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Time Line, Photographs and Ghost Stories from Houghton Hall
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HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, an urban district in the Houghtonle-Spring parliamentary division of Durham, England, 6 m. N.E. of the city of Durham. Pop. (1901) 7858. It is well situated at the head of a small valley branching from that of the Wear. St Michael's church is a cruciform Early English and Decorated building, with a picturesque embattled rectory adjoining. Bernard Gilpin, "the Apostle of the North," was rector of this parish from 1556 to 1583, and the founder of the grammar school. The principal public buildings are a town hall, market house and church institute. Houghton Hall is a fine mansion of the late 16th century. In the orchard stands a tomb, that of the puritan Sir Robert Hutton (d. 1680), of whom a curious tradition states that he desired burial beside his war-horse, the body of which was denied interment in consecrated ground. The main road from Durham to Sunderland here passes through a remarkable cutting in the limestone 80 ft. deep.
The district affords frequent evidence of ice activity in the glacial period. The town is the centre of a large system of electric tramways. The population is mainly dependent on the neighbouring collieries, but limestone quarrying is carried on to some extent.
The Old Bank, formerly Jaks Bar, Sunderland Street, originated as a branch of the North-Eastern Banking Company Ltd.
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring.
Houghton is pronounced Hoeton.Its name
is from the Anglo-saxon "HOGH" which
is a point of highland projecting into
a plain,also from numerous springs
which once flowed from limestone rock.
It is 6km. north east of Durham & 6
south west of Sunderland on the A690.
The parish church of St.Michael dates
mostly from the 11th century. The
majority of shops are found in
Newbottle st.1970 a new dual carriage
way was built by-passing central
Houghton & leads to the "Cut".In 1972
the town became part of the Sunderland
Borough.Fine 18th.century Houses and
Houghton Hall,now a YMCA, can be found
in Church St.& Nesham Place. Newbottle
,a villiage 1 mile north is built
around its 18th. century church of
St.Matthew.One mile north is the
former mining village of Fence Houses.
The area's population is about 25,000.
June 1985-because of the falling birth
rate the 3 local comprehensive schools
will merge into one & move into a new
school at Dairy Lane by 1990.The
landlord & landlady of the Robbie
Burns pub have had to learn to live
with 4 phantoms.The landlady,Janet
Porteous, met her first ghost when she
went down the cellar & was struck on
the back of the head.When she turned
round there was nobody there.The
couple's lounge clock has been
wrenched off the wall & the one armed
bandit went round on its own whilst
banging is heard during the night.The
mischievous man in the cellar is
thought to be the late Tom Cardwell
who died when a beer barrel fell on
him in 1876. The others are a young
boy in short trousers,an old lady in a
black skirt & shawl & a man who
shuffles through the bar.
Thomas Urwin was born in June 1912 at
Brandon colliery,Durham.A son of a
miner with eventually 3 sons & a
daughter of his own.Educated at
Brandon colliery & at 14 he left to
become a bricklayer until 1954.From
1948-65 he was a member of the UDC &
was chairman from 1954-55.At that time
he became the full time organiser of
the amalgamated union of Building
trade workers.In 1964 he became labour
MP for Houghton & Seaham .In 1968 he
became a minister of state & from
1969-70 was responsible for the
northern region policy.Between 1976-79
he was the leader of the British
delegation at the council of Europe
& in 1976 was appointed Chairman of
the socialist group in the council of
Europe.In 1982 he retired from
politics due to poor health.He
returned to Houghton.
Houghton quarry is a magnesian
limestone & sand quarry on Miller's
Hill overlooking the town,& is
overlooked by Newbottle village.
Quarrying has taken place here for
many years & the working now covers
13.5 hectares (34 acres) with faces
about 50 metres high.It will be
eventually restored to about normal
ground level by filling it with waste
materials.Fieldhouse quarry is a sand
quarry situated to the north east of
the town & is visible from a wide area
to the south.The quarry is located at
the site of an old sand pit and while
working has increased in recent years
this is still a relativly small quarry
occupying about 5 hectares (12 acres)
with working faces about 30 metres
high. There remains a small core of pre-1914
property round Newbottle Street,Edwin
Street,Nesham place & along Burn Park
road.Some of them lack basic amenities
but have been modernised. Private &
council estates have been added to
this core.The inter-war years saw the
Newtown,Hall lane,Hetton Road, & parts
of the villa and North Rectory estates
being developed but private
construction was limited.Since this
period the private sector has rapidly
expanded,the main part of this being
Leeholme,Mill Hill,Lawnswood & Dairy
lane estate (500 dwellings) 36 units
of three schemes for sheltered housing
are in the council's plans. Newbottle
is mainly private housing leading up
the hill to the village. Fence Houses
is a mixture of council property &
private terraced houses along the main
street. The Joe Bartley Memorial Sports Hall
opened on the 14th October 1984 by the
Mayor Counciller George Elliott.The
indoor facilities are provided in the
sports hall & Welfare are provided in
the Sports & Welfare Halls.There are
also parking,changing & outdoor
facilities.It has activities such as
Badmington,5-a-side,table tennis,
basketball,netball,aerobics,dancing &
keep fit classes.It also includes a
solarium.The Welfare Hall can be used
by local societies & clubs & available
for hire for private functions such as
wedding receptions and discos.It has a
bar,stage,meeting room,tv room & a
snooker table.Outside there is an all
weather playing area & a large grassed
area,which is flood lit.There are 6
bowling greens & 4 tennis courts.The
sports complex is open 7 days a week
from 10am to 10pm. Houghton Feast celebrates the
dedication of St.Michael's church.It's
origins are unknown but it probably
dates back to the 12th.Century.It
lapsed however,but was revived in the
16th. Century by the Rector Bernard
Gilpin.The Feast is Held on the 10th.
of October.(If it does not fall on a
sunday then it is held on the
preceding Sunday).Since the war it has
developed into a busy 2 weeks of
religious,social,cultural & sporting
activities.There is always a fair and
the Town centre is Illuminated.The
highlight is a parade followed by the
roasting of a large Ox from which the
public can buy sandwhiches. In 1937 the area was recovering from
the great depression & on 12th.May
the coronation of King George VI was
celebrated.Then the prosperity of the
area depended on coal mining which was
the major employer.The colliery closed
in 1982.In 1937 the town contained
many older houses that lacked basic
facilities,particularly on the
hillside,but post war period by
pleasent housing estates rural
landscape that then surrounded the
town.The town centre has almost been
compleatly redeveloped & a new road
system created with Sunderland street
almost dissapeering.The ancient
rectory and grounds have been
converted into council offices & park
grounds.Life then was very difficult.
People worked hard for low wages. Most children left school at 14, boys
went to the pit and many girls went
off to domestic service. Discipline
was stricter, parents were less
indulgent and society less permissive.
Religion played a bigger role in life,
most children went to Sunday school.
Pleasures were simple,TV did not
exsist but radio was in general use.
Most people visited the cinema in
Houghton-Children attended a Saturday
matinee.There was far less in the way
of health care,neighbours & relatives
cared for the sick.Many diseises were
incurable.Motor traffic was much less
than now (some horses were still in
use),only the prosperous owned
personal transport.Few workers had
annual holidays so day trips to the
sea-side or bank holidays were much
appreciated. This survey of Houghton-le-Spring was
carried out by pupils of Bernard
Gilpin School
Barry Cowell,Martin Hackett,Paul
Waterfield,David Waterfield,Peter
Bassett ,David Reed,Stephen
Curtis,Darren Welch,Robert Crabb
& pupils from Houghton Juniors &
Newbottle Primary School
Entered by RICHARD VARDY &
BARRY STAVERS 1985
These are our recollections of the shops and businesses that were in Newbottle Street from about 1948/9 to 1952/3.
Left hand side on leaving The Broadway.
Co-op
Coliseum picture house
Woolworths
Stone’s pork butchers
Barclays Bank
(Wheler Street opening)
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Hodgson’s – radio & electrical, accumulator charging, later television
Gilroy’s bakers
Post Office
Bruce’s fancy goods
Johnston’s drapers and sock making factory – not too busy at this time.
Grand picture house
Empire picture house
Newbottle Street School
(Station Road opening)
Leith’s cycles
Welfare Centre
George Reed’s sale rooms
Gas show rooms
Bramfitt’s
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Hi Paul
This is the first time I have used the hillside site,I have followed your progress on the restoration for a few years, and I was disgusted !! Regarding the resent vandalism on the lytch gate and surrounding area by these mindless morons.
I am an old Houghtonian now residing in Hall Farm Doxford park, and still visit the The old Cemetery, that's what I called it when I was a kid." The old cem".
What were was the council thinking about when they removed all the grave stones and buried them near what we as kids called the devils point. This changed the original plateau to a nothingness,
As a young lad I spent many happy hours in the summer holidays playing in "the old cem "with my mates. Vandalism no! Hide and seek was our entertainment .
One point I must mention regarding George Elliot's tomb, in the late 50s or the very early 60s as I can recall, the tomb was broken into and left open for quite a while.We never ventured inside to scared. It is such a pity these things occur why are kids changing ? On the whole I find the situation strange!
Regarding post war history of Houghton I spent my younger days living in the prefabs on Arcon estate next to the Villa estate. This estate was demolished in the early 60s I have a few photo`s I will send in an attachment. Note the old Anderson shelters utilized as coal house. In the photo`s are myself and my mam, Jean Jones ne, Parton also a Houghtonian.
I am studying for a B.A. In archaeology & Ancient history at Leicester university, one of my assignments are a bibliography on a object. I have chosen a beer bottle I dug up in the garden when I was living in Brinkburn crescent in 1962 it is from Robinson bros brewery in Houghton.
Along with other bottles found in this context I believe this was an old Victorian rubbish tip? I would be extremely grateful if you could give me any information on the brewery. Do you have any information on where the bottles were manufactured. Looking forward to your reply. My assienment has to submitted on April 10th. Hope you can help.
Kind regards
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Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Do you know where Gillies Lane, Houghton-le-Spring was?
Several organisations were set up towards the end of the nineteenth century to supply housing for widows and retired miners, who could otherwise be evicted from their tied houses. The Durham Aged Miners' Association built the Joicey homes in 1906 and was named after wealthy mine owning family.
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Do you know where Gillies Lane, Houghton-le-Spring was?
murders in houghton le spring Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Do you know anything about the Arcon Estate in Houghton le Spring? It was where the Villa Estate now stands. Please get in touch if you have photos or memories!
Do you know where Gillies Lane, Houghton-le-Spring was?
Houghton-le-Spring Drill Hall is also known as Houghton Drill Hall and was located next to Henry Street and Edwin Street, DH5
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4 school class photos from when his Son was at Houghton Grammar 1967 1969 1971 1973. During this time the name was changed to Secondary, that would be when the Secondary Modern in Hall Lane became Bernard Gilpin prior to it being demolished and the B G Primary being built on the site. The photos are all black and white and in very good condition within cardboard mounts.
Rev. C. E. Adamson, M.A. The new Rector of Houghton-le-Spring ... Reprinted from “Heslop's Local Advertiser,” Felling, September 9th, 1910.
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HOUGHTON LE SPRING, A HISTORY.
A book by Frank H Rushford, published by Durham County Press in 1949. The dimensions of the book are approx 9 inches x 6 inches, there are 97 pages, and it is in tidy condition, although the cover is a little grubby with slight wear to corners of the boards and spine. Binding is intact. There are a couple of pages with minor marks on them, others are all clean.
The book was written in 1949 and gives a good account of the history of the town of Houghton-le-Spring with some interesting photographs of the town and surrounding area. The picture of Fatfield Bridge is reproduced here.
Hopper Square referred to in the locality as 'The Square', it was behind Sunderland Street going up and could be reached from several directions, top of Robinson Street (sometimes walked up that way from school to my Grandparents in Ironside Street), Sunderland Street about opp Ironside St, top of Mautland St by bearing slightly left to bottom of George St. Tongue of Big Ben reportedly cast in Hopper Square Foundry. A Salvation Army up that way too. I know someone who lived in a house in the Square as a baby, can picture its position but not the street name, will ask him if I get the chance.
When I started work as an apprentice electrician in 1949 at Silksworth Colliery there was an electrician there called Donald Young who lived in one of the streets off towards the top of Sunderland Street. He was an amateur photographer and in 1950 he opened up a shop half way up Sunderland Street. He used the front as a studio and did his developing and printing in the rear of the premises. It was all 'black and white' photography in those days as was, I beleive, Hunters - our photography certainly was as colour films and processing were very expensive.
This website now sells copies of the new Houghton-le-Spring book 'Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages'.
The Houghton Miners Project aims to record the details, memories and recollections of all the remaining living miners who worked at the colliery in Houghton-le-Spring. The Colliery opened in 1827 and when it closed in 1981 was known as the oldest colliery in County Durham. The site of Houghton Colliery is now a landscaped area, covered in grass and home to wild rabbits, and the occasional graffiti artist. Find out more online at: www.houghtonheritage.co.uk
An old OK TRAVEL bus parked outside of the Shoppers Paradise store, Houghton-le-Spring, circa 1975. The 161 service ran from Low Moorsley, via Houghton and on to Sunderland.
The Old Bank, formerly Jaks Bar, Sunderland Street, originated as a branch of the North-Eastern Banking Company Ltd.
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NRWS - George Stephenson's 1822 Hetton to Sunderland Railway - former Engine Shed - Warden Law - Houghton-le-Spring
fairground gallopers dvd Do you know where we can buy Bernard Gilpin Ale or Bernard Gilpin light beer? This commemorative beer is available from this website over the Bernard Gilpin Weekend in March 2011.
Bellasis Tomb Houghton-le-Spring Baptist Chapel
William WHELDON of Houghton le Spring, County Durham. Wheelwright.
The Old Bank, formerly Jaks Bar, Sunderland Street, originated as a branch of the North-Eastern Banking Company Ltd.
Houghton-le-Spring Drill Hall is also known as Houghton Drill Hall and was located next to Henry Street and Edwin Street, DH5
Mary le Spring was sister of John le Spring Houghton-le-Spring: Journey Through Time
FREE DVD SCREENING on Thursday May 28th 2009 at 7:00pm
in the Old Bank Bar & Bistro Sunderland Street, Houghton-le-Spring
The Old Bank (formerly Jaks Bar) located in the heart of Houghton le Spring, situated on Sunderland Street opposite the Job Centre and the Buffaloes Club (formerly The Buffs). Customers can enjoy a wide range of teas, coffees, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. Bring your friends and enjoy a new and unique experience in Houghton le Spring. Find out more at: www.theoldbank.co.uk
Feel free to bring along your old photos and memories, as there will be an opportunity to share these after the presentation.
Where are the gallows in Houghton-le-Spring? Do you know where criminals would have been hanged in Houghton-le-Spring?
GWILLIAM, Rev Canon Oswald 1916–1920 (Ma B)
One of the oldest Blues, the Rev Canon Oswald Gwilliam (MB 16-20) died in February 1997. He studied at St Chad's College, Durham, was ordained in 1926/7 and served in the diocese of Durham throughout his ministry. After a long curacy in Gateshead he was vicar successively of Holy Trinity, South Shields (1932-41), Seaham with Seaham Harbour (1941-48) and Houghton-le-Spring (1948-71). He was made an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral in 1953. In advanced old age he was living in a caravan outside Carlisle.
Houghton-le-Spring Baptist Chapel
Mautland Square shops, Mautland Street chapel
Houghton-le-Spring Drill Hall is also known as Houghton Drill Hall and was located next to Henry Street and Edwin Street, DH5
seaham hall ghostly sightings Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. To contact the Houghton Le Spring Heritage Centre please click HERE.
Can you remember i was on about a shop years ago near the park at houghton were you could buy sweet tobacco and fishing nets for fishing out the little sticklebacks and gold fish out of the pond..I remembered the name Ferguson's.
The settlement of Newbottle lies to the north of the settlement of Houghton-le-
Spring. The origin of the place name of Newbottle derives from the Old English niwe
(new) and botl (house); this suggests early medieval origins for the settlement (Watts
2002).
Mautland Square shops, Mautland Street chapel
Houghton Feast 2010
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We used to shop Mautland Square shops, right next to the Mautland Street chapel
The Old Bank, formerly Jaks Bar, Sunderland Street, originated as a branch of the North-Eastern Banking Company Ltd.
Houghton Feast 2010
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Old shops on Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring:
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
view of mansion, with, approaching on the right, two horsemen with a pack of fox hounds. Murton House, built in 1709, is more usually known as Morton House, and is near Fence Houses.
Houghton Feast 2010
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Houghton Feast 2010
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the Tudor Banquet, also known as the Apostle of the North Banquet on Friday 4th March 2011. Tickets £15 from John Lambton 5841591
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Houghton Feast 2010
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Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. Houghton Feast 2010
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In Houghton-le-Spring there were thirteen cotmanni, each of whom held twelve acres of land, and wrought for the lord two days in each week throughout the year; and four days at harvest, with all their family, except the housewife, and each rendered one hen and five eggs. [Boldon Book]
Cotarii were cottagers who had a small portion of land and pair rent to the lord.
Houghton Feast 2010
Houghton Heritage Centre
A view in ink of an old house at Houghton-le-Spring
In Houghton-le-Spring there were thirteen cotmanni, each of whom held twelve acres of land, and wrought for the lord two days in each week throughout the year; and four days at harvest, with all their family, except the housewife, and each rendered one hen and five eggs. [Boldon Book]
In 1854, following a cholera outbreak, Hillside Cemetery was consecrated next to The Cut, on the site of an old quarry.
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St Michael and All Angels Parich Church and Heritage Centre
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Medieval church, newly opened heritage visitors centre with story boards on the history of the town and church including the heritage trail.
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Design a stained glass window.
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A690 between Durham and Sunderland.
Opening Times
Friday 11th September: 1000-1400
Saturday 12th September: 1000-1500
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Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. houghton-le-spring heritage centre
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Jean Lyon (née Nicholsen) (22 September 1713 – 22 April 1778) was the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the wife of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. The couple were married on 20 July 1736, at Houghton le Spring in Tyne and Wear, England and had seven children:
John Bowes
James Philip Lyon
Thomas Lyon
Mary Lyon
Susan Lyon, wife of John Lambton
Anne Lyon. Married John Simpson. Their daughter Maria Susannah Simpson married Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.
Jane Lyon
She died on 22 April 1778 in Hetton Le Hole, County Durham, England.
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1581 - By his will of December 20th 1581, Henry Ayton of Newbottle, yeoman, directed his body to be buried in Houghton church, and he gave 20 shillings to the poor of Houghton-le-Spring.
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WHEATLEY’S CONFECTIONERY
LEFT: The front of Wheatley’s sweetshop in 1927 – approximately opposite SuperDrug now. RIGHT: J.Wheatley’s confectioner’s shop fronting Cox’s Indoor Market, circa 1930.
W Wheatley & Son, Confectioners, Hawdonside Works, Sunderland Street, circa 1960s.
Wheatley’s Toffee Works, circa 1950.
Mr Alf Wheatley, proprietor, (right) and other workers preparing mint rock at the Hawdonside Works, Sunderland Street, circa 1960.
Staff of W Wheatley & Son, 1965.
A final glimpse of Wheatley’s sweetshop in 2004. This particular shop is almost opposite Kwik Save and was subsequently converted into a bridal shop.
The Houghton Miners Project aims to record the details, memories and recollections of all the remaining living miners who worked at the colliery in Houghton-le-Spring. The Colliery opened in 1827 and when it closed in 1981 was known as the oldest colliery in County Durham. The site of Houghton Colliery is now a landscaped area, covered in grass and home to wild rabbits, and the occasional graffiti artist. Find out more online at: www.houghtonheritage.co.uk
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In 1826, Houghton-le-Spring parish covered an enormous area, including several communities which would later be large enough to carve their own parishes out of the mother church of Saint Michael's. At the time, this parish included Houghton-le-Spring itself, Colliery Row, Shiney Row, Newbottle, The Herringtons, Warden Law, Copt Hill, Hetton-le-Hole, Hetton-le-Hill, Easington Lane, The Raintons, Moorsley, Leamside, Morton Grange, Fence Houses, Chilton Moor, Philadelphia, Wapping, Lambton, Bournmoor, Lumley and Cocken. The burial registers also include a few stragglers from the neighbouring parishes of Seaham, Easington, Pittington, Chester-le-Street, Penshaw and Bishopwearmouth. The registers for 1826-54 cover the cholera epidemic of 1830-31 and the Houghton Colliery Disaster of November 1850. Until August 1833, the registers listed the names of the parents of deceased children, an uncommon practice in Anglican churches of the period and a priceless bonus for genealogists. One of the children of Thomas Hepburn, the leader of the Northumberland and Durham miners in the great strikes of 1831 and 1832, is recorded. The old graveyard at Houghton was finally closed in 1854, replaced by Houghton Cut Cemetery. This was in turn replaced by the new Houghton Cemetery in 1892. We will be be covering Houghton burials after 1854 and before 1826
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1832 – October - St Michael's Curate, Rev Mr Shepherd, refused to perform the usual Service during the burial of a deceased child in Houghton churchyard, owing to the fact that the child had not been baptized by a church clergyman, but by a Wesleyan Minister. A “very conciliatory apologetic letter” was sent to the family afterwards from Houghton Rector, Rev Thurlow, following legal measures taken by the Sunderland [Methodist] Leader's Meeting.
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In
loving memory of
Thomas
dearly beloved husband of
Susannah Husband
who died through injuries
received at Houghton Colliery
Where are the gallows in Houghton-le-Spring? Do you know where criminals would have been hanged in Houghton-le-Spring?
Since the opening of the current centre in November 1997 our congregation and range of activities have grown, but our commitment to the life-giving message of Jesus has not changed.
As part of our Centenary Celebration in 2003, we printed a copy of a letter outlining the history of Bethany, written by Mr Tom Jolliffe.
In the year 1907, as a boy of eight years, I first became acquainted with the Assembly in Houghton-le-Spring. We had come from Jarrow to reside at Easington Lane, and as my mother had been in Fellowship in Jarrow Assembly, naturally she sought for like Fellowship in Houghton-le-Spring. She was directed to Mr Frank Jones, who had a chemist shop in Newbottle Street, there she found that the brethren met for the Breaking of Bread in the two rooms above the shop and the next Sunday Morning we met them for the first time.
In the Assembly at that time, were the following brethren; Mr F Jones, Mr G Welch, Miss Waller, Miss Hissett, Mr & Mrs J Denny, Mr G Lord, Mrs Greaves, Mrs Hockly and Mr & Mrs F Fish. Being of a curious nature I wanted to know when they had first met. Mr Jones and Mr Welch were my chief informants and later I got confirmation from older brethren in Sunderland, Gill Bridge Assembly.
In 1903 three young brethren, who were Sunday School teachers in Gill Bridge Assembly, started open air work in Houghton-le-Spring. The three young brethren, namely, Mr Jones, Mr Welch and Mr David Guyan, prospered in their efforts, and souls were saved, Mrs Fish being the first one, followed later by her husband. In full Fellowship with Gill Bridge Assembly, they commenced Breaking of Bread Meetings, in the two rooms above Mr Jones’ shop where they continued for a long time. In 1908 the Hope’s family came from Jarrow, to reside in Easington Lane and naturally they came to Houghton-le-Spring Assembly. A short time later, Mr Jones rented a hall from the Good Templars in Sunderland Street and the Assembly moved there, for the Breaking of Bread, Sunday School and Gospel Services. Everything seemed to be going well until a doctrinal question arose. The majority of the brethren were against it, but as Mr Jones was responsible for the hall the remainder of the brethren decided to leave, leaving Mr Jones in possession of the hall. For a good number of years the Assembly moved from house to house, but mainly in my mother’s home. In 1912, they rented a hall in Pottery Yard, and again regular meetings were started, namely Breaking of Bread, Sunday School, Gospel Meetings and Bible Readings.
In the latter half of 1913, the brethren rented no. 3 Union Street and after a lot of hard work, cleaning the place, meetings were commenced and the Lord blessed the work there. I myself was saved in the year 1916 and several others that are still in Fellowship with us can look back to the day, when we took Christ as our Saviour in the old 3 Union Street hall.
As the years passed it became apparent that we needed a larger place and on 1 January 1932 we moved into our own Hall in Mautland Street. It was a big improvement from 3 Union Street but we soon found we didn’t have all the facilities we needed and in 1951 we started a Building Fund. Through to good offices of Mr R Vardy, we secured the land (on which the present Hall is built), for a nominal sum.
In 1965 the building of the new Hall was commenced and on 6 November 1965 the new Hall was opened and a large crowd attended the opening ceremony. At last we seem to have all the facilities we need and I pray that God will bless us in the future as He has done in the past. We have a splendid bunch of young people and on them will (D.V.) fall the task of working in the gospel and I pray that God will bless their efforts and that they may see fruit for their labour.
T.E.J
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Do you know how old the Tythe Barn is in Houghton Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring? When does it date from?
Heath Grange, Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 is now on the site of the old Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse.
f the kingdom. We must not omit to state that the last famous forging turned out of the Houghton-le-Spring Forge was the tongue for Big Ben, the great bell of the now Houses of Parliament. Shortly after his forge was in full swing at Houghton he began a small foundry, and in this comparatively small foundry every cast iron bridge between Newcastle and Darlington in the old line of railway was made. And along with these varied branches of manufacture there was carried on in the works at Houghton the construction of coal waggons on an extensive scale. But we have reserved to the last the mention of a branch of handicraft in which the name of Hopper was carried to every part of the globe. We refer to the manufacture of spikes for fastening the chair to the sleepers, the spikes being of the twisted type, which he lived to supply to every corner of the world. At one time he fastened by this fastening every inch of the railway from Berwick to Bristol, from Blyth to Maryport. One contract for India alone amounted to two thousand five hundred tons. About twenty-one years ago the enormous increase of his business forced him to begin a new factory nearer to the railway at Fence Houses. This was an enterprise which many of his old friends feared would prove of too extensive a character for one individual, however Herculean his strength or versatile his resources. The undaunted energy of the man and his great capacity for work triumphed so far as to gather together here a large railway truck factory, engine works, foundry, rolling mills, spike factory, a colony of houses for the workmen, gas works to supply the works with gas, and water works to bring the water from a distance. To show the enormous dimensions of this building, we may remind our readers, not long after these works started, the widow of his old employer, Lord Londonderry, entertained 6000 of his workmen to dinner in the building to be used as a railway truck factory. In the course of last year the firm with which Mr Hopper was connected as senior partner, like so many works similarly circumstanced in all parts of the kingdom, incurred enormous losses, and this praying on a mind keenly sensitive to commercial honour undoubtedly hastened his end. His friends thought a short while ago that he had taken, as the phrase is “a new lease of his life” but frequent attacks of sickness and weakness at last exhausted the power of nature. During the last day of his life he lay in a lamentably prostrate condition. At eleven o’clock he breathed his life away, it being difficult for the byestanders to determine the exact moment of his departure.
Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. This website now sells copies of the new Houghton-le-Spring book 'Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages'.
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the Tudor Banquet, also known as the Apostle of the North Banquet on Friday 4th March 2011. Tickets £15 from John Lambton 5841591
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Schools in the Houghton-le-Spring district
Abbreviations used throughout this guide :-
LB = log books AR = Admissions registers
PB = punishment books M = Managers/Governors minutes
P = photographs DR = Discharge registers
O = anything other than the above
Bernard Gilpin Secondary, Houghton
M: 1958-74 (630/551)
Burnside County, Houghton
M: 1968-74 (630/546)
Gillas Lane Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
M: 1964-73 (630/543)
Hopper Street Council Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
LB: 1865-1955 (T118/200-202)
M: 1909-74 (630/530)
Houghton-le-Spring Council Intermediate
M: 1933-36 (T156/4)
Houghton-le-Spring Day
M: 1970-2 (630/599)
Houghton-le-Spring Grammar
M: 1958-72 (630/556)
Houghton-le-Spring Nursery
LB: 1946-68 (T118/197)
M: 1947-73 (630/524-525)
Lambton Colliery Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Lambton National Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Lambton National Mixed, Houghton-le-Spring (E.HS1)
LB: 1872-1901
Newtown County Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
LB: 1924-65 (T118/170-171)
AR: 1910-46 (T156/34-35)
O: 1953-64 (T156/82-108)
M: 1934-61 (T156/3)
St Michael C E Houghton-le-Spring
AR: 1869-1910 (T156/30-33)
O: 1904-34 (T156/56)
see also Newtown County Infants
St Michael's C E Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Newtown Council Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
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1675. — John Tempest, Esq J
Thomas Vane, Esq.§
* Eldest son of George Lilburn, of Sunderland, Esq. (before named) ; lie lived at Offerton,
where the family held considerable estates. In his politics he was a Kingling, or one who voted
that the crown and title should be offered to Cromwell — and in the pamphlets of the day he is
called a Captain of Horse, worth £273 per annum. In the following Parliament, 1658, he re-
presented Newcastle. He bore a commission of Major in Monk's army. He died 25th March,
1665, and was buried at Houghton-le-Spring. On his monument, he is described as "one of
the instrumental persons in his Majesty's happy restoration."
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WORD PITMATIC(Spelt phonetically) MEANING EXAMPLE
As well As weell As well as
Bottom Borrim Opposite of the top He fell to the borrim.
Break Brick Yull brick yer neck.
Can’t Canner or cannit Can not
Dead Deed Bit the bullet He’s deed now.
Do Dee
Doing Dee-ing
Don’t Dint Do not
Ever Ivv-ah
Every Ivvery
Face F-yass
First Fust
Forgotten Forgerrin
Fortnight Fot-neet Two weeks
Four Foww-er
Go Gan Let’s gan out.
Great Git or Grit Git big teeth.
Hanging Hinging Dangling
Home Yairm
Horse Hoss
I Ah
I’m Am
Know Narh
Made M-yad To make The more you cut, the more money yer m-yad.
Me Is
More Mare More than
Mouth P-yatt
My Me
Myself Meesell
Never Nivver
Night Neet Night time
No Nee
Old Arrd or owld
Open Oppen
Pounds Punds Currency
Quite Canny Quite a bit A canny bit of money.
Seven Sivvun
Sparrow Spuggie A small common bird
Straight Strite
Table Chabble Where you eat your dinner
Talk Tahhk
Thirty Thut-ee
Those Them
To Tee
Told Telt
Water Watter Wet liquid
You’ll Yull You will
Young people Youngins
From the Newcastle Journal website at: http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/09/05/memories-of-second-world-war-put-on-houghton-heritage-website-61634-24612244/
Houghton-le-Spring Baptist Chapel
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETERY.
Do you know where we can buy Bernard Gilpin Ale or Bernard Gilpin light beer? This commemorative beer is available from this website over the Bernard Gilpin Weekend in March 2011.
Notice is hereby given that representations have been made to Her Majesty in Council by the Secretary of State for the Home Department that burials should be discontinued in the following places of burial and that Her Majesty in Council was pleased on 9 February 2005, to order that such representations be taken into account by a Committee of the Privy Council on 11 March 2005.
1. Houghton Cut Detached Burial Ground, Houghton-Le-Spring, Tyne and Wear;
2. Shortwood Churchyard, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
Number 1
Double-deck open top tram destined for Fencehouses – pictured in Houghton-le-Spring town centre, circa 1905 = I have 2 different photos of this tram.
Number 22 or 21
Double-deck covered roof tram destined for Sunderland - pictured in Houghton-le-Spring town centre, circa 1915. Advertising VIROL, an old fashioned ‘strengthening medicine’ for “children and invalids”.
Numbers 20 and 7
Number 20 is a double-deck covered roof tram destined for Fencehouses - pictured in Houghton-le-Spring town centre, circa 1906. Number 7 is parked behind and is destined for Grangetown.
Numbers 27 and 12
Number 27 is a double deck tram destined for Fencehouses - pictured in Houghton-le-Spring town centre, circa 1910. Number 12 is an open-top double-deck tram parked behind and is destined for Grangetown.
Number 12
Double-deck, open top tram destined for New Herrington - pictured in Houghton-le-Spring town centre passing White Lion pub, circa 1910.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETERY.
1906 - Crimean War veteran, George Wheatley, died on December 11th.
1907 - A section in the Durham Road municipal Cemetery was finally consecrated.
1926 - August 26th - The last of the Hillside Cemetery trustees, Avery Norman Robinson, died and was interred at the Hillside Cemetery. Mr GH Stevens, Solicitor and Church Street resident, became manager. His present day granddaughter, Virginia Gatherer, was one of the founding members of Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery in 2003.
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1936 - 1938 - Reconstruction of the Houghton Cut opening.
1930s - 1940s - Bill Scott, caretaker and gravedigger, lived in the Lodge with his wife. He was a drinker – but never in pubs – and his wife made homebrew in the Lodge cellar. One day a shelf collapsed and she cut her hands and knees on the Glass. It is said that she got poisoned blood poisoning and died!
1940 - July - During World War II, high explosive bombs were dropped on the Houghton Cut/Hillside area of Houghton-le-Spring.
Houghton Feast 2010 PROGRAMME
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3RD 2009 between 10am – 1:00pm
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7TH 2009 at 7:00pm
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH 2009 10am – 12noon
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH 2009 at 2.00pm
Grey Woods, Houghton-le-Spring
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETERY.
Parts of Hillside Cemetery are recognised as a Regionally Important Geomorphological/Geological Site.
Grey Woods, Houghton-le-Spring
HOUGHTON
CUT DETACHED BURIAL GROUND, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, TYNE & WEAR. St Michael's
Churchyard. Sunderland Street, Houghton-le-Spring. Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Grey Woods, Houghton-le-Spring
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Notice
is hereby given that it is the intention of the Secretary of State for the
Home Office acting on an application by the incumbent, the Rev'd Dr IG Wallis,
to apply to the Privy Council for an Order requiring the discontinuance of
burials in Houghton Cut detached burial ground, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and
Wear. Provision
would be made for the following exception:-
in any earthen grave existing in the said Churchyard, the burial may be allowed
of the body of any member of the family of the person or persons theretofore
buried in such grave, subject to the condition that no part of the coffin
containing the body shall be at a depth less than one metre below the level
of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave. This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETERY.
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Any
representations about the proposed closure should be sent to the Home
Office, Coroners Section, 5th Floor, Allington Towers, 19 Allington Street,
London SW1E 5EB (quoting reference BCR/00 13/2/25)
within 21 days of this publication. Sheila Quigley, run for Home, Bad Moon
Rising, Houghton-le-Spring, books. Commonwealth War Graves . Otto Hellstrom.
Houghton Cut detached Churchyard. The Cut Burial Ground. A690. Houghton RATS.
Burial records. Local history. Ken Richardson. Geoffrey Berriman. Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. Houghton-Le-Spring (St. Michael)
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (St. Michael), a town and parish, and the head of a union, in the N. division of Easington ward and of the county of Durham, 6½ miles (N. E.) from Durham, and 266 (N. N. W.) from London; containing 16,833 inhabitants, of whom 2084 are in the town. This place, which takes its name from a family to whom it belonged soon after the Conquest, is one of the great manors of the see of Durham. It is beautifully situated in a luxuriant vale, sheltered on the north and east by a lofty chain of hills, and opening towards the south and west into an extensive and richly cultivated plain, interspersed with large tracts of majestic woods, and abounding with romantic scenery. The town has been increasing within the last twenty years, and contains numerous spacious and handsome houses, inhabited by opulent families; nearly in the centre of it is Houghton Hall, the ancient mansion of the family of Hutton, now extinct, a plain edifice of the 16th century, of which the exterior has been lately much improved. The trade arises chiefly from the numerous coal-mines in the neighbourhood; and nearly adjoining the place are an iron-foundry and forge, in which a large number of persons are employed. A fair is held on the Sunday after New Michaelmas-day, and continues for the two following days, when there are horse-races and various other amusements. The seneschal of the Bishop of Durham holds a halmote court twice in the year, for the recovery of debts not amounting to 40s.; and petty-sessions for the division are held every alternate week by the county magistrates. The parish, which is bounded on the north by the river Wear, comprises the townships of South Bidick, Bourn-Moor, Cocken, Great and Little Eppleton, East and Middle Herrington, West Herrington, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton-le-Spring, Moorhouse, Moorsley, Morton-Grange, Newbottle, Offerton, Painshaw, East and West Rainton, and Warden-Law. It contains about 14,600 acres, and in the township of Houghton are 1475a. 14p.; of the latter, 893 acres are arable, 554 grass-land, 10 wood, and 17 waste. Freestone and limestone are quarried; and coal of the best quality is sent in large quantities to the London market, where it commands the highest prices: the greater part is conveyed by railway to the ports of Sunderland and Seaham.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £124; net income, according to the return made in 1835, £2157; patron, the Bishop. The tithes of Houghton township have been commuted for £261, and the glebe consists of 343 acres. The church, situated in the centre of the town, is an ancient cruciform structure in the early and decorated English styles, with a massive central tower, which was originally only about half its present height. The nave is divided from the aisles by ranges of clustered columns; and from the area beneath the tower, which is supported on four massive clustered columns, lofty pointed arches lead into the transepts and the choir: the east and west windows, of five lights, are of large dimensions and of elegant design. In the south transept are, a recumbent effigy of an armed knight, and an altar-tomb to the memory of the venerable Bernard Gilpin, many years rector of the parish. It may be noticed as a singular instance of longevity connected with this church, that in the year 1841, the rector was in his 78th year, the clerk in his 80th, the sextoness in her 86th, and the youngest of the attendant officers in the 76th year of his age. At Painshaw, Hetton-le-Hole, and other places, are additional churches. There are meeting-houses for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans, and a Roman Catholic chapel.
The Kepier Free Grammar school, situated at the north-east angle of the churchyard, was founded by letters-patent of Queen Elizabeth, in 1574, and endowed by Bernard Gilpin, and John Heath, Esq., of Kepier, near Durham, for the education of youth in the classics and higher departments of learning. The funds were augmented by Sir Geo. Wheler and the Rev. H. Bagshaw, subsequent rectors of the parish. The whole endowment, including a house with ample accommodation for 70 boarders, is now about £200 per annum; and attached to the school is an exhibition to any one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham. Among the many eminent men educated in the establishment, over which the original founder himself, to a certain extent, presided, giving personal instruction in his own study to several of the pupils, have been Hugh Broughton, a distinguished Hebrew scholar, and Dr. George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, the biographer of Gilpin. The Blue-coat school was founded by the Rev. Sir George Wheler, who bequeathed for its endowment £600, which sum was invested in land, producing an income of £80 per annum. An hospital originally founded by Bernard Gilpin, for six aged people, was rebuilt and endowed by George Lilburne, Esq., and the Rev. George Davenport, formerly rector of the parish; the buildings are situated near the grammar school, and consist of a centre and two wings, each containing two tenements. The union workhouse is a substantial stone building: the union comprises 15 townships in the parish, and the township of Silksworth in the adjoining parish of Bishop-Wearmouth, and contains a population of 16,067. Dr. Samuel Ward, an eminent divine, and master of Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge, who died in 1643, was a native of the parish.
I’m currently researching a gentlman called William Standish Standish who died in 1856 whilst living at a place called Cocken Hall, County Durham. Intriguingly, there
are two completely different accounts of how William met his death, before being laid to rest in a vault in a cemetery in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham.
A local newspaper of the period, the Durham County Advertiser, Friday 11th July 1856, carried the following report:
Death - We deeply regret to announce the death of William Standish Standish Esq of Coken Hall and Duxbury Park, Lancashire, which took place at an early hour yesterday
morning after a short illness at Cocken Hall. The deceased, who was in his 50th year, was universally respected by men of all classes in the north of England; and his amiable, benevolent and hospitable character had endeared him to a large circle of friends, by whom his loss will be truly and deeply regretted.
Strange that another story is also in circulation, the earliest source of which seems to be from a book published sometime around the early 1950’s, titled:
Houghton-le-Spring: A History by Frank H Rusford
W. STANDISH STANDISH
In the old cemetery are the vaults of several famous men of Houghton and district, and one of them contains the remains of Mr. W. Standish Standish, of Cocken Hall, who was buried at the foot of the cliff over which he fell with his horse in July, 1856.
Mr Standish was an author and artist whose eminence was appreciated over a wide area. His extensive and valuable gallery of pictures, together with his unique and costly
library of the rarest books, were bequeathed by him, in April, 1840, to Louis Phiippe, King of France. His Majesty deposited them in a suite of cabinets in the Louvre which
he named the ‘Musee Standish’. Mr. Standish valued his paintings at £32,000 and his books at £11,000. After the revolution of 1848, The Standish Collection was removed
to England and the gallery of pictures, with that by Spanish artists, was sold by public auction at Christie’s, London, in May, 1853.
There were paintings by Watteau, Morale, Murilla, Velasquez and others which brought such prices as 700 guineas, 205 guineas, 380 guineas and so on.
In 1848, Mr. Standish Standish offered the use of his residence at Duxbury Park to the ex-royal family of France, but the offer was declined.
The inscription on the vault’s memorial stone at Houghton-le-Spring reads:
Within this tomb lies the remains of the deservedly lammented William Standish Standish Esq of Duxbury Park, County of Lancashire and Cocken Hall in the County of Durham, who died at Cocken Hall July 10th 1856 aged 48 years.
The following report was printed in the Durham County Advertiser on Friday 18th July 1856:
Funeral of the late William Standish Standish Esq - Yesterday morning the mortal remains of the late Wm. Standish Standish Esq, were consigned to their final resting
place, in a vault in the new cemetery at Houghton-le-Spring. It was intended that the interment should have been in the family vault in the parish church of Chorley, but as
there was some difficulty in carrying this intention into effect, owing to the recent Act of Parliament, the funeral, as already stated, was at Houghton-le-Spring.
The funeral procession left Cocken Hall about 11 o’clock; it consisted of several mourning coaches and a large number of carriages, the whole of Cocken and Ludworth tenantry on horseback, besides a great number of the gentry and inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who attended to pay this last mournful tribute of respect to the memory of one, whom whilst living, they so highly esteemed.
Mrs Standish, Mrs Sinclair, Miss Standish, Captain Standish and Mr Sinclair were present at the mournful ceremony. H Fenwick Esq MP, HJ Spearman Esq, EC Jepson Esq, Geo Wilkinson Esq, C Branwell Esq, Rev RGL Blenkisop, Rev T Crossman, Rev G Lord and etc, and etc, besides a large number of tradesmen and other inhabitants of this city were likewise present. The funeral service was read in an impressive manner by one of the curates of Houghton-le-Spring parish church, after which, the funeral procession returned to the Hall.
Anyone think they might connect with this William Standish Standish gentleman?
Kind regards... David Allan.
Grey Woods, Houghton-le-Spring
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HOUGHTON-le-SPRING Co. Durham
COLISEUM Newbottle Street Opened 27 July OR Wednesday 3rd August 1921. Architect: Percy L. Browne & Glover. Props., Messrs John Lishman & Norman Robinson as "Coliseum (Houghton-le-Spring) Ltd or Grand Theatre". Mgr. C. Lane. Cap. 950. 1937: (WE) Prop., Lishman & Robinson. 1,002 seats. By 1941: (WE) – Prop., John Lishman. Phone 87. 999 seats. Booked at Hall by C. Lane. Twice nightly, Mon. and Sat. Once nightly rest of week. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone 137. Station, Fence Houses LNER. Closed 24 Jan 1960. 883 seats. Converted to supermarket.
EMPIRE THEATRE Newbottle Street Opened August 1911. Prop., Houghton Empire Theatres Ltd (Balmer, Son & Wheatley). Architect: J Gibson Cowe, Fencehouses. Pros width: 21', Stage depth (pros to rear wall): 15', stage width: 23'. Cap. 900 (stalls 250, dress circle 300, pit 300, + 50 standing). SG1912: Props Houghton Empire Electric Theatres Ltd, mgr W H Lindon Travers, cap 900, seating stalls 250, dress circ 300, pit 300, 3 dr rooms, kine box, Gaumont Chrono, gas and electric light, mat Sat, opened August 1911, adjoins Gaiety Theatre, pictures and variety. 1914: Wm D Murray, mgr. 1922 - Prop., Empire Entertainment Co. Res. Man., Robert Wheatley. One show nightly, two on Sat. Station, Houghton-le-Spring, NER. 1929: Robert Wheatley, manager. 1937: (WE) Houghton Empire Theatre Ltd. 600 seats. Phone 52. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Houghton Empire Theatre, Ltd. 600 seats. Booked at Hall by G. Wheatley. One show nightly, two on Mon. and Sat, Prices 3d. to 1s. Phone 52. Station, Fence Houses LNER. 1956, 750 seats. Closed 1961. Bingo to 1994 at least.
GAIETY THEATRE Newbottle Street Opened 29 July 1909. Props., Henry Hall, Robert Ernest Ainsley and Henry L Osmond. Architect: J. Davenport, Sons, & Co. Birmingham, plans dated June 1909 (as "proposed temporary Hippodrome"). Cap. 1300 (stalls, 100; dress circle, 200; pit, 500; gallery 500; 2 boxes, unspecified). ?opened as cinema August 1911. Licensee: Henry Hall. Cap. 1,250. SG1912: Props Hall and Ainsley, man dir J Ainsley, mgr S Roberts, md Mr Thompson-Wilson, stage mgr G Jarrett, stage play, m & d and kine licences, cap stalls 100 @ 1/6, dr circ 200 @ 1s pit 500 @ 6d, boxes 2 @ 10/6, gallery 500 @ 4d, mat Sat, 5 dr rooms, kine box, [printing], gas and electric light, stage depth 50' width 30', pros height 26' width 24', stage to grid 33', stage to fly floor 21', no variety season is run. 1916 to Robert Ernest Ainsley. 1922 as New G Th - Prop., J. Ainsley. Res. Man., R. Ainsley. One show nightly. One change weekly. Prices, 4d. to 2s. 4d. Phone 43. Station Fencehouses, NER. To John Lishman. ?re-named Grand 1925. Closed & demolished 1929 for New Grand.
CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / New GRAND THEATRE Newbottle Street Opened 21st April 1930 – on site of Gaiety. Architect: Percy L. Browne. 1,077 seats. 1937 as New Grand: (WE) Lishman & Robinson. 1,077 seats. Phone 137. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., John Lishman. 1,010 seats. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly Mon. and Sat. Once nightly rest of week, Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 30ft. deep; six dressing rooms, Phone 137. Station, Fence Houses, LNER. To Mrs. Winifred Lishman. To Essoldo February 1952. Re-named October 1962 OR February 1963. To Classic 2nd April 1972. Closed March 1975. Converted to supermarket.
PRESIDENT Hillside Way Opened 27 Nov 1977, twin screens in purpose-built building. Closed 1985.
THEATRE ROYAL S. James (1907) SYB 1908, stage 23' by 26' pros 18, fly rail 18'.
TOWN HALL PICTURE PALACE / Town Hall and Market Building Opened c.1872. Prop., Town Hall Co. SG1912: Prop Henry Cox, mgr Jack Bellamy, cap 800 (circle 250), pictures and variety, electric light and gas, mat Sat. KYB14: Prop., N. British Pic Co. Cap. 500.
According to the Houghton historian, the late CA Smith, Church Street was originally known as Commons Lane.
Heath Grange, Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 is now on the site of the old Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse.
The following information is from: http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk:
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Well I will take you step by step to Thomas Husband Street.
Walk along Hall Lane.
First opening on your left is still Holly Avenue. Walk to the top.
( I just looked at the area on Google Earth the other night so much of the rest has changed)
Turn right along Winsor Crescent, then sharp left across what is now grass area.
There is still a building on it's own to the left. It was Mrs.Walkers shop.
Walk straight ahead and you would come to Seaham Road with the fronts of John Street on your right running parallel with you as you walk. ( My gran moved into John Street around 1938 from Thomas Husband Street)
The back of John Street was also the back of Thomas Husband Street as it ran parallel with John Street. They ( Thomas Husband Street) were old stone built houses with a back yard and a bay windowed front. John Street were slightly newer and actually had a BATHROOM upstairs! The houses that were built on the Racecourse Estate after the war eventually extended right to the fronts of Thomas Husband Street. Seaham Road new housing started from the end of John Street and went all the way to the top of Seaham road.
My grandparents lived in 2 houses in this street. The houses are still there now.
If you look on Google Earth and follow Holly Ave. and the directions I have given you will find the landmarks.
The grass area I spoke of was a cinder path to Mrs Walkers shop from The top of Holly Ave and to the left of the path was the refuse tip which I suppose has been landfilled to the limit, stood the required length of time, as it now looks like park land and has houses on it!!!!
Windsor Crescent was a street of houses branching off from Kingsway. My partner Derrick Markham lived in this street as did his grandmother. Also my grandparents in yet another move lived at the top of this street!! (they did move around a lot in those days)
Mr Fish's ( general dealer) shop was round the corner of Windsor Cres. to the left and at the top right of Holly Ave.
ALTERNATIVELY you could go through the Market Square and up Seaham Road and pass a row of houses slightly set back on your right then I think a couple of houses then a gap. before the continuation of Seaham Road. It is at this gap that Thomas Husband Street started and ran at right angles with Seaham Road.
Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. Do you know how old the Tythe Barn is in Houghton Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring? When does it date from?
PALGRAVE'S WORD LIST
After F.M.T.Palgrave: A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham (English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896). It is one of the most extensive, accurate and informative works on North-East dialect, past or present.
An attempt has been made here to reproduce his markings on pronunciation - the colon seems to be a syllable divider (not a mark of vowel length). Palgrave gives no explanation of his phonetic system...
Abbut (aab:út). An introductory word. 'Ay, but,' or 'ah! but.' e. g. "abbut a will."
Abed. In bed. Various dialects.
About (u:boot). Around. "A'll twist yer neck about."—May 27, 1892.
Abune (u:byoon). Above.
Ahint. Behind.
Aliblaster. A large marble made of alabaster.
