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Shotton family of Bearpark

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Covering Dates: 1878-1967

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The Shotton Papers

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(Ref: D/Sho 1-170)

Robert Shotton (1885 - 1967) was born in Bearpark, where he lived all his life. He was a miner and at the age of 22 was awarded a scholarship by the Durham Miners' Association which enabled him to spend a session, 1907 - 1908, at Ruskin College, Oxford. From 1911 - 1958 he was a Miners' Lodge Delegate at Durham Miners' Council meetings and was on the Durham Miners' Executive Committee in 1953. He was a member of Bearpark Parish Council from 1913 and on the County Council from 1931, being made an Alderman in 1945. He served 6 years on Durham Rural District Council, was a member of the Board of Governors of the Cleveland and South Durham Institute for the Blind, and served on the Durham hospitals Management Committee before it became part of the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board. He was appointed a member of the Executive Council for the County of Durham (National Health Service) in August 1949. From 1928 - 1961 he was President of the Bearpark Colliery Industrial Co-operative Society. In his political life he was honorary Secretary of the Durham Parliamentary Divisional Labour Party in 1918 and spent nearly 40 years in this office. He acted as Labour Election Agent for Durham Parliamentary Division at 11 General Elections during the years 1918 - 1959. He received the M.B.E. on 11th November, 1965


National Union of Mineworkers, Durham Area. General Secretary's Annual Reports 1946 - 1951, 1953 - 1956, 1959 - 1960, 1962 - 1965
(15 volumes)


Durham Miners' Association. Agendas for Council Meetings and related papers, 1914 - 1958 (include notes by Alderman Shotton and rules of the Association, 1911)
(15 bundles)


Durham Miners' Association. Monthly Circulars to members, 1908 - 1919
(1 bundle)


Durham Miners' Association. Wages and percentages, 1914 - 1937
(1 bundle)


Durham Miners' Association. Local Officials Manual, 1940
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association Rules, 1933, 1937, (2 copies), 1938
(4 volumes)


Durham Miners' Association Rules for Political Fund, 1923
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association. County Agreements 1926 - 1941
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association. County Agreements, 1930
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association Report on Inquiry into the explosion at Murton Colliery, 21 December, 1937
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association. Workmens' Compensation Acts, 1906, 1923, 1925. Instructions to lodge officials. Issued by the Compensation Department, 1928
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association. Printed letters concerning correspondence with the Coal Owners about subsistence wage, 1928
(1 volume)


Durham Miners1 Association. Souvenir history issued to commemorate the jubilee of the Association, 1919
(1 volume)


Miscellaneous papers relating to tutorial classes, summer schools etc. held under the auspices of the Durham Miners Association, the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area) and the National Council of Labour Colleges, 1925 - 1951
(1 file)


Rules of the Miners Federation of Great Britain, n.d.
(1 volume)


National Union of Mineworkers, Durham Area 1948 Amendments to rules, 1 November, 1946 (2 copies)
(2 volumes)


National Union of Mineworkers (Durham 1954 Area) Balance Sheets, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965
(6 volumes)


Durham County Mining Federation Board, Durham District (Coal Mines Scheme) 1930. Central Appeal Tribunal. Case presented by Mr. John E. Swan, with Mr. W. S. Hall as witness, in the matter of an arbitration between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead Gas Company and the Executive Board of the Durham District (Coal Mines Scheme) 1930 by way of appeal from the Durham District Committee of Investigation, 1930
(1 volume)


District Board for the Coal-Mining Industry of Durham. Revision of minimum percentages and subsistence allowance. Proceedings before Sir William Plender, bart., G.B.E., Independent Chairman of the Board, 3 and 4 February 1928
(1 volume)


Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912. Joint District Board for the District of Durham. Proposed Amendment of the Joint District Board rules and minimum rates. Proceedings before the Rt. Hon Sir Robert Romer, G.C.B., 2 and 3 October, 1913
(1 volume)


First annual report of the National Miners' Welfare Joint Council, incorporating the annual report of the Miners' Welfare Commission, 1948
(1 volume)


