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Mining Records Project

Reference: D/MRP Catalogue Title: Mining Records Project Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: (part 2)

Covering Dates: 1767-1976

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Mining Records project (Ref: D/MRP)Mining Records (Ref: D/MRP 84-137)Horden, Shildon and others (Ref: D/MRP 84/1-42)

Postcard of Blackhill Road, Horden. date not clear, possibly 1901 or 1902
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Dene Holme, Horden, n.d. c.1905
(1 postcard)


Postcard of whinney Hill in South Yorkshire n.d. c.1905
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Horden Colliery Club - opened February 16th, 1906 [possibly 1907]
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Horden Station, n.d.
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Bishop Auckland, Newton Viaduct, 1907
(1 postcard)


Postcard of "Ceordie and the bairn", 1907
(1 postcard)


Postcard of "Ruins of Furness, Stanhope Dene," 1907
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Horden club on fire, 1910
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Horden, Empress Electric Theatre, 1911
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Silksworth Colliery. Idle pit ponies, 1912
(1 postcard)


Postcard of South Terrace, Cornsay Colliery, 1912
(1 postcard)


Postcard of The Colliery, Horden, 1913
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Grey St, Newcastle on Tyne. Date not clear, possibly 1915
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Horden Colliery, c.1917
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Station Road, Ashington, 1919
(1 postcard)


Postcard of Cornsay, 1920
(1 postcard)


Postcard of St. Hilda Colliery Band, n.d. c.1924
(1 postcard)


Postcard of St. Hilda Colliery Band, n.d. c.1924
(1 postcard)


Photograph of Coronation festivities, Shildon, n.d. c.1910
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Old Railway Line, Shildon, n.d. c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon Lodge Colliery, 1905
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of The Brusselton incline, 1906
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Main Street, Shildon, 1906
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Dattan Gates, Shildon, 1906
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon Lodge Colliery, 1907
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon Station, n.d. c.1906
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of The Sidings, Shildon, 1908
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon, looking west, 1908
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of "1st Prize", Bishop Auckland Lifeboats, n.d. c.1910
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of The Station, Shildon, 1910
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon Lodge Crossing, 1912
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Cheapside, Shildon, 1912
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon - postcard general views, 1912
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon in flood, 1913
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of wheelwrights/blacksmiths, n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Brusselton Folley, Shildon, 1921
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of "Miners' Strike. Enjoying ourselves at Shildon", 1921
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Shildon - postcard with 7 general views, 1923
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Railway Centenary - postcard souvenir, 1925
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Photograph of Railway Centenary - postcard souvenir, 1925
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of No. 1 Engine, Darlington, n.d.
(1 contact print and negative)

Unidentified colliery (Ref: D/MRP 85/1-2)

Photograph of group of miners beside waggonway, n.d.
(1 print)


Photograph of colliery - general view, not identified, n.d.
(1 print)

NCB (Ref: D/MRP 86/1)

Papers relating to National Coal Board Pneumoconiosis Compensation Scheme, August 1974
(1 bundle)

Easington Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 87/1-2)

Photograph of staff and passengers of H.M.S. Conqueror, Mrs. Wild's parents indicated, c.1918
(1 photograph, 1 contact print, 1 negative)


"The Years Between", life between 1926 and 1972 Miners' Strikes, Easington Colliery
(1 file)

Shildon (Ref: D/MRP 88/1-4)

Primitive Methodist Connexion. Financial report detailing payments made by members of societies and classes. Quarter ending 1 September 1894
(1 paper)


Preachers Plan, 1905
(1 paper)


Preachers Plan, 1906, [2 copies - differing slightly in wording of special meetings announcements]
(2 papers)


Primitive Methodist Sunday School and Christian Endeavour Union. Plan of visitors, topics, lessons and meetings, 1908
(1 paper)

Herrington (Ref: D/MRP 89/1-4)

