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Aerial photograph of KENMORE factory, Crook, n.d. [1970s]

Aerial photograph of KENMORE factory, Crook, n. d. [1970s]

Photograph of staff of Pickford Holland Brickworks, Crook, including handwritten key to people in the photograph, 1953 Front Row: Airan Jones, William Turnball, Peter Hutchinson, Thedore Simpson (Manager), Little "Tosh" Nesbitt, George Abedeen, Charlie Morson Middle Row: Joe Barret, Wilf Pallister, William Newton, Vince Scott (Foreman), Jimmy Abedeen, Dave Harding, Herbet Clarke, Dick Crossley, Jack Millburn Back Row: William Fowler, Billy Hall (Transport), Charlie Millburn, Lister Kershaw, X Mercer, John Houghton, Frank Bowser (?) Notes on paper packaging of photograph: P.H.S. 1953 Presentation of Long Service Watches etc. Durham Record no. DR 04508

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of Castle Bank, Tow Law, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of a miner underground writing, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a miner underground with a spade, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of miners underground, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of miners underground, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of miners underground, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of miners in a shed, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of miners underground, n/d [early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of Grangetown Beach, Winter 1947

Copy photograph of horse and cart with two men, n/d [late 19th/early 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a horse being shod, n/d [mid 20th C.]

Copy photograph of lorries in a traffic jam during winter, n/d [mid 20th C.]

Copy photograph of school class, n/d [mid 20th C.]

Copy photograph of people (mostly women) on deckchairs, n/d [mid 20th C.]

Copy photograph of a group of young people in front of youth club, n/d [1960s]

Copy photograph of street, n/d [1960s]

Copy photograph of boys in front of sign prohibiting playing of games, n/d [1960s]

Copy photograph of two men filling out a form, n/d [1960s]

Copy photograph of young women in carnival hats, n/d [late 20th C.]

Photograph of Signallers section, 2/6 DLI, taken at Stirling Street, Doncaster, 20 May 1916 From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of Private F. Vitty, 14th DLI, of Fir Tree, serving in France, addressed to Miss L. Raine of No. 2 Greenfield Cottages, Crook [presumably related to subject of D/CL 43/4/3], n/d [1914-1918] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of Private F. Raine, 6th DLI, of Greenfield Cottages, Crook, n/d [1914-1918] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a soldier, n/d [1914-1918] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a soldier, n/d [1914-1918] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a soldier, n/d [1914-1918] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a boy, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a boy in football kit, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a smartly dressed man, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a smartly dressed men in front of a house, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a man, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a woman, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a couple and a baby, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a mother and two children about to go for a donkey ride at the beach, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of two men on an allotment, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of two women with a dog sitting in the garden, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of two men and a woman looking at a ram in a pen, n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a plant and rock installation (?), n/d [early 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of two women and a child in front of a house, n/d [mid 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a man with a quiff, n/d [mid 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of a photograph of a man, woman and rabbit, n/d [mid 20th C.] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of three elderly men with red flowers in their lapels, n/d [1980s] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of an elderly man in front of concrete building, n/d [1980s] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

Photograph of three rabbits and a dog in the garden, n/d [1980s] From Lesley (Trim) and Southfield Lodge

A Workman at Job's Hill Colliery, The Filthy State of Crook and Wheatbottom. Letter to the Editor of the Durham Chronicle, 6 February 1867

Our Colliery Villages. XXIII. Crook, Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 2 March 1873

Our Colliery Villages. XXXVII. Sunniside and Roddymoor, Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 12 June 1873

Our Colliery Villages. XXX. Tow Law, Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 10 May 1873

David Lipsey, 'Back to the thirties?', New Society, Vol. 53, No. 928, 28 August 1980 [article on Crook]

Rules of the Crook & Neighbourhood Co-operative Corn Mill, Flour and Provision Society Limited, Pelaw-on-Tyne: Co-operative Society's Printing Works, 1933

James Dickinson, Crook and District Official Guide, Dundee: The Simmath Press, n/d [1920s-30s]

The Urban District Council, The Official Guide. Crook & Willington Urban District, Cheltenham and London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co, n/d [1960s]

Crook & Willington Recreation Week. July 3 - 10, Ferryhill: A. Blamire & Son, 1976

