Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 184 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Methodist, Sunderland and other records
Covering Dates: 1764 - 1968
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Methodist, Sunderland and other records (Ref: D/X 184/1-34)Ref: D/X 184/1
Allendale Methodist Church (co. Northumberland) Bi-centenary memorial booklet, 1847-1947, 1947
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/2Notes (mss) on Methodism and Methodist Preachers in Aiston Moor (co. Cumberland), 1785-1894. Probably written by Mr. William Lee Hornsby whose name is inscribed on the front. Also written on the front, in a later hand is 'Stephen Atkinson'. Infolded is a fragment of a rough tracing of the interior and exterior of Alston Old Methodist Chapel, n.d. c.1894
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/3Appeal for funds for new Day and Sunday Schools in King Street, Bishopwearmouth by the Committee of the Wesleyan Day and Sunday Schools. Includes a lithograph of the schools by J. H. Leonard and Day and Son Ltd. The schools were designed by J. Tillman, architect, June 1865 (2 copies)
(2 documents)
Ref: D/X 184/4Photo-tints of exterior of Dipton Primitive Methodist Church, by James Akerman of London W.C. The church was designed by Davidson & Phillipson, of Newcastle upon Tyne
(2 documents)
Ref: D/X 184/5Photograph of architect's drawing of the exterior of Fishburn Methodist Chapel (small drawing of ground plan inset). Designed by Hays & Grey of Darlington, n.d.
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/6Booklet issued to commemorate the centenary of High West Street Chapel, Gateshead, and the Methodist Central Hall, Gateshead, October 1961
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/7Photograph of farm building at Hindley or Hineley Hill, near Keenley, Allendale, (co. Northumberland). Associated with the story of John Wesley, Grace Murray and John Bennet
(1 photograph)
Ref: D/X 184/8Newbiggin-in-Teesdale Wesley Chapel (Yorkshire,N.R.). Souvenir Brochure commemorating the bi-centenary of the chapel, June 1959
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/9The Methodist Bell. The Shotley Bridge and Consett Wesleyan Circuit Magazine, May, 1924. Includes detailed description of a jubilee brochure containing a history of Methodism in Tanfield Lea
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/10Durham Road Methodist Church, Sunderland Jubilee brochure, 1952 (church opened 12 March 1902)
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/11Wesleyan Methodist Revival Mission, 1876. Sunderland (Fawcett Street) Circuit Plan of mission preachers and layworkers appointments.
(1 plan)
Ref: D/X 184/12Sunderland, Fawcett Street Wesleyan Sunday Schools. Guide and programme of the Venetian Bazaar, 22 and 23 March 1893
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/13Sunderland Fawcett Street Circuit Wesleyan Methodist Church Record, July and October 1897
(2 volumes)
Ref: D/X 184/14Fawcett Street, Wesleyan Circuit, Sunderland, Appeal for funds for Circuit Extension Scheme, June 1900
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/15King Street Wesleyan Flower Mission, Sunderland. Third, fourth and eighth annual reports, 1886, 1887, 1891
(3 volumes)
Ref: D/X 184/16Sunderland, St John's Methodist Circuit Plan, April-June, 1934
(1 plan)
Ref: D/X 184/17'Plan of the Preachers of the United Methodist Free Churches', September-December 1860. (MS copy Gives churches and preachers only) The circuit is not given but all the churches are in the Sunderland area, n.d.
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/18The Teesdale Methodist. Journal of the Methodist Churches of Teesdale. No. 5, 1949 Includes an article on The Origin of Methodism in Teesdale by G. Clarkson Harker
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/19Yarm Methodist Church, 1764-1964. Bi-centenary brochure, 1964
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/20The Methodist Conference. Official handbooks, 1958, 1959, 1963
(3 volumes)
Ref: D/X 184/21Cirplan - the Bulletin of the Society of Cirplanologists, vol. 3, No. 3 (No. 19), Michaelmas 1964
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/22The Journal of the Cornish Methodist Historical. Association, a branch of the Wesley Historical Society. No. 7, May 1963
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/23Wesley Historical Society, London branch. Minutes of a meeting held at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, 29th May 1965 (to form the branch), with a copy of Dr. Bowmer's lecture 'The Organisation of Methodism after the death of Wesley'.