Herrington Pit, pay notes: (i) J. Gardner, 1889 (ii) D. Gardner, 1935 (iii) D. Gardner, 1935
(3 papers)


Newspaper cuttings concerning Herrington, miners and mining. Some not dated; others 1933, 1953, 1959


Typed circular concerning choice of destination for Hastings Way Charabanc Trip, 1920
(1 paper)


Photograph of New Herrington Colliery before No. 2 shaft was sunk; taken from the bottom of Railway Terrace, n.d.
(1 photograph)

Horden (Ref: D/MRP 90/1)

Photograph of Horden Labour Party, Women's Section
(1 contact print and negative)

Eppleton (Ref: D/MRP 91/1-2)

Harrison, who died in a gassing accident at the Eppleton Colliery, 13 December 1895
(1 card)


Printed copy of "Lines on the Colliery Disaster at Eppleton Colliery, Nr. Hetton, and the Judge's Remarks at the Late Durham Assizes", by C.B. of Gateshead, n.d. c.1895
(1 paper)

Killingworth, Derwent Crook, Wingate Grange, Horden, Hartlepool (Ref: D/MRP 92/1-6)

Killingworth Colliery, bill to the Collier for medical services and goods from Dr. Jon Gray, 1 March - 28 June 1817
(1 file)


No. 2 Derwent Crook Colliery, Working, Contingent, Engine, Farm, Leading Coals and Waggonway charges from 19 January to and with 2 February, 1818 for the use of Sir Thomas Liddell Baronet and Partners
(2 papers)


Wingate Grange Colliery, General and Special Working Rules, 1 January 1856
(1 file)


Durham Handbill for plays to be performed at the Theatre Royal, June 1859
(1 paper)


Horden Collieries Ltd, booklet describing the collieries owned by this company with photographs, and details of output and production, 1929
(1 volume)


Hartlepool Hospital, photocopy of quantities, descriptions and prices for work by Excavators, Masons, Bricklayers, Joiners, Carpenters, Plumbers, Painters and Glaziers. As per plans dated 19 April 1864
(1 file)

Seaham Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 96/1-2)

Photograph of The Officials, Seaham Colliery, 1912 Front Row L - R: S. Hepplethwaite (Surveyor), A. Mackay, Armstrong, J. Brough (Manager), V. Corbett (Agent), R. Curry (Engineer), M. Forster (Enginewright), T. Schollock, ? (Master Wasteman) Second Row L - R: J. Turnbull (Backoverman), J. Winter (Backoverman), F. Stokoe (Master Shifter), J. Scrafton (Master Shifter), T. Barkow (Foreoverman), W. Teasdale (Foreoverman), W. Rawson (Foreoverman), J. Carr (Foreoverman), J. Spence (Backoverman), H. Grey, T. Reay Third Row L - R: R. Urwin, E. Hutchinson, J. Squires Senn, J. Squires Jnr., W. Miller, S. Cowley, G. Teasdale, J. Forster, R. Wardley, W. Oliver, W. Guy Fourth Row L - R: G. Spence, Wilson, T. Haswell, W. Young, J. Baxter, D. Scrafton, J. Curry, W. Rowell, G. Sanderson, R. Jackson, J. Rowland, T. Ogilvie, G. Hunter, W. Liddle, E. Trotter, W .Turnbull Fifth Row L - R: J. Ogilvie, T. Kelly, N. Rowell, R. Samuels, A. Paxton, C. Lowery, C. Hepple, G. Curry, A. Jimson, S. Hepplewhite
(1 contact print, 1 negative)


Photograph of Seaham Colliery, before remodelling, n.d. c.1912
(1 contact print and negative)

Evenwood (Ref: D/MRP 97/1)

Letter describing Randolph Pit and workings, Evenwood Colliery, c.1950, 1976
(2 pages)

Brandon (Ref: D/MRP 98/1)

Family Bible
(1 volume)