All (aa:l). Quite. Various dialects. Used of time or distance. "How far is't? One mile?" "Ay, it'll be all that." Note the future tense, where in the south the present would rather be used.
Alley. A glass marble used by boys in playing marbles. Probably from 'alabaster'. The game of German Tactics, played with these, always goes by the name of 'Glass alleys.'
And all. A common pleonasm, often signifying nothing, though it may stand for 'also.' "He was there and all."
Any (on:i) (always). At all. "Can ye sing ony?" I have also heard the double form 'any at all' from one speaking fine.'
Arnicks. The bulbs of the buttercup-tribe.
Ask. A small lizaid, or newt.
Ass. Ashes.
Aud-farand. Cunning; sagacious beyond one's years. (Spelling copied from Halliwell.)
Ay (aa:y). Yes (always). 'Yis' is fine, for gentlefolks' ears. Children are often corrected for answering 'ay' instead of 'yes' to their betters. Yet the native word sounds far more expressive. It is also very common as a mark of approval or attention, in listening to a narration.
Backcast. "We canno' backcast it," said by a widow of her son's illness, meaning, 'We cannot now order it differently.'— Feb. 25, 1892. This is not the general meaning. The word usually means a relapse. "Thoo's getten a backcast" (i. e. you've got a relapse).
Bad (baa:d). Poorly. Various dialects.
Badly liked (of persons). Disliked (always). So, to be 'badly taken with' (unpopular), to be 'badly used' (ill-used).
Baff (baaf). Technical The alternate, or 'off' day or week ('Baff Saturday,' 'Baff week') when the fortnightly wages are not paid to the miners. Opposed to 'Pay Saturday.'
Bag. To give a rabbit the 'bag' is to overfeed it and thus cause its death.
Bairn or Barn, a sound between /baan/ and /baan/. Child (always). So 'grand-bairns.' This latter probably imported from Northumberland.
Bait-poke. Linen bag in which workmen carry their food.
Bally (baa:li). A lever for turning points on a railway; so called from a big iron ball on the stem.
Bank (baangk). Hill. The word 'hill' is practically unknown in the dialect. Also technical for the 'pit'-surface, top of 'shaft.' To 'work at bank' is to do the colliery work above ground.
Barley (baa:li). To claim, to speak for first; as, "Barley me the big 'un."
Bat. Stroke, blow (always).
Bath (baath). vb. trans. To wash any one in a bath. Children are always 'bath'd.' For bathe, lads often say 'bave,' and 'bavin' hole' (piece of water dammed up).
Beck. Used indifferently with 'burn.' A stream.
Bedfast. Bed-ridden (always).
Bedstraw. Heard once in Hetton from a South Shields person:— "He was a thin man,—looked as if he lived on his own bedstraw."
Belong (bu:lang). Belong to, hail from. A man, on being asked where he 'belongs,' says, "I belong Hetton," meaning his home, or place of birth, according to circumstances. "War dis thoo belang?" "Aa belang canny Shields."
Berries. Generic name for all fruit of the berry kind.
Betimes. Sometimes; at times.
Bid. Invite to a funeral. "Was thou bid ?" When a miner dies, a 'bidder' goes round to all his fellow-workmen to bid them attend his funeral.
Bide. Stop, remain. Various dialects. 'Stop' is more generally used, but is finer. "Mind thou bides away." "Don't let them bide out night."—Extract from boy's essay.
Bill-knife. A knife used by butchers for cracking bones.
Bird's-eye. Germander Speedwell. "Bird's-eyes in summer."— Boy's essay.
Bit. Used adjectivally, as, 'a bit garden' (a little garden), 'a bit lad,' or 'a bit laddie,' 'a bit lass' or 'lassie '(a little boy or girl), etc. (always). We never say 'a bit of a —.' "Have a bit sport such as football," etc.—Boy's essay.
Bitch. A female. "Gan on, you bitch "(said in my hearing by a tiny child). Common term of abuse. A saying sometimes heard is, "Every dog has its day, and a bitch two afternoons."
Bite. A bit, morsel. "Not hadden a bite the day" (= to-day, /dhu dee:u/), is a beggar's usual plea. Two common sayings are "Bite the bridle and bear it," of 'lumping' anything disagreeable ; and, "I could bite a double tack nail in two" (a sign of hearty hunger).
Blackclock. Cockroach (always).
Blare. To cry. "A'll gi' th' something to blare for, if aa start wi' th'." "Thoo's always blarin'." So, 'blary,' noisy, of an infant.
Blather (blaadh:u). Gabble. "She blathers away when there's no one here," said of a baby's attempts to talk.— May 7, 1891. "Hard (hold) thy blatherin' tongue."
Blazer. A piece of sheet iron, put between the grate and the mouth of the chimney, in order to make the fire draw.
Bleck. Dirty grease, found on coal waggon-ways where rollers are used.
Bleeberry (blae:beri). Bilberry. The /e/ in 'berry' is quite distinct in compounds in the dialect, never as in literary English ('blea-berry,' not 'bleab'ry').
Blindy (blin:di). Blindman's Buff. The usual form is 'Billy-blindy.' See Willy blindy.
Blob. To bubble. "It blobs up."
Blood-alley. A bone-marble with red streaks in it.
Bloody (bluod:i). A favourite epithet amongst many pitmen, to be heard several times in every sentence from certain individuals.
Blush. Blister (subst. and vb.). "His hand's all blushed" (hizs haandzs aa:l bluosht).
Bogey (/g/ hard). Agric. A low, two-wheeled sleigh-cart for carrying hay to the stack without the trouble of pitching. The 'pikes' are drawn on to this cart by a rope, the ends of which are wound round a windlass-roller at the front end of the cart. Also, a square wooden truck on four wheels, for the purpose of removing heavy goods a short distance, called also a 'tram.' Down the pit, a bogey with an iron pin about two feet long, at each of the four corners, to prevent the timber and rails from falling off, would be called a 'horney tram.'
Bonny. Fine, pretty, handsome. "Thou's a bonny bairn." 'The Bonny Pit Lad' is an inn so-called in Easington Lane, near Hetton; "That's a bonny loss when ye're nae scholar"—May 8, 1891.
"Lee laa, let,
Ma bonny pet."
("Lie low, 'light," etc.,— said to a butterfly, in chasing it. /Lae:t/ = alight, settle.) 'Bonny bord' (bird), /baun:i bau:d/.
Bottles. Medicine (always).
Bottom. "We must all stand on our own bottoms," a common saying, equivalent to Gal. vi. 5. (Wae muos aa:l staan iv oo:r aa:n baut:mz.) Sometimes varied as follows:— "Every tub must stand on its own bottom."
Bowdie (boo:di). A sherd, or piece of broken earthenware.
Bowl (boo:l). Stone ball. The game is common in the North among pitmen. The one who throws the longest distance in three throws is declared the winner. Weight of 'bool' 5 ounces, 15 oz., 20 oz., and upwards. For the pronunciation of this somewhat difficult vowel, found also in bowl (cricket), see under /Ow/, p. viii.
Bowrie (boo:ri). The ring in which boys place their marbles, whilst playing.
Bracken. Brake-fern.
Braff'en (braaf:n). Horse-collar.
Brambles (braam:búlz) (always). Blackberry bushes and their fruit. 'Blackberry,' if used, would be 'black-berry' (the two words distinct,—see under Bleeberry). Blackberry jam is always 'bramble jam.' "Apple and bramble tart," "Bramble pudding" (from a menu at the North of England Cafe, Durham).
Bran-spanking-new. Quite new.
Brattice. In the house, a wooden boarding fastened at right angles to the door-frame, on the side where the door opens, so as to screen the room from draughts. Also, wood or canvas used in mines to help the air to travel.
Bray. Beat, thrash. "A'll bray tha weel."
Breed (brae:d). Bread. Compounds of bread are transposed; e.g. 'cheese and bread,' 'butter and bread,' 'jam and bread.'
Breed. To spread (of manure). Not heard about Hetton, but used in the county.
Brent. Steep (of stairs, ladders, and such-like erections).
Brimming. Boarward (of a sow), maris appetens.
Brinkside. River bank. "It's i' the brinkside" (said of a bird's nest).
Brock. Badger. "Aa's sweatin' like a brock." (Anglo-Saxon)
Broth. A plural word, as in other dialects. 'A little broth ' is always 'a few broth.'
Brownie (broo:ni) (always). Brown linnet. Singing competitions of these birds for a wager are held in public-houses, where they are always advertised as Brownie Matches.
Brung. past part. of 'bring.' 'Browt' and 'brung' are both used, the former being the commoner form. The word generally used in the dialect, however, is 'fetch.'
Buck-stick. The game of 'Trap, Bat, and Ball.' Called 'Spell and Nurr' by old men. The game is now obsolete, but the implements were as follows. Bat or Mallet: the 'buck-head' was about the size and shape of a small Yorkshire Relish bottle, with one side flat, though some players preferred to have it round. The stick inserted in the 'buck,' and fastened to it with cobbler's wax-ends, was generally a cane about a yard long. Trap: the 'trippets' were of two kinds. The wooden trippet,—a strip of wood with hollowed cup at the heavier end, and a heel underneath towards the other end to obtain leverage, like the trapstick in Trap, Bat, and Ball. The spring troppet:— a rod of steel, was fixed at one end in a frame, and the other end was then bent down and inserted between the teeth of an upright notched stick fixed in the other end of the frame. This saw, or toothed 'catch,' being struck outwards, released the steel rod or trippet, and this threw into the air a ball, called a 'pot quoit,' which had been placed in a cup soldered on to the trippet. The scores were counted by the number of 'rigs' over which the quoit was hit. The little lads who collected the 'chucks' or quoits were called 'chuckiers,' and their reward was a certain number of shots.
Buffet (buofet) (emphasis on the final syllable). Corner cupboard, the top half of glass, like a bookcase.
Bullet. A sweet(meat). The usual term. A large sweetshop in a certain North-country town is inscribed in large capitals —The Bullet King.
Bummeler. Bumble-bee.
Burn (bau:n). A stream.
Butcher. The stickleback, without a red belly. See 'Doctor'.
Butcher's Plums. Meat(?). On saying to someone I was visiting, "Who lives next door?" I was answered, "The butcher. That's where we get our butcher's plums." Only heard once.
Buzzer. (Technical). The steam whistle or 'fog-horn' that warns miners of the times for returning to and from work.
Buzzum (buoz:um). Besom, a kind of broom made of heather or ling. 'Bosom' is always pronounced /boo:zúm/.
Byreman. A man who works among cows. From 'byre,' a cowhouse. "Keep the cows bier clean."—-Extract from boy's essay.
Caff. Chaff.
Cage. Technical The lift which goes up and down in the shaft of a mine.
Call (kaa:l). E. g. 'What do they call you?' The invariable equivalent to 'What's your name?' this latter form of inquiry being gellerally unintelligible to children, as I have found by experience. Also, to abuse. "Please, sir, he called me," a schoolboy's common complaint of another boy to his master.
Callant. Boy, or girl. Imported from Northumberland.
Caller (kaal:u). Fresh. The cry of fishwives is still, 'Caller hair'n (herring)! Fresh, caller hair'n.' Also, /kaa:lu/, a man paid to go round at various hours of the night and early morning, 'calling' miners to get up to go to work, by rapping on their doors. Hence, 'Calling Course,' the time a caller goes his rounds.
Calven (kaa:ven). Of cows, that have lately calved.
Cam (kaa:m). Rising-ground. " Tak' some o' that cam off."
Camp-bed. Four-poster, with a curved top on, formed of wooden laths with cross-bars let into them. The framework opens in the middle, for taking down.
Can and Could, besides their literary use, are also used in a peculiar sense for the vb. to be able. "They'll not can get any food " =not be able to. "I haven't could get across the doors," i.e. I've not been able to get out (v. common).— April 7, 1891. "I doubt I'll not can get" (I expect I shan't be able to come). This last is one of the commonest phrases, to be heard every day.
Canes. The schoolmaster's cane. Always in plural thus, "She's getten her canes" (kae:unz). Compare 'teas' (pl. noun) /tae:z/, though used somewhat differently, e. g. 'We'll have our teas,' 'I'll have my tea.' Compare also Crickets, Taws, Gases. This last means gas-jets, as in a gaselier. "Having the gases literary "—Boy's essay.
Canny. A North-country catchword. 'A canny few' = a fair number, a 'canny man' is one with some sense in his head, a 'canny little body' would be a dapper little person, with some notion of briskness and neatness. "It'll tak' a canny bit," i.e. take some time. Also, careful, gentle. A child is told to be 'canny' with a jug, a baby, or other perishable article entrusted to him. A juvenile letter to some one at Shields was inscribed on the envelope, "Please, Mr. Postman, be canny with this letter." 'Ma canny hinny,' a term of endcarment.
Cant. To set on edge, and so turn over. "It canted owre."
Cap. A piece of leather put on a shoe.
Carling Sunday. Fifth Sunday in Lent, on which day the traditional dish is one of 'carlin's' cooked in melted butter. A carling (kaa:lin) is a kind of pea, of a dark grey or brown colour. They are used by lads on 'Carlin' Sunday' for throwing at one another, and are boiled by publicans for their customers on that night.
Casket. Cabbage-stalk.
Cat (kaat, kaa:t). "Let the cat dee" (die), i. e. let the swing (see Shuggy) run down of itself (constantly). —School treat, July 27, 1892. Also, the game of Tipcat, often called 'kit cat.'
Cat-haws. Hawthorn-berries, often shot by boys through a hollow hemlock-stalk.
Cat-knockles. The peculiar way some boys hold their marbles when shooting.
Cavil (kyav:l). The station of each miner engaged in hewing coals is called his 'cavil.' These are changed every quarter by the drawing of lots.
Chaffs. Jawbones (plural only).
Chancetimes. Occasionally (very common).
Checkers. The game of Draughts (only word in use).
Checkweighman (miners' technical term). Name for both the owner's and the people's representative, each appointed to check the other's dishonesty, in weighing coal-laden tubs, as they come from the pit.
Cheese and Bread. The young leaves of the hawthorn are pulled and eaten by children under this name. (See under Breed)
Chemmerly. Urine kept in a large stone bottle and used for washing clothes. This must undoubtedly be what Halliwell mentions as "Chamber-lie. Urine. —Shakespeare."
Chimla. Chimney. Hence 'chimla-piece.'
Chinnerly. To separate the larger pieces of coal from th dust.
Chisel. A kind of bran with which boys feed rbbits.
Chuck. Food, provisions.
Chucky. A young fowl.
Clag. To clog, stick; so 'clagged'=stuck.
Claggum. Toffee.
Clap. To stroke, pat. "If you clappcd them, they will be knd with you."—Boy's essay on Kindness to Animals. bserve the 'with,' which is very idiomatic.
Clarts(Claarts). Mud. 'Clarty,' dirty. For the vowel-pronunciation, see under Ar, p. vii. It may be very adequately represented by 'air,' so 'clairts.' As villages are often denoted by some epithet, so we have on Tyneside 'Canny Shields,' 'Bonny Newcastle,' 'Clarty Walker.'
Clash. Disturb. 'Clash'd and slap'd,' of milk which has been agitated by hasty carriage. "He's been clash'd about, poor fellow" (i. e. often shifted). Met. "I'll clash thy brains out." Also, to 'clash' the door, is to bang it. "Dinno' clash the door so (dur sae:)"
Claze or Cleze (klae:z) (= clo's). Clothes. Hence the compounds, Claze-prop, a long pole to prop up the Claze-line; Claze-stick, a short stick to thrust clothes down when boiling in the pan; Claze-swill, a basket made of peeled willows, used for holding clothes on washing-days.
Cletching. Brood of chickens. (Final 'g' inferred.)
Clever (kliv:au). In good health; well, properly. "If the window had been open, we could have seen clever." "He's not over-clever to-day," i. e. not very well. Very common phrase, naut uw:u kliv'au dhu dee:u.
Click. To catch one in the side, of a sudden twinge of pain, etc. "She was click'd away very sharp," was said to me of a woman dying suddenly. 'Click up,' catch up. To 'click' hold of any one (clutch).
Clip. To shear. "Clip the sheep in the summer."—Boy's essay.
Clish-clash. Idle talk. "There's been a lot o' clish-clash about it."
Clock. To sit, of hens. "She's not gan to clock yet." "Yon hen's clockin'." A 'clocker' is a sitting or broody hen.
Clog. A log. 'Yule-clog.'
Close. vb. /-z/ and adj. /-s/. Shut. Shut is considered vulgar, close somewhat fine; but both are heard.
Clout (kloo:t). A cloth, or old rag (always).
"Never cast a clout
Till May is out."
a local proverb, illustrating the inclemency of a North-country Spring. The vowel is not pure. Also, a blow on the head. (oo); see under Ow, p. viii.
Coggly. Crooked, from side to side, as of an uneven swing's motion. Walking on high heels, or sitting in a hay-cart, would be so described.
Cotterill. A split pin for fastening handles on to cranks.
Coup Cart (koop). The common dung- or coal-cart.
Cow (koo:). A long iron rod fastened to the last 'tub' of a 'set,' so that in case the rope breaks, the rod sticks in the ground and holds the tub fast. Dray-carts and others have such rods dangling at the axle-tree, to take the strain off horses on a 'bank.'
Cowp (kuwp). To exchange; also, to overturn.
Crack. Talk. "Sit doon an' let's heh (hear) tha crack a bit." To have a 'bit crack' is the invariable way of expressing a bit of a gossip. 'Not much to crack on' is the usual expression for indifferent health. Compare the literary 'crack jokes.' Also a talker (for this, compare double use of the word 'gossip '). "Thou's a good crack."
Cracket. A low stool, found in most cottages. When coal is low, miners sit on a cracket to their work, one end of which is higher than the other. A cracket stands on legs which in shape are not unlike a pair of bootjacks. A 'steul' (styool) has three separate legs, and a 'cobbler's stool' has four.
Cradle (kred:l). A pig's ladder. Also, scaffolding in a 'shaft.' Also, a baby's wooden bed, on rockers, to be seen in use in every cottage. It is stiff and Noah's-ark-like in appearance.
Crake (krae:uk). The crier's rattle, used when a meeting of miners is cried through the street, is called his 'crake.' The likeness between this sound and the cry of the corn-crake is obvious.
Cray (krae:). A hutch, as 'pig's cray,' 'pigeon-cray,' etc. The only word in use.
Crible. To curry favour.
Crickets. The game of cricket is always spoken of in this plural form. See under Games, p. 8.
Crowdy (kraaw:di). A kind of porridge. (Teaspoonful of oatmeal, in plate of hot water, and half a glassful of milk added, when cold.)
Cuddy. Donkey (always,— ' donkey' unknown). 'Cuddy-handed' is left-handed.
Cush (kuosh hau:, kuosh haa:, kuosh huop) and other variations. A call to cows at milking-time.
Da and Ma. Papa and Mamma. "Where's tha (thy) ma?" "Tha da's coming!" (kuom:ún).
Daft. Foolish, of persons. Of things: "They're the daftest things a child can have, to play with" (Mrs. R—, of some keys, Oct. 30, 1891). Var. diaL
Dawd. Slice. "Cut him a dawd o' breed."
Deadborn. Stillborn.
Dear knows (dae:u naa:z). The superlative of ignorance, corresponding to 'goodness only knows.' On asking a woman when her husband will be in, she frequently gives this answer.
Deave (dae:v). To trouble, bother (=deafen ?). "Next to George's integrity and generosity of character, was his love of country and patriotism. He was always 'deaving' us about his native Cumberland."—George Moore's Life, by Smiles, p. 29. "It's eneugh to deave one" (the noise children make).
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Debiliated. Mispron. of 'debilitated.'
Delve. To dig.
Dene (dae:n). The picturesque wooded hollows, each traversed by a stream, which line the sea-coast of Durham, are called 'denes.' "Cowslips in spring in the deen. "—Boy's essay.
Dickises. "A'll dee (do) the dickises," i. e. something that another cannot do, e. g. walk on a wall, jump a stream, etc.
Dickyhedgie. The 'hedge-sparrow' (accentor modularis).
Doctor. The stickleback, with a black head and reddish belly.
Doors. "I haven't been across the doors," i. e. across the threshold, out of 'doors.' Notice the pl. in both cases.
Doorstaingels ('g' soft, as in 'angel '). Door-frames.
Doorstead (dur-stae:d). Threshold.
Dothering. Same as 'dothery.' 'Dotherin' ducks,' the quaking grass.
Dothery (daudh:uri). Shaky, failing; of old age.
Doubt (aa: doo:t) (I doubt). The equivalent to 'I think.'
Dough (doo:). Cake. 'Yule-doo' is a kind of currant cake made in shape of a baby and given to children at Christmas. Not so many years ago the 'putter lad' expected his 'hewer' to bring him the 'yule-doo.' If the hewer failed to bring one, the putter would take the hewer's clothes, put them into a 'tub,' fill it up with rubbish, and send it 'to bank'; or if the 'doo' was not well made, the putter nailed it to a tub and wrote the hewer's name underneath.
Doving (doa:vún). Dozing.
Dowly (daaw:li), which seems to point to 'Doly' = doleful, as the true spelling. Dull (of persons or things). "Chorch is se dowly."—June 16, 1891.
Drawk. Soak. "A've gotten drawked throu'" (wet).
Duckstone. A boys' game, played by any number of boys. Each player chooses a nice round stone about the size of a cricket-ball, and calls it his 'duck.' A mark is made on the ground, and at a distance of about six feet from the line or 'bye' a large stone is placed, on which one of the players sets his duck. The game begins by choosing who has to set his duck on the stone. This is done by all the players pitching or rolling their ducks as near the stone as possible; the one farthest off 'lies on.' Then the rest of the players 'toe the bye,' and try to knock his duck off. If the 'man' can touch a player carrying his duck back, before he reaches the bye, this player then becomes the 'man.' The duck must always be on the stone when a player is touched,— ' else it is no go.'
Duds. Clothes. Various dialects.
Duff (doof). Fine coal, or coal dust (the only name in use). Hence, duffy, trashy, cheap and nasty (of sugar); small, like flour (of coal); ticklish, hard, awkward. The vowel in 'duff,' 'stuff,' etc., is longer than the ordinary vowel, being /oo/, a sound halfway between /uo/ and /ow/.
Dunch. To nudge or jog any one.
Dwarmy (dwaa:mi). Faint, languid.
Dyke. A hedge. This word is never used to mean a ditch. The word hedge is only used in fine talk. "Toss't owre the dyke."
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Een (ae:n
). Eyes. "Aa'll put thee eon oot!" Only used in this single expression, and that by old people. This is the sole relic of the old Saxon plural that I know of in the dialect.
Eh! aa din-aa ("dinna ken"—Bp. Auckland). "Indeed, I don't know." The commonest of expressions. 'Eh!' (ae) is a true North-country exclamation, capable of various meanings, according to intonation and context.
Eneugh (u:nyoo:f). Enough.
Enjoy. Bad health is 'enjoyed,' equally with good health. This is a common use of the word in Eng. dial.
Enter-common. A place open to everybody. For instance, Hetton Hall grounds, being presumably private, during the strike were 'enter-common,' roamed over at will, used by anybody.
Ettle. To intend, try. "A ettled to gan to Hetton."
Evenly or even-y. adv Even; probably, likely. (Probably a Tyneside word, as it is apparently unknown in or about Hetton. Frequently heard from a Tynesider.)
Eyesight. Never abbreviated into 'sight.' We always ken folk by 'eyesight.'
Face. The innermost part of the pit, where the hewers or stonemen are engaged at working into the solid coal or stone.
Fad (faad, faa:d). Farmyard, littered with straw, for keeping stock in.
Fair. vb. intr. To improve, become fair (of weather).
Farntickled. Freckled.
Fash (faash). To bother (vb. trans.). To be 'fashed' with anything, is to be troubled by it. "Lad, dinna fash yersel." "He disn't fash the hoose mooch" (said of one seldom in); or, as we should say, 'trouble the house.'
Fat. This word is used by boys playing marbles. If a player shoots his marble into the ring, he is said to have 'spun fat,' and ceases playing.
Feck. Portion. "He did the main feck of the work."
Feckless. helpless and feeble. The regular epithet of contempt for any one unable to shift for himself.
Femmer. Frail; of persons and things. (Always.)
Fend. To shift for oneself, to do well. (Hardly dialect.)
"A man may spend: He'll always fend,—
That is, if the wife be owt (anything)
But a man may care
He'll always be bare,—
That is, if the wife be nowt."
Fetch up. Bring up, rear (always). To 'bring' is generally to 'fetch.' So, my mother (Yorks.).
Fettle. vb. and noun. North-country catchword. To 'fettle' or 'fettle up' (fetl uop), the regular expression for to 'right up,' 'get in order,' 'repair.' 'In good fettle '(good condition). "When mountain sheep sniff the breeze, as you come upon them, it is a sign of their being in good fettlin'. "—Sep. 1 1890. A woman has enough work to do with her children, "makin', mendin', and fettlin' for their bellies." Also as a salutation: "Well, — what fettle?" "Oh, canny." "I'll fettle ye up" (=punish).
Fiddy faddy. Trivial, elaborate, e. g. of fancy work. Not common.
Fine tasted. Fine flavoured. Dialect?
Finger calves (fing:u kaafs). More commonly called 'sucking calves' (suok:n kaafs).
First (fau:st). Instead of 'next —day' we always say '— day first.' This phrase is always used in local advertisements of entertainments, sales, etc. "— will be glad to see him to tea Monday first at 5 p. m."—From letter, Aug. 27, 1892.
Fladges. Snowflakes. Often called 'flatches.'
Flat. Mm. technical. The station to which the 'putter' pushes the full 'tubs.' Here they are hitched together, and taken by the driver, —ten or twelve tubs at a time—to the 'landing,' which is a larger flat. From this flat they are drawn by the engine to the 'shaft.'
Fley. To scare. "Lad, dinna fley the galloway."
Flinches. A boys' game. This is played by a number of boys placing their caps in a row against the wall. Then the players in turn take a ball, and standing at a distance try to roll the ball into a cap. The owner of the cap which contains the ball picks it out and throws it at one of the players. If he fails to hit a boy, a small stone is put into his cap, and he is said to be 'one egg.' As soon as he is 'three eggs,' he takes up his cap, and this goes on until there is just one player left. The rest of the players must now place their hands against the wall in turn, and the winner is rewarded by having three shots with the ball at each player's hand. If a boy flinches
or takes his hand away, he suffers three shots more for each flinch. I ought to have said that when a player takes the ball out of his cap, to throw at a boy, he may call on him not to 'stir flesh;' but if the other boy is quicker, and calls out 'flinches,' he is allowed to dodge.
The game is sometimes played in another way, as follows: —The players take the names of the days of the week. 'Sunday ' will then throw the ball against the wall, and call out another name, e. g. 'Friday.' If 'Friday' succeeds in catching the ball or 'keeping' it before it touches the ground, he throws it against the wall and calls out (say) 'Wednesday!' If 'Wednesday' fails to 'kep'it, he picks up the ball and throws it at a player, shouting out 'nee (no) flinches,' whereupon the player stands fast. If 'Wednesday ' hits the player, the player tries to hit some one else, and so on until there is a miss. The one who misses throws the ball out and ceases playing, and thus the game goes on till only one player remains : then follow the rewards and punishments.
Flipe. Hat-brim.
Fliterary T0 'shift' or remove from a llouse by night, unknown to anybody.
'A Friday's flit
Will never sit."
Foalfoot. Coltsfoot, tussilego (always).
Folk. People, e. g. 'menfolk,' 'womenfolk.'
Folly tar. A game played with marbles, while walking along. One boy shoots his marble, and the other tries to hit it. If it comes within the span (hand's-breadth), it is called 'Spangy Oneses' (' wonnzes') ; but if it hits, it is called ' Knocky Twoses' ('towsers '). Formerly so, but now played differently. They just hit, and count that one, and so follow on.
Fon. prep. For. In certain cases and by certain people. We should always say, '' I'll work for thee" (aa:l wau:k fur dhu), and 'fur me,' 'fur ye ;' but some would say, ' fon it,' ' fon us.' ' fon 'im.' ' fon 'er,' ' fon 'em,' whereas most people would probably say ' fo' them ' (faudh:m).
Fond. Foolish ; hence 'fondie.' "Thou's a fondie."
Footing, first. Properly, the first person who enters one's doors on Nexv Year's Day. This refers to the custom of going round to various houses on the morning of the New Year, soon after the old year has passed, and being regaled by those who humour the custom by keeping open house (bread and cheese, meat and drink, especially the latter) for the first callers. Men go around in bands, it being held unlucky for a female to usher in the new year. The cat is generally locked up beforehand, as it is also considered unlucky for animals to appear on these occasions.
Forby. Besides (accent as in 'besides '). Prep. and adv. There was other six forby me."
Forebears (fau:bae:uz). Ancestors. Sometimes called 'fore-elders.' "Our fore-elders have all lived here."
Fore-head. Always pronounced as two distinct words. This pronunciation is by no means confined to dialect speakers.
Forenénst (fu:nenst) (accent on last syllable). Facing opposite (always). Of houses in a street: "He lives right f'nenst us." Also metaph. "They're not doing right forenenst me," "He gov us sixpence forenenst it" (i. e. towards it).
Forthless. Worthless, useless.
Fortnighth (fau:t-núth). Fortnight (always).
Fozy. Unsound, of vegetables. A 'fozy' turnip is a woolly one.
Fratchy. Cross tempered. I have also heard 'fratch,' but these words are imported from Tyneside.
Fray (frae). From. So, 'tee' /tae:/ = to, too (two = /tuw/) compare hae (have), hennot (have not). A 'finer' pronunciation from pitmen for 'hennot' is 'hev'n't.'
Fremd. Strange. "He was mair like a frem'd body na a friend." "A fremd body wad dae that" (reproof given to a churlish man who refused to confer a benefit even on a relation in distress).
Fresh. A thaw. "There's a heavy (or, thick) fresh on." Common word among countrymen.
Fret. A mist, or sea-fog. To /frae:t/ is also, to fret, whence adj. freetin' (fretful).
Gaffer. A 'masterman' or foreman. Various dialects.
Gait (gyet) (=way, road). A mining term signifying a short journey, e. g. from flat to shaft and back again; hence, last journey. A workman, removing a heap of soil or stones, if asked how much still remains, will sometimes answer, "Another gyet 'll takd up," meaning one more journey. "Aa just hey another gyet to gan." "He niver knew what gyet it went" (what became of it).
Galloway (gaal:u:wu). Pony. The only term in use. Pit-ponies are always spoken of as 'galloways.'
Gan. Go. A. S. gan. "Gan on!" — 'now then!' 'start!' to be heard from children in the street all day long. The vowel in this word is very short, and nearly approaches the literary short a: the same sound is heard in 'yam' (home). 'Going' (pres. part.) is 'gannin,' when used absolutely; but when used as an auxiliary verb, it becomes 'gan;' e. g. "Is thoo gannin'? " (Are you going ?), "A's gannin' doon to the /sae:/" (sea) ; but "A's gan to' /sae:/" (see), "A's gan to dae't" (I'm going to do it). This is sometimes heard:- "Ye're like the weel-off that hevn't a hoose to gan te" (You are like the well-off that haven't a house to go to), of those who have no need to trouble about finding a lodging for themselves, because they have a residence of their own.
Garth (gaath). A potato-ground, also called 'Taty-garth.' More generally, a small grass-field, enclosed, near a dwelling. A common element in place-names, as Hallgarth(Pittington), Briggarth in Easington Lane, etc.
Gather. v. i. Make a collection ('gathering') in money.
Gee. Pronounced Jee. A call to horses to go to the right, or off-side. Sometimes 'Gee-ba !' (jae:baa:) is heard. So Gee-back! Gee-up! (Forward).
Gee-y. Crooked, twisted. "It's all a-gee-y" (u:jae:waay).
Geordie (jau:di). A miner; compare Jack Tar, Tommy Atkins, or 'Johnny,' 'Tommy,' as generic names.
Get. One of the commonest uses in the dialect is that in which 'get' is used absolutely, for 'manage,' 'reach' (a place) ; hence, 'be present.' "I couldn't get" = I could not (manage to) get (there).
Get away. To die. Past part. getten, e. g. (get:n u:wee:u) i. e. dead. Also imperat., meaning, 'You don't say so!' Exclamation of surprise, doubt, or disbelief. An equally common expression is ' Gart ' (slang rather than dialect).
Got off. 'Get up,' learn by heart (always). "Get some songs off." — Several boys' essays.
Ghyll (gil). A bit of wild ground hollowed out by nature; a ravine. A common place-name in the Lake country.
Gill (jil). A halfpint. Used of liquids.
Gimmers (jim:&uacture;z). Rascal. "Ye gimmers, a'll smash tha!"
Gis gis (gis:gis). Call to a pig.
Give over (giv uw:u) = 'Don't!' 'Stop that!' (very common). Imperat. of vb. meaning 'to cease.'
Gliff. Startle. "She gliffed me there."
Glower (gluw:u). To stare with anger or amazement.
Gock, by (baa:y gauk). An everyday expression of surprise, etc. Quasi-oath. "By gock, thoo's a quare 'un."
Gome. To heed. "He niver gomed me there."
Gorecap (gau:u kaa:p). A quasi-oath. (Should be written Go-cap?)
Gowk (guuwk) or 'gowkie.' A soft person. An April fool is often called 'April gowk.' 'Gowk' is also the core of an apple.
Grand. Common epithet of weather. (Graan dee:u) is the usual salutation on a bright, sunny day.
Grape. To grope, search. Also, a kind of shovel (sometimes called 'gripe '), or huge fork-like implement used in filling coke, and by farmers for removing manure.
Greybird (gree:u bau:d). Commonest name for the song-thrush.
Greyhen (haen). A jar in basket-covering, containing spirit.
Ground. "He hadn't been to ground for—days."—Mar. 2~ 1892. To 'gan to groond,' a common expression for going to the closet.
Grozer (grau:zu). Gooseberry.
Grunge. To grunt. 'Grunt' unknown. "They will show their teeth at you and grunge at you. "—Boy's essay.
Guisen (gaa:yzn). To become dried and contracted, of rain-tubs or wooden cisterns, so that the water 'sipes' out. "Yen tub 'll guisen."
Guising (gaa:yzn). Play-acting by ' guisers,'—men and boys in disguise (with blackened faces and paper caps), who go about performing a rough Christmas play. "Have guisers," most of the boys guise near Christmas."—Boys' essays.
The play is much as follows
CHARACTERS :—The Leader, King George, Doctor Brown, Johnny Funny.
Leader.
The moon 's gone down, and I've lost my way,
And in this house I mean to stay.
If you don't believe the word I say,
Step in, King George, and clear the way.
(Here comes in King George.)
King George.
King George is my name,
A sword and pistol by my side
I hope I win the game,
The game of the sword,
The game of the sword.
Let's know your power,
I'll slash you into mincemeat
In less than half-an-hour.
Leader.
You, sir?
K. G.
Yes, me, sir!
Leader.
Take the sword, and try, sir
(They fight end Leader falls.)
K.G.
Ho, ho! What have I done?
I've killed his father's only son.
Send for the ten-pound doctor.
J.F.
There 's no ten-pound doctor.
K.G.
Send for the twenty-pound doctor.
Dr. Brown.
Schools in the Houghton-le-Spring district
Abbreviations used throughout this guide :-
LB = log books AR = Admissions registers
PB = punishment books M = Managers/Governors minutes
P = photographs DR = Discharge registers
O = anything other than the above
Bernard Gilpin Secondary, Houghton
M: 1958-74 (630/551)
Burnside County, Houghton
M: 1968-74 (630/546)
Gillas Lane Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
M: 1964-73 (630/543)
Hopper Street Council Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
LB: 1865-1955 (T118/200-202)
M: 1909-74 (630/530)
Houghton-le-Spring Council Intermediate
M: 1933-36 (T156/4)
Houghton-le-Spring Day
M: 1970-2 (630/599)
Houghton-le-Spring Grammar
M: 1958-72 (630/556)
Houghton-le-Spring Nursery
LB: 1946-68 (T118/197)
M: 1947-73 (630/524-525)
Lambton Colliery Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Lambton National Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants
Lambton National Mixed, Houghton-le-Spring (E.HS1)
LB: 1872-1901
Newtown County Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
LB: 1924-65 (T118/170-171)
AR: 1910-46 (T156/34-35)
O: 1953-64 (T156/82-108)
M: 1934-61 (T156/3)
St Michael C E Houghton-le-Spring
AR: 1869-1910 (T156/30-33)
O: 1904-34 (T156/56)
see also Newtown County Infants
St Michael's C E Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
see Newtown Council Infants, Houghton-le-Spring
Here comes in old Doctor Brown,
The best old doctor in the town.
K.G.
Who made you the best doctor?
Dr. B.
By my travels.
K.G.
Where did you travel?
Dr. B.
Italy, France, and Spain;
Three times there, and back again.
K.G.
What can you cure?
Dr. B.
A dead man.
K.G.
Cure him.
Dr. B.
I've got a little bottle in my pocket, goes tick-tack. Rise up, Jack!
(Leader rises.)
All sing :—
My brother 's come alive again,
We'll never fight no more,
We'll be as kind as ever,
As ever we were before,
A pocket full of money,
A cellar full of beer,
I wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year!
The weather's very clarty,
My boots is very thin,
I've got a little money-box,
To put my money in.
(Each then sings a solo.)
Gulley. Carving-knife, bread-knife. Also, a crevice (gully).
Gusset. A tongue of stuff inserted as a patch; a gore.
Gyoose. Goose. "Like a gyoose cut i' the head," i. e. bewildered, 'all abroad' as we say.
Ha woy. A call to horses to come to the left or 'near' side.
Hack. Mining technical. A heavy pick, weighing about 7 lbs., with head about 18 in. in length. There are various kinds, e. g. Tommy hack (round head and chisel point), Jack hack (round head and sharp point), Pick hack (sharp head and chisel point). Also, filth, dirt. "Aa canna get the hack off tha."
Hain. To shield, exculpate.
Halleluias. Salvation Army folk. The usual term.
Ham (haam). Repeat. "He ham'd it o'er and o'er."
Handball (haand-baa:l). The game of Rounders. More commonly called 'roondies.' Played by girls with shells ('williks') and a ball, whilst these words are recited
"Set a cup upon a rock,
Chalk me one a pot.
One, two, three, four,
One at a time," etc.
"One up," etc.
Handhollow (haan:daul:u). Used by girls when playing the game of 'hitchy-dabber' (hopscotch). Often the 'dabber' gets so near the line that a girl cannot insert the breadth of her hand between, in which case she must give up the 'dabber' to her opponent to play.
Hand's-turn. A stroke of work (common) ; often, of a 'good turn.'
Hant. Habit. "He has a nasty hant of doing that."
Happen. This verb is used transitively, e. g. "he happened it" (i. e. it happened to him), "she happened a bad accident."
Har away (haa:wee:u, haa:ru:wae:u, haru ('harra') wee:u). The shibboleth of this county, heard every day and almost every five minutes. Be off! Come along! Here!
Heck. Call to a horse to come to the left or 'near' side.
Hemmels. Originally, a thatched shed, stable, or byre; now the same, though seldom thatched. The word, although still understood, is going out of use. A field opposite Hetton Rectory, which once contained stables, is always called 'the hemmels field.'
Hempy. Up to tricks and pranks, mischievous. Very common. Also, 'hemp,' a scamp. (The word has nothing to do with 'impudent'.)
Hench or 'hinch.' Haunch.
Hew (hyóo:, hyóa) (vowel strongly emphasized). vb. t. & i. To hack away at the coal down a mine. Hence, 'hewer,' one who hews coal, a miner. (The vowel is peculiar, and should be heard to be appreciated.)
Hey (hae). A common exclamation of surprise or indifference; "hey! aa din-aa" (really, I don't know).
Hilly howley (hil:u huwl:(u)). Hill and hole. In tossing the bat for innings, 'hill' is the oval side uppermost, 'howl' the flat side. "Hill or howl for innings, lad." Also used in Quoits.
Him. "Him wi' the" 'hat!' 'cap!' 'stick!' as the case may be. Children's salutation of chaff to a stranger in any way attired out of the common.
Hind (the 'i' long). A farm-labourer. (The only term in use.)
Hing. Hang.
Hipsy dixy (of evidence). Trumped up. (Is this ipse dixit?) A rare word about Hetton, heard from a Tynesider. - Oct. 31, 1891.
Hitchy-bay. The game of Hopscotch. Properly speaking, 'hitchy-bays' are the courts marked out. The square bit of wood is called 'hitchy-dabber.'
Hogger. Hose-pipe. Also, the following stocking-arrangement. The coal-hewer formerly wore his stockings with the 'feet' cut off, so that when small coals got into the stocking-foot, he had only to pull off this, and not the whole stocking; consequently his ankles were bare, while the stocking-leg covered his calf. He still swears by his 'hoggers,' as, "Dash mi hoggers!"
Hoit. Slut. "Ye mucky hoit!"
Hold. "Hold thy hand" (haa:d dhi haand, emphat. haa:nd) means 'Hold hard!' 'Stop!' 'Don't!' An expression to be heard every day in playing games.
Honey (hin:i), or (huon:i) (fine talk). The standing epithet of endearment to children, and used in the N. in much the same unrestrained way that 'my dear' is used in the S. W. 'Hooney hinney' is sometimes heard. "Behave, hinny," the stock admonition to a child at table.
Horney tram. See under Bogey.
Horntop. Only heard in the simile, "as slaa (slow) as a horntop."
Hotes. "Hoats, lad!" 'Hush!' or, as a North-countryman would say,' Whisht!'
Howdie (haaw:di). Midwife. "Thoo's niver been weshed since the howdie weshed th',"—sometimes said to a very dirty person.
Howk. To dig or hew out, as, for instance, with a 'hack.' "He's howked all the flowers up."
Hoy. To throw. "Let's see wee'll (who will) hey the far-est."
Hunkers. Haunches. 'Sitting on the hunkers' means squatting, as miners do in the streets (sitting on the toes, with the thighs resting on the calves).
Hup (huop). Whip (always).
Hupstitch = Every now and again, only in the phrase 'every hupstitch,' e. g. "she bakes every hupstitch." "He does it every hupstitch," or, "he does it with the good constant," i. e. constantly, or oftener than seems to be required.
Insense. Make to understand, 'render sensible,' inform. "You didn't insense me what your name is, did you?" "We insensed him intid" (into it).
Italian iron. A 'tallion iron' is an iron tube about 6 in. long and pointed at one end. Into the tube is inserted a heater. It is used to make the waves in the frills of old women's caps. The word is not dialectal, but probably few ordinary readers would be able to name the article, which is still to be seen in many cottages.
Jackjaw. The common mispron. of jackdaw.
Jolly Miller. A round game.
"There was a jolly miller, and he lived hy himself,
As the mill went round he made his wealth;
One hand in the hopper (also, 'copper'), and the other in the bag,
As the mill went round he made his grab (or, 'brag')."
These are the words they sing when playing. They go, two and two together, round and round, and there is always an odd one in the middle. When they come to the last word 'grab,' he makes a grab, forces another to come out, and takes his place; they then start again, singing as before.
Jowl (juuwl). The flesh on a pig's jaws. Also (vb.), to knock on the coal, while working down the mine, so that workmen on the other side may know by the sound how near they are to one another.
Jumly. Muddy. 'Jumly water.'
Kail-pot. A crock to boil cabbage (kail), etc., in. "The kail-pot's callin' the yetlin' smutty" (common proverb).
Keeker. The overlooker on a pit-heap.
Keep. "How are you keeping?" i. e. How are you (in health)? Very common, and—I fancy—more or less characteristic of Northern speech.
Kellick. Unfledged bird.
Ken. 'Kend,' 'kent' = know, knew, known. Of recognizing, or being acquainted with, people: "aa kenned 'im"(universal). /Aa: din:u ken/, common about Auckland, is not so common around Hetton as /aa:din:aa/ or more strictly /aad:i:naa/ ('I don't know '). Yet I have heard the former pretty frequently from children and pure speakers. The form 'kenna' is also found, e. g. 'Diz thoo kenna?' (dost thou know ?).
Kenner. Time to cease work. The common expression is 'lowse' (vb.).
Kenspreckled. Well known, marked.
Ket. Not good for food. (Often applied to sweatmneats.)
Kibble. Min. technical. A big iron tub, for filling with rubbish, in sinking a shaft.
King's evil. Erysipelas, a gathering in the face.
Kist. Chest. A chest of drawers is a 'kist.'
Kit. A small tub for washing in, used by pitmen.
Kite. Belly. "Deil be the kite!" (often said of a greedy child).
Kittle. Ticklish, awkward to manage. A 'kittle' cough is one that tickles. Boys try to set a trap 'kittly.'
Kitty. Policeman's lock-up. (General.) Also, a short straw, about 6 in. long, filled with powder, and used by miners in firing.
Kitty cat. Game of Tipcat.
Knees, 'sitting on the,' the regular expression for kneeling. "He canna sit on's knees noo" (of an invalid). "He tell'd her to sit upon her knees, so down they sat."
Lad (laad). Boy, youth. 'Boy' is never used. Also, a common way of addressing horses.
Laggans. The pieces of wood which go to form a 'tub.'
Laid off. Discontinued. The invariable description of a pit which is not working is 'laid off' or 'laid in.'
Lang. Long. 'Lang-settle,' 'Lang-legs' (nickname). "Short reckonings make lang friends." 'Nice and lang' (sarcastic expression of length).
Lap. To wrap. "has thou lapped it up?"
Lass (laas). 'Girl,' in the most comprehensive meaning of the word. (Universal.) "Mr. Shaw is keeping well, and me and my little lass are both well."— From letter, Oct. 28, 1890.
Lat. A lath.
Lay in. To 'lay in' a pit, or lay it idle; to leave off working it, as when it becomes exhausted of coals. See Laid off.
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Lead (lae:d). To lead a horse and cart; practically 'leading' is equivalent to 'hauling.'
Learn. Teach (as in other dialects).
Liberty. Leave, permission. Various dialects.
Library (laay:bu:ri). A book got from a library (always). "Hes thoo getten a lib'ry?" The word is also used as in polite English.
Lignies. Quoits made of lignum vitae wood, used in the game 'Spell and Nur.' Also, a word used by boys when playing out their last marbles. "Them's mi ligganies" means his last, all he has.
Like. Likely. 'Like to fall '—nearly falling.
Limbers (lim:uz). Shafts of a carriage. The only name for shafts of a 'tub' down the mine, which are made in one piece and detachable.
Linings. Pitmen's drawers, fastened at the knee by strings.
Lippen. To depend on, or trust to a person to perform a certain work. "I lippen on him doing it."
Lisk. Thigh.
List. Desire, energy. "I haven't list to gan across." "He hesn't list to did" (do it). Preserved in the lit, listless.
Loggerhead. A coloured butterfly. Large moths are also sometimes called 'loggerheads.'
Longcart (lang:kaat). A two-wheeled hay-cart, somewhat between an ordinary cart and a rolley.
Longsettle (lang:set:l). A long seat like a form, with back and arms.
Lonning. 'Laning,' i. e. lane. The only form known. (lon:ún.) "Gan oop the bâck-lon'." "We find swiney up Mousely (Moorsley) lonen. "—Extract from boy's essay on Wild Flowers.
Looks-tha = look'st thou? (looks dhu). An expression to gain attention, or mere pleonasm, used by boys to one another, the familiar form of 'Look you!' which latter is addressed to strangers or superiors.
Loop (luwp). To leap, jump. "See we can lowp the far'est." "When I was young and lusty, I could lowp a dyke."
Loose (laawz). To finish work. "What time diz thoo louz?" or, to a stranger, "What time do ye (yae) louz?" (When do you leave off working?)
Loppit. Sour milk, curd milk.
Lops and lice. hips and haws. So called by children.
Love-begot. Born out of wedlock. (An unjustifiable euphemism.)
Low (luw). A flame. hence 'low-rope,' hempen rope steeped in tar, to burn as a torch.
Lowpy-lang-lonnen (= leapy long lane ?). Leap-frog.
Lug. Ear (always). "I'll skelp thy lug." The 'u' is generally long, (loog) ratller than (luog).
Lum. Chimney. "Thou's as black as the lum."
Ma. See under Da.
Make. To 'mak' gam'' (make game) of anybody, to make fun of, ridicule. Generally, in the form makkin' gam'. To 'mak' sha'p,' or 'be sharp;' equivalent to the common 'look sharp.' I have heard 'sharp' used adverbially, meaning quickly. /Aa:l shaap dae:d) (I'll do it quickly).
Man. As throughout North, used in exclamations. 'Noo, mon! '= Now, sir. "Eh, mon, aa din-aa "= Indeed, sir (or, mate), I don't know. Also used irrespective of sex, e. g. I overheard a big girl say to a little one, "Look oop that rˆa, mon" (look up that row, child). In other uses man is always long /maa:n/.
Manishment. Mispron. of 'management.'
Mark. 'Dressed up to the mark,' i. e. in the extreme fashion. So, 'up to the nines,' 'up to the knocker,' 'up to Dick and down to Richard.' All more properly slang than dialect.
Marra (marrow). Mate. So, of things, the 'fellow.'
Matterless (maat:u:l&uactue;s). "It's matterless," our everyday expression for 'No matter,' 'It's immaterial.'
Maybe (meb:i). Perhaps.
May-cat. Tlle superstition is, tllat a cat littered in May will suck infants' breaths, if allowed to climb up into the 'creddle.' Nobody will keep a May-cat.
Meat. Food. Various dialects. Bib. Only used in this wide sense, when speaking of animals' food, e. g. "Give the hens their meat." "Give them good meat."—(From a boy's essay on Kindness to Animals.)
