Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1800 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Durham Country and Durham Town and Country Magazines; Durham Cricket Club; Miscellaneous
Covering Dates: c.1941-2023
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Miscellaneous documents (Ref: D/X 1800)
- Durham Country and Durham Town and Country magazines (Ref: D/X 1800/1/1-61)
- Durham County Cricket Club (Ref: D/X 1800/2-3)
- Yearbooks (Ref: D/X 1800/2/1-22)
- Other publications (Ref: D/X 1800/3/1-2)
- Photocopies (Ref: D/X 1800/4/1-4)
- John Warwick Huggins (Ref: D/X 1800/4/1)
- Burnhill Ammunition Depot, Saltersgate (Ref: D/X 1800/4/2-4)
Catalogue Contents
Miscellaneous documents (Ref: D/X 1800)Durham Country and Durham Town and Country magazines (Ref: D/X 1800/1/1-61)Ref: D/X 1800/1/1
Durham Country magazine, Autumn 1992
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/2Durham Country magazine, Winter 1993
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/3Durham Country magazine, Spring 1993
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/4Durham Country magazine, Summer 1993
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/5Durham Country magazine, Autumn 1993
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/6Durham Country magazine, Winter 1994
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/7Durham Country magazine, Spring 1994
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/8Durham Country magazine, Summer 1994
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/9Durham Country magazine, Autumn 1994
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/10Durham Country magazine, Winter 1995
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/11Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 1995
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/12Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 1995
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/13Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 1995
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/14Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 1996
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/15Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 1996
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/16Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 1996
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/17Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 1996
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/18Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 1997
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/19Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 1997
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/20Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 1997
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/21Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn/Winter 1997
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/22Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 1998
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/23Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 1998
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/24Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 1998
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/25Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 1998
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/26Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 1999
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/27Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 1999
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/28Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 1999
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/29Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 1999
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/30Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2000
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/31Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2000
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/32Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 2000
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/33Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 2000
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/34Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2001
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/35Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2001
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/36Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 2001
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/37Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 2001
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/38Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2002
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/39Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2002
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/40Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 2002
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/41Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 2002
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/42Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2003
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/43Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2003
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/44Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 2003
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/45Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 2003
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/46Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2004
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/47Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2004
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/48Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn 2004
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/49Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter 2004
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/50Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring 2005
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/51Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer, 2005
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/52Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn, 2005
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/53Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter, 2005
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/54Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring, 2006
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/55Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer 2006
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/56Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn, 2006
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/57Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter, 2006
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/58Durham Town and Country magazine, Spring, 2007
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/59Durham Town and Country magazine, Summer, 2007
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/60Durham Town and Country magazine, Autumn, 2007
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/1/61Durham Town and Country magazine, Winter, 2007
(1 booklet, printed)
Durham County Cricket Club (Ref: D/X 1800/2-3)Yearbooks (Ref: D/X 1800/2/1-22)Ref: D/X 1800/2/1Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2008
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/2Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2011
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/3Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2012
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/4Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2013
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/5Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2009
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/6Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2014
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/7Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 1992
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/8Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 1993
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/9Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 1994
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/10Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 1995
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/11Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 1996
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/12Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2015
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/13Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2010
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/14Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2007
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/15Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2016
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/16Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2017
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/17Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2018
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/18Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2019
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/19Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2021
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/20Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2003
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/21Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2022
(1 volume, printed)
Ref: D/X 1800/2/22Durham County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2023
(1 volume)
Other publications (Ref: D/X 1800/3/1-2)Ref: D/X 1800/3/1The impossible dream...come true. The story of how Durham County Cricket Club attained First Class Status in 1992 by Tom Moffat MBE, August 2009
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 1800/3/2Durham Review, Independent Match-day Magazine. Issue no.3, August 1993
(1 volume)
Photocopies (Ref: D/X 1800/4/1-4)John Warwick Huggins (Ref: D/X 1800/4/1)Ref: D/X 1800/4/1Photocopy of an article, 'Private Huggins: Harry Barrett looks at the short life of John Warwick Huggins who enlisted 100 years ago', from 'Legion of Life' [Sunderland A.F.C. magazine], Season 2014/15, issue 84, p.13
John Warwick Huggins appears on the County Hall War Memorial. As part of the centenary commemoration projects in 2014, we compiled biographies of men on the memorial:
John Warwick Huggins was born on 2 June 1886 at Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland. His parents were Isaac Huggins and Mary Jane Huggins (nee Warwick), and he was their youngest child. In 1891, when he was four, his father kept the Crown Hotel at Eamont Bridge in Westmorland, and had probably done so for about 13 years. Isaac died in 1893 and by 1901 Mary Jane was running the Central Hotel in Duke Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland. By 1911 Mary Jane had moved again and was in charge of the Albion Hotel in King Street, Whitehaven, but John Warwick has yet to be located in that census. Both the Crown and the Central still exist, and the Crown is described as a coaching inn dating back to 1770.
