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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 450 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Toal family of Crook

Covering Dates: c.1890-1983

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    • Photographs of Toal Family of Crook (Ref: D/Ph 450/1)

Catalogue Description

Photographs include studio portraits, family occasions, Billy Row Methodist Church trips, and family photographs.

Catalogue Contents

Photographs of Toal Family of Crook (Ref: D/Ph 450/1)

Includes photographs of Brown, Harland and Young families

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/1

Photograph of Kate Hedley, believed to be one of the Brown family sisters, n.d. c.1890 Photographer: James Fairclough, Crook
(1 photograph, 9cm x 13.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/2

Photograph of the Brown family, including centre back Dorothy Ann Brown nee Toal, with father Mr. G. Brown, stepmother and baby Jessie Brown, n.d. c.1890
(1 photograph, 15cm x 11cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/3

Photograph of Mr Brown and wife Sarah Jane, nee Cowing, who moved to Middlesmoor, Nidderdale, Yorkshire, n.d. c.1890s Photographer: Jackson & Plews, Crook
(1 photograph, 6cm x 9cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/4

Photograph of Dorothy Ann Brown, nee Toal and stepmother, of Billy Row, n.d. c.1900 Photographer: J.H. Jackson, Crook
(1 photograph, 6cm x 9.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/5

Photograph of the Brown sisters who lived at White Lea Square, Billy Row, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 9.5cm x 7cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/6

Photograph of great grandmother Toal and daughter Lizzie, Aged Miners' Homes, near Tennyson Terrace, Crook, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 6.5cm x 12.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/7

Photographic postcard of an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs Brown, sitting with a book next to a stand with a plant, possibly in a conservatory, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 9cm x 13.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/8

Photograph, including: middle row (l to r) : Dorothy Ann Brown, born 21 February 1880 at Middlesmoor who later became Mrs Toal; Freda Young's great grandfather Mr. Brown with his second wife front row: Jessie Brown, born at Harrogate, c.1900
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/9

Photographic postcard of Freda Young's great-grandfather Brown, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 9cm x 14cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/10

Photograph of Sarah Jane (Popsie) Toal, who lived at Percy Street and Brookside Avenue, Crook c.1901 Photographer: J.G. Gowland, Crook
(1 photograph, 3.5cm x 7cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/11

Photograph of the Toal family of West Terrace, Billy Row, great-grandfather Toal, John James Toal aged 10 years wearing a cap, Marg or Sarah Jane (Popsie) Toal, Lizzie Toal and baby George Toal, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 14.5cm x 10cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/12

Photograph of Freda Young's great-grandfather Toal of Billy Row, n.d. c.1910 Photogapher: Pitchforth, Saltburn, Yorkshire
(1 photograph, 8 cm x 12.5 cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/13

Photograph of Percy Harland possibly on Bankfoot Washery steps, part of the Bankfoot complex near Crook, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 7.5cm x 10.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/14

Photographic postcard of the Washery Bankfoot Coke Works, Bankfoot, Crook, with boys sitting on steps, inlcuding Percy Harland age 14 years marked with x, 5th step off the ground, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 8cm x 13cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/15

Photograph taken in a studio probably of Ada Harland aged about 2 years, wearing a large bonnet and holding a basket of flowers, n.d. c.1910 Photographer: James Fairclough, Crook
(1 photograph, 10cm x 14cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/16

Photographic postcard of Stanley and Billy Row Workmen's Club Committee 1910-11 Back row (l to r): Jas. Jones; Jos. Lumsden; J.R.P. Jackson; W. Parkin; Thomas Emerson Featherstone, foreman blacksmith at Bowden and Wooley Collieries; John J. Toal, born at Tow Law Front row (l to r): Isaac Pinkneg; A. Wilkinson secretary; John Jobson president; Jos. Parkin; Thos. Ryan
(1 photograph, 9cm x 7cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/17