Mense. Politeness, kindness. When you invite your friends to dinner as a duty, and they cannot come, you are said to 'save your meat and your mense.' "It'll be more menseful" (courteous, hospitable-booking)—said of serving up a joint entire, to some guests, rather than the same joint cut up into chops. "Mense is a great thing in this country" (re funeral extravagance as a token of respect').A. R., July 4, 1892. Decency. "I did it for mense's sake." Vb., to decorate, e. g. 'mense the window.'
Mettle. "He's ower sharp mettle" (too hasty tempered).— Mr. B., of his brother, July 21, 1892.
Mickle. 'Little or mickle' (much). Not common. "I'd rather have the scrapin's o' the muckle (or 'mickle') pot
than the wee pot full."
Middenstead. Ash-heap.
Midgy. Also called a 'Mistress.' These names were given to a kind of lamp used by putter lads. The height of the lamp was about 8 in., width 3 in., with open front. When first invented, they were simply little wooden boxes, with a hole at the bottom, through which the candle was thrust, and another hole at the top to let out the heat. Afterwards tin took the place of wood. The flame was sheltered by a piece of wood or tin about 2 in. high from the bottom of the lamp, and a similar piece from the top. The 'midgy' has now gone out of use.
Mind. Remember. Various dialects.
Mistress. Used interchangeably with 'Missus,' the former being used rather of strangers.
Moley rat. The only name known for the common mole.
Muffler (muof:lu). A neekerchief or 'comforter' (always).
Must. Often used where we should say 'shall' in literary Eng. "Would you like your milk to drink, Mr. P. ?" "Yes, please." "Must I bring you''t, then?"
My word (maa:wau:d). Our commonest exclamation of surprise. Answers to 'indeed,' 'well, I'm sure,' of other parts. "My ward, thoo'll get wrang."
Native. Native place (always so).
Nay (nae:). No. The adjective is pronounced with more leaning towards /ee:/ sound, else the two are identical in the following: /nae:, aa:zh shuw:u dhaz nae: paath hae:u) (no, I'm sure there's no path here).
Neif (nae:f). hand. "Dooble yer naif (or, 'naiv') lad." "A'll gi' tha my neif directly!" 'Double-neif,' the clenched fist.
Nevvy. Nephew (always). Various dialects.
Nicely. "How are you?" "Nicely," a 'polite' expression for 'varry canny,' or, 'aa canna com-plee-an' (complain).
Niffnaffs. Nick-nacks.
Night. Used, as in country parts in S., of any time after noon. I heard a woman parting from another at 3.30 p. m., say, "Good night."—-July 7, 1890.
Nimmy.
"Nimmy, nimmy, ask,
Which hand will tha tak'?
The reet or the left,
Or the bonny bord's (bird's) heft?"
Counting-in rhymes recited in starting a round game.
Nine. "He's like a 9 with the tail cut off" (of a man good for nothing).—April 27, 1892. Favourite simile.
Noll. To strike (naul).
Nor. Than (always). Compare the Welsh na; or is it only a transposition of than; or can it be really nor (= and not, instead of than (= then, next in merit)? For transposition, compare 'int I' for 'nit I,' in S.-W. Eng.
Noration. A confused crowd. A noise.
North-countryman. One from Northumberland or over the Border. "He cooms fro' the West," would mean Weardale, Teesdale, or Cumberland. 'Sooth' (south) means anywhere south of the speaker; 'West-countryman' would be unintelligible, of a Cornishman,—he would be a Southern (sooth:rún). 'Countryman ' means an agricultural labourer.
Nought (nuwt). Nothing. So, 'thowt '= thought. "What's thoo daein'?" "Nowt." "Aa thowt sae" (always).
Now (noo:). Often used for emphasis, a mere pleonasm. "He's a nice man, he is, noo." "He came here, he did, now," etc. Used for 'well' in other parts; e. g. 'noo then' (emphasis on word 'noo') /noo:dhn/ 'well, then' (in
narrative).
Nows and thens. Common for 'now and then.'
Null (nuol). Annul. Mr. R., an invalid, rubs his legs to 'null the pain' (nuol dhu pee-un).
Of. (1) /u/= 'Like,' in the phrase, "or onything o' that."
(2) /iv/ ='in,' in the phrase, "He's getten such a pain iv his legs." "He canna lie iv it" (i.e. in the bed). This may not be a form of 'of,' but a transposition of 'in.'
(3) /of/ ='for.' To 'wait of' any one is to wait for him. (Invariable.) So, "he's shootin' of us" (he's shouting for us).
Oftens (of:ns). Often.
On. Of. E. g. "a bit on't," "tak' hard (hold) on't." But we say 'a cup o'tea.' When 'of' is used, it is never pronounced /ov/, any more than 'is' becomes /iz/.
One (won). Used witll indef. art. "I saw a one yesterday" (ep. the phrase, 'a dozen,' etc.). This would only be used, but always, where 'one' was not used numerically, as opposed to any other number, but merely as a unit.
Open out. To open, the 'out' being superfluous. Of parcels, new buildings, etc. Not by any means confined to dialect speakers.
Other. Used as in St. Matt. xxv. i6, 17, 20. "We had a sale of work and made £20, also a social and dance, and
made other twenty."—From a letter, Feb. 13, 1894. (In literary Eng. we prefix an before other, whereas in the dialect a is prefixed to one.)
Our. Used in calling members of a family. Mothers may be heard shouting at the top of their voice, "Har away, oor Jeane Marry Lizzie" (all Christian names are generally given, as here, referring to one child). "Coom hayer, oor .Jumzie!" (Come here, our James). Used indiscriminately by boys to one another; "dinna do that, our Fred."
Out of the way (oot dhu wee:u). Of people, ungodly, attending no place of worship, disrespectable, or vicious (varied according to context). "He's been an out of the way man iv his time."
Outbye. Out of the way, remote. Also, technical, of a miner coming towards the 'shaft' in order to get 'to bank.' The corresponding term is 'inbye,' i. e. further along underground, towards one's 'cavil.'
Over (uw:u). Too; 'owre big,' 'owre smarl' (small). (Always.)
Oxter. Armpit. 'Oxter-bound,' stiff in arm and shoulder.
Panker-bowdie (paeng:ku buw:di). A game played with marbles. The 'panker' or 'penker' is a large marble, made of stone or iron. Each boy puts four marbles in a ring, and proceeds to knock them out of the ring with a panker. What he knocks out he gets; but if he fails to knock one out, the next boy aims at his panker, and so puts him out. The line from which they start, five yards from the ring, is called the 'bye.'
Past. "He's gone past hissel," i. e. lunatic. "A's sixteen past," i. e. sixteen, past my sixteenth birthday. Contrast S.-W. equivalent, "I be into my seventeen."
Paste-eggs (i. e. Pasch-eggs). Eggs, dyed in a decoction of logwood chips and onion peel, and sold in shops or prepared at home during Easter, are so called (always).
Pawky (paa:ki). Dainty.
Pay (pee:u). "I'll pay your bottom," a common threat to children.
Peedee. Something small, as a tiny marble.
Peesweep (paez:waep). Lapwing, or peewit.
Peggin'-top. A peg-top.
Pen-point. Nib of a pen.
Pen-shank. Pen-holder.
Perishment. A violent chill is always described as a 'perishment of cold' (pa:rish:ment u kaa:d).
Pick at. Find fault with, abuse (very common).
Piffolo. Piccolo (always).
Pike. A large haycock, often six feet high. The small haycocks only are called 'cocks.'
Pipe-stopple. Stem of tobacco-pipe. Sometimes called 'pipe-shank.
Pit. The only word in common talk for a mine. So, a miner is always 'pitman' or 'pittie,' and pit dress is 'pit-claes.'
Pittoring (pit:rún). Low-spirited, complaining. "Ay, he's pitterin' on" (said of one who was continually fancying he was just about to die).
Planting. Plantation. "Gan up past yon plantin" (plaan'tn).
Playlaking. A simpleton. To 'mak' a playlakin' of' any one, to make a fool of him.
Please. 'Please yes,' 'please no,' a schoolchild's answer to his teacher. "Tommy, do you know your lesson?" "Please yes."
Plodge. To wade through any liquid substance. What is called 'paddling' in polite English, we always call 'plodging.'
Pluff. Plough (very seldom). 'Plough Inn' is called 'Pluff Inn.'
Poke. A sack, or bag (common). 'Flour-poke.'
Poked. Offended. "He's getten hissel' poked."
Pollis. Police. 'The pollis '= the policeman. "I'll fetch the pollis,"—frequent threat to a naughty child.
Pompey. A small boy; a dwarf.
Poss. To wash clothes by putting them in a 'poss-tub' of soap and water, and thumping them with a 'poss-stick,' or short-legged staff,— in some places called 'dolly.'
Pot-pie. A boys' game. All caps being placed on a lad's back, the rest vault over him, 'leap-frog' fashion, and the one who displaces a cap becomes vaulting-horse in his turn.
Potted head. Stewed meat, as sold in butchers' shops.
Priest (praest). A clergyman is always so called. "I have being to church and heard the priest."—Boy's essay.
Proggle. A thorn.
Puddings. Intestines. "A'll pull thy puddin's oot!" (Hence, Pigs'-puddings, Black-pudding.)
Put. Min. technical term. The 'putter' is a lad who 'puts,' or shoves the full tubs from the hewer's 'cavil' to the 'flat' (q. v.), and takes the empty ones in to him. The empty or 'tume' tub is often called the 'led 'un' (= led one, i. e. the tub led in).
Putting through. A scolding.
Quey stirk (waay stau:k). Two-year-old heifer.
Quoit. Besides the usual meaning (a common game amongst miners), this word also means a large white marble made of earthenware, and called a 'pot quoit.'
Rageous. Outrageous (violent and delirious).
Raise. To 'raise the place' (ree:uz dhu plyes), to make an uproar. "He's raised the place to gan there " (of a boy who had pestered his parents to send him to school, and gone wild over it with excitement).
Rame. To ply one with questions, as children love to do. Mrs. R.—April 1, 1892. "What's tha ramin' o' me for?" "He just raimed my life out for sixpence." Here it means to 'bother.'
Range (rae:unj). To rinse. "Range the pot out."
Rank. The distance a 'putter' puts the coal from face to flat. The first 'renk' might be 8o yards from the hewer, and as the distance increased, the putter received an additional penny for every 20 yards. This was the case formerly, but putters are paid differently now.
Ranters. Primitive Methodists.
Rasp. Raspberry. Strawberry is pronounced straa-bérry (not 'straubry '). See Bleeberry.
Rattle-scawp. A frolicsome, mischievous fellow.
Rax. Stretch. Dry flesh, stretched tight, would be 'rax'd.' Hence 'raxy,' stiff. "He raxed his-sel' oot" (stretched
his arms).
Readimadeasy. Reading made easy (raed:umúd:ae:zi). The term is only used by old people, and refers, I imagine, to a once popular spelling-book of that name. "How far did ye get through the readimadeasy?" "Oh, I got as far as the 'Cra and the Jug,' and the 'Man with the Scythe in his Hand.'"
Rear. Underdone (of meat).
Recking-crook (krook) not (kruok). A crook hanging over the fire for pans to hang from.
Reckling. The weak pig in a litter.
Reek (rae:k). Smoke. 'Baccy-reek,' 'Powder-reek.'
Reest. To be lazy. When a horse refuses to draw a load, we say it has 'tune (taken) the reest.'
Reesty. Rusty (of bacon).
Rend. Tear. "I rended the lard out of a pig," i. e. took the fat to boil down. [?]
Ribbing-plough. A plough without wheels.
Ricket. A badly-castrated animal.
Riddle. A sieve. Various dialects.
Ride. To 'ride the water with' anybody is, to trust him. "He's not safe to ride the water with."
Riggy. Ridgy, as of a grass-field in furrows. Furrows are called 'rigs.'
Rind. Rime, hoar-frost. "There's a heavy (or, thick) rind on."
Rip. Rascal. Often said of children.
Rive. To tear. "Rive that handkerchief in two." "Please sir, he's ruvven a leaf out." "He's ruvven his breeches." (raayv, ruov, ruovn.)
Road. Way (metaph.); as, 'out of the road' ('out of the way' means something quite different), 'in the road,' 'no road' (by no means), 'any road' (anyhow). This use of road is found in the Midlands, and extends a considerable way South.
Rolley. What is called a 'trolly' in some parts, i. e. an open waggon for carrying heavy goods, such as beer-barrels or packing-cases.
Rolypoly (raaw:li paaw:li). Rolling over and over, as children do on a slope.
Rook (roo:k). Thick fog, damp. "It's a thick rook the neet (to-night)." Adj. 'rooky.' Compare 'reek.'
Roopy. Husky (of the voice). (Always.)
Rown (ruuwn). Roe of a fish. The milt is called 'melt.'
Rozzle. Resin. Also, to warm oneself. "He rozzled his hide."
Rummle cundy. A ditch filled up with loose stones, for water to drain through.
Sackless. Foolish, ,senseless.
Safety. Pronounced as a trisyllable, 'safe-ity.'
Sag. To bend down in the middle, yield (as a plank does by its superabundant weight). Shakespeare.
Salamander. A poker with a flat, thickened end, heated red-hot in the fire, for thrusting into an unlighted fire. (Mentioned in David Elginbrod.)
Sally Walker. A round game. The players form a ring, joining hands, and go round a girl in the middle of the ring, singing—
"Rise, Sally Walker, rise if you can,
Rise, Sally Walker, to fellow your good man.
Choose to the east, choose to the west,
Choose to the bonny lad that you like best."
The girl in the middle then takes the young man of her choice, and the rest- sing—
"Now ye're married I wish you joy,
First a girl and then a boy.
Seven years over, seven years to come,
Now is your time to kiss and be done."
They then kiss and go out, to give place to another couple, the game going on as before.
Sandlark. Meadow-pipit.
Sark (saa:k). Shirt.
Satisfised. The invariable mispronunciation of 'satisfied.' (saat:is:faa:yzd.)
Scallion. A young onion, before the bulb has formed. A favourite dish is scallion and lettuce.
Scobbie. Chaflinch. Not so common as 'sheelie.'
Score. Line. 'On the scores, out!' This word is used by boys in their game of marbles, when the marble is not knocked clean out of the ring, but lies just on the line: then the cry is raised, 'It's on the score.'
Scoreprice. Pitmen's wages, the price current for filling a 'score,' i. e. 21 (or, in some places, 25) 'tubs.'
Screed. A man, speaking of various-sized scraps of glass, cut into squares and long strips, called it "only screed-glass." (Only heard once.) Same as shred?
Scribe. A scribble or scratch, in the phrase, "He hadn't the scribe of a pen for it," meaning he had not even a receipt or written guarantee.
Scrike. vb. and subst. Shriek.
Scringe. When a boy sharpens his slate-pencil with a knife, he says it makes his teeth 'scringe.'
Scrubber (skruob:u). A wooden barrow, made of boards fixed on a frame Venetian blindwise, for breaking 'clots' (clods).
Scuffler (skuof:lu). The same as a 'scrubber.' Also, a turnip-plough.
Scumfish. Suffocate.
Scunner. To flinch, or give signs of pain. "He never scunnered that blow on the heed (head)."
Second-handed (always thus). (At) second-hand.
Seek, Look for. (Invariably.) (saek.)
Seggar (seg:u). Soft stone lying on coal-seams, used for making into bricks and coping-stones.
Set. subst. Work, to-do. "A've had-en a bonny set win 'm."Also, a train of coal-waggons or tubs. To 'set' means, to escort, convoy.
Set on. Sew on, of buttons, etc. Also, to put 'tubs' into the 'cage' down a coal-mine, the man, whose business this is, being called 'set-on,' or ' on-setter.' ' Set'' is the ordinary expression for 'put;' e. g. "set on the dishes," "set out the fowls" (drive them out of doors), etc. —see Put.
Sottlings. Sediment.
Shades (shae:udz). Window-curtains (always). "Shades cleaned at 1s. 9d. the pair," painted on a laundry-cart in Sunderland. 'Window-curtain,' when used, only refers to that kind which is strung across the lower half of a window.
Shaft. Min. The perpendicular entrance to a mine, in which the 'cage' works. There is a double shaft to every mine. /shaaft/
Share. Cow-dung.
Sheelie (shae:li). Chaffinch.
Shift. To remove, change one's residence. To move, e. g. " Shift them gates" (of opening or shutting railway-crossing gates). A 'shift,' technical., is a turn at work, mining work being divided into 'day-shifts' and 'night-shifts,' each of eight hours' duration.
Shinny. The game of hockey. 'Hockey' is unknown.
Shire. To pour off water or any liquid in such a way as to leave the sediment.
Shithering bout (shith:rún boot). Shivering fit, feeling of cold all over the body.
Shive. Slice. "It is easy from a cut loaf to steal a shive." See West Somerset Word book. This proverb may be found in Shakespeare (Tit. Andron. Act ii. Scene i).
Short-tongued. A person who cuts his words short, slurring them over, is sometimes said to be 'short-tongued.'
Shot. Rid, as to be 'shot' of any person or thing (always so). "A's well shot on't" (I'm well rid of it).
Shotstick. A round stick on which a paper cartridge is rolled (mining term).
Shuggy. subst. and vb. int. Swing. "Give me a shuggy; he's shuggied all the afternoon (aaf:tu:nyoon)." (Sunday School Treat, Aug. 13, 1891.) The word 'swing' seems to be quite unknown in this connexion. 'Swings' are swing-boats, to be seen at every fair. A 'shuggy'is also a see-saw.
Siddle. To pick out or choose the best of anything.
Sin. Since, ago. 'Zyne' is sometimes heard among the old, and 'langzyne' (accent on the penult.).
Singing hinny. A kind of girdle-cake, common among old folk. (Name imported from the North.) Now generally called Spice Cake. (Not to be confused with Spice, q- v.)
Sipe. Leak. "The watter's sipin' oot."
Skeel. A peculiarly-shaped bucket (broader at bottom than top, with upright stave projecting from rim, to serve as a handle), formerly used in colliery villages to carry water for household use. They were carried on women's heads on a 'wase' (q. v.), and a piece of wood was made to float on the top, to prevent the water from splashing over.
Skelp. Smacking blow. "A got a good skeip at him." Infants are threatened with having their 'botts (or 'bottomies') skelped.'
Skelper. Anything very large, —a 'whacker.' Compare 'banging,' 'slapping,' as epithets of size.
Skemmy. The common blue or farmer's pigeon, often kept by boys as a pet.
Skimmering. 'Skimmerin' clean,' the acme of cleanness. Of a doorstep, linen, etc. (Communicated by A. T. D.)
Skinch. "Let be! I'm not playing." When a boy wishes to stop playing at any running game, he shouts "Skinch!" meaning he is not liable to be caught and made prisoner.
Skitling. Same as 'hempy.' " The skitlin' rascal !"
Slack. A hollow or dip in the land.
Slip. Child's pinafore.
Slippy. Slippery (always).
Slogger. To walk with the stockings hanging loosely.
Sloken (slauk-n). Slake, quench.
Slowed (sluwd). Drunk.
Slum. Slumber. "He's slumming" (sluom-un).
Small, in the phrase, 'Small family,' means a family of small children.
Smally (smaa:li). Small. "That's a smally bit bairn."
Smit (= 'smite'?). An infectious disease is said to 'smit,' or to 'be smittle' (always). "He'll get the smit" (i. e. catch the disease). "Is't smittle?" (Is it 'catching'?)
Smout (smoot). A hare's 'run' through a hedge.
Smush. To smoulder away, as touch-paper used by miners. The 'touch' is made by soaking in saltpetre.
Snap-apple. The game of Bob-apple.
Sneakly. Quietly (generally with a notion of slyness).
Sneck. A door-latch (always). Also, vb., to latch.
Snot. Candle-snuff.
Soft. Wet (of the weather). The common salutation on a rainy day is, "Soft!"
Sonsy. Nice, jolly-looking, stout (of persons). Imported from the North, and not commonly heard.
Soss. A heavy fall. "He went down with such a soss."
Sour dockon. A small plant children pull and chew, —the Common Sorrel.
Spang. Span, i. e. the distance stretched between thumb and little finger.
Spanish. Licorice, or Spanish juice. (Pron. 'Spennish.')
Speer. Inquire. This word is rare, being an importation from the North.
Spelk. A thorn or splinter in the flesh. The usual term. Also of anything insignificant. "A spelk of a thing." "He's just a spelk of a lad."
Spell and Nurr. See Buck-stick.
Spew. To vomit.
Spice. The only name known for currant-cake. 'Cake' always means tea-cake.
Sprag. Min. A bar of wood inserted between the spokes of a coal-waggon, to act as a drag.
Spuggy. Sparrow. Boys' nickname for the house-sparrow. "Looks tha, thar's a spuggy, man!"
Squander (skwaa:ndu). Scatter (always).
Staithes (stae:uths). Technical. The shipping stage belonging to a colliery.
Standard. A stager, well-known inhabitant of any place. "Another old standard.., passed to his rest the week before."—From a letter, Aug. 29, 1895. (Very common.)
Steer. Strong (of the voice).
Stent. One's fill. "lie's had his stent" (i. e. satisfied).
Stick and Clout. Cant name for an umbrella.
Stime. "A canno' see a stime," often said by one whose eye-sight is bad.
Stirk (stau:k). Yearling calf.
Stirken. To cool and stiffen, as gravy does. /stau:kn/
Stite. Equally, as soon- "Stite him as me" (the sense is often 'much rather').
Stithe. pron. 'Steith', /staayth/, not /-dh/, compare Staithes. Stench, or a very close atmosphere.
Stobbie. Unfledged bird.
Stonie. Stallion. (styan:i.) A stone is always a 'styan.'
Stook (stoo:k). Bundle of sheaves set up in the corn-field.
Stour (stuuw:u). Dust in motion.
Strait. Narrow. (Common.) "Yon's a strait place." Compare St. Matt. vii. 13, 14.
Stramp. Trample.
Striddly-pigeon. A boys' game. A boy is blindfolded, generally by pulling his cap over his eyes, and stands with his legs stretched out. The other boys shy their caps between his legs. When all the caps have been thrown, the boys shout, "Strite (straight) on, striddly-pigeon !" The boy then walks straight on, until he touches a cap with his foot. The owner of the cap snatches it up and runs to a certain place and back again, the rest of the boys 'bleach'ing' him, that is, thrashing him about the head with their caps. As soon as the boy returns to the starting-place, he becomes 'pigeon.'
Stubbie. Same as 'stobbie.'
Sump. 'Sump wet,' wet to the skin.
Sup (suop). Drop. 'A sup rain' (a drop of rain); "he likes a sup" (fond of a drop too much); "ha'e a sup milk, will tha?" vb., to sip or drink. "Give them (cats) clean milk to sup."—Boy's essay.
Swalley (swaul:i). A hollow place. "The village lies right in a swalley." Said also of the throat, e. g. "My throat is sore just in the swalley."
Sweel. To gutter, flare, of a candle.
Swiney. Common Sow-thistle or Milk-thistle. See under Lonning.
Taistrel. An ill-mannered boy; one given to playing pranks.
Take with. Take to, appreciate. "—'s well tune with," i. e. is very popular. /tycon/ is p. p. of /tak/.
Tanner. Root of a boil, corn, or tooth.
Tappy-lappy. Pell-mell, helter-skelter. Halliwell has, "In haste with the coat-laps flying behind through speed," with the following example :—" Nanny Bell's crying out: I just gat a gliff o' Gweorge runnin', tappy-lappy, for the howdey."
Tarry towt. A single strand of rope steeped in tar.
Tarsy (taa:zi). A round game. The players form a double ring by standing in a circle with a space between each, while each player has anothes' standing immediately behind him. There is one odd player who stands, as third, behind any of the other two. A player standing in the centre then tries to 'tig' or touch tlse inside player who has two behind him, while the latter, to avoid being caught, must either runs behind the two standing behind him, or behind any other two in the ring. Thus another is brought to the front rank, and if caught before he can place himself behind another couple, becomes in his turn the pursuer, while the late pursuer takes his place in the ring.
Taw (taa:). A boy in playing marbles always has his fancy marble to shoot with : this he calls his ' taw.' Various dialects.
Taws (taa:z, taaz). A leathern strap for punishing naughty children, to be seen hanging up in many cottages. It is like a carriage-window strap, cut into a fringe at one end.
Teas. Used in the plulal thus:—" She haves her teas (=frequent teas) sometimes at the Sewing Meeting" (A. R.). "No, thamik you, we've hadden our teas" (but, 'my tea').
Teejy. Tedious, peevish.
Teem. vb. i. and tr. Pour. The only word known. Rain 'teems in' through a leaking roof. To 'teem out' is to pour out liquids. A teapot with a well-turned spout is called a 'good teemer.' Shakes[oeare]. has 'beteem.'
Teethache. Toothache. "He's getten the teethsachie."—Oct. 19, 1892. Also called 'tyoothwark.' "My tooths's working, I've get-en the toothwork."
Tew (tyoa:). To tire, pull about, tease. "She fairly tewed his life out." So 'tewing,' of work, means tedious, and 'tew,' generally, means, to toil, labour. For pronun., see under Hew.
The night (dhu nae:t). To-night; so, 'the day.' (The usual expression.)
Throng. Busy; inconveniently crowded (always).
Thropple. Throat, windpipe.
Throstle. The song-thrush is sometimes called 'thros'le,' but more often 'greybird.'
Tice. Entice, encourage.
Tidy betty. A short fender across the grate, without a bottom.
Tied. Used metaph., like the literary Eng. 'bound.' So found in Jeremy Taylor. "A's tied to gan" (forced to go).
Tig. To touch. (Used by children at play.)
Tiggy. The child's game of 'Touch.'
To. By. 'What are you to trade?' "She's getten a son till 'im " (literary 'got a son to him,' i. e. by him). Also, = For. "What'll ye take to your breakfast?"
Token. Min. technical A ticket, of tin or leather, affixed to each tub of coals, stating details.
Toom (tyoo:m). The day or time for the dismissal of hinds, when they are hired afresh. Met., "A've had-en a sair tume (spell) abune six moonths." "He canna bide a tume now" (a change, of raiment or position,—of an invalid). This word does not seem to be generally known. Also, empty (only used of coal-waggons).
Toothwork (tyuoth-waa:k). Toothache'.
Tough Cake (tyoof kyak). A water-cake, or white-cake, baked on the girdle. No currants used.
Tram. Mining technical term. Very much the same as Bogey, q. v. Strictly speaking, a bogey has the flange on the wheel, while in the case of the tram, the flange is on the rail. Also, the tram had fast and loose wheels, having more play on the axle, to allow them the better to take a curve.
Trippet and quolt. The game of Trap, Bat, and Ball, more commonly called 'Buck-stick.'
Troon (truuwn). A mason's trowel.
Trow (truw). Trough.
Truth. "The truth goes farthest," the common overture to a confession, to be heard any day.
Tub. (too:b, toob, tuob). Min. A coal-waggon used down the pit, holding from 6 to 8 cwt.
Tug. To rob (a nest).
Tune or Teun. Taken (always).
Tup (tyoop). A 'tupe' or 'teup' is a ram. Various dialects.
Twist. Quarrel, disagreement. "They're all atwist." "Hes thoo hadden a twist?" So, 'twisting,' discontented.
Twitch-bell. Ear-wig (= twitch-belly? Compare S. W. 'angle-twitch 'a worm. Ear-wig = arse-wriggle).
Unpatient. Impatient.
Upcast. Throw in one's teeth, taunt with.
Upgrown. Grown up, adult (always).
Uproar. No idea of noise implied, but only of confusion, as of a house 'upside down.' To 'be in an uproar,' is to have an untidy room, as on washing-day, etc.
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Heath Grange, Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 is now on the site of the old Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse.
The Old Bank was the Westminster.
On an old postcard photo of lower Sunderland Street at the entrance to The Lake is Ormston the Butcher - this was previously Clifton Butcher. I mentioned that on the right of The Lake entrance were large double gates leading to the back yard of Pallisters and I had a school friend who lived inside this area in a house called 'Ivy Cottage' (Richard also knew this family who were Methodists). He said that within this same large yard area was a Blacksmith, he knows some names of their workers.
At the bottom of Sunderland Street at the entrance to the market which went through to Newbottle Street (and had the Billiard Hall over it) was a hardware shop and when it closed Greenhow's bought the stock. These premises became the Windsor café. On Newbottle Street, Hopes, Cobblers, Cards etc now replace the market block.
In Imperial Buildings the first shop at the Brewery end now an auto-parts was Kemps Grocery.
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Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. The Houghton Miners Project aims to record the details, memories and recollections of all the remaining living miners who worked at the colliery in Houghton-le-Spring. The Colliery opened in 1827 and when it closed in 1981 was known as the oldest colliery in County Durham. The site of Houghton Colliery is now a landscaped area, covered in grass and home to wild rabbits, and the occasional graffiti artist. Find out more online at: www.houghtonheritage.co.uk
Do you know how old the Tythe Barn is in Houghton Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring? When does it date from?
Houghton Greyhound Stadium Club, Hall Lane, Houghton-le-Spring
AdminHistory The Houghton Greyhound Stadium Club was managed by the Hetton Race Company Ltd. The first Annual General Meeting of the Club was held on 22 November 1939. All members were elected to join the Club and paid an annual subscription. A Sports Committee and Wine Committee were established on the formation of the Club.
In addition to greyhound racing the Club also provided social facilities and entertainments for members and visitors. The military were in possession of the club in 1939 and this led to the postponement of entertainments until members were in possession of the entire premises.
Club members attended Annual General Meetings and the Directors met monthly to discuss finance issues, race organisation and entertainments.
Date 1939 - 1970
Greetings Paul,
My surmise that Mill House was No 40 Market Street is incorrect. It was(is) undoubtedly No 25 Market Place. The confusion arose mainly because the numbers for the premises in the Market Place first appeared in the 1911 Census - before then the premises appeared as Schedule numbers. I am now believe the following history to be correct:
George Wheatley (born 1829, 1834 or 1831, depending on which Census form he completed) was born in Dorset but moved to Dundee that Mecca of marmalade, jam and sweet manufacture, and married. Sometime between 1874 and 1876, he and his second wife (Josephine Findley b1851) and the first four of his nine children (George b1857; Charlotte b1866; Josephine b1869; Robert b1874) moved to Spennymoor and shortly afterwards to Newsham Place, Houghton-le-Spring, where he started a confectionery business. The rest of his children (Sophia b1876; Thomas b1879; and William b1881; Joseph b1887 and Elsie May b1894) were born in Spennymoor or Houghton. By 1891, George had purchased Mill Hill - a house and adjoining manufacturung premises in the Market Place, Houghton-le-Spring. He lived there until his death (1901-1911).
The son Robert (b1874) married Jane Ann Swales (b1871 or 1873) and they had six children. Robert went to live at Market Street, Hetton-le-Hole in about 1895, where he probably set up his own wholesale confectionery business. However, when his father died, Robert and his family took over Mill Hill and lived there until they sold it to my Uncle Joe ( Joseph James Gibson) in 1913-1915. Critical to our research, Robert Wheatley completed the 1911 Census form for 25 Market Street, and gives the Postal Address as Mill House, Houghton-le-Spring (though this has been left out of the transcript).
Robert's mother, Josephine, and his youngest sister, Elsie May, went to live at 35 Ironside Street after George's death. His brothers Thomas (b1879), living in the Market Place, and William (b1881), living at 7 Robinson Street, may have helped in the business.
I wonder which of these Wheatleys set up the fruiterers business.
And was the J Wheatley who was killed in WW1 Joseph b1887?
Incidentally, the 1911 Census gives the "Jolly Farmer" as No 8 Market Place (John Wheatley age 48 as the innkeeper), and the "Black Horse" as No 22 Market Place (Mary Shields age 24 as the innkeeper).
Heath Grange, Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 is now on the site of the old Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse.
Where are the gallows in Houghton-le-Spring? Do you know where criminals would have been hanged in Houghton-le-Spring?
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
Shops and premises in Newbottle Street 1940-1950 approx.
I always walked from the Broadway UP Newbottle Street and the top end was less familiar to me but have been assured of some of the shops beyond Greenhows and on the othe side beyond the County Junior school.
Beyond Greenhows.
Robinson Street.
Timms Fashions.
Sangsters the Butchers
Public House
Beyond the School
2 houses
Welfare clinic
Cycle shop
Fish and Chip shop
County School Greenhows Hardware
Empire Cinema Grocery/fresh ground coffee
Grand Cinema Youngs Shoe Shop
----------------- Robbie Burns Pub
Fletchers greengrocery
Jones Chemist
Johnson Wool Shop/sock manufacture Gordons furniture
Hudsons Bakery Betty’s Sweet Shop
Bruces Tobacconist…did they also sell torches? Dewhursts butcher
POST OFFICE Walter Wilson General dealer
Hodgsons Electrical Bruce &Tucker outfitters
Booths drapers and fancy goods Wheatley greengrocer/sweets
----BURN PARK ROAD MAUTLAND STREET-------------
Barclays Bank Co-Op Butcher
Stones Pork Shop Burtons the Tailor
Shoe Shop Timpsons? Doggarts
Blackburns Newsagents Doggarts
Woolworths Tobbacconist
Meadow Dairy grocery. Wallpaper Shop
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
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42. Civil Registration, Census, St Catherine’s Index & Registration Districts in England & Wales.
The content of this book is go give the reader an understanding about Civil Registration - births, marriages and deaths. What are St Catherine’s Indexes? and how they can be used in your research. Registration Districts from 1837 - 1851 & 1852 - 1946 for all of England & Wales. The Census of England & Wales 1801-1901. Useful telephone numbers and addresses. The information within is correct at the time of printing. 60 pages £5.00
43. Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Houghton-le-Spring - Marriages from Oct 1871 - Aug 1876 & Aug 1899 - July 1961. The content of this book is a record the marriages that took place at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Houghton-le-Spring. Included within is: the name of groom, age, marital status - single or otherwise shown, occupation, abode, his fathers name and occupation = name of bride, age, marital status - single or otherwise shown, occupation, abode, her fathers name, occupation, some witnesses and if married by licence. 44 pages £4.50
44. The 1871 Census for the townships of West Herrington, East and Middle Herrington and Silksworth; and part of the townships of Penshaw & Offerton. The content of this book has been obtained from the census of 1871 for the townships of West Herrington, East & Middle Herrington, Silksworth and part of Offerton & Penshaw townships and includes: Penshaw Hill Cottage, Hayston Hill, Offerton Hall, Offerton, Offerton Crossing, Wear Water Cottage White heugh, Netherton Spa, Offerton Woodhouse, Copperas Works, Coxgreen Cottage, Coxgreen, Middle Herrington, East Herrington, West Herrington, Hill House, Flinton Hill, Herrington Burn & New Herrington, Silksworth, Silksworth Hall, Silksworth House, Silksworth Moor, Hetton Railway - Wet Cut, Farrington, Bog Row, Silksworth Row, Grindon, Low Newport, Plains Brick Yard, Plains Farm, High Newport, Silksworth Colliery, Garden Cottages, Farrington Hall, South Farrington, High Farrington, Northmoor, Grindon Hall, Grindon Lodge, Grindon Mill, Grindon Bankhead and Thorney Close. This list includes all those people: forename, surname, age, occupation, (some relationships) and place of birth resident of those resident on the night of 7th of April 1871. 60 pages £5.00
45. Nesham Place Methodist Church, Houghton-le-Spring - Baptisms Nov 1875 - Aug 1933 & Jan 1951 - July 1966 and includes: when born, when baptised, name of the child / person, father, mother and abode. Also: Church Street Methodist Chapel, Houghton-le-Spring - Marriages Nov 1955 - Aug 1971 & July 1972 - Mar 1980 and includes: the name of groom, age, marital status - single or otherwise shown, occupation, abode, his fathers name and occupation = name of bride, age, marital status - single or otherwise shown, occupation, abode, her fathers name, occupation, some witnesses and if married by licence. The content of this book is to record both the baptisms and marriages that took place at these two places of worship. 24 pages £3.50
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47. The 1871 Census for the townships of Painshaw and Offerton including Shiney Row. This book should be used as a guide to locating people living in the area at the time of the census in 1871. The content of this book has been obtained from the census of 1871 for Painshaw and Offerton townships and includes: West Barnwell, Herrington Burn, Davisons Place, Shiney Row, Mill Cottage, Quarryhead, Pensher Lane, Painshaw Lane, Pensher, Painshaw, Rectory, Chester Lane, Londonderry Arms, Shoulder of Mutton, Swan Inn, Carr Row, Pensher Foundary, Berwick Row, Pensher Houses, Pensher House Lodge, Penshaw Stables, Whitefield Pit, Penshaw Railway Station, Penshaw Cottages, Penshaw North House, Bore Hole, Low Lambton Farm, New Pensher - Pit Row, Front Row, Double Row, Waggon Hill, Blacking Factory, Pensher Staith, Low Lambton & Back Street. This list includes all those people forename, surname, age, occupation, (some relationships) and place of birth resident on or about the night of the 7th of April 1871. 76 pages £6.00
48. Local Poetry by John & George Jordison and a few others. This book of local poetry was inspired by the works of the grand-father and great grand-father of my friend, John (Jack) Jordison. With kind permission Jack has allowed me compile poems and stories of both father and son - John & George Jordison. Encouraged by Jack’s family, I went in search of other such works and newspapers have provided a few more locally themed pieces. Family, religion, employment, national and international events and local landmarks are the subjects of many of the pieces which tell us about the thoughts, concerns, hopes and beliefs of these men. Note: A few pieces are written in local dialect. 104 pages £7.50
49. Burial Ground Register Transcripts for Houghton-le-Spring Municipal Cemetery 1892 - 1896. This book has been compiled from information found in the Burial Ground Register Transcripts for Houghton-le-Spring Municipal Cemetery. 150 records of burial have been identified in the Municipal Cemetery covering a five year period from 1st of March 1892 to the 29th December 1896 as having not been entered within the Parish Register which covers this period. The entries are recorded by date of burial, the same way they were recorded. Surnames are shown in capitals and bold lettering. The records include: the marital status of some females, forename(s), surname, some occupations, age, abode and if the body was removed from a different parish. 16 pages £3.50
50. Marriage Licences for the Parish Church of Whitburn 1789-1859 & Marriage Licence Applications throughout County Durham 1823-1843. The 78 Marriage Licences included are dated between 1789 & 1859 and all related to Whitburn Parish Church except one where the marriage took place at Bishopwearmouth Parish Church [46 of the 156 people mentioned came from other parishes in the county and 11 of those from outside the county]. The 98 Marriage Licence Applications included are dated between 1829 & 1843 and relate to marriages to be performed throughout County Durham - Auckland (1) Billingham (1) Bishopwearmouth (4) Brancepeth (1) Chester-le-Street (1) Dalton-le-Dale (3) Houghton-le-Spring (1) Monkwearmouth (6) Norton (1) Sadberge (1) South Shields (1) Sunderland (61) Witton-le-Wear (2) Whitburn (14) [8 of the 196 people mentioned came from outside the county]. The information includes: Age shown: being upwards of the age of: (not always shown): Of this parish: Whitburn, unless otherwise shown; Martial Status: Bachelor, spinster, widow or widower. 24 pages £3.50
51. Marriages at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Easington Lane 1900-1995.
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Heath Grange, Houghton-le-Spring, DH5 is now on the site of the old Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse.
Duke discovers church secrets
The Duke with architect Peter Ryder.
Published Date: 27 July 2010
By Tim Booler
Secrets unearthed at a Houghton church were shared with the Duke of Gloucester on a Royal visit to the town.
The Duke was fascinated to learn about the recent archeological finds at St Michael and All Angels, which make the site 3,000 years older than was previously believed.
Intriguing features at the parish site including a Saxon Church doorway, Roman masonry and a Stone Age ring were only discovered when the church floor was dug up to install new under-floor heating.
The site was previously believed to be Norman, dating back to the 11th century, but the new finds have led archaeologists to conclude that it dates back to the time of the Old Testament.
As part of his visit, the Duke, who is the Queen's cousin, visited the new Heritage Centre within the church and visited Kepier Hall, part of the original Tudor grammar school in Houghton.
An architect by training, the Duke spoke at length with diocesan archaeologist Peter Ryder about the finds.
The Rector of Houghton, the Reverend Canon Sue Pinnington, said: "It's lovely to be able to welcome the Duke and share with him the discoveries made.
"We had no idea that these objects were here. We were shocked and delighted. Everyone always knew Houghton-le-Spring was an ancient site, but we never had proof. Now it has gained thousands of years of history, dating back to the time when Abraham entered the promised land."
As well as enjoying afternoon tea with Houghton residents, the Duke had a tour of one of the Kepier Almshouses for the elderly which lie in the church grounds.
Almshouse resident Philip Bridge, 80, a former member of the Durham Light Infantry and Territorial Army, said: "He's a great bloke, we spoke well. I am former DLI and most of the Royal family have a military background.
"It's fascinating to think of the length of time this site has been here. Houghton was here long before Sunderland."
Canon Pinnington added: "The opening of the Davidson Suite marks a new phase in the life of the Kepier Hall with improved facilities for the whole community of Houghton-le-Spring."
Where are the gallows in Houghton-le-Spring? Do you know where criminals would have been hanged in Houghton-le-Spring?
This book is a small glimpse into the well-known Fence Houses landmark – Dubmire School. The school has had several names since its official 1914 opening, including Dubmire Council School, Dubmire Mixed School and the better known Dubmire Junior School.
The school has survived the wear and tear of school life for over 88 years and has even withstood the bombs and warplanes of WWII as some of the memories contained herein show. Nobody seems to know what the future holds for the old building; whether it will be demolished or reused by the community remains to be seen. One thing is for certain: the school will be remembered for a long time to come!
Featuring photos from 1914 to the present day, the book is an excellent reminder for pupils and staff who have passed through the corridors of the old building.
Houghton-le-Spring and the surrounding area is steeped in history dating back to the later stone age. The Copt Hill burial mound (HER 100) indicates a potential ritual importance of the area during the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
The earliest documentary evidence for the village is 1112 AD. The name derives from Hoctona, the name of the settlement in the Boldon Book of 1183. The ‘Hough’ part of the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘a point of land projecting into a plain’. The addition of ‘le-Spring’ could have been added from two possibilities: a Lord of the Manor by that name or due to the numerous limestone springs in the area.
In the 14th Century the village is listed as having 27 tenants, a watermill, brew house, oven and forge (HER 280). It still shows as a prosperous village on 17th and 18th Century maps.
St. Michael’s and All Angels Church (HER 263) has many noteworthy people interred inside the church, including Rector Bernard Gilpin (1557-1583). Gilpin was known as the ‘Apostle of the North’ and went on to become Archdeacon of Durham in 1557. The village has other buildings that featured prominently during the medieval period. Much of the medieval Rectory (HER 264) was demolished, yet it is thought some of the original features may still exist in the present day building. The archway entrance into the rectory was re-built as the entrance to St. Michael’s Church.
The late-medieval building of Houghton Hall (HER 1858) still stands. Built by Rector Robert Hutton, he was a noted Puritan and when he died he was buried alongside his horse and dog in the grounds of the Hall.
The Industrial Revolution led to an expansion of the settlement with the opening of the Houghton Colliery (HER 3166) in 1829 and the formation of the Union workhouse in 1864.
A World War ll Home Guard bunker (HER 5504), located not far from Copt Hill provides the area with the most recent of records. The walls of the bunker still remain, but the roof has collapsed due to landslip from the hillside into which it is built.
What is the address of the Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Centre? The Heritage Centre can be contacted at www.houghtonheritage.co.uk or via Dubmire Court, Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5NF.
Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. To contact the Houghton Le Spring Heritage Centre please click HERE.
Do you know where we can buy Bernard Gilpin Ale or Bernard Gilpin light beer? This commemorative beer is available from this website over the Bernard Gilpin Weekend in March 2011.
Thomas Banks. Born in Houghton Le Spring about 1822 Thomas the son trained as a Blacksmith and I find him in the 1851 census living in Stella, Blaydon with his wife Isabella Lawson (born Northumberland). I have been able to obtain a copy of their Marriage certificate which has provided me with the names of the fathers of the married couple and Thomas's father was also named Thomas. The couple were married on 29th April 1850 and Thomas the grooms father, is shown as a Quarryman. A word appears beside the grooms father which I believe is meant to read "died" or "dced", unfortunately this is as far as I have been able to go.
The following information is from: http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk:
What is the address of the Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Centre? The Heritage Centre can be contacted at www.houghtonheritage.co.uk or via Dubmire Court, Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5NF.
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the Tudor Banquet, also known as the Apostle of the North Banquet on Friday 4th March 2011. Tickets £15 from John Lambton 5841591
Holy Springs in Houghton-le-Spring:
Information on:
Hillside Cemetery, Houghton-le-Spring
Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ345504
ROBINSON BROS (BREWERY) LTD
THE CITY BREWERY, DURHAM ROAD, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING
Yup - the name jumped out straight away at me as I've never, ever known anyone be called Bland before - such an unusual name.
Six years ago, I started a project to restore the local cemetery, and there was a chunky memorial stone with the name on Joseph Bland PEARSON. There was a beautiful hawthorn tree growing nearby, and one snowy day I took a photo of it, and made it into a Christmas card, which we sold to help raise funds for the cemetery restoration.
I then researched in to Joseph Bland Pearson, just so I could put some brief notes on the back of the Christmas card:
Joseph Bland PEARSON. Joseph was an auctioneer from Neasham Place and died on August 4th, 1897, aged 65 years.
Details of his memorial from my database are as follows:
GRAVE I.D: G00024
TYPE: Base
LOCATION: A
CONDITION: Good
DATE RECORDED: 29 March 2003
INSCRIPTION: SIDE 1: In loving memory of ELIZABETH PHYLLIS wife of JOSEPH BLAND PEARSON who died 10th Novr 1891. SIDE 2: In loving memory of JOSEPH BLAND PEARSON who died 4th August 1897 aged 65 years.
NOTES: A cube stone with two inscriptions; the large base is adjacent and it is thought that a cross would have been on top. Both are located underneath a hawthorn tree (See also G00022 and G00023 headstones nearby). A warning sign about the cemetery was erected near to this stone on September 4 2003 and subsequently vandalised. Alan Godfrey's 1895 HLS map lists Joseph as: Auctioneer, Neasham Place.
This morning I looked in the old Census records for 1861 - 1891 and discovered:
His wife Elizabeth was born in 1831 Great Lumley. Her parents were John Shields and Maria ? The 1841 Census has her living at Pittington.
Joseph and Elizabeth were married March 1850 - Durham.
Interesting to see how he changed career over the years! Hairdresser/Barber to Pawnbroker and Auctioneer - now you know where the silver watch came from!
Registers
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Register of baptisms, 8 June 1563 – 30 September 1640; 10 August 1642 – 4 December 1652
Entries also for 1653, 1660, 1662, 1664
Register of marriages, 8 June 1563 - 18 January 1568; 11 May 1581 - 10 October 1660
One entry for 1663
Register of burials, [ ] August 1581 – 1 September 1652
Appointment of the parish clerk, 1599, 1605, 1623, 1648, 1664
List of the baptisms of the children of Sir William Bellasys and others outside the parish, 1612 - 1658
Notes of inductions, 1623 and 1633
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1653 - 1698
Note of appointment of a parish register, 1653
Notes of inductions, 1660, 1662, 1664, 1677
Appointment of a parish clerk, 1689
Note of the rector’s bequest to the poor by his will
(1 volume)
This website now sells copies of the new Houghton-le-Spring book 'Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages'.
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, December 1942 - March 1949
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, March 1949 - September 1960
(1 volume)
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Register of banns and marriages, April 1754 - June 1779
Notes for the clergy explaining the Marriage Act, 1754
(1 volume)
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Register of banns and marriages, June 1779 - February 1791
(1 volume)
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Register of banns and marriages, February 1791 - December 1812
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, January 1813 - March 1827
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, March 1827 - June 1837
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, July 1837 - May 1848
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, May 1848 - May 1859
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, May 1859 - October 1872
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, October 1872 - November 1891
Circulars concerning Marriage Acts and the Registration of Births and Deaths
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, November 1891 - March 1907
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, March 1907 - September 1919
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, October 1919 - August 1931
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, September 1931 - June 1942
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, July 1942 - March 1951
(1 volume)
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Register of marriages, March 1951 - July 1961
(1 volume)
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Register of burials, January 1813 - August 1826
(1 volume)
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Register of burials, August 1826 - May 1836
(1 volume)
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Register of burials, May 1836 - August 1854
(1 volume)
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Registers of banns of marriage, 1825 - 1890
(3 volumes)
Click here to contact Houghton-le-Spring Urban District Council
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On an old postcard photo of lower Sunderland Street at the entrance to The Lake is Ormston the Butcher - this was previously Clifton Butcher. I mentioned that on the right of The Lake entrance were large double gates leading to the back yard of Pallisters and I had a school friend who lived inside this area in a house called 'Ivy Cottage' (Richard also knew this family who were Methodists). He said that within this same large yard area was a Blacksmith, he knows some names of their workers.
At the bottom of Sunderland Street at the entrance to the market which went through to Newbottle Street (and had the Billiard Hall over it) was a hardware shop and when it closed Greenhow's bought the stock. These premises became the Windsor café. On Newbottle Street, Hopes, Cobblers, Cards etc now replace the market block.
In Imperial Buildings the first shop at the Brewery end now an auto-parts was Kemps Grocery.
Ref No. EP/Ho 193
Copy of citation before the issue of a faculty for a vault for the Elliot family of Houghton Hall, 30 October 1862
(1 paper)
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Copy of faculty to erect a low chancel screen and place certain ornaments in the chancel, 30 December 1879
(1 parchment)
My dad was a pupil at Houghton Grammar School from about 1947-1952 when he left to do his national service. Is there a website or somewhere where I can find out the history of the school or obtain copies of records? Do you know of a Houghton Old Boys website or network? I know of one or two famous old boys.