Oakenshaw (Ref: D/MRP 99-101)

Minute book, June 1930 - February 1947 Included are the Rules, Bye-Laws and Standing Orders of the Institute
(1 volume and 1 paper)


Minute book, March 1947 - February 1964 Included is a sheet of accounts for quarter ending 24 March 1961
(1 volume and 1 paper)


Minute book, March 1964 - June 1974
(1 volume)


Account book, April 1932 - September 1935
(1 volume and 2 papers)


Account book, Quarterly: January 1943 - December 1966
(1 volume)


Account book, April 1944 - January 1947
(1 volume and 2 papers)


Account book, May 1944 - January 1947
(1 volume and 7 papers)


Account book, January 1947 - January 1952
(1 volume)


Account book, February 1947 - December 19[6?]1
(1 volume and 1 paper)


Account book, [Miners Welfare Shop], 1950 - 1968
(1 volume)


Account books, (i) January 1952 - June 1956 (ii) January 1952 - June [?]
(2 volumes)


Account books, (i) July 1956 - November 1959 [?] (Infolded is a letter from C.I.S.W.O. re. Deeds of Welfare Schemes) (ii) July 1956 - November 1959
(2 volumes and 1 paper)


Account book, November 1959 - February 1965
(1 volume)


Account book, January 1965 - November 1969
(1 volume)


Annual accounts, 1967 - 1973
(1 volume and 1 paper)


Account book, December 1969 - April 1972
(1 volume)


Members Contribution Book, April 1948 - December 1955
(1 volume)


Members Contribution Book,March ? - November ? n.d.
(1 volume)


Assorted papers on Brancepeth Colliery 'B' Pit ("Oakenshaw") including awards, agreements, cavilling and general rules Also included is a pamphlet on the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912, 1902 - 1931
(1 file)


Assorted papers re Games League, 1949 - 1950
(1 file)


Assorted papers re Miners Welfare Commission and welfare schemes, 1949 - 1955
(1 file)


Assorted papers re Rating and Valuation of the Institute, Oakenshaw, 1933 - 1956
(1 file)


Phorograph of Brancepeth and Oakenshaw Aged Miners Homes: the first annual outing to Whitley Bay
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Peace Celebrations, fancy dress competition winners and judges, Oakenshaw, 1919
(1 print and negative)


Photograph of Kit Robinson, female impersonator, Oakenshaw, 1919
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of 3 young miners, Oakenshaw 1927
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of 5 miners, Oakenshaw, n.d. c.1927
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Willington High Street, n.d. c.1930
(1 large print and negative, 1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Oakenshaw Orchestral Band, 1926
(1 print and negative)


Photograph of man with boy on pony, New Row, Oakenshaw, n.d. c.1950
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Oakenshaw Colliery Compressor (with H.James, joiner; A. Finlayson, fitter; J. Marlow, blacksmith; H. Davison, electrician), 1952
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Oakenshaw Colliery, general view, n.d. c.1955
(1 contact print and negative)

Shildon (Ref: D/MRP 108/1-12)

Photograph of Shildon Lodge Colliery. Group of men, probably officials, n.d. c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Eppleton Colliery, 1905
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Wingate Colliery Disaster, 1906: (i) View of Colliery (1 contact print and negative) (ii) "waiting for news" - crowds at pit head
(1 large print and negative)


Photographs of West Stanley Colliery Disaster, 1909: (i) "Where the terrible explosion occurred" (ii) "Rescue party descending the shaft" (iii) Anxious crowd (iv) Anxious crowd (v) Anxious crowd
(5 contact prints and negatives)


Photograph of Shildon Lodge Colliery, 1910
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Brusselton Pit, 2nd day of working, 1920
(1 large print and negative)


