Catalogue

Minute book of Ouston township meetings, 2 April 1851 - 19 March 1889

Minute book of Ouston township parish meetings, 20 March 1890 - 15 September 1905

Minute book (no. 1) of Ouston Parish Council, 4 December 1894 - 25 March 1920

Minute book (no. 2) of Ouston Parish Council, 22 April 1920 - 25 February 1932

Minute book (no. 3) of Ouston Parish Council, 14 April 1932 - 3 October 1947

Minute book (no. 4) of Ouston Parish Council, 14 November 1947 - 16 May 1958

Minute book (no. 5) of Ouston Parish Council, 29 May 1958 - 1 September 1967

Minute book of Ouston Parish Council, 26 January 1968 - 19 December 1974

Minute book of Ouston Parish Council, 23 January 1975 - 26 April 1979

Minute book of Ouston Parish Council, 17 May 1979 - 19 December 1985

Minute book of Ouston Parish Council, 23 January 1986 - 19 December 1991

Minute book of Ouston Parish Council, 23 January 1992 - 5 December 1996

Clerk's notebook of parish council meetings and calculation of rates, 31 March 1909 - 22 September 1921

Clerk's notebook of parish meetings and calculation of rates, 20 October 1921 - 4 September 1935

Clerk's notebook of parish council meetings and calculation of rates, 26 September 1935 - 20 April 1945

Annual financial statements, year ended 31 March 1936 - year ended 31 March 1987

Treasurer's receipt and payments book, 1 April 1918 - 28 March 1969

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1914 - 31 March 1924

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1924 - 31 March 1938

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1938 - 31 March 1951

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1951 - 31 March 1964

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1964 - 31 March 1969

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1969 - 31 March 1980

Receipt and payment account book, 1 April 1980 - 31 March 1997

Petty cash account book, 7 November 1931 - 29 April 1939

Register of securities, 7 October 1903 - 8 March 1941

Register of mortgages and loans repayments, 8 March 1963 - 8 February 1974

Counterfoil book of precept returns to Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, 13 March 1941 - 14 March 1957

Counterfoil book of precept returns to Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, 14 March 1958 - 27 March 1980

Estimated precepts for Ouston Parish Council, 30 January 1930 - 31 March 1968

Agreement of the owner, The Pelaw Main Collieries Company, Birtley, with Ouston Parish Council, for a reduction in the poor rates payable on unoccupied premises in Ouston [as specified], 12 February 1920

Notice of objection by William Willis to the valuation of the Red Lion Hotel , Ouston, on the grounds of stagnation of business, and correspondence of the clerk to Ouston Parish Council concerning the payment of rates arrears to Chester-le-Street Union, 9 February - 3 March 1927

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with J. Morley Longden, Somerford Buildings, Sunderland, concerning an appeal against London and North Eastern Railway rate assessments, and the refund of overpayments by Durham County Council, 17 May - 26 June 1926

Letters in, and copy letters out, (no. 1) of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council, 4 May 1943 - 9 March 1946

Letters in, and copy letters out, (no. 2) of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council, 18 March 1946 - 26 April 1949

Deeds of appointment of Henry Walton, John Robert Jordon and William Hudson Milburn as assistant overseers of Ouston parish, 7 December 1894 - 10 January 1911

23 October 1914 (1) Brodrick Dale of Apperley Dene, Stocksfield, Northumberland, banker (treasurer) (2) William Hustler Hustler of Acklam Hall, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, colliery owner, and Francis Priestman of Shotley Park, Shotley Bridge, colliery owner (sureties) (3) Ouston Parish Council Bond in £60 for the performance by (1) of the office of treasurer to the parish council

5 December 1929 (1) William Hudson Milburn of Warwick House, Birtley (2) The National and Local Government Officers' Mutual Insurance Association Limited (3) Ouston Parish Council Bond in £50 for the discharge by (1) of the office of clerk to the parish council

Statement, and notice of, the election of Ouston parish councillors, 9 and 23 March 1937

16 April 1969 (1) Frederick William Oates of Ouston Springs Farm, Pelton (2) Ouston Parish Council Agreement for the tenancy by (2) of the recreation ground Term: 5 years Rent: £26 5s. p.a. Includes: site plan Endorsed: renewal of tenancy agreement, 4 July 1974

