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Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club

Reference: D/DT Catalogue Title: Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Area: Catalogue Category: Charity and Society Records Description: Field Club Management and Administration

Covering Dates: 1891-2015

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Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club

Catalogue Description

The club was founded in 1891 as Darlington Naturalists' Field Club and took its current name in 1896. Their aim was to establish a reference library and museum, to co-ordinate field work and to organise interesting lectures. Weekly meetings were programmed: a mid-week meeting for lectures and reports throughout the year plus a Summer programme of weekend field trips. The original meeting room and museum was at the Mechanics Institute; this then moved to a schoolroom in the Friends Meeting House. They currently meet at the school on Vane Terrace.

The club is organised with a governing council meeting regularly, with officers elected to council at the AGM. Different sections are represented on council and co-ordinate activities in a wide range of subjects areas, changing slightly over the years but including: botany and mycology, ornithology, mammals, entomology (chiefly lepidoptera), freshwater and marine life, archaeology, local history, geology, fossils, mycology, botany. These different areas of interest were reflected in the organisation of the club's library (used as the foundation for the organisation of the archives).

In addition to the club's own records and library, the archives include a variety of papers inherited from leading members. Original research is published or put forward to other appropriate bodies. Members and officers are active in other local and umbrella societies and some have also been prolific in lecturing and publishing.

Information about the history of the club, together with photographs of past presidents and details of current council members, is available on the Club's website: www.dtnfc.org
In preparing this catalogue, the arrangement follows the club's own library classification, with additional reference material included alongside existing library sections. Original library catalogue references are given in brackets (e.g. [A1]). Research notes and reports are included with the records of the club itself.

The entire deposit has been kept apart from duplicated material, where the best copy has been kept, and O/S maps which either were already held by the office or did not meet our collection requirements.

Catalogue Contents

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club (Ref: D/DT)Field Club Records (Ref: D/DT 1-2)

Documents produced by the club either in pursuit of their own internal business (administrative, council meetings, weekly meetings, AGMs) or for wider publication (annual reports, ad hoc proceedings and reports, publications, field work)
Library section N
See also catalogue section on Field Club History (D/DT 3/8/1)

Management and Administration (Ref: D/DT 1/1-22)Minutes (Ref: D/DT 1/1-3, 9)Early minute books (Ref: D/DT 1/1/1-4)Ref: D/DT 1/1/1

First minute Book, 29 April 1891 - 19 April 1910 After minutes of some inaugural council meetings this chiefly consists of press cuttings, letters and programmes, pasted onto the pages, as a record of weekly meetings [N7]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/1/2

Minute book, 3 May 1910 - 1 February 1927 "This book contains AGMs, Weekly and a few Council Meetings. Meetings of Council usually took place at the end of weekly meetings but were not regular." After 1912 some business was minuted in a separate book [D/DT 1/1/3]. Mostly hand-written but includes press cuttings, printed rules, etc. pasted onto pages [N8]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/1/3

"Minute book of technical proceedings and records", 2 January 1912 - 27 July 1920 Contains weekly minutes plus press cuttings and letters pasted onto pages (including a newspaper cutting describing 1793 notes (D/DT 3/8/1)) [N9]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/1/4

Minute book, 1920-1926 Described as "Minutes of council meetings and AGMs, 12 April 1921 - 27 April 1926, and of weekly meetings, 4 August 1920 - 20 April 1926" A continuation of D/DT 1/1/3 Indexed; some is hand-written but it also includes a lot of cuttings, correspondence, etc., pasted in [N10]

(1 volume)

Council minutes (Ref: D/DT 1/2-3)Formal council minute books (Ref: D/DT 1/2/1-8)

Minute book N33, 1921-1925, and Minute book N34, 1926-1927, reported missing but may never have existed

Ref: D/DT 1/2/1

number not used

Ref: D/DT 1/2/2

Minute book of council meetings and AGMs, 8 February 1927 - 5 July 1938 includes annual programs and lists of officers, pasted in, for 1928/9 - 1937/8, and a list of new members for 1931-1935 [N35]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/3

Minute book of council meetings and AGMs, 13 December 1938 - 8 November 1949 indexed [N36]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/4

