Miscellaneous documents - Darlington
Reference: D/XD 95 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents - Darlington Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Papers of J. Douglas Chilton (died 1986), director of Pease's Mill
Covering Dates: 1813-1980
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Papers of J. D. Chilton, formerly a director of Pease's Mill and a Chairman of Darlington Conservative PartyCatalogue Contents
Pease's Mill Papers (Ref: D/XD 95/1-7)Ref: D/XD 95/1
Account book of Woolcombers' Sick Association, 20 November 1813 - 17 December 1823
Includes list of members, dates of joining and leaving club, reason for leaving and amount paid per week
(1 volume leather quarter-bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/2Letter from J. Thistlethwaite, Bradford, to Henry Pease, Pierremont, about money in mill account, stock supplies and advisability of preparing wool for the Exhibition of 1851, 29 November 1850
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/1Mail order brochure, 1886
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/2Advertisements for Darlington dress fabrics and patterns from Punch, 1887 - 1888
(3 newspaper cuttings)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/3Cover of advertising brochure for dress fabrics, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/4Postcard (blank) addressed to Henry Pease and Co. asking for patterns, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/5Voucher for Henry Pease and Co. made out to Miss Hammond of West Kensington, 7 April 1891
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/3/6Letter from Henry Pease and Co. offering half price materials and new Autumn patterns, 1 September 1894
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/4Voucher to Henry Pease and Co. from George Best, chemist, Bondgate, for extracting teeth from five girls, 3 September 1900
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/5Letter from Milner and Co., Priestgate Flour Mills, accepting tenancy of office and stable from Henry Pease and Co., 3 August 1903
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/6Two applications for post of clerk with Henry Pease and Co., 1894 and 1957
(2 papers)
Ref: D/XD 95/7File of papers relating to the history of the mill and the production of the bicentenary brochure
Includes:
details of women mill workers' wages at Darlington and Bradford with newspaper cuttings about a visit of Julia Varley of the National Federation of Women Workers to try to form a branch in Darlington, 1908;
copy of a letter from J. W. Pease to Alfred E. Pease with detailed account of the state of the mill, 13 May 1880;
rates of pay, 1914;
account of mill in 1939-1945 war from the Despatch
(1 file)
Miscellaneous (Ref: D/XD 95/8-10)Ref: D/XD 95/8Nomination of J.D. Chilton and W.H. Gibbins as elective auditors for Darlington County Borough, 21 February 1930
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/9Darlington to Parliament 1868 - 1958, a history of parliamentary representation presented with the compliments of Darlington Conservative Association, n.d.
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/10Scrapbook of photocopies and newspaper cuttings of:
R. Ward and Co., book shop, Skinnergate;
W. S. Firth, wine merchant, Post House Wynd;
Henry J. Park, butcher, Northgate;
Atkinson and Co., hatter, High Row;
Croft Spa;
Technical College;
Old cottages on site of Technical College;
Town Hall;
Cleveland Car Company's Garage, Grange Road;
J. Bainbridge Barker, Skinnergate;
Abbotts Apothecaries Hall, Bondgate;
North of England School Furnishing Co., Skinnergate;
Ropery Yard;
Ropery Works, Tubwell Row;
Old stone bridge and burnt out Pease's Mill 1896;
Mill, 1896;
Blackwellgate;
Southend Avenue, (2);
Baydale Beck Inn;
St. Cuthbert's Church;
Deanery Fields;
Holy Trinity Church, c. 1840;
Bulmers Stone and weavers' cottages Town Centre;
Tubwell Row;
Market Cross;
Manor House;
Nine Arch Bridge;
Fothergill's plate of St. Cuthbert's Church;
Town Hall and Shambles, pre-1860;
Old Toll Booth;
The Deanery;
High and Low Row;
Market Place, 1820;
Market Place, 1843;
Goose market;
Bondgate (2);
Friends' Meeting House, 1838;
Joseph Pease Monument;
Locomotion No. 1;
(1 volume, paper bound)
Second deposit (Ref: D/XD 95/11-19)Ref: D/XD 95/11/1-9Copies of lectures given to local societies on the history of Darlington, the Pease family, the wool trade and business philosophy, n.d.
(9 files)
Ref: D/XD 95/12/1-10Notes used in compilation of Jottings over a life time in and around Darlington
(9 volumes, paper bound, and 2 files)
Ref: D/XD 95/13Album of photographs, copies of old prints and newspaper cuttings on:
St. Cuthbert's;
St. Augustines;
Lead Yard School;
Old Town Hall;
Kings Head Inn;
Training College;
Stone Bridge;
Skerneside;
Salutation Corner;
Baydale Beck Inn;
Grammar School, Blackwell;
O. B. Wooler;
South Park;
Darlington and Stockton Times;
Dove and Co., Bondgate;
J. D. Chilton
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/14Programme of Bazaar promoted by Darlington Rotary Club on behalf of the Y.M.C.A., April 1928
(1 volume, printed, paper bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/15Souvenir of the Railwaymen's Carnival, 1931
(1 volume, printed, paper bound)
Ref: D/XD 95/16/1Card of Sir Fergus Graham, bart., Conservative candidate for Darlington, 1951
Ref: D/XD 95 16/2Telegram from Mr. and Mrs. Blaney, Whitley Bay, congratulating J. D. Chilton on the election result, 26 October 1951
(1 paper)
Ref: D/XD 95/16/3Letter from Geraldine Walford, London, to J. D. Chilton congratulating him on victory and cleverness in getting Liberals to be chairman of ward meetings, 27 October 1951
(3 papers)
(3 papers)
Ref: D/XD 95/17Letter from C. H. Noble, Darlington, to J. D. Chilton about council's title to Stanhope Green, enclosing a note on liabilities of Corporation in regard to Green Park, 20 August 1980
(2 papers)
Ref: D/XD 95/18Pages from The Times on the textile trade, 27 June 1913
(9 pages, printed)
Ref: D/XD 95/19Facsimile copy of Northern Echo, 28 September 1875, 23 January 1901, 3 July 1925; Northern Echo, 18 June 1883 (188 children suffocated at Sunderland), 13 September 1967, (Darlington centenary); facsimile copy of Northern Despatch, 5 September 1914
(5 newspapers)