Photograph of John Robert Armstrong of Crook wearing the uniform of an injured soldier in WW1. He was in the Royal Artillery and was awarded the milotray medal, n.d. c.1914-1918
(1 photograph, 4.5cm x 9cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/18

Photograph of a group of men outside Robinsons butcher's shop, Billy Row, inlcuding back row centre John Toal, n.d. c.1920s
(1 photograph, 8m x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/19

Photograph taken on Billy Row Wesleyan Methodist Chruch trip to unidentified seaside location Back row: middle Mabel Toal, right Percy Dunn Front row: right Dorothy Toal, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph, 10m x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/20

Photograph of Dorothy (Dottie) Toal, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph, 8cm x 12.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/21

Photograph of sisters Sarah Jane Toal and Dorothy Toal, n.d. c1920s
(1 photograph, 12.5cm x 19cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/22

Photograph of : back row (l to r): Mabel Lawrenson, nee Toal, the daughter of John James Toal, and her husband front row (l to r): great-grandmother Toal holding Harold Lawrenson, and her husband, infront of their home, a miner's cottage, n.d. c.1920s
(1 photograph, 6cm x 9cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/23

Photographic postcard of members of Billy Row Methodist Church, possibly on an outing in the countryside, including: back row (l to r): Percy Moore, Rosie Burnip second row: 5th from left Dottie Toal, whom the card was posted to, at Pump Row, Roddymoor, c.1920s
(1 postcard, 14cm x 8.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/24

Photograph of possibly the Mellas family of Billy Row or Crook, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 13.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/25

Photograph of Ossy [?] standing in an unidentifeid street, n.d. c.1920s
(1 photograph, 7cm x 10cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/26

Photograph of the wedding of Septimus Taylor and Margaret Cowing from Temperance Row, Billy Row, also inlcuding front row 4th from left Sarah Jane Harland, and behind her Percy Harland, Crook, 1923
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/27

Photograph of White Lea Villa A.F.C. 1923-1924 season, who were winners of a local football league back row (l to r): Moses; Dewell; Butterfield; Allison (trainer) middle row (l to r): Featherstone; Middlemas; Bowes front row (l to r): Hannant; Freak; Harland (capt.); Dunn; Simpson
(1 photograph, 10cm x 7.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/28

Photograph of Ann Isobel Golightly, n.d. c.1925
(1 photograph, 6cm x 8.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/29

Copy of a photograph of Percy Harland and Sarah Jane Toal sitting on the steps of the Bowes Museum bandstand c. 1926
(1 photograph, 12cm x 20cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/30

Photograph of Gertie, Percy Harland, Sarah Jane Toal and Mr. Pallister, in front of the Post Office, Blanchland, Northumberland, n.d. c.1926
(1 photograph, 10cm x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/31

Photograph of Percy Harland and Mr. Pallister, who is reputed to have been the first owner of a motorcar in Crook, Bowes Museum, 1926/7
(1 photograph, 6cm x 11cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/32

Photograph of Mr. Pallister, Sarah Toal, Gertie and Eddie in the bandstand in Bowes Park, Bowes Museum, 1926/7
(1 photograph, 6cm x 11cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/33

Photograph of Sarah Toal and Mr. Pallister with Mr. Pallister's car, outside Brancepeth Castle gates, 1926/7
(1 photograph,11cm x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/34

Photograph of Mr. Pallister, Sarah Toal, Gerie and Eddie at Bowes Musuem, 1926/7
(1 photograph,11cm x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/35

Photograph of the marriage of Percy Harland and Sarah Jane Toal, Billy Row Methodist Chruch, 1927
(1 photograph,8cm x 13cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/36

Photograph, captioned 'Lavinia Longstaff (nee Brown) photo taken in Harrogate about 1927 (Born Middlesmoor Nidderdale thence to White Lea [near Roddymoor] Crook then to live in Harrogate', she is wearing a coat, hat and a cape of animal fur, c.1927
(1 photograph, 13cm x 20cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/37