Coal Mines Act, 1911. The parts or the abstract and general regulations required to be supplied to underground workmen in 'safety lamp' mines, with extracts from The Coal Mines (Explosives) Order, 1951. London, H.M.S.O., 1952
(1 volume)


Summary of proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry set up to investigate the unconstitutional stoppage of work at Whitburn, Harton and Westoe collieries, February and March 1954, with miscellaneous pamphlets issued by the Durham Coal Owners' Association and the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area) 1944 - 1956
(1 file)


Durham County Mining Federation Board. Revision of subsistence wage. Evidence submitted to the Independent Chairman of the District Board, 1928
(1 paper)


Durham County Colliery Enginemens', Boiler Minders' and Firemens' Association. Royal Commission on Safety in Coal-Mines. Minutes of evidence submitted by the Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain to the Commission, supported by the evidence of Mr0 George Peart, 1937 (1 volume) File containing: /67 Guide to Pit Production Committees. Ministry of Fuel and Power. Northern 'B' region, n.d. /68 Northern Bulletin (issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power and P.P.C. News (Pit Production Committees) August 1944 - March 1947 /69,70 Minutes of meetings of Bearpark Miners' Lodge, with related papers, 1942 - 1960
(1 file)


National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area) Changes in the Durham Coal Trade. 1871 - 1953, and Historical Record, 1869 - 1953, 1954
(1 volume)


National Union of Mineworkers. Handbook on the wage structure of the coalmining industry, 1955 - 1956
(1 volume)


Miscellaneous printed matter concerning the coal-mining industry. Includes also cavilling for Harvey Seam, Bearpark Colliery, n.d. (3 copies); Bearpark Colliery Cavilling rules, 1905 (2 copies); Cavilling rules, Brockwell Seam, Bearpark Colliery, n.d.; Durham Miners' Association, Bearpark Lodge. Victoria Seam cavilling rules, n.d.; National Union of Mine-workers (Durham Area). Income Tax allowances to miners, 1951; rules of the Bearpark Colliery Workmens Federation Dependants Fund, 1927
(1 file)


Board of Conciliation for the Durham Coal Trade. Reports of proceedings 23 September and 194 October 1895, 21 May 1909, 19 December 1910, and 8 November 1912 respectively
(194 volumes)


Conishead Priory Convalescent home for Durham Mineworkers, Ulverston, Lancs. Prospectus, 1930, and 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th annual reports and statements of accounts, 1932 - 1937
(1 bundle)


Coal Mines Act, 1911. General regulations, 1913
(1 volume)


Proceedings of the Miners' National Conference held in Ardwick Town Hall, Manchester, 16-21 December, 1878, 1879
(1 volume)


Coal Mines Act 1911. The Explosives in Coal Mines Order and parts of the abstract and general regulations required to be supplied to shot-firers, 1913
(1 volume)


Durham Coal Owners' Association Joint District Board for the District of Durham 1 Coal Mines (Minimum Wages) Act, 1912 2 Rules of the Joint District Board 3 Minimum rates of wages and district rules as fixed by the Chairman on 15 May 1912 and amended, 20 October 1913
(1 volume)


As D/Sho 82, but section 3 relates to minimum rates of wages and district rules as amended to 5 August 1938


Typewritten copies of 1 Conveyance, with plan, of 9 acres, 7 roods, 7perches of land in Bearpark, for use as a miners' recreation ground, 7 May, 1925 2 Lease for 99 yrs. at £2.10.0d. annual rent by The Warden, Masters & Scholars of Durham University to trustees of 400 square yards of ground near Auton Stile adjoining Elvet Schools in the township of Elvet as the site for a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 25 October 1911 3 Memorandum of the choice and appointment of trustees of the chapel and its property, 1911 4 Conveyance of residue of the above-mentioned 99 year lease of the land with the chapel built on it to Bearpark Workmens' Federation Board, 31 December 1923, with related papers
(1 file)


Durham County Mining Federation Board. Circular letters to members, 1926
(1 file)


Durham County Mining Federation Board. Copies of minutes of meetings of the Durham Coal Owners1 Association and the Board concerning the Miners Welfare Fund, 1925
(1 volume)


