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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 412 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Teesdale and Weardale photographs

Covering Dates: c.1900-1970

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Life in Teesdale and Weardale, including lead mining and sheep farming (Ref: D/Ph 412)

See also Arthur Roberts collection D/AR

Lead mining (Ref: D/Ph 412/1-)

Two miners standing either side of a stone lined mine adit, one leading a pit pony from the adit entrance, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two miners in front of a mine adit and outbuildings, one leading a horse pulling trucks from the mine, the other sitting astride one of the trucks, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


A horse pulling trucks from a mine adit, two miners sitting on the trucks, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Group of miners with a pit pony in the background, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Three miners sitting in a tunnel entrance behind a small flat truck on a tramway, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


A miner entering/leaving a mineshaft while another miner looks on, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Miners working on the construction of an arched tunnel and tramway, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Group of miners outside a stone building, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Group of miners on an external staircase of a stone building, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Three miners with various stone buildings in the background, n.d. [c.1940-1950]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two miners standing next to machinery in underground workings, n.d. [c.1940-1950]
(1 slide, black and white)


Three miners standing next to a large wheel, n.d. [c.1940-1950]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two miners, one with a hammer and one with a cold chisel, making a blasting hole (?), n.d. [c.1940-1950]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two miners, one with a lump hammer and one with a chisel (?), working by candle-light, n.d. [c.1940-1950]
(1 slide, black and white)


A seated miner, n.d. [1970s]
(1 slide, colour)


A miner, smoking a cigarette whilst operating machinery, n.d. [1970s]
(1 slide, colour)


A miner underground, n.d. [1970s]
(1 slide, colour)


A miner operating machinery underground, n.d. [1970s]
(1 slide, colour)

Sheep farming (Ref: D/Ph 412/19-30)

A woman holding on to a ram by the horn, a bicycle leaning against the stone wall of a building behind her, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


Four men showing sheep while another man looks on, n.d. [1920s/1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A farmer posing with two prize rams, a trophy on the table in front of him, n.d. [1920s/1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A farmer with three rams, stone farm buildings in the background, n.d. [1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A group of men at a sheep show, in the foreground two men kneeling with two prize rams (?), another man behind them holding a trophy, n.d. [1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A man at an agricultural show standing with a prize ram (?), bystanders looking on, n.d. [1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A man crouching next to a show ram, n.d. [1940s]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two men and a woman sitting next to two prize rams, two trophies on the ground between them, n.d. [1940s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A stone farmhouse and a range of stone outbuildings, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


Group of five men, possibly farmers, n.d. [1940s]
(1 slide, black and white)


Two men sitting on chairs in front of a kitchen range, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A man sitting in front of a kitchen range, feet outstretched, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/Ph 412/31-43)

Horse-drawn sleigh in the snow, one man is riding one of the lead horses, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


School children in a formal group, with possibly three male teachers and the local policeman, n.d. [c1900]
(1 slide, black and white)


A brass band, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


An astronomer standing on the wooden platform of a large telescope, n.d. [c.1910]
(1 slide, black and white)


A formal portrait of a young woman, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A family group, a man and two women, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A wedding group in a garden, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A group of women and children outside the doorway of a stone building, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A family group of two women and three men in a formal portrait outside a stone building, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A small boy and girl sitting on the grass, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A boy in front of a handcart, a man and woman either side of him in "fancy dress" costume, two shop fronts in the background, n.d. [early 1900s]
(1 slide, black and white)


A man driving a tank, towing a trailer, n.d. [c.1920]
(1 slide, black and white)


A social event/party, possibly in a village hall, n.d. [1930s]
(1 slide, black and white)