Catalogue Item

Photograph of the Houghton Church Lads Brigade, posing in the garden in front of Houghton rectory, with the rector, Ralph Watson, curate, Peter Sanderson and another clergyman, seated in the midst of them, n.d. [late 1930s]

Photograph of the 1st Houghton le Spring Scout Group at camp, including scout master, Raymond Dobson (centre back, dark shirt) and, on Dobson's left, assistant scout master, Viv Morris, n.d. [c1950]

Photograph labelled "visit to see 1st Houghton Scout Group", depicting two men in highland dress, a woman and a child posing in front of a single-decker coach, n.d. [1950s]

Minutes of St. Michael's Mothers' Union, 17 July 1944 - 21 November 1973

Register of members of, and speakers to, the Mothers' Union, 1945 - 1954

Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 1, 1956 - 1966

Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 2, 1956 - 1966

Photograph of members of the Mothers Union, dressed to perform in a play or pageant, n.d. [1950s]

Photograph of the female chorus (possibly members of the Mothers Union) in an unidentified production, on stage, singing, n.d. [1950s]

Cuttings from the [Northern Echo] reporting a party to celebrate the 80th anniversary of St Michael and All Angels Mothers Union, n.d. [late 1960s]

Photograph, reproduced from the Northern Echo, depicting members of the St Michael and All Angels Mothers Union, gathered outside the Kepier Hall, Houghton le Spring, to celebrate the organisation's 80th anniversary. Includes Mrs E. V. Willis (centre front) the Union's oldest member, flanked by Mrs Mary Dobson (left) and Mrs M. Wheatley (right) and Mrs R. Liddell (2nd from right, front row), n.d. [c1970]

Photograph of the banner of the Mothers Union of St Michael and All Angels, Houghton le Spring, n.d. [mid 20th century]

Photograph of an embroidered panel, entitled 'Early Shift', representing Houghton Deanery, made by members of St Michael's Mothers Union, intended to join with others to construct a banner, commemorating Mothers Unions in the region, n.d. [c1990]

Photograph of five members of St Michael's Mothers Union, sitting on a bus stop bench in The Broadway, Houghton le Spring, n.d. [c2000]

Photograph, reproduced from the Northern Echo, depicting members of St Michael and All Angels Men's Fellowship, including Mr Clinton, clerk to Houghton Urban District Council (far left, front row) Rev. Noel Gwilliam (2nd left, front row) and Robert Dadswell (3rd left, front row); A. Gordon, local solicitor (far right, front row); William T. Dobson (5th left, back row) and John Raine (far left, 4th row from front) n.d. [c1960]

Photograph of choir boy, George Peebles (later church organist) singing a solo, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of the church choir, gathered on top of the tower of St Michael and All Angels church, to sing, on Houghton Feast Sunday, n.d. [1960s]

Photograph of the church choir, gathered in the churchyard in front of the west window, overlooking The Broadway, Houghton le Spring, to lead the community hymn singing on Houghton Feast Sunday, [October 1977]

Minutes of G.F S., December 1881 - November 1898

Girls' Friendly Society account book, 1 February 1953 - 27 February 1967

Photograph of the Houghton-le-Spring branch of the Durham and Northumberland Diocesan Association of Change Ringers outside St. Michael and All Angels' church, Houghton le Spring: 8 men displaying board to commemorate the first peal on the bells by James Spearman, Thomas Masters, Stephen Robinson, Arthur Spearman, John Masters and Robert Parkinson, accompanied by ?churchwardens, Frederick Hall and Edmund Metcalfe, 12 May 1920

Circular regarding change in time of Sunday School at St. Michael and All Angels, Houghton, 19 June 1966