Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1383 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Kirk Merrington records
Covering Dates: 1897-1961
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Catalogue Description
Documents relating to Kirk Merringtonpresented as a gift:
13 November 2002 Acc: 2896(D)
Catalogue Contents
Correspondence and bye-laws relating to the village green (Ref: D/X 1383/1-4)Ref: D/X 1383/1
Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission; the Local Government Board; the Merrington Parish Council; and others, concerning the transfer and regulation of the village green to, and by, the parish council, 15 May 1897- 12 August 1913
(38 papers)
Ref: D/X 1383/2Copy of application by Merrington Parish Council to the Local Government Board, for the confirmation of bye-laws relating to the village green, 19 May 1913
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/3Printed bye-laws for the regulation of Merrington village green, 28 June 1913
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/4Plan of Kirk Merrington and Leavingthorne, showing the line of sanitary pipes and the open gutter and storm trap, n.d.
Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, 56 cm. x 38 cm.)
Kirk Merrington Workmen's Club and Institute (Ref: D/X 1383/5)Ref: D/X 1383/5Copy of the statement of affairs of the liquidator of the Kirk Merrington and District Workmen's Club and Institute Ltd., 23 August 1924
(1 paper)
Printed booklets (Ref: D/X 1383/6-8)Ref: D/X 1383/6Order-of-service for the unveiling of the war memorial by Sir Timothy Eden, bart., 24 July 1921
(1 booklet, card-bound)
Ref: D/X 1383/7John Stokoe: Napoleon's Northumbrian surgeon , by Alfred Brewis, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1924
John Stokoe was buried in Kirk Merrington churchyard
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1383/8Souvenir brochure for the centenary celebrations of the Methodist Church, Kirk Merrington, 1961
(1 booklet)
Photographs (Ref: D/X 1383/9-18)Ref: D/X 1383/9Postcard photograph of Merrington church and war memorial, n.d., [c. 1921]
(1 photograph, 8.5 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/10Photograph of Kirk Merrington village, n.d., [1930s]
(1 photograph, 8.2 cm. x 5.7 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/11Photograph of Kirk Merrington churchyard and church, n.d., [1930s]
(1 photograph, 5.8 cm. x 8.3 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/12Photograph of a group outside Kirk Merrington Post Office, n.d., [1945]
(1 photograph, 15.3 cm. x 11.3 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/13Photograph of bonfire with Kirk Merrington church in background, n.d. [1945]
(1 photograph, 10.5 cm., x 15.7 cm., black and white)
(D/X 1383/14) Photographs of Kirk Merrington in the snow
Ref: D/X 1383/14(1)Photograph of a street in Kirk Merrington covered in snow, n.d., [c. 1947]
(1 photograph, 8.5 cm. x 6 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/14(2)Photograph of a street in Kirk Merrington covered in snow, n.d., [c. 1947]
(1 photograph, 8.5 cm. x 6 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/15Photograph showing the nave and choir in Kirk Merrington church, n.d., [c. 1950]
(1 photograph, 13.4 cm. x 8.4 cm., black and white)
(D/X 1383/16) Photographs of fields round Kirk Merrington, 22 April 1955
Ref: D/X 1383/16(1)Photograph of snow in the fields around Kirk Merrington, published in the Northern Echo on 22 April 1955, n.d.
(1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/16(2)Photograph of snow in the fields around Kirk Merrington, published in the Northern Echo on 22 April 1955, n.d.
(1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/17Photograph of Kirk Merrington village taken from the church tower, n.d., [ c.1955]
(1 photograph, 21.3 cm. x 16 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1383/18Postcard photograph of unidentified adults, n.d., [c.1955]
(1 photograph, 13.2 cm. x 8.3 cm., black and white)
Printed papers and correspondence relating to the Scurr family (Ref: D/X 1383/19-23)Ref: D/X 1383/19Press cutting concerning the death in action of Private Spencer Scurr of North Close Farm, Merrington, n.d., [ c.1915]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/20Election leaflet issued by Charles Scurr, North Close, Merrington, to the electors of the Spennymoor electoral division for the Durham County Council election, 3 March 1931
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/21Election leaflet issued by [Charles] Scurr to the electors of Spennymoor, n.d., [1931]
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/22Copy of a letter from T.L. Carroll Hair, S.S. Balmoralwood , to Messrs. Joseph Constantine Steamship Line, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, concerning transport of the body of the late Captain Scurr, 21 November 1937
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1383/23Order of service for the interment of Robert Henry Scurr at Kirk Merrington churchyard, 1 December 1937
(1 paper)
