Catalogue

Minute book of the trustees appointed by the Board of Charity Commissioners, October 1868 - September 1874 Includes: accounts, 1869 - 1874 For enclosure see E/Da/G 35

Minute book of the Governors meetings, September 1874 - September 1887 Includes: minutes of Building Committee, Building and Finance Committee, Finance Committee

Minute book of the Governors meetings, December 1888 - December 1910

Minute book of the Governors' meetings, February 1911 - December 1916

Entrance register, 1877-1908

Entrance register, 1908-1933

Entrance register, 1933-1945

Admission register, nos. 1-300, pupils record, 1900 - 1911, indexed,

Admission register, nos. 301-598, 1911 - 1917, indexed,

Admission register, nos. 599-896, 1917 - 1920, indexed,

Admission register, nos. 897-1131, indexed, 1920 - 1924

'Boys Left', nos. 410-1149, 1923 - 1930 (similar to E/Da/F 4-7, uses same numbering)

'Boys Left', nos. 1150-1599, 1929 - 1934

'Boys Left', nos. 1600-1899, 1933 - 1942

'Boys Left', nos. 1900-2299, 1936 - 1941

'Boys Left', nos. 2300-2699, 1940 - 1945

'Boys Left', nos. 2700 - 3057, 1943 - 1948

'Boys Left', nos. 3058-3399, 1946 - 1951

'Boys Left', nos. 3400 - 3657, 1948 - 1950

Index to nos. 1 - 3657

Register of boys taking technical instruction classes at the Grammar School, indexed, 1892 - 1904

Minute book, July 1919 - March 1946

Minute book, September 1946 - September 1966 Includes: indexed list of members

Minutes of Committee for the Arrangement of the Old Boys' Dinner, 1892 For enclosure see E/Da/G 33

Lists of refusals and acceptances to dinner, with plan of seating arrangement at the top table Originally enclosed in E/Da/G 32

List of members of Old Boys' Association, 1956 - 1957 and n.d.

Trustees' accounts with Rev. J. Marshall, June 1866 - June 1869; I.G. Grace, J.R. Breckon and J. Bamlett's accounts on behalf of the trustees, June - December 1866

Abstract of accounts, December 1875 - March 1910

Governor's declaration book, 1874 - 1885

Governor's declaration book, 1903 - 1914

Correspondence concerning visit of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, to the school, 1963 - 1964

Notice of lands at Heighington belonging to the Grammar School to be let for 21 years, conditions include regulations about crops and fields to be left in meadow or pasture, with plan, 1797 (copies presented by N. Sunderland who left no information about the original documents) (2 photocopies

Notes from Albert Road School log book, 1866 - 1920, extracts from the minute book of the Blue Coat School Trustee, November 1852 - December 1959 (entries made in a 1960 diary, probably by N. Sunderland and handed in along with Grammar School Archive)

Headmaster's accounts with churchwardens, 1803 - 1833 Includes: transcripts of documents relating to the school; p.32, lease of lands at Thorny from churchwardens and guardians of the grammar school to John Ralph Gouldsbrough of Leven Bridge, Yorkshire, 12 May 1816; p.37, Memorandum of lease of houses in Tubwell Row to Robert Wilson and Christopher Watson, 15 September 1828; p.234, Charter for founding grammar school, 12 October 1567; p.228, translation of charter; p.222, legal opinion on powers conferred by charter regarding purchasing of property for the maintenance of the school, on type of school (whether elementary) and rights of church-wardens, 19 March 1688; p.221, legal opinion on churchwardens' rights to choose and dismiss masters under the charter, 14 December 1714; p.220, vestry order not to let church and school lands without public notice and the consent of the churchwardens, 25 January 1659; p.219, vestry order that leases of church, school or poor lands should not be renewed until two years of expiry, 3 July 1714; p.218, Appointment of William Addison as upper master, 8 December 1739; p.218, Appointment of Cuthbert Allan as upper master, 11 November 1747; p.217, Discharge of Cuthbert Allan, 5 January 1748; p.217, Appointment of Thomas Cooke as upper master, 7 January 1748; p.216, Discharge of Thomas Cooke, 11 May 1750; p.215, Statutes, ordinances and decrees of the governors, 3 February 1748; p.209, Confirmation of statutes by the Bishop of Durham, 1 June 1749; p.208, Appointment of Robert Meetkirke as upper master, 23 January 1750; p.207, Appointment of Thomas Morland as upper master, 22 February 1753; p.205, Bishop's licence for Thomas Morland as upper master, 22 February 1755; p.204, Appointment of John Dixon as upper master, 20 April 1758; p.203, Appointment of William Clementson as usher, 25 December 1795; p.202, Resignation of Thomas Morland, 25 April 1806; p.201, Appointment of William Clementson as upper master, 26 April 1806; p.199, Appointment of George Walters as usher, 1806; p.198, Bishop's licence for William Clementson as upper master, 24 August 1806