Copy photograph of (l to r) Harold Lawrenson age 14, born Birstwick Harrogate, and grandfather John James Toal, 16 West Terrace, Billy Row, n.d. c.1927
(1 photograph, 9cm x 14.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/38

Photographic postcard of John James Toal, standing in an open doorway, 16 West Terrace, Billy Row, n.d. c.1927
(1 photograph, 8cm x 13cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/39

Photograph of Robert Brook sitting outside a stone cottage on a chair, wearing a suit with a flower buttonhole, c.1929-1930
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 14cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/40

Photograph of the wedding of Dorothy Toal of West Terrace, Billy Row and Eddie Smith of Roddymoor, Bradford, W. Yorkshire, 1929
(1 photograph, 7.5cm x 13cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/41

Photograph, back row: 2nd from left great-grandmother Toal middle row (l to r): grandmother Dorothy Ann Toal nee Brown, Ada Butterfield nee Harland front row: grandmother Ellen Harland, Hannah Toal West Terrace, Billy Row, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 10.5cm x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/42

Photographic postcard of Ellen Harland, nee Ainsworth, later Brooks, sitting on a chair in the garden, contained in a greetings mount with a Christmas message, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 8cm x 13cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/43

Copy of a photograph of Ellen Harland nee Ainsworth, later Brooks, born at Carrville Durham c.1870, wearing a pinafore infront of possibly a hen house with a corrugated iron roof, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 10cm x 15cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/44

Photographic postcard of members of The Lily of the Valley Lodge No. 2504, the International Organisation of Good Templars, Quebec, Cornsay, including: back row: 2nd from left Doris Golightly, 3rd left Kitty Golightly second row:3rd left Ann Isabel Golightly of Wilkes Hill near Langley Park who died age 102 years front row:1st left Ralph Golightly, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 13cm x 8cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/45

Photographic postcard of miners and staff in the grounds of Conishead Priory, Cumbria, the Durham Miners' Convalescent Home, inlcuding: back row:5th from right and marked with a cross S Hepple middle row: 3rd from right Eddie Smith of Roddymoor, later of Rossington, S. Yorkshire, 1930
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/46

Photograph of nurses and men, inlcuding Percy Harland, sitting next to the matron 7th from right, outside the main doorway into Conishead Priory, Ulverston, Cumbria, a miners' convalescent home, 1930
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/47

Photograph of miners and staff outside the entrance to Consihead Priory, Cumbria, the Durham Miners' Convalescent Home, 2nd left kneeling Percy Harland, 1930
(1 photograph, 19.5cm x 15cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/48

Photograph of Mary Toal, born West Terrace, Billy Row c.1915, n.d. c.1930s
(1 photograph, 8cm x 12.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/49

Photograph of members of the Billy Row Wesleyan Methodist Church on the 'Chapel Trip' to the seaside, captioned 'Pep Dunn, Auntie Dorothy, Mam, Auntie Mabel (top of dad's head), Uncle Bert, Hilda Dunn' n.d. c.1930s
(1 photograph, 6cm x 8cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/50

Photographic postcard with separate views of Crook : Hope Street; Crook from Church Hill; New Road; the Market Place; St Mary's Avenue; the Level Crossing, Hope Street; the War Memorial; Bankfoot Works; New Council Offices; North Terrace and Market Place; Commercial Street; Hope Street with Wesleyan Chapel; n.d. c.1930s
(12 photographs, 9.5cm x 6cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/51

Photograph of John Robert Armstrong of Crook, in uniform, who won a military medal in WW1 and served as a sergeant in the Home Guard during WW2, n.d. 1939-1945
(1 photograph, 8cm x 14cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/52

Photograph of John James [Jack] and Dorothy Toal outside 10 Arthur Pit, Crook, n.d. c.1940
(1 photograph, 15.5 cm x 20.2 cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/53