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Circular seeking subscriptions for the restoration of Houghton Parish Church as a memorial to Canon Grey, 1903
(1 printed paper)
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Plan and elevation of proposed pulpit in Houghton Church by Hicks and Charlewood, Newcastle [1904]
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(36 cm. x 53 cm., oiled linen, ink and partial colouring)
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Plan of steps to pulpit and chancel, Houghton Parish church by Hicks and Charlewood, 28 March 1904
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(36 cm. x 17 cm. waxed paper, ink and partial colouring)
Ref No. EP/Ho 217
Letter from the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd., Norfolk Street, London W.C., to Canon Brown arranging extra insurance premium during restoration work, 21 September 1899
(1 paper, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 218
Letters received by Canon Brown from the Bishop of Durham, Frank Stobart at the Lambton Office, Fence Houses, Selwyn Austin at Houghton Hall and A.M. Norman at Berkhamsted re. donations to the church restoration fund, 13 July 1899 - 30 June 1900
(4 papers)
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Correspondence between Hicks and Charlewood, architects, of 67 Westgate Road, Newcastle, and Canon Brown and G.H. Stevens at Houghton, discussing proposed modifications to Houghton Church, enclosing and discussing proposals of Dinning and Cooke for a heating system, tenders, award of contract to the latter, revised specification for repairs, proposals and tenders for pulpit etc. from Ralph Hedley, 22 New Bridge St., Newcastle, (enclosed), progress with reredos and chancel screen etc. and forwarding enclosures, 1 July 1899 - 19 May 1904
(2 files, 37 papers)
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Letters from Dinning and Cooke, Percy Iron Works, Newcastle, to Canon Brown or G.H. Stevens at Houghton discussing heating system for Houghton Church, 1 - 27 September 1899
(4 papers)
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Correspondence between Hicks and Charlewood, Mr. Bandelow, the Rector of Houghton and various contractors, regarding church restoration works, estimates and tenders, June 1901 - 18 September 1903
(29 papers, 3 files)
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Letters from William Scott at 1 Eden Terrace, Sunderland, to Mr. Bendelow acknowledging payment for glazing and encloing a certificate for payment from Hicks and Charlewood, 3 September 1901 - 3 June 1902
(4 papers)
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Correspondence between The Ecclesiastical Commission and Canon Brown at Houghton re. the former's making a contribution to the cost of restoration of the parish church, 9 November 1901 - 29 March 1904
(5 papers)
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Copy letter from the Chancellor (P.V. Smith) at Lincoln's Inn to the Registrar, Durham, discussing Houghton le Spring faculty, 18 July 1903
(1 paper)
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Letter from the Barnard Castle Gas Light Co. Ltd., 49 Galgate, Barnard Castle, to Canon Brown discussing various gas lighting fixtures, 10 August 1903
(2 papers, typescript)
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Illustration of 'Electrolier' in St. Cuthbert's Darlington [c 1900]
(1 paper)
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Letter from C.S.O. Griffith at Eggleston Vicarage to Canon Brown offering to buy the iron screen, 8 February 1904
(paper)
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Letter from Barkentin and Hall, Regent St., London, to Canon Brown acknowledging order for a memorial brass, 19 May 1904
(1 paper)
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Letter from the Diocesan Registry, Durham, to Canon Brown at Houghton listing works which the Chancellor will allow in his next omnibus faculty, 10 June 1904
(1 paper)
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Receipts from F. Caldcleugh and Son, Durham, and John Angrove (Newcastle Steam Marble Works), 1904
(2 papers)
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Parish magazine, January 1902
(1 booklet)
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Parish magazine, May 1902
(1 booklet)
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List of Ladies Committee, n.d. [c 1900]
(paper, 1 file)
General Fabric
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Letter from Joseph Potts and Son, architects, 57 John St., Sunderland, to Canon Brown discussing specifications, 2 April 1906
(1 paper)
Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society was formed to promote, share and preserve the local history of the Houghton-le-Spring district. The Society uses the Internet to share aspects of Houghton-le-Spring's heritage which otherwise would not be accessible to the public, including those in (residents) and beyond the town's boundaries (descendants and expatriates). The Society actively records current aspects of Houghton which will be of interest in the future, preserves and/or reintroduces local traditions and customs, and supports schools and educational establishments in the Houghton district with the promotion of our local heritage.
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Plans and sections of proposed alterations to the Mission Hall, St. Mark's Church, Houghton, [1906]
Scale: 4feet to 1 inch (1:48)
inset 2 feet to 1 inch (1:24)
(2 plans, 62 cm. x 43 cm., oiled linen, ink and colouring)
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Letter from H.S. Vincent and Co., Organ Builders, Hylton Rd., Sunderland, regarding the rebuilding of the organ in the parish church, 10 December 1910
(paper, 1 file)
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Faculty for the erection of a war memorial in the parish church, Houghton, 18 October 1920
(paper, 1 file, printed form)
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Faculty to rehang bells and hang additional bells at Houghton Church, 12 March 1928
(1 paper, printed, embossed seal)
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23 December 1931
Copy agreement between Houghton le Spring P.C.C. and Harrison and Harrison, Organ Builders of Durham, to erect a 3 manual organ for £1900
(1 paper)
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Design for an organ-case, St. Michael's, Houghton le Spring, by H.L. Hicks F.R.I.B.A., n.d.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, 23 cm. x 37 cm., tracing paper)
Church Yard
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Copy of vestry minutes discussing church yard paths, June 1860
(3 papers)
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Notes on Houghton le Spring churchyard, n.d. [c 1860]
(2 papers)
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Plans of Houghton church yard and Kepier Grammar School showing proposed pathways, 28 June 1860
Scale: 50 links to 1 inch
(2 plans, 36 cm. x 43 cm., waxed tracing paper, ink and partial colouring)
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Letters from Henry B. Wright, Solicitor, at Seaham Harbour, to Canon Brown re. road past Kepier School, footpath along north side of church and church yard boundaries, 17 December 1902 and 9 April 1904
(3 papers)
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Letter from D. Miller at Houghton to Canon Brown at Houghton Rectory discussing and forwarding EP/Ho 246, 31 January 1906
(paper)
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File of plans of Houghton church yard with the award of James Losh and Christopher Cookson of Newcastle, arbitrators, relative to closing a public footpath, 3 September 1831
(1 file, ink and lithography)
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Extract from newspaper report of the reopening of Houghton church on 26 February 1859, n.d. [c 1900]
(2 papers)
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List of members of the Elliot family who might subscribe to Chancel
(1 paper)
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Chancel Fund vouchers, 1908 - 1909
(1 file, paper)
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Letter from Hately Brothers, Chicago, to Rev. John Grey re. memorial to Hateley's father at Houghton, 21 January 1890
(1 paper)
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Archdeacon's visitation articles, 1911
(1 paper)
Church Institute
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Church Institute Trustees' minute book, April 1898 - February 1911 with balance sheet for 1889 attached
(1 volume, leather bound)
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Church Institute Treasurer's account book, January 1917 - December 1952
(1 volume, calf half-bound)
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Church Institute Treasurer's account book, February 1953 - February 1958
(1 volume, card bound)
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Letter from J. Bendelow, Hon. Secretary, at the Church Institute, Houghton, to Canon Brown requesting that he call a meeting of the institute trustees, 19 December 1901
(1 paper)
Overseers
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Overseers' account book, April 1752 - May 1785
Includes poor rate, 1753 - 1785
In back: Account of money paid to George Watson, Master of the Workhouse, June 1775 - April 1776; account of Margaret Smith's goods sent to the workhouse, 16 June 1777; note of those who entered the workhouse, June 1777 - February 1778
Attached: Note of delivery of 6 brass weights for the use of the township of Houghton le Spring, 6 December 1772
(1 volume, calf bound)
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Overseers' account book, June 1818 - 1829
(1 volume, calf bound)
Schools (See also Charities)
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Houghton le Spring, Lambton Infants' School cash account book, March 1897 - February 1899
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
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New Town infants' school cash account book, March 1897 - February 1899
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
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Letter from Thomas W. Robinson at Houghton le Spring to Rev. John Grey returning plan of land adjoining school, 8 January 1883
(1 paper)
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Correspondence between Isabella Robinson at Grendon Hall, Atherstone, and Rev. John Grey discussing and approving proposed alterations to the school boundary wall, 4 - 15 July 1889
(4 papers)
My surmise that Mill House was No 40 Market Street is incorrect. It was(is) undoubtedly No 25 Market Place. The confusion arose mainly because the numbers for the premises in the Market Place first appeared in the 1911 Census - before then the premises appeared as Schedule numbers. I am now believe the following history to be correct:
George Wheatley (born 1829, 1834 or 1831, depending on which Census form he completed) was born in Dorset but moved to Dundee that Mecca of marmalade, jam and sweet manufacture, and married. Sometime between 1874 and 1876, he and his second wife (Josephine Findley b1851) and the first four of his nine children (George b1857; Charlotte b1866; Josephine b1869; Robert b1874) moved to Spennymoor and shortly afterwards to Newsham Place, Houghton-le-Spring, where he started a confectionery business. The rest of his children (Sophia b1876; Thomas b1879; and William b1881; Joseph b1887 and Elsie May b1894) were born in Spennymoor or Houghton. By 1891, George had purchased Mill Hill - a house and adjoining manufacturung premises in the Market Place, Houghton-le-Spring. He lived there until his death (1901-1911).
The son Robert (b1874) married Jane Ann Swales (b1871 or 1873) and they had six children. Robert went to live at Market Street, Hetton-le-Hole in about 1895, where he probably set up his own wholesale confectionery business. However, when his father died, Robert and his family took over Mill Hill and lived there until they sold it to my Uncle Joe ( Joseph James Gibson) in 1913-1915. Critical to our research, Robert Wheatley completed the 1911 Census form for 25 Market Street, and gives the Postal Address as Mill House, Houghton-le-Spring (though this has been left out of the transcript).
Robert's mother, Josephine, and his youngest sister, Elsie May, went to live at 35 Ironside Street after George's death. His brothers Thomas (b1879), living in the Market Place, and William (b1881), living at 7 Robinson Street, may have helped in the business.
I wonder which of these Wheatleys set up the fruiterers business.
And was the J Wheatley who was killed in WW1 Joseph b1887?
Incidentally, the 1911 Census gives the "Jolly Farmer" as No 8 Market Place (John Wheatley age 48 as the innkeeper), and the "Black Horse" as No 22 Market Place (Mary Shields age 24 as the innkeeper).
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List of Houghton le Spring Charities and their income, n.d., [1960s – 1970s]
(1 paper, typescript)
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Details of the Charities Official Investment Fund, its history, constitutions and workings, September 1963
(2 papers, printed)
Miscellaneous papers concerning Charities
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Copy of Chantry Certificate, relating to 'The Chauntrie or Guylde of the trinitie in the parish church of Houghton...', 14th February 1545/1546.
Copy made late 19th. century
(1 paper)
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Particulars of Houghton Charities as in 1786, 1902
(1 paper)
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Precept, question and answers under an Act of 26 George 111 requiring returns of all charitable donations for the benefit of the poor in England, 12 July 1786
(1 paper, printed form)
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Extract from the Report of the Charity Commissioners relative to Houghton le Spring, 1837
(2 papers, printed)
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Copy of case and opinion of Lewis Dibdin of Lincoln's Inn as to the effect of the Local Government Act, 1894, on the various Houghton le Spring parish charities, 4 December 1894
(paper, 1 file)
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Copy letter from the Charity Commission to D. Miller, Solicitor, Houghton le Spring, (acting for the U.D.C.) re. effects of the Local Government Act, 1894, on the appointment of trustees to local charities, 13 May 1899
(1 paper and 1 file, typescript)
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Letter from Robinson Brothers Brewers Ltd., Houghton le Spring, to Canon Norman re. charities and land leases, 10 December 1897
(1 paper)
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Extracts taken histories by from Surtees and by Fordyce describing the charitable benefactions of the parish of Houghton le Spring, n.d.
(14 papers)
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Return to Charity Commissioners of the accounts of Frankleyne's Dole, Cocken Dole (William Carr’s Charity) etc., n.d.
(1 paper, printed form)
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Papers re. exemption of Charities from Land Tax etc., 1898 - 1902
(3 papers)
Cemetery Disputes
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Houghton le Spring Union Rural Sanitary Authority cemetery bye laws and table of fees, 1891
(1 volume, card bound)
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Copy of Burial Act, 1900 [63 and 64 Vic. cap. 15] with a table of fees and accompanying explanatory letter from Whitehall, n.d.
(2 papers and 1 file, printed)
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Opinion of Counsel (F.H. Jeune and Sir W.G. Phillimore) on the cemetery dispute with other opinions and rough notes, 14 March - 11 November 1889
(paper, 1 file)
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Tract entitled Shall our cemetery be consecrated?, n.d.
(1 paper, printed)
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Memorandum on the cemetery question with miscellaneous draft letters, 1892
(1 paper and 2 files)
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Files of correspondence between Houghton le Spring Local Board, R.F. Boyd, the Rector of Houghton, the Bishop of Durham and others, regarding dispute over the consecration of part of the new cemetery, September 1891 - 26 August 1892
(paper, 2 files)
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Correspondence received by Rev. John Grey from Houghton le Spring Local Board, the Home Office and the Archdeacon of Durham re. non-observance of government regulations (copy included) at Houghton cemetery, 16 August 1892 - 3 August 1893
(1 paper and 2 files)
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Copy petition to the Bishop of Durham for consecration of the new burial ground at Houghton, 1893
(paper, 1 file)
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Correspondence between The Bishop of Durham, the Diocesan Registry at Durham and the Hon. and Rev. John Grey at Houghton, re. need for new burial ground, history of existing one, refusal of Local Board to have it consecrated, conveyance of part of glebe for new burial ground, and enclosing a copy of the Case with Counsel's (Lewis Dibdin of Lincoln's Inn) opinion thereon, 30 August 1892 - 29 November 1894
(6 papers, 2 files)
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Copy of report of William Morley, Houghton le Spring Rural Sanitary Authority, on site of church yard extension, 10 July 1894
(1 paper)
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Notes on meetings with regard to addition to burial ground, December 1893 - March 1894
(paper, 1 file)
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Copy of queries and answers re. proposed new burial ground, 10 July 1894
(1 paper, printed form)
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Subscription list and vouchers for burial ground work, 1894
(9 papers)
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Correspondence between the Home Office and Rev. John Grey at Houghton, re. inspection and approval of proposed new burial ground, forwarding regulations and plan, 2 July - 11 August 1894
(5 papers, 1 file)
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Plan of proposed new churchyard, showing existing cemetery [1894]
Scale - "Ordnance"
(1 plan, 33 cm., x 33 cm. oiled linen, ink and partial colour)
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Plan of proposed additions to the cemetery, Houghton le Spring, dated at Whitehall, 11 August 1894
Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch
(1 plan 30 cm. x 47 cm., paper, ink)
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Letter from Thomas E. Espin at Honley, Yorkshire, to Canon Grey at Houghton discussing Burial Acts, burial ground, trust deed and enclosing newspaper cuttings re. Oxford cemeteries, 26 July 1894
(2 papers)
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Letter from Joseph Stokoe at Gilpin House, Houghton to Rev. John Grey re. progress in levelling ground for new cemetery, 20 September 1894
(1 paper)
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Letters from the Clerk of Houghton U.D.C. to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton Rectory regarding proposed consecration of a portion of Durham Road Cemetery with conditions proposed by the U.D.C. and accepted by the Rector to compromise the dispute, 15 October – 5 November 1907
(4 papers)
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Letter from F.W. Eddison at Auckland Castle to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton enclosing plan [EP/Ho 387] and letter from the Diocesan Registry regarding Houghton Cemetery, 18 - 19 November 1907
(2 papers)
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Rough plan of Houghton le Spring public cemetery, n.d., [1907]
(l plan, 21 cm. x 33 cm., paper, pencil)
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File of correspondence from the Home Office to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton Rectory and to Houghton le Spring U.D.C. re. fees and charges for Houghton cemetery, including tables of revised charges, 3 March - 3 June 1908
(paper, 1 file)
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File of fees and vouchers for consecration of the cemetary at Houghton, 1908
(paper, 1 file)
Insurance
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Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd.
Fire Insurance Policies for:
Newtown Mission Room, 1903 and 1922;
18 Neasham Place, Houghton 1912;
St. Michael's C. of E. School, Houghton 1914;
Lambton School, 1914;
New Town Infant School, Houghton 1914;
The Cemetery Lodge, Houghton 1923;
Employers' Liability Insurance for Houghton le Spring School Managers, 1907 and 1911, 26 May 1903 – 11 January 1923
(9 papers, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 391
Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd.
Premuim receipts, miscellaneous vouchers, valuations, and circulars regarding insurance of Church School and parochial buildings at Houghton le Spring, 17 December 1906 - 21 June 1912
(9 papers and 3 files)
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Letter from the Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, Ltd., Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Rev. C.E. Adamson at Houghton Rectory re. insurance policies for local schools, 20 March 1914
(paper, 1 file)
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Schedules of insurance for the benefice of Houghton, 29 August 1924
(1 paper)
West Rainton
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Licence for the solemnization of marriages in the Chapel of West Rainton for residents of the Chapelry granted by the Bishop of Durham as patron of the living at Houghton, 23 April 1827
(parchment, 1 membrane, applied seal)
St. Matthew, Newbottle
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30 June 1864
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton
(2) The Bishop of Durham
(3) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Copy surrender from (1) to (2) of the right to nominate a minister to serve the church of St. Matthew, Newbottle in the parish of Houghton for better enabling the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to assign a District Chapelry Recites relevant Acts of Parliament
(paper, 1 file)
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Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. John Grey at Houghton le Spring re. endowing St. Matthew's Church, Newbottle, land for a parsonage house, 12 October 1864 - 10 February 1865
(3 papers)
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Copy Order in Council assigning a District Chapelry to the Church of St. Matthew, Newbottle, in the parish of Houghton le Spring [boundaries specified], 7 January 1865
(paper, 1 file)
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The London Gazette, no. 22928 containing Order in Council regarding the District Chapelry of St. Matthew, Newbottle, 10 January 1865
(2 papers, printed)
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Copies of the enquiry of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Diocesan Registry and the reply thereto respecting deeds of St. Matthew, Newbottle, 15 - 17 May 1865
(2 papers)
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Map of the District Chapelry of St. Matthew, Newbottle showing railways and habitations, 1864
(1 plan, 57 cm. x 49 cm., ink, oiled linen)
Lyons
Ref No. EP/Ho 401
Petition of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for forming the ecclesiastical district of Lyons out of the parishes of Hetton le Hole and Pittington, 1869
(1 paper, printed)
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Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission forwarding EP/Ho.403 and instructions, 18 February 1869
(1 paper)
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The London Gazette, no. 23469, including Order in Council concerning the District of Lyons, 16 February 1869
(1 newspaper)
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Letters from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. John Grey re. endowment of the cure of Lyons, 24 December 1868, 28 November 1882 and 13 November 1893
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 405
16 October 1883
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Clerk, Rector of Houghton
(2) The Bishop of Durham
(3) The Bishop of Durham as patron of the Rectory
(4) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners
(5) Rev. Richard Goode Hutt, Clerk, Vicar of the parish of Lyons
Copy deed of annexation to the church and benefice of the new parish of Lyons of tithe rent charge in lieu of £119 11s 6d tithe
Schedule of land, acreages and rent charges charged thereupon
(paper, 1 file)
Houghton-le-Spring at Christmas - Church events, carol services, Houghton christmas cards, 2011 calendar and snowy fun!
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Faculty, correspondence, minutes of the Restoration Appeal Committee, tenders and appeal literature for the Bernard Gilpin Memorial Fund and the renewal of the west window, 12 November 1979 - 9 June 1983
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 539
Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection, July 1973
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 540
Schedule of dilapidations noted at the quinquennial inspection, August 1978
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 541
Correspondence, accounts, specifications and plans concerning the Kepier Hall, Houghton and alterations to it, 26 July 1949 - 8 May 1956
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 542
Correspondence, schemes and notices relating to the Kepier Old School Trust and other education charities of the parish of Houghton and Church of England schools within Houghton and adjoining parishes, 12 October 1944 - 8 February 1962
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 543
Accounts, correspondence, specifications for improvement works and plans respecting the Kepier Almshouses and other parochial charities, 28 June 1971 - 17 July 1981
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 544/1-7
The Almshouses Gazette, issues 95-99, 105, l16, December 1975 - December 1976, July 1978, December 1981
(7 papers, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 545
Correspondence and accounts relating to bequests to the parish by the late Mrs. Jane Crake and the late Mrs. Emma Hunter, 12 February 1960 - 5 September 1969
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 546
Terms of employment of a steward and verger, 1964
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 547
Statement of parochial accounts for 1964
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 548
Statement of parochial accounts for 1966
(1 paper, printed)
Fifth Deposit
(Acc: 2388)
Ref No. EP/Ho 549
'Plan of part of old cemetery Houghton-le-Spring', D. Balfour, civil engineer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 17 October 1893
Scale: 15 feet to 1 inch [1:170]
(1 plan, 60 cm. x 68 cm., linen-backed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 550
'Plan of the ground laid to the Houghton-le-Spring church cemetery consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Durham on the second day of Nov. 1894'
Scale: 12 feet to 1 inch [1 : 144]
(1 plan, 54 cm. x 74.5 cm., linen-backed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 551
Lithograph of the mechanics' institute at Houghton-le-Spring, drawn by H. Richardson, lithographed by J. Storey and published by R. Turner, Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 28 May 1852
(1 paper, 29 cm. x 38 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 552
Certain Disquisitions and Considerations Representing to the Conscience the unlawfulnesse of the Oath, entitled, A solemn League and Covenant for the Reformation etc. As also the insufficiency of the Arguments used in the Exhortation for taking the said Covenant, published by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, Oxford, 1644
The Disquisitions was largely written by John Barwick (1612-1664) who was given the rectory of Houghton-le-Spring in 1641. He became Dean of Durham and Dean of St. Paul's after the restoration of the monarchy.
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 553
A Short and Plain Instruction for the Better Understanding of the Lord's Supper to which is annexed, the Office of the Holy Communion with proper helps and directions, by Thomas Wilson, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, S.P.C.K., London, 1839
(1 volume, leather bound)
Sixth Deposit
(Acc: 2350)
Houghton dates from 1183, its church was built in Norman times and it is the resting place of Bernard Gilpin, known as the Apostle of the North, who was a former rector at the town church in the 16th century.
It is home to more than 36,000 people and hosts one of the country's oldest annual community events – Houghton Feast, which attracts thousands of visitors to the town every October.
Charities
KEPIER FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND ALMSHOUSE
Scope of Kepier School Records
The records here represent a substantial part of the school's records as listed in an inventory of 1658 (EP/Ho 613), and in a further inventory of 1749 (EP/Ho 647) when they were used as evidence in Chancery proceedings.
It is clear that some original bundles have been disarranged and many papers have been badly affected by damp. Despite this, there remains evidence of all the principal endowments of Kepier School, a patchy series of accounts for almost a century after the school's foundation, and papers for the majority of the legal disputes in which the school was involved up to the mid-eighteenth century.
The sealed letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, 2 April 1574, founding the Free Grammar School and Almshouse of Kepier are missing, as are the school statutes in imperfect draft form on parchment. However, there is an exemplification of the foundation charter issued by Richard Barnes, bishop of Durham, in 1587 (EP/Ho 598) and a seventeenth century copy of the school statutes (EP/Ho 270). Transcripts of both the letters patent and the statutes appear in the Return and Digest of Endowed Charities (parish of Houghton-le-Spring) in Endowed Charities (Administrative County of Durham), London: H.M.S.O., 1903.
Other missing papers fall into two categories. Several fines relating to the White House in Houghton and Jackwalker Field in Wolsingham are lacking. There are also minor deficiencies in the papers of legal proceedings, perhaps the most significant being those of the Governors v. Carr, tenant of Wolsingham, and tenants of Wearmouth, in chancery, c.1650, for which no papers survive.
There are no papers representing the routine administration of the school from the late seventeenth century onwards.
Estates
The endowments of Kepier School under its founders Bernard Gilpin and John Heath fall into three main groups:
Lands of the former Kepier Hospital (dissolved in 1546)
John Heath purchased the lands of the former Kepier Hospital from John Cockburn in 1568. The portion of the estate used to endow Kepier School in 1570 and 1577 comprised pensions from the rectories of Gateshead, Whickham and Ryton, and the gillytithes of Bishopwearmouth, Whitburn and Cleadon, Easington, Chester-le-Street and Ryhope.
Penshaw and Pelaw
Heath and Gilpin purchased two annual rent charges from land in Penshaw and Pelaw from Thomas Melot in 1574.
Cocken
Two annuities from the manor of Cocken were given by William Carr of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1570. One was for the benefit of Kepier School, and the other for the parish poor of Houghton.
Other endowments
To these estates Gilpin added the White House, Houghton, purchased from Roger Rawe in 1574, a fine lying to the east of the churchyard and at the end of the school, purchased from James Lisley, and a fine called Jackwalker Field in Wolsingham, purchased from Sir R. Browne.
The school received two other benefactions from subsequent rectors of Houghton. Rev. Henry Bagshaw provided revenue from two closes in Houghton called Broadmeadows and Slipperthorne in 1708, and Sir George Wheler bequeathed a sum of money to be laid out by the rector in land (a leasehold estate at East Rainton), half of the rent being directed to the use of the school in 1719.
Records of Kepier Free Grammar School and Almshouse
EP/Ho 554-593 DEEDS OF TITLE
- revenues of Kepier Hospital
- school foundation and endowment with the revenues of the former Kepier Hospital
- Penshaw and Pelaw
- Cocken
- Houghton: the White House
EP/Ho 594-601 ESTATE LEASES AND ADMINISTRATION
- West Boldon
- Chester le Street
- Cocken
- Houghton le Spring
- East Rainton
EP/Ho 602-628 GOVERNORS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
- appointments of governors
- appointment of schoolmaster
- school accounts and administration
EP/Ho 629-672 LEGAL AFFAIRS
- Governors v. Hartburne
- Governors v. Carr
- Governors v. Chamber
- Governors v. Grey
- Attorney General v. Griffith and governors
EP/Ho 673-675 WILLS
EP/Ho 676 PLANS
EP/Ho 677-678 MISCELLANEOUS
N.B. The numbers endorsed in an 18th century hand on many of the Kepier School records correspond with the inventory of 1749
DEEDS OF TITLE
Revenues of Kepier Hospital: garb tithes of Easington and Hardwick
Ref No. EP/Ho 554
22 April 1314, at the Chapter House, Durham
(1) Hugh de Monte Alto, monk of Durham and master of Kypier [Kepier] Hospital, and brethren
(2) Thomas de Goldesburgh, archdeacon of Durham and rector of Esington [Easington]
(3) Richard [Kellawe] bishop of Durham
Deed of arbitration by (3) between (1) and (2) regarding a moiety of the garb tithes of the bishop of Durham's desmesnes in the parish of Esington which (1) and his predecessors have received time out of mind. A dispute having arisen, (3) rules that (1) are to receive the said moiety freely in future, and (1) are to celebrate annually a mass in memory of Bishop Antony [Bek] in Kypyer [Kepier] church
Endorsed: Esyngton [14th c. hand]
No. 24 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane, seal pendant, of (2), defective)
Ref No. EP/Ho 555
23 April 1314 [orig], at Middleham
(1) Hugh de Monte Alto, monk of Durham and master of Kepier Hospital and the brethren there
(2) Thomas de Hessewell, rector of Seggefeld [Sedgefield]
(3) Richard [Kellawe], bishop of Durham
Copy [16th c.] of deed of arbitration by (3) between (1) and (2) regarding the garb tithes of Herdwick [Hardwick] which were formerly assigned to (1) with the consent of (1) and (2) and of the then bishop of Durham, in place of a moiety of the tithes of the bishop of Durham's desmesnes in Seggefeld, and which have been received by (1) since that assignment. A dispute having arisen, (3) rules that (1) are to receive the tithes of Herdwick freely forever, and are to pay 20s. of silver annually to the rector of Herdwick at Kepier on the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist [24 June]
Endorsed: No. 25 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
School Foundation and Endowment with the revenues of the former Kepier Hospital (dissolved 1546): pensions from Gateshead, Whickham and Ryton rectories, and the gillytithes of Easington, Bishopwearmouth, Whitburn and Cleadon, Chester le Street and Ryhope. Also an annual rent from the rectory of Durham, St. Nicholas, not part of the former hospital revenues.
Ref No. EP/Ho 556
23 May 6 Edward VI [1552]
Copy [16th c.] of letters patent of Edward VI, granting to John Cockbourne, lord of Ormeston, the Hospital of St. Egidius at Keipeire [Kepier] and all its property
Endorsed: No. 36 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 557
24 September 1570
(1) John Heathe of Kepier, esquire
(2) James [Pilkington] bishop of Durham
(3) The Dean and Chapter of Durham
(4) Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton in the Springe, and his successors, parsons
Conveyance (reciting (1)'s intention to found a grammar school in Houghton le Spring and to endow it with a living for one honest and able schoolmaster and one usher, being mere Englishmen, to instruct yearly threescore scholars, at the least, being native born within the counties of Durham and Northumberland, and the school to be called forever Kepier School) by (1) to (3) of: first pensions of 53s. 4d. p.a. from the rectory of Gateside [Gateshead], 26s. 8d. p.a. from the rectory of Whickam [Whickham], and 26s. 8d. p.a. from the rectory of Riton [Ryton], all payable at the feasts of St. Cuthbert in March and St. Cuthbert in September by even portions, and all part of the hereditaments of the late dissolved Hospital of Kepier; also a gilly tithe from the town of Bisshoppes Warmouthe [Bishopwearmouth], part of the possessions of the late dissolved Hospital of Kepier and now in the tenure of Rowland Holmes; also a yearly rent of 13s. 4d. from the rectory of St. Nicholas, Durham, to be paid at the feasts of St. Martin in Winter and Pentecost; all of which pensions and rent amount to £6 p.a. and the gilly tithes of Bishopwearmouth are presently valued at £4 p.a., and second gilly tithes of 53s. 4d. p.a. from the parsonage of Whitborne [Whitburn] in the town of Cledon [Cleadon], 43s. 4d. p.a. from a tithe with a garth in the parish of Essington [Easington], and 13s. 4d. from Chester in the Strete, all of which were also part of the possessions of the late dissolved Hospital of Kepier, and amount to £5 10s. p.a., payable at the feasts of St. Martin in Winter and Pentecost, to the intent that the first mentioned pensions and tithes, value £10, be paid to a schoolmaster, and the second mentioned tithes, value £5 10s. be paid to the usher. If the school be void or without a schoolmaster for one whole year by the negligence of (3), this grant to be void. (4) covenants with (1) and (3) to preach a quarterly sermon at the church of St. Nicholas, Durham, or St. Giles, Giligate [Gilesgate], near
Durham. (1) appoints (2) to have oversight of the school. (1) covenants that if the rent from the parsonage of St. Nicholas, Durham, is unpaid, (3) may distrain Chappel Close in the parish of St. Nicholas, Durham. (3) covenents with (1) and (2) that if (4) obtains the Queen's licence to incorporate the school, (3) will convey the above endowments to the school
Term: 1000 years
Rent: one red rose at the feast of St. John the Baptist for the endowments first described, and one red rose at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist for the endowments secondly described.
Endorsed: Signed, sealed and delivered by the within named John Heathe in the presence of Walter Heathe, gent,William Judye, William Ashewell, notary public, Richard Downes, scrivener, John Francklinge, Randolph Gilpin and John Gaull
Endorsed: No. 3 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane, defective at lower margin; 3 seals pendant: of (2) defective; (3) detached; and (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 558
24 September 1570
(1) John Heathe
(2) James [Pilkington], bishop of Durham
(3) The Dean and Chapter of Durham
(4) Bernard Gilpin
Conterpart of EP/Ho 557
Endorsed: No. 4 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane, fragile; seal pendant, of (4), defective)
Ref No. EP/Ho 559
n.d. [dated in 1749 inventory as 13 Eliz, 1570-1571]
Copy licence of Elizabeth I to John Heath of Kepier, esquire, and Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton in the Spring (whom Heath has made his substitute) to establish a grammar school and almshouse or hospital in honour of the Blessed Trinity in Houghton for a master of scholars, an usher and certain poor scholars and needy persons, according to the foundation of Bernard Gilpin. Gilpin to make rules for the good governance of the same. The school or almshouse, having received its first revenues of the hospital of Kepier late dissolved, by gift of John Heath, chief founder, to be called the school or almshouse of Kepier in honour of the Holy Trinity. The two wardens (master and usher), scholars and poor to be in deed and name a corporation, and to have perpetual succession forever. The wardens, scholars and poor to have full right to all lands, tenements, rents, etc., given by Heath and Gilpin, or by any other person for the increase of the premises, the statute of mortmain notwithstanding, so that the lands, etc., do not exceed the yearly value of £50. The wardens may have a common seal. Licence is given to Bernard Gilpin and his heirs, appointed in his will, to make statutes for the good governance of the wardens, scholars, etc., to continue for ever, and to change them as they shall think meet. All these things to be granted without paying any fine or fee.
Endorsed: No. 37 [18th c. hand]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 560
1 August 19 Eliz.I [1577]
(1) William Whittingham, dean, and the chapter of Durham
(2) John Heathe of Kepier near the city of Durham, esquire
Surrender of all pensions, tithes and rents granted by (2) to (1) by indenture dated 24 September 1570 [EP/Ho 557], and surrender of counterpart of same, [EP/Ho 558]
Endorsed: No. 5 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 561
25 August 19 Eliz.I [1577]
(1) John Hethe of Kepier near the city of Durham, esquire
(2) John Hedworthe of Harvarton [Harraton] and Richard Belassis of Murton, esquires
Grant of yearly pensions of 53s. 4d. from Gateside rectory, 26s. 8d. from Whickeham [Whickham] rectory and 26s. 8d. from Riton rectory; a portion of tithes with a garth called a gillytithe from Easington parish (43s. 4d.), and gillytithes from Bisshopwarmouth (£4), Whitborne and Cledon (53s. 4d.), Chester in the Strete (13s. 4d.), and Ryopp [Ryhope] (46s. 8d.), all amounting to £17 3s. 4d., also all deeds concerning the same.
Endorsed: sealed and delivered in the presence of Thomas [ by], John Layton, George [ sam], Richard Duddley
No. 6 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 562
25 August 19 Eliz.I [1577]
(1) John Hethe
(2) John Hedworthe and Richard Belassis
Counterpart of EP/Ho 561
Endorsed: No. 10 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 563
29 August 19 Eliz I [1577]
(1) John Hedworthe and Richard Belassis
(2) John Hethe esquire and Bernard Gilpin, clerk, governors of the free grammar school and almshouse of Kepier in Houghton in the Springe
Bargain and sale of endowments comprised in EP/Ho 561 and all deeds concerning the same
Endorsed: sealed and delivered in the present of Thomas [ y], John Layton, [ ] Lawson, George Lawson, Richard Duddley
No. 8 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 564
29 August 19 Eliz. I [1577]
(1) John Hedworthe and Richard Belassis
(2) John Hethe and Bernard Gilpin
Counterpart of EP/Ho 563
Endorsed: No. 9 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of Kepier School)
Ref No. EP/Ho 565
29 August 19 Eliz. I [1577]
(1) John Hedworthe and Richard Belassis
(2) John Heithe and Bernard Gilpin
Duplicate of EP/Ho 563
Endorsed: Sealed signed and delivered to the use of the gov[er]n[o]rs of the Scoul of Howgton in the Springe in the p[re]sentes of John Wilson, William Thursbey, Thomas Madison, Robert [Fl]yburn
No. 11 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane, 2 seals pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 566
12 August 29 Eliz. I, 11 bp. Ric. [1587]
Letters patent of Richard [Barnes], bishop of Durham, ratifying for John Heath and Richard Bellasis, governors, the letters patent of Elizabeth I dated Canterbury 2 April 16 Eliz. I [1574] founding Kepier school and almshouse
Witness: [Thomas ] Calverley, esquire, chancellor of Durham
Endorsed: No. 2 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 567
10 May 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) John Hedworth of Harverton [Harraton] and Richard Bellasses of Murton, esquires
(2) Christopher Wharton of Ufferton [Offerton] and Christopher Ranson of Houghton in the Springe, gents.
Bargain and sale of pensions and gillytithes as in EP/Ho 561, and all deeds concerning the same
Consideration: a certain sum of money
Endorsed: Sealed and delyvered in ye presenc of Christopher Ranson, Christopher Wharton, Ralph Pendrithe, John Wilson, John Frankeland, Henry Denton and Michael Myers [16th c. hand] The Deed twixt Jo: Hedworth & Rich: Bellasys & Xpr. Wharton & Xpr. Ranson etc. May 10th 30 Eliz: for Houghton sch: re[n]ts. [17th c. hand]
No. 12 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane, 2 seals pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 568
10 May 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) John Hedworth and Richard Bellasses
(2) Christopher Wharton and Christopher Ranson
Counterpart of EP/Ho 567
Endorsed: No. 13 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of Christopher Wharton)
Ref No. EP/Ho 569
20 May 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) Christopher Wharton and Christopher Ranson
(2) John Heath the elder and Richard Bellasses, governors of the free grammar school and almshouse of Kepier
Bargain and sale of pensions and gillytithes as in EP/Ho 561, and all deeds concerning the same
Consideration: a certain sum of money
Endorsed: witnesses [as EP/Ho 567]
No. 15 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 570
20 May 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) Christopher Wharton and Christopher Ranson
(2) John Heath the elder and Richard Bellasses
Counterpart of EP/Ho 569
Endorsed: No. 14 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 572
2 October 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) Richard Belassis, one of the governors of Kepier free grammar school and almshouse
(2) Christopher Whartoun, John Casson, Ralph Pendrith, George Barkouse, and Robert Ironsides, the four churchwardens, and the most part of the four and twenty of the parish of Houghton
Indenture witnessing the redelivery by (1) of all written evidences [specified] which were formerly delivered to him by order of the late bishop of Durham, Doctor Barnes, and which are kept in a chest in the schoolmaster's chamber
Endorsed: M[emoran]d[um] that we Mr. John Heth & Christopher Wharton have had and received this Xth daye of March 1599 of Mr. Bryan Bellassis one of the executors of Richard Bellassis esquier all the writings conteyned in this Indenture to the use of the free scoole of Houghton in the Spring otherwise called Kepier scoole.
Witnesses: Cuthbert Hall, John Blackwood, Matthew Bungey
Endorsed: No. 20 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 573
2 October 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) Richard Bellasis
(2) Christopher Whartoun, John Casson, Ralph Pendrith, George Barkouse and Robert Ironsydes
Counterpart of EP/Ho 572
Endorsed: No. 21 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
Penshaw and Pelaw
Ref No. EP/Ho 574
Sunday next after Exaltation of the Holy Cross [21 September] 1371, at Pelaw
(1) John de Seburne and Isabell his wife
(2) John Mylot
Feoffment of all lands and a tenement in Pelaw which Isabell inherited on the death of her father John de Carleton
Witnesses: John Darcy, knight, Alan de Ravensboroh, Gilbert Eglyn, Robert de Pelaw and William Mortimer
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (1) and (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 575
Sunday in Christmas week [28 December] 1371, at Redmarsshill
(1) Joan, daughter of John, son of Richard de Pelaw
(2) Gilbert Eglyn and Robert lord of Pelowe [Pelaw]
(3) John Melot de Pelowe
Appointment by (1) of (2) as attorneys for livery of seisin to (3) of all lands and tenements in Pelowe, inherited on the death of her father John de Pelowe called de Karlton
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 576
Saturday after the Annunciation [26 March] 1379, at Pelow
(1) John, son of Robert de Pelow
(2) John Milote
Quitclaim of a messuage in Pelow between John Milote's house and the lord's furnace, with adjoining croft (?25 perches), and 10a. of land and 1a. of meadow divided as follows: 2a. in Neubrok; 1a. to the north of Pelton Way near a ditch; 1a. on Crokhope; 1a. and le banke and 1a. on Prestacres; 1a. on le colway; 1a. on the west of Schacowloche; 1a. on the north of Warna[?w]loche; ½a. on Scholbradis and ½a. on le faldynggrene; and 1a. of meadow between the lord's meadow and the meadow which John Wynmeniske occupies
Witnesses: William de Lambton, John de Seton and Gilbert Egline
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 577
Thursday before St. Matthew 12 Hen. IV - Tuesday in the 5th week of Lent following [17 September 1411 - 22 March 1412]
Assizes held at Durham before Ralph de Eure, Richard de Norton, Robert de Wyclyf and John Conyers, justices of bishop Thomas [Langley]
Copy of assize court roll: recovery by Matilda, widow of John Melot, through William Melot her attorney, of a messuage and 6a. of land in Pelowe, from Richard de Goldesburgh, knight and Joan, his wife, by default, subject to the life interest of Richard and Joan, on 22 March 1412
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 578
[Thursday before St. Matthew 12 Hen. IV] - Tuesday in the 5th week of Lent following [17 September 1411 - 22 March 1412]
Copy of assize court roll, Durham: recovery by Matilda, widow of John Melot, through William Melot her attorney, of a third of 3 messuages, 40a. of land and 5a. of meadow in Pelowe, as dower, from Richard de Goldesburgh, knight and Joan, his wife, by default, subject to the life interest of Richard and Joan
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 579
13 February 1413/14, at Chester
(1) Matilda, widow of John Melot
(2) Robert Walker of Chester [-le-Street]
Appointment by (1) of (2) as attorney for livery of seisin of a tenement, dovecote and 6a. of land in Pelawe to William de Eure, William Melot, her son, and Ralph, his son
Endorsed: An. 1412 [sic; 16th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; seal on tongue, of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 580
3 January 20 Hen. VI [1442] at Wotton in Werdall [Witton le Wear]
(1) William Eure, knight
(2) Ralph Mylot
Quitcaim of a tenement, dovecote and 6a. of land in Pelawe, which (1) holds from Matilda, widow of John Mylot
Witnesses: Ralph Eure, son (1), Christopher Conyers, Hugh Forster, Richard Dalton and John Wotton
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant, of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 581
12 August 37 Hen. VI [1459]
(1) Ralph Melot and Eleanor, his wife
(2) Thomas Lambton, esquire
Feoffment of all (1)'s lands, tenements, rents, services, meadows, woods, pasture and fishing rights in the towns and fields of Pencher [Penshaw] and Bisshophoghton
Rent: 36s. 8d. p.a., payable in equal portions at St. Martin in Hyeme [11 November] and Pentecost (Whit-Sunday)
Witnesses: Master William Newton, deacon of Chester, Henry Preston, chancellor of Durham, Geoffrey Medilton, sheriff of Durham, Robert Preston, coroner of Esyngton ward, William Lambton Robert Hedworth, William Crakenthorp and William Colyer
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 582
[6] September 38 Hen. VI [1459]
(1) Thomas Lambton esquire
(2) Ralph Melot and Eleanor, his wife
Grant of an annual rent of 36s. 8d. from (1)'s lands, tenements, rents and services in Pencher, and his manor of Lambton, payable at St. Martin in Hyeme [11 November] and at Pentecost in equal portions, on condition that if (2) receive the annual rent of 36s. 8d. from Pencher and Bisshophoghton [as in EP/Ho 581], this indenture to be invalid
Endorsed: The Rent Charge out of Pemshar
Witnesses: as in EP/Ho 581
6o : Sep : 38 : H : 6 : [16th c. hand]
No. 18 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant, of (1) and (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 583
16 October 17 Eliz I [1574]
(1) Thomas Melote of Maland [Mayland], esquire
(2) John Hethe esquire and Bernard Gillpyne clerk, governors of the free school and almshouse of Kepeyere [Kepier] in Houghton in the Springe
Bargain and sale of an annual rent charge of 36s. 8d. from lands in Pencher, in the possession of Robert Lampton esquire and payable to (1); also an annual rent of 10s. from lands in Pelowe. Covenant to deliver deeds before the feast of the Nativity
Consideration: a certain sum of money
Endorsed: sealed and delivered in the present of these witnesses: George Gilpin, William Whartonne, Richard Sclaitter, Robert ?Lyshen, William Ayraye, George Carleton, Launcelot Barwicke
Memorandu[m] that maister Robarte Lampton esquier righte enheritoure of the lands in Penshor within written hathe in the name of attournaymente unto this presente grante and allso concerninge the season of the said rent of xxxvi s. viii d. paied unto the said governoures the 18 daie of December ao dni 1575 the sume of xviii s. iiii d. [parcell] of the said rent of xxxvi s. viii d.
Memorandu[m] that Thomas Punshon, James Maltebie and Anthony Maddeson tenauntes for yeares of the landes in Pelowe within written have in the name of attournaymente unto this presente graunte and allso concerninge the season of the said rente of x s. paied unto the said governoures the [ ] of December ao dni 1575 [...... .....] said Punshon ii s. vi d. the said Maddeson and Maltebie [..... ......] as parcell of the said rent of x s.
Endorsed: No. 16 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 584
16 October 17 Eliz. I [1575]
(1) Thomas Melote
(2) John Hethe and Bernard Gillpyne
Bond in 200 marks for the performance of covenants in indenture of even date [EP/Ho 583]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal, on tongue, of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 585
16 October 17 Eliz I [1575]
(1) Thomas Melote
(2) John Hethe and Bernard Gilpine
Counterpart of EP/Ho 583
Endorsed: No. 17 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, from another document, tied on)
Cocken
Ref No. EP/Ho 586
3 August 5 Edward VI [1551]
(1) Bertram Anderson and William Jennison, plaintiffs
(2) John Franckleyn and Isabel, his wife, deforciants
Copy [17th c.] of a final concord in which the deforciants acknowledge the manor of Cocken, 6 messuages, 2 dovecotes, 3 barns, 4 gardens, 2 orchards, 200a. of land, 100a. of meadow, 200a. of pasture, 40a. of wood, 100a. of moor, 100a. of gorse and heath, and free fishery in the river Wear, to be the right of the plaintiffs
(Latin, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 587
7 August 1 Eliz I [1559]
(1) William Carr, gent., plaintiff
(2) Bertram Anderson and William Jennison, deforciants
Copy [17th c.] of a final concord in which the deforciants acknowledge the manor of Cocken [as in EP/Ho 586] to be the right of the plaintiff
(Latin, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 588
25 July 12 Eliz I [1570]
(1) William Carre of Newcastle upon Tyne, alderman
(2) Bertram Anderson, William Jenyson, Edward Carre, James Carre and Oswald Carre of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchants
Counterpart conveyance by (1) to (2) of an annuity of 40s. and another annuity of 26s. 8d. from the manor of Cocken, to be received after the deaths of John Franklyn of Cocken and Isabel, his wife, to the following uses. The first annuity to be used for the maintenance of a grammar school teacher in Houghton le Spring, and to be conveyed to the schoolmaster if the school should be incorporated by royal grant. The second annuity to be paid to the parson and churchwardens of Houghton le Spring and distributed annually to the poor of the parish on All Souls Day and Good Friday.
Consideration: covenants contained in indenture dated 22 February 1559 between Bertram Anderson, Christopher Mitforde, William Jenyson, of Newcastle, merchants, and John Franklyn of Cocken, gent., and (1)
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 3 seals pendant, of William Jenyson, Edward Carr and Oswald Carr)
Ref No. EP/Ho 589
15 March 1570/1
(1) William Carr, merchant, and Ralph Carr, gent., both of Newcastle upon Tyne
(2) William Jenison, Edward Carr, James Carr and Oswald Carr, of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchants
Bond in 500 marks to observe the conditions of an indenture dated 25 July 1570 [EP/Ho 588]
Endorsed: No. 28 [18 c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal, on tongue, of William Carr, detached and stapled back on)
Ref No. EP/Ho 590
28 January 18 Eliz I [1576]
(1) William Jenison, Edward Carr, James Carr and Oswald Carr of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchants
(2) John Heathe esquire and Bernard Gilpyn clerk, governors of the free grammar school and almshouse of Kepyer in Houghton in the Spring
Grant of 2 annuities from the manor of Cocken: 40s. for the use of Kepier school and almshouse after the death of Isabel, widow of John Franklyn, and 26s. 8d. for the relief of the poor of Houghton parish, to be delivered to the parson and churchwardens for distribution on 2 November and Good Friday. Reciting indentures dated 22 February 1559 and 25 July 1570 [EP/Ho 588]. Covenant to deliver deeds [EP/Ho 588-589] before the feast of St. John the Baptist
Endorsed: sealed and delivered in presence of ye witnesses under named and allso The Indenture and obligac[i]on made by Wyllm. Carre as is within specifyed unto Wyllm. Jennyson, Edwarde James and Oswalde Carr is at thinsealinge of these p[rese]ntes by them delyvered unto Barnard Gillpin Clarke person of Howghton, accordinge to the covenante conteined in this indenture. Witnesses whereof as followethe: Ralph Jenyson, William Ayraye, Henry Janyson, Michael Myers, Henry Ayraye
(Parchment, 1 membrane; 4 seals pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 591
7 July 30 Eliz I [1588]
(1) James Carre of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant
(2) John Heathe, the elder, and Richard Bellassis, governors of Kepier free grammar school and almshouse
Assignment by (1), surviving trustee of conveyance dated 25 July 1570 [EP/Ho 588], to (2) of 2 annuities of 40s. and 26s. 8d. from the manor of Cocken. Convenant by (2) to pay the annuities according to the trusts established by William Carre
Endorsed: Sealed and delyvered in the presens of Chrisopher Wharton, William Blytheman, Michael Myers and Edward [?H]ane
Memorandum of livery of seisin
(Parchment, 2 membranes; seal pendant of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 592
20 July 30 Eliz. I [1588]
(1) Ralph Carre of Cocken, esquire
(2) John Heathe the elder of Kepier and Richard Bellassis of Murton, esquires, governors of Kepier free grammar school and almshouse
Confirmation by (1) to (2) of the grant of annuities of 40s. and 26s. 8d. made by his father William Carr in a deed of 25 July 12 Eliz. I [EP/Ho 588]
Covenant to levy a fine within 2 years
Endorsed: Sealed and delyvered in the presence of those whose names are hereunder wrytten, John Frankeleyne, John Booth, John Stephenson, Richard Blande, Charles Boothe, William Thursbey and Anthony Buttrye
Memorandum of livery of seisin
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of (1))
Houghton: The White House
Ref No. EP/Ho 593
1 August 16 Eliz I [1574]
(1) Roger Rawe of [ ], Northumberland, merchant and Catherine, his wife
(2) Bernard Gilpin, rector of Houghton
Bond in the sum of £30 that (1) will, before St. Luke [18 October] next, assure by lawful surrender of the lord's steward a fine in Houghton called The whitt house, now in the occupation of Robert Coperthwait, schoolmaster, which (1) have bargained and sold to (2) for £15
Endorsed: [witness] Robert Coperthwait
(Parchment, 1 membrane, defective at upper and right hand margins; 2 seals on tongues, of (1))
ESTATE LEASES AND ADMINISTRATION
For accounts of revenues from school estates see EP/Ho 610-625
West Boldon
Ref No. EP/Ho 594
29 March 31 Eliz I [1589]
(1) Thomas Chamber of West Boldon, yeoman
(2) Guylford Lawson of Little Usworth, gent.
