Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1748-1957 (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-sub-sub-fonds
Extent and medium
10 volumes, 1 envelope, 1 item.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
There does not appear to have been a formally constituted mineral estate. Indeed, it is not clear from the records listed below that there ever was a separately accountable Tredegar mineral estate. There is a mineral account cash book for the period 1853-1870, but the sums involved appear to have been sent to the appriopriate county estate accounts. By 1880 Alexander B. Bassett, Lord Tredegar's mining engineer, was issuing letters and receipts headed 'Tredegar Mineral Estate Office', and his successors, Bassett, Walker & Herdman, mining engineers of Cardiff, were using 'Tredegar Mineral Estate Office'-headed note paper until at least 1934. In 1918 Bassett & Walker were receiving royalties from the South Wales Anthracite Co. in respect of Breconshire minerals. However, the mineral estate letters that are preserved in the letter files of other Tredegar agents do not give the impression of a separate estate, but of a consultant acting for the county-based agents.
Among the Breconshire estate correspondence are two letters dated July 1934 from J. H. Thomas of Bassett, Walker & Herdman at the Tredegar Mineral Estate Office, stating that he was compiling a history of the mineral estate, and enquiring about the early exploitation of minerals on the Breconshire estate. There are two copies of J. Hopkins Thomas's completed typescript 'The developement of the Tredegar mineral estate' at NLW Misc. Vols 207-208.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Records relating to the exploitation of the mineral resources of the estate, plus a few items of wider industrial interests, gathered together for convenience.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: AEM