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Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

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Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

Catalogue Contents

Crook Primitive Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 1)

Circuit Sunday School Council (formerly Sunday School Union) Meetings minutes, 1906 - 1930, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)

Waterhouses Primitive Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 2-13)

Circuit reports, chapel and property schedules and schedules of the Sunday Schools, Bands of Hope, Christian Endeavour and Temperance Societies, 1893 - 1932
(1 volume, 2 files)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1892 - 1912
(1 volume)


Quarterly Meetings minutes, 1912 - 1934, Minutes infolded from November 1933 also includes minutes of a meeting of circuit representatives, 22 November 1933, re circuit amalgamation
(1 volume)


Accounts of the 'moneys and members', 1892 - 1912
(1 volume)


Accounts of the 'moneys and members', 1913 - 1932
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1896 - 1923, includes also 'New House Building Account', 1894
(1 volume)


Missionary accounts, 1892 - 1926
(3 volumes)


File containing: (1) Accounts of money promised and paid to the Primitive Methodist Centenary Fund by Waterhouses Circuit, 1908 - 1910 (2) Circuit accounts, 1907 - 1911 (3) Correspondence with the Primitive Methodist Chapel Aid Association and related papers concerning a loan to Esh Winning Primitive Methodist Church, 1921 - 1923 (4) Bill of costs to the trustees of Hamsteels Primitive Methodist Church from J. G. Wilson, Ornsby & Cadle, solicitors, Durham, for the lease of a site for a church in Quebec, with related letter, 1908 (5) Memorandum of loan to the trustees of Esh Winning Primitive Methodist School Church from the Primitive Methodist Chapel Aid Association Ltd., 17 March 1915, with receipt from the Association for deeds of the church held by them, 31 March 1923 (6) Letters from Henry Cave, estate agent, Rugby, to the Superintendent of Waterhouses Primitive Methodist Circuit re the roads and pathways surrounding Esh Winning Primitive Methodist Church, 1902 - 1905, with a copy of a resolution of the Darlington and Stockton Primitive Methodist District Building Committee to the authorities of Waterhouses Station (Circuit) granting the unspecified application of the trustees of Esh Colliery Primitive Methodist Church, 16 September 1904 (7) Specifications, contracts and related papers for additions to Waterhouses Primitive Methodist Church, 1902, and specifications for a schoolroom at Hamsteels Primitive Methodist Church, n.d. (8) Correspondence and related papers concerning the building of the Wesleyan manse, Esh Winning, 1903 - 1905
(1 file)

 (Ref: M/BDV 14-15)

Brandon Methodist Circuit
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Circuit plan, August - October 1935
(1 plan)


Missionary accounts, 1927 - 1935
(1 volume)

Crook Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 16)

Circuit plans, October 1934 - December 1934, April 1935 - September 1935, and plans, fragmentary and undated (post 1932)
(1 bundle)

Durham Bethel Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 17)

Circuit plan, August - October 1935
(1 plan)

Durham Elvet Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 18)

Circuit plan, August - October (?1935) (fragmentary)
(1 plan)

Durham Jubilee Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 19)

Circuit plan, August - October 1935
(1 plan)

Spennymoor Central Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 20)

Circuit plan, July - September 1935
(1 plan)

 (Ref: M/BDV 21)

Waterhouses Methodist Circuit
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Circuit plans, July 1931 - June 1932, October - December 1932
(1 bundle)

Brandon & Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/BDV 22-28)

Circuit plans, January 1941 - April 1960, October 1969 - January 1970 Not a complete series
(1 bundle)


Circuit schedules, 1935 - 1962 Infolded is a circuit plan May - July 1964
(1 volume)


Property schedules, 1934 - 1946
(1 volume)


Circuit Youth Council Meetings minutes, 1959 - 1960
(1 volume)


Missionary accounts, 1935 - 1947
(1 volume)


Roll books, c.1935 - 1963
(1 bundle containing 23 volumes)


