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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1447 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Friends of Durham County Record Office collection

Covering Dates: 1850-2019

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D/X 1447 Miscellaneous documents (Ref: D/X 1447)Railways (Ref: D/X 1447)Stockton & Darlington Railway (Ref: D/X 1447/1-13, 15/1-5, 16/1-2, 38-49)

The way bills record the amount of material carried by the Stockton & Darlington Railway on behalf of the enterprises listed.


Way bills of Black Prince Colliery, Cornsay, 2 and 15 October 1864
(2 papers)


Way bills of Cold Knott Colliery, North Bedburn, 1 and 2 January 1859
(2 papers)


Way bill of Constantine Mines, Crook, 1861
(1 paper)


Way bill of Crook Colliery, Crook, 11 February 1859
(1 paper)


Way bills of Elm Park Colliery, Butterknowle, 17 March 1858, 9-12 April 1859
(5 papers)


Way bill of Inkerman Colliery, Wolsingham, 4 October 1864
(1 paper)


Way bills of Low Bitchburn Colliery, North Bedburn, 23 December 1858, 1-24 May 1860, and 17 April 1862
(6 papers)


Way bills of North Bitchburn Colliery, Witton-le-Wear, 10-16 December 1856, 26 March 1858, and 13 February 1862
(5 papers)


Way bill of Peases West Colliery, Crook and Billy Row, 16 May 1857
(1 paper)


Way bills of Whitfield Coke Ovens, Thistleflat Colliery, North Bedburn, 30 June 1856 and 7-27 April 1858
(4 papers)


Way bills of Whitelee Colliery, Crook, 13-26 January 1857, 23 November 1857, and 5 October 1864
(11 papers)


Way bills of Witton Park Colliery, Witton-le-Wear, 1-31 July 1858
(17 papers)


Way bills of Woodifield Colliery, Crook and Billy Row, 23 June 1856, 29 July 1857, and 9 August - 30 October 1860
(13 papers)


Way bill of Butterknowle Colliery, Lynesack and Softley, 22 March 1861
(1 paper)


Way bill of Constantine Mines, Crook, 1857
(1 paper)


Way bill of Marshall Green Colliery, Witton-le-Wear, 15 July 1857
(1 paper)


Way bills of West Tees Colliery, Barony in the parish of Auckland, St. Helen, 14 and 21 June 1856, 8 June 1857
(3 papers)


Way bills of Woodhouse Close Colliery, Auckland, St. Andrew, 9 May 185[ ] and 20 January 1858
(2 papers)


Way bill for the carriage of lime from Old Towns Quarry, Middridge, to Crook, by Martin Taylor and Company, 17 January 1857
(1 paper)


Way bill for the carriage of gravel from Old Towns Quarry, Middridge, to Preston-le-Skerne, by Messrs. Ord and Maddison of Darlington, 29 December 1858
(1 paper)


Aycliffe Lime Works, Chapman's, 25 April 1856
(1 paper)


Bowers Close Colliery, 24 July - 12 October 1856
(2 papers)


Constantine Mines, 9 August n.y. [1850 - 1870]
(1 paper)


Cragwood Blue Stone Quarry, 24 November 1866
(1 paper)


Dukes Hartley Pit, 7 - 13 August 1862
(4 papers)


Howden Colliery, 9 January - 30 April 1857 and 12 January 1861
(47 papers)


Marshall Green Colliery, 9 January - 23 July 1857
(3 papers)


South Durham Colliery, 15 June - 25 July 1857
(2 papers)


Thistleflat Colliery, Wallsend, Northumberland, 1 October - 31 November 1857
(15 papers)


West Tees Colliery, 15 - 20 June 1857
(3 papers)


Woodhouse Close Colliery, 9 May 1856
(1 paper)


Woodifield Colliery, 8 [March, May or November] 1856 - October 1860
(6 papers)

North Eastern Railway (Ref: D/X 1447/36-37, 50-66)

North Eastern Railway, later the London and North Eastern Railway


Certificate of London and North Eastern Railway Company three percent debenture stock, to the value of £400, issued to Henrietta Fanny Altham of Selby House, Pleamore Cross, Wellington, Somerset, spinster, 10 February 1932
(1 paper)


