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Darlington Borough Council

Reference: Da/Mu Catalogue Title: Darlington Borough Council Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Museum

Covering Dates: 19th-20th century

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Darlington Borough Council

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Darlington Museum (Ref: Da/Mu)Stockton and Darlington Railway 150th anniversary exhibition (Ref: Da/Mu 1/1-12)

Files of correspondence, committee minutes, other organisational documents
See also Da/DM 2, D/XD 1 and D/XD 2

Ref: Da/Mu 1/1

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Darlington committees, 1973-1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/2

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition exhibits I, 1974-1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/3

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition exhibits II, 1975-1976

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/4

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition general, 1974-1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/5

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition general, 1975-1976

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/6

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition printing, 1974-1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/7

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - requests for information, 1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/8

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Souvenirs and Sales, 1974-1976

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/9

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - foreign exhibits, 1973-1977

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/10

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition finance, 1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/11

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Material to keep, including programs, cuttings, tickets, etc., 1975

(1 file)

Ref: Da/Mu 1/12

Stockton and Darlington Railway 150 - Exhibition estimates, including planning timetable for events, c. 1974

(1 file)

Ephemera (Ref: Da/Mu 2/1-70)

Labelled envelopes containing papers collected by Darlington Museum, including an index file

Advertising (Ref: Da/Mu 2/1-4)Ref: Da/Mu 2/1

Advertising - Fabric dyes - Dolly Tints, Drummer Dyes, 20th Century

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/2

Advertising - Magazines [periodicals] The Grocer and Oil Trade Review, 9 November 1935 Pages from The Tradesman's Local Advertiser (Darlington, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Bishop Auckland, Ripon, Richmond, Bingley), c1900

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/3

Advertising - Soap - Sunlight, Hudsons, Radiant, Sapoiol, early 20th Century

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/4

Advertising - Various - Flyers, cards, magazine adverts, etc., early 20th Century

(1 bundle)

Astronomy (Ref: Da/Mu 2/5)Ref: Da/Mu 2/5

Guy's Elements of Astronomy, 1855

(1 volume, printed)

Auctions (Ref: Da/Mu 2/6)Ref: Da/Mu 2/6

Auction - Posters, 19th-20th Century

(1 packet)

Banking (Ref: Da/Mu 2/7)Ref: Da/Mu 2/7

Banking - Darlington 19th Century banknotes 20th Century P.O. Savings Bank books Rules of Darlington Second Model Building Society, 1889

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/7a

Banking - Darlington - bi-centennial souvenir history of Backhouses' Bank, 1974

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/7b

Banking - Foreign paper currency

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/7c

Banking - Local - banknotes, late 19th Century

(1 packet)

Booklets (Ref: Da/Mu 2/8)Ref: Da/Mu 2/8

Booklets - Pamphlets - Miscellaneous (continued) - Knitting machine manual by Automatic Knitting Machine Co. Ltd Dream interpretation 2 editions of The Woodworker, 1901-1904 4 editions of The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician, 1901-1904

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/8a

Booklets - Pamphlets - Miscellaneous Vox Piscis or The Bookfish, printed for James Boler and Robert Milbourne, London, 43pp, later binding, 1627 Rasselas, by Dr Johnson, London, published by J. Walker and J. Harris, W. Wilson, printer, St John's Square, n.d. [c.1830] What shall I do - The thousand difficulties of every day answered, n.d. [c.1910] Guide to London Zoo, 1897 The fourth centenary of the English bible, O.U.P., 1938 The Highway Code, H.M.S.O., [1946] Willcox and Gibbs Automaic Silent Sewing Machine manual, 19th Century

(1 packet)

Bookplates (Ref: Da/Mu 2/9)Ref: Da/Mu 2/9

Bookplates, 18th-20th Centuries

(1 packet)

Cards (Ref: Da/Mu 2/10-17)Ref: Da/Mu 2/10

Cards - Greetings - Christmas, New Year, Easter, 19th-20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/11

Cards - Greeting - Great War Embroidered Cards, 1914-1918

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/12

Cards - In memoriam, 19th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/13

Cards - Personal name cards [calling cards] - Darlington and Local, early 20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/14

Cards - Postcards - Bronte family, mid-20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/15

Cards - Local postcards, 20th Century and Local prints of Saltburn/Redcar area, 19th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/16

Cards - Postcards - Various [not concerned with Darlington area], early to mid 20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/17

Cards - Valentine, early 20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/17a

Cards - Victorian, 19th Century

(1 packet)

Coats of Arms (Ref: Da/Mu 2/19)Ref: Da/Mu 2/19

Coat of Arms [perhaps bookplates], .d. [19th Century]

(1 packet)

