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Church Registers Database
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Easington: People, Past and Present
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Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths
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Binchester
From Roman fort to colliery village – explore archives, archaeology and local studies collections
Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Durham Light Infantry objects, photos, memorials and memories of this military campaign in South Africa
Stockton & Darlington railway
Track the development of early railways in County Durham since the 1820s
In pursuit of perfection
Listen to John (Pop) Porter talking in 1976 about how to grow prize leeks at Peterlee
Birth, marriage and death certificates
Start with a quick surname check for records after 1837 held by County Durham’s registration service
Richard Annand, VC
The first British Army soldier of the Second World War to be awarded the Victoria Cross, in May 1940
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 11 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Committee meeting minutes, 1933 – A-D
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Photograph of a class taken in front of the school …
Read MoreD/X 1844/1/2(44) – Miscellaneous documents – History of Fishburn
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 8 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Committee and Council minutes, balance sheets, etc., January – June 1912 – A-D
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Compensation Committee Letter Book, 8 March 1912 – 16 September 1912 – A-D
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Eden Lodge, subscription accounts, 4 January 1946 – 1 June 1948 – A-D
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 6 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 9 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Eden Colliery, wages book for Busty seam, 28 January 1916 – 28 April 1917 – A-D
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 12 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Eden Lodge subscription accounts, 30 June 1905 – 12 September 1913 – A-D
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Eden Lodge, Committee meetings minute book, 6 July 1925 – 8 December 1926 – A-D
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Eden Lodge, subscription accounts, 5 July 1946 – 31 December 1948 – A-D
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Arbitration committee minutes, 1928-1976 – A-D
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Arbitration committee minutes, 1928-1976 – A-D
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Eden Lodge, Committee meetings minute book, 30 May 1933 – 13 December 1934 – A-D
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 10 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Annual report of the General Secretary, Alfred Hesler, for 1965 – A-D
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Eden Colliery wages book, [1944] – loose sheet – A-D
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Joint Committee decisions, agreements, awards, etc., 1910 – 1914 – A-D
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Photocopy of receipt for £1.00 paid for the purchase of an Anderson air raid shelter from Spennymoor Urban District Council by Mr. Bage …
Read MoreD/X 779/432/17(1) – Miscellaneous documents – W.L. Colley of Byers Green (part 2)
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 5 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Arbitration committee minutes, 1923-1926 – A-D
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Sick department register – A-D
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Eden Lodge, Committee meetings minute book, 15 December 1926 – 4 June 1929 – A-D
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Illustrated list of officers and men of the companies of the 2nd Battalion …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/2/31A – Durham Light Infantry Records – 1st Battalion (part 3) and 2nd Battalion
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Photograph of a group of sergeants of the 426th (Durham) Coast Regiment …
Read MoreD/DLI 6/1/7(120) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Royal Artillery
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 4 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Group photograph of the warrant officers and sergeants of the 426th (Durham) Coast Regiment …
Read MoreD/DLI 6/1/7(82) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Royal Artillery
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 3 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Eden Lodge subscription accounts, 4 July 1913 – 26 February 1917 – A-D
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Colin Michael Bage (took own life) [697] …
Read MoreCOR/Du.N 2/1907 – Durham North Coroner – Inquest files
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Eden Colliery wages book, for all seams, 16 August 1924 – 28 March 1925 – A-D
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Harold Bage (industrial disease) [186] …
Read MoreCOR/Du.S 2/1173 – Durham South Coroner – Inquest files