Catalogue Item

Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council minute book, 8 May 1920 - 27 August 1923 At end: minutes of annual conference, 16 September 1922

Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council minute book, 1 November 1923 - 21 August 1929 At end: minutes of annual conference, 22 September 1923

Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council minute book, 16 September 1929 - 25 August 1937

Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council minute book, 15 October 1937 - 28 September 1945 Attached: programme for silver jubilee, 1920-1945; newspaper cuttings and photograph of members of council, 8 September 1945

Spring and annual conference minute book, 23 February 1924 - 4 March 1933

Annual Conference: preliminary agenda, 1929 - 1933, 1935 - 1938

Annual Conference: final agenda, 1925, 1927-1938, 1940-1948, 1950-1954, 1956, 1958-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969

Draft Annual Report, 1959-60

Circular announcing the Durham Women's Gala Day in Wharton Park, Durham, 4 July 1925

Circular announcing the Spring Conference, 13 February 1926 and a conference at Chester-le-Street, 8 May 1926

Circular announcing the Women's Gala Day to be held at Roker Park, Sunderland, 18 June 1927

Expenditure account book, 1 January 1943 - 31 December 1982

numbers not used

Silver Jubilee commemorative booklet, 1920 - 1945

Golden Jubilee commemorative booklet, 1920-1970

Diamond Jubilee commemorativebooklet, 1920-1980

Letter from Joyce Gould, Chief Women's Officer and Assistant National Agent, The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17, to Brenda Whittaker, Assistant Regional Officer, Northern Regional Offices, The Labour Party, enclosing a copy of the writer's message to the Durham Women's Advisory Council, on the occasion of its diamond jubilee, and enclosing a copy of a report of its first meeting on 25 September 1920, 29 August 1980

Letter from Joe L. Mills, Regional Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union, Transport House, Barrack Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Brenda Whittaker, The Labour Party, New House, High Street, Gateshead, congratulating the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council on its diamond jubilee, 22 September 1980

Letter from Ron Hayward, General Secretary of the Labour Party, Walworth Road, London, SE17, congratulating the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council on its diamond jubilee, 26 September 1980

Letter from David Hughes, National Agent to the Labour Party, Walworth Road, London, SE17, to Brenda Whittaker, Assistant Regional Organiser, Northern Region, congratulating the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Committee on its diamond jubilee, 9 September 1980

Letter from the Office of James Callaghan, Leader of the Opposition, House of Commons, London, to Mrs. B.M. Whittaker, Northern Regional Office, The Labour Party, enclosing Callaghan's message to the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Committee on its diamond jubilee, 18 September 1980

Diamond Jubilee Gala autograph book, 5 November 1983

Annual Gala Programmes, 1924-25, 1928-29, 1931-34, 1936-39, 1946-47. 1950, 1953, 1955-56, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1966-68, 1970-71

Spring Conference programmes, 1928-1931, 1933, 1935, 1937-39

Agenda for business conference of Labour women to be held at Chester-le-Street, 9 April 1927; preliminary and final agenda for the seventh annual business conference, 22 October 1927

Preliminary agenda for annual business conference, 27 October 1928

Leaflet giving details of arrangements for the examination for the summer schools, 1926

Programmes for the summer school to be held at Coben Hill, near Scarborough, 1933 and 1934

Notes, issued by the National Union of Mineworkers - Durham Area, on Sam Watson's lectures to the Durham Labour Women's Annual Week-end School, held at Heather Brae, Middleton in Teesdale, 8-10 October 1949

Photographs taken from the speakers' platform, and showing those attending, at the Labour Women's Gala in Wharton Park, 1947

Photographs of Clement Attlee [Prime Minister, 1945-51] sitting down, 1947

Photographs of Clement Attlee, with group, walking up North Road to Wharton Park to address the Durham Labour Women's Gala, 1947

Photographs of Alice Bain speaking at the Durham Labour Women's Gala, 1947

Photograph of Durham Labour Women's parade passing over Framwellgate Bridge, 7 June 1947

Photograph of a group of people including Emanuel Shinwell, Minister of Power and Hugh Dalton (Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945-47) while visiting Durham to attend the Durham Labour Women's Gala, 1948