Minutes, accounts and related papers concerning the establishment of the circuit and correspondence concerning the dispute between the circuit and Durham Bethel Circuit re the disposal of the Bethel Manse Fund and re purchase of a site for a manse at Broomlane Terrace, Ushaw Moor, from the New Brancepeth Colliery Co. Ltd., 1935 - 1936. Also miscellaneous papers relating to the circuit e.g. copies of inquiries to be made at the Annual United Trustees' meetings, duplicate schedules of Synod delegates etc., 1952 - 1954. Includes also a report on the boiler at Russell Street Methodist Church, Waterhouses, by The Methodist Insurance Co. Ltd., 3 February 1964
(1 bundle containing 2 files)

 (Ref: M/BDV 29)

Individual Churches

Bearpark Central Methodist Church
(Closed 1964, formerly United Methodist)
See also M/BDV 61


Sunday School teachers' meetings minutes, 1956 - 1963
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 30)

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See M/BDV 30, 31 & 61

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church, Ushaw Moor, Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
and Langley Moor Boyne Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Miscellaneous papers relating to:

 (Ref: M/BDV 31)

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church
(1) Agendas for Leaders', Society and Ladies' Circle meetings, balance sheet, and miscellaneous papers, 1964 - 1965
Langley Moor Boyne Methodist Church
(2) Correspondence with the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes, and related papers concerning the application for a new boiler for the church to the Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes, Manchester, 1 964
Ushaw Moor, Durham Road Methodist Church
(3) Agendas of various meetings and miscellaneous papers (including papers re boiler), 1954 - 1965
(1 file)

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church, Brandon Mount Calvary Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Brandon Trinity Methodist Church, Esh Winning Acton Road Methodist Church, Waterhouses Russell Street Methodist Church, Ushaw Moor Esh Road Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
and Broompark Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist and, before 1907, Methodist New Connexion)


Miscellaneous papers relating to: Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church (1) Insurance policy, 23 April 1907 Brandon, Mount Calvary Methodist Church (2) Report on the boiler by The Methodist Insurance Co. Ltd., 2 February 1965 Brandon Trinity Methodist Church (3) Report on the boiler as above, 23 February 1965 Broompark Methodist Church (4) Receipts from Mabel Henrietta Forster for repayment of loan by the trustees, 19 December 1891, 12 April 1894 Esh Winning Acton Road Methodist Church (5) Report on the boiler as above, 1 December 1964

 (Ref: M/BDV 32-35)

Ushaw Moor Esh Road Methodist Church
(6) Letter from the Department for Chapel Affairs, Manchester to the Brandon and Deerness Valley Circuit Superintendent, re huts for Youth Work, 3 June 1946
Waterhouses Russell Street Methodist Church
(7) Report on the boiler as above, 1 December 1964
(1 file)

Brandon Mount Calvary Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
see: M/BDV 31

Brandon Trinity Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
see: M/BDV 31

Broompark Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist and, before 1907, Methodist New Connexion)
see: M/BDV 31, 60 and 61

Cornsay Colliery Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist, Closed 1960)


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1924 - 1931, includes 'addresses of preachers', n.d.
(1 volume)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1948 - 1962, include minutes of Leaders' Meeting, 21 January 1948
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1948 - 1962, infolded in M/BDV 34 is correspondence with the District Chapel Secretary and with the Department for Chapel Affairs, Manchester, re the purchase of the church, 1947 - 1948
(2 volumes)

 (Ref: M/BDV 36)

Esh Colliery Primitive Methodist Church
See also M/BDV 13


Accounts, 1899 - 1912
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 37-38)

Esh Winning Acton Road Methodist Church
See also M/BDV 31


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1947 - 1961
(1 volume)


Youth Club accounts, 1959 - 1962
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 39-42)

Esh Winning Brandon Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See also M/BDV 13


Minutes of Executive Committee and of its sub-committees (General Purposes, Foundation & Donation & Building Committees), 1911 - 1913, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1928 - 1933
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1916 - 1938
(2 volumes)

 (Ref: M/BDV 43)