Commerce (Ref: Da/Mu 2/20-25)Ref: Da/Mu 2/20

Commerce - Darlington - including retailers' leaflets, price lists, advertising, invoices and receipts. 19th-20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/21

Commerce - Darlington, as Da/Mu 2/20, including a copy of "G.A. Fothergill's Sketch Book (part 4)", which includes illustrations of advertisements, 20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/22

Commerce - Manufacturers "A" - excluding Darlington based firms - price lists, adverts, instruction leaflets, etc., 19th-20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/23

Commerce - Manufcturers 'B' - Excluding Darlington based firms - price lists, adverts, instruction leaflets, etc., 19th-20th Century

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/24

Bundle of material related to manufacturing in Darlington, 19th-20th Century Commerce - Manufacturers C - excluding Darlington based firms - price lists, adverts, instruction leaflets, etc.

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/25

Advertisements etc. for paints, varnishes, thinners, brushes, etc. related to Charles Knott's brush company

(1 bundle)

Communication (Ref: Da/Mu 2/26)Ref: Da/Mu 2/26

Communications - postage (stamps, envelopes), telegrams (forms), also some letters

(1 bundle)

Darlington (Ref: Da/Mu 2/27-38)Ref: Da/Mu 2/27

Darlington - Alcoholic beverage labels - imported and bottled by T.Pease Son and Co.

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/28

Indenture of 1507 with, affixed, the ancient corporate seal of Darlington, 13th Century

(parchment, 1 membrane, seal)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/29

Darlington - Ancient Egyptian scarab - photographs, cuttings, and notes

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/30

Darlington - Health - Opening of the Memorial Hospital, 1933 Endowment of a cot at the New Hospital, 1926 Signatures of Board of Health members inc. J Pease, 1854 Notice of a meeting of the Local Board of Health, 1857 Notice re rabies in dogs, 1841 Vaccination certificates, 1854

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/31

Darlington - Miscellaneous - Articles, letters, church programmes, etc.

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/32

Darlington - Museum - Egyptian mummy - newspaper cuttings and photographic slides

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/33

Darlington - Museum - cuttings re fenders made by John Kearton

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/33a

Darlington - Museum - Photograph of a dead Polar Bear

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/34

Darlington - Pease family - Articles relating to Card certifying John Pease as a member of the U.K. Alliance for the total suppression of liquor traffic, 1862 Letter from Arthur Pease to Charles Knott about recent election, 1892 Carte de Visite showing The Joseph Pease Statue Abstract of conveyance of the Middlesbrough Estate, 1886 Memorial poem to Arthur Pease Account of the funeral of Arthur Pease Luggage labels of Henry Pease and Co. Ltd Bookplates of Henry Pease, Edward Pease Programme for funeral of Henry Pease Signatues to a document, including Edward Pease Photograph of J.W. Pease

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/34a

Darlington - Photographs, Postcards, Illustrations - Various

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/35

Darlington - Politics Resolutions of a Darlington meeting on parliamentary reforms 1831 Darlington Municipal Reform League, 1905 Election notice, 1901 Darlington Independent Labor Party, 1900 Poster for Farrer, 1857 Vote for Fry Election results poster, 1867 H Pike Pease, 1898 William Harding, 1888 H.O. Arnold-Foster, 1886 Drlington Liberal Association, 1909 Glass plate Printed wall calendars with photographs of Darlington Corporation Aldermen and Councillors for 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/36

Darlington - Poor Law - posters related to Poor Law Union, removal warrants, militia support document, apprenticeship, maintenance order,

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/37

Darlington - Societies - Agriculture, horticulture

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/37a

Darlington - Royal celebrations, 20th Century

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/38

Darlington - Societies - Religious - magazines and posters

(2 bundles)

Agriculture? (Ref: Da/Mu 2/39)Ref: Da/Mu 2/39b

British Dairy Farmers' Association, prize certificates, 1897

(1 bundle)

Education? (Ref: Da/Mu 2/39)Ref: Da/Mu 2/39?

number crossed out large packet labelled Misc. museum items lent back for exhibition - to be replaced presumably to be put back in appropriate packets in Da/Mu 2 boxes Programmes, posters, cartoons, adverts esp. soap, horse racing, various items related to education inc. photo of Darlington Open Air School

(1 packet)

Charity 'flags' (Ref: Da/Mu 2/40)Ref: Da/Mu 2/40

'Flags', Badges, etc., of Fund-raising charitable organisations

(1 bundle)

Foreign language (Ref: Da/Mu 2/40)Ref: Da/Mu 2/40

Foreign Countries - articles relating to official document in cyrillic, 1900 document in chinese characters, 1862 poster in chinese characters, 1900 looks like Taiwan tourist guide, with translation of cover shinkansen timetable?

