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Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish

Reference: EP/Ho Catalogue Title: Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 13 Church Societies

Covering Dates: 1881-2000

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  • Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael Parish
    • Church Societies (Ref: EP/Ho (13))
    • 1st Houghton le Spring Scout Group (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Bell ringers (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Church Lads Brigade (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Church choir (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Girls Friendly Society (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Men's Fellowship (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Mothers' Union (Ref: EP/Ho )
    • Sunday School (Ref: EP/Ho )

Catalogue Contents

Church Societies (Ref: EP/Ho (13))Church Lads Brigade (Ref: EP/Ho )

1223/1

Ref: EP/Ho 1223/1

Photograph of the Houghton Church Lads Brigade, posing in the garden in front of Houghton rectory, with the rector, Ralph Watson, curate, Peter Sanderson and another clergyman, seated in the midst of them, n.d. [late 1930s]
(1 photograph, 14 cm x 8.5 cm, black and white)

1st Houghton le Spring Scout Group (Ref: EP/Ho )

1224-1225

Ref: EP/Ho 1224/1

Photograph of the 1st Houghton le Spring Scout Group at camp, including scout master, Raymond Dobson (centre back, dark shirt) and, on Dobson's left, assistant scout master, Viv Morris, n.d. [c1950]
(1 photograph, 9 cm x 6.5 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1225/1

Photograph labelled "visit to see 1st Houghton Scout Group", depicting two men in highland dress, a woman and a child posing in front of a single-decker coach, n.d. [1950s]
(1 photograph, 8.5 cm x 11.5 cm, black and white)

Mothers' Union (Ref: EP/Ho )

477-480, 1226-1232

Ref: EP/Ho 477

Minutes of St. Michael's Mothers' Union, 17 July 1944 - 21 November 1973
((1 volume, cloth bound))

Ref: EP/Ho 478

Register of members of, and speakers to, the Mothers' Union, 1945 - 1954
((1 volume, cloth bound))

Ref: EP/Ho 479

Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 1, 1956 - 1966
((1 volume, cloth bound))

Ref: EP/Ho 480

Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 2, 1956 - 1966
((1 volume, cloth bound))

Ref: EP/Ho 1226/1

Photograph of members of the Mothers Union, dressed to perform in a play or pageant, n.d. [1950s]
(1 photograph, 14 cm x 9 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1227/1

Photograph of the female chorus (possibly members of the Mothers Union) in an unidentified production, on stage, singing, n.d. [1950s]
(1 photograph, 13 cm x 8 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1228/1-2

Cuttings from the [Northern Echo] reporting a party to celebrate the 80th anniversary of St Michael and All Angels Mothers Union, n.d. [late 1960s]
(2 papers, printed)

Ref: EP/Ho 1229/1

Photograph, reproduced from the Northern Echo, depicting members of the St Michael and All Angels Mothers Union, gathered outside the Kepier Hall, Houghton le Spring, to celebrate the organisation's 80th anniversary. Includes Mrs E. V. Willis (centre front) the Union's oldest member, flanked by Mrs Mary Dobson (left) and Mrs M. Wheatley (right) and Mrs R. Liddell (2nd from right, front row), n.d. [c1970]
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm x 16.5 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1230/1

Photograph of the banner of the Mothers Union of St Michael and All Angels, Houghton le Spring, n.d. [mid 20th century]
(1 photograph, 12 cm x 16.5 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1231/1

Photograph of an embroidered panel, entitled 'Early Shift', representing Houghton Deanery, made by members of St Michael's Mothers Union, intended to join with others to construct a banner, commemorating Mothers Unions in the region, n.d. [c1990]
(1 photograph, 10 cm x 15 cm, colour)

Ref: EP/Ho 1232/1

Photograph of five members of St Michael's Mothers Union, sitting on a bus stop bench in The Broadway, Houghton le Spring, n.d. [c2000]
(1 photograph, 17 cm x 12.5 cm, colour)

Men's Fellowship (Ref: EP/Ho )

1240/1

Ref: EP/Ho 1240/1

Photograph, reproduced from the Northern Echo, depicting members of St Michael and All Angels Men's Fellowship, including Mr Clinton, clerk to Houghton Urban District Council (far left, front row) Rev. Noel Gwilliam (2nd left, front row) and Robert Dadswell (3rd left, front row); A. Gordon, local solicitor (far right, front row); William T. Dobson (5th left, back row) and John Raine (far left, 4th row from front) n.d. [c1960]
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm x 16.5 cm, black and white)

Church choir (Ref: EP/Ho )

1241-1243

Ref: EP/Ho 1241/1

Photograph of choir boy, George Peebles (later church organist) singing a solo, n.d. [1960s]
(1 photograph, 20 cm x 25 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1242/1

Photograph of the church choir, gathered on top of the tower of St Michael and All Angels church, to sing, on Houghton Feast Sunday, n.d. [1960s]
(1 photograph, 14 cm x 9 cm, black and white)

Ref: EP/Ho 1243/1

Photograph of the church choir, gathered in the churchyard in front of the west window, overlooking The Broadway, Houghton le Spring, to lead the community hymn singing on Houghton Feast Sunday, [October 1977]
(1 photograph, 24 cm x 19 cm, black and white)

Girls Friendly Society (Ref: EP/Ho )

416, 997

Ref: EP/Ho 416

Minutes of G.F S., December 1881 - November 1898
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Ho 997

Girls' Friendly Society account book, 1 February 1953 - 27 February 1967
(1 volume, card bound)

Bell ringers (Ref: EP/Ho )

679

Ref: EP/Ho 679

Photograph of the Houghton-le-Spring branch of the Durham and Northumberland Diocesan Association of Change Ringers outside St. Michael and All Angels' church, Houghton le Spring: 8 men displaying board to commemorate the first peal on the bells by James Spearman, Thomas Masters, Stephen Robinson, Arthur Spearman, John Masters and Robert Parkinson, accompanied by ?churchwardens, Frederick Hall and Edmund Metcalfe, 12 May 1920
((1 photograph, black and white, 15 cm. x 11 cm., card mounted))

Sunday School (Ref: EP/Ho )

433

Ref: EP/Ho 433

Circular regarding change in time of Sunday School at St. Michael and All Angels, Houghton, 19 June 1966
(1 paper)



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