Minute book of council meetings and AGMs, 31 March 1950 - 16 December 1964 indexed [N37]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/5

Minute book of council meetings and AGMs, 25 November 1964 - 18 February 1969 indexed [N38]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/6

Minute book of council meetings, 25 March 1969 - 5 April 1978 indexed [N39]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/7

Minute book of council meetings and AGMs, 20 June 1978 - 12 October 2001 indexed, enclosures pasted in [N40]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/2/8

Minutes of council meeting, 18 September 1995

(1 paper, printed)

Sub-committee reports (Ref: D/DT 1/3/1)Ref: D/DT 1/3/1

Report of committee to arrange for removing the club from the Mechanic's Institute to the Friends School Room No. 2, 1923 Originally enclosed in D/DT 1/1/4 (p. 137)

(2 papers)

Council agendas (Ref: D/DT 1/3/2)Ref: D/DT 1/3/2

Council agenda, 1 February 1990 originally enclosed in D/DT 1/4/43

(1 paper)

Weekly meeting minute books (Ref: D/DT 1/9/1-23)

see also Early Minute Books (D/DT 1/1) and Memorabilia (D/DT 3/8)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/1

Minute book of weekly meetings, 4 May 1926 - 28 January 1931 indexed [N11]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/2

Minute book of weekly minutes, 5 May 1931 - 12 November 1935 indexed, includes programmes pasted in [N12]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/3

Weekly minute book, 19 November 1935 - 16 August 1938 indexed [N13]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/4

Weekly minute book, 23 August 1938 - 7 March 1944 indexed [N14]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/5

Weekly minute book, 14 March 1944 - 25 July 1950 indexed [N15]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/6

Weekly minute book, 29 April 1952 - 12 July 1955 partly indexed [N16]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/7

Weekly minute book, 19 July 1955 - 11 February 1958 indexed [N17]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/8

Weekly minute book, 18 February 1958 - 12 January 1960 [N18]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/9

Weekly minute book, 19 January 1960 - 2 July 1963 [N19]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/10

Weekly minute book, 9 July 1963 - 21 June 1966 [N20]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/11

Weekly minute book, 5 July 1966 - 12 March 1968 [N21]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/12

Weekly minute book, 9 March 1968 - 5 May 1970 [N22]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/13

Weekly minute book, 12 May 1970 - 6 September 1975 indexed [N23]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/14

Weekly minute book, 9 September 1975 - 22 May 1979 indexed [N24]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/15

Weekly minute book, 5 June 1979 - 12 June 1982 indexed [N25]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/16

Weekly minute book, 29 June 1982 - 3 September 1985 indexed [N26]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/17

Weekly minute book, 10 September 1985 - 2 May 1989 indexed [N27]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/18

Weekly minute book, 16 May 1989 - 29 January 1992 indexed [N28]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/19

Weekly minute book, 4 February 1992 - 15 February 1994 indexed [N29]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/20

Weekly minute book, 22 February 1994 - 21 January 1997 indexed [N30]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/21

Weekly minute book, 28 January 1997 - 20 November 2001 indexed [N31]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/22

Weekly minute book, 27 October 2001 - 26 April 2005 indexed [N32]

(1 volume)

Ref: D/DT 1/9/23

Weekly minute book, 31 May 2005 - 29 September 2009 indexed [N47]

(1 volume)

Reports (Ref: D/DT 1/4-8)Annual reports (Ref: D/DT 1/4/1-64)

These annual reports contain a summary of research carried out over the year and are not simply an internal business report but potentially have a wider circulation. The first annual report survives, from 1892, and five reports from the 1920s; for 1936-1947 the annual reports exist as reprints from a wider research publication; from 1964 onwards there is a full set of duplicated annual reports to AGM including a financial statement, details of officers, etc.
See also quarterly reports on observations and research published in The Vasculum (1924-2005), section D/DT 3/11/4, published proceedings, section D/DT 2/12, and "Local Records", section D/DT 2/10.

