Catalogue

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 18 December 1894 - 31 January 1905

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 28 February 1905 - 30 November 1920

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 11 January 1921 - 16 September 1929

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 21 October 1929 - 22 August 1938

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 25 October 1938 - 22 March 1948

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 19 April 1948 - 18 October 1954

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 22 November 1954 - 24 October 1960

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 21 November 1960 - 21 May 1970

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 21 June 1971 - 20 March 1978

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 17 April 1978 - 21 March 1983

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 18 April 1983 - 23 March 1987

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, including minutes of the Leisure and Amenities Committee, 27 April 1987 - 17 February 1992

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, including minutes of the Leisure and Amenities Committee, 23 March 1992 - 13 December 1993

Minutes of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, including minutes of the Leisure and Amenities Committee, 17 January 1994 - 19 December 1994

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, containing minutes of parish meetings, 4 December 1894 - 23 May 1994

Agendas and notification of meetings with copy minutes and reports, 3 April 1992 - 27 July 1995

Declarations of acceptance of office, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 15 April 1925 - 29 April 1946, 14 February 1966 - 22 June 1987

Declarations of acceptance of office, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 23 May 1949 - 29 May 1961

Declarations of acceptance of office, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 19 June 1961 - 19 July 1976, 21 April 1986 - 15 September 1986

18 July 1935 (1) Rowland Burdon, esq., of the Castle, Castle Eden (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Lease for 3 years of a field at Monk Hesleden for allotments, together with an extension of the lease made on 20 April 1937 for five years Rent: £9 p.a.

18 July 1940 (1) The Commissioners of Crown Lands (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Conveyance of two pieces of land situate at Blackhall, between Chaucer Avenue and Coleridge Avenue, as shown on plan, for use as playgrounds, free grant under Section 10, Crown Lands Act, 1927

20 October 1964 (1) The Rural District Council of Easington (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Annual lease of land situate to the north west of Dene Road, Blackhall, [Blue House Gill], as shown on the attached plan, for use as a children's playground Scale: 1:2500 Rent: £1 p.a.

25 September 1969 (1) The Rural District Council of Easington (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Annual lease relating to a piece of land situate at the rear of Front Street, Hesleden, for use as a children's playground, as shown on attached plan Scale: 1:2500 Rent: £1 p.a.

28 September 1972 (1) The Rural District Council of Easington (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Lease for seven years of 2.02 acres of land at High Hesleden, as shown on the attached map, for use as a children's playground Scale: 1:2500 Rent: £50.00

12 July 1954 (1) The Parish Council of Monk Hesleden (2) The Secretary of the Public Works Loan Commissioners Mortgage for securing £4,439 for [street lighting]

4 July 1962 (1) North Eastern Electricity Board (2) Parish Council of Monk Hesleden Agreement for the maintenance of, and supply of, electrical energy to Public Lighting Installation at Hesleden

29 August 1962 (1) Crown Estates Commissioners (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Release from a restrictive covenant contained in a conveyance of 18 July 1940, to permit the erection of an electricity sub-station near Chaucer Avenue, Blackhall, as shown on the attached plan Scale: 1/16 inch to 1 foot [1:192]

31 August 1962 (1) Monk Hesleden Parish Council (2) The North Eastern Electricity Board Counterpart lease for 21 years of a piece of land situate near Chaucer Avenue, Blackhall, as shown on the attached plan, for the proposed erection of an electricity sub-station Scale: 1/16 inch to 1 foot [1:192] Rent £3 p.a.

Abstract of title, from 10 December 1901 to 30 March 1921, of John Haswell to an estate at Monk Hesleden, including Mickle Hill, 1921 Plan attached Scale: 25:344 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]

Abstract of title, from 26 March 1924 - 1 January 1947, of the National Coal Board to land situate at, or near, Blackhall, 1965 Includes: extract from a conveyance of 2 October 1914; an extract of a plan showing Mickle Hill, n.d.

24 June 1937 (1) Arthur Gilmore, 1 Oak Avenue, Blackhall, builder (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Agreement as to the erection of a wall by (2) on land near Blackhall, (2) having accepted Attached: tender, 23 June 1937 Consideration: £97. 4s. 7d.