Assignment by (1) to (2) of a tenement or farmhold in West Boldon, now in the tenure of (1), for such term as (1) shall require. In exchange, lease by (2) to (1) of a moiety of the corn tithes from Suddick [Southwick] for 10 years, rent 53s. 4d. p.a., payable at Candlemas [2 February]. Covenant by (2) that during the life of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson of Little Usworth, widow, (1) may occupy a cottage (part of the farmhold) late in the tenure of Cuthbert Chamber, smith, with the garth at the back, and 2 cow gates, 10 sheep gates and 1 fother of hay in West Boldon. (1) may take away his goods before 20 February next, also the next harvest
Endorsed: signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Thomas Clackham, Christopher Robinson and John Clibbourne
No. 23 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane, fragile; seal pendant of (1))
Chester-le-Street
Ref No. EP/Ho 595
22 April 1659
(1) George Haswell of Chester in the Street, yeoman
(2) Thomas Delavall of Hetton le Hole, esquire, governor of Kepier School
Articles of agreement for the lease by (2) to (1) of the gillytithes of Chester le Street for 7 years at a rent of £6 p.a. Covenants that (1) will not let the gillytithes without consent of (2), and for (1) to enter bond for performance
Witnesses: Thomas Robson, Paul Lever
Endorsed: No. 39 [18th c. hand]
(1 paper; seal of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 596
Memorandum of agreement between Mr. J. Hudson of Bramwell Holme [ ] and the Rev. H. Brown of Houghton le Spring regarding tithes belonging to Kepier School, payable from land in Chester le Street, whereby Hudson agrees to take the tithe for 3 years at an annual rent of £26, 29 May 1828
Cocken
Ref No. EP/Ho 597
26 August 1602
(1) Ralph Carre of Cocken, esquire
(2) John Heath, junior, of Kepier, esquire and Christopher Wharton of Ufferton [Offerton], gent.
Bond of (1) to (2) in the sum of £100 to pay the governors of Kepier school and almshouse £31 13s. 4d. (45s. a year for 13 years and 48s. 4d. the following year) in satisfaction of arrears [of rents due from Cocken manor]
Witnesses: Thomas Haytor, Robert Matthew, Ralph Fetherstonhalgh, William Furbank notary public, Bernard Hutchinson
Endorsed: No. 27 [18th c. hand]
(1 paper; wafer seal of (1))
Ref No. EP/Ho 598
14 January 1649/50
(1) George Caunt, master of Houghton school, on behalf of himself and the poor of Houghton parish
(2) George Carre of Cocken and Francis Carr on behalf of himself and his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Carre
Agreement for payment by (2) of arrears due to the school and poor of Houghton from Martinmas 1639 and amounting to £28 with abatements
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Ref No. EP/Ho 609
12 September 1607
(1) John Heath the younger of Kepier, esquire, and Christopher Wharton of Ufferton in Houghton in the Spring, gent., governors of Kepier free grammar school
(2) Anthony Aray late of Acton, Middlesex, gent.
Appointment by (1) of (2) as schoolmaster of Kepier school
Endorsed: No. 33 [18th c. hand]
(Parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of Kepier school)
School Accounts and Administration
All the loose papers in this section were formerly filed on strings at the top left hand corner. Owing to their poor physical condition and disarrangement, it has not been possible to reconstruct the order of the original bundles.
Ref No. EP/Ho 610
Papers, originally in file form, described [by Thomas Delaval] as 'This File containes such Papers as doe nighly concerne Houghton Schoole', 1586-1620; 1647
Includes: inventory of evidences of the school in the custody of Richard, bishop of Durham, 13 April 1586; order of the justices of the peace at Durham for the better provision of hostelry houses for the boarding and lodging of scholars attending Kepier School, requiring that only 4 brewhouses or victualling houses be allowed in the town of Houghton at one time, and only those presented by the school governors to 2 justices, that the scholars be reasonably provided for and the governors to make reformation if required, that no poor souls dwell in the parish, except those permitted by statute, and that the governors, with the four and twenty of the parish, make suitable provision for the same, 9 September 30 Eliz.I [1588]; school masters' annual accounts, including memorandum of the first payment of wages to the poor scholars and almsfolk at Candlemas 1589; receipts for school rents and payment of poor money to Houghton churchwardens; and lists of payments to [named] poor scholars
(11 papers)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 611
'A Book for Receipts and disbursements of the schoole - money since Sir William Belasys's Death by mee G[eorge] C[aunt]', 14 March 1640/1 - 3 June 1658
Includes: payment for repairs to school building, purchase of books, legal expenses, and receipts of school rents from Jackwakerfield Close and Penshaw
Endorsed: No. 40 [18th c. hand]
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 612
'This Booke containes six severall Accounts of Mr. Geo. Caunt's, Master of Kepier Schoole in Houghton, of all those Rents he received that belonged the sd. Schoole out of Cocken, Penchar & Jackwakerfeild frome the yeare 1640 to Michalmas day 1658 As the sd. Accounts were given in by him to Tho. Delaval Esq. one of the Governors of the sd. Schoole', 1640 - 29 September 1658
Includes: rent receipts, and disbursements for the school and the parish poor
(1 booklet, 6 separate accounts bound together)
Ref No. EP/Ho 613
Notebook of Thomas Delaval, governor of Kepier school, 1657-1663
Includes: Copy of the election of Thomas Delaval as governor of Houghton school, 25 June 1657
Catalogue of writings in the iron chest, Houghton school, Michaelmas 1658
List of revenues belonging to Kepier school (schoolmaster, usher and poor scholars' portions), 1658
Notes touching the revenue of the school
The parties that pay the school rents and the days of payment
Further notes touching the revenue of the school
State of account for Jackwakerfield rent, 15 April 1658 - 1662
State of account for Penshaw rent, 15 April 1658
State of account for Cocken rent, 23 December 1657 - 1659
Record of all rents and arrears received by Thomas Delaval since he was chosen governor, 24 June 1657 - 1663
Record of all payments made by Thomas Delaval since he was chosen governor, 25 June 1657 - 1663
Notes touching the poor scholars and alms folks of Kepier school, with list of names and ages of those appointed by Thomas Delaval, 2 February 1658/9
Copies of orders to be observed by each poor scholar and alms body admitted to Kepier school, 2 February 1658
Copy of the grant for admitting a poor scholar or almsman, with list of names and ages of those admitted 2 - 27 February 1661/2
List of scholars who, according to the statutes, have paid their nobles for the repairs of the school house, for many years uncollected, till this Easter, 1659-1663
List of disbursements for school repairs, 1659-1662
Copy of the confirmation of Thomas Delaval as governor, 1660
At end: in a later hand, memorandum that the large silver seal of the school (with other books and papers) being in the custody of Mr. Davenport, could never be found after his death
Endorsed: No. 45 [18th c. hand]
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 614
Annual account of Richard Belassis for Kepier school, Martinmas 1587-1588
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 615
Draft of EP/Ho 614
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 616
[ ] Rutter's account of the master's wages, disbursements (from 9 February 1598/9) and receipts, 1599
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 617
Receipts of Houghton churchwardens for Cocken rents payable to the parish poor, with some lists of recipients; receipts for pensions paid to the 4 poor scholars [named]; account of disbursements for school repairs, 1601; glazier's bill, 1614; notes regarding leasehold of North Field and Mains [?Chester le Street], 1762; and part copy [18th c.] of school foundation deed; 1601-1655; 1762
(43 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 618
List of receipts and payments of Christopher Wharton, May 1607 - 20 May 1608
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 619
Receipt of Houghton churchwardens for half year's poor money from Cocken rents, 24 June 1615
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 620
Receipts for half yearly payment of 13s. 4d. from the lands at Cocken, paid by Kepier school governors to the churchwardens of Houghton, for the maintenance of the parish poor, 16 November 1617; 25 December 1621; 30 June 1623; 20 November 1623
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 621
Receipt for 26s. 8d. paid by Lady Balles [Bellasis] of Morton House to the churchwardens of Houghton, 28 November 1640
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 622
Receipts of Houghton churchwardens for poor money, receipts for pensions paid to poor scholars [named], and bill for legal expenses, 1641-1645; 1656-1658
(7 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 623
Receipt of Houghton churchwardens for parish poor money from Kepier school, 1642
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 624
Receipt of Houghton churchwardens for 4 years' arrears of Cocken rents, 20 February 1657/8
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 625
List of salaries paid to the poor scholars [named] out of the revenues of Kepier school, May day quarter 1672 - Lady day quarter 1674
(1 paper)
Appeals for Funds
Ref No. EP/Ho 626
Public appeal by the governors of Houghton Grammar School for contributions towards the repair of the school house, at the estimated cost of £80, and list of subscribers, 1744
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 627
As EP/Ho 626, with a more extensive list of subscribers added, n.d. [1744]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 628
Letter of appeal by John Young, D.D., headmaster of Kepier school, for contributions to the Kepier Scholarship Fund, intended to establish one or more scholarships from Kepier Grammar School to the universities, 12 January 1840
(1 paper, printed)
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Governors v. Richard Hartburne re Jackwalkers Field, Wolsingham,
n.d. (post 1604)
Ref No. EP/Ho 629
Interrogatories for witnesses on behalf of Christopher Wharton and John Wheatley, defendants, in a suit against Richard Hartburne, complainant, n.d. [post 1604]
1. Whether the complainant, defendant, Sir George Bowes, kt., deceased, and the messuage with Jacke Walkers field in Wolsingham, sometime in the tenure of Lancelot Marley and now in dispute, are known.
2. Whether Sir George Bowes, kt., was seised of the messuage and Jacke Walkers field 34 or 35 years ago according to the custom of Wolsingham halmote court, whether Sir George Bowes surrendered the same to the Bishop of Durham to the use of William Hartburne on 7 April 17 Eliz I [1575] and whether Hartburne was admitted tenant.
3. Whether the property was afterwards assured by custom of the manor to John Crooke and from him to Robert Browne, clerk, and his wife, Jane, and whether they were admitted tenants of the same as copyhold land.
4. Whether Bernard Gilpin, late parson of Houghton, agreed with Browne and his wife for the inheritance of the messuage and Jackwalkers Close, as an endowment for Houghton school and almshouse.
5. Whether Browne and his wife surrendered the property to Richard, bishop of Durham at Wolsingham halmote court on 11 October 24 Eliz. I [1582], to the use of William Aire, servant of Bernard Gilpin, and whether Aire was admitted tenant
6. Whether the property was shortly after assured by surrender to the governors of the free school of Houghton and Kepier.
7. Whether Christopher Wharton and John Heath, the younger, are [governors] and whether the messuage and Jackewalkers Close are part of the revenues of Kepier school and almshouse.
8. Whether Christopher Wharton and John Heath demised the property to John Wheatley for 21 years on 18 April 2 Jas I [1604] by licence of the steward of Wolsingham halmote court
9. How many years the property has been occuped as copyhold land by Sir George Bowes, William Hartburne, John Crooke, and Robert Browne and Jane, his wife.
Endorsed: No. 41 [18th c. hand]
(1 file)
Governors v. William Carr, in Chancery, re Cocken rent arrears, 1609-1611
Ref No. EP/Ho 630
21 April 1609
(1) The governors of Houghton Grammar School and Kepier Hospital, plaintiffs
(2) William Carr, defendant
Decree of Durham Chancery for the payment by (2) to (1) of 2 annuities from the manor and lands of Cocken (40s. for the benefit of the schoolmaster of Kepier school, and 26s. 8d. for the use of the poor of Houghton parish), in arrears for 2½ years, amounting to £8 6s. 8d.; (2) to provide (1) with written assurances
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 631
Inventory of writings delivered by John Hethe the younger of Kepeyere to John Kinge, 4 January 1610/11
(1 paper)
Governors v. Thomas Chamber and others, in Chancery, re Whitburn and Cleadon gillytithes, 1616
Ref No. EP/Ho 632
[28] March [14 &] 49 Jas. [I & VI] [1616]
Exemplification of William [James] bishop of Durham of a Durham Chancery decree in a case between John Heath, esquire, and Christopher Wharton, gent., governors of Kepier school, plaintiffs, and Thomas Chamber [ ], James Mathew, Michael Mathew and Thomas Colson, defendants, concerning the gillytithes of Cleadon and Whitburne
Endorsed: September the first 1664 in Durham The Governors of the free Grammer Schoole and Almeshouse of Kepyer Compl[ainan]ts Against Robert Gray doctor in divinity, Anthony Wilde, John Thompson & others defend[an]ts. This writing was shewed to George Caunt gent. att the time of his examination before us Thomas Shadforth, Mar[tin] Allensom.
No. 22 [18th c. hand]
(Latin in part, parchment, 1 membrane; great seal pendant of Bishop James)
Governors v. Robert Grey, D.D., rector of Bishopwearmouth, in Chancery re Bishopwearmouth gillytithes, 1665-1666
Ref No. EP/Ho 633
Terrier of the mayne or demesne lands in the town fields of Bishopwearmouth, anciently in tillage before the division ...... attested by the depositions of John Sheperdson and Thomas Ayre of Wearmouth and Thomas Ayre of Tunstall, before the commissioners for setting forth the said mayne lands by order of Sir Francis Goodrick, chancellor of Durham & Sadberge, 6 July 1665
Includes: copy depositions in evidence, 1664-1666
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 634
Statement of case of Kepier school (3 copies), n.d. [1665]
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 635
Copy of pleading: the Governors of Kepier school in the suit against Robert Grey D.D., and others, concerning gillytithes from demesne lands in Bishopwearmouth and Ryhope, n.d. [1665]
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 636
List of demesne lands in Bishopwearmouth known to pay gillytithes, n.d. [c.1665]
Endorsed: No. 35 [18th c. hand]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 637
Extract from decree of Durham chancery: Governors of Kepier school against Robert Grey and others, 10 September 1665
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 638
Interrogatories to be administered to witnesses on behalf of Robert Gray D.D., rector of Bishopwearmouth, defendant in a case brought by the Governors of Kepier school, complainants, 10 September 1666
Includes: depositions of witnesses on behalf of Robert Gray and the Governors, concerning Hall Moore and North Moor closes in Bishopwearmouth, and whether stinted as mayne or demesne lands, or by gates, or whether stinted as other lands reputedly neither demesnes or lands
Endorsed: No. 42 [18th c. hand]
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 639
Copy decree of Durham chancery, awarding to Kepier School, complainants, the gillytithes of all demesne lands in Bishopwearmouth in the within recited terrier, also the gillytithes of two thirds of Hall Moor and a moiety of North Moore, 13 September 1666
(1 file)
Attorney General v. Thomas Griffith, master of Kepier School, and governors, in Chancery, 1747-1755
The dispute between the rector of Houghton, Dr. Richard Stonhewer, and the master and governors of Kepier School, originated when Stonhewer withheld the salaries of the master and usher, payable from Wheler's charity, after his demand for the issue of two separate receipts had been refused in May 1746. The school governors appointed the master, Thomas Griffith, to receive all revenues of the school until further order, but the rector refused to pay the charity rents and produced a copy of the school statutes in support of his case.
The Chancery action before Lord Hardwick developed into a test of the governors' powers and the validity of the school statutes, which lasted from 1751 to 1755, resulting in a complete victory for Griffiths and the governors, saving that the trust of Wheler's charity was to continue in the rector. The Lord Chancellor decreed that the governors were not bound by the statutes but might act under the charter of foundation.
Ref No. EP/Ho 640
Copy letter from T. Griffith to Dr. Stonehewer regarding the former's discharge from employment [as master of Kepier school] by Stonehewer on 18 September 1746, and demanding payment of salary arrears, 7 May 1747
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 641
Copy letter from [Thomas Griffith, master of Houghton school] to Rev. [? Sir John Dolban], regarding a dispute with Dr. St[onehewer, rector of Houghton], the subject of a Chancery action, n.d. [c.1747]
Endorsed: copy of a letter to Sir John Dolban, bart., n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 642
Copy letter from [Thomas Griffith] to Dr. Stonhewer concerning the Rainton estate, n.d. [c.1747]
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 643
Copy letter from the Governors of Kepier school to [Thomas] Secker, bishop [of Oxford] regarding the lands purchased by Secker with Sir George Wheler's charity money, now let by Dr. Stonhewer and the subject of dispute; and requesting Secker to appear on behalf of the defendants in legal proceedings, n.d. [c.1747]
Thomas Secker was rector of Houghton 1723-1734
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 644
[Draft] case of Houghton School, 1747
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 645
Case concerning Houghton School, with interrogatories, n.d. [1747-1754]
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 646
Queries deduced from the foregoing case [of Houghton school], n.d. [1747-1754]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 647
Affidavit and schedule of writings belonging to Kepier school, mentioned in the answer of Thomas Griffith, defendant, and produced to the Clerk in Court, in a Chancery action, Attorney General and Robert Hope, informant v. Thomas Griffith and others, 17 June 1749
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 648
Observations and minutes collected from the records of Kepier school, n.d. [1747-1754]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 649
Notes on the purport of the several clauses of letters patents 16 Eliz. n.d. [18th c.]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 650
Certified copy of the will of George Davenport, rector of Houghton, including an annual endowment of £10 to Kepier school and almshouse for the maintenance of 3 poor people, 17 September 1676
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 651
Certified copy, made 12 August 1752, of the will of Henry Bagshaw, D.D., prebendary of Durham Cathedral and rector of Houghton, devising his 2 copyhold closes, Broad Meadow and Slipperthorne, in Houghton, in trust for the annual payment of £3 to the principal schoolmaster, 40s. to the usher and 40s. to Mr. Davenport's part of the Hospital, 10 November 1708
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 652
Extract from the will, made 1708, and codicil of Dr. Bagshaw, concerning his bequest to Houghton school and almshouse, n.d. [18th c.]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 653
Copy of the clause in Sir George Wheler's will relating to the charity school at Houghton, and codicil, 18 January 1721
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 654
Copy of part of the last will and testament of Sir G. Wheler, D.D.., n.d. [18th c.]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 655
Information at the relation of Robert Hope of Houghton, gent., n.d. [1747-1754]
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 656
Information of Francis Myddleton & Ralph Robinson, governors, and Thomas Griffith, master [of Kepier School], in answer to the relation of Robert Hope, tithing-man to Richard Stonhewer, L.L.D., and rector of Houghton, n.d. [1747-1754]
(8 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 657
Draft of EP/Ho 656
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 658
Information of Francis Myddleton of Offerton, and Ralph Robinson late of Herrington, now of Ormesby, Yorkshire, governors of Kepier, to be presented to the Attorney General in a Chancery action, n.d. [1747-1754]
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 659
Answers to interrogatories in the cause of the Governors, plaintiffs v. Dr. Stonhewer and others, [incomplete], n.d. [1747-1754]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 660
Answers of T. Griffith to interrogatories, n.d. [1753]
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 661
Part of information on behalf of plaintiffs [Griffiths and governors] and cross interrogatory, n.d. [post 22 May 1750]
Duplicates part of final page of EP/Ho 660
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 662
No. XI Exceptions to the answer of the governors, with the governors' further answer to each exception severally annexed (pp. 197-220); No. XII Exceptions to the answer of the master with the master's further answer to each exception severally annexed (pp.221-222), 28 October 1748
For pp.195-196 see EP/Ho 663; pp. 1-194 apparently missing
(1 booklet, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 663
Notes regarding Houghton school rents, including lands of Messrs. Lilburn and Davenport, and the Renton [Rainton] estate, evidence in Griffith v. Stonhewer, n.d. [c.1748]
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(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 664
Mr. Griffith's depositions on the plaintiff's part and on the defendant's part, in Attorney General v. Stonhewer, n.d. [1753]
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 665
Affidavit of Thomas Griffith concerning his demand for the rents from the lands at East Rainton belonging to Kepier school, from James Elliot, tenant, in the presence of John Elgie, 18 January 1753
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 666
Affidavit of Thomas Griffith, that he demanded of Dr. Stonhewer the rents of East Rainton lands belonging to the School and Hospital, that the demand was made by order of the Governors and by virtue of an appointment in their hands for him to collect the same, and that Stonhewer repeatedly refused to pay the rents or inspect the appointment, 27 January 1753
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 667 Buy the 2010 Houghton-le-Spring calendar online now!
Opinion of Robert Ord, regarding the need for [Griffiths and Governors] to reply to the answers of Stonhewer and others, and the necessary proofs to be produced, 12 March 1754
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 668
Copy letter from J. Wharton, Boswell Court, to [T. Griffith] reporting proceedings in chancery and regarding appointment of a third party to receive the rents and manage the estate of Sir George Wheler's charity, n.d. [c.1754]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 669
Copy letter from J. Wharton to Mr. [Griffith] relating to the hearing and decree, in Griffith v. Stonhewer, with minutes of the Lord Chancellor's decree made on 2 July, 3 July 1755
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 670
Copy letter from J. Wharton to [Thomas Griffith] regarding allocation of costs following the issue of the chancery decree and report, Boswell Court, 28 October 1758
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 671
Copy letter from J. Wharton, Boswell Court to [Thomas Griffith] informing that the Archbishop of Canterbury [Thomas Secker] insists upon payment of his costs, 14 June 1759
Endorsed: reply of R[alph] R[obinson] undertaking to pay his half of the Archbishop's costs, and expressing the opinion that he [the Archbishop] has lost his charity by being so highly advanced in the church, and that the poor in Dr. Davenport's end of the Hospital should petition him, Ormesby, 26 June 1759
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 672
Number not used
WILLS
For copies of other wills relating to Kepier School, see EP/Ho 650-654
Ref No. EP/Ho 673
Copy will of Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton in the Spring, 17 October 1582; copy made 17th c.
Endorsed: No. 44 [18th c. hand]
(1 booklet)
For transcript: see R. Surtees, History of Durham, London, 1816, vol. I, pt. II; p.292. There are some minor inaccuracies in this transcript.
Ref No. EP/Ho 674
Copy will of Bernard Gilpin, as EP/Ho 673, copied from Surtees' History of Durham, by H. Brown, headmaster, February 1831
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 675
Extract from the will, 23 September 1770, and codicil, 26 January 1776, of the late Rev. Thomas Griffith, M.A., so far as relates to Kepier school, n.d. [late 18th c.]
(1 paper)
PLANS
Ref No. EP/Ho 676
'A platt of a parcel of Houghton Moore sett forth for the Crosse fyners conteyninge 41a. 2r. 10p., by me Humfrey Farrowe', 10 March 1631/2
Gives orientation and acreages, but no scale
Endorsed: A survey of the Cross - finers part of Houghton Moore
[17th c. hand]
No. 38 [18th c. hand]
(1 plan, paper, 41 cm. x 30 cm.)
MISCELLANEOUS
Ref No. EP/Ho 677
A catalogue of books given by Ralph Robinson, esquire, to Kepier School in Houghton, 1742
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 678
Copy rules regarding the education of the free scholars at Kepier Grammar School, n.d. [18th c.]
(1 paper)
Sixth Deposit
(Acc: 2350)
Church Societies
Ref No. EP/Ho 679
Photograph of the Houghton-le-Spring branch of the Durham and Northumberland Diocesan Association of Change Ringers outside St. Michael and All Angels' church, Houghton le Spring: 8 men displaying board to commemorate the first peal on the bells by James Spearman, Thomas Masters, Stephen Robinson, Arthur Spearman, John Masters and Robert Parkinson, accompanied by ?churchwardens, Frederick Hall and Edmund Metcalfe, 12 May 1920
(1 photograph, black and white, 15 cm. x 11 cm., card mounted)
Seventh Deposit
(Acc: 2800)
Clergy
Ref No. EP/Ho 680
A Sermon against Persecution, preached at Houghton-le-Spring on Sunday July 16, 1780 by John Rotheram, M.A., rector of Houghton-le-Spring, vicar of Seaham and chaplain to the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T. Saint for J. Robson, in New Bond Street, London, 1780
Endorsed on front cover: 'Walter Scot Esqr.'
(1 booklet, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 681
An Essay on Faith and its Connection with Good Works by John Rotheram, M.A., rector of Houghton-le-Spring, a new edition published by desire of the S.P.C.K., printed for F. & C. Rivington, booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1801
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 682
The Voyage of the Good Ship, by Anglicanus, being a narrative set forth 'in words of simple proportion and mystic interpretation; a tale, forsooth, which cometh to you from one that knoweth and hath seen and doth now prophecy', Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan & Morgan, 1900
Includes: inside front cover, a letter from Rev. E. Hudson, Barton Vicarage, Tirril, Penrith, Cumberland, to Noel [ ] enclosing the above, and identifying Anglicanus as Ralph Watson, rector of Houghton-le-Spring, 10 April 1951
(1 booklet, paper bound)
Parochial Church Council
Ref No. EP/Ho 683
Minute book of Houghton-le-Spring Parochial Church Council Finance Committee meetings, 15 December 1943 - 20 February 1952, and Fabric Committee meetings, 16 September 1947 - 23 May 1948
(1 volume, card bound)
Schools
Houghton-le-Spring Wesleyan, later Council, School
Wesleyan School, William Street, built 1861, enlarged 1892; transferred to County Education Authority 1906; new Council School, Newbottle Street/Station Road opened January 1909; Council Intermediate School, Hall Lane, opened 1 February 1932
Ref No. EP/Ho 684
Log book of Houghton-le-Spring Wesleyan School, 6 March 1896 - 24 December 1908
Includes: at front, list of teachers appointed, with summary of training and previous teaching posts
For enclosures see EP/Ho 686
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 685
Log book of Houghton-le-Spring Council School, boys' department, 11 January 1909 - 29 January 1932
Includes: at front, list of teachers appointed, with summary of training and previous teaching posts; list of junior scholarships awarded; and dimensions of school, n.d. and 4 June 1919
For enclosures see EP/Ho 687
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 686
Log book entries of Houghton-le-Spring Council School, infants' department, 26 September 1907 - 24 December 1908
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 687
List of teachers appointed [to infants' department], with summary of training and previous teaching posts, February 1906 - December 1908
(2 papers)
Dubmire P.T. Centre, Fence Houses
(closed 31 August 1926)
Ref No. EP/Ho 688
Staff register of Dubmire P[upil] T[eacher] Centre, Fence Houses, 28 September 1914 - 31 August 1926
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Charities
Kepier Free Grammar School and Almshouse
GOVERNORS
Ref No. EP/Ho 689
Volume of correspondence and papers of Ralph Robinson (1680-1764), governor of Kepier School, principally relating to the school's legal affairs, also tax assessments, and correspondence of his kinsman Marshall Robinson, 1633-1769
Contains: - Statement of the purport of the several clauses of the letters patent 16 Eliz., 1573-74
- Extract from an original deed of conveyance by John Heath and B. Gilpin to the Dean and Chapter of Durham in trust, 12 Eliz., 1569-1570
- Extract from the will of Sir George Wheeler kt. D.D., prebendary of the cathedral church of Durham, n.d.
- A copy of that part of the late Rev. Dr. Bagshaw's will which concerns Houghton School, n.d.
- Extract from the registry of the Bishop's consistory court of Durham of the surrender of Broad Meadows and Slipperthorne closes in Houghton to the use of Ralph Gowland and Robert Chilton in trust for uses specified in the will of Rev. Dr. Bagshaw, n.d.
- Rental of school and hospital lands, 1737-1738
- Terriers of lands at Bishopwearmouth and Ryhope yielding a corn tithe to Houghton School, n.d. [18th c.]
- Computation of interest due from the new buildings at Houghton School, and balance of accounts since 1701, n.d. [c.1734]
- Statement of arrears due from George Robinson for the school garth, 1 May 1731
- Rental of Houghton Hospital, Lilburne's End, for half years to Martinmas, 1743 and 1744
- Petition of the governors for contributions to the repair of Houghton School, and list of subscribers, n.d. [1744]
- Letter from Thomas Griffith, Houghton, to Ralph Robinson, Herrington, enclosing a terrier [? see above] and discussing Ryhope gillytithe, 18 January 1735
- Letter from T. Griffith, Houghton, to [Ralph Robinson], sending draft lease for Rainton land prepared by Smales, and referring to the terms of the lease, 16 January 1740
- Letter from Robert Hope and Miles Robinson, churchwardens, to Ralph Robinson, Middle Herrington, desiring the governors to appoint a meeting in the school to choose 5 poor scholars, and to hear the churchwardens' complaints relating to the school, 16 January 1746
- Letter from T. Griffith, Houghton, to [Ralph Robinson] including copy letter from Francis Myddleton to Griffith, concerning the intimidation of the tenant of Rainton Farm by Dr. [Stonhewer], 10 February 1746
- Letter from T. Griffith and Anthony Munton to Francis Myddleton and Ralph Robinson, governors of Kepier School, presenting the master and usher's case about Robert Hope, 26 April 1746
- Letter from T. Griffith, Houghton, to [possibly Newby of Sedbergh School] concerning the appointment of an usher, 29 October 1746
- Letter from T. Griffith to [Ralph Robinson] concerning the tenancy of Rainton Farm and the power of appointment for receiving rents, 27 March 1747
- Copy letter from Ralph Robinson, Ormesby [Yorkshire], to [Francis Myddleton] about taking counsel's opinion as to Wheler and Bagshaw's wills, and whether the rector can retain the rents, 6 June 1747
- Letter from Francis Myddleton, London, to Ralph Robinson, regarding the submission of the school's case to Chancery counsel for opinion, 11 June 1747
- Statement of case concerning Houghton School, and the opinion of D. Ryder, 13 July 1747
- Copy information of Sir Dudley Ryder, kt., H.M. Attorney General, and Thomas Rudd, at the relation of Robert Hope of Houghton-le-Spring, to the Rt. Hon. Philip Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, concerning the Houghton School case, and bill for the subpoena of the governors and Griffith, 6 October 1747
- Letter from T. Griffith to [Ralph Robinson] enclosing a copy bill and observations as to the purport of the foundation charter and statutes, 8 November 1747
- Copy notice of publication in the Newcastle Courant of an historical account of the persecution of the master of Kepier School, 20 December 1746
- Writ of subpoena issued to Francis Middleton, esq., Ralph Robinson, esq., and Thomas Griffith, clerk, for appearance in Chancery on 23 October at the suit of the Attorney General, 13 October 21 Geo.II [1747]
- Letter from [Francis Myddleton], Offerton, to Ralph Robinson, concerning the nomination of an usher, and dismissing Griffith's brother, 'idle and wild ... very lude when at Houghton', as a possible candidate, 29 November 1748; and endorsed reply of Robinson, discussing Mr. Anthony Thompson, a Westmorland man, 14 December 1748
- Letter from T. Griffith, Houghton, to Ralph Robinson, Ormesby [Yorkshire], about court proceedings and deposit of documents in court, 31 March 1749
- Letter from Francis Myddleton to [Ralph Robinson] concerning payment of legal fees, 8 January 1750
- Memorandum of payment of legal fees, 30 December 1750
- Memorandum concerning application for a place at Houghton Hospital, 23 September 1750
- Letter from Richard Bates, Newbottle, to Ralph Robinson, Herrington, recommending Ann Watson for a place in Houghton Hospital, 3 December 1750
- Letter from Thomas Sharp, Durham, to [Ralph Robionson], recommending Jane Watson for a place in Houghton Hospital, 10 December 1750
- Letter from T. Griffith to Ralph Robinson, Ormesby, Yorkshire, including a copy letter from J. Wharton, Lincolns Inn, 4 July 1751, reporting the opinion delivered by the Lord Chancellor, finding the complaints against the master without foundation, and conveying the writer's congratulations, 7 June 1751
- Letter from Francis Myddleton to [Ralph Robinson] enclosing papers [see below] from Mr. Hopper, Durham, 6 February 1752
- Letter from [T. Griffith], Houghton, to Ralph Robinson, Ormesby, concerning the signature of an address [see below] to be sent to the bishop of Oxford from the governors, 17 June 1752
- Letter from Thomas [Secker, bishop of] Oxford, St. Paul's Deanery, to Myddleton and Robinson, regretting their difference with Dr. Stonhewer and recommending an amicable settlement, 20 June 1752
- Letter from Jno. Mann to [Ralph Robinson] regarding the examination of witnesses in Attorney General v. Stonhewer, 19 October 1754
- Address from Francis Myddleton and Ralph Robinson to [Thomas, bishop of Oxford] requesting the latter to act as relator or an amicable defendant in an information filed in Chancery to recover the revenues of Sir George Wheler's charity from Dr. Stonhewer, n.d. [June 1752]
- Letter from Robert Ord, advising on proceedings in Attorney General v. Stonhewer et al., 12 March 1754
- Letter from Jno. Mann, Durham, to Ralph Robinson, Ormesby, enclosing copy minutes of the decree in Attorney General v. Stonhewer, resulting in a complete victory for the school governors and master, and a copy of Mr. Wharton's letter discussing the judgement and costs, 6 July 1755
- Copy report of the trial of a cause brought by Robert Hope, tithingman to the rector of Houghton-le-Spring, against the school governors and masters, on a charge of misconduct and misapplication of school revenues, particularly the establishment of the master contrary to 'some pretended statutes', and the refusal of the master to admit into school any more boarders from Hope's house ... and the finding that the complaints were without foundation and the information vexatious and malicious', July, n.y. [1751]
- Bill of Hendry Hopper for legal fees payable by Messrs. Myddleton and Robinson for Chancery suit at Westminster, 4 December 1747 - 28 April 1750
- Bill of Henry Hopper for legal fees, 29 January 1750 - 5 January 1752
- Account of legal fees payable by Messrs. Myddleton and Robinson, Trinity 1747 - Michaelmas 1751
- Bill of Jonathan Wharton for legal fees payable by Messrs. Myddleton and Robinson, Michaelmas 1748 - Trinity 1750
- Statement by H. Hopper of the disbursement of defendants' costs received from Robert Hope, January 1752
- Letter from T. Griffith, Houghton, to [Ralph Robinson] in response to Robinson's threatening letter concerning the disposition of the writer's votes for Mr. Shafto and Sir Thomas Clavering in the general election, 27 March 1761
- Copy letter from Marshall Robinson, Ormesby [Yorkshire], to Dr. Stonhewer, applying to lease the tithes of East and Middle Herrington, 11 July 1765
- Letter from Thomas Griffith to [ ] Robinson pressing for an answer to Mr. Fawcett concerning disputed money held by the rector, 4 March 1768
- Letter from Thomas Wharton, Durham, to Richard Stonhewer, Houghton, concerning the distribution to the poor of accumulated [charity] money, 20 November 1768
- Letter from Richard Stonhewer, Houghton, to [Ralph Robinson's executor] regarding the payment of costs of the Chancery suit, and enclosing a copy of Mrs. Middleton's release, relinquishing her share of the costs due on behalf of her late husband, 28 November 1768
- Letter from [Marshall Robinson], Yarm, to the Earl of Fauconberg, Newborough, Easingwold [Yorkshire], concerning his steward's objection to the projecting bow windows on the writer's new house, and referring to the palisades at the front of the former building to protect the windows from cattle at the fairs, 30 August 1766
- Letter from Elizabeth Myddleton, Durham, to Marshall Robinson, Yarm, concerning the proposal of Dr. Stonhewer's son to seek a release from payment of legal costs to save the expense of filing a fresh bill to recover charity funds, 9 December 1768
- Letter from Tho. Griffith, Houghton, to [Marshall Robinson] thanking the latter for his release of the money to which he had claim, in favour of the school and hospital, 21 March 1769
- Assessment of the townships of Hetton-in-the-Hole and Sheraton [for taxation] under the Royal Aid Acts, and for the militia, 1690-1696, and particulars of Mr. Spearman's lands in Sheraton and West Grange.
- Letter from Lord Fauconberg, Newborough [Yorkshire], to Marshall Robinson, Yarm, acknowledging that the projection of the windows on the latter's house in Yarm is not considered detrimental, and imposing a token annual rent for the same, 5 October 1766
- Bill for legal fees payable by Ralph Robinson of Sunderland to Francis Taylor, 20 January 1709
- Letter from Anthony Ettricke, London, to [ ] concerning legal proceedings against James Jenkins, 14 January 1709
- Letter from J. Cuthbert, Newcastle, to Ralph Robinson, Sunderland, regarding dispute over a pew in Houghton church, 11 March 1709
- Letter from Ralph Robinson to Jo[hn] Cuthbert, recorder, Newcastle, concerning disputed pew in Houghton church, 10 March 1709
- Copy letter from Ralph Robinson, Houghton, to [Lady Carr] asserting his indisputable right to half a pew in Houghton church, and desiring an amicable settlement of their dispute,
7 October 1714
- Letter from Lady Carr, Cocken, to Ralph Robinson, regarding pew dispute, 9 October 1714
- Assessments of rates for Houghton-le-Spring and Monk Hesleden parishes, and particulars of Mr. Spearman's lands in Hetton-le-Hole, 1686
- Copy memoranda concerning the appointment of Houghton parish clerks, 1599-1664
- Copy memoranda concerning pew sittings, 1613-1633, and the appointment of sextons and charity distribution, 1596-1667
- Draft memorandum of vestry meeting agreement for repair of churchyard wall, and copy measurements (1633) of same, September 1700
- Survey of Middle and East Herrington by Matthew Atkinson and Thomas Tweddell, 29 April 1648
- Assessment of Royal Aid [land tax], 1706
- Assessment of Royal Aid for Herrington, 1712
- Receipt for payment in lieu of corn tithes for East and Middle Herrington, to George Wheler from Samuel Ayton and Ralph Robinson, 13 October 1714
- Memorandum of account for conveyances of land by [? Ralph Robinson], 1715-1727
- Order for the collection of land tax, issued to Ralph Reed and Matthew Smith, collectors for East and Middle Herrington, 13 June 1723
- Memorandum of land at Lowton Grange purchased by James Robinson, 1633-1639
- Return of East and Middle Herrington land tax, 1723
- Receipt for payment in lieu of corn tithes for East and Middle Herrington, to Richard Stonhewer from Ralph Robinson, 12 October 1727
- Letter from J. Hylton to Jack [ ] advising on the lease of the latter's farm and referring to his creditors, n.d. [18th c.]
- Letter from J. Hylton to Jack [ ] concerning the sale of the latter's assets, n.d. [18th c.]
- Letter from [ ] to John Spearman, Hetton, requesting the loan of a punch bowl, and referring to purchase of horses, n.d. [18th c.]
- Pedigree of Edward Lee's family, n.d.
Includes: at front, bookplate of H.C. Surtees; newspaper cutting of letter to the editor of The Times from Malcolm Dillon, Londonderry Offices, Seaham Harbour, describing the Board of Education Scheme for Kepier Grammar School, 1924, and the disposal of the school library, 5 April 1926; letter from H.C. Surtees, Mainsforth Hall, Ferryhill, to Mr. Dillon
offering him a book of papers connected with old Kepier School, 16 April, n.y. [1926]; note by H.C. Surtees concerning the provenance of the papers, Robert Surtees, the historian, having married Anne Robinson of Middle Hendon, presumed niece of Ralph Robinson of Yarm, school governor; and letter from Malcolm Dillon to Rev. Ralph Watson, Houghton-le-Spring rectory, presenting the volume of school papers for safekeeping with the Kepier School archives, 19 July 1926
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Attorney General v. Thomas Griffith and governors
Ref No. EP/Ho 690
'An Historical Account of the Persecution of the Master of Kepier School in Houghton-le-Spring in Two Letters to the Revd. S[i]r John Dolben, Bar[t] & Prebendary of Durham' [by Thomas Griffith]: Letter I, 1746
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 691
'An Historical Account of the Persecution etc.': Letter II, 1746
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 692
'An Historical Account of the Persecution of the Master of Kepier School in Houghton-le-Spring, Continued, in Letter IIId to the Revd. S[i]r John Dolben Bar[t] & Prebendary of Durham' [by Thomas Griffith], 1747
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 693
'An Appendix to the Historical Account of the Persecution of the Master of Kepier School in Houghton-le-Spring in several Letters to the Revd. S[i]r John Dolben, Bar[t], and Prebendary of Durham' Nos. I-X, pp.1-192, n.d. [c.1747]
Contains: copy letters patent founding Kepier School, 16 Eliz.; translation of same; copy orders and statutes of the school by Thomas Delaval, 1658; copy of Bernard Gilpin's will, 1582; copy clause in Dr. Bagshaw's will relating to his donation to Houghton School; extract of the will of Sir George Wheler, kt., D.D., copy bill of information filed in the court of Chancery against the Governors and Master of Kepier School at the relation of Robert Hope; copy answer of the Governors under seal; copy answer of the Master upon oath; and the schedule annexed and referred to in the answers
For pp. 195-220 see EP/Ho 662-663
(1 volume, paper bound)
Eighth Deposit
(Acc: 2843)
Plans of alterations to Houghton church
Ref No. EP/Ho 694
Transverse section of new roof over nave and aisles, cross sections of moveable seats, section of seats showing bench ends and elevation of bench end, by John Dobson, 17 February 1857
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]; ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, 71 cm. x 44.8 cm., colour-wash)
Houghton le Spring village. Photograph c 1900?
STREET NAME NAME ORIGIN SOURCE LOCATED POSTCODE
Abbot Street 1958 OS map Located behind Union St, within the vicinity of the colliery. N/A
Alamein Avenue A town in Northern Egypt, and was the scene of two major battles during WWII. 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area. N/A
Baker Street 1958 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. Not on the 1895 OS. DH5 8BD
Balfour Street 1958 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. Not on the 1895 OS. DH5 8BA
Balmer Street 1958 OS map Located next to Low Hill Side.
Balmoral Crescent 1958 OS map
Bowlby Street 1895 OS map Located behind the section of Newbottle St adjacent to Mautland Street and the present day Co-Op carpark.
Brinkburn Crescent Leads to the Burnside Estate and Sunniside
Bruce's Yard Memory Was located at the top of the now demolished Robinson Street
Burdon Avenue 2008 Google Burdron and Dene are located next to Seaton Avenue and Seaham Rd in the New Town area.
Burn Park Road
Burn Promenade
Burns Avenue North & South 1958 OS map
Byron Terrace 1958 OS map
Church Street Named owing to its vicinity of St Michael & All Angels Church. 1895 OS map
Cross Street 2008 Google Located off Station Rd, and backed on to the gasometres and colliery.
Dairy Lane 1958 OS map
D'Arcy Street Possibly named after George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (September 5, 1828 – November 27, 1879), known as Viscount Lambton from 1831 to 1845. 1895 OS map Hopper, Robinson, D'Arcy and George Street were all located on what is now the Co-Op carpark.
Dene Avenue 2008 Google Burdron and Dene are located next to Seaton Avenue and Seaham Rd in the New Town area.
Dene Gardens Just off Gillas Lane East.
Dickens Street
Dunkirk Avenue 1958 OS map
Durham Road Named as the main road from Houghton to Durham. 1895 OS map
Earsdon Road 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area, next to Seaham Road.
Edwin Street 1895 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. DH5 8AR
Elizabeth Street 1958 OS map Located parrallel with Mildred Street. Not on the 1895 OS.
Frederick Place 1958 OS map Located as a side street at the bottom of Sunderland Street, it led into the Lake grounds.
George Street 1895 OS map Hopper, Robinson, D'Arcy and George Street were all located on what is now the Co-Op carpark.
Gillas Lane East & West aka High & Low 1958 OS map "Gillas Lane East (between Hetton Road and Hall Lane) and Gillas Lane West (between Hetton Road and Durham Road ) formerly High Gillas Lane and Low Gillas Lane . Previously this lane from Durham Road up to the Copt Hill area was Gillas Lane , further on becoming Seaham Road .
The section of Gillas Lane between Durham Road and Hetton Road had Low added, and between Hetton Road and Hall Lane had High added to the name Gillas when private houses and bungalows began to be built pre WWII. A section on the right side of Gillas Lane above the Hall Lane junction was named Warden Grove when private houses were built there post WWII, opposite these, Council houses were built and remained just Gillas Lane and numbered, those in High and Low Gillas Lane were given and still have, house names only. Gillas and Gillis are derivations of Gillies, a Scottish word meaning servant, and a “Ghillie” was a term used for an outdoor servant. In times past the land owners in this area of Houghton-le-Spring would require the services of “Ghillies” or “Gillies”. Hence “ Gillies Lane ” became “ Gillas Lane ”."
Gravel Walks From Elizabeth Street to an area behind the Market Place.
Grey Street Named after Rector John Grey (1847 - 1895) 2008 Google
Hall Lane 1958 OS map
Halliwell Street Named after the holy well that Bede ( d. 735 AD) had drank from when he visited Houghton, and also the spring at the end of the Street. 2008 Google Located off Station Rd, and backed on to the gasometres and colliery.
Henry Street 1958 OS map Located parrallel with Elizabeth Street. Not on the 1895 OS.
Hetton Road Named as the main road from Houghton to Hetton-le-Hole. 1958 OS map
Hillside (High Hillside) 1895 OS map Originally located opposite Hill Farm, next to Houghton Cut, to the west of Sunderland Street, High Hillside was parrallel with Low Hillside. Does not appear on the 1958 OS. N/A
Hillside (Low Hillside) 1895 OS map Originally located opposite Hill Farm, next to Houghton Cut, to the west of Sunderland Street, Low Hillside was parrallel with High Hillside. N/A
Hillside Way Aka A182 - runs from A690 to top corner of Newbottle St
Holly Avenue 1958 OS map
Hopper Street 1895 OS map Hopper, Robinson, D'Arcy and George Street were all located on what is now the Co-Op carpark.
Hopper Square National Archives Just off Sunderland St, and was the area where Hopper's Iron Works was. 'Houghton-le-Spring UDC. Hopper Square. Clearance Order 1954' dated 29 Oct 1954 exists in the National Archives.
Houghton Terrace 1853 drawing/plan Located on the hillside, west of Sunderland St, opposite what would become Hillside Cemetery. Could have been renamed or replaced with High and Low Hillside. Described as the highest houses in Houghton. N/A
Ironside Street 1958 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. Not on the 1895 OS. DH5 8AY
John Street 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area, next to Seaham Road.
Kingsway 1958 OS map
Kirklea Road 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area. DH5 8DP
Lake Road
Lambton Street 1895 OS map Located at Grasswell within the shadow of Houghton Quarry.
Lilac Avenue 1958 OS map
Longfellow Street 1958 OS map
Market Place 1895 OS map
Mautland Street 1895 OS map DH5 8AU
Mildred Street 1895 OS map Located east of Sunderland St.
Milton Avenue 1958 OS map
Moore Crescent North & South 1958 OS map
Morriss Terrace 1958 OS map
Mount Pleasant 1895 OS map Located off Nesham Place, east of Houghton Hall. DH5 8AQ
Nesham Place 1895 OS map Also referred to as Neasham Place. DH5 8AE
Newbottle Street 1895 OS map Formerly known as Newbottle Lane.
Normandy Crescent 1958 OS map
North Street 1958 OS map Located opposite South St in the New Town area.
Outram Street 1958 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. Not on the 1895 OS. DH5 8AZ
Peartree Place Thought to take its name from the trees that once stood in the area Memory Just off Quarry Row, where the Comrades Club is, opposite former site of Houghton Pit DH4 4AT
Pit Row 1895 OS map Located west of High & Low Hillside, up on Houghton's surrounding hill, within view of the colliery.
Pottery Yard 1895 OS map
Queensway 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area.
Robinson Street 1895 OS map Hopper, Robinson, D'Arcy and George Street were all located on what is now the Co-Op carpark.This still appears on some maps as running parralell with the back of Newbottle St in the carpark.
Ryhope Street 1895 OS map Located in the New Town area.
Sandcroft Drive Presumably named after Rector William Sancroft (no 'd'), rector 1661 - 1664. 1958 OS map Leads off west from Hetton Road, as a cul-de-sac, adjacent to Durham Road Cemetery.
Seaham Road 1958 OS map
Seaton Avenue 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area.
Shakespeare Street 1958 OS map
Shields Place 1895 OS map Located east of Sunderland St.
South Street 1958 OS map Located opposite North St in the New Town area.
Stanley Street 1958 OS map Located east of Sunderland St. Not on the 1895 OS.
Station Road Named in anticipation of a branch line being built from the Leamside to Pelaw line. 1895 OS map
Stocksfield Terrace Memory Stocksfield Terrace was the middle one of 3 cottages situated up the side of the Black Lion pub, Sunderland Street.