In 1901 John was described as a 'school teacher' as was his older sister, Jessie Ann. Although at 21 she could justifiably give herself that description, in practice he was a pupil teacher at Whitehaven St. James' National School, the school that he had attended. In 1905 he applied to Bede College in Durham City to continue his training, and his reference from the vicar of Whitehaven St. Nicholas, Rev CBS Gillings, notes that John was a member of the Bible Class, and that Mr Gillings was convinced he would 'prove a most useful student'. The report of his two years at Bede College records that he was 'noisy, talkative, hardworking', but that he 'does not get enough out of his pupils'. While at Bede he was a member of the college company (B Company) of the 8th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.
In the 1906/07 and 1907/08 seasons Jack (as he was known) Huggins played football for Sunderland AFC, initially as an amateur and then as a professional. He played as outside-left in 14 games, and scored two goals, one against Manchester United in October 1906, and one against Sheffield United in February 1907. In 1908/09 he also played professionally for Reading FC, then in the Southern League (effectively the Third Division of the Football League). He also played locally for Durham City and Wingate. In the summer months he played cricket for Sunderland, Wheatley Hill and Castle Eden.
His college report does not indicate where he began teaching, but in early 1909 he was employed at Swansea Road Council School, Reading in Berkshire (this may have been linked to his playing for Reading FC), and on 16 May he began work as a Certificated Assistant (Grade A) at Wheatley Hill Boys Secondary School. His name appears in the school log book infrequently, usually recording an absence for illness, however on 22 February 1911 the head teacher wrote 'On the classes resuming work this afternoon I found that Mr JW Huggins was absent and on enquiry learned that he had gone to play in a football match. I have received no official information that he had been granted leave of absence, neither has he spoken to me personally'. Mr Bowhill's annoyance radiates from the page, but no repercussions of this event are recorded. For 12 weeks in early 1913 John Huggins was absent with a fractured tibia (or shin bone) - possibly a football related injury. While at Wheatley Hill he started a school football team 'which carried all before them, and won cups and medals in everything in which they entered', though no record of the team's success appears in the school logbook.
On 30 September 1914 John Huggins was given permission to volunteer for military service by the Education Committee. But previously, on 18 September, Mr Bowhill recorded that 'Mr JW Huggins went to Durham this morning to be medically examined, having volunteered for active service during the war', and a week later 'Mr JW Huggins has been absent the whole of the week, having taken up active service in connection with the war. [His] Class has consequently been under my own charge.' On 20 November Mr Bowhill noted that 'Mr Huggins has been on active service since the 19th of September the work has had to be carried on under very considerable difficulties.' Although the logbook records visits to the school of old boys who were serving in the forces and some deaths, the only mention of John Huggins occurs in January 1917 - 'Forwarded to District Clerk card recording Military service of Jno. W. Huggins who died of wounds whilst a prisoner of war in Germany.'
John Huggins rejoined the 8th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. The battalion was mobilised on 4 August 1914 and went to France on 20 April 1915. Within three days it was ordered into the front line to take part in the Second Battle of Ypres, and it was during this fighting that John Huggins was killed. He was reported missing in June 1915 and it was believed that he was a prisoner of war, but at the end of the year information from the Red Cross indicated that he had been killed in action and buried by German soldiers at Wallemolen, near Roulers. It seems likely that he was either killed or mortally wounded at the Gravenstafel Ridge, east of Ypres, on 25 April. Unfortunately John's service records do not appear to have survived. He is buried in Perth Cemetery, east of Ypres, his body having been moved from the German cemetery at Wallemolen after the war.
Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, www.cwgc.gov.uk
Soldiers Died CD
Medal Rolls Index Cards
North East War Memorials Project, www.newmp.org.uk
Bede College students' record book, E/HB 234
Bede College register of applicants, E/HB 257
Wheatley Hill Boys Secondary School log book, E/E 90, pp.90,136,214,217,256,
1891 Census return, RG 12/4327,ff.69v,70r
1901 Census return, RG 13/4892
1911 Census return, RG 14/31494
Durham Advertiser, 11 February 1916, p.8(d)
Durham Advertiser, 11 June 1915, p.7(e)
Dykes, G and Lamming, D. (2000) All the Lads, 1884-2000, Sunderland AFC
www.thestatcat.co.uk Sunderland AFC player profiles
(1 paper)
Burnhill Ammunition Depot, Saltersgate (Ref: D/X 1800/4/2-4)Ref: D/X 1800/4/2Photocopies of notes by Ken Tyers concerning the Burnhill Ammunition Depot, Saltersgate, and his employment there for two periods, 1941-1944 and 1961-1969, 5 January 1997
(7 papers)
Ref: D/X 1800/4/3Photocopy of a hand-drawn plan of Saltersgate area (showing buildings in elevation), c.1941
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1800/4/4Photocopy of a photograph of staff at Burnhill Ammunition Depot, showing inter alia Ken Tyers, n.d. c.1943
(1 paper)