Photograph of Randolph Colliery, Evenwood, n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Front Street, South Hetton, n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of ambulances presented to the Miners' Association, n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Ambulance presented to the Durham Miners' Association, n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photographs of wheelbarrow race, Shildon Lodge Colliery, 1921: (i) "Miners strike. Enjoying ourselves at Shildon" (1 contact print and negative) (ii) Race in progress
(1 large print, and negatives)


Photograph of Shildon Lodge Colliery (Datton Colliery) Chimney being demolished, 1926
(1 contact print and negative)

Morrison Busty and Sacriston (Ref: D/MRP 109/1-7)

Morrison Busty; large plan showing strata at sinking of East Pit, 1925
(1 plan)


Photographs of Sacriston Colliery: (i) 2 views of the pit-head, n.d. pre.1950 (1 contact print, 1 enlargement, 2 negatives) (ii) Mobile support arch designed and built at Sacriston, 1956 (1 contact print and negative) (iii) Man in pub; beside him on table are stone hot-water bottle and detonator cap tin, c.1950
(1 contact print and negative)


Sacriston Colliery; memorandum by W.C. Blackett on his ideas for Nationalisation of Mines, 1917
(1 file)


Morrison Busty Annual Reports on output, coal cleaning, persons employed, explosives etc. as required by Coal Mines Act 1911, 1925 - 1937 inclusive, 1947
(12 files)


Photocopy of handwritten notes on the history of the Sacriston Colliery by Mr. Collins, December 1975
(1 file)


Sacriston Colliery; plan of support rules, 1976
(1 plan)


Sacriston Colliery; photograph of coke ovens, n.d. c.1940
(1 contact print and negative)

Durham County (Ref: D/MRP 110/1)

Thwaites' Illustrated Guide to Durham and District, c.1910
(1 booklet)

National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (Durham Area) (Ref: D/MRP 111/1-4)

"Rules of the Durham Deputies' Mutual Aid Association", 1932
(1 booklet)


"National Agreement Wages and Grading", 1952
(1 booklet)


"Copy of the Prescribed Diseases Fatalities Scheme", 1954
(1 booklet)


"National Agreements, Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers and Weekly Paid Industrial Staff", 1959
(1 booklet)

Herrington (Ref: D/MRP 112/1)

Extracts from notes on a miner's life, Herrington Colliery, c.1918, and newspaper extract
(10 pages)

Mainsforth (Ref: D/MRP 117/1-2)

Report 'The Development of, and experience with the A.B. Double-Ended, Conveyor-Mounted Trepanner', by T.I. Elliott, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.S., Assoc. I.M.E., 1966
(1 file)


Mainsforth Scroll, drawn by miner from Mainsforth Colliery, illustrating many of the officials there, 1968
(1 paper)

Stanley (Ref: D/MRP 118/1-9)

Louisa Colliery; Government Report on Explosion at Louisa (including Morrison Old) Colliery, Durham, August 1947, published 1948 Plan accompanying report
(1 booklet, 1 plan)


Postcard of West Stanley Explosion, showing 6 views of the disaster and funeral.
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Houghton Rescue Team, n.d. c.1930
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Miner, in work clothes, 1935
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Street decoration for George VI Coronation (Possibly Pine Street, Stanley), 1936
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Stanley. St. John's Ambulance Brigade, n.d. c.1940
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Stanley Street party to celebrate end of 2nd World War, c.1945
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Louisa Colliery; rescue workers bringing body out of the pit after explosion, 1947, (Copyright Newcastle Chronicle & Journal Ltd)
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Louisa Colliery; rescue workers at pit explosion, 1947; (Copyright Daily Herald Manchester)
(1 contact print and negative)

Thornley Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 119/1-5)

National Council of Labour Colleges, syllabus card for special classes for the Durham Miners' Association Students; tutor Sam Watson, 1945 - 46
(1 card)


Wheatley Hill and Thornley Collieries; Death Fund Rules, n.d. c.1938
(1 card)


Thornley Lodge Cavilling Rules and Agreements, Thornley Colliery, 1938
(1 booklet)


