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Order of service for the centenary memorial service at St. Andrew' s parish church, Stanley, 14 February 2009

Advertisement for the commemorative programme of events at Beamish Museum, 14 - 22 February 2009

Newspaper article from The Northern Echo, entitled: ' Relatives praise pair for disaster support' , concerning amateur historians Jack Hair and Bob Drake, who wrote many articles, based on their own researches, regarding the 168 people who died in the Stanley Pit disaster in 1909, 14 February 2009

Order of service for the dedication of Cassop War Memorial, issued by the Cassop Community Centre, 25 April 2009

Souvenir brochure for Durham Miners' Gala, 11 July 2009 Includes: articles on the West Stanley Colliery Disaster and the great strike of 1984 - 1985; also includes obituaries of George Simpson and George Rowe and photographs of new banners of Boldon Colliery, South Hetton and Westoe

Souvenir brochure for the admission of William Jeffrey Holmes Lodge, MBE, as an honorary freeman of the City of Durham, 22 March 2010

Order of service for Matins for Her Majesty' s Courts of Justice in the Counties of Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and North Yorkshire, Durham Cathedral, 11 July 2010 (1 booklet, printed) [Acc. 7611]

Order of service for the licensing of Father John Livesley SSC as Priest in Charge of Cassop-cum-Quarrington and Tudhoe Grange parishes, by Thomas Bishop of Durham, 24 July 2010 (1 booklet, printed) [Acc. 7627]

Order of service for celebration of Holy Eucharist following the licensing of Father John Livesley SSC as Priest in Charge of Tudhoe Grange, St Andrew and Bowburn, Christ the King in the Parish of Cassop-cum-Quarrington , 24 July 2010 (1 booklet, printed) [Acc. 7627]

Order of service for the Royal British Legion Ninetieth Anniversary Celebration Service at Durham Cathedral, 13 March 2011 (1 booklet, printed) [Acc. 7766]

Order of service for 60 th Anniversary Memorial Service of Easington Colliery Pit disaster 29 May 1951, Easington C olliery The Ascension, n.d. [29 May 2011] (1 booklet, printed) [Acc.: 7838]

Order of service for Thomas Hepburn Commemorative Service, Heworth Church, 8 October 2011 Thomas Hepburn was born in Pelton in 1795 and, following the death of his father in a mining accident, started work at Urpeth Colliery at the age of 8. He worked at Lamb' s Colliery, Fatfield and Jarrow Colliery before becoming a hewer at Hetton Colliery in 1822. He was leader of The Colliers' United Association of Durham and Northumberland, formed 1825 and led a successful strike in 1831 that reduced boys ' working shift from 18 hours to 12. The coalowners fought back in 183 2 and Hepburn lost his job and was victimised. He tried to re-establish the Union in 1835 but was unsuccessful. He eventually was given a job at Felling Colliery on the condition he would take no part in Union activity. However he remained an active Chartist and champion of working class education. He was a Primitive Methodist lay preacher. He died in 1864 and is buried in Heworth churchyard. The National Union of Mineworkers North East Area still pays tribute to his achievements and his portrait features on its own banner plus those of Blackhall, Easington, Murton, Sacriston, Wearmouth, Westoe Lodges.