Programmes for Miners' Gala Day 1946 - 1966. Includes also an Historical Records of the Durham Miners' Association, 1869 - 1944
(1 file)


Order of service in Durham Cathedral on Miners' Gala Day, 1930
(1 paper)


National Union of Mineworkers. Handbook on the wages structure of the coalmining industry, 1955 - 1957, 1957
(1 volume)


Changes in wages in the Durham coal trade, 1871 - 1924, 1924
(1 volume)


National Coal Board, Durham Division. Industrial Relations Department Achievement (Gives changes in wages and conditions since 1 January 1947),. n.d.
(1 volume)


Looseleaf notebook containing copies of agreements concerning Bearpark Colliery (Manuscript and typewritten), c. 1910 - 1950
(1 volume)


Durham Miners' Association. Minutes of meeting on 9 February, 1918 to form a Labour Party in the new division of Durham, with minutes of divisional conferences and committees of the Party, 1918 - 1947
(2 volumes)


Durham Divisional Labour Party Annual reports and balance sheets, 1925 - 1963 with notices of executive meetings, 1918 - 1937
(2 files)


N.W. Durham Divisional Labour Party. Minutes of Annual General Council Meetings, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956
(1 bundle)


Barnard Castle Divisional Labour Party Annual report and balance sheet, 1931
(1 volume)


Blaydon Constituency Labour Party. First annual report and balance sheet, 1919, minutes of annual meeting of the General Council, 1946, and annual reports and balance sheets, 1920, 1936
(4 volumes)


Darlington Labour Party Annual report and balance sheet, 1922
(1 booklet)


Houghton-le-Spring Divisional Labour Party Annual reports and balance sheets, 1918 - 1944
(1 bundle)


Newcastle upon Tyne Labour Party Annual reports and balance sheets, 1918 - 1920
(2 volumes)


Sedgefield Divisional Labour Party Accounts and balance sheets, 1920, 1930, 1951, 1952, 1955; minutes of annual meetings 1930, 1933 and Council meetings, 1934; constitution and policy, n.d.
(1 bundle)


Spennymoor Divisional Labour Party Agendas for Annual Meetings 1923 - 1924, 1935, 1937, 1944 - 1946, 1948
(1 bundle)


Wansbeck Divisional Labour Party Statement of accounts, 1948, and a report on outstanding events and personalities, 1918 - 1948
(1 volume)


Sunderland Trades Council and Labour Party Annual report, 1920
(1 volume)


Leigh (Lancs.) Labour Party Annual Report and balance sheet, 1915
(1 volume)


Northern Regional Council of the Labour Party Minutes, reports and related papers, 1940 - 1951 Include report of the executive committee of the Lancashire and Cheshire Regional Council of the Labour Party to the annual meeting, 1939
(2 files)


National Union of Labour Organisers and Election Agents Circular letters, conference papers, etc0 relating to the Association in general and its N.E. branch, 1926 - 1960
(1 file)


Durham County Labour Womens' Advisory Council. Agendas for Annual Conferences, 192195, 1926, 1931, 1944, 1946, 1949 - 1953; Spring Conferences 1926, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1937, 1938; Annual Gala, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1946; Annual report, 1925; list of officers 1925 - 1926; constitution and rules, 1924, 1925
(1 bundle)


Durham Labour Women Programmes for Annual Gala, 1925, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957
(1 bundle)


Report of the 19th National Conference of Labour Women at the Town Hall, Leamington Spa, 10 - 12 May, 1938
(1 volume)


The Labour Party Womens' Sections. Their constitution and activities, 1950
(1 volume)


The National Executive Committee v the Widnes Divisional Labour Party. The Facts, 1939
(1 volume)


