A Pitman's Notebook: Hope and Success at Houghton, Co. Durham: The Diary of Edward Smith |
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20 peck corves 28 February Acres Ann Farm April band Barnes Barrell Barrowmen's candles bord Bore Hole pitt borehole Bouls Buckett Burnip bushl Chalders chaldron Coal Owner Coal Pitt coal seam Collier and Farm Collier Row Colliery Rent Corfe cost Coxon Curving band Cutt cwts damm day having agreed East drifts Edward Smith Engin pitt estimate Fathm Feader February Fire Coal foot Fother George Stephenson Ginn Hew and putting Hope pitt Houghton Colliery Houghton-le-Spring January John Blenkinsop John Collier joynted June Kalking Crib Levell Long Benton Colliery Morton Hill notebook Oats output peice pillar pithead Pitt a Coal pitt in depness pitt in Houghton plug pump putt Ralph River Wear roof September 1750 shaft Sheepridge Sinking pitt South Headways Staith stone stone band Success pitt sump sunk Supplier Surface Thos Nicholson Thos Scorer timber tons underground Viewer Waggons Wailing the coals Wett Tub yard