], which have been deposited with the Northumberland Archive Service. The collection relates to the history and development of the coalmining and engineering industries in the North of England, with particular reference to Northumberland and Durham.