Catalogue

Calendar for 1922, containing church notices, history of the parish, photographs of parish buildings and the vicar, Christmas 1921

Parish magazines, January - December 1971

Minutes of meetings of the Trustees of the Windy Nook Mechanics Institute and Reading Room, 28 February 1859 - 24 March 1893 Account of provisions required for a tea party to serve 200 people at the Institute, 6 June 1859 Report of an annual meeting of the Northern Union of Mechanics Institutes, 7 August 1862 Newspaper cuttings concerning the Windy Nook Institute, 6 August 1865 - 25 December 1888 List of founder Trustees of the Reading Room, 1859

Account of the cost of purchasing the land for a Mechanics Institute at Windy Nook and constructing it, n.d. [1860] Originally enclosed in EP/Hew.SA 14/3/1

Receipted bill for crockery and cutlery purchased by the Windy Nook Mechanics Institute from the Felling Industrial Society Ltd., 16 December 1873 Originally enclosed in EP/Hew.SA 14/3/1

Copy correspondence, dated 8 - 18 September 1817, between John Adamson of Westgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; Mrs. Sarah Hussey Delaval and Mrs. Sarah Hussey Gunman, both of Doddington, Lincolnshire, concerning the birth of John Adamson's son, Edward Hussey Adamson, donated to P.T. Bett by Mr. J.E. Hicks, son-in-law of E.H. Adamson, n.d. [1940s] Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/2 - 14/4/7

Letters from William Adamson at Cullercoats, Northumberland to Richard Welford, discussing Welford 's account of northern worthies in the Weekly Chronicle and offering information he has about the pedigrees of the Henderson family of Newbiggin and his own family, the Adamsons, to aid Welford's research, 30 December 1886 - 2 October 1890 Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1, 14/4/3 - 14/4/7

Letters from Edward Hussey Adamson at St. Alban's, F elling on Tyne, to Richard Welford, regretting the end of the series of biographies, Men of Mark Twixt Tyne and Tweed, which Welford published in the Weekly Chronicle but welcoming his decision to publish those biographies as a volume; soliciting help with some genealogical research for a friend seeking to establish a claim to a baronetcy and offering to share information he has about the pedigrees of William Bewicke and the Edens of Newcastle upon Tyne, 16 February 1893 - 18 April 1894 Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1 - 14/4/2, 14/4/4 - 14/4/7

Letters from Charles Murray Adamson at North Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne to Richard Welford, pressing him to visit his garden, 21 - 24 June 1894 Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1 - 14/4/3, 14/4/5 - 14/4/7

Letters from Charles Henry Ellison Adamson at North Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Richard Welford, thanking him for a copy of an obituary notice relating to his uncle, Rev. E.H. Adamson, n.d. [1898] Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1 - 14/4/4, 14/4/6 - 14/4/7

Letter from L.W. Folansby, Eglingham Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland to Richard Welford complaining of being confined to bed with lumbago and asking Welford to propose him for membership of the Surtees Society, 14 September 1901 Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1 - 14/4/5, 14/4/7

Letters from Rev. Edward Blythman Adamson at St. Aidan's, Grangetown, Sunderland to John Oxberry, discussing Oxberry's commission to write a memorial of Rev. E.H. Adamson, 17 May - 29 November 1922 Originally part of a bundle, labelled, ' Rev. E.H. Adamson of Windy Nook: Adamson pedigree and notes and newspaper cuttings ', together with EP/Hew.SA 14/4/1 - 14/4/6

Extract from Men of Mark Twixt Tyne and Tweed , by Richard Welford, relating to John Adamson, antiquary and Portuguese scholar, father of Rev. E.H. Adamson, first vicar of Windy Nook, St. Alban, April 1887

Obituary of Rev. Cuthbert Edward Adamson, vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, former vicar of South Westoe and afterwards, Rector of Houghton le Spring, St. Michael and All Angels, who was born and raised in Windy Nook, written by John Oxberry; an overprint from Archaeologia Aeliana, 3rd series, vol. 19; printed by Titus Wilson & Son, printers, Highgate, London, 31 May 1922 Two letters from C.E. Adamson, one from Westoe and the other from The Rectory, Houghton le Spring, to John Crawford Hodgson, concerning the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 May 1900 - 20 February 1917

Eulogy for Eleanor E.H. Adamson, daughter of Rev. E.H. Adamson, delivered by Rev. J.W. Swift, vicar of Gateshead, St. George, at the funeral at St. Alban's church, 16 December 1925

Copy of An Account of the proceedings at the Ceremony of Conferring the Freedom of Gateshead on Mr. John Oxberry , 22 December 1937

Pedigrees of the families of Adamson of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne; Huthwaite, Potts of Bedlington, Haggie and Jollie, compiled by John Oxberry as part of his research into the history of Heworth, n.d. [late 1930s]

Newspaper cuttings, handwritten extracts from newspapers, periodicals and histories and collections of local biographies by local antiquarians relating to John Adamson of Gateshead and his fa mily, including Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson, vicar of Windy Nook, St. Alban, compiled by John Oxberry, c.1892 - c. 1920 and collected together by P.T. Bett of South Boldon, 1949

The Newcastle Daily Journal, 3 - 4 April 1891

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 19 March 1894

'St. Alban's Churchyard, Windy Nook: The Home-made Headstone' , by W.J. Barrass, n.d. [1980]

The Story of St. Alban's Church; 1842 - 1992, by Joan M. Hewitt, published by St. Alban's Parochial Church Council, n.d. [1993]

'A Day' s Pleasure of Fifty Years Ago, with its sequel', by Mrs. Matthew Plummer and ' The Jubilee or A Day's Pleasure Fifty Years After' , describing the consecration of St. Alban's church in 1842 and its jubilee, 1892, with a historical summary and introduction, n.d. [ c.1992]

Recording of the commentary for 'This is Your Parish', n.d. [1992]

Script of the commentary for 'This is Your Parish', May 1992

Recording of ' This is Your Parish', including music, 1992