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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1355 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Westgate Subscription Library

Covering Dates: 1788-1966

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan

30 April 2002 Acc: 2842(D)

Catalogue Contents


A volume containing: : 'A catalogue of the Books in Westgate Library', 1788 : Resolutions, 14 December 1839, 25 June 1842, 17 September 1842 : Notes of hiring of workers for Joshua Vipond, 1784 : Rules to be observed and kept by the Book Society established at the Westgate in Weardale, 28 March 1788 : List of members, n.d. [1788] : 'An account of the members Names of the Westgate Library together with the Books that are taken out and returned and the Money that is Collected at each Meeting', 12 April 1788 - 21 January 1814 : List of books, n.d. : Account of subscriptions and fines and 'Cash paid for the use of the Westgate Library by John D. Muschamp', 1 March 1806 - 24 November 1855 : Account of members' names and books taken out and returned, and the money collected at each meeting, 31 October 1812 - January 1857 : Names of committee members, 1812 - 1825 : 'Rules aded to those of the Library since its Establishment 28 March 1788', 11 February 1792, 11 January 1793, 28 February 1807, 24 December 1814 : Names of committee members, 1826 - 1841 : Names of officers, 1788 - 1811 : Names of committee members, 1844 - 1848 : List of names of members, giving the date each entered and left off, 12 April 1788 - April 1845 : An account of the members' names, books taken out and returned and the money collected at each meeting, 4 January - 26 April 1845 : Names of committee members, 1850 - 1854 : Add notes of sums of money owing, 1844 - 1851 : Names of committee members, 1851 - 1852 : An account of members' names, books taken out and returned, and the money collected at each meeting, 4 November 1848 - 21 April 1849 : Notes of damage to books, n.d. : Accounts for the 'Library Tea Party', April 1844 : Names of committee members, 1853 : Notes of a special meeting of the trustees of the newsroom and library in Westgate concerning the purchase of the house and library, 20 April 1839 : Notes of a special meeting of the Trustees of the Westgate Library concerning the letting of the 'Library House and Shop', 30 March 1847 : Names of committee members, 1850 : 'An Alphabetical list of the Members of Westgate Library', 1788 - 1840 : Receipts and payments accounts, 12 April 1788 - 31 October 1790 : Cash accounts, 19 February 1791 - 12 March 1796 : Summary of receipts and payments, 1788 - 1847 : List of books, n.d. : Draft appeal to clear the debt on the library house, c. 1880
(1 volume, calf bound)


Account of John Pattinson of Alston, Cumberland, for printing tea tickets for Westgate Library, 11 December 1847 Originally enclosed in D/X 1355/1
(1 paper)


List of books given by Mr. Bustin, Shotley Bridge, May 1854 Originally enclosed in D/X 1355/1
(1 paper)


Receipts for purchases for the library, 5 December 1862, December 1863, 20 October 1864
(3 papers)


Minutes of a special meeting of members of the Westgate Subscription Library for the appointment of trustees, 5 April 1919 Originally enclosed in D/X 1355/1
(1 paper)


Record of members and book loans, 17 January 1857 - 3 December 1870 Includes: accounts of receipts and payments, 17 January 1857 - 19 October 1870; and minutes of yearly meetings, 9 December 1865 - 10 December 1870
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Record of members and book loans, 31 December 1870 Originally enclosed in D/X 1355/8
(1 paper)


Record of members and book loans, 31 December 1870 - 13 May 1876 Includes: minutes of yearly meetings, 2 November 1872 - 1 January 1876; and accounts of receipts and expenditure, 9 December 1870 - 6 May 1876
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Record of members and book loans, 13 May 1876 - 15 December 1906
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Record of members and book loans, 15 December 1906 - December 1913
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Record of members and book loans, 1909 - 6 January 1912
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Record of book loans, 4 January 1913 - 4 November 1922
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Record of members and book loans, 25 November 1922 - September 1938
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Record of members and book loans, October 1938 - 17 December 1949
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Record of book loans, 17 April 1943 - 31 August 1946
(1 volume, paper bound)


Record of members and book loans, 31 August 1946 - 18 April 1964
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Catalogue of fiction and children's books, 22 October 1948 - 5 May 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Catalogue of books, n.d.
(1 volume, paper bound)


Account of receipts and expenditure, 1 January 1876 - 31 December 1892 Includes: minutes of yearly meetings for 1876, 1878 and 1879
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Account of receipts and expenditure, 1 January 1893 - 1931
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Rules of the Westgate Subscription Library, reprinted 1953
(1 paper)