Certificate of London and North Eastern Railway Company four percent preference stock, to the value of £100, issued to Mrs. Edith Martha Arkell of Westlyn, Longfield Drive, West Parley, near Wimborne, Dorset, 27 February 1940
(1 paper)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, Darlington Section, from Darlington North Road Station to Shildon, 28 - 30 July 1874; 11 February 1876
(7 papers)


Parcels way bill of the North Eastern Railway, from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, to Shildon, 10 February 1876
(1 paper)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Bishop Auckland to Shildon, 16 August 1877 - 29 May 1878
(4 papers)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Darlington Bank Top Station to Shildon, 23 March - 23 May 1878
(7 papers)


Parcels way bill of the North Eastern Railway, from Hartlepool East Station to Shildon, 1 May 1878
(1 paper)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Stockton North Station to Shildon, 2 - 3 May 1878
(2 papers)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Fawcett Street, Sunderland, to Shildon, 18 and 28 May 1878
(2 papers)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Durham to Shildon, 27, 29 and 31 May 1878
(3 papers)


Parcels way bills of the North Eastern Railway, from Shildon to Darlington, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Wolsingham and Bishop Auckland, 1 - 29 June 1878
(7 papers)


Sender's tickets for carriages, horses etc., carried on the North Eastern Railway, from Lintz Green to Shildon, 21 September 1877
(2 papers)


Sender's ticket for carriages, horses etc., carried on the North Eastern Railway, from Billingham to Shildon, 11 May 1878
(1 paper)


Guard's tickets for carriages, horses etc., carried on the North Eastern Railway, from Blaydon to Chollerton, Northumberland, 5 October 1885
(2 papers)


Fish way bill of the North Eastern Railway, from Tynemouth, Northumberland, to Shildon, 6 May 1878
(1 paper)


Fish way bill of the North Eastern Railway, from Fawcett Street, Sunderland, to Shildon, 11 May 1878
(1 paper)


Telegram message form of the North Eastern Railway, from [ ] Taylor, Shildon, to [ ] Stevenson, concerning the delivery of an order by goods train, 27 September 1897
(1 paper)


Consignment notes of the London and North Eastern Railway for the carriage of goods from St. John's Chapel Station and an unidentified station, 14 - 29 January 1947
(2 papers)


Parcels way bill of the London and North Eastern Railway, from St. John's Chapel Station to London, King's Cross, 20 January 1947
(1 paper)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1447)Postcard photographs (Ref: D/X 1447/14, 20, 22-35, 67)

Photograph of a group of policemen from the Durham Constabulary, taken outside an unidentified building, c. 1935 Shows P.C. Kilpatrick in second row, second from right
(1 photograph, 47 cm. x 42 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of men, boys and onlookers assembled for the digging of foundations for a new Sunday School [possibly Bethel Methodist Church or Central Methodist Church], Ferryhill Station, 1920
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of the exterior of Waskerley Primitive Methodist Church, endorsed 22 November 1908 Endorsed: in a later hand, 'J.F.H. in central group', n.d.
(1 card, 14 cm. x 8.2 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a locomotive at Wear Valley Junction, 11 April 1954 Endorsed: 'Copyright J.W. Armstrong'
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 8.8 cm., black and white)


Copy postcard of Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, with horse-drawn vehicles, n.d., c.1910
(1 photograph, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph, a general view of Crook, 'taken from the top road overlooking new houses on Old Wheatbottom where Whitfield's farm was', n.d., c.1968
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of the Wesleyan organ, Howden-le-Wear, n.d.
(1 card, 8.5 cm. x 13.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of Ireshopeburn railway crossing and bridge, Weardale, c.1920
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of Hallgarth Water Mill, near Sherburn Hill, Pittington, c.1905
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of The Green, Staindrop, n.d., c.1940
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of Fawcett Street, shops and trams, Sunderland, c. 1910
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard of a photograph of the Terrace, Roker, Sunderland, including a tram, c.1910
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of Tow Law Athletic Football team, 1910 - 1911
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., sepia)


