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: Reference Library and Other Material
Covering Dates: 1891-2007
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- Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club
- Reference Library (Ref: D/DT 3/1-13)
- Fresh and Salt Water Biology (Ref: D/DT 3/1/1-6)
- Fresh and Salt Water - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/1/1)
- Fresh and Salt Water - Other reference material (Ref: D/DT 3/1/2-6)
- Mammals - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/2/1-2)
- Entomology - Reference materials (Ref: D/DT 3/3/1-15)
- Geology (Ref: D/DT 3/4/1-5)
- Geology - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/4/1-3)
- Geology - Other reference materials (Ref: D/DT 3/4/4-6)
- Natural History (general) - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/5/1-3)
- Botany (Ref: D/DT 3/6/1-6)
- Botany - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/6/1-2)
- Botany - Other reference material (Ref: D/DT 3/6/3-6)
- Fossils - reference material (Ref: D/DT 3/7/1-3)
- Darlington and Field Club History (Ref: D/DT 3/8/1-53)
- Darlington history (Ref: D/DT 3/8/1-27)
- Darlington history - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/8/3-4,6-13)
- Darlington history - Other reference materials (Ref: D/DT 3/8/15-27)
- Field Club history (Ref: D/DT 3/8/28-49)
- Field Club history - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/8/1-2,5,14)
- Newspaper cuttings (Ref: D/DT 3/8/28-37)
- Photographs and albums (Ref: D/DT 3/8/38-41)
- Anniversaries (Ref: D/DT 3/8/42-47)
- Other memorabilia (Ref: D/DT 3/8/48-53)
- Miscellaneous - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/9/1-7)
- Archaeology and Churches (Ref: D/DT 3/10/1-23)
- Archaeology and Churches - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/10/1-5)
- Archaeology and Churches - Other reference material (Ref: D/DT 3/10/6-30)
- Placename studies (Ref: D/DT 3/10/31-35)
- Publications of other Naturalists Societies (Ref: D/DT 3/11/1-6)
- Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club (Ref: D/DT 3/11/1/1)
- Durham County Conservation Trust (DCCT) and Durham Wildlife Trust (DWT) (Ref: D/DT 3/11/2/1-68)
- Magazines (Ref: D/DT 3/11/2/1-48)
- Nature reserve guides (Ref: D/DT 3/11/2/49-57)
- Other material (Ref: D/DT 3/11/2/58-68)
- Phenological reports (Ref: D/DT 3/11/3/1-6)
- Northern Naturalists Union (Ref: D/DT 3/11/4/1-172)
- The Vasculum (Ref: D/DT 3/11/4/1-170)
- Other Material (Ref: D/DT 3/11/4/171-172)
- RSPB (Ref: D/DT 3/11/5/1-3)
- Other Organisations (Ref: D/DT 3/11/6/1-11)
- Maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/1-15)
- Ordnance Survey Maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/1-12)
- Ordnance Survey maps - 6" to the mile scale (Ref: D/DT 3/12/1-6)
- 6" to the mile maps - County Durham 1st edition (Ref: D/DT 3/12/1/1-10)
- 6" to the mile maps - County Durham 2nd Edition (Ref: D/DT 3/12/2/1-39)
- 6" to the mile maps - County Durham 3rd edition (Ref: D/DT 3/12/3/1)
- 6" to the mile maps - NZ (national grid) series (Ref: D/DT 3/12/4/1)
- 6" to the mile maps - Yorkshire (Ref: D/DT 3/12/5/1-14)
- 6" to the mile maps - Westmorland (Ref: D/DT 3/12/6/1-2)
- 1" to the mile maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/7-8)
- 1" to the mile maps - 1st edition (Ref: D/DT 3/12/7/1-6)
- 1" to the mile maps - later editions (Ref: D/DT 3/12/8/1-5)
- Index Plans (Ref: D/DT 3/12/9/1-2)
- Geological maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/10-11)
- 6" to the mile geological maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/10/1-5)
- 1" to the mile geological maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/11/1-8)
- 25" to the mile maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/12/1)
- Other Maps (not Ordnance Survey) (Ref: D/DT 3/12/13-15)
- Town plans (Ref: D/DT 3/12/13/1-5)
- Other Geological Maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/14/1)
- Misc. other maps (Ref: D/DT 3/12/15/1-4)
- Slide library (Ref: D/DT 3/13/1-19)
- Indexes (Ref: D/DT 3/13/1-2)
- Slides (Ref: D/DT 3/13/3-19)
- A set of glass slides (Ref: D/DT 3/13/3/1-18)
- Slides of excavations at Piercebridge (Ref: D/DT 3/13/4/1-76)
- Slides of excavations at Piercebridge (Ref: D/DT 3/13/5/1-33)
- Slides of excavations at Binchester and Catterick (Ref: D/DT 3/13/6/1-8)
- Slides of graves in Kirkby Fleetham and Sockburn, and views of Walworth (Ref: D/DT 3/13/7/1-8)
