Photocopies and photographs
Reference: D/Ph 508 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Mining and shipbuilding slides
Covering Dates: 1832-early 20th century
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Catalogue Description
These records were transferred from Cumbria Archives Service.The location of most slides is not identified, but two items (D/Ph 508/1 and D/Ph 508/2) are linked to Thornley and Pelton respectively, so the other slides may well link to one of these locations.
The collection was compiled by Robert Johnson, a chartered mechanical engineer for the Northern Regional Health Authority in Newcastle, who was also a member of an unspecified local history society and gave illustrated talks. He died in 2007.
Catalogue Contents
D/Ph 508 Photocopies and photographs - Mining and shipbuilding slides (Ref: D/Ph 508)Mining (Ref: D/Ph 508/1/1-9)Ref: D/Ph 508/1/1
Slide of printed notice requiring whitewashing of houses and cleaning of houses to prevent the spread of cholera at Thornley Colliery, 19 September 1832
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/2Slide of engraving of Pelton Colliery, taken from T.H. Hair's 'Sketches of the coal mines in Northumberland and Durham', 1839
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/3Slide of men and pit pony emerging from mine shaft at unidentified colliery [possibly Thornley or Pelton Colliery], n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/4Slide of road in unidentified village [possibly Thornley or Pelton Colliery], including building with advert for Castrol on the side, n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/5Slide of men standing next to steam haulage equipment at unidentified colliery [possibly Pelton or Thornley], n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/6Slide of sailors on dockside, n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/7Slide of a woman standing next to a row of colliery houses at unidentified colliery [possibly Pelton or Thornley], n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/8Slide of men working in a saddlery workshop at unknown location [probably Pelton or Thornley], n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/1/9Slide of steam engine at unidentified colliery [possibly Pelton or Thornley], n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Shipping (Ref: D/Ph 508/2/1-3)Ref: D/Ph 508/2/1Slide of tall ships in harbour at unidentified port, n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/2/2Slide of dockside scene, including buildings and loading cranes, n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 508/2/3Slide of coal wharf with tall ships and horses and carts, n.d. [early twentieth century]
(1 slide, black and white)