File of pamphlets containing:- 1 Seven articles on the work of the Durham County Council with figures showing Council expenditure, 1902 - 1920, by Peter Lee, Chairman of the Council, 1920 2 Review of the work of Durham County Council, March - August, 1922, by Peter Lee 3 Pamphlet by Peter Lee containing a review of work done on Durham County Council during the two years of Labour rule, 1919 - 1920 4 Where Labour Rules. Monmouthshire County Council A record of Labour Administration 1925 - 1928, 1928 5 Durham County Federation of Divisional Labour Parties. Organise! A ready reference for candidates, agents, secretaries, and Labour workers, 1928 6 Who are Our Friends? Reasons why all workers should vote Labour, by Peter Lee, 1924 7 The Citizen's Charter, Why the vested interests oppose the Labour Party's Local Authorities Enabling Bill, by Herbert Morrison, 1921 (Gives text of bill) 8 Twelve Years of Labour Rule on the Bermondsey Borough Council, 1922 - 1934, 1934
(1 file)


File of pamphlets containing:- 1 Complete amendment of the rules of Durham County District No. 3193 of the Independent Order of Rechabites, 1919 2 Labour and Temperance Reform. A brief historical survey of Labour's attitude to the drink problem, by Guy Hayler, 1927 3 The Woman's View. A Quarterly Issue. October 1929. Labour in Licensed Houses. An investigation. Published by The Womens True Temperance Committee, London W.C.2 4 Constructive Licensing Reform. Successful experiment at Carlisle, 1923 5 Let the People Decide - What? The Labour programme and the liquor problem by R. B. Suthers. Reprinted from the Railway Review, n.d. 6 Labour and the Liquor Trade. Report on a visit of Trade Unionists nd members of the Labour Party to Carlisle to investigate the results of he experiment in the public ownership of the liquor trade, n.d. 7 The Liquor Trade in Politics by Investigator, n.d. 8 he Coming of Prohibition by Guy Hayler, 1918 9 Copies of The Labour Abstainer for June, August and October, 195194 10 The Story of the Convalescent Homes, by B. T. Hall, 1911 11 The Story and Aims of the Union, by B. T. Hall, 1911 12 The Educational Policy of the Club and Institute Union Ltd., 1925, with a state- ment of educational policy, June 1921
(1 file)


File of pamphlets containing: - 1 Brownlow North by William Henry Harding, n.d. [N.B. Brownlow North was an evangelist] 2 The Man with the Red Flag. Speech delivered at the Old Bailey by John Burns, Social Democratic candidate for Nottingham, 1885, at the trial of four Social Democrats for seditious conspiracy, 5 - 10 April, 1886 3 Katharine Bruce Glasier, 1867 - 1950 (Socialist pioneer) Appeal for funds for the renovation of her cottage in Earby, Yorkshire, n.d. 4 Gateshead District. Aged Mineworkers' Homes. The birth of the movement. A tribute to the memory of Joseph Hopper by John Oxberry, 1924 (issued on the opening of the Joseph Hopper Memorial Homes at Windy Nook, 1929 November, 1924) 5 Francis Place. The tailor of Charing Cross, Fabian Biographical Series No. 1, 1912 6 Emmie Lawther - A Tribute, 1965
(1 file)


Ledger giving expenses incurred in Durham Division at General Elections of 1929, 1931, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, and Durham County Council Elections, 1934, 1937
(1 volume)


Papers (mainly printed circulars etc.) relating to the 1950 and 1951 General Elections. Include a list of Labour candidates throughout the country in the 1951 election, which gives details of their education etc., 1950 - 1951
(1 file)


Correspondence and related papers concerning the 1951 General Election. Include correspon- dence and related papers concerning the position of Roman Catholic Schools as a result of the 1944 Education Act, 1949 - 1951
(1 file)


File containing:- 1 Agents' Reminders. Revised and enlarged 1955. Published by The Labour Party National Agents Department 2 Orders of the day and lists of political meetings in Durham Division in General Elections of 1951, 1955, 1959 (1 bundle


Miscellaneous papers and printed matter relating to the Labour Party, its electoral organisation and local Labour Parties in co. Durham, 1918 - 1959
(5 files)


Printed circulars concerning General Elections, 1935 - 1951. Include campaign notes, 1951
(1 file)


Printed circulars concerning General Elections 1945, 1950
(1 file)


Printed matter concerning General Elections, 1923 - 1945
(2 files)


Printed circulars (including campaign notes) for the 1955 General Election
(1 file)