19 April 1922 (1) The Parish Council of Monk Hesleden (2) Sarah Coulson Hocart of Clarendon House, Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey, widow Mortgage to secure an advance of £380, repayable at the end of 60 years, with a yearly interest of £6 per centum, with notice of transfer of mortgage to Aileen Freda Beatty of Kersey Tower, Felixstowe, Suffolk, 1 October 1930, and receipt for repayment, 31 March 1932 Attached: copy of resolution passed by Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 19 April 1922

18 May 1936 (1) Monk Hesleden Parish Council (2) Willie Trotter of Claremont, Blackhall, builder Agreement as to approaches to Cemetery Road, Blackhall, and use of part of Cemetery Road Attached: plan Consideration: £70 Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]

8 May 1967 (1) County Council of Durham (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Lease for 21 years from 1 April 1967 of 44 square yards of land at Blackhall Colliery, for the purpose of erecting a building to be used for the social activities of the aged persons of the parish Attached: plan Scale: 1:2500 Consideration: £1

22 November 1967 (1) County Council of Durham (2) Monk Hesleden Parish Council Agreement for the use of sites at Blackhall Rocks crossroads, for the purpose of planting and growing bushes and flowers; and for the erection of a dwarf boundary wall

Application forms for a land search, for an area of land in Blackhall Colliery, near Ocean View, used as a playing field, , 1965 Attached: plans No scale and 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]

Correspondence between Longden, Mann and Hodnett, solicitors; A. Forster, Clerk to Monk Hesleden Parish Council; and Henry Bell and Sons Ltd., civil engineers of Ryhope, concerning land between Chaucer Avenue and Coleridge Avenue, Blackhall, to be used as a playground, 18 June 1934 - 30 November 1938

Correspondence from Easington Rural District Council to Monk Hesleden Parish Council, concerning land at Blue House Gill, Blackhall, to be used as a children's play area, 1 July 1964 - 6 July 1964

Printed end-of-year financial statements of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 1961 - 1976 Originally enclosed in CP/MH24

Receipts and expenditure book, including loan account, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 30 April 1907 - 1 April 1928

Receipts and expenditure book, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 14 April 1930 - 30 June 1947

Receipts and expenditure book, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 30 June 1947 - 9 June 1962

Receipts and expenditure book, Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 1 April 1962 - 22 March 1976 For enclosures see CP/MH20

Receipts and expenditure book of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 1 April 1977 - 12 March 1991

Register of mortgages and transfer of mortgages, 19 April 1922 - 14 February 1958

Allotment rent book, Monk Hesleden, 31 March 1938 - 31 March 1955

Allotment rent book, 31 March 1955 - 31 March 1977

Minute book of Monk Hesleden Burial Board, 13 December 1886 - 19 November 1894

Account book of Monk Hesleden Burial Board, 8 March 1887 - 31 December 1936

Cash receipts book of Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, 2 January 1937 - 28 March 1966

Register of burials at Monk Hesleden, 5 November 1887 - 3 January 1932

Number not used

Register of service burials (war graves) at Blackhall Cemetery, 1941 - 1943 Contains 3 entries only

Register of memorials, Blackhall, 19 April 1941 - 17 April 1989

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 24 May 1948 - 19 December 1955

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 23 January 1956 - 23 March 1964

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 20 April 1964 - 23 March 1970

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 24 April 1970 - 22 March 1976

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 22 March 1976 - 20 July 1981

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 19 August 1981 - 22 June 1987

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 22 June 1987 - 22 June 1922

Grant of Right of Burial, Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, 22 June 1922 - 22 July 1997

Register of fees, Blackhall burial ground, 21 September 1923 - 24 September 1949

Register of fees, Blackhall burial ground, 10 October 1949 - 31 March 1976

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Blackhall cemetery, 5 November 1973 - 18 July 1978

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Blackhall cemetery, 19 July 1978 - 21 November 1983

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Blackhall cemetery, 24 November 1983 - 8 October 1988

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Blackhall Cemetery, 14 October 1988 - 17 March 1994

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Blackhall cemetery, 28 March 1994 - 20 November 1998

Register of fees, Monk Hesleden Burial Ground, 5 November 1887 - 22 March 1925

Receipt book of fees paid to Monk Hesleden Burial Authority, Hesleden cemetery, 25 August 1959 - 21 November 1983

Monthly list of work at Blackhall and Hesleden cemeteries, including a record of interments, erection of monuments and purchase of grave spaces, as listed by G. Chadwick, October 1967 - December 1973. Includes: a list of expenses, January 1968 - November 1973

Report from the District Valuer's Office, to Monk Hesleden Parish Council, on the proposed transfer of land at Hesleden for an extension to the burial ground, 15 November 1955; Attached: report of the Mineral Valuer, 6 August 1955; site plan of proposed cemetery extension, drawing no. 1414, by Ronald R. Lumsden, engineer and surveyor, 15 February 1952 Scale: 1:2500

Draft application for the provision of an extension to Hesleden cemetery, n.d.