- Slides of archaeological excavations (Ref: D/DT 3/13/8/1-11)
- Slides of Hamsterley Forset and Low Barnes nature reserve (Ref: D/DT 3/13/9/1-13)
- Slides of Field Club outings 1955-1958 (Ref: D/DT 3/13/10/1-4)
- Slides of Field Club outings 1960-1973 (Ref: D/DT 3/13/11/1-29)
- Slides of Field Club outings 1974 and 1981 (Ref: D/DT 3/13/12/1-3)
- Slides of excavations at the Deserted Medieval Village of West Hartburn, near Middleton St George (Ref: D/DT 3/13/13/1-12)
- Slides of Egglestone Abbey, south of Barnard Castle (Ref: D/DT 3/13/14/1-21)
- Slides chiefly of old buildings around County Durham (Ref: D/DT 3/13/15/1-22)
- Slides of Upper Teesdale (Ref: D/DT 3/13/16/1-41)
- Slides of Teesdale, around Barnard Castle (Ref: D/DT 3/13/17/1-48)
- Slides of Middle Teesdale (Ref: D/DT 3/13/18/1-41)
- Slides of Teesdale, around Darlington (Ref: D/DT 3/13/19/1-36)
- Other material (Ref: D/DT 4/1-11)
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
Publications and other reference material collected by the club
Fresh and Salt Water Biology (Ref: D/DT 3/1/1-6)Library section A
Fresh and Salt Water - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/1/1)Ref: D/DT 3/1/1Library section B
Ref: D/DT 3/2/1Library section C
Ref: D/DT 3/3/1Library section E
Geology - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/4/1-3)Ref: D/DT 3/4/1Library section G
Ref: D/DT 3/5/1Library section H
Botany - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/6/1-2)Ref: D/DT 3/6/1see also D/DT 1/13/1
Ref: D/DT 3/7/1Library section K
Darlington history (Ref: D/DT 3/8/1-27)Darlington history - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/8/3-4,6-13)Ref: D/DT 3/8/3Various collections of newspaper cuttings, mostly reporting Field Club activities, others written by members, others of general interest to members
Ref: D/DT 3/8/28Photographs collected by or featuring activities of Field Club members
Ref: D/DT 3/8/38Library section L
Ref: D/DT 3/9/1Library section M
Archaeology and Churches - Books (Ref: D/DT 3/10/1-5)Ref: D/DT 3/10/1Library section P
Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club (Ref: D/DT 3/11/1/1)Ref: D/DT 3/11/1/1Issues of The Vasculum - The North Country Quarterly of Science and Local History. This is a quarterly compendium of reports from field clubs throughout the Northeast.
Ref: D/DT 3/11/4/1A set of 18 glass magic lantern slides and 16 boxes of 35mm Kodachrome colour slides (out of 42 boxes listed by the club), chiefly showing buildings, landscape and archaeology; the oldest slides are mounted on glass; numbering was done by the club, on white dots stuck to the slides; most have a description and date written on.
A set of glass slides (Ref: D/DT 3/13/3/1-18)One setof Magic Lantern slides, labelled K1-K18, but with no other description
Ref: D/DT 3/13/3/1Box 12 - Piercebridge 1 - 76 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/4/1Box 13 - Piercebridge 2 - 33 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/5/1Box 14 - Archaeology - Binchester/Catterick - 8 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/6/1Box 15 - Archaeology - Kirby Fleetham, Sockburn, Walworth - 8 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/7/1Box 17 - Archaeology, various - 11 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/8/1Box 18 - Hamsterley and Witton-le-Wear - 13 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/9/1Box 21 - Field Club Outings 1950-1958 - 4 slides
The 8 oldest slides are missing
Box 22 - Field Club Outings 1960-1973 - 29 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/11/1Box 23 - Field Club outings 1974 onwards - 3 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/12/1Box 28 - Archaeology - Hartburn - 12 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/13/1Box 29 - Archaeology - Egglestone Abbey - 21 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/14/1Box 31 - County Durham - 22 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/15/1Box 39 - Teesdale box 1 - 41 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/16/1Box 40 - Teesdale box 2 - 48 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/17/1Box 41 - Teesdale box 3 - 41 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/18/1Box 42 - Teesdale box 4 - 36 slides
Ref: D/DT 3/13/19/1Various items not directly concerned with the activities of the field club
Ref: D/DT 4/1