Esh Winning Wesleyan Methodist Church
See M/BDV 59

Hamsteels Primitive Methodist Church
See M/BDV 13

Hamsteels Wesleyan Methodist Church

See under Quebec, Front Street Methodist Church

Langley Moor Boyne Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
See M/BDV 30


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1929 - 1962
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 44)

New Brancepeth Methodist Church
See M/BDV 60-61

Quebec Clowes Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See M/BDV 45


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1905 - 1966, infolded is a memorandum of the choice and appointment of trustees, 20 May 1908
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 45)

Quebec Front Street Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist and known as Hamsteels Wesleyan Methodist Church)


Miscellaneous papers relating to trusteeship matters, property and finance, Includes certificate authorising public worship to take place in the church, 7 April 1892, and correspondence and related papers concerning the purchase of the freehold of, and sale of, the church and the amalgamation of the Clowes and Front Street societies, 1935 - 1940. 1892 - 1940
(1 file)

 (Ref: M/BDV 46-51)

Ushaw Moor Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See also M/BDV 30, 59-61


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1949 - 1953
(1 volume)


Youth Club Meetings minutes, 1956 - 1961
(1 volume)


Youth Club accounts subscriptions book, 1961 - 1963
(1 volume)


Youth Club accounts, 1955 - 1962, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)


Sunday School accounts, 1905 - 1957
(1 volume)


Pulpit notices book, 1951 - 1953
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 52-58)

Ushaw Moor Esh Road Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
See M/BDV 31 and 59


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1929 - 1954
(1 volume)


Church Council, Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1946 - 1949
(1 volume)


Trustees' minutes and accounts concerning the building of the church, 1897 - 1901, inside the front cover is a list of trustees, n.d.
(1 volume)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1898 - 1949
(1 volume)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1950 - 1962, infolded is a handbill advertising Jubilee Celebrations, August 1950
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1897 - 1952
(1 volume)


Sunday School accounts, 1929 - 1954, with rough minutes of meetings of various circuit and church committees, 1959 - 1962
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 59)

Ushaw Moor, Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
Ushaw Moor, Esh Road Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
and Esh Winning Wesleyan Methodist Church


Miscellaneous papers relating to the property, finance and trusteeship matters of Durham Road Methodist Church, including an application to the Primitive Methodist Church Extension Fund to build the church, 1 March 1910, Building Fund accounts and related papers, 1913 - 1916. Also resignations of trustees of Esh Winning Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1907, final accounts and related papers re the closure of Esh Road Methodist Church, 1961 - 1962, plans of the Esh Road Church by J. Walton Taylor, architect, of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 May and 27 July 1899, and plan of proposed manse at Ushaw Moor, n.d. (post 1935)
(1 file)

Ushaw Moor Durham Road, Broompark and New Brancepeth Methodist Churches (Ref: M/BDV 60)

Roll book, 1964
(1 volume)

Ushaw Moor (Durham Road), New Brancepeth, Bearpark Durham Road, Bearpark Central and Broompark Methodist Churches (Ref: M/BDV 61)

Register of members, 1937 - 1958
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 62-70)

Waterhouses, Bourne Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)
See also M/BDV 13


Leaders' & Society Meetings minutes, 1863 - 1885, includes accounts
(1 volume)


Trustees' and Trustee & Chapel Committee Meetings minutes, 1888 - 1914
(1 volume)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1915 - 1928
(1 volume)


Trustees' and Trustee & Chapel Committee Meetings minutes, 1928 - 1951
(1 volume)


Sunday School attendance register, 1890 - 1938, includes notes of removal of children
(1 volume)


Sunday School Club subscription book, 1921, 924
(1 volume)


Sunday Excursion Fund accounts, 1922 - 1925
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1883 - 1930
(1 volume)


Collection journal, 1924 - 1934
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 71)

Waterhouses, Russell Street Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
See also M/BDV 31


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1876 - 1924, includes accounts, 1875
(1 volume)

Unspecified Church or Churches (Ref: M/BDV 72-73)