Early, unpublished, reports (Ref: D/DT 1/4/1-6)Ref: D/DT 1/4/1

"Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club First Annual Report", "Chairman's report at first AGM of Darlington Naturalists' Field Club", n.d. [1892]

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/2

Annual Report 1922-3, John E. Nowers, 24 April 1923

(5 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/3

Annual Report 1925-6, John E. Nowers, 26 April 1926

(6 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/4

Part of Annual Report 1926-7, John E. Nowers, 26 April 1927

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/5

Secretary's Annual Report 1927-8, John E. Nowers, 24 April 1928

(5 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/6

Secretary's Annual Report 1928-9, John E. Nowers, 30 April 1929

(4 papers)

Annual reports published in The North Western Naturalist (Ref: D/DT 1/4/7-18)Ref: D/DT 1/4/7

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for Autumn 1936 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/8

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1937 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/9

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Quarterly Reports for 1938 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/10

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1939 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/11

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1940 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/12

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1941 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/13

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1942 "Fifty years activities", reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/14

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1943 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/15

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1944 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/16

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1945 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/17

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1946 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/18

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Reports for 1947 Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist

(1 booklet, printed)

Annual reports to AGM (Ref: D/DT 1/4/19-69)Ref: D/DT 1/4/19

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1964-5

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/20

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1965-6

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/21

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1966-7

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/22

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1967

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/23

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1968

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/23a

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1969

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/24

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1970

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/25

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1971

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/26

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1972

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/27

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1973

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/28

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1974

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/29

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1975

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/30

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1976

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/31

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1977

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/32

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1978

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/33

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1979

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/34

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1980

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/35

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1981

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/36

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1982

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/37

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1983

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/38

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1984

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/39

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1985

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/40

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1986

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/41

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1987

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/42

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1988

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/43

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1989

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/44

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1990

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/45

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1991

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/46

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1992

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/47

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1993

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/48

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1994

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/49

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1995

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/50

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1996

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/51

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1997

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/52

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1998

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/53

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 1999

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/54

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2000

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/55

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2001

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/56

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2002

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/57

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2003

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/58

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2004

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/59

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2005

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/60

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2006

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/61

Number not used

Ref: D/DT 1/4/62

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2008

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/63

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2009

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/64

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2010

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/65-67

number not used

Ref: D/DT 1/4/68

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2014

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/69

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2015

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/70

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2016

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/71

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2017

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/4/72

Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report, 2018

(1 booklet, printed)

Officers' reports to AGM (Ref: D/DT 1/5-8)Presidents' reports (Ref: D/DT 1/5/1)Ref: D/DT 1/5/1

"What's in a name", the presidential address by Mrs J.M. Jackson, 1987

(22 papers in an envelope)

Treasurers' reports (Ref: D/DT 1/6/1-2)Ref: D/DT 1/6/1

Treasurer's Annual Statement, 26 April 1927

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/6/2

Treasurer's Annual Statement, year ending 21 April 1928

(1 paper)

Minuting Secretarys' reports (Ref: D/DT 1/7/1)Ref: D/DT 1/7/1

Minuting secretary's report to AGM, 1968 Originally enclosed in D/DT 1/9/11

(1 paper)

Librarians' reports (Ref: D/DT 1/8/1)Ref: D/DT 1/8/1

Librarian's Report, 1927-8

(1 paper)

Officers (Ref: D/DT 1/10-13)Photographs of officers (Ref: D/DT 1/10/1-8)Ref: D/DT 1/10/1

Mounted photograph of "Dr. Manson F.G.S. - The founder of the D&TNFC of which he was president for 5 years, 1892-1897"

(1 photograph, black and white, 61 x 48 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/2

Three captioned images mounted together, printed from photographs, of James I'Anson (president 1898), William Lear (president 1900-1901) and George H. S. Hampton (president 1901-1902)

(1 set of pictures, black and white, 43 x 23 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/3

Three captioned images mounted together, of Edward Wooler F.S.A. (president 1904-5), James Turnbull (president 1906-7) and Alexander C. Dixon M.A. B.Sc. (president 1907-8)

(1 set of pictures, black and white, 45 x 23 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/4

Mounted photograph of James Turnbull and Edward Wooler visiting the Legs Cross, n.d. [c.1910]

(1 photograph, black and white, 46 x 37 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/5

Mounted photograph of an elderly, bearded man, reading, n.d. [Probably Alexander Campbell Dixon, president 1907]