Fatal Accident Agreement, Thornley Colliery, 1951
(1 card)


Miners' Federation Board Hospital Fund and Aged Miners' Homes Fund Rules, Thornley Colliery, 1957
(1 card)

North Hetton, Wideopen, Littletown (Ref: D/MRP 120/1-3)

North Hetton Colliery; copy of address made to the public concerning unfair dismissal of 50 workmen, and the subsequent deferring of binding, May 1832


Wide-Open Colliery (Northurnberland); short newspaper article covering inquest on man killed by boiler bursting, December 1833


Little Town; newspaper cutting about fossils found while sinking this pit, 1833
(1 paper, photocopy)

Easington Lane (Ref: D/MRP 121/1-37)

Photograph of landlord and family standing in front of the 'Bonnie Pit Lad' pub, Easington Lane, 1890
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Photograph of Bicycle Club, standing in front of 'Bonnie Pit Lad', Easington Lane, 1890
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Photograph of 'Bonnie Pit Lad' customers, in backyard of the public house; landlady standing with jug; landlord seated 2nd from right, front row, Easington Lane, 1890
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of local colliery overmen, Hetton Colliery, Easington Lane, 1890
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Doctor Parker in horse and rigg, Easington Lane, 1900
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Photograph of Hudson's shop with Mrs. C. Hudson, Mrs. Stephenson, Miss E. Hudson, Miss J. Hudson, Master John and Master Joe at door, Easington Lane, 1900
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Photograph of Brickgarth Primitive Methodist's Chapel, Easington Lane, 1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Elemore Colliery, Easington Lane, 1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Eppleton Colliery, Easington Lane, 1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Elemore Engine, built by G. Stephenson, ran on the Hetton - Sunderland line, pulled coals from Elemore Colliery to Sunderland, Easington Lane, n.d. c.1900
(1 contact print, 1 print, 1 negative)


Photograph of High Street, Easington Lane, looking South, 1902
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of High Street, Easington Lane, 1906
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane Store Horse, Damsel, winner of many shows. Mr. Laidler, Miss Mary Laidler, Mr. Bunt, Thr. Bunt (son), Mat Wood, Mr. Joe Hudson, Mr. M. Stephenson, Mr. W. Harrison (butcher), Mr. Barkhouse, Mr. T. Ottey, Mr. Whiteman. Boy and girl Master J. Hudson, May Hudson, Mr. T. Dodsworth, 1912
(1 contact print and negative)


Hetton; photograph of Elemore and Eppleton Aged Miners Homes, opened 11 March 1916
(1 contact print and negative)


Elemore Colliery, Easington Lane, - photograph of 5 young miners, 1916: L - R Back: George Nattrass, T. Whiteman, F. Dover L - R Front: Harry Stevenson, T. Kavanagh
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane School football team, 1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane's "first shop; the old blacksmith's shop", n.d. c.1920
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Photograph of Kay's Butcher's Shop, Easington Lane, early 1920's
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Kay's Soup Kitchen, 1920's
(1 contact print and negative, 1 large print)


Hetton-le-Hole; photograph of last tram car on road to Easington Lane, 1925
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Hudson's Store, Easington Lane; Mrs. C. Hudson, Mrs. C. Carr, Mr. John Hudson, Mr. Will Hudson, Mr. Joe Hudson, Mr. N. Surtees, Mr. C. Carr and two Miss Patties, 1927
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Hudson's Store, Mrs. C. Hudson, Mrs. C. Carr, Mr. Dick Stoker, Rodger the Dog, 1929
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane, n.d. c.1930
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane's first carnival. First prize winner, trade entry; taken in front of Church High Street, 1931
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Bank Top, Easington Lane, (Pemberton's Bank), 1930's
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Easington Lane Working Men's Club; three men (Jack Harland, Thomas Story, D. Larner) in back yard, 1936
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of High Street, Easington Lane, 1938
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of High Street, Easington Lane, 1940
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Elemore Colliery, Easington Lane, 1940's
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Victory Day celebrations, Thames Street, Easington Lane, 1945
(1 contact print, and negative)


