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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1648 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: J. Greenwood and Sons, printers, 13 North Terrace, Seaham Harbour, and predecessors

Covering Dates: 1936-1974

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan:

31 March 2008 Acc: 7136

Catalogue Contents

Records of J. Greenwood and Sons, printers, of 13 North Terrace, Seaham Harbour, and predecessors (Ref: D/X 1648/1-7)

The printers William Newton Moorhead and George Young, of Seaham Harbour, moved from premises in Lord Street to 13 North Terrace between 1934 and 1938. The business was taken over by J. Greenwood and Sons, printers, of South Shields, probably in 1949


Cost book of printing work for Seaham Urban District Council, 1 May 1936 - 30 June 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Cost book of printing work for the Londonderry Collieries and the National Coal Board, 11 May 1939 - 7 June 1961
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Cost book of general printing work, 1 April 1941 - 28 March 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)


General register for factories, recording young persons employed, accidents, and painting at the premises of William Newton Moorhead and George Young, later Greenwood and Sons, printers, of 13 North Terrace, Seaham Harbour, June 1937 - January 1974
(1 booklet)


Inventory of stock at the premises of Moorhead and Young, printers, 13 North Terrace, Seaham, 16 September 1949
(2 papers, typescript)


Artwork depicting the shopfronts of nos. 11 - 17 North Terrace, Seaham, occupied by S.C.C.; G.W. Oliver, fruiterer and greengrocer; J. Greenwood and Sons, stationers and printers; F. Valente, ice cream parlour; O. White, gift shop; and Olive White, draper, n.d. [1950s]
(1 card, 52 cm. x 12 cm., colour)


Extract from an Ordnance Survey plan showing the location of nos. 11 - 17 North Terrace, Seaham, n.d. [after 1945] Scale: 1:2500
(1 paper, duplicated)