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Church Registers Database
Find out what baptism, marriage and burial registers we keep and their covering dates
Easington: People, Past and Present
Search images and oral histories by the people of Easington and the surrounding area
Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths
Search for County Durham miners by name
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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General Election accounts, 1918 – E-H
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 68 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 41 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 44 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Minute Book, Arbitration Committee of the Durham Colliery Owners' Mutual Protection Association and the Durham Miners' Association, 24 January 1946 – 13 November 1951 – E-H
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List of 'Former Mineworkers not eligible for Mineworkers Pension Scheme' – E-H
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Usworth Lodge, Wages Books, averages, 1921 – 1927 – E-H
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Register of men employed on screens at Dawdon colliery, 3 April 1908 – 12 April 1926 – E-H
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Compensation Committee Letter Book, 24 May 1911 – 19 August 1911 – E-H
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Usworth Lodge, Wages Books, averages, 1921 – 1928 – E-H
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Photograph of pupils from Class 5 including 'Flowers' Beverley Glaister; Anne Maddox; Irene Adams; Lilian West; Susan Mitchell; 'Winter ' …
Read MoreE/C/G885(6) – Durham Blue Coat School
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Photograph of the May Queen …
Read MoreE/C/G856 – Durham Blue Coat School
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 42 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Compensation Committee Letter Book, 24 August 1911 – 11 November 1911 – E-H
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Slide of T. Dunn receiving a cheque for the Durham County Conservation Trust from Councillor Flowers at Bowlees Visitor Centre …
Read MoreDC/Env 1270/405 – Durham County Council (1974 – 2009) – Environment Department – photographs
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Postcard: 'The High Force Middleton' – early 20th century – photographer Fred Spraggon …
Read MoreD/WFH/Im/B 46/60 – Dr William F Heyes Collection
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None – E-H
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 63 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Committee meeting minutes, 1922 – E-H
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Frankland Lodge Minute Book, 20 August 1944 – 10 March 1947 – E-H
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Usworth Lodge, Wages Books, averages, 1927 – 1933 – E-H
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 41 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 72 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Finchale Lodge, register of members' contributions, 31 December 1954 – 17 June 1955, 30 December 1955 – 15 June 1956, 28 December 1956 – 14 June 1957 and 27 December 1957 – 18 April 1958 – E-H
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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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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 43 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 45 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 57 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South East
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 75 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Stockton Ward North East
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Photograph of the arrival of the Queen Elect …
Read MoreE/C/G876 – Durham Blue Coat School
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Photograph of 'The Royal Party' Back row: Janet Beddison; Angela Newton; Francis Winter; Lynn Appleby …
Read MoreE/C/G885(2) – Durham Blue Coat School
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15 March 1946 (1) Winthrop Mackworth Praed and Geoffrey Bridgewater Williams …
Read MoreD/X 1181/60 – Miscellaneous documents – Records of the estate of the Jolliffe family, barons Hylton, at Chester le Street and elsewhere
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Arbitration committee minutes – E-H
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