Photocopies and photographs
Reference: D/Ph 515 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Oliver family of Rookhope
Covering Dates: 1915-1947
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Oliver family of Rookhope (Ref: D/Ph 515)Ref: D/Ph 515/1
Postcard photograph of an 18 DLI company of soldiers gathered outside a wooden hut A10 at Cocken Hall, [postmark stamp date], 17 March 1915
It contains a short message from John Wall, 18 DLI, Cocken Hall, Leamside, Durham to his nephew, N. Oliver, Bank Foot, Rookhope, Eastgate
(1 postcard, 14 cm x 9 cm, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 515/2Postcard studio photograph of a young woman wearing a white apron with the name: 'Food Control' on it, with pockets shaped like mugs, her light coloured dress decorated by various kitchen related shapes and a Lipton's tea tag is clearly visible, n.d. [c. 1920]
Photograph taken by the Lady Photographer, Stockton Road, Sunderland
(1 postcard, 14 cm x 9 cm, black and white)
Ref: D/Ph 515/3Photograph taken from Hanging Wells Farm, Rookhope, possibly looking east across Rookhope Burn towards Captains Cleugh and Brandon Walls, with a small disused quarry below farmhouses, and Stanhope Common rising behind with Long Hill, Reahope, Gibb Hill and Gibb Carrs, 1947
(1 photograph, 21 cm x 16 cm, black and white)