TREETON COLLIERY

The bulk of the material relates to the Barnsley Seam and the House Coal Seam at Treeton Colliery. This consists mainly of financial and administrative records including account books with costs and wages, timesheets for shifts worked by colliers with their names and occupations, daily outputs for the mine and notes on pit meetings. There is a small amount of material for the Wathwood, Haigh Moor, High Hazels and Swallow Wood seams. The archive also contains seven volumes from Fence Colliery. Some of the material relates to all of the seams at Treeton and Fence collieries and has been included under the heading Miscellaneous.

The collection also contains correspondence from Rother Vale Coal Board regarding claims for compensation from colliers, first aid books and accident registers.

The material has been divided by colliery and then by seam. It has been arranged in chronological order. This catalogue is compliant with ISAD(G) standards of description.

<p>Sheffield Archives hold some of the records from Treeton Colliery that were deposited with them in October 1970 by the National Coal Board. The collection contains colliers and fillers time books, 1936-1941, ripping books 1931 and 1944, compensation claims 1910-1948, agent's letter books 1892-1919, manager's reports 1888-1920 and letters of appointment. Where gaps occur in this collection a relevant reference for material held at Sheffield Archives has been added.</p>

• <corpname>Rother Vale Collieries Limited</corpname>
• <corpname>United Steels Companies Limited</corpname>

Fred Harrington from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) office deposited the Treeton Colliery collection at the Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service in December 1990.

Treeton Colliery was situated in the village of Treeton, South Yorkshire and was owned by Rother Vale Collieries Limited. The Company was set up in 1875 after a resolution was passed authorising the Directors of the Fence Colliery Company Limited to lease land in the area from the Duke of Norfolk. The Fence Colliery Company Limited was renamed Rother Vale Collieries Limited and owned Orgreave, Fence and Treeton collieries. The Company later became a branch of the United Steels Companies Ltd. Treeton Colliery was sunk in 1874 and was forced to close in 1990. When the mine was first sunk in 1874 it worked the Barnsley Seam until 1965 and the High Hazels seam until 1966. After nationalisation in 1947 a scheme was developed to increase the output of the Wathwood seam (1963-1982) and the Swallow Wood seam (1900-1947, 1972-1990). The High Hazels and Swallow Wood seams produced house coal.

Fence Colliery worked the Barnsley, Swallow Wood and Parkgate seams. The mine was sunk in 1862.

Further information on the history of Treeton Colliery can be found in T O Rossington's 'The Story of Treeton Colliery, 1875-1975' published by Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham Libraries, 1976.