Catalogue

Diary describing walks from Wolsingham around various places in Durham, Weardale, Teesdale and Northumberland between 27 August and 19 September 1985

File of photographs containing: (1) Saxon tower, Bywell, Northumberland (2) Saxon tower, Bywell, Northumberland (3) Lion artefact, Corbridge, Northumberland (4) Beamish Museum, one of 6 pit cottages: pitman bathing in front of a coal fired range in kitchen, c. 1890 (5) Full size replica of Locomotion, the first steam locomotive to haul passengers on the Stockton-Darlington railway line, 1825 (6) Victorian letter box, Blanchland, Northumberland (7) Shop, Hexham, Northumberland (8) Beehive Kilns, near Tow Law, 19th century (9) Signals, Beamish Museum (10) Rowley Station, Beamish Museum (11) Insignia on a train, Beamish Museum (12) Detail of a bandstand (13) Hadrian's Wall, West of Housesteads, Northumberland, Woking to Cuddy's Crags (14) Hadrian's Wall, West of Housesteads, Northumberland, Woking to Cuddy's Crags (15) Detail of Wall, Northumberland (16) Pillars, H.Q. Housesteads, Northumberland (17) South Bailey, St. Cuthbert's Society, Durham (18) Sundial, Durham Cathedral (19) Door, Palace Green, Durham, (20) Quarry Pond, Cawfields, Northumberland (21) High Force Waterfall, Middleton-in-Teesdale (22) Lindisfarne Castle from Priory, Northumberland (23) Staithes at Lindisfarne, Northumberland (24) Sheds at Lindisfarne, Northumberland (25) Marestail Weeds, Lindisfarne, Northumberland (26) Coast at Lindisfarne, Northumberland (27) Lobster catch, Beadnell, Northumberland (28) Lobsters, Beadnell, Northumberland (29) Boats, Beadnell, Northumberland (30) 1760 door at Warkworth, Northumberland (31) Tombstones, Dryburgh, Scottish Borders (32) Tombstones, Dryburgh, Scottish Borders (33) Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, from the river (34) Tombstone, Melrose, Scottish Borders, no date (35) Stained glass window at Byrness, Northumberland (36) Stained glass window at Byrness, Northumberland (37) Tombstone, Melrose, Scottish Borders, no date (38) Post Office, Blanchland, Northumberland, 28 August 1985 (39) Postcard of Post Office, Blanchland, Northumberland (40) Oil painting of Blaydon Races by W. C. Giving, Beamish Museum (41) Interior of pit cottage c. 1890 showing 'best' front room into half tester bed. One of a row of six cottages from Hetton-le-Hole [Beamish Museum] (42) Saddleback pig, Beamish Museum (43) Preparing for shot firing using a hand-ratchet drill in the yard seam of Mahogany Drift Mine, Beamish Museum (44) Causey Arch engraving by J. C. Stadler from painting by J. Atkinson. World's first railway bridge built for a colliery wagon way in 1727. Beamish Museum. (45) The Durham Ox, etching by J. Wessel, 1802, Beamish Museum (46) Booking office at Rowley Station. First built in 1867, now rebuilt at Beamish Museum (47) Miners' Lodge Banner, Harton and Westoe Lodge, Beamish Museum

Diary with detailed descriptions of walks around the Waskerley Way above Stanhope and Wolsingham moors in September 1985

File of photographs containing: (1) Signpost for Waskerley Way, Rowley (2) Waskerley church gate with a plate with an inscription: 'W.M. 1897' (3) Dry stone wall with X-shaped wooden stile (4) Old house in Waskerley (5) Boundary Post - S & D R [Stockton and Darlington Railway] (6) Methodist Church, [Waskerley] - now converted to a barn (7) Local livestock, sheep and horses (8) Object used for gate stop (9) View from Waskerley towards farmland (10) View north/north east from the track towards Straw Bale house and wooden Fence (11) View north east from the track towards farmland (12) Amanita Muscaria commonly known as the fly amanita is a poisonous fungus. Native to temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. (13) Wall made from Sleeper bricks (14) View North west from Waskerley towards Farmland and Woodland (15) View towards Rowley from cutting (16) Three Beehives at Beehive Cottage (17) View North East from Wire towards open fields (18) 'Stup' [or steep, showing a post], wide part of track (19) Looking North east from farm house near Rowley towards gravel foot path (20) Parapet - Hownes Gill (21) The Hownes Gill Viaduct, Built between 1857 and 1858, former railway bridge located west of Consett, built to transport limestone from Stanhope to Consett, and then with coal onwards to Tyne Dock in South Shields (22) Single arch of Hownes Gill Viaduct (23) Bogie - Steel Tipper, (24) Signal Box and Steel Works in Consett (25) Bricks from Consett Signal Box, T. Blyth and Sons, Birtley Station 1896, Brick and Tile Works (26) Remains of a workshop from the former Consett Steel Works. (27) Bricks at Consett. One of them with inscription: Foster Crown 13