Sunderland Street Named as the main road from Houghton to Sunderland. 1895 OS map
Sunrise Lane 2008 Google Located off Cross St, and backed on to the gasometres and colliery. Also known as Gas Ho. Lane or Sunrise House on Gas House Lane, DH4 5AL.
The Broadway
The Close 2009 Google Located next to Kingsway and Windsor Crescent
The Green Next to the Gravel Walks, in an area behind the Market Place.
The Riggs 1958 OS map A cul-de-sac off of Windsor Crescent in the New Town area.
Thomas Husband Street 1958 OS map Located in the New Town area, next to Seaham Road.
Thornhill Street At the back of the police station and magistrates' court.
Union Street 1895 OS map
Violet Street Connects Thornhill Street to Burn Park Road.
Vine Place 1958 OS map
Wallace Street Links Dairy Lane to Burn Park Road.
Waller Terrace An Anti-Aircraft shell exploded in Waller Terrace, Houghton le Spring, seriously injuring one man and one woman on 11/03/1943 1958 OS map
Warden Grove 1958 OS map
Warwick Drive 1958 OS map Adjacent to Durham Road Cemetery and leads on to Hetton Road.
Wheler Street Named after Rector George Wheler, rector 1710 - 1723. 1958 OS map An offshoot of Newbottle St, opposite Mautland St.
William Street 1895 OS map Accessed east of Sunderland St, leading to the Police Station and Workhouse.
Windsor Crescent 1958 OS map
Houghton-le-Spring at Christmas - Church events, carol services, Houghton christmas cards, 2011 calendar and snowy fun!
Wordsworth Avenue East & West 1958 OS map
Well I will take you step by step to Thomas Husband Street.
Walk along Hall Lane.
First opening on your left is still Holly Avenue. Walk to the top.
( I just looked at the area on Google Earth the other night so much of the rest has changed)
Turn right along Winsor Crescent, then sharp left across what is now grass area.
There is still a building on it's own to the left. It was Mrs.Walkers shop.
Walk straight ahead and you would come to Seaham Road with the fronts of John Street on your right running parallel with you as you walk. ( My gran moved into John Street around 1938 from Thomas Husband Street)
The back of John Street was also the back of Thomas Husband Street as it ran parallel with John Street. They ( Thomas Husband Street) were old stone built houses with a back yard and a bay windowed front. John Street were slightly newer and actually had a BATHROOM upstairs! The houses that were built on the Racecourse Estate after the war eventually extended right to the fronts of Thomas Husband Street. Seaham Road new housing started from the end of John Street and went all the way to the top of Seaham road.
My grandparents lived in 2 houses in this street. The houses are still there now.
If you look on Google Earth and follow Holly Ave. and the directions I have given you will find the landmarks.
The grass area I spoke of was a cinder path to Mrs Walkers shop from The top of Holly Ave and to the left of the path was the refuse tip which I suppose has been landfilled to the limit, stood the required length of time, as it now looks like park land and has houses on it!!!!
Windsor Crescent was a street of houses branching off from Kingsway. My partner Derrick Markham lived in this street as did his grandmother. Also my grandparents in yet another move lived at the top of this street!! (they did move around a lot in those days)
Mr Fish's ( general dealer) shop was round the corner of Windsor Cres. to the left and at the top right of Holly Ave.
ALTERNATIVELY you could go through the Market Square and up Seaham Road and pass a row of houses slightly set back on your right then I think a couple of houses then a gap. before the continuation of Seaham Road. It is at this gap that Thomas Husband Street started and ran at right angles with Seaham Road.
Houghton Greyhound Stadium Club, Hall Lane, Houghton-le-Spring
AdminHistory The Houghton Greyhound Stadium Club was managed by the Hetton Race Company Ltd. The first Annual General Meeting of the Club was held on 22 November 1939. All members were elected to join the Club and paid an annual subscription. A Sports Committee and Wine Committee were established on the formation of the Club.
In addition to greyhound racing the Club also provided social facilities and entertainments for members and visitors. The military were in possession of the club in 1939 and this led to the postponement of entertainments until members were in possession of the entire premises.
Club members attended Annual General Meetings and the Directors met monthly to discuss finance issues, race organisation and entertainments.
Date 1939 - 1970
Holy Springs in Houghton-le-Spring:
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::: HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE NEWSLETTER :::
August 2009
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[1]. NEWBOTTLE STREET
A new page has been placed online to chronicle the shops found along Newbottle Street, which used to be known as Newbottle Lane before the west side was erected in 1907.
http://www.houghtonheritage.co.uk/articles/newbottle_street.htm
What can you remember about the businesses? What were the staff like? When did you shop there? Can you remember any noteworthy incidents?
If you have memories or photos of the shops on Newbottle Street AND can accurately place the business with a building number or current shop, please share your recollections.
[2]. HOUGHTON FEAST: SINGING IN THE RAIN
A new commemorative Houghton Feast brochure is being produced this year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Feast's community hymn singing, which attracted crowds of five thousand or more to the Broadway.
Do you have memories or photos of the community hymn singing, if so get in touch!
The brochure, which will feature priceless photos of past Houghton Feasts, will be distributed around the town in the run up to the Feast.
[3]. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK
The Houghton Heritage Walk, followed by a screening of a local history DVD,
will be taking place on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
visiting many of Houghton's historic locations and buildings.
This free walk is part of the Heritage Open Days Weekend. Nibbles will be provided during the DVD screening.
To find out how to book your place, visit:
http://www.houghtonheritage.co.uk/heritageopendays.htm
[4]. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE PHOTO EXHIBITION
A photo exhibition of old Houghton photographs will be taking place in the Old Bank Bistro on Sunderland Street
on Saturday September 12th 2009.
This free event is part of the Heritage Open Days Weekend.
Feel free to pop in and view the photos between 11am and 3pm.
Find out more about the Old Bank online at:
http://www.houghtonheritage.co.uk/articles/houghton_pubs_oldbank.htm
http://www.theoldbank.co.uk
[5]. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING AT WAR
A new section has been added to the Houghton Heritage website to mark the forthcoming 70th anniversary of the start of WWII.
There is already a collection of impressive memories online - but we still need more memories about this vital part of our history!
If you or any of your relatives have memories or photos of Houghton during the War years, get in touch.
Find out more at:
http://www.houghtonheritage.co.uk/worldwar2
Thank you for supporting the Houghton Heritage website.
Best wishes
Paul Lanagan Click here to contact Houghton-le-Spring Urban District Council
Click here to contact Houghton-le-Spring Rural District Council
Where are the gallows in Houghton-le-Spring? Do you know where criminals would have been hanged in Houghton-le-Spring?
Nylon Stocking Murder, June 1950. Donald Westgarth Davidson, baker from Houghton-le-Spring, accused of murdering Agnes Walsh, 22, an Irish girl, in Piccadily, London. Explosion at Finchale Abbey, shot himself in the head. Buy the 2010 Houghton-le-Spring calendar online now!
Margaret Sutheran" who ran their business out of a premesis on Hopper Street, i have 3 stone stout bottles, various pint and half pint beer bottles showing the various trademarks she used,ie smiling sun,sunflower and entwined initials,i have several "codd bottles" with the marble in the neck commonly known as popally bottles, i also have an exceedingly rare water jug advertising Margaret Sutherans mineral waters etc,The company of William Thompson took over Sutherans and for a short time the bottles reflected this transition by displaying William Thompson "late " Sutheran embossed on the bottles,
Robinsons was a huge concern however the bottles were very plain but made in vast numbers , i remember hearing a tale about the A690 bypass ,it was to cut through an old garage attached to the brewery and when they started to demolish it they found a trapdoor leading to a vast cellar filled with hundreds of thousands of Robinsons beer bottles!!all skipped and destroyed.aaarrrgghhh,
Another company working briefly are R Hodgson Cross House Inn Houghton, he operated from the Pub that originally stood on the site of the Burn! He was declared bankrupt and all his stock and goods sold off to pay his debts ,apparently he liked to drink his own ale!!! i only have 4 bottles from him but again not commonly found,
sorry if i'm banging on a bit !! i,m a bit obsessive about the detail and our local heritage!
Ps a bit grim i know but Margaret Sutherans daughter is buried in Newbottle churchyard ,a veritable mine of information regarding dates and family members etc
anyway i,m looking forward to getting involved and hope it all goes to plan
Do you know how old the Tythe Barn is in Houghton Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring? When does it date from?
PITS, pubs and ponies are all featured in a new book on a former County Durham mining community.
But Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages, by John Brereton, contains much more too – from scenic views to showman’s caravans and charabancs.
“I’m very interested in the historic side of Houghton and accumulated these pictures over the years,” said John.
“I don’t really have a favourite one, but I’ve found pictures with people in them seem to spark the most interest.”
Street scenes, shops and pubs feature prominently in the new book, with several shots of St Michael and All Angels Church also shown.
Pictures of Houghton Cut when it was just a country lane, as well as trams, buses and charabanc outings, are included too.
“As the owner of the Gilpin Press in Houghton, I have published local history books for many other people over the years,” said John.
“Many, many years ago we did publish our own small book on Houghton, but this is the first we have done with so many old photographs.”
John, who started the Gilpin Press with a partner in 1960, hails from a long line of printers and publishers.
“My father and grandfather moved to Hetton in 1926 and started their own printing works behind Sunderland Road,” he said.
“Because of the depression, however, there wasn’t much work to be had, so they started the Hetton and Houghton Weekly Courier.
“I believe it was one of the first free papers. Printing stopped in 1941, though, due to wartime paper rationing, and never re-started.
“We always say our family has ink for blood – that we have printers’ ink in our veins. Printing and publishing has always been part of our lives.”
John’s new book is already proving popular, with copies of the £4.99 paperback winging their way to ex-pat Houghtonians around the world.
He is now hard at work compiling a book on the history of businesses within the Houghton area and said:
“If anyone has old photographs of Houghton they would be willing to lend me for future books, I would be very happy to hear from them.”
l Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages
When is the Apostle of the North Dinner in St Michael's Church, Houghton? March 4th 2011 marks the 428th anniversary of the death of Bernard Gilpin.
2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Bernard Gilpin, the Apostle of the North and father of the poor. 2017 also coincides with the 50th anniversary ox roasting at Houghton Feast, and event Gilpin is said to have inaugurated in the 1500s.
When is the Bernard Gilpin Festival Weekend 2011?
Apostle of the North Dinner
Tickets for this Tudor Feast to be held in church on Friday 4th March are going fast; priced at £15 each which includes full 3 course meal and period entertainment. Numbers strictly limited to 120, available from John Lambton in church or by calling 07917817879; licensed bar on the night'.
Coming soon as part of the Bernard Gilpin Festival Weekend Durham brewery are producing two beers that will be launched Saturday 5th March. The beers ‘Apostle’ and ‘Gilpin’ will be available locally in Houghton, look out for their arrival.
‘Apostle’ @ 3.8% AVB is a light golden refreshing beer.
‘Gilpin’ @ 5% AVB is a dark traditional English beer.
2011 will witness the inauguration of what is intended to be the annual Bernard Gilpin Festival Weekend which the Rector and the P.C.C. hope will raise awareness of the significance of our greatest Rector and increase the profile nationally of our Grade 1 Listed parish church. The weekend is timed to commemorate Gilpin’s death and it is intended that by 2015, five hundred years after his birth, the life and work of Gilpin will be recognised by the national Church.
Events begin with a Tudor-styled meal and entertainment in church on Friday 4th March, followed on Saturday by the launch of Durham Brewery’s ‘Apostle of the North’ bitter ale. On Saturday evening there will be a concert based on the Tudor Evensong, devised and led by our Director of Music, George Peebles. Then at the Parish Eucharist on Sunday morning the Gilpin Sermon will be preached by the Ven. Ian Jagger, Archdeacon of Durham. Gilpin himself held the post of Archdeacon for a number of years, so it is highly appropriate that we have been able to persuade the Archdeacon to join us on this important occasion. Please give these events your support and help to make the Festival Weekend a great success.
1517 - Bernard Gilpin was born in Kentmere.
1541 - Bernard Gilpin was ordained.
1557 - Bernard Gilpin became rector of Houghton-le-Spring and helped expand the Michaelmas celebrations with his hospitality and the roasting of a bullock or hog.
1569 - Bernard Gilpin arrived back in his parish about a week before Christmas in 1569. He had, in a sense, ridden back in the train of the conquering Elizabethan army that was riding almost unopposed into the territory vacated by the fleeing earls. It had been at this time of year, eleven years previously, in 1558, that Gilpin had ridden back to Houghton a free man, after having been arrested by Bishop Bonner’s runners, and expecting to be burned at the stake for his views on matters of doctrine.
1574 - Kepier Grammar School was founded by Gilpin and John Heath.
1583 - Bernard Gilpin was knocked down by an ox in Durham Market Place and died on March 4th.
Bernard Gilpin Tercentenary Clock - installed in Houghton Parish Church in 1885
The Gilpin Family Crest - adopted by Houghton from the family of its famous Rector
Bernard Gilpin's Altar Tomb - now found in the South Transept of St Michael's Church
Gilpin, or Gylpyn as it is sometimes recorded, is often referred to as the “Apostle of the North” or “Father of the Poor” for his many good deeds throughout his lifetime, as well as during his incumbency as Rector of Houghton (1558 to 1583).
Bernard Gilpin died on March 4th 1583, however owing to the change in calendars, from the Julian to the Gregorian in 1752, when 11 days were omitted, the anniversary of Gilpin's death is on MONTH DAY of each year. With this in mind, 2011 will be the NUMBERth anniversary since his death.
The first ever meeting of Houghton le Spring Round Table is recorded as being 02/04/1958. We received our charter (accepted in to Round Table Britain and Ireland) on 16/10/1958, but our official "Birthday" for anniversay celebrati...ons etc is 19/11/1958 .... hope that's not too confusing!
Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton's ancestors came from Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring.
by C. A. Smith
The Story of Houghton Feast is closely interwoven with that of the Church and Parish, all of which have existed since pre-Norman days.
There are some who hold the mistaken belief that the Feast was founded by Bernard -Gilpin, Apostle of the North and Rector of Houghton-Le-Spring from 1557-1583, but the Feast was being held many centuries before his time. In a word, Houghton Feast is the Patronal Feastival of St. Michael and commemorates the dedication of the Parish Church. How old the Church is we cannot tell, though we know for certain that much of the present building dates from the 12th and 13th Centuries, and here and there are traces of Norman and even earlier architecture which compel the belief that on this very spot stood an Anglo-Saxon Church.
Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society was formed to promote, share and preserve the local history of the Houghton-le-Spring district. The Society uses the Internet to share aspects of Houghton-le-Spring's heritage which otherwise would not be accessible to the public, including those in (residents) and beyond the town's boundaries (descendants and expatriates). The Society actively records current aspects of Houghton which will be of interest in the future, preserves and/or reintroduces local traditions and customs, and supports schools and educational establishments in the Houghton district with the promotion of our local heritage.
UPDATED: 13/01/2012 22:04
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
1. HOUGHTON IN OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS
Focussed mainly on central Houghton and a few of the surrounding villages; a hardback book.
2. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING & HETTON-LE-HOLE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Circa 128 pages covering Houghton, Hetton and many of the surrounding villages.
3. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING & HETTON-LE-HOLE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS: A 2ND SELECTION
Again, circa 128 pages covering Houghton, Hetton and many of the surrounding villages.
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
durham ancestors in houghton-le-spring
Where can I view the Memorial Inscriptions MI for Houghton-le-Spring? Just click HERE!
Right hand side on leaving The Broadway.
White Lion public house
London Lending Library
Sloane’s Billiard Hall
(entrance to Grayson’s Market)
Britannia public house
Jaconelli’s ice cream parlour
Sangster’s wet fish shop (in later years - upstairs was Hunter photographer)
Doggart’s drapers
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
(Mautland Street opening)
Wheatley’s fruit and vegetable shop and sweet shop
Betty’s sweet shop (in later years J Wheatley’s sweet shop)
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Fletcher’s fruit and vegetable shop
Hunter’s general dealers
Dewhurst butchers
F Jones, chemist
Rianni’s ice cream parlour
Robbie Burns public house
Find out more about Houghton Mechanics' Football team from Houghton-le-Spring colliery
Greenhow’s hardware
(Robinson Street opening)
Timm’s draper
George Graham, general dealer
? barber’s shop
Breeze’s grocers
durham ancestors in houghton-le-spring
During the Second World war there was a ‘Public Restaurant’ in Newbottle Street and Freda thinks that it may have been in the premises of George Reed’s sale Rooms.
In the late 1950s I can remember that there was Blackburn’s newsagents next to Barclays Bank so I presume that they took over the premises of Stone’s pork butchers.
I have a record that the Trustee Savings Bank being at 77 Newbottle Street in 1955.
Freda & Alan Vickers
20th March 2009
Houghton Inner Wheel Club
Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine
Hoctona was medieval Houghton: the head of a great manor belonging to the Bishops of Durham. Thirteen cottagers lived here, including Henry the greeve, a farm manager; a blacksmith; a carpenter; and a punder of stray animals.
The first settlement was at Copt Hill.
Explosion at Houghton Colliery on November 11th 1850
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
Welcome to Houghton-le-Spring's new Heritage Centre in St Michael & All Angels Church
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
Bell ringers in Houghton-le-Spring
Risen Christ sculpture in Houghton Church by Dr Fenwick Lawson ARCA
St Michael's Church and 900 years of worship
Rare back lane postcards of Houghton le Spring. Do they exist?
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
The Durham White Ox. Of the improved Tees Water Breed, Bred and fed by John Nesham Esqr. of Houghton le Spring, Durham
Friends of Houghton Rectory Park
A tank parked outside of Robinson's Brewery on Durham Road, Houghton-le-Spring, during the First World War.
Frederick Denby of Houghton, joined the Durham Light Infantry, was a prisoner of war for four years and returned home at Christmas 1918.
Soldiers marched along Church Street, Houghton-le-Spring, 1940.
Bombing raids in World War 2 in Houghton-le-Spring, included four high explosive bombs being dropped onto Houghton Cut in July 1940, and an incendiary bomb being dropped between Houghton and Seaham in March 1943.
Houghton-le-Spring's adopted warship is HMS Welland, which was adopted during Warship Week in December 1941.
George Fenton of Houghton served with 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 8B.
During the Second World War, in 1941,a Hurricane fighter tried to make an emergency landing on Houghon Golf Course. The pilot Sergeant Frank Stamp of the Royal Canadian Air Force sadly lost his life.
Captain William Brown, a Territorial Officer, was a solicitor in the Sunderland Street firm of Legge & Miller.
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
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Houghton-le-Spring, Newbottle, Silksworth, Sunderland and Whitburn photographs
Ref No. D/Ph 151/1(1-2)
Photographs of Alfred E. Dawson's chemist's shop on The Quay, Church Street, Houghton-le-Spring, showing the proprietor, (wearing a bowler hat) on left of the doorway and a horse and wagon being loaded in foreground, n.d. [c.1900]
This building was burnt down in 1912 and subsequently rebuilt in two storeys.
(2 photographs, 5 inches x 7 inches)
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Photographs as in D/Ph 151/1 showing the shop and house above, n.d. [c.1900]
(2 photographs, 5 inches x 7 inches)
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Photograph of the Houghton-le-Spring Wesleyan Methodist outing to Finchale Abbey, n.d. [c. 1910]
(1 photograph, 8½ inches x 6½ inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/4
Photograph of the wedding of the Methodist Minister, Rev. and Mrs. MacDonald, n.d. [c.1910]
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/5
Photograph of William and Jane Thompson (nee Jones), parents of William T. Thompson, 32 Mautland Street, Houghton-le-Spring, n.d. [c.1910]
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/6
Photograph of William T. Thompson and his wife, Annie, with their daughters Hannah and Jennie, and their son, John, n.d. [c.1907]
(1 photograph, copy 5 inches x 7 inches)
Find out more about Houghton Mechanics' Football team from Houghton-le-Spring colliery
Ref No. D/Ph 151/7
Photograph of Jennie Thompson as a child, 1894
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
Ref No. D/Ph 151/8
Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cross with their sons Harry, Jack and George, and their daughter, n.d. [c.1890]
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/9
Photograph of an unidentified wedding group, n.d. [c.1920 - 1930]
(1 photograph, 5½ inches x 3½ inches)
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Photograph of an unidentified wedding group, n.d. [c.1930 - 1935]
(1 photograph, 8 inches x 5 inches)
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Photographs of Cellar Hill Terrace, Newbottle, 1915
The gable of the new schools is shown between Richardsons and the School House
(2 photographs, 5½ inches x 3½ inches and 5 inches x 7 inches)
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Photographs of Newbottle Council (formerly Board) School, n.d. [c.1910]
The class teacher is Miss Primrose Brass later Mrs. T. Morley, Mary Isabella Baggott is ringed.
(2 photographs, 5½ inches x 3½ inches and 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/13
Photograph of a group at Roker Sands, Sunderland, comprising Isabella Baggott (holding a baby) with her children Mary, Harry, Tom, Jenny, July 1905
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
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Photograph of Mary, Jennie (with doll) and Harry, the children of Isabella and Robert Baggot of Newbottle, n.d. [c.1891]
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/15
Photograph of a Baggott family group, n.d. [c.1891]
The group comprises John Baggott (seated), father of Arthur Baggott (left) and grandfather of Robert Baggott (right). The baby, Robert M. Baggott, was the son of Robert and Isabella Baggott of Newbottle
(1 photograph, 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/16(1-2)
Photographs of Mary and Jennie Baggott (later Mrs Turnbull and Mrs McCoy) taken after winning prizes at the roller skating rink at Philadelphia, 20 January 1913
(2 photographs, 5½ inches x 3½ inches and 5 inches x 7 inches)
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Photographs of a Sunderland District Tramways tram, driven by Billie Brown, at Silksworth, n.d. [c.1900]
(2 photographs, 5½ inches x 3½ inches and 5 inches x 7 inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/18
Postcard of the Winter Gardens, Mowbray Park, Sunderland, n.d. [c.1900 - 1920]
(1 postcard, coloured, 5½ inches x 3½ inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/19
Postcard of fisherman's cottages at Whitburn, n.d. [c.1910]
(1 postcard, 5½ inches x 3½ inches)
Ref No. D/Ph 151/20
Wesleyan Methodist Church hymn composed at the time of the centenary (Words by Rev. J. Wesley Keyworth, music by Richard Baggott of Newbottle), 1886
(1 paper)
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
Thanks for the Memories: Recollections of Fence Houses, Lambton, Burnmoor, Chilton Moor, Dubmire and Bankhead, by Lena Cooper (Summerhill Books, £9.99).
Chantry chapel from the 15th century
Houghton-le-Spring
Margery Bellasis (1497-1567) buried in St Michael & All Angels Church
houghton le spring
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
Minchella Ice Cream
Jaconelli Ice Cream
Dimambro Ice Cream
Woolworths store in Houghton-le-Spring closed down in December 2008.
Di Mambro Ice Cream
Woolworths Plc 15 Newbottle Street Houghton le Spring DH4 4AW Tel: 0191 5843170
Vine Place, Houghton-le-Spring
Gravel Walks, Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton Rectory gardens
Houghton Rose Garden
Old tithe barn in Houghton-le-Spring
Riani Ice Cream
houghton-le-spring
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
houghton feast
Bernard Gylpyn
houghton feast
The Houghton-le-Spring magazine was published by J.Beckwith in 1836.
Houghton TA Hall on Henry Street
Houghton Inner Wheel Club
Worked in Newbottle Big Club, also known as the Workingmens Club; worked in the Jolly Potters, Newbottle, and also the Barley Mow Inn at Birtley.
Hatfield House, Imperial Buildings, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4DJ
At this time, Thomas William Usherwood Robinson, resided in Hatfield House, Houghton-le-Spring, and gave his occupation as “brewer, employing 18 men”.
www houghtonlespring org uk
www houghtonfeast co uk
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
George Hopper and his Britannia Iron Works
Sedgeletch Farm is located next to Sedgeletch Sewerage Farm, down the road from the Beehive Pub
houghton colliery
houghton le spring history
Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
National Federation of Cemetery Friends
Stoneygate Water Pumping station and reservoir
Houghton le Spring
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
Houghton
Friends of Houghton Rectory Park
Coal mining in Houghton le Spring
removal of the church pews
new dvd for st michaels church houghton
houghton colliery pics
Can you remember the shops at Mautland Square, which was demolished to make way for the Co-Op in 2002?
Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
www houghton feast
com
The Houghton-le-Spring Advertiser
Heath House Hostel.
Woolworths store in Houghton-le-Spring closed down in December 2008.
seven sisters hauntings in suffolk
houghton feast old photographs
hougton le spring
Bank Head
Houghton on the 1911 census
Vine Place, Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton le Spring School resources
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
Houghton
Gravel Walks, Houghton-le-Spring
Over the Hill Farm is in Houghton le Spring.
The Clouds, Houghton le Spring
Little Clouds, High Haining
The Houseman family lived in the Manor House, Houghton Le spring
Testimonials of Rev. J. Young, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, and Head-Master of Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring.
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
An advert for Nesham Hall Academy which was located at the top of Church Street, next to Houghton Hall. This area of Houghton was known as Quality Hill due to the affluent people who lived there.
Tour of Houghton Hillside Cemetery by historian Paul Lanagan
Can anybody remember Bennison's garage next to Gillas Lane, Houghton?
Cemetery Tours
Walk around Houghton Hillside Cemetery and learn about the history and heritage of the Old Cem
Free tours as part of the Heritage Open Days weekend
How do I contact Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society? You can contact Houghton Heritage Society using the following address or email:
Dubmire
Buy the new 2011 Houghton Le Spring calendar from this website - available now - as a limited edition! Buy it early before it sells out.
houghton hillside cemetery
houghton hillside cemetary
old photos of houghton le spring
Lady Landon lived at the top of Sunderland Street in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
Bernard Gylpyn
houghton le springs fair
Welcome to the Houghton-le-Spring Family History Society
The People's History Houghton le Spring by Geoffrey Berriman ISBN 1-902527-19-4
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
Rare photos of the old Mautland Street Methodist Church before it was demolished.
Houghton
Houghton on the 1911 census
Houghton Inner Wheel Club
Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine
durham ancestors in houghton-le-spring
Where can I view the Memorial Inscriptions MI for Houghton-le-Spring? Just click HERE!
Hopper Street Council Infants, Houghton-le-Spring see Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants Houghton-le-Spring Council Infants LB: 1865-1955 (T118/200-202) M: 1909-74 (630/530) Houghton-le-Spring Council IntermediateM: 1933-36 (T156/4) Houghton-le-Spring DayM: 1970-2 (630/599) Houghton-le-Spring Grammar
Abbot Street Houghton le Spring
Alamein Avenue Houghton le Spring
Baker Street Houghton le Spring
Balfour Street Houghton le Spring
Balmer Street Houghton le Spring
Balmoral Crescent Houghton le Spring
Bowlby Street Houghton le Spring
Burns Avenue North & South Houghton le Spring
Byron Terrace Houghton le Spring
Bruce's Yard, Robinson Street, Houghton-le-Spring
Church Street Houghton le Spring
Dairy Lane Houghton le Spring
HLS at War
MEMORIES
HILLSIDE AIR RAID SHELTER
PILL BOX near Houghton Gate
Structure in the Dene woods
Home Guard bunker at Houghton-le-Spring (HER 5504).
A World War ll Home Guard bunker (HER 5504), located not far from Copt Hill provides the area with the most recent of records. The walls of the bunker still remain, but the roof has collapsed due to landslip from the hillside into which it is built.
D'Arcy Street Houghton le Spring
Dunkirk Avenue Houghton le Spring
Durham Road Houghton le Spring
Earsdon Road Houghton le Spring
Edwin Street Houghton le Spring
Elizabeth Street Houghton le Spring
Frederick Place Houghton le Spring
George Street Houghton le Spring
BOOK LENDING IN HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING
A) Victorian times - books were available from Mechanics/Church Institute, Church Street (1852+), and St Michael's Church Hall, Rectory Grounds (1882+)
B) London Lending Library, Newbottle Street
Located next door to the White Lion PH, cost c 10p old money to lend a book for a week (tbc)
Closed circa 1938, following competition from the public library
C) Public Library, Church Street
Opened 1936, closed c1967 (exact year tbc)
Thought to be have been Number 22 Church Street
When it closed, section of Church St was demolished to make way for the A690
Library was temporarily housed in Myre Hall, Church Street, afterwards
D) Houghton Library, Mautland Square
Opened in 1969, closed in 2001 (month/year of closing tbc)
E) Houghton Library, 74 Newbottle Street
Opened October 2001 - present
On the site of the old Newbottle Street Primary School
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
Gillas Lane East & West Houghton le Spring
Hall Lane Houghton le Spring
Henry Street Houghton le Spring
Hetton Road Houghton le Spring
Hillside (High Hillside) Houghton le Spring
Hillside (Low Hillside) Houghton le Spring
Holly Avenue Houghton le Spring
Hopper Street Houghton le Spring
Hopper Square Houghton le Spring
Ironside Street Houghton le Spring
John Street Houghton le Spring
Kingsway Houghton le Spring
Kirklea Road Houghton le Spring
Lambton Street Houghton le Spring
Lilac Avenue Houghton le Spring
Longfellow Street Houghton le Spring
Market Place Houghton le Spring
Mautland Street Houghton le Spring
Mildred Street Houghton le Spring
Milton Avenue Houghton le Spring
Moore Crescent North & South Houghton le Spring
Tour of Houghton Hillside Cemetery by historian Paul Lanagan
Cemetery Tours
Walk around Houghton Hillside Cemetery and learn about the history and heritage of the Old Cem
Free tours as part of the Heritage Open Days weekend
Morriss Terrace Houghton le Spring
Mount Pleasant Houghton le Spring
Nesham Place Houghton le Spring
Rainton Grove Tragedy
The remains of Master Alwyn Thompson who met his death by misadventure at the residence of his father, Mr. V. T. Thompson, Rainton Grove, near Houghton-le-Spring, were laid to rest at that place yesterday. There was a large concourse of mourners, and the coffin of oak was covered with many beautiful wreaths. The Rector of Houghton, the Rev R. H. Yeld, conducted the service, and the bearers were four employees on the estate of Mr. Thompson. Enclosed with the remains, were the boy's hunting-crop, presented to him by his father on his last birthday.
Newbottle Street Houghton le Spring
Normandy Crescent Houghton le Spring
North Street Houghton le Spring
Outram Street Houghton le Spring
Pear Tree Place Houghton le Spring
I saw the bit about the entrance to The Lake, and can name another of the shops on the hand-drawn map; the one on the north corner of Stocksfield Street and Sunderland Street (i.e. opposite Pallister's) was a butcher's shop, and during the 1950s was run by Harry Clifton (a neighbour and friend of our family - his son Colin was one of my mates). Clifton's also had a stall in the market, and there's a picture of Harry (with moustache) doing his stuff on page 55 of the Berryman book.
The family emigrated to South Africa in the early sixties, although another branch still lived in Houghton (Springwell, I think) during the 70s.
Pit Row Houghton le Spring
Pottery Yard Houghton le Spring
Queensway Houghton le Spring
Robinson Street Houghton le Spring
Ryhope Street Houghton le Spring
Sandcroft Drive Houghton le Spring
Seaham Road Houghton le Spring
Seaton Avenue Houghton le Spring
Shakespeare Street Houghton le Spring
Shields Place Houghton le Spring
South Street Houghton le Spring
Stanley Street Houghton le Spring
Station Road Houghton le Spring
Stocksfield Terrace, Houghton le Spring, one of three cottages
Sunderland Street Houghton le Spring
The Close Houghton le Spring
The Riggs Houghton le Spring
Thomas Husband Street Houghton le Spring
Union Street Houghton le Spring
Vine Place Houghton le Spring
Hillside is a cemetery located on the outskirts of Houghton Le Spring and the recently restored Lych Gate can be seen when driving along Houghton Cut
Waller Terrace Houghton le Spring
Warden Grove Houghton le Spring
Warwick Drive Houghton le Spring
Wheler Street Houghton le Spring
William Street Houghton le Spring
Windsor Crescent Houghton le Spring
Wordsworth Avenue East & West Houghton le Spring
Buy the new 2011 Houghton Le Spring calendar from this website - available now - as a limited edition! Buy it early before it sells out.
Dickens Street
Burn Promenade
Burn Park Road
The Broadway
Robinson Street - still appears on maps, and is the main road of the now Co-Op carpark, parallel with the back of Newbottle St.
Hillside Way - aka A182 - runs from A690 to top corner of Newbottle St
Lake Road
Brinkburn Crescent - leads to the Burnside Estate and Sunniside
Thornhill Street - at the back of the police station and magistrates' court
Wallace Street - links Dairy Lane to Burn Park Road
Violet Street - connects Thornhill Street to Burn Park Road
Gravel Walks - from Elizabeth Street to an area behind the Market Place
The Green - next to the Gravel Walks, in an area behind the Market Place
Change DEAN AVE to DENE AVE
Dene Gardens - just off Gillas Lane East
Joseph Bland PEARSON. Joseph was an auctioneer from Neasham Place and died on August 4th, 1897, aged 65 years, and was buried at Houghton Hillside Cemetery.
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row.
Can you remember the shops at Mautland Square, which was demolished to make way for the Co-Op in 2002?
Find out about Houghton Le Spring's history and heritage online at: http://www.houghton-le-spring.org.uk
Gillas Lane East (between Hetton Road and Hall Lane) and Gillas Lane West (between Hetton Road and Durham Road ) formerly High Gillas Lane and Low Gillas Lane . Previously this lane from Durham Road up to the Copt Hill area was Gillas Lane , further on becoming Seaham Road .
The section of Gillas Lane between Durham Road and Hetton Road had Low added, and between Hetton Road and Hall Lane had High added to the name Gillas when private houses and bungalows began to be built pre WWII.
A section on the right side of Gillas Lane above the Hall Lane junction was named Warden Grove when private houses were built there post WWII, opposite these, Council houses were built and remained just Gillas Lane and numbered, those in High and Low Gillas Lane were given and still have, house names only.
Gillas and Gillis are derivations of Gillies, a Scottish word meaning servant, and a “Ghillie” was a term used for an outdoor servant. In times past the land owners in this area of Houghton-le-Spring would require the services of “Ghillies” or “Gillies”.
Hence “ Gillies Lane ” became “ Gillas Lane ”.
A black and white stiped Wear bus parked in the Broadway, Houghton. The X94 service ran to Newcastle.
Rare back lane postcards of Houghton le Spring. Do they exist?
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, The Jewel in the Crown of the Prince Bishops". It is of 30 minutes duration, produced by David Cave, Photographs and Historical Research by Ken Richardson
Houghton on the 1911 census
The Buffs Club is now know as Buffaloes Club - the Wild West has come to Houghton!
Stoneygate Water Pumping station and reservoir
Rev'd Canon Sue Pinnington is the new Rector of St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring
john mawston
Woolworths store in Houghton-le-Spring closed down in December 2008.
george davenport leicestershire
houghton le spring church records
houghton feast death
Sedgeletch Farm is located next to Sedgeletch Sewerage Farm, down the road from the Beehive Pub
Can anybody remember Bennison's garage next to Gillas Lane, Houghton?
www.stmichaels-hls.org.uk
durham ancestors in houghton-le-spring
How do I contact Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society? You can contact Houghton Heritage Society using the following address or email:
Court of Kirk Lea
houghton le spring old photos
Old Photos, Durham, Houghton
The UK's biggest ever assembled collection of Mining banners will be on display in Houghton-le-Spring this Saturday.
hooughton feast
J.Hunter, photographer, Newbottle Street
My dad was a pupil at Houghton Grammar School from about 1947-1952 when he left to do his national service. Is there a website or somewhere where I can find out the history of the school or obtain copies of records? Do you know of a Houghton Old Boys website or network? I know of one or two famous old boys.
Was Houghton Cut once known as Houghton Cut? An old picture postcard features the words Houghton Gut, but was this a printing error? Or was the Cut a Gut?
Workhouse, Market Place, New Town, Church Street, St Michael's church, Kepier Grammar School, Newbottle Street, Sunderland Street, cemetery, Houghton Hill, Houghton Pit; Sunniside, Over the Hill Farm, and Middle Haining.
Houghton on the 1911 census
In 1849, Houghton-le-Spring Union had about 20,000 persons, with 22 deaths from Cholera and 11 from diarrhoea.
Vine Place, Houghton-le-Spring
Heritage
boost for
Coalfield
A TASK group has been
launched to promote
and protect the history of
Sunderland’s Coalfield
area.
Made up of local
groups, volunteers,
council officers and
councillors, the task
group is putting together
an action plan to raise
the profile of historic and
interesting sites across
the wards of Copt Hill,
Houghton, Hetton and
Shiney Row.
Thanks to £10,000
Strategic Initiatives
Budget (SIB) funding
from the council’s
Coalfield Area
Committee, the task
group has commissioned
the charity North of
England Civic Trust to
produce a catalogue of
historic buildings,
collectable items, old
photographs, diaries and
archives.
While some of these
are held locally by private
individuals, others are
held in public archives
and museums, mainly
across the North East.
Councillor Denny
Wilson, Portfolio Holder
for Safer City and Culture,
said: “The Coalfield area
has a rich history which
we need to protect and
promote. The first step is
to establish what is there
and where it is housed,
before deciding how to
make the most of our
historic treasures.”
Gravel Walks, Houghton-le-Spring
Rare back lane postcards of Houghton le Spring. Do they exist?
Worked in Newbottle Big Club, also known as the Workingmens Club; worked in the Jolly Potters, Newbottle, and also the Barley Mow Inn at Birtley.
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
history of houghtonlespring tyne & wear
Houghton-le-Spring Workhouse & Poor Law Union
houghton le spring trams
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
Stoneygate Water Pumping station and reservoir
Houghton Rectory gardens
sergeant frank stamp and houghton-le-spring 1941 Hurrican fighter plan crashed in Houghton-le-Spring
John BELL of Houghton le Spring, County Durham. Engineer.
Nesham Place Methodist Church (Formerly United Methodist pre ‘Deed of Union’ 1932)
Last service Harvest Festival Sunday 21 September 1980
Mautland Street Methodist Church (Primitive pre ‘Deed of Union 1932) Opened 1876 Closed Sunday 22 July 1979 in preparation for demolition (church only, not halls) and re-building to become ‘Houghton-le-Spring Methodist Church’. See Jack Jordison re original Meth Church in Robinson? Union? Street
Eschol Church, Burn Promenade, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
SUBJECT
John Bell is selling property in Houghton le Spring t William Wheldon for £165.
It consists of a house known as 32 Outram Street, Houghton le Spring. A schedule lists deed relating to the property from 1901 - 1916 at which time the land was known as Gravel Walk Fields.
Houghton Rose Garden
Old tithe barn in Houghton-le-Spring
Kepier Hall bookings
Parsonage House at Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring Rectory Gate House
houghton feast
funfair
Listed Buildings
456/7/20 Broadway , Houghton-le-Spring , Houghton-le-Spring Area Offices of Sunderland City Council
456/7/18 Broadway , Houghton-le-Spring , Church of St. Michael and All Angels
456/7/21 Church Street , Houghton-le-Spring , Kepier Grammar School
456/7/22 Church Street , Houghton-le-Spring , Davenport and Lilburne Almshouses
456/7/24 Church Street, 11 , Houghton-le-Spring , Lilburn House
456/4/26 Cox Green Road , Houghton-le-Spring , Stone at junction with Woodhouse Lane.
456/4/27 Cox Green , Houghton-le-Spring , Accommodation Arch in railway embankment North of Low Lambton Farm
456/2/25 Cox Green , Houghton-le-Spring , Alice Well, North of No. 5
456/7/28 Dairy Lane , Houghton-le-Spring , The Villa (office of the Clerk to the Justices).
456/7/29 Dairy Lane , Houghton-le-Spring , The Rectory
456/7/32 Durham Road , Houghton-le-Spring , Presbytery of Church of St. Michael
456/7/31 Durham Road , Houghton-le-Spring , Church of St. Michael
456/7/30 Durham Road , Houghton-le-Spring , The Old Mill Public House
456/7/46 Hall Lane , Houghton-le-Spring , Houghton Hall
456/7/51 Nesham Place , Houghton-le-Spring , Ashleigh
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
Houghton Halmote Court
houghton in old picture postcards
Friends of Houghton Rectory Park
paul lanagan houghton le spring
Woolworths Plc 15 Newbottle Street Houghton le Spring DH4 4AW Tel: 0191 5843170
Lady Landon lived at the top of Sunderland Street in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
houghton le spring durham
Rare photos of the old Mautland Street Methodist Church before it was demolished.
Kepier Hall bookings
Sedgeletch Farm is located next to Sedgeletch Sewerage Farm, down the road from the Beehive Pub
Massive whinstones boulders in St Michael & All Angels Parish Church
opening hours of houghton feast
Lady Landon
houghton-le-spring secondary modern school
the seven sisters houghton le spring
Houghton le Spring School resources
Rev'd Canon Sue Pinnington is the new Rector of St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring
Parsonage House at Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring Rectory Gate House
history of houghton le spring
houghton feast pics
There are no public toilets or public conveniences in Houghton, so where do you go to spend a penny when you are shopping in Houghton-le-Spring?
Ancestor search in Houghton le Spring
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
houghton le spring secondary modern school
St Michaels and all angels church
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row.
Sportman's Tavern pub, Reay's Place, Newtown, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
Durham Records Online. Durham Ancestors search, here online now.
lambton arms pub houghton le spring
shiney row history
bonfire night houghton le spring
burial records for houghton le spring
houghton feast murder
Lady Landon
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
houghton in old picture postcards
Sedgeletch Farm is located next to Sedgeletch Sewerage Farm, down the road from the Beehive Pub
houghton feast
pictures
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row. The inaugural general meeting was held on February 19th 2009 and a Constitution was adopted on April 28th 2009.Friends of Houghton Rectory Park. Houghton Kepier School Rose Garden is the new name for the Rose Garden. Houghton Rectory Park fountain. Is the Gilpin Thorn still alive. Where did the rock fountain in Rectory Park come from? Did it come from the Mediterranean?
houghtoncomrades club houghton le spring
Where did Hangman's Lane, Warden Law, Houghton-le-Spring, get its name from?
Is there a hanging tree at the crossroads of Durham Road and Church Street in Houghton-le-Spring?
Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery
Workhouse, Market Place, New Town, Church Street, St Michael's church, Kepier Grammar School, Newbottle Street, Sunderland Street, cemetery, Houghton Hill, Houghton Pit; Sunniside, Over the Hill Farm, and Middle Haining.
J.Hunter, photographer, Newbottle Street
Worked in Newbottle Big Club, also known as the Workingmens Club; worked in the Jolly Potters, Newbottle, and also the Barley Mow Inn at Birtley.
National Federation of Cemetery Friends
houghton feast attack
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
Lady Landon lived at the top of Sunderland Street in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
houghton feast photos
hought le spring
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
Houghton
Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine is not available online
Houghton on the 1911 census
Stoneygate Water Pumping station and reservoir
Minchella Ice Cream
Jaconelli Ice Cream
Houghton Rectory gardens
Houghton Rose Garden
Houghton Halmote Court
Find out about Houghton Le Spring's history and heritage online at: http://www.houghton-le-spring.org.uk
A view in ink of an old house at Houghton-le-Spring
Old tithe barn in Houghton-le-Spring
Epworth House, Station Avenue, Fencehouses
Dimambro Ice Cream
Di Mambro Ice Cream
Riani Ice Cream
houghton le spring grammar school
st micheal`s church sale of dvd and books
houghton feast murdered
durham ancestors in houghton-le-spring
Find out more about the mining history of Houghton le Spring, its miners, pit ponies and life at Houghton Colliery.
Woolworths store in Houghton-le-Spring closed down in December 2008.
jon henley postcards
new dvd for st michaels houghton tyne wear
houghton-le-spring uk
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
showmans wagon
Durham Records Online. Durham Ancestors search, here online now.
hillside cemetery records houghton le spring
pictures of old penshaw
the ghostly grey lady of seaham hall
Lady Landon lived at the top of Sunderland Street in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
homepage
buffs club houghton le spring
murphy houghton waltzer
Woolworths Plc 15 Newbottle Street Houghton le Spring DH4 4AW Tel: 0191 5843170
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houghtonlespring org uk
Wheeler House, Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring
Wheler House, Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring
Sancroft House, Church Street, Houghton le Spring
Bernard Gilpin's coat of arms or family crest features a wild boar, crescent moon, and oak tree. The Gilpin Family Crest. Heraldry became popular in the 1100s.
Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine is not available online
houghton feast fun fair
history of newbottle houghton le spring
Friends of Houghton Rectory Park
Was Houghton Cut once known as Houghton Cut? An old picture postcard features the words Houghton Gut, but was this a printing error? Or was the Cut a Gut?
J.Hunter, photographer, Newbottle Street
Stocksfield Terrace, Houghton le Spring, one of three cottages
Thanks for the Memories: Recollections of Fence Houses, Lambton, Burnmoor, Chilton Moor, Dubmire and Bankhead, by Lena Cooper (Summerhill Books, £9.99).
houghton feast fun fair times
Houghton-le-Spring gifts, christmas presents and Houghton-le-Spring calendars for sale, Houghton-le-Spring DVD for sale
murder houghton-le-spring
Rare photos of the old Mautland Street Methodist Church before it was demolished.
houghton-le-spring secondry modern school
the gray horse and penshaw village church england
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton le Spring stall at Yesterday Belongs to You 9, Durham County Hall, Saturday May 16th 2009
Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
Workhouse, Market Place, New Town, Church Street, St Michael's church, Kepier Grammar School, Newbottle Street, Sunderland Street, cemetery, Houghton Hill, Houghton Pit; Sunniside, Over the Hill Farm, and Middle Haining.
Over the Hill Farm is in Houghton le Spring.
The Clouds, Houghton le Spring
Little Clouds, High Haining
Minchella Ice Cream
How do I contact Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society? You can contact Houghton Heritage Society using the following address or email:
Jaconelli Ice Cream
Di Mambro Ice Cream
Riani Ice Cream
Durham Records Online. Durham Ancestors search, here online now.
Find out more about Houghton Mechanics' Football team from Houghton-le-Spring colliery
houghton in old picture postcards
Parsonage House at Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring Rectory Gate House
Houghton-le-Spring St Michael's Church excavations 2008 revealed
Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery
National Federation of Cemetery Friends
Ken Richardson
1981 - The last underground shift was completed at Houghton Colliery on Thursday September 24th. Colliery staff who had not opted for voluntary redundancy were transferred to Seaham, Vane Tempest, Eppleton and Wearmouth pits, and the Philadelphia Workshops and Herrington Colliery (New Pit). The workforce at this time was circa 250. The powder house was demolished and rebuilt at Beamish Museum; Tory Thatcher demolished the coal industry, never to be rebuilt. The electrical sub-station (pictured above) is the only remaining Colliery building still in Houghton.
2003 – A new Houghton Colliery banner was commissioned by Houghton & Lambton Banner Group and was created by Dr Aidan Doyle. Paul Lanagan helped to carry it in the Durham Miner’s Gala.
The most important time in the Christian calendar is approaching – Easter – and I wonder how many Houghtonians are aware that a gnarled and crabby hawthorn tree growing near to the Old Rectory and Houghton Area Office could have a distant connection to the crucifixion of the Christ.
Known as the Gilpin Thorn, this hawthorn tree is thought to have grown from a cutting taken from the legendary Glastonbury Thorn in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey by Bernard Gilpin, rector of Houghton 1557 to 1583.
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Ravensbourne House, Hetton Road, in Houghton-le-Spring. Also located near by is Dene House Farm.
Epworth House, Station Avenue, Fencehouses
The Copt Hill Inn, located on the Seaham road opposite the site of the Seven Sisters Neolithic barrow excavation, is said to be haunted by the tormented spirit of a former landlord who had hung himself in the public bar. Over the years his ghost has been seen by several regulars who all claim that the departed mein host re-enacts his death.
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It is thought that Houghton Hall was built circa 1600. I have heard many firsthand accounts of sightings of a ghost which haunts the Hall - the white lady. It is possible that the spirit of Elizabeth Elliott, daughter of one time resident Sir George Elliot, haunts the former YMCA building.
Vine Place, Houghton-le-Spring
Gravel Walks, Houghton-le-Spring
If the stories are true, the Robbie Burns public house on Newbottle Street must be one of the most haunted places in the Houghton area.
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Lady Landon lived at the top of Sunderland Street in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham
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Rev'd Canon Sue Pinnington is the new Rector of St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring
Medieval rectors probably never even visited Houghton-le-Spring.
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Woolworths store in Houghton-le-Spring closed down in December 2008.
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Would you like to have a free tour of Houghton Park? Come on the tour of Houghton Rectory Park to find out about its history and heritage.
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Houghton on the 1911 census
Friends of Houghton Rectory Park
"Cholera outbreak in Houghton-le-Spring and the town has been quarantined. Keep away!"
Work on a town’s church has revealed that the site may have been used for ritual and worship for thousands of years.
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
Major refurbishment work on the Grade I-listed St Michael and All Angels church in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, began last month and has involved digging up the floor to install a new heating system.
A view in ink of an old house at Houghton-le-Spring
The church, dating back to Norman times, is the oldest building in the town.
Ken Richardson
Can anybody remember Bennison's garage next to Gillas Lane, Houghton?
A carved stone above a tiny doorway, featuring a carving of mysterious intertwined animals known as the Houghton Beasts, may be from before the Norman Conquest.
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1258 – Master Geoffrey de Sancta Agatha, previously of Carlisle.
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Workhouse, Market Place, New Town, Church Street, St Michael's church, Kepier Grammar School, Newbottle Street, Sunderland Street, cemetery, Houghton Hill, Houghton Pit; Sunniside, Over the Hill Farm, and Middle Haining.