(1 bundle)

Hartlepool (Ref: Da/Mu 2/41)Ref: Da/Mu 2/41

Hartlepool - posters regattas elections petitions etc

(1 packet)

Insurance (Ref: Da/Mu 2/42)Ref: Da/Mu 2/42

Insurance - Charles Knott's shop window insurance certificate, 1884

(1 paper)

Law and Order (Ref: Da/Mu 2/43)Ref: Da/Mu 2/43

Law and order Hartlepool Association for the Prosecution of Felons - posters also Newcastle, same reward posters, 1791, 1833 certificate for delivery into custody, 1836 Edward Backhouse letter from Clerk of the Peace re making him a JP, 1906

(1 packet)

Magazines (Ref: Da/Mu 2/44, 45, 50a)Ref: Da/Mu 2/44

Magazines - religious - weeklys, pamphlets The Naked Truth, 1888 The Christian Million, 1895 And Why I believe in cremation, The Cremation Society, 1932 A True Story of Lucknow, a religious tract aimed at soldiers, n.d. Also A national Form of Service issued By Her Majesty's Special Command, to pray for 'the restoration of tranquililty in India', 7 October 1857 Congregational Twentieth Century Fund, fundraising brochure, 1901

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/45

Magazines - various Penny Illustrated Paper, 26June 1897 Tit-bits, 8 May 1909 Miniature Tit-bits, 22 October 1881

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/50a

The Photogram Monthly Magazine, July 1904

(1 booklet)

Maps (Ref: Da/Mu 2/46)Ref: Da/Mu 2/46

Maps - various West Midlands, 1/4" to mile, O.S. Home Counties, with boundary of London marked in red Central London, Geographia Index to O.S. 1" sheets, 1938

(1 bundle)

Medicine (Ref: Da/Mu 2/47)Ref: Da/Mu 2/47

Medicine - Pharmacist's recipes, c.1900

(1 packet)

Newspapers (Ref: Da/Mu 2/48-49)Ref: Da/Mu 2/48a

Newspapers

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/48b

Newspapers

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/49

Newspapers - various, 19th Century?

(1 packet)

Photographs (Ref: Da/Mu 2/50)Ref: Da/Mu 2/50

Photographs, mostly unidentified subjects, 19th-20th Centuries also instructions for use of the Zeiss Epidiascope

(1 file)

Poor Law (Ref: Da/Mu 2/51)Ref: Da/Mu 2/51

Poor Law Rates receipts for Mr Parker of Murton, 1868 and 1922 Posters re Teesdale Union election of guardians, 1841 and 1843

(1 volume)

Religious societies (Ref: Da/Mu 2/52-53 (& 54?))Ref: Da/Mu 2/52

Religious Societies - Gateshead Temperance Society posters and tracts 1860s Mr George Lucas' meetings 1860 report Also Poster for an open meeting of working men following the assassination of President Lincoln, 1865

(1 bundle)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/53

Religious Societies Sunday School prizes Temperance tracts Poster in which Brabazon Ellis of the British Reformation Society challenges 'popish' Rev W Knight of Hartlepool to a debate on his promotion of the Confessional, 1840 and anther similar Poster for a lecture on the Holy Land at Coundon, 1853

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/53a

Religious Societies [wrongly labelled Newspapers - The Northern Echo] Posters: An attack on Unitarianism Religious lecture series in Blyth and in Newcastle by Mr George Lucas, 1861 Also Lecture and debate series at Gateshead Working Men's Club: Working Men's Clubs; 'both sides of the question of manhood suffrage'; geology; taxation; astronomy; building societies; The Old Scandinavian Sea-Kings

(1 packet)

Royal family (Ref: Da/Mu 2/55)Ref: Da/Mu 2/55

Royal Family of Great Britain - articles relating to Printed poems re death of Prince Albert, 1862, and to Princess Alexandra, and Prince of Wales wedding, 1863 Posted re coronation of 1831 - the mayor of Newcastle requesting windows to not be illuminated Family Tree linking 11 royal families of Europe by descent from James I, printed 1937 Advert for flags to buy to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII Programme of music by Prudhoe Gleeman for a visit by Queen Mary, 1924 Commemorative medal for coronation of George V Daily Mail supplement re Diamond Jubilee Procession, 1897 Certificate re Silver Jubilee, 1935

(1 packet)

Sport (Ref: Da/Mu 2/56)Ref: Da/Mu 2/56

Sport - Football Bishop Auckland Football Club 1880-1881 season programme card NB Wikipedia says Auckland Town started 1886, B. A. Church Institute team 1882

(1 card, printed)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/56a

Sport - Horse Racing race cards: Zetland Hunt point to point, 1904-1905, 1930-1933, 1938, 1930s A list of subscribers to Durham Races, 1791

(1 packet)

Transport (Ref: Da/Mu 2/57-67)Ref: Da/Mu 2/57

Transport - Aviation Postcard and souvenir brochure of R100 airship, 1929

(1 booklet, 1 postcard)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/58

Transport - Bus 2 tickets for the Darlington to London Express Motors midnight sleeper service, 1928 Photograph of a German trolleybus Photograph of a East Yorkshire double decker Photograph of an old open top double decker with soldiers and nurses on board, in a procession, perhaps 1945?