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/24Proceedings of the Plymouth and Exeter branch of the Wesley Historical Society, No. 2, July 1964
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/25Bulletin of the South Wales branch of the Wesley Historical Society No. 1, 1964
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/26/1(1)Cutting from the [Sunderland] Echo newspaper entitled `The Story of the Durham Miners' being a review of the book of the same title by Sidney Webb, 15 April 1921
(2 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/1(2)Cutting from unknown newspaper entitled `Sailor-Evangelist' containing an extract form the diary of George Woolcott (1778-1840), 17 November 1936
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/2(1)Cutting from Minutes of [Methodist] Conference 1921 being an obituary of Reverand Thomas Lawson
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/2(2)Cutting from unknown newspaper entitled `One of Methodism's Wonderful Women: "Mother Walker" of Sunderland' being a discussion of said Mrs. Walker on her 90th birthday, 24 June 1926
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/3Cutting from the [Sunderland] Echo newspaper relating to the centenary of of Methodism in Haswell, 16 October 1931
(2 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/4Cutting from unknown newspaper entitled `Chapel Collection in Barrow' being some reminiscences of Mr Robert James Hays a Wesleyan [Methodist] local preacher on the Thornley circuit for 50 years, 14 October 1932
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/5Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Sunderland's Historical Places of Worship' being a brief discussion of the historic churches in Sunderland, 16 December 1932
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/6Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `The Non-Established Churches of Wearside' being a correction of and elaboration on D/X 184/26/5 in relation to the historic non-conformist churches in Sunderland, 30 December 1932
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/7Cutting from the [Sunderland] Echo newspaper entitled `Early Sunderland Free Churches' discussing potential problems with the history of non-conformist curches given in D/X 184/26/6, 6 January 1933
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/8Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newpaper entitled `Sunderland History' being a reply to D/X 184/26/7 further discussing the history of non-conformist chapels in Sunderland, 11 January 1933
(3 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/9Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled "Ludgate Lane's History" being a summary of the previous nights meeting of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society, 18 December 35
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/10Cutting from the Methodist Recorder newspaper entitled `A Church Diary' relating to the life of St. Bede, June 1936
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/11Cutting from the Heslop's Local Advertiser and Monthly Recorder newspaper entitled `A Conference Handbook' being a review of the Conference Handbook for the 1936 Methodist Conference in Newcastle, 12 June 1936
(3 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/12Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `South Shields `New Area' Church Opened' relating to the dedication of a new Methodist Church in Harton, South Shields, 21 April 1937
(4 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/13Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Village Church Opened in County Durham' relating to the dedication of a new Methodist Church in Fishburn, 8 May 1937
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/14Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled ` Tributes to Local Preacher' relating to the 80th Birthday and Diamond Jubilee as a Methodist local preacher of Mr. W. S. Swinburne, 2 January 1939
(4 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/15(1)Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Seaham Methodist Church Centenary' relating to the centernary of the Methodist Church in Seaham, 20 November 1939
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/15(2)Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Seaham Methodist Centenary' being a response to and correction of D/X 184/26/15(1), 23 November 1939
(2 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/15(3)Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Centenary Celebrations at Seaham' relating to the centernary of the Methodist Church in Seaham, 21 December 1939
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/16Cutting from the Teesdale Mercury newspaper, untitled, relating to the parish and Rectory at Wycliffe on the occasion of its amalgamation with the parish of Hutton Magna, June 1941
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/17Cutting from the Sund[erland Echo] newspaper entitled `Wearsid[e]' relating to a jubilee of the Presbyterian Church on North Bridge Street, Sunderland, 21 July 1942
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/18(1)Cutting from the [Sunderland] Echo newspaper entitled `Methodist Reunion' relating to the centenary celebrations of Pittington Dixon Street Methodist Church, 27 July 1942
(2 papers, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/18(2)Cutting from an unknown newspaper, untitled, announcing a services to commemorate John Wesley's first Conference, [c. June 1944]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/19Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Echoes' relating to the history of Bishopwearmouth Parish Church between 1805 and 1819, [14 September 1942]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/20Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Over Two Centuries of Service to Sunderland' relating to the history of Sunderland Parish Church, 21 July 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/21Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `The Power-house of a Changing Community' relating to the history of Whitburn Parish Church, 4 August 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/22Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Vital Links Between Work and Worship' relating to the history of Pallion Parish Church, 11 August 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/23(1)Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Town Grew Up with its Parish Church' relating to the history of Houghton-le-Spring Parish Church, 18 August 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/23(2)Cutting from the [Sunderland Echo] newspaper entitled `800 Years of Baptisms' being a continuation of D/X 184/26/23(2), [18 August 1956]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/24Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Parsons and People in Partnership' relating to the history of St. Gabriel's Anglican Church, Bishopwearmouth, 27 October 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/25Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `In the Heart of a Busy Town' relating to the history of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Sunderland, 3 November 1956
