10/1-2. (Throughout two folders) Papers 1917-1944. Correspondence, notes, 2 plans, leases, amounts of coal worked and valuations. Lists of mines in lease at Sutton Manor Colliery, Yew Tree and Closes Farm Estates. Legal obligations imposed by leases. [Property of R. Bolton. Yew Tree Farm was situated at Pennington close to Lord Lilford's, while Closes Farm was situated in Leigh. Messrs. Joseph Place and Sons Ltd at Hoddlesden, Collins Queen Colliery. By 1939 Bickshaw Colliery were mining both Sutton Manor Colliery and Lord Lilford's land. R. Bolton died in 1939 and it was the executors who negotiated this. In 1944 Yew Tree and Closes farm were sold to Mr. Lygoe, the tenant of Yew Tree Farm.] Statements of quantities of coal worked in the 1930s.