In later years the Carrs of Cocken and High Grange were called Standish-Standish. Around 1812, William Carr of Cocken inherited some Cheshire lands and a title through his great grandmother. He became William Standish-Standish of Duxbury Hall but resided at Cocken where he died in 1856.
He was buried in a cliff face in Houghton cut near Houghton-le-Spring because the churchyards were too full of bodies from the Sunderland cholera epidemic. Some local people claim Standish-Standish committed suicide by riding his horse off this cliff and his ghost is said to haunt the site.
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
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In 1849, Houghton-le-Spring Union had about 20,000 persons, with 22 deaths from Cholera and 11 from diarrhoea.
Janet Oakman, born circa 1773 in Ireland. Janet worked as a Charwoman and was living in the Union Workhouse in Houghton Le Spring, Durham, in 1861
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard Burials for 1581 - 1854
Hillside Cemetery Burials for 1854 - 1971
Names from St Michael's Church Magazine Names from Baptisms, Churchings, Marriages, Burials & Donations 1884 - 1889
Houghton-le-Spring Directories Trade & Residential 1827, 1829, 1851, 1855, 1890 and 1914
"Cholera outbreak in Houghton-le-Spring and the town has been quarantined. Keep away!"
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Newbottle Street Junior School County of Durham Education Committee This school was opened on 15 Dec 1906 by T.Richardson Esq., C.C
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Houghton-le-Spring Community Times magazine is not available online
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Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
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Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
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Thomas Arnold Moore Morley was born on July 11th 1886. Before he enlisted he was Sanitary Inspector for Houghton-le-Spring Rural District Council
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Wheatleys Sweet shop
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Houghton Branch of the Newbottle & District Co-Operative Society.
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Timms department store
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Lamb Inn
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
Houghton
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
Field House Sandhole is not far from Houghton le Spring. High Haining and Middle Haining are also nearby.
Houghton le Spring and Hetton Smallpox Hospital: administrative records 1904
Houghton-le-Spring burial records and grave registers
Durham Records Online. Durham Ancestors search, here online now.
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Was Houghton Cut once known as Houghton Cut? An old picture postcard features the words Houghton Gut, but was this a printing error? Or was the Cut a Gut?
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Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
Find out more about Houghton Mechanics' Football team from Houghton-le-Spring colliery
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Birth: Dec 1924 - Houghton Le Spring, Durham
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Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
1664 – George Davenport, MA – from Leicester, rebuilt the Rectory from the ground, and founded three of the Almshouses.
"Cholera outbreak in Houghton-le-Spring and the town has been quarantined. Keep away!"
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard Burials for 1581 - 1854
Hillside Cemetery Burials for 1854 - 1971
Names from St Michael's Church Magazine Names from Baptisms, Churchings, Marriages, Burials & Donations 1884 - 1889
Houghton-le-Spring Directories Trade & Residential 1827, 1829, 1851, 1855, 1890 and 1914
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
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Bernard Gilpin's coat of arms or family crest features a wild boar, crescent moon, and oak tree. The Gilpin Family Crest. Heraldry became popular in the 1100s.
DD – Rector for 3 years, and went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1758.
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Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
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Marriage of Olga daughter of Mr & Mrs John Lishman of Houghton-le-Spring to Mr Cyril Arthur Smith BA son of Rev J & Mrs Smith MA, Hetton-le-Hole 7th September 1927
Houghton-le-Spring Street Names Project aims to compile a list of all the Houghton streets along with details of where and how the streets obtained their names. Obvious streets include Gilpin Street, Grey Street and Bernard Street. But what was Bowlby Street named after?
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Durham, 6½ miles (N. E.) from Durham, and 266 (N. N. W.) from London; containing 16,833 inhabitants, of whom 2084 are in the town. This place, which takes its name from a family to whom it belonged soon after the Conquest, is one of the great manors of the see of Durham. It is beautifully situated in a luxuriant vale, sheltered on the north and east by a lofty chain of hills, and opening towards the south and west into an extensive and richly cultivated plain, interspersed with large tracts of majestic woods, and abounding with romantic scenery. The town has been increasing within the last twenty years, and contains numerous spacious and handsome houses, inhabited by opulent families; nearly in the centre of it is Houghton Hall, the ancient mansion of the family of Hutton, now extinct, a plain edifice of the 16th century, of which the exterior has been lately much improved. The trade arises chiefly from the numerous coal-mines in the neighbourhood; and nearly adjoining the place are an iron-foundry and forge, in which a large number of persons are employed. A fair is held on the Sunday after New Michaelmas-day, and continues for the two following days, when there are horse-races and various other amusements. The seneschal of the Bishop of Durham holds a halmote court twice in the year, for the recovery of debts not amounting to 40s.; and petty-sessions for the division are held every alternate week by the county magistrates. The parish, which is bounded on the north by the river Wear, comprises the townships of South Bidick, Bourn-Moor, Cocken, Great and Little Eppleton, East and Middle Herrington, West Herrington, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton-le-Spring, Moorhouse, Moorsley, Morton-Grange, Newbottle, Offerton, Painshaw, East and West Rainton, and Warden-Law. It contains about 14,600 acres, and in the township of Houghton are 1475a. 14p.; of the latter, 893 acres are arable, 554 grass-land, 10 wood, and 17 waste. Freestone and limestone are quarried; and coal of the best quality is sent in large quantities to the London market, where it commands the highest prices: the greater part is conveyed by railway to the ports of Sunderland and Seaham.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £124; net income, according to the return made in 1835, £2157; patron, the Bishop. The tithes of Houghton township have been commuted for £261, and the glebe consists of 343 acres. The church, situated in the centre of the town, is an ancient cruciform structure in the early and decorated English styles, with a massive central tower, which was originally only about half its present height. The nave is divided from the aisles by ranges of clustered columns; and from the area beneath the tower, which is supported on four massive clustered columns, lofty pointed arches lead into the transepts and the choir: the east and west windows, of five lights, are of large dimensions and of elegant design. In the south transept are, a recumbent effigy of an armed knight, and an altar-tomb to the memory of the venerable Bernard Gilpin, many years rector of the parish. It may be noticed as a singular instance of longevity connected with this church, that in the year 1841, the rector was in his 78th year, the clerk in his 80th, the sextoness in her 86th, and the youngest of the attendant officers in the 76th year of his age. At Painshaw, Hetton-le-Hole, and other places, are additional churches. There are meeting-houses for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans, and a Roman Catholic chapel.
The Kepier Free Grammar school, situated at the north-east angle of the churchyard, was founded by letters-patent of Queen Elizabeth, in 1574, and endowed by Bernard Gilpin, and John Heath, Esq., of Kepier, near Durham, for the education of youth in the classics and higher departments of learning. The funds were augmented by Sir Geo. Wheler and the Rev. H. Bagshaw, subsequent rectors of the parish. The whole endowment, including a house with ample accommodation for 70 boarders, is now about £200 per annum; and attached to the school is an exhibition to any one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham. Among the many eminent men educated in the establishment, over which the original founder himself, to a certain extent, presided, giving personal instruction in his own study to several of the pupils, have been Hugh Broughton, a distinguished Hebrew scholar, and Dr. George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, the biographer of Gilpin. The Blue-coat school was founded by the Rev. Sir George Wheler, who bequeathed for its endowment £600, which sum was invested in land, producing an income of £80 per annum. An hospital originally founded by Bernard Gilpin, for six aged people, was rebuilt and endowed by George Lilburne, Esq., and the Rev. George Davenport, formerly rector of the parish; the buildings are situated near the grammar school, and consist of a centre and two wings, each containing two tenements. The union workhouse is a substantial stone building: the union comprises 15 townships in the parish, and the township of Silksworth in the adjoining parish of Bishop-Wearmouth, and contains a population of 16,067. Dr. Samuel Ward, an eminent divine, and master of Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge, who died in 1643, was a native of the parish.
From: 'Houghton, Glass - Hove', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)
1847 – Rev & Hon John Grey, MD, DD – founder of the controversial Houghton Hillside Cemetery, where he was buried upon his death in 1895.
Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
J.Hunter, photographer, Newbottle Street
Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Company, had giant gasometres on Station Road.
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Rare back lane postcards of Houghton le Spring. Do they exist?
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Houghton le Spring stall at Yesterday Belongs to You 9, Durham County Hall, Saturday May 16th 2009
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Birth: Dec 1924 - Houghton Le Spring, Durham
Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
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Archaeologist Peter Ryder, of Riding Mill in Northumberland, said: “It looks like a prehistoric site. We can’t think of any other reason why these very large boulders should be inside the church.”
The little "Wizard" 1.75" x 6.5" 3-speed gap-bed lathe - distinguished by the use of unusual rounded mounting feet - was advertised from 1946 until the early 1950s as either the "Wizard" or "Lane" Micro-Lathe. The makers described it as the "Lathe for the Discriminating Amateur" - but even this did not stop the company eventually disappearing without trace as competition became stiffer in what was always a very limited market. The makers, C. Lane & Son of Dairy Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham based their factory economically in an old police station in nearby William Street .
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row. The inaugural general meeting was held on February 19th 2009 and a Constitution was adopted on April 28th 2009.Friends of Houghton Rectory Park. Houghton Kepier School Rose Garden is the new name for the Rose Garden. Houghton Rectory Park fountain. Is the Gilpin Thorn still alive. Where did the rock fountain in Rectory Park come from? Did it come from the Mediterranean?
Under the central tower of the church, which was restored in about 1350, the work has uncovered huge Roman stones thought to have come from a Roman temple.
Find out more about the mining history of Houghton le Spring, its miners, pit ponies and life at Houghton Colliery.
J.Hunter, photographer, Newbottle Street
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A view in ink of an old house at Houghton-le-Spring
Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
1948 – Oswald Noel Gwilliam, BA – he helped to rejuvenate the Houghton Feast celebrations. He died in 1997.
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1972 – Peter Brett, MA – he went from Houghton to Canterbury Cathedral as a Residentiary Canon.
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1983 – Peter Timothy Fisher – after Houghton he became Principal of Queen’s College, Birmingham. In 2000 he was appointed an Honorary Canon of Birmingham Cathedral.
Christmas in Houghton-le-Spring and lots of white, soft, snow, ready for the Christmas Fair and Christmas Fayre.
1995 – Dr Ian G Wallis – left in 2007.
Amazingly, at one time during the early twentieth century, Houghton and surrounds had over twenty pubs and clubs! These included George & the Dragon; Houghton Comrades; Houghton Social Club; The Bay Horse; The Black Horse; The Brittania Hotel; The Buffs; The Burn Inn; The Colliery Inn; The County; The Glendale Club; The Half Way House; The Jolly Farmer; The Lamb Inn; The Lambton Arms; The Malsters' Arms; The Market Tavern; The Nags Head; The Newcastle Arms; The Queen's Head (known as the Pillars); The Ram's Head Inn; Ye Robbie Burns; The Royal Oak Inn; The Sun; The Wheatsheaf.
Houghton-le-Spring burial records and grave registers
A workhouse of sorts existed in Houghton-le-Spring in 1777, with a larger institution being erected in 1824 with a capacity of 200 inmates. This workhouse was located on the east side of the now demolished Sunderland Street and was still in use when the Poor Law Union was established in 1837. The building soon became dilapidated and was replaced with a purpose-made building on William Street in 1864.
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Cotarii were cottagers who had a small portion of land and pair rent to the lord.
Was Houghton Cut once known as Houghton Cut? An old picture postcard features the words Houghton Gut, but was this a printing error? Or was the Cut a Gut?
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The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
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COLISEUM Newbottle Street Opened Wednesday 3rd August 1921. Architect: Percy L. Browne & Glover. Props., Messrs John Lishman and Norman Robinson. 1937: (WE) Prop., Lishman & Robinson. 1,002 seats. By 1941: (WE) – Prop., John Lishman. Phone 87. 999 seats. Booked at Hall by C. Lane. Twice nightly, Mon. and Sat. Once nightly rest of week. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone Houghton-le Spring 137. Station, Fence Houses LNER.
EMPIRE THEATRE Newbottle Street Opened 1912. Prop., Wheatley. 1922 - Prop., Empire Entertainment Co Res. Man., Robert Wheatley. One show nightly, two on Sat. Station, Houghton-le-Spring, NER. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Houghton Empire Theatre, Ltd. 600 seats. 1929: Robert Wheatley, manager. 1937: (WE) Houghton Empire Theatre Ltd. 600 seats. Phone 52. 1941: Booked at Hall by G. Wheatley. One show nightly, two on Mon. and Sat, Prices 3d. to 1s. Phone Houghton 52. Station Fence Houses LNER.
GAIETY THEATRE Opened c.1911. Architect: J. Davenport. Prop. John Ainsley. 1922 as New G Th - Prop., J. Ainsley. Res. Man., R. Ainsley. One show nightly. One change weekly. Prices, 4d. to 2s. 4d. Phone, Houghton-le-Spring 43. Station Fencehouses, NER. Closed & demolished 1929 for New Grand.
CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / New GRAND THEATRE Newbottle Street Opened 21st April 1930 – on site of Gaiety. Architect: Percy L. Browne. 1,077 seats. 1937 as New Grand: (WE) Lishman & Robinson. 1,077 seats. Phone 137. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., John Lishman. 1,010 seats. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly Mon. and Sat. Once nightly rest of week, Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 30ft. deep; six dressing rooms, Phone Houghton 137. Station, Fence Houses, LNER. To Mrs. Lishman. To Essoldo February 1952. Re-named October 1962. OR February 1963. To Classic 2nd April 1972. Closed March 1975. Converted to supermarket.
THEATRE ROYAL S. James (1907)
TOWN HALL PICTURE PALACE 1914: Prop., N. British Pic Co. Cap. 500.
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1 Oct 1693 Jacob Watson married Elizabeth Smith
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
6 May 1697 Lawrence Sprott married Margery Forster
1 Jun 1697 George Smith married Frances Featenby
5 Jun 1697 William Waistell married Elizabeth Atcheson
21 Dec 1699 William Atkinson married Jane Wranham
10 Feb 1699 Matthew Shaw married Mary Reed
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HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
The burial ground was the subject of much controversy, as many Houghtonians didn't like the idea of being buried in a "quarry hole".
The nearby village of Houghton itself was originally a rural farming community and the famous Durham white ox was bred in the parish.
Among several local buildings of prominence was Kepier Grammar School, founded in 1574, and The Davenport Almshouses of 1688.
The industrial revolution had little impact on Houghton until the 19th century, when Houghton Colliery was sunk by the Earl of Durham in 1823.
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The pit triggered a population and house building explosion, with the number of villagers rising from 996 in 1801 to 7,858 a century later.
By 1848, an "extensive ironworks" was being run by Mr George Hopper in the area too, which "gave employment to a great number of hands".
And an Ordnance Survey map, published in 1856, shows an ironworks, workhouse, two chapels, a steam corn mill and gasworks.
As building work continued in the village, so the need to further develop Houghton Cut became more pressing.
By 1910, Houghton boasted five chapels and a church, as well as an infectious diseases hospital, and even had its own tram service.
Thanks for the Memories: Recollections of Fence Houses, Lambton, Burnmoor, Chilton Moor, Dubmire and Bankhead, by Lena Cooper (Summerhill Books, £9.99).
Newbottle Street was formerly known as Newbottle Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, as there was only one row of buildings (on the east side).
Myre Hall Divisional Education Office was in Houghton le Spring.
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educated at Nesham Hall Grammar School."
Bernard Gilpin's coat of arms or family crest features a wild boar, crescent moon, and oak tree. The Gilpin Family Crest. Heraldry became popular in the 1100s.
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A tank parked outside of Robinson's Brewery on Durham Road, Houghton-le-Spring, during the First World War.
Frederick Denby of Houghton, joined the Durham Light Infantry, was a prisoner of war for four years and returned home at Christmas 1918.
Soldiers marched along Church Street, Houghton-le-Spring, 1940.
Bombing raids in World War 2 in Houghton-le-Spring, included four high explosive bombs being dropped onto Houghton Cut in July 1940, and an incendiary bomb being dropped between Houghton and Seaham in March 1943.
Houghton-le-Spring's adopted warship is HMS Welland, which was adopted during Warship Week in December 1941.
George Fenton of Houghton served with 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 8B.
During the Second World War, in 1941,a Hurricane fighter tried to make an emergency landing on Houghon Golf Course. The pilot Sergeant Frank Stamp of the Royal Canadian Air Force sadly lost his life.
Captain William Brown, a Territorial Officer, was a solicitor in the Sunderland Street firm of Legge & Miller.
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Sunderland Herald, 1 Oct. 1875
DEATH OF MR GEORGE HOPPER, OF HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING.
Almost coincident with the celebration of the railway jubilee there has passed away from our midst a man whose name was at one time known wherever railways had extended their influence. We allude to the death of Mr George Hopper, which took place at Houghton-le-Spring on Thursday the 23rd ult. in the seventy eighth year of his age. It is, we believe, fifty-one years since Mr Hopper started business in Houghton-le-Spring as a timber merchant. It was his boast that he had descended front several successive generations of workers in wood and iron, his father having been a whitesmith first, at Durham, and afterwards at Gateshead, and while at the last place it may be mentioned that he was the fast friend of the famous wood engraver, Thomas Bewick. The subject of the present notice served his time as a ships carpenter with Mr Simon Temple, at Jarrow, and when he was out of his time he worked for a while as forge carpenter in Messrs. Hawkes Iron works. About this time trade throughout the country was in an exceedingly prostrate condition, consequent on the termination of the great continental war, and work wee very difficult to obtain. He next found employment at the Londonderry collieries. Here the praiseworthy perseverance of the young carpenter reaching the ears of Lord Londonderry’s chief agent, Mr John Buddle, the latter offered to lend him a sum of money to start a small “raff yard,” and, thus we have more than half a century ago the modest commencement of the Houghton-le-Spring Ironworks, and its larger offshoot the Britannia Ironworks, near Fence Houses, now employing many hundreds of men. The happy thought occurred to Mr Hoppcr that the customers for his timber would most surely require nails, so a couple of small nail forges were his first venture in this manipulation of iron. Not many years elapsed before he took advantage of his previous experience as a forge carpenter and erected a forge hammer of the old belly and valve type; and here again be availed himself of his previous experience as ship carpenter, and commenced the manufacture of ship knees of hammered ironwork. In the palmy days of wood shipbuilding at Sunderland scarcely a clipper ship left the stocks without being fitted with Hopper’s knees, of great exactness of finish. His next venture in hammered ironwork was the manufacture of coal waggon axles. with the bearings swaged or hammered in round moulds to an exactly circular shape. The same principle was applied to the hammering of engines and tender axles, and thus at one time every ounce of hammered ironwork used in the great factory of Robert Stephenson and Co. was manufactured at Houghton-le-Spring. Another article of hammered ironwork, in which he was successful beyond his most sanguine anticipations, was the making of the crank axles of locomotives, in which the grain of the iron was bent round the sides and top of the cranks. In this branch of trade it was not uncommon at one time for his order book to be filled to overflowing six months before delivery for crank axles required in every part o
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WARTIME memories from one North town have been put online to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
The site contains a growing collection of rare memories and information about life in Houghton-le-Spring between 1939-45.
Paul Lanagan, 28, a local historian who has published books on the history of Houghton, said: “The Houghton Heritage website has been online for a couple of years now and has a growing collection of rare photos, articles and memories, but I am particularly pleased to launch the World War Two section. I have always been interested in the Home Front and it was fascinating to discover what the people of Houghton went through.
“I focused on what the town was like during the war. These memories will be of interest to lots of people. It will be really great for young kids to see what the world was like back then.
“Things are just so different today, it is hard for them to imagine life during war.”
Among the memories on the site is that of 80-year-old Harry Smith, who was 10 years old in 1939.
He talks of remembering the older teenagers in Houghton leaving to fight: “We watched them walk away up the street in their brand new khaki and kit, never dreaming that it would be five years before we saw them again.”
Mr Smith, who now lives in Middlesbrough, has contributed lengthy memories of life in wartime Houghton, including what the air raid precautions undertaken at Newbottle Street School:
“A board was stuck in the ground near the school entrance, and had special paint on it which would change colour if there was any gas about. Naturally, like most of the others, I didn't take my eyes off it for three weeks, and in class from wanting to sit beside the exit, now everyone wanted to sit by the windows!
“We soon as got back to normal, until one day a lad had been to the toilets (which were of course outside) came back running through the school, still holding up his pants, screaming at the top of his voice “Sir! Sir! It's gone green, it's gone green!”
“Pandemonium and any gasmask will do! However, when it was sorted it was found the lad had got himself a load of plums and scoffed them the night before. It was his poo that had gone green!!”
Other memories on the website show that life during the war was not all doom and gloom.
Joan Lambton, who was four years old when war broke out, remembers going to the shop and asking for eggs with shells on. And five-year-old Richard Wilson remembers rushing to Houghton Market Place with his friends to see a banana for the first time.
To look at more of these memories, go to http://www.houghtonheritage.co.uk/ worldwar2
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This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETRY.
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The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
1847 - Rev John Grey, nephew of Earl Grey, became rector of Houghton-le-Spring.
1852 - In response to the health risk that overcrowded churchyards posed, the Burial Acts of 1852 and 1853 enabled local authorities to administer their own cemeteries. Parish vestries elected Burial Boards to manage them.
1853 - Outbreak of cholera in Sunderland and surrounding districts and announcement of the cemetery proposals. This was the cause of much controversy between Rector Grey and his parishioners. They didn't like the idea of being buried at the "quarry hole" and were outraged at his suggestion of a local tax to pay for the walling of the ground; however many of the residents ended up being buried there, including many well-known Houghtonians.
1854 - September 4th - Consecration of the burial ground, near Houghton Cut, by the Bishop of Exeter after an order from the Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston. The first burials took place on September 19th 1854.
1856 - July 10th - It was believed for many years that while riding on the moors above the cemetery, William Standish Standish of Cocken Hall fell over the cliff with his horse; he was buried in a vault in the rock face, in the same spot where he allegedly fell. His ghost is said to haunt the graveyard and re-enact the fatal fall. Sadly Mr Standish Standish's vault has been vandalised many times over the years. Recent research suggests that it is more likely that Mr Standish Standish died at Cocken Hall from an illness as does the inscription on the vault.
1862 - October - The Elliot family applied for a vault at the Hillside Cemetery.
1871 - February 23rd - General William Beckwith of Silksworth and Trimdon, Colonel of the 14th Hussars, died and was interred at the Hillside Cemetery.
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1873 - A new entrance to the burial ground was constructed (the original passed through the neighbouring Houghton Hill Farm). A lych gate was built and a garden area installed.
1877 - June 3rd - Priscilla Maria Beckwith, a founder of the Catholic community in Silksworth, died and was interred in the family tomb.
1881 - The 1881 census records William Reid (60 years old), the Parish Sexton, his wife Mary (59) and daughter Mary Jane (24, schoolteacher), as living in the Cemetery Lodge. The sixty year old Sexton and his wife originated in Ireland. Mary was buried at Hillside on June 20th 1886.
1888 - August 28th- Thomas William Usherwood Robinson was the son of a well-known Houghton brewer and was connected with the excavation of the 'Seven Sisters' Neolithic barrow at Copt Hill in 1877. In 1853 he was a Churchwarden at St Michael’s Church and he was against the Cemetery proposals, however he was laid to rest at the Hillside Cemetery on August 28 1888.
1891 - Plans for a new municipal Cemetery on Durham Road were revealed by Houghton le Spring Local Board of Health. Petitions for a section to be consecrated were submitted however these were declined despite the municipal Cemetery at neighbouring Hetton-le-Hole having a consecrated section.
1892 - March 1st - The 'new cemetery' opened on Durham Road at a cost of £4000,and this municipal cemetery is still currently in use. In 1892, Houghton le Spring Local Board of Health applied to the Secretary of State for an Order to close the Hillside Cemetery.
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BURIAL ACT 1853
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row. The inaugural general meeting was held on February 19th 2009 and a Constitution was adopted on April 28th 2009.Friends of Houghton Rectory Park. Houghton Kepier School Rose Garden is the new name for the Rose Garden. Houghton Rectory Park fountain. Is the Gilpin Thorn still alive. Where did the rock fountain in Rectory Park come from? Did it come from the Mediterranean?
1893 - A letter was issued from the Secretary of State informing the Churchwardens of St Michael's that the Regulations laid down by Lord Palmerston in 1854 for the Hillside Cemetery had not been observed with regard to the laying out of the ground and the size of the grave spaces. December 23rd - Sir George Elliot, Bart., M.P. died and was interred in a vault at the Hillside Cemetery.
If you would like to contact the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, please visit www.houghtonhillsidecemetery.co.uk
1895 - November 14th - The funeral of Rector John Grey took place at the Hillside Cemetery. It is said locally that whilst on his deathbed at the Rectory, he could hear the men blasting rock in preparation for his vault. A trade directory from this time records George Brown, Sexton, as living at the Church Cemetery, Sunderland Street. The burial registers suggest that George had a 5 year old son called William, who died in August 1894 and was buried in the Cemetery.
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The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
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1903 - The burial registers record Margaret Place (27 years old), residence: Cemetery Lodge, as being buried on November 9th 1903. Edwin Place was Sexton until the 1920s and resided in the Lodge. At this time, nanny goats were used to keep the grass down.
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This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETRY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETRY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETARY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETARY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
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1950 - Following years of 'discussions' between the Urban District Council and St Michael's Church over the official responsibility of the Hillside Cemetery, the caretaker (a Council employee) vacated the Lodge and the 1942 agreement was terminated.
1961 - February 11 - The only set of ashes to be interred at the burial ground were those of John Morgan Forster on February 11 1961.
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1962 - circa - Owing to the bad state that the Hillside Cemetery was in, three Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstones were removed from the site. Four new ones were erected at Durham Road Cemetery as alternative commemorations.
1970 - Reconstruction of the Houghton Cut opening for the A690 dual carriageway.
1971 - July 13th - The most recent date on a headstone currently held on record is that of Mary Jane Wanless. Another funeral did take place several years afterwards although it was not registered in the set of burial records.
1973 - September 4 - On the 119th anniversary since the burial ground was consecrated, the Diocese of Durham Advisory Committee gave approval to the removal of kerbs, headstones and memorials from the Hillside Cemetery. The plateau area was completely cleared; local man Alan Hilman and a colleague were hired by the Urban District Council, and the headstones were buried in a large crater.
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2002 - October - The Standish vault was vandalised, revealing gruesome acts of desecration inside.
2003 - March 29th - Paul Lanagan started Work on recording the remaining headstone inscriptions at the cemetery.
2003 - April 5th - The Standish vault was vandalised and desecrated by children no older than 10 years old. The tomb was resealed with reinforced metal sheets shortly afterwards.
2003 - May 11th - The 100th name was added to the database after the 86th inscription was recorded.
2003 - July 22nd - Plans were put in motion for the formation of 'The Friends of the Hillside Cemetery' group, with an aim of having a positive affect on the condition and use of the Hillside Cemetery.
2003 - September 4th - The 149th anniversary since the burial ground was consecrated was marked by the official announcement that proposals were afoot to restore and preserve the Hillside Cemetery through the creation of a 'Friends of...' group.
2003 - October - A photograph display and historical talk by Paul Lanagan preceded a public consultation on the future of the burial ground.
2003 - December 3 - The inaugural annual general meeting of the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery took place. A committee was formed and a constitution was adopted.
2004 - Wednesday July 28 2004 - Official notice of the application for the discontinuance of burials at the Hillside Cemetery appeared in the local press.
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2004 - Saturday August 7 2004 - An Open Day was held to commemorate the burial ground's 150th anniversary and over 150 people were in attendance.
2004 - October - The renowned writer, photographer and broadcaster Lucinda Lambton became patron of the Friends group.
2005 - February 23 - A man who vanished from his home was found lying dead in the snow-covered Hillside Cemetery on Wednesday February 23 2005. The man was reported missing from his home in Penshaw a few days before. His body was discovered by a lady walking her dog. At the time of the discovery a member of the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery was in the burial ground with an architect, discussing the lych gate restoration.
If you would like to contact the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, please visit www.houghtonhillsidecemetery.co.uk
2006 - The Friends restored the lych gate archway. Work started on August 8 2006 and was completed on August 22 2007.
2007 - In the last week of December, the vault of William Standish Standish was desecrated again, the last time being in April 2003. Thanks to help from Churchwarden David Turnbull and Associate Priest Rev Derek Newton, the vault was cleansed, William's bones were reinterred and the vault was sealed securely in early 2008. Shown above is the repaired coffin.
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2008 - March - A proposal came about to demolish the brick built WWII air raid shelter in the Cemetery's entrance passage.
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Houghton Heritage photo exhibition. A free exhibition in the Broadway of old Houghton photos from years gone by. 10am – 1:00pm.
Houghton-le-Spring: Journey Through Time: A DVD screening of then and now views and vintage footage of old Houghton. After the screening each scene will be discussed, so feel free to bring your own memories, recollections and photos along. In Houghton 1st Scouts HQ. Admittance £2.00. Places must be pre-booked on 0191 268 4688 or info@houghtonlespring.org.uk
Singing in the Rain: A photo and video exhibition on the history of Houghton Feast, commemorating the 60th anniversary of community hymn singing, which used to attract 1000s to the Broadway at the Feast in years gone by. The exhibition features rare and unseen photos, plus footage from the 1930s and 1950s. Houghton Library & Learning Centre. Free admission.
Homicide in Houghton 4: Join best selling author Sheila Quigley and local historian Paul Lanagan on an exclusive investigation of the fictional murder scenes from Sheila’s books. The free tour departs from the corner of Rectory Field, next to Houghton Police Station, and returns to Houghton Library for refreshments, when Sheila will read an exclusive preview from her next novel, The Road to Hell. Book by telephone on 0191 561 6383 as places strictly limited.
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January 7th 2008 - The Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery are sad to announce
that the vault of William Standish Standish Esq, 18th in a direct descent from King Edward III, has been vandalised and desecrated again.
We need your support and help in tackling this. Please visit Hillside Cemetery as often as you can. If you see anybody who is acting inconsistently with the nature of the site, please telephone the local Police on 0191 454 7555, or dial 999 if acts of criminal damage are being carried out.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT DETACHED BURIAL GROUND.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETERY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETRY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETRY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETARY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETARY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
If you would like to contact the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, please visit www.houghtonhillsidecemetery.co.uk
People from Houghton are called Houghtonians.
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St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Broadway, the Church of England in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, Sunderland
St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Broadway, the Church of England in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, Sunderland
buried in Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road
St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Broadway, the Church of England in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, Sunderland
St Michael & All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Broadway, the Church of England in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, Sunderland
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
Not affiliated to www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk nor www.theoldcem.co.uk
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
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Not affiliated to www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk nor www.theoldcem.co.uk
Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery
St Michael's Church Cemetery, Houghton-le-Spring burial registers, burial records, grave registers, list of interments, grave plan, grave map, interees, vaults, oridinary plot, burial regulations.
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buried in Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road
Parts of Hillside Cemetery are recognised as a Regionally Important Geomorphological/Geological Site.
Not affiliated to www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk nor www.theoldcem.co.uk
our Great great grandparents are buried in the old cemetery, their headstones being found by the Friends of the Old Cemetery. Their names are WILLIAM HUNTER WATSON , formery of NEW HOUSE who married ALICE (NEE STEPHENSON) WATSON in 1857. They had 4 children, Isabella, James, William and Bartholomew and lived at Copt Hill.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT DETACHED BURIAL GROUND.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETERY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETRY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETRY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
This cemetery is also known as HOUGHTON CUT CEMETARY.
This cemetery is also known as THE OLD CEMETARY AT HOUGHTON CUT.
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
St Michael's Church Cemetery, Houghton-le-Spring burial registers, burial records, grave registers, list of interments, grave plan, grave map, interees, vaults, oridinary plot, burial regulations.
buried in Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road
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St Michael's Church Cemetery, Houghton-le-Spring burial registers, burial records, grave registers, list of interments, grave plan, grave map, interees, vaults, oridinary plot, burial regulations.
buried in Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road
buried in Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road
THE GROUP HAVE BEEN ASKED TO HOST THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CEMETERY FRIENDS AGM ON 13TH JUNE 2009. THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST EVENT THAT THE FRIENDS HAVE HOSTED AND WILL HOPEFULLY BRING ALOT MORE AWARENESS TO THE SITE.
Thomas William Usherwood Robinson lived in what is now known as Hardwick Hall, which hosts many events and is a great venue for a reception of any kind.
THE FRIENDS ANNUAL OPEN DAY HAS PROVISIONALLY BEEN SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY 18TH JULY 2010 12NOON TIL 4PM
Welcome to the website for The Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery. The group are a non religious non profit earning group. Any funds which are raised are for the benefit of the cemetery and are used to assist in its restoration or events hosted by the group.
Hillside is a cemetery located on the outskirts of Houghton Le Spring and the recently restored Lych Gate can be seen when driving along Houghton Cut on the A690 towards Sunderland. It is in actual fact not a cemetery but a detached burial ground for St Michaels and All Angels Church however it is more often than not referred to as ’the old cemetery’
It was consecrated in 1854 by Rector John Grey after a lot of controversy as the site was initially a quarry.
A bid to bring Houghton Hillside Cemetery "back to life" has been completed.
Volunteers have been aiming to save the historic site from the ravages of drug-users and drunks.
Masses of litter, believed to be drug and alcohol-related, and the local troublemakers who congregate in one of the vaults are a constant concern to the custodians of the cemetery.
David Turnbull, chairman of the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, said the work on the lychgate and the dwarf wall and railings marked the completion of the Back to Life project.
The progress of the scheme is outlined in the current Houghtonian Newsletter, the new name of the group's journal.
The Friends formed in 2003 because of concerns that the local landmark was falling into disrepair.
The group started doing regular clearing exercises, such as organised litter picks, to keep the cemetery free from rubbish and dog mess.
Mr Turnbull said the determined group was not afraid of undertaking the large projects required to preserve this piece of local history for future generations.
Their most recent undertaking was the restoration of the lychgate. In 2004, grandfather and grandson team George Davison and Paul Lanagan started to remove the ivy that was smothering the gate.
The National Lottery local heritage initiative stepped in to provide funding for phase one of the restoration, which began in the summer of 2006.
During restoration work to the lych-gate entrance, a glass jar containing a full set of Victorian coins and a clergyman's handbook was found.
The Victorian jar was replaced with a 21st-century capsule made from a length of drainpipe filled with letters, photographs and CDs.
Phase two, which started in May this year, was hampered when stonemasons employed by the group were forced to down tools after complaints that a bridlepath was being obstructed.
The first pillar was completed in May and, in June, rubbish found in the soil made it apparent that the old Sunderland Street was buried underneath.
Finally, restoration of the railings and gates was completed. Mr Turnbull said the group was not just concerned with the vital work of preservation but also with educating local children to appreciate the history of their community.
To do this, they have a dedicated education officer responsible for Victorian-based activity days at the Hillside cemetery and the production of a colouring book entitled A Colourful Past.
The lychgate project was funded by Heritage Lottery fund, Aspire, All Churches Trust Ltd., SB coalfields and Sunderland City Council parks department.
There had been an outbreak of Cholera in Houghton Le Spring and as the churchyard surrounding St Michael & All Angels Church was full another site had to be found. Eventually after a lot of debating the Hillside site was consecrated.
Initially the main entrance to the site was through Hillside Farm next door but in 1873 the Lych Gate was built and this became the entrance. The Lych Gate was damaged due to a road traffic accident in the 1960's, however the Lych Gate and surrounding railings were restored in 2006/7.
Although the site was a split level site, Hillside soon started to fill up and it was found necessary to have an extension which was opened in 1894. This also coincided with the opening of the Municipal Cemetery on Durham Road in Houghton Le Spring but as the municipal did not at the time have a consecrated area the authorities were forced to extend Hillside. There were about 7000 burials took place at Hillside.
The last burial took place at Hillside in the 1970’s. Also when the A690 was built through Houghton Cut in the 1960’s the cemetery was forgotten about. Sunderland Street where the cemetery is located became a dead end due to the recently built dual carriageway. Hillside quickly became overgrown and a haven for wildlife. During the building of the A690 the headstones on the plateau area of the site were bulldozed and plateau levelled. The stones are supposedly buried in the top left hand corner of the site. There are over 7000 people buried at Hillside including Rector Grey and Thomas Usherwood Robinson. Thomas Usherwood Robinson being the main objector in the controversy! Ironic to think that as he was one of the main objectors he ended up at Hillside.
Welcome to the Houghton-le-Spring Family History Society
In December 2003 following a public meeting the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery were formed and since the formation of the group the site is starting to return to its former glory.
So far the group have carried out substantial conservation works within the site and also secured funds which saw the restoration of the Lych Gate and Railings at the entrance. They have also held their own fund raising events such as their annual open days, a sponsored graveyard gallop and more recently in 2008 a sponsored 10 mile walk. The walk was undertaken in atrocious weather conditions as it rained from beginning to end but this did not deter the Friends who took part.
Tours of the site are undertaken several times each year and each time are attended by new visitors to the site together with many visitors who support the group year after year.
Pictured above is the pathway leading to the site at the top of Sunderland Street. This was once the main throughfare to Sunderland however once the A690 opened Sunderland Street became a dead end.
Sadly, the site has been plagued with vandalism. At the beginning of 2009 the Standish Vault was once again broken into and more recently the steel plate securing the front of the Elliott Vault has been pulled off. Numerous times the group have visited the site and discovered lots of rubbish strewn around including beer cans and wine bottles and also the remenents of fires. One one occassion a tent had been erected on the bottom level!!!! However, this has not detered the members and they continue with their endeavors to restore the site.
Within this site we do hope you will enjoy reading about the history of Hillside and also the works carried out by the Friends and also the intended work to be carried out.
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
st michael's Church, st michaels Church, houghton, houghton Church, houghton parish Church.
Not affiliated to www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk nor www.theoldcem.co.uk
St Michael's Church Cemetery, Houghton-le-Spring burial registers, burial records, grave registers, list of interments, grave plan, grave map, interees, vaults, oridinary plot, burial regulations.
Parts of Hillside Cemetery are recognised as a Regionally Important Geomorphological/Geological Site.
st michael's Church, st michaels Church, houghton, houghton Church, houghton parish Church.
Parts of Hillside Cemetery are recognised as a Regionally Important Geomorphological/Geological Site.
st michael's Church, st michaels Church, houghton, houghton Church, houghton parish Church.
COnservation work, CEED, Sunderland Youth Offending Services, Youth Offending Team, YOS, YOT, Sunderland
st michael's Church, st michaels Church, houghton, houghton Church, houghton parish Church.
If you would like to contact the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, please visit www.houghtonhillsidecemetery.co.uk
Not affiliated to www.houghton-hillside-cemetery.org.uk nor www.theoldcem.co.uk
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HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
1 ABBOT ST. HOUGHTON
1 BALMERS YARD HOUGHTON
1 BRITANNIA ST. DUBMIRE
1 BRITANNIA ST.. DUBMIRE
1 CEMENT ROW DUBMIRE
1 CHEST.ER ST. GRASSWELL
1 D'ARCY ST.. HOUGHTON
1 ELLISON TERRACE GREENSIDE
1 EWE HILL TERRACE FENCEHOUSES
1 FATHERLY TERRACE HOUGHTON
1 FRONT ST.. DUBMIRE
1 GREY HORSE LANE HOUGHTON
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1 HOPPER SQUARE HOUGHTON
1 HOPPER SQUARE HOUGHTON
1 HOPPER SQUARE HOUGHTON
1 HOPPER SQUARE HOUGHTON
1 HOUGHTON TERRACE HOUGHTON
1 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
1 NEW HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
1 RUBY ST. GRASSWELL
1 RUBY ST. HOUGHTON
1 RYHOPE ST. NEWTOWN
The street is now split in two, separated by the A690 dual-carriageway, and is linked by a pedestrian bridge.
The east section of the street has the postcode: DH4 4DN
The west section of the street has the postcode: DH5 8AA
NUMBER 1 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
(West section, South side)
1920s – Sunderland District Tramways Ltd’s Parcel Receiving & Left Luggage Office was housed on the corner of Church Street and Durham Road. Currently occupied by Hodgson & Coulthard (Probate Office) and Moody & Co Estate Agents.
NUMBER 1A CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Currently used by G Whitfield Ltd, chemists.
NUMBER 2 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
1951 – Gammie & Son Tailors & Outfitters
HOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
Completed in 1979, the health centre is locate behind Church Street and is accessed via a road which crosses through the former location of numbers 4 and 5 Church Street.
NUMBER 6 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Currently occupied by JTH Tang of Church Street Dental Practice.
NUMBER 6A – SANCROFT HOUSE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Used to be owned by Thomas William Usherwood Robinson.
NUMBER 10 – GLENDALE HOUSE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Used to be a Catholic club, is now used by Hodgson, Coulthard & Co solicitors.
NUMBER 11 – LILBURN HOUSE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Was once an exclusive ladies’ school and then a bank. Currently a listed building. Built c1800.
NUMBER ?? – KEPIER COTTAGE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, North side)
Formerly known as Roanoak, the premises were used as the laundry for the Kepier School.
NUMBER 12 – GILPIN HOUSE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, North side)
Recorded in the Kepier School statutes as the White House, was for married headmasters of the Kepier. Deeds for this property state that the street was Commons Lane. Building was built c1830. Listed building.
NUMBER 13 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Currently occupied by GW Maw, dentist. Following the demolition of parts of Church St for the A690, this property marks the end of the south side of the west section of the street, before the pedestrian bridge.
NUMBER 18 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(Demolished section, North side)
Located to the left of Swiss Cottage, this building housed GH Stevens Solicitors. Paperwork for the firm from 1942 list the address as 18 Church Street.
SWISS COTTAGE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(Demolished section, North side)
Located to the left of Church Houses, the premises were occupied by Turnbull (greengrocer) and ###.
CHURCH HOUSE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(Demolished section, North side)
Housed the Council Rates department. In 1912 was the residence of Mr Sam Todd, dentist.
DAWSON’S CHEMIST CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(Demolished section, North side)
Burned down on Sunday November 24th 1912. Latterly occupied by W.Wilkinson’s general dealers shop, with a doorway to the left leading into the YMCA. The YMCA, which was formed in 1952 by the Women’s Auxiliary as a youth club, vacated Church Street prior to the demolition and moved into Houghton Hall in 1972.
NUMBER 17 - MECHANICS INSTITUTE CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(West section, South side)
Opened in 1852, demolished when the A690 was put through. A print from 1853 shows cows wandering around on the land behind the building.
NUMBER 22 – CHURCH STREET NEWS CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(East section, North side)
A ‘new build’ housing a newsagents.
NUMBER 23 CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(East section, South side)
The third of the three townhouses, currently occupied by Peter Thompson of Synergy Compliance, an environmental consultants.
MYRE HALL CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(East section, North side)
In 1912 was the residence of Mr D Balfour CE. Myre Hall was the divisional education office in the 1950s. Demolished in the 1960s.
MYRE HALL SHELTERED HOUSING CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(East section, North side)
Built in 1978 on the site of the original Myre Hall, the modern building contains 36 sheltered housing flats.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHURCH STREET, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DH4
(East section, North side)
Located next to Myre Hall. Demolished.
List Entry Number: 456/7/24
Date Listed: 15.07.85
Address: Church Street, 11 , Houghton-le-Spring
Building Type: House
Building Name: Lilburn House
Conservation Area: No. 8
Occupied: Yes 3
Ownership: Private 1
Grade: II
Description: House circa 1800.
Exterior: Coursed squared limestone, with sandstone dressings; roof of Welsh slate. 2 storeys, 5 sash windows with projecting stone cills and stone lintels. 4-panelled door, in second bay from left, in deep panelled reveals and plain doorcase of pilasters and entablature. Carriage entrance at right: boarded doors in rusticated elliptical-headed opening with voussoirs. Iron footscraper on stone step at door. Flat stone coping on left end of roof resting on curved stone kneelers. Rendered transverse ridge chimney at left, brick transverse ridge chimney between fourth and fifth bays.
List Entry Number: 456/2/23
Date Listed: 15.07.85
Address: Church Street, 12 , Houghton-le- Spring
Building Type: House
Building Name: Gilpin House
Conservation Area: No. 8
Occupied: Yes 3
Ownership: Private 1
Grade: II
Description: House circa 1830.
Exterior: Incised render with plinth; Welsh slate roof has flat stone gable coping. 2 storeys, 3 sash windows in plain reveals with projecting painted stone cills. 2 stone steps and deep reveal to 6-panelled door under oblong fanlight; tall flat Tuscan doorcase, with projecting cornice, rests on the lower step. 2 end brick chimneys with bands and one rear brick chimney to roof hipped at left. Painted inscription GILPIN HOUSE at extreme right of first floor.
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
1 SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
1 SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
1 SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
1 SHORT ST. NEWTOWN
1 SMITH ST. DUBMIRE
1 SOUTH ST.. DUBMIRE
1 SOUTH ST.. NEWBOTTLE
1 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
1 ST.OCKFIELD TERRACE HOUGHTON
1 THE GREEN HOUGHTON
1 THE TERRACE HOUGHTON LE SPRING
1 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
1 VIOLET ST. HOUGHTON
1 VIOLET ST. HOUGHTON
1 WATSONS YARD HOUGHTON
10 BAKER ST. HOUGHTON
10 BALFOUR ST. HOUGHTON
10 BALFOUR ST. HOUGHTON
Saturday, 20th/Sunday, 21st July 1940 N322 - Co Durham.. Houghton Cut District.. Four High Explosive bombs in cornfield at Greenshields. No injuries.
Friday, 28th/Saturday, 29th August 1942 N1091 - Co Durham.. A camouflet (cavern caused by an explosion) was found in a potato patch at Sedgeletch Sewerage Beds, Houghton le Spring
Thursday, 11th/Friday, 12th March 1943 N1286 - 22.00.. Co Durham.. An Anti-Aircraft shell exploded in Waller Terrace, Houghton le Spring, seriously injuring one man and one woman.
Thursday, 11th/Friday, 12th March 1943 N1286 - 22.05.. Co Durham.. Approximately 500 Incendiary Bombs fell at Silksworth. One female adult was slightly injured. An Incendiary Bomb fell through the roof of the Police Station into an upstairs passage, this was extinguished with a stirrup pump. About the same time one Firepot Incendiary Bomb exploded and blocked the B.1404 near Warden Law crossroads on the Houghton le Spring to Seaham road. An NFS fireman was injured when he drove into the damage on the highway.
10 COLLIERY ROW
10 CROSS ST. HOUGHTON
10 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
10 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
10 FATHERLY TERRACE COLLIERY ROW
10 LONG ROW CHILTON MOOR
10 LUMLEY ST. GRASSWELL
10 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
10 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
10 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
10 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
10 OUTRAM ST. HOUGHTON
10 PEARTREE PLACE HOUGHTON
10 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
10 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
Thomas Arnold Moore Morley was born on July 11th 1886. Before he enlisted he was Sanitary Inspector for Houghton-le-Spring Rural District Council
10 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
10 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
10 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
10 THE GREEN HOUGHTON
10 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
10 WARDEN HOUSE COTTAGES
101 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
101 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
102 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
Bernard Gilpin (1517 – 4 March 1583), the Apostle of the North, was an English theologian.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Education
1.2 Foreign theological pursuits
2 External links
3 References
Biography
Education
Gilpin descended from a Westmorland family, and was born in Kentmere.
He was educated at Queens College, Oxford University, graduating B.A. in 1540, M.A., in 1542 and B.D. in 1549. He was elected fellow of Queens and ordained in 1542; subsequently he was elected Student of Christ Church.
At Oxford he first adhered to the conservative side, and defended the doctrines of the church against John Hooper; but his confidence was somewhat shaken by another public disputation which he had with Pietro Martire Vermigli. In 1552 he preached a sermon on sacrilege before King Edward VI, which was duly published and displays the high ideal he had formed of the clerical office. About the same time he was presented to the vicarage of Norton, in the diocese of Durham, and obtained a licence, through William Cecil, as a general preacher throughout the kingdom as long as the king lived.
Foreign theological pursuits
On Mary's accession he went abroad to pursue his theological investigations at Leuven, Antwerp and Paris; and from a letter of his own, dated Leuven, 1554, we get a glimpse of the quiet student rejoicing in an excellent library belonging to a monastery of Minorites. Returning to England towards the close of Queen Mary's reign, he was invested by his mother's uncle, Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, with the archdeaconry of Durham, to which the rectory of Easington was annexed.
The freedom of his attacks on the vices, and especially the clerical vices, of his times excited hostility against him, and he was formally brought before the bishop on a charge consisting of thirteen articles. Tunstall, however, not only dismissed the case, but presented the offender with the rich living of Houghton-le-Spring; and when the accusation was again brought forward, he again protected him. Enraged at this defeat, Gilpin's enemies laid their complaint before Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, who secured a royal warrant for his apprehension. Upon this Gilpin prepared for martyrdom; and, having ordered his house-steward to provide him with a long garment, that he might go the more comely to the stake, he set out for London. Fortunately, however, for him, he broke his leg on the journey, and his arrival was thus delayed till the news of Queen Mary's death freed him from further danger. He at once returned to Houghton, and there he continued to labor till his death on 4 March 1583. When the Roman Catholic bishops were deprived he was offered the see of Carlisle; but he declined this honor and also the provostship of Queen's, which was offered him in 1560. At Houghton his course of life was a ceaseless round of benevolent activity.
