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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 177 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Silksworth and coalmining

Covering Dates: 1860-c.1975

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Copy of The Miner's Pocket Companion, A poem containing the principal accidents in collieries in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland also the loss of the Royal Charter by George Cooke of Byers Green, printed by W. J. Cummins, Fore Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, 1860
(41 papers)


Copy of account of coals wrought and vended, and of banking, screening and labouring at Handon Hole, West Pelton Colliery, 21 October 1865 - 4 November 1865
(2 papers)


Bond guaranteeing William Williamson as treasurer of the Thornley Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association, 3 November 1881
(1 paper)


Copy of a printed pamphlet of, and a typescript copy of letter to, the Sunderland Echo putting the miners' case in the dispute with the Ryhope Coal Company, n.d. [c.1925]
(7 papers)


Copy of a typescript discussion of the umpire's award on a piece-rate dispute at Silksworth Colliery, n.d. [c.1930]
(2 papers)


Copy of The Coal Miner's Prayer by W. Calvert, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 paper)


Copy of a typescript of A Campaign for Colliers by Olive Deakin advocating earlier retirement for coal miners, n.d. [c.1975]
(1 paper)


Photograph of firing of coal underground at Silksworth Colliery, n.d. [c.1885]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the strike committee at Silksworth Colliery, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of Wynyard Street, Silksworth, showing crowds watching evictions, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of Castlereagh Street, Silksworth, showing evictions and men from Dawdon, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the Dunns family being evicted from a house in Castlereagh Street, Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of Castlereagh Street, Silksworth, with the Dunns family, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of police during the miners' strike, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of George Bonsfield, evicted collier, sitting with his family in front of a lean-to built against the chapel wall, Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph showing policemen in the backyards of houses at Silksworth during evictions, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of crowds during evictions at Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of crowds during evictions at Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of crowds during evictions at Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of High Newport Farm, Silksworth, where the 'candy-men' slept, and known during the strike as 'Candy Hall', 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the police and 'candy-men' recruited from Hendon to help in the Silksworth evictions, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a road on outskirts of Silksworth showing fields and chapel, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a road on outskirts of Silksworth showing fields and chapel, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the Colliery Inn, Silksworth, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the outskirts of Silksworth showing the Colliery Inn in the distance, 1891
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of steam engines used at Silksworth Colliery, n.d. [c.1895]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of steam engines used at Silksworth Colliery, n.d. [c.1895]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photographs of the Barns Crossing near the Barns Hotel, Silksworth, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of idle pit ponies during the six months strike at Silksworth Colliery, 1921
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of striking pit men digging for coal at Silksworth, 1926
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a group of coal-hewers at Silksworth, n.d. [c.1932]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a group of coal-hewers at Silksworth, n.d. [c.1932]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of Gilley Law Crossing, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the funeral of miners killed in Washington Glebe pit disaster, 20 February 1908
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the funeral of miners killed in Washington Glebe pit disaster, 20 February 1908
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the funeral of miners killed in Washington Glebe Pit disaster, 20 February 1908
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Postcard commemorating the 14 miners killed in an explosion at Washington Glebe Pit, 20 Febuary 1908
(1 postcard, 17.7 x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of pit pony, 'Dart', with Matthew Kays at Ryhope Colliery, n.d. [c.1963]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of banner belonging to Ravensworth Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association, n.d. [c.1970]
(1 photograph, 12.7 cm. x 17.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of banner belonging to Dawdon Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association, n.d. [c.1970]
(1 photograph, 17.7 cm. x 12.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of banner belonging to Sherburn Hill Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association, n.d. [c.1970]
(1 photograph, 12.7 cm. x 17.7 cm., black and white)


Photograph of banner belonging to Blackhall Lodge of the Durham Miners' Association, n.d.[c.1970]
(1 photograph, 12.7 cm. x 17.7 cm., black and white)