Visitation book covering New Brancepeth, Ushaw Moor, Ushaw, Bearpark and Broompark, 1960 - 1961
(1 volume)


Envelope Fund Offering Scheme accounts, 1948
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 74)

Manses

See M/BDV 13, 28 and 59

Miscellaneous


Plan of proposed Independent Methodist Church, Gleneagles Road, Grindon Village by S. W. Milburn & Partners of Sunderland, November 1955 Scale 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96] Also plan by the same of proposed Congregational Church, Galway Road, Grindon Village, January 1957 Scale 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 75)

Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

(Second deposit)

Waterhouses Primitive Methodist Circuit


Account of the 'moneys and members', 1913 - 1927 (Steward's copy), with related papers infolded
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 76-78)

Individual Churches

Cornsay Colliery Methodist Church
(formerly United Methodist, closed 1960)


Society, Leaders' and Finance Committee Meetings minutes, 1931 - 1942
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers' Meetings minutes, 1929 - 1957, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)


Sunday School Teachers' attendance register, 1931 - 1960, infolded are two copies of the form of service at the closure of the church, 28 August 1960
(1 volume)

Waterhouses Bourne Primitive Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 79-82)

Sunday School Teachers' attendance registers, 1886 - 1893, 1900 - 1909
(2 volumes)


Accounts, 1871 - 1894
(2 volumes)

Miscellaneous (Ref: M/BDV 83-84)

Diaries of Mr. Taylor, local preacher and concerned with Co-operative and temperance movements, 1895, 1896 (2 typescript copies)
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 85-86)

Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

(additional deposit)

Individual Churches

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1921 - 1944
(1 volume)


Accounts, 1908 - 1944, including Trustees' minutes, 1945 - 1963
(1 volume)

Bearpark Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 87)

Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1911 - 1928
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 88)

East Hedley Hope Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Trustees: Meetings minutes, 1942 - 1971

Esh Winning, Acton Road Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 89)

Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1938 - 1950
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 90)

Esh Winning, Brandon Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1907 - 1937
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 91-100)

Ushaw Moor, Durham Road Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1898 - 1914, 1920 - 1955
(4 volumes)


Accounts, 1920 - 1939
(1 volume)


Women's Meetings minutes, 1938 - 1962
(3 volumes)


Women's Fellowship, members and attendances, 1959 - 1967
(1 volume)


Sisterhood accounts, 1938 - 1965
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 101-106)

Waterhouses, Bourne Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Teachers' Meetings minutes, 1918 - 1967 (1 volume) 102 Teachers' Roll, 1951 - 1962
(1 volume)


Sunday school attendance registers, beginners and primary, 1959 - 1970
(2 volumes)


Sunday school attendance registers, junior and senior, 1959 - 1969
(2 volumes)

 (Ref: M/BDV 107)

Waterhouses, Russell Street Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Sunday school attendance register, 1937 - 1947
(1 volume)

 (Ref: M/BDV 108)

Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

(additional deposit)


Circuit plans, 1950 - 1973
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 109)

Individual Churches

Bearpark, Durham Road Methodist Church


Correspondence etc. re sale of church and erection of new building, 1960 - 1963
(1 bundle)

Bearpark Central Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 110-111)

Correspondence re surrender of lease, 1912
(1 bundle)


Correspondence re lease and sale of property, 1951 - 1954, 1964 - 1971
(2 bundles)

 (Ref: M/BDV 112-113)

Brandon Trinity Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan)


Correspondence re acquisition of site and building of church, 1901 - 1905
(1 bundle)


Papers concerning loan debt, 1906 - 1919
(1 bundle)

Broompark Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 114)

Building accounts, 1891
(1 file)

Browney Lane Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 115)

Correspondence etc. mainly re finances, 1936 - 1956
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 116)

Cornsay Colliery Methodist Church
(formerly Methodist New Connexion)


Sunday School accounts, 1902 - 1960
(1 volume)

Esh Winning Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 117)

Correspondence re Boys' Brigade Hut, 1937, 1954
(1 file)

Langley Moor, Boyne Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 118)