Scheme of management of the grammar school, 1874, with list of first governors and specimen abstract of accounts

Subscription list for fund for grammar school, c.1874

Scheme for amending foundations at Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Hartlepool and Wolsingham under the Endowed Schools Acts by the Charity Commission, 13 May 1896

Scheme for amending grammar school scheme of 1874 by the Board of Education, 5 April 1905

Draft of E/Da/G8a

Memorandum on clause 1 section e. of the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, relating to the representation of local authority on the governing body

i Statement of income and expenditure for scholarships and exhibitions, 1906 ii Statement of endowments, February 1907 iii Statement of scholarships, 1907

Staff register, indexed, 1877 - 1940

Punishment book, 1911-1960

Newspaper cuttings, 1872-1891

Newspaper cuttings, 1914-1922 For enclosure see E/Da/G15

Report of meeting and speeches of candidates for school board election, 1879

Papers relating to charities and scholarships collected by N. Sunderland i Notes on 'The Good Mrs. Allan', n.d. ii Photocopy of part of the report of the commissioners enquiring into payment of pensions and stipends after the dissolution of charities relating to the salaries of schoolmaster at Durham and Darlington, 1553 (from P.R.O.) iii Scheme for grammar school endowments under the Charitable Trusts Act, 5 January 1917, with schedule of endowments iv Scheme of amending foundations listed in schedule (includes grammar school) by Charity Commission under Endowed Schools Acts, 24 July 1900 v Scheme for Tho. Richardson scholarship under the charity founded by John Pease, Joseph Pease, Henry Pease, Edward Pease and Henry Fell Pease for educational purposes as amended by the Charity Commission under the Endowment Schools Acts, 26 June 1884 vi Scheme for altering regulations of the grammar school made by the Board of Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1911 vii Scheme made by the Board of Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts for the variation of the trusts of the William Barningham Exhibition, 24 November 1933 viii Scheme made by the Board of Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts for the variation of the trusts of the Edward Pease Memorial Exhibition, 2 August 1934 ix Letters between the headmaster and the education officer about war memorial windows, well known old boys and scholarships particularly the George Stephenson scholarship, 1931 with list of candidates, with marks and arithmetic paper and English paper set, 1924 - 1931 x list of applicants for George Stephenson scholarship, 1931 xi Arithmetic paper, 1931

Certificate of John Hunter as Bellasses scholar, July 1880

The Sixth Form Gazette, (published by the boys), 1895

Letter from the headmaster to the old boys and masters describing the memorial plaque to the old boys who died in the Boer War and inviting subscribers to the presentation ceremony, with list of subscribers, 18 June 1903

Programme for presentation of Union Flag and Staff to the Grammar School by the Empire Day Darlington Citizens Committee, 24 May 1918

Printed copy of the charter, 1567; vestry order, 1659; vestry order, 1714; legal opinion, 1688; legal opinion, 1714; appointment of master, 1739, 1747; discharge, 1748, 1750; appointment of master, 1748; statutes, 1748; confirmation of statutes, 1749; appointment, 1750, 1755; Bishop's licence, 1757; appointment, 1758 For fuller description of items see E/Da/G 4

Ground plan of proposed alterations to the heating system by Richardson and Company, heating engineers, 29 June 1915

Plan of first floor showing proposed alterations to the heating system by Richardson and Company, heating engineers, 29 June 1915

Plan of ground floor by council architect, 1934 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Cricket match scoring book, July 1887 - May 1895

Cricket match scoring book, May 1900 - June 1905

Cricket match scoring book, July 1905 - July 1910

Cricket match scoring book, May 1911 - June 1917

Cricket match scoring book, June 1917 - April 1932

Cliff cricket match scoring book, August 1890 -July 1894