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/59

Transport - Railways - Darlington Cutting re S&DR, 1965 Centenary train ticket, 1925 Label of Darlington Railway Matches box S&D R Steam Boat Account - receipt for coal loaded at Middlesbro', 18 November 1859 2 Carte de Visite photographs of Locomotion S&DR 150th anniversary souvenir greeting card Drawing of Locomotion Postcard of Hownes Gill Viaduct LNER Christmas Card with drawing of Locomotion Share certificate for Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, 1854 Quote from N.E.R. office, Darlington, to Charles Knott, for carrying goods from Wolverhampton to Darlington, 1876 Order of Service in memory of N.E.R. men killed in the Great War, 10 May 1919 Also Parcel receipt, Darlington Street Railroad, 1864 Photocopy of a letter from Henry Pease, a sheet of tickets, a breakfast ticket and other things relating to the opening of Darlington Street Railroad, 1 January 1862

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/59

Album of newspaper cuttings re local railways, 1972

(1 volume)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/59a

Transport - Railways - Foreign Israeli Railways brochures Tokyo transportation museum brochure copy of a picture of a steam railway at Versailles

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/60

Transport - Railways - Miscellaneous Article about Newcastle stationmaster Mr Humphrey San Marino stamps with early steam locomotives on - see Stamps Sketch of a tank engine Share certificate for Northern Counties Union Railway Company, 1846 Linen tea towel with Railways of Great Britain A Brief History of the L.N.E.R., 1946

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/61

Transport - Railways [wrongly labelled Stockton - entertainment] Contains 2 decrees of Sheriff of Limerick re construction of Waterford and Limerick Railway, 1846-1847 Poster advertising a meeting of the Ludlow & Severn Railway Comittee, 1825 Poster advertising a special train to Hartlepool for the regatta, 1846 Share certificates in various railway companies Government report into the railway accident at the Browney Signalbox, 1946

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/62

Transport - Railways - Photographs, pictures Photographs, postcards and magazine illustrations of various steam locomotives, and of a model railway exhibition c.1900

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/63-64

Transport - Railways - Ticket, labels

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/65

Transport - Shipping Royal Navy service certificate or Arthur Percy Wilson born 1885, Stockton, served 1909-1944 Share certificates for Merchant Shipping Company, 1851 Photographs and postcards of steam ships - mostly ferries and warships

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/66

Transport - Traction Photographs of various steam traction engines

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/67

Transport - Tramways - First Darlington tram tickets, with covering letter Photo postcard of a steam tram at Wisbech

(1 packet)

Victorian crafts? (Ref: Da/Mu 2/68)Ref: Da/Mu 2/68

[removed - undated request slip in box]

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/68i

6 uncut children's chapbooks, 1790s [said Victorian Era]

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/68ii

envelope says Sampler of Eunice Mackereths aged 8, 1856 (Da/Mu 3/1) but actually contains: Piece of lace made at Bowes around 1836 with covering letter Printed Decoupage pieces, perhaps Victorian

(1 packet)

Warfare (Ref: Da/Mu 2/69-70)Ref: Da/Mu 2/69

Warfare - Durham Militia 2 recruitment posters and 5 enrolment certificates, 1802-1813

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/69a

Warfare - Miscellaneous Army discharge certificate, William Inbrise (?) from Northamptonshire, 48th Regiment, 1825

(1 packet)

Ref: Da/Mu 2/70

War - First and Second World Wars Pre-war Receipts from Belgian art shops WW1 Manchester Guardian 4 August 1914 Northern Echo 5 August 1914 Daily Telegraph 11 November 1918 Military orders for a gas raid Charles Knott's registration card and ration cards 2 photographs of servicemen Picture of Scottish national War Memorial A War Hymn Invitation to Darlington County Borough Celebration of the Treaty of Peace WW2 Cuttings Note on income tax increases Photograph of group of soldiers 'near Danzig' Advert for a 'Book Drive' Advice booklet on air raids Notebook with notes on socks and stockings at one end but on bombs at the other - A.R.P.? Ration card

(1 packet)

Misc. Deeds (Ref: Da/Mu 2 (uncat.))Needlework (Ref: Da/Mu 3/1)Ref: Da/MU 3/1

Sampler by Eunice Mackereth, aged 8, Kendal, Westmorland, 1856

(1 piece of linen, 40cm. x 41cm.)