Copy resolution for the provision of a new burial ground, and the appointment of a Burial Board for the parish of Pelton, including the township of Ouston and part of the townships of Pelton, Urpeth and Chester-le-Street, made at Pelton Vestry Meeting, Boys' National School, Pelton, 11 July 1888

4 March 1921 (1) Ouston Parish Council (2) The Blackburn Philanthropic Assurance Company Limited, Coopers Buildings, Church Street, Liverpool, Lancashire Mortgage to secure £980 and interest for the purpose of a burial ground

Declaration of William Hudson Milburn of Warwick House, Birtley, colliery surveyor, clerk to Ouston Parish Council, concerning the £980 borrowed for the purpose of a burial ground, on the security of the poor rate, 7 March 1921

Copy extract from the Ouston Parish Council minute book of a parish council meeting held on 4 March 1921, concerning the loan of £980 from Blackburn Philanthropic Assurance Co. Ltd. for the extension of Pelton burial ground, 4 March 1921

Letters of consent from the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, to Ouston Parish Council, for the loan of £378, £210 and £392 for the purpose of a burial ground, 9 July 1914 and 15 May 1920

Letters from the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, to the clerk of Ouston Parish Council concerning the consents to the loan of three separate sums to defray a share of the cost of Pelton burial ground extension, 9 July 1914 and 15 May 1920

Correspondence of the clerk to Ouston Parish Council with Pelton Burial Board, concerning the extension of Pelton cemetery, 7 - 28 February 1920

Copy heads of enquiry, by William H. Milburn, into the proposed loan of £980 to Ouston Parish Council, at 7% interest, to be repaid within 20 years, for the purchase of land for the extension of the burial ground and the building of a chapel, 26 August 1920

Correspondence of William H. Milburn, Clerk to Ouston Parish Council, with Messrs. Yates and Son, solicitors, 3 Richmond Terrace, Blackburn, Lancashire; Messrs. Charles Seymour Taylor and Company, 475 - 476 Mansion House Chambers, 20 Bucklersbury, London; and Pelton Parish Council, concerning the loan of £980 for Pelton burial ground extension, 28 July 1920 - 23 February 1921

Correspondence of William H. Milburn, Clerk to Ouston Parish Council, with Messrs. Yates and Son, solicitors, 3 Richmond Terrace, Blackburn, concerning the loan of £980 to Ouston Parish Council by the Blackburn Philanthropic Assurance Society, 1 March - 24 March 1921

Correspondence of the clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the Blackburn Assurance Company Limited, 151 Dale Street, Kingsway, Liverpool 2, concerning the final payment of the loan for the extension of the burial ground, 26 February - 26 March 1941

Copy letter from the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council to the editor of the Local Government Chronicle , concerning the liability for repairs to a wall near a stile leading onto a public footpath, 9 November 1915 and n.d. Includes: plan of footpath at Milbanke Street, Ouston, n.d., and newspaper cutting, n.d.

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the County Surveyor, Durham County Council, 43 Old Elvet, Durham; the Clerk of Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham; the Clerk to Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street; and Professor J.W. Heslop Harrison, 1 Ruskin Road, Birtley, concerning the survey of public rights of way under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 , 6 March 1951 - 30 July 1956 Includes: completed forms for evidence and newspaper cuttings, n.d.

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with Durham County Council, concerning footpath no. 5 at Ewe Hill; footpath no. 3; proposed housing east of Primrose Gardens, Ouston; and quinquennial reviews of the map and statement of public rights of way under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949, 23 August 1957 - 11 April 1967 Scale: 1:10,560 and no scale

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the County Surveyor, Durham County Council, County Hall, Durham; the Clerk to Harraton Parish Council, 7 Castle Street, Fatfield; and the Surveyor to Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street, concerning the third quinquennial review of the definitive map and statement of public rights of way in Chester-le-Street Rural District, 14 June 1963 - 13 May 1967

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the County Planning Officer, Durham County Council; The Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Company Limited, 67 King Street, Manchester, Lancashire; the National Coal Board Opencast Executive, Northern Region, Ashfield Towers, Kenton Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne; the North Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Sub-Area, Chester-le-Street; and the Secretary, Ministry of Transport, London, concerning the proposed Sedge Flatt Opencast site no. 020842B, Ouston, the temporary stopping up of highways, and the dismantling of public street lighting along Ewe Hill Road, Ouston, 25 September 1957 - 27 May 1960 Scale: 1:10,560 and 1:2,500

