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BDB 21 The Hodbarrow Mining Company Limited, 1824 – 1969
Comprises records of the Hodbarrow Mining Company Limited, and the Millom and Askam Hematite Iron Company Limited. The records include: administrative records including Director's Meeting minutes and company share records; financial records including ledgers and journals; various legal records with title deeds for land and property owned by the Hodbarrow Mining Company in Millom, Haverigg and the surrounding area, records for the Barrow Corporation Water Bills, and the dispute between the Hodbarrow Mining Company and the Cumberland Iron Mining and Smelting Company Limited concerning the construction of a pier and embankment at Borwick Rails; production records indicating the amount of iron ore obtained and pricings; a large number of maps and plans; staff records including those related to time and pay, and health and welfare provisions, and photographs of both the premises and staff of the Hodbarrow Mining Company Limited
BDHJ/151 Millom and Askam Hematite Iron Company
Directors' reports and balance sheets, 1928, 1935, 1937; trust deeds, 19th-20th centuries. Correspondence re subsidence at Goldmire, 1921; licence to search for ore at Haverigg, circa 1910. Names of shareholders; miscellaneous title deeds. Sales particulars for land and cottages at Crossgate, Egerton Terrace, Rakes Field, Deep Dales, Orgrave Bank, Dalton, 1915.
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