(1 photograph, black and white, 30 x 40 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/6

Mounted photograph of two elderly, well-dressed gentlemen resting on a boulder beneath a cliff, possible inscription "Inch Boak 1 July 1918", n.d. [c. 1910]

(1 photograph, black and white, 25 x 30 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/7

Mounted photograph endorsed "Albert Stainthorpe, President 1937/8 and 1951/2" showing a man on a boat trip [Farne Islands?], n.d. [c.1960]

(1 photograph, colour, 25 x 30 cm)

Ref: D/DT 1/10/8

Mounted photograph of a granite boulder taken from the Tees at Winston and erected as a memorial to R. Taylor Manson in 1900 see D/DT 3/10/10

(1 photograph, black and white, 17 x 22 cm)

Biographies and obituaries (Ref: D/DT 1/11/1-4)Ref: D/DT 1/11/1

Biography of Richard Taylor Manson (club president 1892-7) by H. W. Jackson, 1990

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/11/2

Note re. E. Sibson, n.d. Written on envelope used to store D/DT 2/3/1-1a

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/11/3

Newspaper cutting on the "Death of Mr. C.P. Nicholson", 4 May 1944 originally enclosed in D/DT 1/12/56

(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/11/4

Two newspaper cuttings re. the funeral of David Green, February 2004 Originally enclosed in D/DT 3/8/36

(2 papers, printed)

Personal papers of officers (Ref: D/DT 1/12-13)C.P. Nicholson (Ref: D/DT 1/12/1-56)

Author of the Handy Guide series of rambling guides and many newspaper articles (see, for example, D/DT 2/11/14-22 and D/DT 3/8/10-12,23 etc.). Obituary D/DT 1/11/3.
Papers here are chiefly concerned with research for lectures, newspaper articles and publications. D/DT 1/12/1,39-42,55 were originally in a packet together; D/DT 1/12/9 and following were in a folder labelled "Teesdale"; the other material was associated together by its arrangement.

Research for publication (Ref: D/DT 1/12/1-35)Miscellaneous Research (Ref: D/DT 1/12/1-8)Ref: D/DT 1/12/1

Letter to C.P. Nicholson from Rob Wood, Barnard Castle, re. proof-reading the "MS of the new Guide" and various associated matters, 19 November 1919

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/2

Notes and letters to C.P. Nicholson from John L. Watson, research into Staindrop for "Guide", 1925

(10 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/3

An old folder of papers entitled "Swale Dale corpse way and burial customs" containing 6 leaves of notes and 2 letters from E.M. Spensley to C.P. Nicholson, 1926 and 1928, the latter concerned with a manuscript

(8 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/4

Notes on Villages, Anglo-Saxons, fields, husbandry, meaning of an acre, and hence to Darlington.. n.d. [c.1920s] Papers folded into a book. Originally enclosed in D/DT 1/12/37

(13 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/5

number not used

Ref: D/DT 1/12/6

Notes on Stanwick, Romano-British remains, Low Langdale, Scots Dyke, Roman Roads, etc., all numbered as if for publication, n.d. [c.1930]

(91 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/7

Notes on place-names, numbered in sequence, n.d. [c.1930] originally in a folder with D/DT 1/12/6