Papers re erection of Sunday School, the Willis Memorial Hall, formation of new Trust, 1933 - 1964
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 119)

Langley Moor, High Street and Rehoboth Methodist Churches
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Papers re structural alterations, trust matters, sale of properties, 1894 - 1958
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 120-121)

Langley Moor, Boyne Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Application for erection of vestry, loan debt, 1882 - 1920
(1 bundle)


Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Report of the fund for the extension of Methodism in Great Britain, 1899
(1 paper)

 (Ref: M/BDV 122)

Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

(additional deposit)

Individual Churches

Cornsay Colliery Methodist Church


Correspondence and papers concerning the sale of the Chapel, 1961 - 1962
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 123)

East Hedley Hope Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Correspondence concerning the sale of the Church to East Hedley Hope football club, 1968 - 1970
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 124-130)

New Brancepeth Methodist Church
(formerly Primitive Methodist)


Lease of Chapel site to the Chapel trustees from Viscount Boyne, 1883
(1 parchment)


Memoranda of appointments of new trustees, 1895, 1939
(2 papers)


Memorandum re the loan of £250 from the Primitive Methodist Chapel Aid Association, 1921
(1 paper)


Certificate authorising public worship to take place in the Chapel, 1928
(1 paper)


Lease of the Chapel site from Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell to J. Stephenson and others, 1933
(1 paper)


Declaration adopting the New Model Deed in accordance with the Methodist Church Union Act, 1939
(1 paper)


Abstract of title and deed of conveyance of the Chapel, 1943
(2 papers)

Quebec, Clowes Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 131-132)

Leases of the Chapel site, 1874, 1905
(2 papers)


Correspondence and papers concerning the purchase of the freehold of the property, 1937 - 1938
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 133)

Ushaw Moor, Esh Road Methodist Church
(formerly Wesleyan Methodist)


Miscellaneous papers, including Certificates for authorising public worship, 1900, and solemnising marriages, 1924

Waterhouses, Bourne Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 134)

Correspondence re the sale of the Chapel to the County Council, 1968 - 1970
(1 bundle)

 (Ref: M/BDV 135)

Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit

(Additional Deposit)

Esh Winning, Acton Road Methodist Church


Trustees Meeting Minutes (indexed), with Trustees Names, 1964, at front, 1950 - 1971 See M/BDV 89 for previous volume
(1 volume)

Esh Winning Wesleyan Methodist Church (Ref: M/BDV 136-137)

Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1885 - 1936, with Minutes of four meetings of Trustees of the ex-Wesleyan and ex-Primitive Methodist Chapel re. amalgamation, 1936 - 1937, Infolded: (i) Three letters from Messrs. Pease and Partners re. leasing of land for site of the first Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Esh Winning at the South End of the West Row of houses near the Pit' (ii) Lists of Trustees with a note of those dead (1896 and 1907) (iii) Rough List of Ministers (1893 - 1933) (iv) Letter of Tender and specification for decorating the chapel from T.B. Carr of Crook (1906) (v) Extracts from a deed conveying land in Acton Road, from Sir John Walter Smythe to the Trustees with rough plan (1914) (vi) Resolution appointing new Trustees under provision of Model Deed and Trustee Appointments Acts 1850 - 1890 (1921) See Pp. 79, 80 for copy (vii) Crook Circuit Quarterly Plan and Directory (1930) (viii) Correspondence and related papers re. amalgamation of ex-Wesleyan and ex-Primitive Methodist Chapels, building of new Methodist Chapel in Acton Road and removal of organ from the Primitive Methodist Chapel to the new chapel. 1932 - 1933) (ix) Two letters from Thomas Johnson to Mr. Taylor re. playing the organ in the new church (1932) Attached to p. 151 is a note by Mr. A. Gordon last Trust Secretary (1970 - 75) to the effect that the new church in Acton Road is believed to have been the first built after Methodist Union, 1932
(1 volume)


Trustees Accounts (three miscellaneous papers infolded), 1885 - 1940
(1 volume)