Papers relating to political meetings and transport arrangements for the 1955 General Election
(1 file)


Labour Party circulars and posters etc. for 128 the 1954 General Election
(3 files)


Miscellaneous papers (mainly printed material) concerning local elections in co. Durham, 1922 - 1953
(1 file)


Papers relating to County Council and R.D.C. elections in co. Durham, 1919, 1925, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1946, 1949, 1952
(1 file)


Durham County Federation of Divisional Labour Parties 1 County Council Election, 1955, A booklet for candidates, agents, and speakers 2 Local Government Elections, 1952. We can retain power. A booklet for candidates, agents, and speakers 3 Fight to Hold Power. Local Elections, 1949 4 Now for Local Elections, 1937. Speakers lists, leaflets, notes, etc. (1 bundle) 5 Correspondence, circulars, etc., 1920 - 1954
(3 files)


Posters, circulars, etc. concerning Durham County Council Elections, 1937 and 1945 - 1946 Include notice of appointment of Robert Shotton as candidate for Witton Gilbert in the 1937 election
(1 file)


Appointment by Charles Grey, candidate in the 1955 General Election, of Alderman Shotton as his agent, 1955
(1 paper)


Official map of the city of Durham showing wards (6" - 1 mile O.S. sheet) and photocopy of a sheet showing Durham City and surrounding area (Durham Constituency boundaries shown), 1938
(192 plans)


Envelope containing : - 1 East Durham Co-operative Dairies. Reports and balance sheets, 1960 - 1961 2 East Durham Co-operative Bakery C.W.S. Bakery Division, Northern Area. Reports for Area Consultative Committee and committee minutes, 1958 - 1961 3 South East Durham (i.e. Murton) Co-operative Bakery. Accounts and balance sheets, 1932 - 1960 with committee minutes, 1957 - 1958 4 Papers concerning the Durham County Federal Co-operative Employees Superannuation Fund (includes an analysis of the annual cost to participating Societies), 1958
(1 file)


Bearpark Colliery Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. Balance sheets, 1923 - 1961 (1 bundle) 1 Birkenhead and District Co-operative Society Ltd. Report and balance sheet, 1957 2 Durham County Federal Co-operative Employees Superannuation Fund. Report and balance sheet, 1959 3 Blaydon & District Industrial & Provident Society. Reports and balance sheets, 1960, 1961 4 Murton Co-operative Society Ltd. Reports and balance sheets, 1958 - 1960 1963 5 Easington Lane and South Hetton Co-operative Society Ltd. Report and balance sheet, 1959 6 Pittington Amicable Industrial Society Ltd. Reports and balance sheets, 1958 - 1959 7 Tow Law & District Industrial & Provident Society. Report and balance sheet, 1958 8 Crook & District Co-operative Society Ltd. Report and balance sheet, 1961, 1964


Miscellaneous Files concerning the Co-operative movement Include : - 1 Co-operative Union Ltd. Northern section. annual repor ts , 1930 - 1939 2 East Durham Co-operative Dairies Ltd., Wingate Reports and balance sheets, 1955 - 1960 3 Co-operative Bakers Ltd., Annfield Plain, Report and balance sheet, 1938 4 North West Durham Boot Repairing Co-operative Society Ltd. Annual reports 1950 - 1961 5 Northern Co-operative Services Ltd. Report and balance sheet, 1960 6 Co-operative Federalism. Copy of address given by George A. McEwen, Esq., Director, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. at Coxhoe, 1920 June, 1931 7 Notices of meetings and related papers concerning Bearpark Colliery Co-operative Society, 1932 - 1964 8 Rules of the Crook and Neighbourhood Co-operative Corn Mill, Flour and Provision Society, 1933 9 Rules of the South East Durham Co-operative Bakeries Ltd., 1955 10 Durham County Federal Co-operative Employees Superannuation Fund, trust deed and rules for establishment and regulations of the superannuation scheme, 1955 11 Rules of Murton Colliery Co-operative Society Ltd., 1936, with report and balance sheet, 1963 12 Co-operative Union Party Reports, 1929 - 1940, 13 Rules of the Bearpark Colliery Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd., 1939, 1962
(19 files)