Photograph of spectators in Wharton Park, 1949

Photograph of band-stand in use as speakers' platform, 1949

Photograph of group of women and banners at Durham Women's Labour Gala, 1951

Photograph of group of women and banner on the racecourse, 1951

Photograph of part of procession passing Durham Prison, 1953

Photograph of Durham Labour Women's Gala parade passing over Framwellgate Bridge, 1953

Photograph of the beginning of the parade along Old Elvet, led by Hugh Gaitskell and Sam Watson, 1960

Photograph of procession along Elvet Bridge marching towards the Market Square, July 1964

Photograph of procession walking up North Road, passing the cinema and Shakespeare Hall, 1950s

Photograph of Barbara Castle speaking at the Gala, 1950s

Photograph of the procession passing the County Hospital to Wharton Park, 1950s

Photograph of procession stationary outside the Waterloo and County Hotels, New Elvet, 1950s

Photograph of the procession crossing Framwellgate Bridge, 1950s

Photograph of the procession moving up North Road and under the viaduct, 1940s-1950s

Photograph of the Hunwick Women's Section, part of the procession moving past the County Hospital, 1940s - 1950s

Newspaper article, commemorating the diamond jubilee of the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council, by Joyce Weir, including copy photograph of the gala procession in 1960 and of the members of the Sunderland Labour Party executive committee of the women's federation in 1926, 1980

Newspaper cutting of photograph of Tony Benn receiving Durham Labour colours at the Durham and South Tyneside Labour Women's Gala, 7 June 1976

Formal list of speakers, chairmen, movers and seconders and winning teams at the Speakers' Forum, 1941-1946

List of categories in the homecrafts exhibition, 1955

Broom Labour Women's Section meetings minute book, 31 August 1956 - 28 October 1964

Broom Labour Women's Section meetings minute book, 25 November 1964 - 27 November 1974

number not used

Broom Labour Women's Section statements of account, January 1971 - January 1974 Original enclosed in D/X 1048/58

Sedgefield Women's Council of the Labour Party: list of objectives, n.d. [1970s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/58

number not used

Photograph of groups of women with the Broom Women's Labour Section banner and a Sedgefield Labour Party banner, 1930s, and photograph of group of women with Broom Women's Section banner, 1940s - 1950s

Banner inscribed 'Durham City Labour Party Women's Section' and 'Unity is Strength' with Labour Party badge on one side and view of Durham Cathedral on the reverse, 1950s

Easington Colliery Women's Section meetings minute book, 21 September 1942 - 29 September 1947

Easington Colliery Women's Section meetings minute book, 13 October 1947 - 10 March 1952

Easington Women's Section meetings minute book, 25 January 1982 - 13 July 1987

Easington Women's Section meetings minute book, 24 August 1987 - 25 March 1991

Easington Women's Section balance sheet, 1956 Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/68

Final annual report by Renée McManners to Easington Colliery Women's Section, 1991 Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/69

Photograph of Horden Labour Party Women's Section taken at the women's gala, Durham, 14 June 1924

Seaham Division Federation of Labour Women's Sections treasurer's book, 17 April 1929 - 22 December 1969

number not used

Sedgefield Divisional Federation of Labour Women's Sections meetings minute book, 2nd October 1934 - 2 July 1946

Sedgefield Divisional Federation of Labour Women's Sections meetings minute book, 1 October 1946 - 8 January 1957

Sedgefield Constituency Labour Party, Federation of Women's Sections, meetings minute book, 8 January 1957 - 28 November 1964

Sedgefield Constituency Labour Party, Federation of Women's Sections meetings minute book, 5 January 1965 - 27 April 1971

Sedgefield Constitutuency Labour Party Women's Section annual meeting agenda and financial statement, 6 January 1965 Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/76

Financial statements, 1967 - 1970 Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/76

Rules and constitution, n.d. [c.1950]

Sedgefield Divisional Labour Party, Women's Federation revised rules and constitution, n.d. [1960s] Originally enclosed in D/X 1048/76

Letter from Margaret Gibb, Woman Organiser, The Labour Party, Prince of Wales Hotel, Southport, Lancashire, to Mrs. F. McManners, Chairman, Sedgefield Constituency Labour Party Federation of Women's Sections, commenting on the agenda at the federation's quarterly meeting, 29 September 1947

Photocopy of leaflet no. 8 issued by the Durham County Federation of Divisional Labour Parties addressed to the 'Working Women of Durham' and urging them to vote Labour in the county council elections, 1933