Letter from the County Planning Officer, Durham County Council, 10 Church Street, Durham, to the Clerk of Ouston Parish Council, requesting observations on the footpaths adjoining the proposed opencast site at Sedge Flatt, Ouston, 13 November 1957 Includes: plan, 4 November 1957 Scale: 1:2,500

Composite plan of public footpaths, rights of way and occupational roads in Ouston parish, marked on Ordnance Survey, Durham, sheets XII.NE and XIII.NW, 1921; plans marked, n.d. [1950s] Originally enclosed in CP/Ou 53

Maps showing public rights of way in the parish of Ouston, under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 , marked on Ordnance Survey Durham Sheets XII.NE and XII.NW, 1921; plans marked, n.d. [1967] Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]

Copy plan of the Wentworth Park Estate, Ouston, a housing development by Messrs. William Leech (Builders) Limited, of 7 & 8 St. James Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, showing proposed alterations to footpaths, n.d. [ c.1963],

Summary of the proposed reorganisation of the public lighting scheme agreed at the parish council meeting dated 19 November 1943, and summary of expenditure on street lighting in Ouston from 1896 to 1937, 15 March 1946 and n.d. [20th c.]

6 November 1952 (1) Ouston Parish Council (2) The 5th Birtley Scouts Group Wayleave agreement for a lighting cable on the Council's public lighting poles in the parish of Ouston Includes: plan

11 February 1946 (1) Baroness Wentworth, by William T. Bolam & Son, of 52 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, her agents (2) Ouston Parish Council Wayleave agreement for public street lighting over (1)'s land at Main Road, Ouston Includes: plan

24 May 1946 (1) Baroness Wentworth, by William T. Bolam & Son, of 52 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, her agents (2) Ouston Parish Council Wayleave agreement for public street lighting over (1)'s land at Ouston Includes: plan, and correspondence, concerning the substitution of poles, 1954 - 1957

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with Messrs. Sanderson, Townend and Gilbert, chartered surveyors, 3 & 5 Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; N. Hindmarsh, Highway Surveyor, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council; Messrs. Birtley Iron Company, Birtley; and Philip Kirkup, Pelaw Main Collieries, Mining Offices, Birtley, concerning wayleaves payable by the parish council for public street lighting, 17 October 1911 - 8 May 1939; 1 July 1963

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the North Eastern Electric Supply Company, later the North Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Sub-Area, 1 Front Street, Chester-le-Street, concerning wayleaves payable by the parish council for public street lighting, 11 January 1947 - 19 October 1954

Correspondence and agreements of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the North Eastern Electricity Supply Company, later the North Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Sub-Area, 1 Front Street, Chester-le-Street, concerning the maintenance and supply of electricity for public street lighting, 3 March 1937 - 29 January 1962

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the Public Works Loan Board, Old Jewry, London; the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Whitehall, London; the Treasurer, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council; and the Manager, Martins Bank Limited, 482 Durham Road, Low Fell, Gateshead, concerning the application for public street lighting loan no. 1, of the value of £1596, 9 October 1962 - 5 March 1963

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council, with the North Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Area, Dunning Street, Sunderland; the Public Works Loan Board, Old Jewry, London; and the manager, Martins Bank Limited, 482 Durham Road, Low Fell, Gateshead, concerning the application for public street lighting loan no. 2, of the value of £2832, 18 February - 13 July 1963

Correspondence of the Clerk to Ouston Parish Council with the Public Works Loan Board, Old Jewry, London; the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, London; and Martins Bank Limited, 482 Durham Road, Low Fell, Gateshead, concerning the application for public street lighting loan no. 3, of the value of £1,320, 11 January 1963 - 7 October 1964

Letter from the District Commercial Engineer, North Eastern Electricity Board, Wear Area, 1 Front Street, Chester-le-Street, to the Clerk of Ouston Parish Council, concerning charges for the proposed public lighting installation at the Wentworth Park Estate housing development, Ouston, by Messrs. William Leech (Builders) Limited, 10 June 1963 Includes: two plans of proposed lighting layout, 14 March 1963 and 21 December 1962 Scale: 1:500