Durham Rural District Council. Plan of proposed housing at Bearpark, 1951


Durham Rural District Council. Plan of proposed layout of 146 houses at Bearpark, 1952


Durham Rural District Council. Plan of proposed layout of 1964 houses at Bearpark, 1954


Papers relating to Durham Rural District Council. Include:- 1 Festival of Britain handbook, 1951 2 Plan of location of proposed bus shelters built in connection with the Festival, 1951 3 Reports of delegates at various national conferences, 1949 - 1955 4 Minutes of a special R.D.C. meeting to consider planning, 1949 5 Confidential report to the Council on the North East Development Area outline plan, 1949 6 Report of the surveyor on the County Development Plan, 1951 7 Schedule of housing proposals for settle- ment in the Durham Coal field affecting Durham R.D.C. n.d., with other papers concerning housing, 1952 - 1955 8 Pamphlet explaining the work of Birtley Crematorium, n.d. 9 Durham City and District Citizens' Advice Bureau. Secretary's report to the Advisory Committee, 1950 10 Durham R.D.C. Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1953 11 Durham County and Teesside Old Peoples' Welfare Committee, Annual report, 1948 - 1949 12 Durham R.D.C. Byelaws made under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938 with respect to the handling, wrapping and delivery of food and the sale of food in the open air, 1950 13 Durham R.D.C. Abstracts of accounts and treasurer's reports on the finances of the Council, 1951 - 1954
(1 file)


Durham Rural District Council. Building Bye-laws made under the Public Health Act, 193196, n.d.
(1 volume)


Durham Rural District Council. Tenants' hand book, n.d.
(1 volume)


File containing:- 1 Durham Rural District. Handbook describing the area. No. 113 in Rural England series n.d. 2 Durham City and Citizens' Advice Bureau. Secretary's report to the Advisory Committee, 1949 3 Ploughley R.D.C. (co. Oxon.) Tenants' handbook n.d. 4 Housing Act, 1949. Improvement grants. Notes for applicants, n.d. Ministry of Health Circular to housing authorities relating to the Housing Act, 1949, 1949 5 Selection of Tenants. (3rd report of the Housing Management Sub- Committee of the Central Housing Advisory Council, 1949 6 Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Houses 1952 being the 2nd supplement to the Housing Manual, 1949
(1 file)


County of Durham Youth and Social Service handbooks, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1961
(194 volumes)


Durham County Boy Scouts Association. Annual reports, 1958 - 1960
(2 volumes)


Durham County Council Education Committee. Report on the Director of Education's Commission on the implications of the Newsom Report in County Durham, July 1966
(1 volume)


Committee minutes and related papers of Durham County Council Planning Committee. Include papers relating to the Town and Country Planning Association National Conference, 1954, and minutes etc. of the East Durham Area Planning Committee, 190, 1952, 1954
(6 files)


Minutes of Joint Consultative Committee on Industry, Employment and Population in the North East, 1963 - 1981, made by the Technical Sub-Committee of Planning Officers, September, 1964
(1 volume)


Durham County Council. Reports of the Chairman of the Works Committee on Highway Administration in the County, 1934 - 1936, 1938 - 1941, 1941 - 1943
(3 volumes)


Durham County Council. Report of the Chairman of the Public Assistance Committee on Public Assistance Administration in the county, 1930- 45, 1946
(1 volume)


Durham County Council. Education Committee Houghall Record (Agricultural Station), 1931 - 1939
(9 volumes)


Durham County Water Board. Statement covering the period from the constitution of the Board in August 1920 to the completion of the con- struction of the tunnel at Muggleswick in 1926, by Peter Lee, Chairman, 1926
(1 volume)


Review of Durham County Water Board since its formation in 1922, by Peter Lee
(1 volume)


Durham County Water Board. What the Water Board means to the County of Durham. A survey of the past, present and future of the Board's operations, by the Clerk to the Board, 1939
(1 volume)


Socialist Workers National Health Council Report of proceedi ngs at which the Council was formed, 1931 , with related papers. (Mainly printed matter but include a copy of The Local Government Centenary number of the Times, 10 December, 193195, which contains a synopsis of the Centenary Memorial Volume entitled A Century of Municipal Progress, 1835 - 1935
(1 file)