Rules and constitution of Durham County Federation of Divisional Labour Parties and Durham County Council Labour Group, 1939

Policy, rules and constitution of Durham County Federation of Divisional Labour Parties, and Durham County Council Labour Group, 1949

Chester-le-Street Divisional Labour Party: rules, constitution and standing orders for divisional and local Labour parties, amended, March 1949

Chester-le-Street Constituency Labour Party rules, adopted March 1975

Consett Divisional Labour Party and Stanley and Consett Local Labour Parties: rules and constitution and party standing orders, 1949

Darlington Constituency Labour Party: amendments to rules, 21 August 1963

Sedgefield Divisional Labour Party: constitution and rules, approved, 12 April 1954

number not used

Programme for a celebration dinner at the Grand Hotel, West Hartlepool, commemorating the dissolution of the Seaham Divisional Labour Party and the inauguration of the Easington Divisional Labour Party, 20 March 1949

Easington Divisional Labour Party: rules, constitution and standing orders, n.d. [1950s]

"Resolutions relating to the constitution and rules of Seaham Divisional Labour Party", n.d.

North West Durham Divisional Labour Party meetings minute book, 9 October 1948 - 3 July 1957 At beginning: lists of affiliated organisations and officers, 1950-1958

North West Durham Divisional Labour Party meetings minute book, 4 September 1957 - 29 June 1963 At beginning: lists of affiliated organisations and officers

North West Durham Divisional Labour Party meetings minute book, 29 June 1963 - 4 June 1969 At beginning: list of affiliated organisations and officers

Programme for the tenth annual meeting of the North-West Durham Constitutency Labour Party, 5 March 1958

North West Durham Labour Party: rules and constitution, n.d.

Identity card issued to J. Spry, 14 West View, Murton Colliery, 1 May 1946

Ration book, issued to John Spry, Burnside, 1952-53

Photograph of students at Underscar, 1946

Postcard advertising The Young Socialist A Magazine of Justice and Love, 1920s

Photograph of Keir Hardie, taken by R. Liddle Elliott, New Washington, c.1910

Postcard photograph of members of parliament belonging to the "new Labour Party", taken outside the Houses of Parliament, 1904

Photograph of a group of people, including Jack Dormand, M.P., 1960s

Photograph of official visit to a nursery school by a group, including Andy and Freda Cunningham, 1960

Photograph of group of women, including Ivy Spry, 1960s

Photograph of Ivy Spry and unidentified companion, 1940s.

Photograph of a group of women in the garden of a house, endorsed 'at Mrs. Gibb's' and 'The Ridings Cambo', 1950s.

Photograph of Ivy Spry and three other women taken at a seaside resort which they are visiting in an official capacity, 1950s

Photograph of three women, including Ivy Spry and Peggy Potter, 1970s

Photograph of Ivy Spry of Murton and Evelyn Boyd of Easington, 1970s

Labour Women, January, March, October, November 1961; April, May, July, September 1962; May, June, September 1963; March, May, September, November 1964; January, March, October, December 1965. January, March, May, December 1966; February, July 1968; January, March, May, July, September, November 1969; April, October 1970; January, February, April, May, June, September 1971

A Guide for Women's Sections, published by the Labour Party, March 1965

number not used

The Labour Party: Constitution and Rules for Central Labour Parties and Constituency Labour Parties in Divided Boroughs, published by the Labour Party, 1960s

The Labour Party Women's Sections: Their Constitution and Activities, published by Labour Party Women's Section Head Office, pre 1970

The Labour Party Song Sheet: Labour Anthems, Traditional Songs and Community Favourites, pre 1979

Copy of The Socialists Ten Commandments, n.d.

Campaign Guide - Into Action, published by Labour Party, 1958-59

The Labour Party individual membership card issued to Mrs. Norton, 11, Carol Street, Easington Colliery, 1931

Postcard of 'The Labour Cabinet 1929' naming each member, c.1929

Photograph of delegates attending the National Conference of Labour Women at The Pavilion, Brixton, 23-24 April 1929

Photograph of the London National Conference of Labour Women, showing the speakers' platform, including May E. Sutherland, Chief Woman Officer, E.P. Gooch, Labour Party Chairman and T.S. Middleton, 1956

Photograph of a group at Scarborough Labour Women's School, 1950