Catalogue

9 April 1888 (1) Rt. Hon. Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Baron Bowes (2) The Hon. Claude George Bowes Lyon (Lord Glamis) of St. Paul's Walden Bury, Herts. (3) The Hon. Herbert Bowes Lyon and the Hon. Patrick Bowes Lyon, both of 41 Queen's Gate Gardens, South Kensington, Middlesex; George Auldjo Jamieson of 24 Saint Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Accountant; George Adolphus Western of 35 Essex Street, Strand, Middlesex, Solicitor (trustees) Irrevocable appointment by (1) and (2) to (3) of the Bowes Settled Estates (Streatlam, Gibside, Wemmergill etc.) to the use of (1) for life, thence to the use of (2) in tail male with further remainder to the younger sons of (1) successively in tail male, thence to (2) in tail general, thence to the daughters of (1) successively in tail general and ultimate remainder to (2) in fee simple. Power to charge £5000 p.a. on the premises ceasing if (1) is still living on 9 April 1895. Further powers (specified) for raising portions to a maximum of £60,000. Other borrowing powers specified. Conveyance by (1), as sole surviving trustee under the Bowes Estate Act 1850, to (3) upon trust, of all premises vested in him. Covenants for the surrender to (3) of copyholds held of the Manors of Evenwood and Whickham. Assignment of leaseholds to (3) upon trust etc. Detailed schedules of all lands dealt with by this settlement attached.

12 November 1908 (1) The Rt. Hon. Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Baron Bowes (2) The Hon. Patrick Bowes Lyon (Lord Glamis) of St. Paul's Walden Bury, Herts. (3) The Rt. Hon. Frances Dora, Countess Dowager of Strathmore of 19 Hans Place, London (4) The Hon. John Herbert Bowes Lyon of St. Paul's Walden Bury; Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes Lyon of Ridley Hall, Northumberland; John William Western of 35 Essex Street, Strand, London, Solicitor Copy grant by (1) to (4) and release by (3) to (4) of the Bowes Estates as specified, subject to a rent charge of £2,500 to (3) in substitution of her existing rent charges of £2,000 charged upon the Bowes Estate and £500 charged upon the Ridley Hall Estates, to the use that (2) shall receive an annuity of £1,500 during the life of (1) from his marriage to Lady Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne and that Lady Dorothy shall receive and annuity of £1,000 (variable in circumstances specified). The present Countess of Strathmore to receive, if she survives (1), £2,000 p.a. until the death of (3) and thereafter £3,000 p.a., in full substitution for £500 p.a. charged on the Ridley Hall Estates and such sums as are charged in her favour upon the Glamis estates. Thence to the use of (2) for life, thence to his sons successively in tail male, thence to his brothers successively for life and to their sons successively in tail male with further remainder to the person next entitled to the Earldom of Strathmore. Further power for raising portions and jointures. Settlement of £83,595 5s.7d. ordinary stock in John Bowes and Partners Ltd. Schedules specifying the Bowes estates, the Ridley Hall estates, the expenditure of capital sums received from the sale of portions of the Ridley Hall Estates. Details of £97,300 outstanding on mortgage etc.

6 September 1926 (1) The Hon. John Herbert Bowes Lyon of St. Paul's Walden Bury, Herts. and John William Western of 35 Essex Street, Strand, Solicitor (trustees) (2) The Rt. Hon. Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Baron Bowes Copy vesting deed of the Gibside, Evenwood and Holwick estates, and manors, advowsons and minerals specified [incomplete]

19 March 1931 (1) John William Western of 35 Essex Street, Strand,Solicitor (2) The Hon. Patrick Bowes Lyon (Lord Glamis) Copy vesting deed of the Cockfield and Wemmergill estates as specified

Report by John Dagleish, Rothley Crag, Cambo, Northumberland on the mineral properties of the Earl of Strathmore for 1901, with appendix detailing royalties for Evenwood, Marley Hill, Hylton, Winlaton, Crawcrook etc., 5 June 1902

1 July 1912 (1) The Rt. Hon. Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (2) Edward Young Western and George Adolphus Western, both of 35 Essex Street, Strand, gentlemen (mortgagees) (3) Johnasson Gordon and Company Ltd. Counterpart lease by (1) to (2) of coal, ironstone and fireclay under Hylton West Royalty (959a. 1r. 22p.) as specified, for a term of 40 years from 1 January 1910. Plan attached. Recites previous deeds. Rent: £400 p.a. plus 4d. per ton for excess quantities for coal; 3d. per ton for ironstone or fireclay; out stroke and wayleave rents as specified

