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Easington: People, Past and Present
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Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths
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Binchester
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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
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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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Letter from Mr. W.T.D. Reed …
Read MoreD/BAFC 43/3 – Bishop Auckland Football Club
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Annual report of the General Secretary, Alfred Hesler, for 1964 – O-T
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General Election accounts, 1918 – O-T
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Annual Review of the Work of the Compensation Department, later called Annual Reports and Compensation Reports, 1927, 1929 – 1946 – O-T
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Compensation Committee Letter Book, 16 October 1914 – 4 February 1915 – O-T
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Compensation Department, Reports of meetings of the Arbitration Committee (labelled 'Minutes of Arbitration Committee'), vol.1, 9 September 1918 – 1 December 1919 – O-T
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Brancepeth No.2 Lodge, register of members' contributions, 14 July 1961 – 29 December 1961 – O-T
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Eden Colliery wages book, [1944] – loose sheet – O-T
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Eden Lodge, Committee meetings minute book, 11 October 1923 – 16 July 1925 – O-T
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Eden Lodge, subscription accounts, 5 July 1946 – 31 December 1948 – O-T
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Marsden Lodge, Minute book, December 1914 – November 1915 (enclosure) – O-T
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Usworth Lodge, Compensation and average book no.2: North Pit, 1899 – 1908 – O-T
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Ushworth Colliery Forces 'Welcome Home' Fund minutes, September 1944 – January 1946 (enclosures) – O-T
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Newspaper cutting from the Sunderland Echo of March 1927 showing a cutting from the Echo of Saturday March 24 1877 …
Read MoreD/DLI 11/4/2/28(62) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve, Phase 2
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Charles Reed as lieutenant in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers …
Read MoreD/DLI 11/1/3(80) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Territorial Army Association of County Durham
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Photograph of a football team of 'A' Company …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/1/270(118) – Durham Light Infantry Records – 1st Battalion (part 1)
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Group photograph of the running team of 9th Platoon …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/20/5(26) – Durham Light Infantry Records – 10th – 70th Battalions
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27 – 28 November 1730 (1) John Middleton of Durham …
Read MoreD/CG 5/1286 – Clayton and Gibson – Burdon family of Castle Eden
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Pension Fund register …
Read MoreD/Co 56/6 – Consett Iron Company – Business Archives Council grant
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31 October – 1 November 1746 (1) Cuthbert Hunter of Medomsley …
Read MoreD/Co 31/32(1) – Consett Iron Company – Assets, Deeds
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21 December 1797 (1) William Hunter Simpson of Kibblesworth …
Read MoreEP/Lam 7/51 – Lamesley St. Andrew Parish
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Letter from English Heritage …
Read MoreEP/Whm 562 – Whickham St. Mary Parish – 04: Churchwardens
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18 and 19 January 1697 / 1698 (1) William Reed of Framwelgate …
Read MoreD/Br/D 2819-2820 – Brancepeth Estate – Deeds (part 08) places S
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14 September 1739 (1) Elizabeth Doubleday …
Read MoreD/Br/D 1028 – Brancepeth Estate – Deeds (part 03) places B
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21 January 1739 / 1740 (1) George Paxton …
Read MoreD/Br/D 1031 – Brancepeth Estate – Deeds (part 03) places B
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29 March 1726 (1) Nicholas Reed of Mordon …
Read MoreD/El 30/237 – Eldon Estate – Deeds: Mordon to Newbiggin
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14 and 15 April 1749 (1) John Reed of Framwellgate …
Read MoreD/El 32/1-2 – Eldon Estate – Deeds: Mordon to Newbiggin
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Reed …
Read MoreD/Lo/C 540 – Londonderry Estates – Correspondence (part 2)
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Esther Reed Bruce nee Willis Grave number 293 B Date of death 26 November 1975 Date of burial 1 December 1975 …
Read MoreCP/Sac 13/125 – Sacriston Civil Parish
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House and shop on Harrowgate Hill …
Read MoreDa/NG 2/3314 – Darlington Borough Council – Building plans
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Conversion of part of premises in Woodlands Road (Granville House) into garage …
Read MoreDa/NG 2/4430 – Darlington Borough Council – Building plans
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Plan of proposed houses and shops …
Read MoreRD/La 143/501 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Plan of proposed outbuildings …
Read MoreRD/La 143/1686 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Office copy of the will of Ralph Byerley of Lanchester …
Read MoreD/X 669/31 – Miscellaneous documents – Satley, Hill Farm, deeds
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1 May 1860 (1) Jane Todd of Halnaby Hall …
Read MoreD/X 691/8 – Miscellaneous documents – County Durham deeds
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13 August 1839 (1) Thomas Wilkinson of Old Elvet …
Read MoreD/X 755/8 – Miscellaneous documents – Houghton-le-Spring tithe plans; South Hetton, Willington etc. deeds
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Photograph of female teachers …
Read MoreD/Ph 364/8 – Photocopies and photographs – Durham, Whinney Hill Secondary School
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Digital photograph of Hookergate Grammar School …
Read MoreD/Ph 536/5/1/2 – Photocopies and photographs – Hookergate Grammar School
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Gordon D Reed Working on the Railway: A Portrait Gallery of Railwaymen and Women …
Read MoreD/X 1770/5/14 – Miscellaneous documents – Durham local history
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Correspondence between the Excise Office and Thomas Brayshay …
Read MoreCE 2/1 – Customs and Excise
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Matthew Nicholson Reed (industrial disease) [1082] …
Read MoreCOR/Du.N/2 519N – Durham North Coroner – Inquest files
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 11 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward East
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 38 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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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 80 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Stockton Ward North East
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 84 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Stockton Ward North East
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 103 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Stockton Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 115 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 118 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 159-160 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Norham and Islandshire (Northumberland)