Hartlepool St. Hilda Parish
Reference: EP/Ha.SH Catalogue Title: Hartlepool St. Hilda Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: Church Societies
Covering Dates: 1884-2001
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- Hartlepool St. Hilda Parish
- Church Societies (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Boys' Brigade (Ref: EP/Ha.SH 13/section 01)
- Accounts and weekly orders (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Boys ' Brigade Publications (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Correspondence (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- History (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Invitations (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Minutes (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Morison Hall (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Newsletters (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Newspaper cuttings (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Orders of Service (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Other events (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Photographs (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Plans (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Postcards (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Posters and leaflets (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Programmes (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Records of Annual Camps (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Records of dinners (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Records of individuals (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Records of the Morison Association (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Register of Bible class attendance (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Registers of attendance (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Registers of recruits (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Regulations of the Hartlepools Battalion (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Reports and statistics (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Roll-books (Ref: EP/Ha.SH)
- Girls' Brigade (Ref: EP/Ha.SH 13/section 02)
- Church Army (Ref: EP/Ha.SH 13/section 03)
- Choir (Ref: EP/Ha.SH 13/section 04)
Catalogue Contents
The 1st Hartlepool Company of the Boys' Brigade, attached to the church of Hartlepool, St. Hilda, was established in 1886 by a Captain Osborne, and was the first company of the Boys ' Brigade to be established in England. The Company was officially recognised on 21 October 1887, with Dr. Albert Edward Morison as the first captain. Dr. A.E. Morison, captain from 1886 to 1924, served during the Boer War and the First World War, working as a surgeon in military hospitals.
The captains of the company were:
Dr. Albert Edward Morison: 1886 - 1924
Herbert P. Ingram (temporary captain): 1893 - 94
William Sherwood (temporary captain): 1894 - 95
William Coverdale: 1924 - 1955
Fred Jacques: 1955 - 1975
Jack Waller: 1975 - 1995
Trevor Jamieson: 1995 - 2002
By the time of the Company' s Jubilee, in 1937, over two thousand boys had been members of the company, with about six hundred of these serving for the full period of five or six years.
From 1891 the company held an annual camp in the grounds of Castle Howard, Yorkshire, on the invitation of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle. In addition, boys from the company took part in a 'Great Trek' along Hadrian' s Wall during Easter weekend (15-16 April) 1911, with their baggage pulled in a 'trek-cart'. This was repeated in 1923, and in 1926 a trek took place in the Cleveland district. Another trek, this time to Barningham, took place at Whitsuntide (4-5 June) 1927.
The company initially had its headquarters in a wooden drill hall (from 1889), but in 1913 it moved into new premises in the High Street. In 1937 the company acquired, after an appeal for funds, St. Mark' s church, which became their new headquarters, and was renamed the ' Morison Memorial Hall'.
An Old Boys' Institute was founded in 1891, and a naval section of the company was in existence for a short period (1922 - 1925). In 1930 the company became part of a wider 'Hartlepools Battalion'.
Ref No: EP/Ha.SH 2/74 Temp No: Acc No: 3349
Order of service for the 75th Anniversary of the 1st Hartlepool Company, The Boys Brigade, 1 July 1962
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