Plan of Chester-le-Street, shewing gas and water pipes, 1864 Endorsed: Thomas Murray, Chester-le-Street, engineer Scale: 10 yards to 1 inch [1:360]

Brancepeth estate, outlying portions, 19 November 1957

Brancepeth estate, woodland section, with plans, 1972

Industrial sites, Brandon and Byshottles U.D.C., with plan, February 1963

Ashtree Farm, Browney, with plan, 15 October 1976

Lintz Hall Farm, Burnopfield, with plan, 10 April 1963

Eden Vale, Castle Eden, with plan, 1976

Lumley Thicks, Chester-le-Street, with plan, November 1964

Bogma Hall Farm, Coxhoe, with plan, November 1977

Hart-on-Hill Farm, Dalton Piercy, with plan, 15 November 1972

8 - 11 Tubwell Row and Harrison's Yard, Darlington, with plan, 15 February 1965

26 High Row, Darlington, with plan, 30 September 1965

211/215 Northgate, Darlington, with plan, 7 December 1965

57 Northgate, Darlington, with plan, 22 June 1965

Manor House Farm, Low Dinsdale, with plan, 20 July 1970

Stonebridge Mill Farm, Durham, with plan, 27 August 1976

Hag Gate Farm, Eastgate, with plan, 4 October 1979

High Hill House Farm, Ferryhill, with plan, 25 July 1974

The Leam Farm, Felling, with plan [c.1980]

Butterwick Moor Farm, Fishburn, with plan, 26 November 1975

Gibside estate, with plan, March 1976

Dyderdale estate, Hamsterley, with plan, 28 October 1963

Whelly Hill Farm, Hart, with plan, 6 September 1971

Warlands Farm, Holmside, with plan, 21 July 1983

Finchale Banks Farm, Leamside, with plan, 15 October 1979

Long Newton estate, with plans, 28 June 1973

Page Bank, 170 dwellinghouses, with plan, 26 March 1930

Low Field Farm, Page Bank Colliery etc., with plans, 24 September 1931

Farms, cottages and timber at Pelton Fell, with plans, 9 May 1979

Low Friarside Farm, Rowlands Gill, with plan, 23 April 1964

Butsfield Abbey Farm, Satley, with plan, 6 October 1977

Manor House Farm, Shincliffe, with plan, 27 September 1966

Pea Farm, Stanley, with plan, October 1985

South Causey Farm, Stanley, with plan, 1976

The Employment Exchange, Borough Road, Sunderland, with plan, 6 October 1965

Hill Head Farm, Sunniside, with plan, 1 June 1970

Tanfield Farm, with plan, 28 October 1963

Helme Park, Tow Law, 30 September 1964

Field House Farm, West Rainton, with plan, 18 February 1955

Low Garth Farm, Witton-le-Wear, with plan, 30 April 1973

Ground rents at Birtley, Dunston, Sunniside and Wrekenton, with plans, 21 January 1953

Shops, offices, flats, garages etc. in Workington and Whitehaven, Cumberland, with plan, 15 September 1966

Sections of Bolam Estate, near Morpeth, Northumberland, with plan, 10 December 1969

Whitton Farm, Rothbury, Northumberland, with plan, n.d. [1950s]

Apperley Grass Parks, Stocksfield, Northumberland, with plan, 26 April 1977

High Learchild Farm, Whittingham, Northumberland, with plan, 10 April 1970

Farms at West Woodburn and Otterburn, Northumberland, with plans, 27 April 1953

Woolas Hall Farm, Appleton Roebuck, Yorkshire, with plan, 26 July 1976

Balnamoon Estate, Angus, Scotland, with plan, 1983

Letters from the Secretary of Pelaw Main Collieries Limited, Mining Offices, Birtley, to Messrs. James Turnbull and Son, Estate Offices, Station Road, Chester-le-Street, giving instructions for the collection of colliery house rents from named employees in Birtley, Low Fell, Ouston, Pelton, Perkinsville, Team Colliery and Urpeth, 28 January 1941 - 14 January 1943; pasted into a Royal Insurance Company cash account book of agents R. March and Son, of 42 Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, auctioneers, 20 June 1928 - August 1933

Plan No. 1 of the Ford Estate, showing the estate, vacant land adjoining, vacant land available for immediate building, streets completed, streets not completed, and existing sewers, in Ford township in the parish of South Hylton, and in Sunderland County Borough, marked on Ordnance Survey Durham Sheets VIII.9 and VIII.13, 3rd edition, 1919 Scale: 1:2500