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Miscellaneous documents - Darlington

Reference: D/XD 44 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents - Darlington Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Personal and collected papers of C.P. Nicholson

Covering Dates: 1837-1928

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Railway Papers (Ref: D/XD 44/1/1-8)

Two coach way bills for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 4 September 1874, 23 February 1837
(2 papers)


Letter from F. W. Wilson, district goods manager of North Eastern Railway, about an article on the history of the North Eastern Railway, 26 September 1895
(1 paper)


Notes on a proposed canal from the Durham Coalfield to the Tees, n.d.
(9 papers)


Notes on George Dixon, an engineer who assisted George Stephenson in surveying the Stockton and Darlington line, n.d.
(6 papers)


Notes on the first railway coaches, n.d.
(18 papers)


Notes on teetotal railway stations, with a transcript of a letter from George Stephenson (manager of the Stockton and Darlington Railway) to Edward Pease on the subject, 6 September 1860
(5 papers)


Notes on outline proposal for the history of the North Eastern Railway with details of the Middlesborough - Redcar and Wear Valley lines, n.d.
(7 papers)


List of books on railway history, n.d.

Papers of William Elliot Gray, Engineer (Ref: D/XD 44/9-22)

Notes on steam and applied mechanics at North Eastern Railway Literary Institute, October 1883 - February 1884 With calculations of wages paid at different bridges, 1894 - 1895
(1 notebook)


Memorandum on iron work for Red Barns Bridge, Newcastle, 15 February 1884
(1 paper)


Letter from Wilson Brothers, Alliance Works, Darlington, to E. H. Grey, Gateshead, accepting bid for Red Barns bridge, 18 February 1884
(1 paper)


Prices for piecework at North Eastern Railway Permanent Way Works, July 1892
(8 papers)


Order for the erection of rivets for widening the way from Central Station to Manors, Newcastle, by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, 29 September 1894
(1 paper)


Letters (4) from Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company to W. E. Gray enclosing cheques as payment for erection of bridge works, September 1894 - May 1895
(4 papers)


Specification for moving buoys for North Eastern Railway Company, 28 June 1897
(1 paper)


W. E. Gray's accounts with the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company for Dean Street to Manors, a bridge at Benton, and Pelaw widening, 26 December 1895, 7 February 1897
(2 papers)


Circular on duties of manager required for Howdon Yard by the Tyne Improvement Commission, 14 August 1902
(1 paper)


Notes on bridges, in envelope endorsed 'The Engineer no 102', n.d.
(1 paper, 1 envelope)


Estimate of work needing to be done on a steam hopper, n.d. Endorsed on workman's time sheet for North Eastern Railway Company engineering department, South Division (blank)
(1 paper)


Calculations for redecking Ouseburn old viaduct, n.d.
(1 paper)


Letter from W. E. Gray, Heaton, to The Engineer applying for a job advertised therein, 1 August 1916
(1 paper)


Envelope addressed to W. E. Gray, Heaton, from R. Waygood and Company London, liftmakers, with picture of lift machinery
(1 envelope)

School Papers (Ref: D/XD 44/23-28)

Notes on Darlington Grammar School, n.d.
(27 papers)


Letter from the Society for Promoting Christian knowledge to C. P. Nicholson about charity schools in Darlington, 27 October 1922
(1 paper)


Letter from C. P. Nicholson to the National Society about St. Cuthbert's National Schools, 24 November 1922
(1 paper)


Letter from the British and Foreign School Society to C. P. Nicholson about British School founded in 1819, 29 November 1922
(1 paper)


Letters (2) from the National Society to C. P. Nicholson about Cockerton School, 8 November 1922, 30 November 1928
(2 papers)


Notices (3) of meetings of the Grammar School debating society, n.d.
(3 papers)

Church Papers (Ref: D/XD 44/29-32)

Notes on St. Cuthbert's Church, with poem on death of Mr. Preston, bell ringer for sixty years, n.d.
(22 papers)


Notes on St. Paul's church with letters (10) from Mr. Hutchinson, vicar of St. Paul's, to Mr. Hobson of Sheffield and C. P. Nicholson, 1883 - 1912
(21 papers)


Letter to Edward Wooler from C. P. Nicholson about St. Cuthbert's old font, 19 March 1925
(1 paper)


Letters (2) from E. Swales, borough surveyor, to C. P. Nicholson about a stream outside Holy Trinity

Miscellaneous papers (Ref: D/XD 44/33)

Letter from Ernest Gibson of Elton Parade to C. P. Nicholson, enclosing letter from Lucy Bainbridge Morris of Sanderson Nursing Home to Mr. Hodgkin with information on the Bainbridge family of Teesdale, June 1926
(5 papers)