Northern Provincial Council for Local Authorities Services (Manual Workers), Booklets of rates etc. 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959 , 1960
(5 volumes)


Papers relating to the County Executive Council. of tine National Health Service (include minutes of General Purposes Committee, 1962 - 1963, 1966 - 1967 and annual reports 1951-1961 and 1963
(4 files)


Ministry of Health, Survey of hospital services in the North Eastern area, 1946
(1 volume)


Durham Hospital Management Committee. Standing Orders and rules n.d. and 1st and 2nd reports, 1948 - 1952
(1 bundle)


Alderman Shotton' s manuscript notes (principally lecture notes and essays) on various political and Socialist subjects, n.d. [1 volume dated 1907]
(5 volumes)


Pioneers' Diploma (Durham Miners' Association) presented to Robert Shot ton to commemorate 50 years membership of the Association, n.d.
(1 paper)


Labour Party Diploma by examination in Electoral and Party Organisation, awarded to Robert Shotton, 1938
(1 paper)


Labour Party Certificate of Proficiency by examination in electoral law nnd organisation, awarded to Robert Shotton, 1939
(1 paper)


Invitations to Alderman Shotton to thne opening of the Tees (Newport) Bridge at Middiesbrough, 28 February, 1934


Programmes and invitations of Alderman Shotton to the opening of various Durham County Council buildings (principally schools), 1965 - 1966
(1 bundle)


Miscellaneous papers relating to blind persons, Including: - 1 Cleveland and South Durham Institute for thne Blind, Newport, Middlesbrough Annual reports 1941 - 1945, 1947 - 1952 2 National Institute for the Blind Bulletin No. 15 Blind Welfare after the War, n.d. 3 Information concerning the Blind Persons Bill, 1938 4 Durham County Council Blind Persons Act, 1920, S.2 Regulations for the provision of domiciliary assistance to unemployable and other necessitous blind persons, n.d. 5 Sunderland and Durham County Incorporated Royal Institute for the Blind. Reports and accounts, 1939 - 1943
(1 bundle)


Institute of Municipal Engineers A.G.M. and Conference at Margate, 20 - 22 June, 1951. Advance proofs of papers to be printed, and related papers, 1951
(1 bundle)


Tyneside Branch of the International Arbitration and Peace Association. Peace Pamphlets 1 England and Germany. Speech by the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, 28 July, 1908 2 Our Boys Brigades. Not a suitable agency for the Christian Church, by Jo Forbes Moncrieff, 2nd Edition, n.d. 3 The Case against Conscription, n.d. 4 The Ethics of War. Lecture by the Rev. A. J. Waldron, 16 May, 1901, 5 Juvenile Conscription, by W. Evans Darby, n.d. 6 The Golden Rule in International Affairs. Paper read by Benjamin E. Trueblook, n.d. 7 The testimony of the Early Christians against War, n.d. 8 Twelve reasons why war is hateful and arbitration preferable, 5th Edition, 1905 9 Conscription in disguise, by F. Maddison, M.P., 1908 10 Armaments and Unemployment by J. M. Robertson M.P., November 1908 11 Facts about the Navy - A reply to the scare-mongers. Social dangers of conscription. How France has suffered, by Miss M. Betham Edwards, 1909 12 Europe in Arms. A Study in International Folly, 190198 13 War and Trade by E. R. Newbigin, with preface by the Rt. Hon. Robert Spence Watson, 1908 14 The Moral Cant about Conscription by James Anson Farrer, 1907
(1 bundle)


Some considerations on housing in Durham by the Rev. A. H. Cruickshank, December 1917
(1 volume)


Durham County Mining Federation Board0 Revision of minimum percentage. Evidence submitted to the Independent Chairman of the District Board, 1928
(1 paper)


Cavilling rules for Harvey Seam, Bearpark Colliery, 1908
(1 volume)


Coal Industry Commission Act 1919. Interim 59 and Second Stage Reports presented to Parliament, 1919
(2 volumes)