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Reference: D/X 1809 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Thomas Lamb of Hetton le Hole, musician and brewer

Covering Dates: 1988-1991

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Thomas Lamb was born in 1823 in the Market Place in Houghton le Spring. He had musical talents and was sent to practice violin in Newcastle for a few years. He became a musician and music teacher in the area, organising colliery bands and performing in Durham.

He abandoned his musical hobbies and profession after he married Mary Wilson in 1850. He started a brewery business in Old Brancepeth Castle Inn and shortly afterwards he became proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Brancepeth. In 1861 he became owner of Hetton Brewery, formerly in the ownership of the late Joseph Love of Durham, esq.

He was also active in public life as a member of Hetton le Hole select vestry, member of the Board of Guardians and the Highways Board. He was also a director of Hetton and Easington Lane Water Company.

Hetton Brewery became a family business and his sons and grandsons successfully continued making spirits. In 1913 their products were awarded first prizes at the Brewers' Exhibition for Lamb's Pale Ale and Lamb's Oatmeal Stout. The company belonged to the family until 1954 when Thomas Lamb & Sons Limited was bought by Vaux and Associated Breweries.

See also: D/X 905 and D/X 1168/1-2

Catalogue Contents

D/X 1809 Miscellaneous documents - Thomas Lamb of Hetton le Hole, musician and brewer (Ref: D/X 1809)Birth, marriage and death certificates of the Lamb family (Ref: D/X 1809/1-3)

Birth certificate of William Watson Lamb, born 31 October 1880 in Hetton le Hole, son of William Lamb and Anne Watson, 29 March 1988
(1 paper)


Birth certificate of Peter John Lamb, born 31 March 1946 in district of Leeds North, son of William Archer Watson Lamb and Eleanor Pauline Aubrey, 25 March 1991
(1 paper)


Marriage certificate for Lawson Lamb and Marry Carr, married 30 December 1839 in Houghton le Spring, 22 February 1988
(1 paper)


Marriage certificate for Thomas Lamb and Mary Wilson, married 1 May 1850 in the District of Durham and Lanchester, 19 January 1988
(1 paper)


Marriage certificate for William Archer Watson Lamb and Eleanor Pauline Aubrey, married 30 April 1938 in Edleston, 13 June 1989
(1 paper)


Death certificate of Lawson Lamb, died on 1 December 1852 in Gilesgate Moor, 1 June 1989
(1 paper)


Death certificate of Archibald Lamb, died 10 January 1860 in Gilesgate, 6 June 1989
(1 paper)


Death certificate of Archibald Lamb, died 18 April 1866 in Gilesgate Moor, 25 July 1990
(1 paper)


Death certificate of Lawson Lamb, died 28 September 1871 in explosion in Shincliffe Colliery, 31 May 1989
(1 paper)

Newspaper cuttings (Ref: D/X 1809/4)

Copy of article from Durham Chronicle entitled: Death of Mr Thomas Lamb of Hetton le Hole, 13 August 1908, n.d. [1990s]
(1 paper, printed)


Copy article from Durham County Advertiser entitled: Death of Mr Thos. Lamb of Hetton, 21 August 1908, n.d. [1990s]
(1 paper, printed)


Copy article from an unknown publication on Hetton brewery and the Lambs, its owners, n.d. [late 20th C.]
(1 paper, printed)

Family history (Ref: D/X 1809/5-6)

Lamb family tree, 1797-1938, n.d. [late 20th C.]
(1 paper)


Transcript from tombstone of Mary and Thomas Lamb, who died in 1890 and 1908 and were buried in Hetton le Hole, n.d. [late 20th C.]
(1 paper, printed)

Deeds (Ref: D/X 1809/7)

13 February 1907 Copy probate of will, 19 September 1904, of Thomas Lamb the Younger of Dene Villa, Hetton le Hole, gent. Devises all his properties to his wife Mary Elizabeth Lamb and his sons Tom Dote and Herbert Dote
(2 papers)


25 September 1907 Copy codicil, 11 November 1897, of Thomas Lamb of Swiss Cottage, Hetton le Hole, brewer Devises his properties and shares between his wife Emily Lamb, his sons, Thomas Lamb and William Lamb, daughter, Mary Steele and his niece Sarah Lodge. In the codicil, after his son, William's, death, he devises his share between his children: Mary Maria Bulman, Ether Ellen Lamb, Herbert Dote Lamb and John Frederick Dote Lamb
(6 papers)


15 April 1915 (1) Mary Elizabeth Lamb of Dene Villa, Hetton le Hole, widow, and Tom Dote Lamb of Hetton le Hole, gent. (2) Mary Maria Bulman, wife of Robert Hanson Bulman of Bank House, Hetton le Hole, bank manager Copy appointment of (2) as new trustees of the following: - house at Station Road, Hetton le Hole - house at Ellemore Lane, Hetton le Hole - High Grange Farm in Shincliffe - shop at Silver Street, Durham - house at 1 George Street, Haswell - one moiety of Greenhill Farm, Sedgefield - one moiety of Donnwell Farm, Sedgefield - mortgage on a house at 8 Summerson Street, Hetton le Hole for £100 with interest - shares in Seaham Harbour Dock Company
(2 papers)


Copy will of Ann Lamb, wife of William Lamb of Hetton le Hole, brewer, 15 August 1915 She devises her personal property and estate to her son William Watson Lamb and her husband William Lamb
(1 paper)

Thomas Lamb and Sons Limited and Vaux Group plc (Ref: D/X 1809/8)

For more information on Vaux Breweries see: D/Va


Letter from J.A. Robson, solicitor from Vaux Group plc, The Brewery, Sunderland to Mrs A. Sykes, Send, Woking, Surrey, in which he briefly describes the history of Thomas Lamb and Sons Limited, and lists all properties that Vaux purchased from them, 20 April 1989
(2 papers, printed)


Letter from Legge and Miller solicitors, 1 Sunderland Street, Houghton le Spring, Tyne and Wear to Mrs A. Sykes, Send, Woking, Surrey with a brief history of Thomas Lamb family and their brewery, 12 March 1991
(2 papers, printed)

Photographs (Ref: D/X 1809/9)

Colour photographs of beer bottles and champagne corks: (1) Photograph of two stone champagne cork stopper XXX Stout with Thomas Lamb and Sons logo, manufactured by Buchans Portobello, n.d. [1990s] (2) Photograph of a green glass beer bottle with Thomas Lamb and Sons logo, n.d [1990s]
(1 paper)


Photograph of 5 different size champagne cork stoppers from various companies, including T. Lamb and Sons, n.d. [1990s]
(1 photograph, 13 cm x 9 cm, colour)


View from the right of Thomas Lamb's house in Hetton le Hole, which is now a working men's club called Hetton Comrades Social Club Ltd, n.d. [1990s]
(1 photograph, 15 cm x 10 cm, colour)


View from the front of Thomas Lamb's house in Hetton le Hole, n.d. [1990s]
(1 photograph, 15 cm x 10 cm, colour)


Photograph of Thomas Lamb's tomb in Hetton churchyard, 1988
(1 photograph, 15 cm x 10 cm, colour)


Photograph of Audrey Sykes standing next to Eleanor and William Archer Watson Lamb in front of a house, n.d. [1990s]
(1 photograph, 13 cm x 9 cm, colour)


Copy photograph from unidentified publication entitled: the staff of the long established Lamb's Brewery at Barnes Street, Hetton around 1910. The brewery closed around 1929, n.d. [1980s/90s]
(1 photograph, 15cm x 11 cm, black and white)