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/26Cutting from unknown newspaper entitled `Sunderland Ferry Spans the Centuries' relating to the history of ferries across the Wear at Sunderland, [1957]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/27Cutting from the Journal newspaper entitled `Methodists Look Back 100 years' relating to the centenary of the dedication of Sherburn Methodist Church, 28 March 1961
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/28Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Shiney Row Remembers Sir George as "the Bonnie Pit Laddie"' relating to the history of Shiney Row, Houghton-le-Spring, 27 September 1962
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/29Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `And Little Folk Live in the Hill' relating to past residents of Penshaw, 1 November 1962
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/30Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Pittington's Foundations Laid (by Invaders?) About 1,300 Years Ago' relating to the history of Pittington, 31 October 1963
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/31Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Pittington Hill Quarry Provided Ampitheatre for Strikers - and Others' relating to the history of Pittington, 28 November 1963
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/32Cutting from the Evening Chronicle newspaper entitled `Book Find Brings Old Tyneside to Life' relating to the history of the old Tyne Bridge, 1 February 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/33Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `From Pit to Pulpit - The Story of Haswell's Peter Mackenzie' relating to the life of the Reverand Peter MacKenzie, the Wesleyan Methodist Minister, 14 May 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/34Cutting from the [Evening] Chronicle newspaper entitled `Methodists Want to Sell Church Site for Garage' relating to plans to replace Durham Road Methodist Church, Gateshead with a filling station, 7 July 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/35Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Preacher's "Bait Poke" in Pulpit was a Rebuke to Sherburn Hill Chapel' relating to the life of the Reverand Peter MacKenzie the Wesleyan Methodist Minister, 9 July 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/36Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Herrington Church is 125 Years Old' relating to the 125th anniversary of Middle Herrington Methodist Church, 19 November 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/37Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Church Closes to Strengthen Work Elsewhere' relating to the history of Durham Road Methodist Church, Sunderland, c. 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/38Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Friar Took in Wesley' relating to the tercentenary of the Catholic Chapel in Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, c. 28 June 1965
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/39Cutting from the Methodist Recorder newspaper entitled `Home on Thursday' relating to the Old Rectory at Epworth, 4 November 1965
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/40Cutting from an unknown newspaper entitled `Little as a Human Hand' relating to the Irish roots of American Methodism, c. 1965
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/41Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `A Wearside Rarity & Two Portraits' relating to a `lovefeast mug', 25 April 1966
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/42Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Ascented Handkerchief was his "Gimmick"' relating to the preaching of the Reverand Peter MacKenzie, the Wesleyan Methodist Minister, 23 August 1966
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/43Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Travels with a Donkey - in Lord's Name' relating to the life of the Reverand Peter MacKenzie, the Wesleyan Methodist Minister, 30 August 1966
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/44Cutting from The Journal newspaper, untitled, relating to an open air service at Cambo for Wesley Day, 25 May 1967
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/45Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `An April Day When John Wesley Preached in Chester-le-St.' relating to the history of Non-Conformist Churches in Chester-le-Street, 20 July 1967
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/46Cutting from an unknown newspaper, untitled, being a photograph of Blind Lane, Silksworth about the 1880s, c. 27 July 1967
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/47Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newpaper entitled `Lumley - The "Glade by the Pools" relating to the history of Great Lumley, 26 October 1967
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/48Cutting from the Methodist Recorder newspaper entitled `Closed Pits are History's Landmark on the Durham Countryside: But Thornley Methodism is Far From Dying' relating to the state of the Methodist church in the Mining areas of County Durham, 25 April 1968
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/49Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `Family Keeps it Going' related to the centenary of the Waldridge Fell Methodist Church, 14 May 1968
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/50Cutting from the Sunderland Echo newspaper entitled `The Golden Reign of Peter Lee' relating to life of Peter Lee, first Labour Chairman of Durham County Council, 21 May 1968
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/26/51Cutting from an unknown newspaper [poss. Methodist Recorder] entitled `No Way Forward Here?' being a review of the Survival of Methodism by J. Brazier Green, n.d. [c. 1964-1965]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/X 184/27Letter to the Rev. J. C. Bowmer from Surtees Armstrong of Consett concerning an old Wesley pulpit at Newlands, 16 June 1956
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/28Jarrow. Official guide,n.d. c.1949
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 184/29Typescript extract from the 'History of Shotley Spa and the vicinity of Shotley Bridge' by the Rev. John Ryan, 1841, n.d.
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/30Cuttings from the Sunderland Daily Echo, 8 - 11 July 1922, containing an article by the Rev. Ebenezer Rees on the history of the Congregational Church during the past century in Durham and Northumberland
(1 bundle)
Ref: D/X 184/31St. Thomas' Church, Sunderland. Blotting calendar, 1926-1927. Includes a short history of the church
(1 document)
Ref: D/X 184/32A Sketch of Sunderland by the Rev. F. F. Bretherton. Originally prepared for the Conference handbook in 1936 but revised and to some extent abridged, 1948
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 184/33pp. 104 and 105 of Great Britain Illustrated describing the river Wear above Sunderland Bridge and the Pavilion, Brighton
(1 sheet)
Ref: D/X 184/34Order of service of memorial service for William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury at Bishopwearmouth Parish Church, 2 November 1944
(1 document)