• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • collections@thestorydurham.org
DRO logo

Durham Record Office

Durham County Record Office: the official archive service for County Durham and Darlington

  • About us
    • Projects
    • What we do
    • News
    • Friends of Durham County Record Office (FODCRO)
    • Governance
    • Policies
  • Our records
    • Coal mining and Durham collieries
    • Durham Light Infantry Archives
    • Information guides
    • Maps
    • Picture Gallery
  • Ask us
  • Family history
    • Birth, marriage and death records
    • Census records
    • Parish registers
    • Place names index
    • Nonconformist Church Registers
    • Wills
    • A to Z of other family history sources
  • Learning Zone
    • The Story of Jimmy Durham
    • Crook
    • Durham Market Place
    • Arts Award
  • Exhibitions
    • ‘Almost too horrible for words’ – the liberation of Belsen concentration camp, 1945
    • ‘Marvellous Diggers’ – The 1st Battalion DLI in Korea, 1952-53
    • ‘Adventurers and Pirates’ – Hetton Coal Company, 1820
    • Looking back at Consett Steel Works
  • Shop
    • Apply for quick search
    • Apply for research service
    • Order and pay for copies
    • Fees and charges
    • Publications
  • Search Options
    • Search the catalogue
    • Search Church Registers
    • Search Durham Collieries
    • Search Durham’s Hidden Depths
    • Search place names
    • Search interactive maps
You are here: Home / Search options / Search the catalogue / Catalogue search results / Catalogue

Catalogue

Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 291 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Photographs of Durham City

Covering Dates: c.1890-1989

Return to your search results
Related Information
  • See images associated with this catalogue
  • Get help understanding and using this data

Catalogue Index

Use Expand image and Expanded image to reveal/hide the structure of the catalogue index (requires Javascript to be enabled in your internet browser options). Click to jump directly to information at a specific level of the catalogue.

  • Photocopies and photographs
    • Photographs (Ref: D/Ph 291/1-2)
    • Bishops (Ref: D/Ph 291/1-2)
    • St John's Chapel (Ref: D/Ph 291/3)
    • Durham Castle (and Finchale Abbey) (Ref: D/Ph 291/4, 14)
    • River Wear views (Ref: D/Ph 291/5, 10)
    • Unknown (Ref: D/Ph 291/6)
    • Durham Cathedral (Ref: D/Ph 291/7-9)
    • Postcards (Ref: D/Ph 291/11-13, 15, 19-20)
    • Durham Poor Law Union (Ref: D/Ph 291/16)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: D/Ph 291/17-18, 21)

Catalogue Contents

Photographs (Ref: D/Ph 291/1-2)Bishops (Ref: D/Ph 291/1-2)Ref: D/Ph 291/1

Photograph of Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, n.d. [1890 - 1901]
(1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 291/2

Photograph of Rt. Rev. Handley Carr Glyn Moule, Bishop of Durham, n.d. [1901 - 1920]
(1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)

St John's Chapel (Ref: D/Ph 291/3)Ref: D/Ph 291/3

Photograph of Harthope Burn Falls, St. John's Chapel, n.d. [late 19th century]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Durham Castle (and Finchale Abbey) (Ref: D/Ph 291/4, 14)Ref: D/Ph 291/4

Photograph of the Keep, Durham Castle, n.d. [1935?]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/Ph 291/14

Three views of Finchale Abbey and three views of Durham Castle and Palace Green, 1930:

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(1)

Photograph view of Finchale Abbey, 1930

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(2)

Photograph view of Finchale Abbey, 1930

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(3)

Photograph view of Finchale Abbey, 1930

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(4)

Photograph view of Palace Green and Durham Castle, 1930

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(5)

Photograph view of Durham Castle, 1930

Ref: D/Ph 291/14(6)

Photograph view of Durham Castle, 1930
(6 photographs, 19 cm. x 24.5 cm., mounted on one card, black and white)

River Wear views (Ref: D/Ph 291/5, 10)Ref: D/Ph 291/5

Photograph of the rear of the Royal County Hotel, taken from across the river, with rowing boats in foreground, n.d. [late 1960s]
(1 photograph, 17 cm. x 21 cm.)

Ref: D/Ph 291/10

Photograph of Prebends Bridge as seen from the river bank beneath Framwellgate bridge, n.d. [1989]
(1 photograph, 12 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Unknown (Ref: D/Ph 291/6)Ref: D/Ph 291/6

Black and white negatives of unidentified cathedral city, n.d.
(3 strips of 6 photographs each)

Durham Cathedral (Ref: D/Ph 291/7-9)Ref: D/Ph 291/7

Photograph of Durham Cathedral taken from the College of St. Hild and St. Bede, n.d. [1989]
(1 photograph, 12 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 291/8

Photograph of Durham Cathedral as seen through the trees from South Street, n.d. [1989]
(1 photograph, 12 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/Ph 291/9

Photograph of Durham Cathedral as seen from Framwellgate, n.d. [1989]
(1 photograph, 12 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

Postcards (Ref: D/Ph 291/11-13, 15, 19-20)Ref: D/Ph 291/11

Aerial view of Durham Cathedral from the south, c.1950s; posted to Miss Maureen Stevens in Blackpool, 8 August 1962
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/Ph 291/12

View of Elvet Bridge and Brown's Boathouse from the south-east bank of the river, n.d. [early 1960s]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour)

Ref: D/Ph 291/13

View of Durham Cathedral from the west bank of the river, south of the Fulling Mill, n.d.; posted to Mrs. Smith, Green Healey, Netherwitton, c.1920
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour)

Ref: D/Ph 291/15

View of Durham High School from the west, showing groups of girls, sent to Miss E.J. Ferens, 12 August 1929
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9cm)

Ref: D/Ph 291/19

Postcard with vignette of Durham from Wharton Park, n.d.
(1 postcard)

Ref: D/Ph 291/20

Postcard of Durham C.C. Education Committee attendance shield, n.d. [c.1930]
(1 postcard)

Durham Poor Law Union (Ref: D/Ph 291/16)Ref: D/Ph 291/16

Durham Union: Guardians' Manual, 1898 - 1899
(1 booklet)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/Ph 291/17-18, 21)Ref: D/Ph 291/17

Invitation issued to Chris. Wilson by the Durham Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association to the opening ceremony for the Harton, St Hilda and Marsden Workmens' Group of Aged Mineworkers' Homes at Harton, 9 October 1915
(1 card, printed)

Ref: D/Ph 291/18

Examination travelling card issued by Durham C.C. to Patricia Martin for examination for admission to grammar schools at Washington Grammar School, 15 March 1951
(1 card, printed)

Ref: D/Ph 291/21

Christmas card sent by the Mayor and Mayoress of Durham showing view of Durham City with two horses ploughing in the foreground, Christmas 1953
(1 card, 14.5 cm. x 12.5 cm., printed)



Durham County Council logo Accredited Archive Service logo

The Story
Mount Oswald
South Road
Durham
DH1 3TQ
collections@thestorydurham.org

  • Top of Page |
  • Legal Information | 
  • Accessibility Statement | 
  • Contact Us |

Copyright © 2025 · Developed by Durham County Council