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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 400 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Photographs and postcards of Rookhope, Stanhope and Upper Weardale

Covering Dates: Early 20th Century

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  • Photocopies and photographs
    • Postcards of Rookhope and Stanhope (Ref: D/Ph 400/1-10)
    • Postcards of Rookhope and Upper Weardale (Ref: D/Ph 400/11-14)

Catalogue Contents

Postcards of Rookhope and Stanhope (Ref: D/Ph 400/1-10)Ref: D/Ph 400/1

Copy of a postcard of photograph of Front Street, Stanhope, c.1914
(1 print, 13 cm. x 8.5 cm., colour)

Ref: D/Ph 400/2

Copy of a photograph of Rookhope, c.1900
(1 print, 12.5 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/3

Copy of the exterior of the chapel at Rookhope with a crowd and horse and carriage, c.1900
(1 print, 9.5 cm. x 6.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/4

Copy photograph showing, in the foreground, a man and a horse, and, in the background, the Weardale Iron Company's railway viaduct, c.1900
(1 print, 13 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/5

Copy postcard of a photograph of the new bridge at Rookhope, c.1910
(1 print, 13 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/6

Copy photograph of the exterior of the Rookhope Inn, 1940s
(1 print, 5.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/7

Copy postcard view of 'Rookhope, General View of Boltsburn', Frith RKE 8, 1950s
(1 print, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/8

Copy photograph of Rookhope, in the distance, 1950s
(1 print, 13 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/9

Copy photograph showing the exterior of a public house and a group of small children and fourteen adults in Rookhope, 1920s The seven adults are named as Lily Wall, John Baty, Jack Adamson, Bertie Ward, Steven Wall, Tizzy Ward and Thomas Vickers; six children are named as Maurice Howard, Beattie Reed, Florence Gardner, Audrey Bowman, Edna Wall, Jean Westgarth
(1 print, 13 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/10

Copy photograph of a group of pupils at Rookhope Elementary School, taken outside a building, c.1926 The children are named as: back row: Willie Hogarth, George Bright, George Arnold Hogarth, Bobby Armstrong, George Colling, Allan Wall, Bobby Robson second row: Ethel Hogarth, Mary Annie Dawson, Dorothy Wall, Ethel Colling, Lily Robson, Ethel Wall, Alice Forster, Florrie Howard, Mary Howard, Eleanor Myers, Gladys Armstrong, Millie Hogarth, John Wall, Ernie Wall front row: Alice Readon, Ruby Readon, Stanley Roberts, Elsie Coates, Martha Walton, Ella Roberts, Emily Wall, Gladys Wall, Edna Wall, Marjorie Colling, Eleanor Hogarth
(1 print, 17 cm. x 11 cm., black and white)

Postcards of Rookhope and Upper Weardale (Ref: D/Ph 400/11-14)Ref: D/Ph 400/11

Copy postcard photograph of Front Street, Rookhope, showing a woman and three children, c.1900
(1 print, 11.5 cm. x 7.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/12

Copy postcard photograph of Burnhope Town, Upper Weardale, photograph by C.F. Tinkler, Stanhope, the Egglestone series no. 10, n.d.
(1 print, 12.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/13

Copy postcard photograph showing the building of Pegshole Dam, near Rookhope, c.1920
(1 print, 12.5 cm. x 8 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 400/14

Copy postcard photograph of Wolf Cleugh, Rookhope, c.1900
(1 print, 11.5 cm. x 7.5 cm., black and white)



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