Planning approval certificate for the proposed extension to Hesleden cemetery, with plan, November 1955 Scale: 1:2500

Order of Service of the consecration of land at Blackhall cemetery, 14 August 1962

Land Certificate, title number DU65973, of a piece of land in Monk Hesleden Parish, adjoining Hesleden cemetery, as in CP/MH 90, 1978

26 June 1922 (1) The Parish Council of Monk Hesleden (2) William Dalla Mann and Philip Dalla Mann, both of Sunderland, solicitors, and James George Swan of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, chartered accountant Mortgage to secure an advance of £1900 [for purposes of a burial ground at Blackhall Colliery] Attached: copy of two resolutions passed at the meeting of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, 26 June 1922; details of payments made from 26 December 1922 - 26 June 1942; receipt for repayment, 28 July 1938

27 June 1922 (1) Parish Council of Monk Hesleden (2) William Dalla Mann, Philip Dalla Mann, and James George Swan Statutory declaration of Ann Forster, Clerk to Monk Hesleden Parish Council, in respect of a proposed mortgage of £1900, for purposes of a burial ground at Blackhall Colliery

Plan showing proposed burial ground for Blackhall Colliery, by J.G. Heslop, 21 June 1921 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Plan showing proposed layout of drains at Blackhall cemetery, by T.H. Turnbull, architect and surveyor, c.1921 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Plan of proposed burial ground for Blackhall Colliery, showing plot numbers, by John W. English, surveyor, 1922 Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch [1:360]

Plan of Hesleden cemetery, giving plot numbers only, n.d.,

Plan showing areas of Monk Hesleden burial ground, which have been approved for consecration, 31 August 1926

Plan of proposed cemetery extension at Hesleden, c.1952 Scale: 1:2500

Plan showing the proposed extension to existing cemetery on land to the east of Hesleden cemetery and to the north of White Crescent, Hesleden, for Monk Hesleden Parish Council, n.d. Scale: 1:500

Copy Ordnance Survey plan showing the location of water mains near Hesleden cemetery, 12 December 1955

Letter from J.W.A. Rodgers, Medical Officer of Health, Public Health Department, Easington Rural District Council, to J.W. Gray, Clerk of Easington Rural District Council, stating that there are no objections to Hesleden cemetery extension on health grounds, 21 November 1955

Letter from Easington Rural District Council to Monk Hesleden Parish Council, concerning drainage at Hesleden cemetery, 25 November 1955

Correspondence between Monk Hesleden Parish Council; Society of Local Council Clerks; Rev. Mr. Dixon, Methodist Minister; Rev. C.V. Cole, vicar, Blackhall, St. Andrew; and Father Roche, St. Joseph's Presbytery, concerning consecration of Hesleden cemetery extension, 28 February 1990 - 16 June 1990

Correspondence concerning a dispute between Monk Hesleden Parish Council and Willie Trotter, over the erection of a wall; making up of the approaches to Back Glenholm Terrace and Back Leaholme Terrace, and the use of Cemetery Road, 26 January 1938 - 22 March 1938

Group photograph of miners in front of a building, entitled: Officials at Horden Colliery during 1926 National Stoppage [General Strike 1926], n.d. [c. 1926] J. Flackerty, N. Legg, E. Thompson, J. Jackson, S. Wayper, A. F. Brown, C. Riley, B. Martin, R. Saint, A. L. Hilton, T. Lonsdale, C. M. Peel, F. M. Taylor, G. W. Chappell, C. K. Chilton, E. Sutton, V. J. Hawley, J. B. Scott, T. F. Brindley, J. Storrow, H. Langley, J. Cockfield, L. Collingwood, J. T. Legg, G. Haswell, T. Garthwaite, A. Hawley, F. R. Raine, E. Witty, T. Hunter, R. S. Paterson, R. H. Charlton, G. Berry, C. Miller, A. E. Sandell, C. Robinson, M. Routledge, C. N. Brooks, F. Forster, B. Knight, W. Spellman, J. G. Forster, J. D. Bell, W. M. Redfern, C. Ruddick, G. Kent, W. Blunt, D. Costigan, E. Moody, W. E. G. Shinkfield, F. W. Thompson, G. S. Cockerill, R. Longstaff, H. Dawe, W. G. Loudon, S. Clark, G. B. Watson, R. Turner, T. Brown, E. Baldwin, A. Fenwick, J. Varley, J. G. Marley, J. Bryan, A. Hodgson, W. Chicken, R. Scott, W. Matthews, A. Brindley, J. Craggs, S. T. Brass, C. Leighton, T. Lamb, E. Lee, R. Oloman, G. Bell, T. Loudon, A. Hudspeth, M. Cook, T. Oliver, R. Davison, J. J. Bell, A. Pattison, G. Scott, J. Smith, W. S. Forster, J. Oliver, M. Bell, P. Dickman, W. Dickson, H. Warman, C. Fairs, R. Raines, M. Cook, J. Harper, E. Reed, J. Johnson, J. Holmes, R. Dunn, R. Prest, G. Graham, H. Davison, E. Varley, W. Archer, A. E. Douglas, W. Herriotts, H. Davis, C. D. Marley, T. Foster, W. J. Dobson, O. J. Feetham, C. A. Pattison, W. Johnson, D. Martin, A. J. McQuillan, I. Davies, J. W. Stobart, G. Loudon, G. Douglas, G. Turnbull, R. Raine, R. Blunt, J. Riddell, G. Wilkinson