(13 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/8

Folder containing miscellaneous historical notes and newspaper cuttings (most dated) covering various aspects of the history, archaeology and architecture in Darlington and Teesdale, 1918-1949 Some are numbered as if organised for publication and are assumed to relate to C.P. Nicholson. Contains: Cuttings: Barnard Castle and Master Humphrey's Clock , n.d. Three articles on the finding of a coffin in a peat bog: An Unknown Warrior, 1921; Grim Discovery on Killhope Fell, 1921; Gruesome Find by Shepherd, 1 September 1921 Bowes Love Tragedy, poem by Rev. Thomas Denton (c.1800), 19 April 1933 Baathersd'l Show, dialect poem by W. Langstaff, 11 October 1933 The Great Flood in the Tees 1881, n.d. Farewell ta' d' pump (Romaldkirk), a poem, 21 October 1933 The pump's reply, 15 November 1933 The Bowes Lion Hunt, poem by A.W.M. Close, 13 September 1933 Edwin and Emma, poem by Mallet, 14 June 1933 A Teesdale Idyll, poem by W. Langstaff, 1 March 1933 Romantic Legends Linked with Lake Gormire, 31 May 1939 An Old News Sheet, 17 July 1940 Ovington and Lartington's Spectres of Catholic Priests, 14 December 1938 The Preservation of Dialects, n.d. [1921] Tragic Death on a Teesdale Moor, death of William Bayles Brown, 19 January 1921 Saxon Sun-dials, n.d. A Helmsley Church Treasure, a letter from David Livingstone, n.d. Rievaulx Abbey and other Cistercian Houses, n.d. Newspaper correspondence on use of church stones for sharpening weapons: Thirsk church; Grooves in church walls; Churches used as grindstones Green, lovely Kirkleatham, 30 April 1949 Photograph and article re. opening of Broken Scar to Blackwell Nature Trail Cromwell at Richmond and Barnard Castle, 2 October 1948 Photograph of Blagrave's House, 15 October 1948 Allotment Holder's Find of Flint Tools, Darlington, 9 March 1918 "Clervaux Castle", Croft on Tees, 9 June 1947 and 10 September 1947 Two photographs of Gatherley Castle, 10 February 1948 Eppleby is mentioned in the Domesday Book, 31 March 1949 York Minster window reconstruction, 18 February 1949 Reprints: History of Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club by C.P. Nicholson, n.d. Notes: The Field of Darlington, notes from Longstaffe's History, n.d. River Tees Draft letter to Mr Bell re. Stephenson at Railway Cottage, 16 May 1938 Aycliffe (placename) Sketch map of North York Moors showing locations of old churches Wycliffe Barforth Rokeby Mortham Tower Finchale Priory, notes and sketch plan St Mary's Church, Bolton on Swale Forts around Britain Hawthorn and Hawthorn Tower Wynyard Park Publications: Visitors' Guide to SS. Peter and Paul, Pickering Visitor's guide (with illustration) to Hubberholme Church Printed postcard of Stonehenge Printed postcard of Maiden Castle, Dorchester Illustrated article on Mortham Tower from the Dalesman

(69 papers)

Folder entitled "Teesdale" (Ref: D/DT 1/12/9-35)Ref: D/DT 1/12/9

Notes on "The footpath way in Teesdale Forest and Village", n.d. [c.1920s]

(9 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/10

Notes on Teesdale villages and lost villages, n.d. [c.1920s]

(5 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/11

"Old Raby - one of the lost villages of Teesdale", n.d. [c.1920s]

(4 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/12

"Our lost villages - 2: Marwood", n.d. [c.1920s]

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/13

Notes on the Harrying of the North, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/14

Lost villages: Unthank, n.d. [c.1920s]

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/15

Lost village: Byance, n.d. [c.1920s]

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/16

Villages near Raby, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/17

Dialect and placenames, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/18

Widdybank pencil mill, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/19

Terraced slopes at Egglestone, n.d. [c.1920s]

(4 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/20

Newspaper cutting - report of lecture on the Corpse-way, 1928

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/21

Kings Walk, Middleton-in-Teesdale, n.d. [c.1920s]

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/22

Notes on the ancient verse "Lamentation for Robert de Neville Lord of Raby" (d.1282), n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/23

Northern Despatch cutting describing C.P. Nicholson's Rotary Club lecture on Town History, 26 June 1942

(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/24

Newspaper cutting on C.P. Nicholson's Rotary Club talk on Saxon Darlington, 27 June 1942

(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/25

Newspaper reprint "A Glimpse of Old Darlington", Mr Haw's lecture to DTNFC, Evening Despatch, 21 Dec 1921

(2 papers, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/26

Notes on footpaths bringing antagonistic communities together, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/27

Verses describing a ramble, C.P. Nicholson, 11 June 1936

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/28

Pasted up newspaper article on Ancient Trade Routes near Darlington, by C.P. Nicholson, 1927

(2 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/29

A Neolithic chipping site at Blackton in Teesdale, n.d. [c.1920s]