Postcard photograph of the Military Camp, Satley, Tow Law, n.d. [20th c.]
(1 card, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of Newton Cap Bank, and bridge in foreground, Bishop Auckland; sent from Jennie [ ], Bondgate, [Bishop Auckland] to Mrs. Carrie Bainbridge, Chatterley Farm, Wolsingham; postmark 30 August 1929
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of five men of Howden-le-Wear 'A' Team, St. John's Ambulance Brigade, winners of the Stobart Challenge Shield, n.d., [early 20th c.]
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Postcard photograph of the Colliery Rescue Station at Crook, published by R. Johnston & Sons, View Publishers, Newcastle and Gateshead, n.d. [ c.1900]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., sepia)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1447/68)

Photograph of Civil Defence emergency kitchen located on the bank of the River Wear with Framwellgate Bridge (still open to traffic), Durham Castle and Cathedral in the background, n.d. [1950s] The photograph was discovered on a display board stored in the basement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food HQ building on Horseferry Road, Westminster The building was vacated in 1988 and was demolished and the staff moved to Nobel House in Smith Square
(1 photograph, 35cm x 26 cm, black and white)

Programmes (Ref: D/X 1447/18-19)

Programme of 'The Case of the Frightened Lady', a play by Edgar Wallace, performed at The Royal Astoria Theatre, Northgate, Darlington, 27 November 1950
(1 booklet, printed)


Official programme of the County Borough of Darlington, of events in Darlington to celebrate the Festival of Britain, 9 April - 21 October 1951
(1 booklet, printed)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/X 1447/21)

Card inscribed as follows: 'With kind thoughts and best wishes from Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Athey, Waskerley, Darlington, Christmas, 1903'
(1 card, 14.5 cm. x 8.8 cm., printed)

Election Campaign literature (Ref: D/X 1447/69, 70/1-5, 71/1-2, 72/1-2, 73/1)Peter May (Ref: D/X 1447/Section 1)

Peter May was an independent county councillor, elected to represent the North Lodge division of Durham County Council in May 2013. He stood for re-election in May 2017 and was defeated by Craig Martin.


Campaign literature for Peter May, Independent County Councillor, for the local election in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(2 papers, printed)

Craig Martin (Ref: D/X 1447/Section 2)

Craig Martin is a Liberal Democrat councillor, elected to represent the North Lodge division of Durham County Council in May 2017.

Letters to residents and campaign literature (Ref: D/X 1447/70/1-3, 70/5, 73)

Circular promotional campaign letter from Craig Martin standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the local election in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(1 paper, printed)


Circular promotional campaign letter from Kathleen Martin writing in support of her son, Craig Martin standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the local election in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(1 paper, photocopy)


Promotional leaflet for Craig Martin, standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the local election in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from Craig Martin, Liberal Democrat councillor for North Lodge and Chester-le-Street, regarding footpath resurfacing in Camperdown Avenue, n.d. [2017]
(1 paper, printed)


Letter to residents of Rickleton Avenue from Craig Martin, Liberal Democrat councillor for North Lodge and Chester-le-Street, regarding verge hardening to take place in their street, n.d. [Spring/Summer 2019]
(1 paper, printed)

Focus: North Lodge and Chester-le-Street (Ref: D/X 1447/70/4, 71-72)

Focus North Lodge and Chester-le-Street, Liberal Democrat newsletter, describing campaigns by Councillor Craig Martin on street lighting and speed limits, n.d. [2017]
(1 paper, printed)


Focus: North Lodge and Chester-le-Street, Liberal Democrat newsletter describing the success of Cllr Craig Martin's campaign for road resurfacing, n.d. [Spring or Summer 2019]
(1 papers, printed)


Focus: North Lodge and Chester-le-Street, Liberal Democrat newsletter, calling for an apology from Durham County Council over work done to open up the Cong Burn in Chester-le-Street town centre and criticising the council for the backlog of kerbs waiting to be dropped, n.d. [Spring/Summer 2019]
(1 paper, printed)

Anonymous (Ref: D/X 1447/Section 3)

Anonymous promotional campaign booklet criticising the current Durham County Council led by the Labour Party for the local elections in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(1 booklet, printed)


Anonymous circular promotional campaign leaflet criticising the record of Terry Collins, Chief Executive of Durham County Council for the local elections in County Durham on 4 May 2017
(1 paper, printed, photocopy)