Catalogue

Photographs of Agents of the DMA, 1920s Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Sam Watson) Box 45/33

Photograph, of the head, face and shoulders of a group of men, super-imposed on a background, [Council Chamber, Red Hill, Durham], described on attached slip of paper as 'possibly men lost at Easington Colliery, 1951 'Turners Photography Ltd, Ref No 11181, Camera House, Pink Lane, Newcastle-on-Tyne' stamped on reverse Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Acc: 2157(D)) Box 284/70

Photograph of the banner of Heworth Lodge of the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area) with a roundel, showing Emmanuel Shinwell handing a copy of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 to Lord Hyndley; at the top of the roundel are the words 'Justice Service Security', and, at the bottom, the words 'Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946'; behind the banner the backs of a group of people can be seen and part of another banner; in front of the banner, on the left, is a table on which cups of tea are being served; standing at the front of the photograph is a middle-aged man, identified as Vic Feather, wearing a suit and tie carrying a copy of a book entitled Banner Bright; the photograph has been identified as being taken at the opening of an exhibition, entitled 'Banner Bright': an exhibition of trade union banners from 1821-1973, held at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 25 April - 11 May 1973; April 1973 Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Baron Feather (1908 - 28 July 1978); joined the staff of the Trade Union Congress 1937; Assistant Secretary, 1947 - 1960; Assistant General Secretary, 1960 -1969; General Secretary, 1969 - 1973; President of the European Trade Confederation, 1973 - 1974; created Baron Feather of the City of Bradford, 6 March 1974; John Scott Hyndley, Viscount Hyndley, 1883 - 1963; engineering apprentice at Murton Colliery; changed to commercial side of the business; Chairman of coal merchants and coal exporting concern, Stephenson Clarke Ltd., 1938; Managing Director of Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, Ltd., 1931 - 1946; Knighted, 1921; baronet, 1927; Baron Hyndley, 1931; commercial adviser to the Mines Department; Controller General of Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1942, to 1943; First Chairman of the National Coal Board, 1946 - 1951 Formerly numbered as D/DMA Vol 329/20

Photograph showing the winding gear of a colliery with a one-storey building, seen from the side, next to it; the photograph has been identified as Upper Heworth Colliery and the Primitive Methodist Church, n.d., 1938 O.S. Sheet 7:5, shows a Methodist Church on Chapel Street, next to the Colliery in 1939 Formerly numbered as D/DMA Vol 329/19

Photograph of a group of approximately 45 men and women, and one child, standing on a flight of steps with two pillars, an impressive doorway and 2 long windows behind them, August 1953 Endorsed: J.L. Peters, South Shields; Eileen Southern; J. Hudspith, Cowpen N.U.M., Blyth [Northumberland]; P. Leatherland, Shilbottle, N.U.M., [Northumberland]; H. Roach, Bacup, Lancashire; J. Allan Shell; Ed Halliday; Richard Miller; Anne Williamson; C.M. Mossop, Carlisle [Cumberland]; Jimmy Miller; Albert Barnstone; D.S. Reid; J.W. Fagan; Marjorie Cook; [ ] Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Sam Watson) Box 83/10

Photograph of seven middle-aged men in suits, watching another middle-aged man in a suit presenting a watch to a ninth middle-aged man, possibly on his retirement n.d. 1950s - 1960s Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Acc: 2157(D)) Box 286/6

Photograph of Moses Lupton, a Primitive Methodist Preacher, aged 42, n.d. Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Acc: 2157(D)) Box 322/2

Colour print, depicting crowds gathered around Lodge banners and a marquee, on a grassed river embankment, with Durham Cathedral in the background, annotated in type, 'Durham Miners' Gala: Charles Cundall, 1935, Reproduced by permission of D.N. Pritt, Q.C. and George Allen & Unwin, Publishers of The Miners: Years of Struggle, by R Page Arnot', c.1935 Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Acc: 2157(D)) Box 284/73

Memorial plaque commemorating those men who were killed in Blaydon Burn Colliery, n.d. John Heigh, 28 November 1914; Ralph Curry, 11 May 1923; Thomas Colquhoun, 8 April 1926; George Stockdale, 11 December 1926; John George Forster, 26 May 1937; Charles Bendin, 20 January 1939 Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Sam Watson) Vol 330

Photograph of the Dedication of Memorial Cottages at Tolpuddle, Dorset, 31 August 1934 Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Sam Watson) Box 4/5

Print of 'Representatives of the Miners Unions of 1832 and 1844 and the Present Time, who met at Blyth, - Christmas Day, 1882' Those illustrated are: T[homas] Burt, R. Gleghorn, J. Nixon, Thomas Pratt, Thomas Towns, Edmund Gray, W[illiam] Crawford, N. Morgan, J. Thompson, R. Young, J. Hogg, Thomas Stockport, Thomas Hepburn, J. Ramsay, Martin Jude, R. Turnbull, T. Wakenshaw, R[ichard] Fynes, J. Ditchburn, W. Bird, John Thompson, C[hristopher] Haswell, J. Wheatley, J[ohn] Tulip, R. Mason, William Thompson, W. Lee, Alexander Blyth, W. Ritson, J. Jackson, James Smith, John Hunter, Robert Ramsay, Thomas Weatherly Drawn by J. Duncan, printed and published by Newcastle upon Tyne Co-operative Society Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Sam Watson) Vol 329

Photograph, of a large bore pipe in process of being installed in an excavated area below the surface area. Stamped on reverse, '30 inch pipe-line - crossing the workings of Cambokeels fluorspar mine', Northumberland, n.d. Formerly numbered as D/DMA (Acc: 2157(D)) Box 284/72