Catalogue

Reports to meetings, copies of sermons and dissertations (includes list of contributions from Darlington Monthly Meeting to relieve distress in Ireland 1847), 1704-1859

Printed pamphlets and periodicals, 1827-1907

Testimonials, obituaries, statements of individual Quakers, 1785-1862

Religious writings, 19th century

Poems, 19th century

Church Rates: Notices, circulars, correspondence, etc. re refusal to pay church rates (most referring to Darlington)

Schools: Printed and written papers re Quaker schools and education (including Ackworth, Flounder's Institute, Yarm, Sibford, Tatham's Academy, Leeds, Great Ayton), 1835-1858

The Friends in Council by S. T. Richardson (A humorous representation of a Friends Sunday School Teachers Conference held in Darlington, 1874)

Report (printed) of a meeting held at Darlington to consider whether to connect the collieries of Durham with the port of Stockton by railway or canal (from Durham County Advertiser),1818

Reports, estimates, memoranda etc. 1832-1842

Correspondence: To John Pease from: William Allison; William Hitchen; Thomas Meynell; Jonathan Backhouse; Henry Hutchinson; Robert Otley; W. Fallows; Maria Hutchinson; John S. Peacock; Theodore Fry; Thomas McVay; Joseph Pease; John Graham; Thomas Manton; R. Robinson John Harris; Francis Mewburn and T. Spensley Henry Whitwell, 1835-1867

Printed posters and handbills, 1832-1842

Unused share certificates, n.d.

Correspondence, invitations, tickets, programme of events, etc.

Newspapers: Northern Echo, 29 September, 1875; Darlington and Richmond Herald, 2 October, 1875; Darlington and Stockton Times, 2 October, 1875

The Worlds First Railway Jubilee by S. T. Richardson

N. E. Railway Pocket Timetables, 1901

The History of the First Public Railway, 1912

Prospectus of A Century of Locomotive Building by Robert Stephenson and Co., 1823-1923, by J. G H. Warren and Centenary Souvenir, 1923

Darlington and Stockton Times, 4 July 1925

Northern Echo Railway Centenary Supplements, 1925

Darlington Corporation Official Handbook, Railway Centenary Souvenir, 1925

Intimate story of the Origin of Railways by W. D., 1925

Catalogue of the Collection of Railway Relics and Modern Stock at Faverdale, Darlington, 1925

'The Railway Centenary - A retrospect', Presented to Mary Hodgkin by her father and mother (also contains newspaper cuttings)

The Railway Centenary, 1825-1925, Stockton-on-Tees

Catalogue of Exhibits at South Kensington Science Museum in connection with the Railway Centenary, 1925

Notice of sale of house in Northgate, 1782

Advertisement for Isaac Coates, printer and stationer, 1829

List of Board of Guardians, 1842

Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary enquiry into Sewerage etc. H.M.S.O. Publication, 1850

Summary of Census, 1851

Notice of sale at Auction Hall, 1866

Houses and Population Census, 1881

Programme for 'Conversazione' at New Hospital (Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, mayor), 1884

Notice of Public Meeting 'For Protection of Young Girls' (Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, mayor),1885

Programme for opening of Public Library, 1885

Union Year Book, 1890-1891

Minutes of Council and Committee Meetings, 1917

Report of Incorporation Jubilee Committee, 1917

Notice for Local Peace Association, n.d.

Darlington Civic Government, 1937-1939

Darlington Peace and War, 1940

Darlington and Stockton Telegraph, 24 and 31 July, 1869

Newspaper cuttings, 1937-1957

County Borough of Darlington, 1936 (Published by Darlington Grand Division of the Order of the Sons of Temperance)

Darlington Official Handbook, n.d.

The Official Guide to Darlington and Croft Rural Districts, n.d.

Plans, 1848 - 1857

Ordnance Survey, 2nd Edition, Sheet LV.9, 1897 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]

Street plans and maps, 1904-1949

Prints and photographs, mainly 19th century

Battle of the Bills by an obscure scribe, 1876

Random Drawings of Darlington Doings by Dinsdale, 1879

Scrapbook, includes pictures of Darlington personalities and newspaper cuttings, 19th century

Splutterings of a Sporting Pen, late 19th century by S. T. Richardson

View of Seaton Carew, 19th century

Notice of meetings of Magistrates and Commissioners of Land Taxes and assessed Taxes in Stockton Ward, 1837

Plan of the Tees Estuary with Middlesbrough, 1847

Plan of Teesdale, n.d.

View of High Level Bridge, Newcastle, n.d.

Plan of Hawes and Environs (Yorkshire, North Riding), n.d.

Plan showing roads in North Riding of Yorkshire, n.d.

Appeal for subscriptions for building of a church at Middlesbrough, 1836

Photographs of Lincoln, n.d.

Photograph of Colwyn Bay, pre. 1914

Photographs of Cornwall, pre. 1914

Guide to Penzance, 1897

'New Plan of London', 1837

Portion of Ordnance Survey showing Reigate and Dorking, Surrey, 1878 Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]

Dr. Butler's Junior Ancient Atlas, 1878

Map of the World, n.d.

Maps of South Africa, India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, c.1900

The Sun, Special Issue printed in gold for Queen Victoria's Coronation, 1838

The Matrimonial News, 1879

Various Papers including: Notice of the Anniversary Election of officers for the Society of Antiquaries of London signed by Lord Aberdaire, 1838; Almanack, 1842; 'History of the hunting on Chevy Chase, n.d.; Scotland's Skaith or the history of Willie and Jean, n.d.; recipies for cholera medicine and potato pudding; Queen Victoria's signature, n.d.

Anarchist proclamation in and about 'Saratov' Russia, c. 1919

Childs Own Scrap Book, 19th century

Items relating to the Centenary celebrations of 1925, Stockton Darlington Railway (i) Invitation addressed to Mrs. Hodgkin to attend the opening of the Historical Railway Exhibition at the Faverdale Wagon Works (1 card in envelope) (ii) Programme for the united Service of Thanksgiving held at Darlington Railway Station (1 pamphlet) (iii) Souvenir ticket

Photograph of a model of the "Experiment" - the first coach on the Stockton and Darlington Railway made by David Richardson painted and exhibited by John Dobson, 1871

Minutes of a Public Meeting held at the "Black Swan", Stokesley, to consider the prospectus for Stokesley and Tees Railway (with list of subscribers), 28 September, 1833