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/30

Dotheboys Hall, George Mann, 1927

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/31

Cutting on "Antiquaries at Rey Cross", a visit by the Cumberland And Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 1926

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/32

Notes on lead mines, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/33

Notes on Morritt as a writer, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/34

A statue at Rokeby, n.d. [c.1920s]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/35

Mary Rokeby's epitaph, n.d. [c.1920s]

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/35a

Pasted up gossip column articles referring to C.P. Nicholson's activities, n.d [c. 1920s]

(1 paper)

Reference material (Ref: D/DT 1/12/36-42)Ref: D/DT 1/12/36

Cutting on "Darlington in 1183" from the Evening Despatch, 28 March [1927] Also other notes on history of Darlington Originally enclosed in D/DT 1/12/4

(5 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/37

Home-made, unbound, scrapbook entitled "Darlington - Extracts from Longstaff, etc." containing newspaper cuttings about Darlington and its "famous men", 1920s

(22 papers, folded)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/38

Unbound scrapbook entitled "North Riding Dialect Cuttings, etc. 1930", 1920-1944 Essentially an alphabetical lexicon of North Yorkshire words created from newspaper cuttings of a series by R.W. Blenkinsopp, perhaps from the Teesdale Mercury; further loose cuttings, papers with notes and cuttings with dialect stories are inserted in the appropriate pages

(1 booklet)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/39

Assessment of taxes on North Bitchburn Colliery, 1854-1855 Total bill is £3-13-6 for 7 horses Originally attached to D/DT 1/12/42

(1 paper, printed form)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/40

Cutting from Darlington and Stockton Telegraph on "A legend of the Tees, 1372", a versification of the conversion of a heretic preacher, n.d.

(1 paper, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/41

Memo from Wm.S. Read, editor of the Northern Echo, to W. Hobson Esq., 10 August 1872 originally fastened to D/DT 1/12/40 and discussing his authorship of this

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/42

Receipt for £3-1-2 paid to John S. Seaward, Talbot Hotel, Bishop Auckland for meals on account, January to August [c.1900]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/42a

"Coniscliffe Church" by Rev. Dr. Hodgson, n.d. [c.1920s] originally in a folder with D/DT 1/12/2

(1 booklet (2 papers folded together))

William Dent (Ref: D/DT 1/12/43)Ref: D/DT 1/12/43

Two newspaper cuttings re. Wm Dent, artist, and a draft letter to Mr. Dent to arrange a Field Club outing, 29 May 1929

(2 papers)

The Skerne-Water Tales (Ref: D/DT 1/12/44-49)Ref: D/DT 1/12/44

Seven home-made books tied together (in the wrong order) entitled "John Ord's Skerne Water Tales - C.P. Nicholson's Extracts" and "'The Skern-Water Tales' of John Ord of Newton Ketton [1786-1870], a selection with notes", n.d. [c.1930] 1st book: "Part 1. The Hamlet of Newtown". C.P. Nicholson's introduction describing the original documents. The author's introduction. Selection of stories and poems concerning Newtown in Brafferton 2nd book: "Part 4. Humourous" - anecdotes, stories and poems 3rd book: "Paper read to Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club" describing the manuscripts' origin and contents, 28 October 1930 4th book: "Part 2. The Ords and some of their neighbours", family histories and stories concerning the Ord family, Colling family, Johnny Weardale, Tommy Proud, Robin Parkin (humourous epitaphs in Aycliffe churchyard), Hankey the miller, Joe Hallam, and others 5th book (upside down): "Part 3. Sporting", stories and poems of boar hunts, fox hunts, cock-fighting, horses, stag hunting, etc. 6th book (upside down): "Paper read to Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club" on Gretadale, including press report of lecture, 22 March 1932 7th book: "Part 5. Tragic and otherwise", further stories and poems

(1 file)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/45

Loose pages enclosed in D/DT 1/12/44 (1st book), includes an index to the original 3 volumes with notes on dialect words and suitability for inclusion in the selective copy, n.d. [c.1930]

(7 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/46

Loose pages enclosed in D/DT 1/12/44 (3rd book), listing themes from the stories, n.d. [c.1930]

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/47

Loose page enclosed in D/DT 1/12/44 (4th book), notes on William Colling and Heighington, n.d. [c.1930]

