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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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Group photograph …
Read MoreD/DLI 7/63/5(277) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Individual Soldiers – surnames B: Bi to Bl
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Photograph of 'C' Half Company of the 2nd Battalion …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/2/135(19) – Durham Light Infantry Records – 1st Battalion (part 3) and 2nd Battalion
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Commission of Gerard Gloag Sadler as Second Lieutenant in the Militia Forces …
Read MoreD/DLI 1/10/3(10) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Regiment, Phase 2
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Battalion orders by Colonel S.H. Sadler …
Read MoreD/DLI 7/286/15 – Durham Light Infantry Records – Individual Soldiers – surnames H: Hal to Han
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A. Sadler …
Read MoreD/He 127/36 – Headlam family of Holywell
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A.M. Sadler …
Read MoreD/He 129/110 – Headlam family of Holywell
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Plan of proposed 10 houses …
Read MoreRD/La 143/383 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Order of service for the marriage of Cecil Norman Sadler and C.E. Llewlyn-Jones …
Read MoreD/X 820/38 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Cards for the presentation of Miss Monica and Mrs. Norman Sadler at Court …
Read MoreD/X 820/40-41 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of Amy Sadler aged apprximately 40 …
Read MoreD/X 820/65 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of Amy Sadler as V.A.D. during the First World War outside Oswald House …
Read MoreD/X 820/66 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Newspaper cuttings concerning the presentation of Monica …
Read MoreD/X 820/122/1-23 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Gordon Sadler (natural causes) [32] …
Read MoreCOR/CD 2/657 – County Durham and Darlington Coroner – Inquests
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Merrington 'for Mr. Garmonsway …
Read MoreNCB I/X 225 – National Coal Board – Miscellaneous
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Main Coal Drift Brandon & Byshottles
Read More885 – Collieries
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Photograph of the buglers of the 2nd Battalion …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/2/135(33) – Durham Light Infantry Records – 1st Battalion (part 3) and 2nd Battalion
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25 June 1827 (1) Stephen Bell (2) William Sadler (3) Lupton Topham (4) William Topham of Snape …
Read MoreD/HH 3/1/28/11 – Hanby Holmes – Deeds: Office drafts (part 2)
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7 July 1719 (1) Samuel Burton for William Blakiston Bowes …
Read MoreD/St/E 2/9/1 – Strathmore Estate – Estate Administration: Kirklevington
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Plan of proposed house …
Read MoreRD/La 143/990 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Photograph of Amy Ropner …
Read MoreD/X 820/62 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of charabanc containing …
Read MoreD/X 820/70 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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1890 (1)William Lishman of Witton le Wear …
Read MoreD/X 1193/5/1/6 – Miscellaneous documents – Newby, Robson & Cadle of 10-11 Finkle Street, Stockton on Tees, solicitors
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Hilltop Colliery [2] Esh
Read More670 – Collieries
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Taylor Pit Esh
Read More1389 – Collieries
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Group photograph of 'C' Half Company …
Read MoreD/DLI 7/617/13(17) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Individual Soldiers – surnames S: Sa to Sc
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Group photograph of 'G' Half Company …
Read MoreD/DLI 7/617/13(25) – Durham Light Infantry Records – Individual Soldiers – surnames S: Sa to Sc
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Manufacturing success?: reindustrialisation policies in Derwentside in the 1980s / Ray Hudson and David Sadler
Read MoreSeries: (Department of Geography occasional publications, 25).
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Papers re College Education day including invitations …
Read MoreE/Dar 13/3 – Darlington College of Education
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Joseph Edleston from O. Sadler …
Read MoreD/Ed 12/2/474-475 – Edleston family of Gainford – Correspondence (part 2)
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6 and 7 July 1693 (1) Geoffrey Palmer of Carlton Curliew …
Read MoreD/St/D12/27 – Strathmore Estate – Title Deeds: Other Counties and New England
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3 June 1616 (1) Humphrey Wharton and Thomas Wharton (2) Robert Sadler of Trimdon …
Read MoreD/X 562/37 – Miscellaneous documents – Trimdon deeds
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Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
Read MoreD/X 820 – Other Records
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26 April 1440 (1) Robert Kant and Alice Kant of Durham; John Sadler and Margaret Sadler of Northumberland (2) Thomas Grome Bond in 5 marks for quiet possession by (2) of lands and tenements in Bursblades held by feoffments from Thomas [Genur] and Matilda …
Read MoreD/St/D5/1/126 – Strathmore Estate – Title Deeds: Gibside and Winlaton Estate (part 1, D/St/D/5/1-5)
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Allied Victory Medal 1914-19
Read MoreA circular medal, obverse shows winged figure of Victory. Reverse has the inscription: 'THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION 1914-1919' surrounded…
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Minute book of Committee Meetings [unsigned], 17 October 1916 – 22 September 1919 – O-T
Read MoreContains the records for people with surnames between O-T.
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Photograph of the football team …
Read MoreD/DLI 2/2/184 – Durham Light Infantry Records – 1st Battalion (part 3) and 2nd Battalion
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19 January 1692/93 (1) Geoffrey Palmer of Carlton Curlieu …
Read MoreD/St/D12/25 – Strathmore Estate – Title Deeds: Other Counties and New England
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Plan of proposed iron reading room …
Read MoreRD/La 143/944 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Photograph of Amy and Cecil Sadler and their children Doris …
Read MoreD/X 820/68 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photographs of Amy and Cecil Sadler on outings with one of their daughters …
Read MoreD/X 820/71-72 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photographs of Amy Sadler …
Read MoreD/X 820/77-78 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Leazes Drift Lanchester
Read More822 – Collieries
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Polo Drift Lanchester
Read More1139 – Collieries
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Plan of proposed wash house …
Read MoreRD/La 143/1031 – Lanchester Rural District Council – Building plans
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Letter from Mervyn Hamilton-Fletcher …
Read MoreD/X 820/30 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Letter from Basil [surname ommitted] …
Read MoreD/X 820/31 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of group at the entrance to Preston Hall including Amy Ropner and Cecil Sadler and their children …
Read MoreD/X 820/64 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of Sadler family group outside Oswald House …
Read MoreD/X 820/67 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photograph of Doris …
Read MoreD/X 820/69 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records
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Photographs of Doris …
Read MoreD/X 820/94/1-19 – Miscellaneous documents – Peele, Sadler and Ropner family records