Photograph of John James Toal and [Stothard?] Featherstone taken in the garden at the rear of No. 1 Aged Miners' Homes, Jobs Hill, n.d. c.1940
(1 photograph, 12cm x 10cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/54

Photograph of John James Toal and his wife Dorothy Ann (nee Brown) standng in the garden of 1 Aged Miners' Homes, Jobs Hill, Crook, n.d. c.1940
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 10.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/55

Photograph of Harold Lawrenson and his wife Joyce (nee Needham) of Girlington in Bradford feeding pigeons on honeymoon in London, 1952
(1 photograph, 8cm x 14cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/56

Photograph of Ann Isobel and Mark Golightly of Cornsay possibly at a wedding anniversary party, 1953
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 11cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/57

Photograph of the Golightly family at a function, possibly church: back row (l to r): Ralph, Jim front row (l to r): Kitty, Ralph Snr, Ann Isabel, Doris, 1953
(1 photograph, 11cm x 8cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/58

Photograph of Mary Toal, born at Billy Row, working at the Lone Star toy factory making cars, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, n.d. c.1978
(1 photograph, 15.5cm x 11cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/59

Photograph of Ann Isobel Golightly at her 98th birthday party, October 1983
(1 photograph, 15cm x 10cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/60

Photograph of men and boys with nurses outside the entrance to possibly Coatham Convalescent Home, Redcar, Yorkshire, which was built in 1861, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 13.5cm x 8.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/61

Photograph of an unidentified small girl, sitting in a wooden pushchair, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 5.5cm x 10cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/62

Photograph of an unidentified young man wearing a suit with a waistcoat, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 9.5cm x 14cm, card mounted, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/63

Photograph of an unidentified man, wearing a suit with a waistcoat, possibly the same man as D/Ph 450/1/62, n.d. c.1900 Photographer: James Fairclough, Manor House Studio, Crook
(1 photograph, 3.5cm x 6.5cm, mounted on decorated card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/64

Photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a fur collared Paisley decorated cloak, and fur hat
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 13.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/65

Photograph of 2 small girls on a large wooden wheelbarrow, possibly outside East Lodge, Billy Row, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 13.5cm x 8cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/66

Photograph of an unidentified wedding party, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9.5cm, mounted on card, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/67

Photograph of an unidentified man and woman with a spaniel, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 8.5cm x 13.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/68

Photograph of an unidentified small girl, wearing a velvet coat and large ornate hat, n.d. c.1910
(1 photograph, 3cm x 5cm, in decorated card mount, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/69

Photograph of an unidentified member of the Women's Reserve Ambulance in uniform, n.d. c.1914-1918
(1 photograph, 3cm x 7cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/70

Photographic postcard of two unidentified members of Billy Row Pigeon Club holding probably prize pigeons in front of their pigeon crees, in front are probably the prizes they had won, including a dinner service, an ornate vase with a picture of a pigeon on it and a chair with medals, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/71

Photographic postcard of Billy Row Wesleyan Methodist Church Guild outing to Witton-le-Wear, n.d. c.1920s
(1 photograph, 12.5cm x 7.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/72

Photograph of a man, possibly at the Coatham Convalescent Home for miners, Redcar, Yorkshire, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 14cm x 8.5cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/73

Photograph of men, possibly at Coatham Convalescent Home, Redcar, Yorkshire, or Conishead Priory Convalescent Home, Cumberland, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 13cm x 8cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/74

Photographic postcard of members of Billy Row Wesleyan Methodist Church Sunday School, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9cm, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/75

Photograph of a street party in Tennyson Terrace, Crook to celebrate H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, mounted ina coronation card, 1953
(1 photograph, 14cm x 9cm,card mounted, black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 450/1/76

Copy of a photograph of the green at Billy Row, inlcuding the Billy Row Inn, n.d. c.1900
(1 photograph, 17.5cm x 12.5cm, sepia)



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