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/48

Loose pages enclosed in D/DT 1/12/44 (5th book), Discovery of a Roman incised stone at Greta Bridge, n.d. [c.1930]

(3 papers)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/49

Loose page enclosed in D/DT 1/12/44 (6th book) with notes on Rokeby, n.d. [c.1930]

(1 paper)

Cleveland Ancient and Modern (Ref: D/DT 1/12/50-54)Ref: D/DT 1/12/50

"Cleveland - Ancient and Modern" by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, part 15 - Guisborough, n.d. [published 1874]

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/51

"Cleveland - Ancient and Modern" by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, part 16 - Guisborough (cont.), n.d. [published 1874]

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/52

"Cleveland - Ancient and Modern" by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, part 17 - Guisborough (cont.), n.d. [published 1874]

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/53

"Cleveland - Ancient and Modern" by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, part 18 - Marske, Redcar, Upleatham, n.d. [published 1874]

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/12/54

"Cleveland - Ancient and Modern" by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, part 19 - Kirkleatham, n.d [published 1874]

(1 booklet, printed)

Photographs (Ref: D/DT 1/12/55)Ref: D/DT 1/12/55

Photograph of Bedburn Fungus Foray, 30 September 1950 same as D/DT 3/8/41(3a)

(1 photograph, black and white, 14 x 9 cm)

Collected articles (Ref: D/DT 1/12/56)Ref: D/DT 1/12/56

"Papers by C.P. Nicholson", a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, inscribed "these papers were collected and bound by James Broadhead and on his death were given to me by Mrs. Broadhead - G.L. Drury", chiefly articles by C.P. Nicholson from the Darlington and Stockton Times, 1916-1922 [N5]

(1 volume)

E.O.D. Sibson (Ref: D/DT 1/13/1)Ref: D/DT 1/13/1

Folder labelled "Papers from office of E.O.D. Sibson, late geological section leader" June 1933, containing: 1) Envelope labelled "Plates and photography" containing 14 pictures of geological samples - 13 papers, printed, and 1 photograph 2) Envelope labelled "Lists of fossils for Field Club" containing 10 papers and 2 blank labels 3) Envelope labelled "Part of fossil tree..." containing 5 papers identifying the provenance of a fossil 4) Envelope labelled "Australian Birds - The Lyre Bird" containing 9 papers of 1914 listing birds as if identifying stuffed specimens in cases, plus 2 papers comprising a 1916 article on the lyre bird - 6 papers, 1 file, 1 envelope 5) Envelope labelled "The story of geological research amongst the Liassic rocks of Yorkshire" containing 18 papers, a DTNFC lecture of 3/12/1918 by EODS 6) "Fossils", a lecture to DTNFC 26 February 1918 by EODS - 17 papers and envelope 7) "Granite in the Pyrenees", copied from E.A. Pankhurst - 4 papers and envelope 8) "Some artificial forms of silica" (agates, etc.) by Pankhurst and I'Anson, copied from the Mineralogical Magazine of 1882 - 24 papers and envelope 9) DNFC's "List of Land and Freshwater Shells indigenous to Tees Valley" by Geldfard and Manson, 1896 - 8 papers, printed 10) Brachiopod classification - 3 papers 11) Notes on fossils - 3 papers

(packet of papers)

Administration (Ref: D/DT 1/14-18)Constitution (Ref: D/DT 1/14/1-4)Ref: D/DT 1/14/1

Copy of The Literary and Scientific Institutions Act 1854 stamped "Received 22 July 1932 Education officer, Darlington" and inscribed "Presented to DTNFC by H. Whalley Esq. BSc. 1933"

(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: D/DT 1/14/2

Letter from H. Whalley, Education Office, Darlington County Borough, pointing out changes made to the 1854 Act in the 1933 Local Government Act, 28 September 1934

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/14/3

Copy of a letter from T. H. Sergeant (for DTNFC) to Mr. Whalley, Chief Education Officer, Darlington, acknowledging his help and support, 3 [October] 1934

(1 paper)

Ref: D/DT 1/14/4

(1 paper, printed)

Membership (Ref: D/DT 1/15/1-2)