Photograph of Old Folk's Outing, Easington Lane, 1947
(1 contact print, and negative)


Hetton Colliery offices near Fencehouses; photocopy of letter from Mr. Lindsay Wood to Mr. A. Wylde, concerning reduction of hours worked by boys under 16 years of age, 1873


Hetton Colliery Office, Photocopy of letter from Mr. Thomas Lishman to W. Crawford Esq. concerning the hours per day during which coals are drawn from Elemore Colliery, 1881
(1 paper)


Vane-Tempest Colliery; photocopy of pay note, 1931
(1 paper)


Ryhope Colliery; photocopy of pay note, July 1933
(1 paper)


Ryhope Colliery; photocopy of pay note, n.d. c.1935
(1 paper)


Photocopies of poems written by J. Sanderson, about events and people of Easington Lane, c.1970: (i) The Pub Crawl; lists old pubs of the village (1 paper) (ii) Brickgarth Memories; from Mr. Sanderson's childhood, c.1920 (1 paper) (iii) Schoolboy Memories (1 paper) 121/37 (iv) Memories of Easington Lane (1 paper) (v) Untitled poem recording Easington Lane events and people (4 papers)
(8 papers)

Shotton Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 122/1)

Photographs: (i) Front Street, Shotton Colliery, n.d. c.1900 (ii) Shotton Colliery Church Choir, 1906 (iii) Front Street, Shotton Colliery, n.d. c.1930
(3 photographs)

Dawdon (Ref: D/MRP 123/1-6)

Dawdon Parish Church; Golden Jubilee Celebration Pamphlet, 1912 - 1962
(1 booklet)


Photograph album. Unidentified portraits, n.d. c.1900
(1 volume)


Miscellaneous photographs: (i) Portrait (ii) Water pumping station (iii) Inside pumping station (iv) Group of workmen
(4 photographs)


Deputy's Service Certificate, 1919 - 1954
(1 card)


Shot Firer's Service Certificate, 1919 - 1954
(1 card)


Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Whitwell Snr., c.1930
(1 photograph)

Pelton, Pitt Hill, Wardley, West Pelton, Waldridge (Ref: D/MRP 124/1-9)

Pelton; photocopy of Parish Magazine, February 1914
(1 volume)


Pitt Hill; annotated photographs of: (i) William Weddle, b.1783 (ii) Ann Weddle, b.1807, n.d. c.1855
(2 contact prints and negatives)


Annotated photograph of Ann Weddle and young, half sister, Mary Jane Britten, c.1870
(1 contact print and negative)


Wardley Colliery; annotated photograph of Urwin family group, n.d. c.1894
(1 contact print and negative)


West Pelton Co-op; annotated photograph of group of men standing by windows, c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Waldridge Bank Foot; annotated photograph of railway shunters, April 1914
(1 contact print and negative)


West Pelton Co-op; annotated photograph of staff and building; c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Annotated photograph of Pelton Allotment, 1920
(1 contact print and negative)


Annotated photograph of Pelton Post Office and postmistress, Mrs. Riddle, c.1920
(1 contact print and negative)

Houghton-le-Spring and Seaham (Ref: D/MRP 125/1-6)

Houghton-le-Spring; photograph of Mr. James Makepeace standing at the corner of Neasham Place, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph)


Seaham; photograph of Thomas Cowley posing in football strip, n.d. c.1920
(1 photograph)


Houghton Colliery; photograph of group of miners with prize-winning pony; group includes Joseph Davison-White, Salvation Army preacher, n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph)


Houghton Colliery; photograph of three miners with Salvation Army preacher at "bait-time", n.d. c.1930
(1 photograph)