Wear Valley District Council. Elite Hall, Crook. For Your Entertainment, Lintons: Crook, n/d [1970s]

Wear Valley District. Offical Street & Area Map, Carshalton: Forward Publicity, n/d [1980s]

K Frankish, Durham County Council Economic Development & Research Unit, Population Trends. County Durham 1989-2006, autumn 1990

S.S. Philip and James Parochial Church Council, Tow Law, The Heritage. Tow Law Past and Present. The Parish Church of SS. Philip & James, 1988

Tow Law Writers and Artists Group, Local Views, n/d [1980s]

101 Facts about Howden-Le-Wear (Prepared for Howden-le-Wear Local History Society 1998), 1998

Crook Writers, Crook Quills (An anthology of writing by the creative writing course organised by Bishop Auckland College 2000-2001 and taught by Jenny Winter), Cowley: Printworks, 2002

Joan Potts and Chris Gibson (ed.), Beechburn for Howden-le-Wear. A Durham Village History compiled by Howden-le-Wear Local History Society 2002

P.L. Bowes & D.T. Heatherington, The North East Around Us. Durham Geography Curriculum Study Group, Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1975

Frank Gent, History of Crook, 1986.

R. Graham, Glossary of mining terms, 1982 By R. Graham of 13 Wall Bank, Crook for Mr. Bell (information on envelope in which papers were kept)

L. Henderson, Wellington Bomber Crash. Roddymoor. Thursday 21st May 1942 6 pm, n/d [1980s]

Ada Spearman and Kathy Wood, Leazes Junior Mixed and Infant School, 1894-1968. Past, Present and Future?, n/d [before 1995] Two versions, one with pictures

Lance Henderson, 1944-1994. Norman and the Aircrew of Lancaster PB143 Remembered. Research by Lance Henderson with many thanks to Marion, Norman's Sister, n/d [1990s] Materials on Norman Stevens, a bomber pilot from Crook Two versions of text

Durham County Education Committee, County Library, Regulations for the Establishment and Conduct of a "Superior" Library Service, 1936

A.A. Denhom and W.C. Hamilton, County of Durham Education Committee, County Library, Report on Differential Rating in Relation to the County Library Scheme, 1946

Plan of Crook Mechanics' Institute, 7 June 1949

Durham County Library, 1953 [leaflet giving information on library services of Tow Law sub-branch of library]

The Committee of Management of the Stanhope Literary and Social Institute and The County Council of Durham, Agreement Relating to the Use of Presmises Forming Part of the Literary and Social Institute at Stanhope in the County of Durham, 29 May 1959

Durham County Library. Opening of Willington Branch, 6 November 1975

Durham County Library, Opening of Lanchester Branch, 12 March 1975

Durham County Library, Your New Trailer Library Service at Blackhill, n/d [1970s]

Durham County Library, Your New Trailer Library Service at Leadgate, n/d [1970s]

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 1, The Organization of the Country Library, April 1977

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 2. Reference Library Work, July 1978

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 3. An Introduction to Casettes, November 1978

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 4. Local Studies, November 1978

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 5. Branch Exchanges, n/d [1970s]

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 6. Community Information, February 1980

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 7. Community Information: Treatment of Materials, February 1980

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 8. Inter Library Loans, July 1980

Durham County Library, Staff Guide 10. Computer Systems, January 1983

Frank Durham, 'The Library that Visits its Customers', Sunday Sun, 5 December 1958

'Schoolchildren Help Bring Library to the Housebound', Auckland Chronicle, 5 April 1973

Photograph of Staff and Councillors at Crook Library, 1949, Some people in the photograph: Back row: Matt Thompson (?), Arthur Good, Joan Armstrong, Bert Douglass, Joan Page, Harry Brook, Alan Bell (Branch Librarian) Front Row: E.J. Clark (County Librarian), George Ibbs (?), Matt Reed (?) Durham Record no. DR 04509

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of New Crook Library 1971 Courtesy of Councillor Olive Brown

Copy photograph of Crook Branch Library, Opened 25th March 1971 Photographer: K. Cutmore

Copy photograph of Crook Travelling Library in the icy wastes of Weardale, 1963