Houghton-le-Spring; photograph of Newtown Jazz Band, c.1930
(1 photograph)


Houghton-le-Spring; "Another young miner" - poem about miner, with notes on photographs (D/MRP 125/1-5), c.1950
(3 pages)

Rainton (Ref: D/MRP 127/1-2)

Poem "To the men who departed this life of Freedom to a state of Bondage at the Adventure Pit, Rainton, 14 July 1926"
(1 paper)


Notes on Rainton Colliery 1899 - 1925
(1 paper)

Sacriston and Charlaw Collieries (Ref: D/MRP 128/1-9)

Handwritten copy of Pitmen's Bond between John Smith of Witton Gilbert and several workmen, Sacriston and Charlaw Collieries, original dated 23 November 1767
(1 paper)


Poem "Lines on the Sacriston Disaster" by a Durham miner, (Joseph Jobling, Hamsteels Colliery, Durham), November 1903
(4 papers)


"Death at Sacriston Colliery"; an account of the fall of stone, 4 December 1940, by W. Thompson, who worked in the mine at the time
(1 paper)


Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd. Pay notes: (i) Shield Row Colliery, 25 April 1931 (ii) Shield Row Colliery, 30 April 1932 (iii) Kimblesworth Colliery, n.d. c.1932
(3 papers)


Durham County Council, Education Department; Deputy's Certificate, January 1940 Endorsed, description of course required to obtain this certificate
(2 papers)


St. John's Ambulance First Aid Certificate, October 1943
(1 paper)


Sacriston Colliery; certificate to attend to Rapper Signals, April 1946
(1 paper)


Photographs of: (i) High level and Swing Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1907 (ii) Newcastle United A.F.C. 1906 - 1907 (iii) St. John's Church & Granger Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1907 (iv) Witton Street, Sacriston, c.1910 (v) Front Street, Sacriston, c.1910 (vi) Central Station, Newcastle on Tyne, c.1910 (vii) The Lighthouse, Roker, Sunderland, 1911 (viii) Conishead Priory, 1937 (ix) Princess St., Kingston, Ontario (postcard sent c.1910, to W. Thompson, Sacriston)
(9 contact prints and negatives)


Kimblesworth Colliery; photocopy of poem by William C. Bickle on sinking accident, 16 August 1885
(4 pages)

Fir Tree (Ref: D/MRP 129/1-2)

Photograph of group of men at threshing machine, Fir Tree, n.d. c.1950
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of group of men and boys with horse and blacksmith, Fir Tree, n.d. c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)

Easington Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 130/1)

Poem about "Easington Disaster" by W. Linsky and W. Smallwood, ex-miners, Bearpark, 1951
(1 paper)

Cornsay Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 131/1-3)

Photograph of Cornsay Colliery and District Ambulance Classes, 1916
(1 photograph)


Photograph of unidentified procession of horses at Cornsay, c.1900 - 1910
(1 copy photograph, postcard size)


Photograph of Cornsay Colliery Adult Football Team (most players identified), c.1910 - 1920
(1 photograph)

General (Ref: D/MRP 132/1)

"Forming a General History of Coal, Collieries, Colliery Engineering and Mining; together with the local history of the Collieries and Coal Trade of the North of England"
(Microfilm, 155 frames)

Shotton Colliery (Ref: D/MRP 133/1-4)

Newscutting about B.B.C. T.V. film on Shotton Colliery, with emphasis on comments by George Hamilton.
(2 papers,photocopies)


Durham Chronicle; cutting describing opening of pithead baths, Shotton Colliery, 5 May 1930
(3 papers, photocopies)


Notice of Parish Meeting, Shotton, 28 March 1966
(1 paper, photocopy)


"Shotton Villages and Colliery. A History", edited by Colin Mountford; prepared by members of Elgin Senior High School, Gateshead, 1973
(39 pages, photocopies)

Woodland (Ref: D/MRP 134/1-2)

Newspaper cutting of poem by Mrs. Bell, "A Memory of the Depression", Woodland, 1966
(1 paper)


Newspaper cutting of article by Mrs. Bell on food and life in Woodland, 1967
(1 paper)

Wingate and Wolsingham Sanitorium (Ref: D/MRP 135/1-7)

Photograph of unidentified male portrait, c.1870
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of blacksmith, Wingate, c.1900
(1 large photograph and negative)


Photograph of boys school group, Wingate, c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of Wingate, flooded fields, 1903
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of group of young girls in fancy dress, Wolsingham Sanatorium, c.1907
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of staff and patients, Wolsingham Sanatorium, 1907
(1 contact print and negative)


Durham City; large crowd at unidentified occasion, n.d. c.1900
(1 contact print and negative)

Ferryhill (Ref: D/MRP 136/1)

Lord Slater of Ferryhill with group in open charabanc
(1 photograph)

Birtley (Ref: D/MRP 137/1-2)

Birtley; group of miners in New Town, Birtley with bread baked at communal ovens built in the brickyard there during the Miners Strike, 1926
(1 contact print and negative)


"Special Rules for the Installation and Use of Electricity"; printed under the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1887, 1905
(1 booklet)

Axwell Park Colliery, North Durham, Medomsley, Burnopfield, Blaydon, Derwent Valley (Ref: D/MRP 113, 115)

12 negatives showing underground work at Axwell Park Colliery, 1930
(12 negatives and 2 prints)


Photograph of adults and child listening to "crystal" radio set, North Durham, c.1923
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of family sitting around range fire, North Durham, n.d., c.1925
(1 contact print and negative)


Photograph of woman and girl using mangle, North Durham, c.1933
(1 contact print and negative)


Photocopy of Consett Chronicle, "Memento of the lamentable Char-a-Banc Disaster at Medomsley", 26 August 1911
(1 file)


Enginemen's and Boiler Minders' Mutual Aid Association Crookgate Branch; membership book includes lists of members, proposals for membership, contributions, accounts Enclosed: clearance card, sick fund proposal, 1872 - 1906
(1 volume and papers)


Programme for 31st Annual Service of Song by Wesleyan Methodist Choirs of Northumberland and Durham, 18 October 1899
(1 pamphlet)


Obituary notices of one thousand 'Old Standards' of North-West Durham, from 1838 - 1899, published Consett 1900
(1 booklet)


Burnopfield; an account of Methodism in Burnopfield, 1746 - 1906, 1906
(1 booklet)


Burnopfield and District War Memorial unveiling and presentation ceremony, 1921
(1 pamphlet)


N.C.B. Durham Division; "Remote Sampling by Frame Safety Lamp", 1961
(1 booklet)


Burnopfield; "200 years of Methodism in Burnopfield", Bi-centenary brochure, 1975
(1 booklet)


Blaydon; photocopy of poster re special general meeting of Blaydon District Industrial and Provident Society on the conversion of the Burnopfield Branch into an Independent Society, 1889
(1 paper)


"Historic Places in the Derwent Valley", by J.W. Fawcett, descriptions of Friarside Chapel, Gibside, Hollinside Manor House with illustrations, 1901
(1 pamphlet, photocopied)


Tanfield Urban District Council; photocopy of report of the Surveyor and Inspector for three years ending March 1911, (by Robert Heslop, Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector), 1911
(1 file)

Numbers not used (Ref: D/MRP 93-95, 102-107, 114, 116, 126)

Number not used


Number not used See D/EBF 92/1-5


Number not used See D/DMA 328/1-5


Number not used See D/DMA 322/1


Number not used See D/DMA 323/1


Number not used See D/DMA 325/1-4


Number not used See D/DMA 326/1-55


Number not used See D/DMA 330/1-3


Number not used See D/DMA 329/1-21


Number not used


Number not used See D/DMA 332/1


Number not used