In June 1560 he entertained Cecil and Dr Nicholas Wotton on their way to Edinburgh. His hospitable manner of living was the admiration of all. His living was a comparatively rich one, his house was better than many bishops palaces, and his position was that of a clerical magnate. In his household he spent every fortnight forty bushels of corn, twenty bushels of malt and an ox, besides a proportional quantity of other kinds of provisions. Strangers and travellers found a ready reception; and even their horses were treated with so much care that it was humorously said that, if one were turned loose in any part of the country, it would immediately make its way to the rector of Houghton. Every Sunday from Michaelmas till Easter was a public day with Gilpin. For the reception of his parishioners he had three tables well covered, one for gentlemen, the second for husbandmen, the third for day-laborers; and this piece of hospitality he never omitted, even when losses or scarcity made its continuance difficult. He built and endowed a grammar-school at a cost of upwards of £500, educated and maintained a large number of poor children at his own charge, and provided the more promising pupils with means of studying at the universities. So many young people flocked to his school that there was not accommodation for them in Houghton, and he had to fit up part of his house as a boarding establishment. Grieved at the ignorance and superstition which the remissness of the clergy permitted to flourish in the neighboring parishes, he used every year to visit the most neglected parts of Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland; and that his own flock might not suffer, he was at the expense of a constant assistant. Among his parishioners he was looked up to as a judge, and did great service in preventing lawsuits amongst them. If an industrious man suffered a loss, he delighted to make it good; if the harvest was bad, he was liberal in the remission of tithes. The boldness which he could display at need is well illustrated by his action in regard to duelling. Finding one day a challenge-glove stuck up on the door of a church where he was to preach, he took it down with his own hand, and proceeded to the pulpit to inveigh against the unchristian custom. His theological position was not in accord with any of the religious parties of his age, and Gladstone thought that the catholicity of the Anglican Church was better exemplified in his career than in those of more prominent ecclesiastics (pref. to A. W. Hutton's edition of S. R. Maitland's Essays on the Reformation). He was not satisfied with the Elizabethan settlement, had great respect for the Church fathers, and was with difficulty induced to subscribe. The views of Archbishop Sandys on the Eucharist horrified him; but on the other hand he maintained friendly relations with Bishop Pilkington and Thomas Lever, and the Puritans had some hope of his support.
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11 D'ARCY ST. HOUGHTON
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
11 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
11 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
11 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
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11 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
11 LAMBTON ST. HOUGHTON
Houghton Colliery Welfare Cricket Club.
Members of the Roseberry North East Durham Cricket League.
Houghton CWCC was founded in 1960. The location of the ground was behind the now Houghton Sports complex.
In the 1920's the Colliery had a welfare field for bowls and football along with a sports hall and changing rooms.
C.I.S.W.O (coal industry social welfare organisation) which took control and funded all such welfare organisations decided to revamp Houghton Welfare in 1959 with the job completed in a year.
A cricket field once lay where the tennis courts and bowling green now stand. The officials of the pit were ordered to set up a cricket team to use the new facility, 2 teams were set up and entered into the now defunct mid Durham senior league.
The club which was running its affairs in the Lambton Arms Public House in Houghton's main street, continued to prosper and joined the North East Durham League again entering a first and second XI.
In the seasons that followed the club had its fair shares of ups and downs, good times and not so good times. Nothing could have prepared us for what happened next. A decision was made by Sunderland council to inherit the welfare hall and grounds.
Houghton CWCC were requested in 1974 to leave the existing ground which had been sold to the local authority for £12,000. A 3 phase sports complex was to be built and it was rumoured the Government had allocated £750,000 for the work to be carried out. Due to government reorganisation this diminished to £350,000
Houghton CWCC were relocated to Harraton Cricket field which was leased bu Sunderland Borough Council. The cricket club was expected to stay at Harraton for 2 years until the building work was complete. In total Houghton CWCC spent 11 season at Harraton awaiting a return to the home base in Houghton.
In 1989 after 2 years back at our new ground playing in the North East Durham league a decision was made to join the Durham Coast League. Houghton CWCC had great success winning numerous different trophies and awards.
In 2007 Houghton CWCC once again changed league and rejoined the North East Durham League, with the first team winning both the second Division and Cup and the second team finishing runners up along with winning the Amos Shield.
The clubs future looks promising and hopefully has plenty of good times to come.
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11 NESHAM PLACE HOUGHTON
11 SWALWELL TERRACE HOUGHTON
11 THE FOLDS COLLIERY ROW
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112 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
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12 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
12 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
12 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
12 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
12 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
12 WARDEN HOUSE YARD HOUGHTON
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13 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
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13 JOHN ST. HOUGHTON
13 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
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13 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
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13 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
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13 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
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14 BALMER TERRACE HOUGHTON
14 CEMENT ROW DUBMIRE
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14 CROSS ROW HOUGHTON
14 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
14 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
14 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
14 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
14 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
14 QUARRY RD HOUGHTON
14 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
14 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
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What is a tithe barn? Have you ever been inside it?
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15 IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
15 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
15 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
15 LAMBTON ST. HOUGHTON
15 LOW HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
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1832 – October - St Michael's Curate, Rev Mr Shepherd, refused to perform the usual Service during the burial of a deceased child in Houghton churchyard, owing to the fact that the child had not been baptized by a church clergyman, but by a Wesleyan Minister. A “very conciliatory apologetic letter” was sent to the family afterwards from Houghton Rector, Rev Thurlow, following legal measures taken by the Sunderland [Methodist] Leader's Meeting.
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16 BERNARD ST. HOUGHTON
16 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
16 GEORGE ST. DUBMIRE
16 LAMBTON ST. NEWTOWN
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16 NESHAM HALL HOUGHTON
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16 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
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16 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
Welcome to the Houghton-le-Spring Family History Society
Upstanding. Regular, fixed, constant (of wages).
Used with (yoa:zd with) or (yuw:zd with). Used to, accuctomed to. Compare 'taken with.'
Vast. 'A vast (vaast) of'= number of; a 'vast 0' years,' the only expression for a long time. "There has a vast of People died here latelv."—From a letter, March 27, 1895.
Viewer. The manager of a coal-mine. So, 'under-viewer' (under-manager).
Vine. A lead-pencil (always). ' Pencil' always means slate-pencil. "A piece of vine."—Boy's essay.
Wad (waad). Would.
Wag. 'Play the wag,' to play truant.
Waggon-way (waag:n wee:u). Technical. A colliery line of taiL
Warden (waadn). Church warden. This abbreviation universal, and used by all classes.
Warsh (waa:sh). Faint, from loss of food. (adj.) [?]
Wase (wae:z). A folded cloth, or bundle of straw, placed upon the head, on which to rest the ' skeel,' q. v. I have altered the spelling of this word from ' weeze ' to ' wase,' in accordance with Halliwell.
Waysgoose. Day trip of the workpeople belonging to a firm or company, especially a newspaper staff. Same as 'bean-feast.' Various dialects.
Week-end. In the North always signifies Saturday till Monday, when working-folk sometimes go away for a visit. The common expression of educated and uneducated alike, and by no means confined to the North. 'Week-end trips' are now advertised on most of the [railway] lines.
Weeny. Tiny. Only heard once, from a native of S. Shields.
Wey ay (wai:aa:y) (why, ay !). lnterj. To be sure ! (v. common.)
Whaing (hwaeng). Boot-lace.
What cheer (chai:u, chae:u). Commonest greeting of man to man, answered back in the same words. A nautical phrase imported into tlse dialect (?), equivalent to 'h00 is tha?' For the pron. of cheer, compare 'here,' 'hear,' which are both pronounced /hai:u/ or /hae:u/. (Kaan dhoo: hae:u mu - Can you hear me?)
What for. For the commoner 'what.. ..for?' Standing at the beginning of a sentence, like the literary 'why' (waut fur hez dhoo baen u:wee:u sae lang 'What for,' i. e. ' why,' 'hast thou been away so long?') N. B. The glossic /fur/ exactly represents its equivalent in literary Eng., in speaking of the 'fur ' of any animal (=Fr. feu). 'What' is used for 'that' or 'which,' as in time following :—'' Give them your things what you cant eat."—Boy's essay.
Whaten. 'What'n' or 'what'na '= what kind of? (always). Compare 'whichen a one ' (which), ' suchen a ' (such a).
Whiles. Once [always]; sometimes.
Whin. Gorse.
Whirligig (hau:li:gig). A boy's iron hoop. The wooden hoop only is called a 'hoop.'
Whisht (hwisht). hush ! 'Hush ' is quite unknown.
Wick. Quick. (subst.) "He's cut his finger into the wick."
Wife. Woman. "An aad wife." So, 'fish-wife,' 'hen-wife.' Compare 1 Tim. iv. 7.
Wig. A tea-cake. Same as 'Doo.'
Wiggery waggery. Loose motion in walking.
Will. Used for 'shall,' e. g. "Will I like it, think you?" So, 'would' for 'should.' "Aa wad like 't, aa wad noo" (I should like it, I should indeed). This is not confined to dialect speakers, as the following extracts from letters will testify :—" I will be glad to hear from you soon;" "I will be pleased to do my best to meet your wishes;" "We will be very glad if you will give us the pleasure of your company," &e. ; "We will be very glad to see you." For this use, Compare the following from two boys' essays :— "You might run to the man and say, take some bricks off (an overloaded cart), or else the horse shall fall down;" "letting us see the Magic Lantern, and telling us where we will see the place."
Willy blindy (bhin:di). A game played by boys. One boy is blindfolded, and the rest tie knots in their handkerchiefs, and strike him on the head or shoulders, until he catches hold of one of them. This one then becomes the 'willy.'
Wingeing. Whinimig. "He's winjin' on now," "She's so winjy."
Winter. The bracket hooked on to the bars of a grate, upon which anything may be heated in front of the fire.
Wishful. Desirous.
Wite. Weight; blame. "He got time wyte on't." Compare 'neighbour,' pronounced 'nighbour.'
Wobbit. An introductory word. "Wobbit thou'll not."
Wor (wau). Our. 'Oo-ur',' spoken fast, produces 'wor' or 'wur'.' Compare probable origin of the literary pronunciation of One.
Work (waa:k) To ache. "Mi airm warks." This is a common Wykehamist 'notion,' except that it is pronounced 'wurk.'
Wowl (wuwl). To howl, cry.
Yam. The invariable pronunciation of 'home.' An example of purely short a; compare 'gan.' "Aa's gannin yam, aa is.'
Yard (yaad). Common abbreviation for 'churchyard.' Compare Warden.
Yetling. A small crock. See under Kail-pot.
Yewfir (yuof'u). A young fir-tree about the girth of a mans's arm.
Yoke. To 'put in' a horse (to a vehicle). This is distinct from 'harnessing' or putting the harness on his back. etc.
Yon (adj.), Yonder (adv.). That, there; generally, of objects pointed out. Sometimes, of distant things. I was much amused once, when going over the castle at Durham to hear a man who had lately seen the sights of London comparing the antiquities of the castle with what h had seen ' yonder,' or 'in yon place.' - all his remarks began 'When I was yonder'. etc.
Yowley or ' yellow yowley' (yuw-li) . The yellow-hammer.
Yule. Christmas. Hence 'Yule-dough' (see Dough). 'Yule-clog ' (see Clog). ' Yuletide ' is becoming commoner than it was a short time ago, but most people say Christmas.
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17 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
17 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
17 CHEST.ER RD GRASSWELL
17 EAST. MOORE RD SUNDERLAND
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17 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
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17 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUGHTON
17 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
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17 WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
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18 BALFOUR ST. HOUGHTON
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18 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
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18 HANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
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18 IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
18 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
18 LOW HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
18 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
18 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
18 SOUTH CRES FENCEHOUSES
18 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
18 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
18 WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
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18A HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
19 BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
19 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
19 ELIZABETH ST. HOUGHTON
19 EWE HILL FENCEHOUSES
19 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
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19 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
19 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
19 LOW HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
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19 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
19 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
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19 WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
1GREY HOUSE LANE HOUGHTON
1SOLATION HOSPITAL
2 BLACKBOY COTTAGES DUBMIRE
2 BRICKYARD DUBMIRE
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2 CHEST.ER ST. GRASSWELL
2 COLLIERY ROW
2 CROSS ST. HOUGHTON
2 D'ARCY ST. HOUGHTON
2 DUBMIRE TERRACE NEWBOTTLE
2 ELM WOOD ST. SUNDERLAND
2 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
2 GREY HORSE LANE HOUGHTON
2 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
2 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
2 HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
2 JOHN ST. HOUGHTON
2 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
2 JOHNSONS CRES HOUGHTON
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row.
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2 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUGHTON
2 NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
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2 PARKINSON TERRACE HOUGHTON
2 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
2 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
2 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
Philadelphia, Houghton-le-Spring, named after Philadelphia, USA, during the American War of Independence 1776 - 1783
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2 TERRACEPOTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
2 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
2 TROUT ST. DUBMIRE
2 WALLACE ST. HOUGHTON
2 WATSONS YARD HOUGHTON
2 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
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2 WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
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20 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
20 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
20 LANBTON ST. HOUGHTON
20 MORELAND ST. SUNDERLAND
20 OUTRAM ST. HOUGHTON
20 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
20 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
20 RAILWAY COTTAGES DUBMIRE
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20 WILLIAM ST. DUBMIRE
20 WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
21 CELLAR TERRACE NEWBOTTLE
21 FRONT ST. DUBMIRE
21 GEOGE ST. HOUGHTON
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22 BRITANNIA TERRACE DUBMIRE
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22 GEORGE ST. CHILTON MOOR
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22 LOW HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
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22 LOW HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
22 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
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22 SOUTH CRES FENCEHOUSES
22 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
23 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
23 FRONT ST. DUBMIRE
23 GEOGE ST. HOUGHTON
23 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
23 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
23 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
23 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
23 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
23 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
24 CHURCH ST. HOUGHTON
24 CRESCENT ST. DUBMIRE
24 D'ARCY ST. HOUGHTON
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24 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
24 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
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24 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
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25 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
25 HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
25 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUGHTON
25 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
25 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
25 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
26 CEMENT ST. HOUGHTON
26 COLLIERY ROW
26 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
26 JOHN ST. KIBBLESWORTH
26 LONG ROW COLLIERY ROW
26 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
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27 BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
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27 PROSPEDT ROW HOUGHTON
28 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
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3 ANDERSON SQUARE HOUGHTON
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3 CHURCH ST. HOUGHTON
3 COUNCIL ST. HOUGHTON
3 D'ARCY ST. HOUGHTON
3 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
3 ELM PLACE HOUGHTON
3 GARDEN PLACE HOUGHTON
3 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
3 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
3 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
3 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
3 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
3 MARY ST. CHILTON MOOR
3 MARY ST. DUBMIRE
3 MILLERS HILL HOUGHTON
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3 NESHAM HALL HOUGHTON
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3 OVERMANS ROW CHILTON MOOR
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3 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
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3 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
3 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
3 RUBY ST. GRASSWELL
3 RUBY ST. GRASSWELL
3 SEAHAM RD NEWTOWN
3 SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
3 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
3 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
3 ST.OCKSFIELD TERRACE HOUGHTON
What is a tithe barn? Have you ever been inside it?
3 ST.OCKSFIELD TERRACE HOUGHTON
3 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
3 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
Newbottle Street Junior School County of Durham Education Committee This school was opened on 15 Dec 1906 by T.Richardson Esq., C.C
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sergeant frank stamp and houghton-le-spring 1941 Hurrican fighter plan crashed in Houghton-le-Spring
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HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
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34 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
34 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
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34 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
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35 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
35 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
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4 BACK ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
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4 BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
4 BRITANNIA ST. DUBMIRE
4 CHEST.ER ST. GRASSWELL
4 COLLIERY ROW
4 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
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4 HALLIWELL ST. HOUGHTON
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4 HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
4 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
4 JAMES ST. DUBMIRE
4 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
4 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
4 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
4 LABURNUM HOUSE HOUGHTON
4 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
4 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUGHTON
4 NESHAM PLACE HOUGHTON
4 NEW UNION ST. HOUGHTON
4 OUTRAM ST. HOUGHTON
4 PARKINSON TERRACE HOUGHTON
4 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
Where did Hangman's Lane, Warden Law, Houghton-le-Spring, get its name from?
Is there a hanging tree at the crossroads of Durham Road and Church Street in Houghton-le-Spring?
4 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
4 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
4 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
4 ST.ANLEY ST. HOUGHTON
4 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
4 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
4 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
4 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
40 FRANKLAND ST. SUNDERLAND
40 FRANKLAND ST. SUNDERLAND
40 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
40 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
41 NORTH VIEW CHILTON MOOR
41 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
42 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
42 ST.ATION AVE FENCEHOUSES
Heritage
boost for
Coalfield
A TASK group has been
launched to promote
and protect the history of
Sunderland’s Coalfield
area.
Made up of local
groups, volunteers,
council officers and
councillors, the task
group is putting together
an action plan to raise
the profile of historic and
interesting sites across
the wards of Copt Hill,
Houghton, Hetton and
Shiney Row.
Thanks to £10,000
Strategic Initiatives
Budget (SIB) funding
from the council’s
Coalfield Area
Committee, the task
group has commissioned
the charity North of
England Civic Trust to
produce a catalogue of
historic buildings,
collectable items, old
photographs, diaries and
archives.
While some of these
are held locally by private
individuals, others are
held in public archives
and museums, mainly
across the North East.
Councillor Denny
Wilson, Portfolio Holder
for Safer City and Culture,
said: “The Coalfield area
has a rich history which
we need to protect and
promote. The first step is
to establish what is there
and where it is housed,
before deciding how to
make the most of our
historic treasures.”
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42 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
42 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
43 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
43 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
43 IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
43 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
43 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
43 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
43 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
44 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
45 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
45 IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
46 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
Hillside is a cemetery located on the outskirts of Houghton Le Spring and the recently restored Lych Gate can be seen when driving along Houghton Cut
46 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
46 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
46 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
47 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
48 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
48A ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
4HALLIWELL TERRACE HOUGHTON
5 BINKS YARD HOUGHTON
5 BRICK YARD DUBMIRE
5 D'ARCY ST. HOUGHTON
5 ELIZABETH ST. HOUGHTON
5 FRONT ST. CHILTON MOOR
5 GARDEN PLACE HOUGHTON
5 GENERAL ST. HOUGHTON
5 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
5 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
5 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
5 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
5 HOUGHTON TERRACE HOUGHTON
5 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
5 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
5 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
5 JOHN ST. NEWTOWN
5 LAMBTON ST. HOUGHTON
5 LAMBTON ST. HOUGHTON
5 LAMBTON ST. NEWTOWN
5 LAMBTON ST. NEWTOWN
5 LUMLEY ST. GRASSWELL
5 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
5 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
5 PIT ROW HOUGHTON
5 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
5 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
5 RUBY ST. HOUGHTON
5 SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
5 SOUTH ST. DUBMIRE
5 SOUTH ST. DUBMIRE
5 SWALWELL TERRACE HOUGHTON
5 TERRACE POTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
5 TERRACEPOTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
5 THORNTON ST. DUBMIRE
5 WILLIAM ST. DUBMIRE
5 WYNYARD ST. COLLIERY ROW
5 WYNYARDS ROW COLLIERY ROW
5 WYNYARDS ST. DUBMIRE
50 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
50 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
52 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
52 ST.ATION AVE DUBMIRE
52 ST.ATION AVE HOUGHTON
53 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
53 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
54 BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
54 SOUTH VIEW HOUGHTON
55 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
56 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
56 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
58 EDWIN ST. HOUGHTON
58 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
Bernard Gilpin's coat of arms or family crest features a wild boar, crescent moon, and oak tree. The Gilpin Family Crest. Heraldry became popular in the 1100s.
59 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
59 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
5A IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
6 CHEST.ER ST. HOUGHTON
6 CORRIN ROW HOUGHTON
6 CORVEN ROW CHILTON MOOR
6 COTTAGES NESHAM YARD
6 DUBMIRE COTTAGES DUBMIRE
6 EDWARD ST. HOUGHTON
6 FREDERICK PLACE HOUGHTON
6 GARDEN PLACE HOUGHTON
6 GEORGE ST. DUBMIRE
6 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
6 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
6 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
6 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
6 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
How do I contact Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society? You can contact Houghton Heritage Society using the following address or email:
Duncans Foods Davisons Bakery/cakes
Dry Cleaners/Laundry. Fresh Fish Shop
------side of cinema---- Jacconelli Icecream Parlour
Coliseum Cinema --------------------------------
----waste ground bill/boards Newcastle Arms Pub
door to upstairs Billiard Hall
Water Board/Council Office Tylers Shoe Shop
Carricks Bakery
Co-Op grocery ----ARCADE to Graysons Butchers
Miss Robinsons ladies underwear
London Lending Library
Brittania Pub White Lion Pub
6 LUMLEY ST. HOUGHTON
6 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
6 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
6 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
6 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
6 NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
6 NESHAM PLACE HOUGHTON
6 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
6 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
6 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
6 PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
Houghton Branch of the Newbottle & District Co-Operative Society.
6 REDBURN ROW CHILTON MOOR
6 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
6 RYHOPE ST. NEWTOWN
6 SOUTH VIEW CHILTON MOOR
6 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
6 ST.ATION RD FENCEHOUSES
6 ST.ATION TERRACE FENCEHOUSES
6 SWALWELL TERRACE HOUGHTON
6 THE FOLDS COLLIERY ROW
60 SOUTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
64 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
64 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
64 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
67 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
68 ST.ATION AVE FENCEHOUSES
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
7 BRICK YARD DUBMIRE
7 BRICK YARD DUBMIRE
7 CEMENT ROW DUBMIRE
7 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
7 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
7 GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
7 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
7 HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
7 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
7 JOHNSON CRES HOUGHTON
PITS, pubs and ponies are all featured in a new book on a former County Durham mining community.
But Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages, by John Brereton, contains much more too – from scenic views to showman’s caravans and charabancs.
“I’m very interested in the historic side of Houghton and accumulated these pictures over the years,” said John.
“I don’t really have a favourite one, but I’ve found pictures with people in them seem to spark the most interest.”
Street scenes, shops and pubs feature prominently in the new book, with several shots of St Michael and All Angels Church also shown.
Pictures of Houghton Cut when it was just a country lane, as well as trams, buses and charabanc outings, are included too.
“As the owner of the Gilpin Press in Houghton, I have published local history books for many other people over the years,” said John.
“Many, many years ago we did publish our own small book on Houghton, but this is the first we have done with so many old photographs.”
John, who started the Gilpin Press with a partner in 1960, hails from a long line of printers and publishers.
“My father and grandfather moved to Hetton in 1926 and started their own printing works behind Sunderland Road,” he said.
“Because of the depression, however, there wasn’t much work to be had, so they started the Hetton and Houghton Weekly Courier.
“I believe it was one of the first free papers. Printing stopped in 1941, though, due to wartime paper rationing, and never re-started.
“We always say our family has ink for blood – that we have printers’ ink in our veins. Printing and publishing has always been part of our lives.”
John’s new book is already proving popular, with copies of the £4.99 paperback winging their way to ex-pat Houghtonians around the world.
He is now hard at work compiling a book on the history of businesses within the Houghton area and said:
“If anyone has old photographs of Houghton they would be willing to lend me for future books, I would be very happy to hear from them.”
l Historic Houghton and Surrounding Villages
7 JOHNSON CRESCENT HOUGHTON
7 KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
7 LONG ROW COLLIERY ROW
7 LUMLEY ST. HOUGHTON
7 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
7 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
7 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
7 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
7 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
7 ROSE ST. HOUGHTON
7 RUBY ST. HOUGHTON
7 RYHOPE ST. NEWTOWN
7 SEAHAM RD HOUGHTON
7 ST.ATION TERRACE FENCEHOUSES
7 ST.ATION TERRACE HOUGHTON
7 TERRACEPOTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
7 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
7 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
7 THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
7 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
7 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
7 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
70 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
71 COLLIERY ROW
71 LONG ROW COLLIERY ROW
71 LONG ROW COLLIERY ROW
71 LONG ROW COLLIERY ROW
71 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
73 NORTH VIEW CHILTON MOOR
73 NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
73 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
73 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
75 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
75 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
75 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
75 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
75 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
77 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
78 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
78 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
79 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
8 AGED MINERS HOMES SHINEYROW
8 CEMENT DRIVE DUBMIRE
8 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
8 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
8 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
8 CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
8 ELIZABETH ST. HOUGHTON
8 FATHERLEY TERRACE COLLIERY ROW
8 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
8 HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
8 LAMBTON ST. NEWTOWN
8 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
8 MOUNT PLEASANT HOUGHTON
8 NEWBOTTLE ROW HOUGHTON
8 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
8 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
8 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
8 ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
8 ROSE ST. HOUGHTON
8 RUBY ST. HOUGHTON
8 RYHOPE ST. NEWTOWN
8 RYHOPE ST. NEWTOWN
8 WILLIAM ST. DUBMIRE
8 WILLIAM ST. DUBMIRE
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
Tour of Houghton Hillside Cemetery by historian Paul Lanagan
Cemetery Tours
Walk around Houghton Hillside Cemetery and learn about the history and heritage of the Old Cem
Free tours as part of the Heritage Open Days weekend
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
8 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
81 NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
82 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
84 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
84 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
85 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
85 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
9 BERNARD ST. HOUGHTON
9 BERNARD ST. HOUGHTON
9 BERNARD ST. HOUGHTON
9 BRICKYARD HOUGHTON
9 BULMER ST. DUBMIRE
9 EWE HILL TERRACE HOUGHTON
9 FRONT ST. DUBMIRE
9 HENRY ST. HOUGHTON
9 HOPPER SQ HOUGHTON
9 HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
9 JAMES ST. DUBMIRE
9 MAITLANDST. HOUGHTON
9 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
9 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
9 MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
9 MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
9 OSWALD TERRACE SHINEY ROW
9 PEARTREE PLACE HOUGHTON
Houghton dates from 1183, its church was built in Norman times and it is the resting place of Bernard Gilpin, known as the Apostle of the North, who was a former rector at the town church in the 16th century.
It is home to more than 36,000 people and hosts one of the country's oldest annual community events – Houghton Feast, which attracts thousands of visitors to the town every October.
9 QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
9 ST.ATION TERRACE FENCEHOUSES
9 SUNNISDE ST. NEWBOTTLE
9 SUNNISIDE HOUGHTON
9 SUNNISIDE ST. HOUGHTON
9 SWALWELL ST. HOUGHTON
9 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
9 UNION ST. HOUGHTON
92 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
98 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
98 SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSES
ALMS HOUSES
ALMS HOUSESS
ALMS HOUSESS
ALMS HOUSESS
ALMS HOUSESS
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
BACK YARD COTTAGES DUBMIRE
BANK BUILDINGS NEW HERRINGTON
BANK HEAD
BANK HEAD
In Station Avenue and the Dubmire and Front Street area possibly also along North View the poles were later used to carry the domestic electricity supply that was supplied from Lambton Colliery (a very poor 210V or less)and this was provided until sometime about 1953-4 when the supply was changed over to a new supply from the North Eastern Electricity Board. (240V). I do recall that the bottom 3 ft or so of the poles had to be coated with a thick bitumastic material on account of dog's urinating. Before the bitumen was applied if there was an electricity fault at the top of the pole then the poor dog got a nasty electric shock, apart from this there was severe corrosion of the base of the pole
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
BANK HEAD
BANK HEAD
BANK HEAD COLLIERY ROW
BANKHEAD CHILTON MOOR
BANKHEAD FENCEHOUSES
BANKHEAD HOUGHTON
BANKHEAD HOUGHTON
BANKHEAD HOUGHTON
BATYS HOUSES
BEAMISH
BELMONT
BENSHAM GATESHEAD
BIG HOUSE YARD HOUGHTON
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
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BISHOPWEARMOUTH
Where did Hangman's Lane, Warden Law, Houghton-le-Spring, get its name from?
Is there a hanging tree at the crossroads of Durham Road and Church Street in Houghton-le-Spring?
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BLACK BOY
BLACK BOY BRIDGE HOUGHTON
BLACK BOY CHILTON MOOR
BLACK BOY CHILTON MOOR
BLACK BOY FENCEHOUSES
BLACK BOY NEWBOTTLE
BLACKBOY BRIDGE EAST. RAINTON
BLACKIE BOY COTTAGE FENCEHOUS
BLUE HOUSE
BOG HOUSE
BOG ROW SILKSWORTH
BOUNDARY HOUSE
BOUNDARY HOUSE
BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
BOWLBY ST. HOUGHTON
BOYHOUSE
BRANCEPETH
BRITANNIA TERRACE DUBMIRE
BRITTANIA INN NEWBOTTLE
BROOMSIDE
BROOMSIDE
BROOMSIDE
BROWNEY COLLIERY
BRUCES YARD HOUGHTON
BUNKER HILL
BUNKER HILL
BUNKER HILL
BURNMOOR
BURNMOOR
BURNMOOR
BURNMOOR
BURNMOOR
BYKER NEWCAST.LE
CARVILLA GILESGATE MOOR
CASSOP
CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
CEMENT ST. DUBMIRE
CEMETERY LODGE HOUGHTON
CHEST.ER LE ST.REET
CHEST.ER LE ST.REET
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL SUNDERLAND
CHILTON MOOR
CHILTON MOOR
CHILTON MOOR
CHILTON MOOR
CHILTON MOOR PIT
CHURCH ST. HOUGHTON
CHURCH ST. HOUGHTON
CLAYPATH DURHAM
CLUB ROW HOUGHTON
CLUB ROW HOUGHTON
COCKEN HALL
COFT HILL
COFT HILL
COFT HILL
COFT HILL
COFT HILL
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
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COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIER ROW
COLLIERY HOUSES
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW
COLLIERY ROW FARM
COPT HILL
COPT HILL
COPT HILL
COPT HILL
COPT HILL HOUGHTON
COPT HILL HOUGHTON
COPT HILL HOUGHTON
CORVER ROW HOUGHTON
CORVERS ROW
CORVERS ROW
CORVERS ROW
CORVING ROW
CORVING ROW
CORVING ROW
COTTAGES
COTTAGES HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
COTTAGES NEWBOTTLE
COXHOE
COXHOE
COXHOE
COXHOE KELLOE
CROSS FINES
CROSS FINES
CROSS FINES
CROSS ROW
CROSS ROW
CROSS ROW
CROSS ROW
DENE HOUSE COTTAGES
DENE HOUSE HOUGHTON
DENE HOUSE HOUGHTON LE SPRING
DUBMIRE
DUBMIRE
DUBMIRE
DUBMIRE
DUBMIRE
DUBMIRE CHILTON MOOR
DUBMIRE CHILTON MOOR
DUBMIRE COTTAGES
DURHAM
DURHAM
DURHAM COUNTY ASYLUM
EASINGTON
EASINGTON
EASINGTON LANE
EASINGTON LANE
EASINGTON LANE
EASINGTON LANE
EASINGTON LANE
EASINGTON LANE
EAST. HERRINGTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
Would you like to have a free tour of Houghton Park? Come on the tour of Houghton Rectory Park to find out about its history and heritage.
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
Newbottle Street Junior School County of Durham Education Committee This school was opened on 15 Dec 1906 by T.Richardson Esq., C.C
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
EAST. RAINTON
ELEMORE VALE
ELIZABETH ST. HOUGHTON
ELM PLACE HOUGHTON
EPPLETON
EWE HILL
EWE HILL
EWE HILL
EWE HILL
FATHERLYS TERRACE HOUGHTON
FENCEHOUSES
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FENCEHOUSES
FEVER HOSPITAL
FEVER HOSPITALL HOUGHTON
FLINT MILL
FOUR LANE ENDS
FOUR LANE ENDS
FRONT ST. CHILTON MOOR
FRONT ST. DUBMIRE
FRONT ST. DUBMIRE
GARDEN COTTAGE DUBMIRE
GARDEN TERRACE WASHINGTON
GATESHEAD
GATESHEAD
GATESHEAD
GATESHEAD
GATESHEAD
GEORGE ST. DUBMIRE
GEORGE ST. HOUGHTON
GORE HALL THORNLEY
GREAT LUMLEY
GREYHOUSE LANE HOUGHTON
GRINDON
HALFWAY HOUSE INN HOUGHTON
HANOVER SQUARE LONDON
HARLES BUILDINGS NEWBOTTLE
HARROGATE (YKS)
HASWELL
Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society was formed to promote, share and preserve the local history of the Houghton-le-Spring district. The Society uses the Internet to share aspects of Houghton-le-Spring's heritage which otherwise would not be accessible to the public, including those in (residents) and beyond the town's boundaries (descendants and expatriates). The Society actively records current aspects of Houghton which will be of interest in the future, preserves and/or reintroduces local traditions and customs, and supports schools and educational establishments in the Houghton district with the promotion of our local heritage.
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row.
HASWELL
HENDON
HERRINGTON
HESHAM PLACE HOUGHTON
HETTON
HETTON
HETTON
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HETTON
HETTON
HETTON COLLIERY
HETTON HIGH DOWNS
HETTON LANE ENDS
HETTON LE HOLE
HETTON LE HOLE
HETTON LE HOLE
HETTON LE HOLE
HETTON LE HOLE
HETTON ST.ABLES
HIGH BARNES BISHOPWEARMOUTH
HIGH DOWNS
HIGH DUBMIRE
HIGH DUBMIRE
HIGH DUBMIRE
HIGH DUBMIRE
HIGH FIELD HOUSE
HIGH HILL SIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HIGH MOORSLEY
HIGH ROW 6TH PIT
HIGH ST.REET SUNDERLAND
HIGH WARDEN LAW
HIGH WARDEN LAW
HIGH WARDEN LAW
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
HILLSIDE
HILLSIDE
HILLSIDE FARM
HILLSIDE FARM HOUGHTON
HILLSIDE HOUGHTON
HOPPER SQ HOUGHTON
HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
HOPPER ST. DUBMIRE
HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
HOPPER ST. HOUGHTON
HOPPERS SQUARE HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON MILL
HOUGHTON NEW HOUSES
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE
HOUGHTON WORKHOUSE HOSPITAL
INFIRMARY SUNDERLAND
IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
IRONSIDE ST. HOUGHTON
ISOLATION HOSPITAL HOUGHTON
IVY HOUSE HOUGHTON
JANE PIT
JANE PIT
JANE PIT
JOLLY FARMERS INN HOUGHTON
JUNCTION RD HOUGHTON
JUNCTION ROW HOUGHTON
JUNCTION ROW NEWBOTTLE
KEPIER SCHOOL HOUGHTON
KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
KIRKLEE LANE HOUGHTON
KIRTLEY LANE
LABURNUM HOUSE YARD HOUGHTON
LAMBTON ST. NEWTOWN
LINDEN COTTAGES HOUGHTON
LONG RIGGS FARM HOUGHTON
LONG RIGGS FARM HOUGHTON
LOW FELL
LOW MOORSLEY
LOW WARDEN LAW
LUMLEY
LUMLEY
LUMLEY
LUMLEY
LUMLEY
LUMLEY
LUMLEY 8TH PIT
LUMLEY M00R HOUSE
LUMLEY WICKS
LUNATIC ASYLUM SEDGEFIELD
LUNATIC ASYLUM SEDGEFIELD
LYONS
MAITLANDST. HOUGHTON
MANOR HOUSE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
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MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTON LE SPRING
MARKET PLACE HOUGHTONLESPRING
MARY PIT
MARY PIT
MEDOMSLEY
Saturday, 20th/Sunday, 21st July 1940 N322 - Co Durham.. Houghton Cut District.. Four High Explosive bombs in cornfield at Greenshields. No injuries.
Friday, 28th/Saturday, 29th August 1942 N1091 - Co Durham.. A camouflet (cavern caused by an explosion) was found in a potato patch at Sedgeletch Sewerage Beds, Houghton le Spring
Thursday, 11th/Friday, 12th March 1943 N1286 - 22.00.. Co Durham.. An Anti-Aircraft shell exploded in Waller Terrace, Houghton le Spring, seriously injuring one man and one woman.
Thursday, 11th/Friday, 12th March 1943 N1286 - 22.05.. Co Durham.. Approximately 500 Incendiary Bombs fell at Silksworth. One female adult was slightly injured. An Incendiary Bomb fell through the roof of the Police Station into an upstairs passage, this was extinguished with a stirrup pump. About the same time one Firepot Incendiary Bomb exploded and blocked the B.1404 near Warden Law crossroads on the Houghton le Spring to Seaham road. An NFS fireman was injured when he drove into the damage on the highway.
MIDDLE RAINTON
MIDDLE RAINTON
MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
MILDRED ST. HOUGHTON
MILL HOUSE WARDEN LAW
MILLWARD HILL HOUGHTON
MONKWEARMOUTH
MONKWEARMOUTH
MONKWEARMOUTH SUNDERLAND
MOORSLEY
MOORSLEY
MOORSLEY
MOORSLEY
MORTON ACRES
MORTON ACRES ON BLACK BOY
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON ENGINE
MORTON FENCE
MORTON GATE
MORTON GRANGE
MORTON GRANGE
MORTON GRANGE
MORTON GRANGE
MORTON HILL
MORTON ROW
Miss Laura Cain. Head of Heath House Laundry.
Lived "Cloonagh" High Gillas Lane (now East). House would be under name of her married sister and husband - Ada and Dickie (Richard?) Dickenson or Dickinson, who bought it new late 1930's. Dickie I think died 1940's, Ada 1960's, Laura Cain continued to live there until a few years before her death when she got a little Council house down the Villa. She had moved before 1978 and died before 1982 (sorry I can't be more precise). She had been Presbyterian but was later taken to St Michael's RC Durham Road by some friends. I know her funeral was at RC but don't know if it was Cremation or Burial.
Stott's Pasture, or Stot's Pasture as it is sometimes recorded, is located in Houghton-le-Spring, next to Golf Cuorse Road. This area borders Sunniside/Sedgeletch, Newbottle and Shiney Row. The inaugural general meeting was held on February 19th 2009 and a Constitution was adopted on April 28th 2009.Friends of Houghton Rectory Park. Houghton Kepier School Rose Garden is the new name for the Rose Garden. Houghton Rectory Park fountain. Is the Gilpin Thorn still alive. Where did the rock fountain in Rectory Park come from? Did it come from the Mediterranean?
MORTON ROW
MOUNT PLEASANT
MURTON COLLIERY
NESHAM HALL
NESHAM HALL HOUGHTON
NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
NESHAM HALL YARD HOUGHTON
NESHAM PLACE HOUGHTON
NESHAM ST. HOUGHTON
NESHAMS ARMS INN HOUGHTON
NEVILLES CROSS DURHAM
NEW DURHAM
NEW HERRINGTON
NEW HERRINGTON
NEW HERRINGTON
NEW HERRINGTON
NEW HOUSES
NEW HOUSES
NEW HOUSES
NEW HOUSES
NEW HOUSES
NEW HOUSES HOUGHTON
NEW LAMBTON
NEW LAMBTON
NEW LAMBTON
NEW PENSHER
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE
NEWBOTTLE HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE ROW
NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE ST. HOUGHTON
NEWBOTTLE WEST. HOUSE
NEWCAST.LE
NEWCAST.LE (NBL)
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NEWCAST.LE (NBL)
NEWCAST.LE ON TYNE
NEWCAST.LE ON TYNE
NEWTOWN
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NEWTOWN
I was sent to a pit at Houghton- le- Spring in Durham. Houghton was to be a real eye- opener, as this was no modern pit such as where our training had taken place. There were no pit-head baths, so we had to walk home through the streets, a distance of about two-miles, in all our dirt. Arriving back at the lodgings we had to wait our turn to have a bath. There was myself and another 'Bevin Boy', and the landlord. There was no bathroom, only a galvanised bath in the scullery in which a small amount of hot water was placed. Just enough to get you clean, and that was all. The landlady and landlord treated us very well, the food was good and we had no complaints.
Life in the mine was another thing altogether. For the first few days we worked on the surface. The work was terrible, it involved us in separating stone from the coal as it passed along a moving belt. The work appeared to be carried out by young boys, and old or injured men who could no longer work underground. I am afraid I took badly to this kind of work, refusing or pretending to be doing something. As you can guess the miners’ opinion of me was low. Although I was not alone in this behaviour. Miners as a whole had little respect for the 'Bevin Boys'. You had to be born to be a miner! In later years they did see us playing a useful part in the mine, although whether I was included among them is very doubtful as my opposition to doing the work got me a bad name among some of the men. Work was over six days. The Saturday morning shift was the worst, as it involved getting up at two-thirty in the morning, walking to work as there were no buses, and while I was there it snowed, which made life harder still. I remember being very tired those mornings not being used to getting up at such an early hour. I remained at Houghton colliery for about four weeks, when I managed to obtain a transfer to a mine in Kent. My reason for requesting the transfer was to make it possible to get home occasionally. However unlike the Forces, we did not receive any free passes.
NEWTOWN
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NEWTOWN
NEWTOWN HOUGHTON
NEWTOWN HOUGHTON
NEWTOWN HOUGHTON
NORTH BIDDICK
NORTH BIDDICK
NORTH HETTON ST.ABLES
NORTH PIT
NORTH SHIELDS
NORTH VIEW COLLIERY ROW
NORTHALLERTON (YKS)
OFFERTON
OLD ELVET DURHAM
OUTRAM ST. HOUGHTON
OVERMANS ROW
PALLION SUNDERLAND
PARK TERRACE HORDEN
PEARSONS BUILDINGS HOUGHTON
PEARSONS BUILDINGS HOUGHTON
PEARSONS BUILDINGS HOUGHTON
PEGGY PIT
PEGGY PIT
PENSHAW
PENSHAW
PENSHER
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA
PIT HOUSE LANE LEAMSIDE
PIT ROW
PIT ROW HOUGHTON
PIT ROW HOUGHTON
PITTINGTON
PLACES YARD HOUGHTON
PLACES YARD HOUGHTON
PLAWSWORTH
PLAWSWORTH
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
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POOR LAW INST.ITUTION
POST. OFFICE CAST.LE EDEN
PROSPECT PLACE
PROSPECT ROW HOUGHTON
QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
QUARRY ROW HOUGHTON
RAINTON
RAINTON
RAINTON
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON BRIDGE
RAINTON ENGINE
RAINTON ENGINE
RAINTON ENGINE
RAINTON ENGINE
RAINTON ENGINE
RAINTON ENGINE HOUSE
RAINTON MEADOW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RATTEN ROW
RECTORY COTTAGE HOUGHTON
RED BURN ROW
REDBURN ROW
REDCAR (YKS)
RICHARDS YARD MARKET PLACE
RICHMOND
ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
ROBINSON ST. HOUGHTON
ROYAL INFIRMARY SUNDERLAND
ROYAL INFIRMARY SUNDERLAND
RUBY ST. HOUGHTON
RYTON POST. OFFICE
SACRIST.ON
SEAHAM HARBOUR
SEAHAM RD HOUGHTON
SEDGEFIELD
SEDGEFIELD
SEDGEFIELD
SEDGEFIELD ASYLUM
SEDGEFIELD ASYLUM
SEDGELETCH
SEDGELETCH
SEGLETCH
SEGLETCH
SEGLETCH
SEGLETCH
SEGLETCH
SHERBURN
SHERBURN HILL
SHERBURN HILL
SHERBURN HOSPITAL
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SHIELDS PLACE HOUGHTON
SHINCLIFFE
SHINEY ROW
SHINEY ROW
SHINEY ROW
SHINEY ROW
SHINEY ROW
SHINEY ROW
SHORT ST. HOUGHTON
SHOTTON
SHOTTON
SHOTTON COLLIERY
SHOWMANS VAN THE LAKE
SILKSWORTH
SILKSWORTH
SILKSWORTH
SOUTH HETTON
SOUTH HETTON
SOUTH HETTON
SOUTH HETTON
SOUTH HYLTON
SOUTH SHIELDS
SOUTH ST. DUBMIRE
SOUTH ST. DUBMIRE
SPRING GARDENS
SPRING GARDENS NEWBOTTLE
ST.ATION AVE FENCEHOUSES
ST.OTS PAST.URE
ST.OTS PAST.URE
ST.OTS PAST.URE
ST.OTS PAST.URE
ST.OTS PAST.URE
SUCCESS PIT NEWBOTTLE
SUCCESS ROW
SUCCESS ROW
SUCCESS ROW
SUCCESS ROW
SUCCESS ROW
SUCCESS ROW
SUNDERLAND
SUNDERLAND
SUNDERLAND
SUNDERLAND LANE
SUNDERLAND LANE
SUNDERLAND LANE HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND LANE HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNDERLAND ST. HOUGHTON
SUNNISIDE
SUNNISIDE
SUNNISIDE
SUNNISIDE HOUGHTON
The little "Wizard" 1.75" x 6.5" 3-speed gap-bed lathe - distinguished by the use of unusual rounded mounting feet - was advertised from 1946 until the early 1950s as either the "Wizard" or "Lane" Micro-Lathe. The makers described it as the "Lathe for the Discriminating Amateur" - but even this did not stop the company eventually disappearing without trace as competition became stiffer in what was always a very limited market. The makers, C. Lane & Son of Dairy Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham based their factory economically in an old police station in nearby William Street .
SUNNISIDE HOUGHTON
SUNNISIDE NEWBOTTLE
SUNNISIDE NEWBOTTLE
SUTTON ST. DURHAM
SWALWELL TERRACE
TERRACEPOTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
THE ALMS HOUSESS HOUGHTON
THE BRICK YARD DUBMIRE
THE BRICK YARD DUBMIRE
THE COTTAGE CHILTON MOOR
THE COTTAGES DUBMIRE
THE FOLDS COLLIERY ROW
THE GLEBE FARM
THE GREEN HOUGHTON
THE HUTS WEST. MATFEN
THE INFIRMARY
THE INFIRMARY
THE INFIRMARY SUNDERLAND
THE INFIRMARY SUNDERLAND
THE LAKE HOUGHTON
THE LAKE HOUGHTON LE SPRING
THE LAMBTON LODGING HOUSE
THE PRINCE OF WALES INN
THE RECTORY, HOUGHTON LE SPRING
THE TERRACE HOUGHTON
THE TERRACEPOTTERY YARD HOUGHTON
THEGROVE HILLINGDON UXBRIDGE
THORNHILL ST. HOUGHTON
THORNLEY
THORNLEY
THORNLEY
TILE SHEDS
TILE SHEDS
TILE SHEDS
TORISH HILL
TORQUAY (DEV)
TYLE SHEDS
UNION HOUSE
UNION ST. HOUGHTON
UNUON ISOLATION HOSPITAL
URBAN ISOLATION HOSPITAL
USWORTH
VICTORIA INN HOUGHTON
WALLSEND (NBL)
WARDEN HOUSE HOUGHTON
WARDEN HOUSE HOUGHTON
WARDEN LAW
WARDEN LAW
WARDEN LAW
WASH HOUSE HOUGHTON LE SPRING
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON
WELLINGTON COTTAGE DUBMIRE
WEST. RAINTON
WEST. RAINTON
WEST. RAINTON
WEST. RAINTON
WHEELOCK RECTORY HOUGHTON
WHIE HOUSE FARM COTTAGES
WHITE HOUSE
WHITE HOUSE
WHITE HOUSE COTTAGES
WHITE HOUSE FARM HOUGHTON
WHITE HOUSE GEORGE ST.
WILLIAM HENRY PIT
WILLIAM HENRY PIT
WILLIAM HENRY PIT
WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
WILLIAM ST. NEWTOWN
WITTON GILBERT.
WORKHOUSE
WORKHOUSE
YEW HILL
21 WILLIAM ST. HOUGHTON
BARNES
BATYS HOUSE
BEAMISH
BEDLINGTON (NBL)
BETTY PIT
BISHOPWEARMOUTH
BURDON
CASSOP KELLOE
CAST.LE EDEN
CHILTON MOOR
CHILTON MOOR
CLUB ROW
COCKEN PIT
COUNTY ASYLUM
ELIZABETH ST. HOUGHTON
FLAT ENGINE
FOLKST.ONE (ESSEX)
FOUR LANE ENDS
GAINFORD
GRASSWELL
GREAT EPPLETON
HALLBANK GATE
HARDWICK HALL SEDGEFIELD
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON LE SPRING
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
Joseph suffered a shocking death on August 4th 1897 at South Hylton railway station and his cause of death is listed on his death certificate as:
Accidentally ran over by the down train having fallen out of carriage on off side of up train.
The death was reported in the local press, including the Durham Chronicle of August 13th 1897:
A TRADESMAN'S SHOCKING DEATH
Late on Wednesday night Mr Jos. Bland Pearson, who for many years carried on an extensive business as a pawnbroker in Houghton-le-Spring, met with his death near South Hylton Station.
It appears that the deceased, who was 65 years of age, after having completed business in Sunderland, left the Central Station by the 10:45 train for Fence Houses Station. As the train was leaving South Hylton, a passenger in an adjoining compartment had occasion to look out of the carriage window, when he saw the door of the next compartment open, and deceased fall out.
He informed the officials at Penshaw Station, and they telegraphed to South Hylton, were the stationmaster (Mr Melville), in company with Sergt. Porter and others, went along the line and found the deceased's body in a shockingly mutilated condition, the head being severed from the body, and lying in the six foot way.
The deceased was a large property owner, and one of the oldest inhabitants in the town. He leaves a widow and grown-up family.
The Durham Advertiser of August 13th 1897 carried details of the inquest into Joseph’s death:
SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY AT HYLTON
A FORMER DURHAM TRADESMAN DECAPITATED
A shocking fatality occurred on the North Eastern Railway near South Hylton Station on Wednesday night ???
It seems that Mr Joseph Bland Pearson, a pawnbroker, of Houghton-le-Spring left Sunderland by the 1045 train on Wednesday night ?? for Fence Houses.
Just after the train had left South Hylton Station a passenger noticed that the door of a compartment ?? the train suddenly open, and Pearson fall ??? ??? on to the line. As ?? ?? ?? train reached Coxgreen, the next stopping station, ????? of the occurrences was telegraphed to South Hylton and a search ??? the body of Mr Pearson was found lying in the ???? way.
The body was shockingly mutilated, the head being severed. Deceased has evidently been run over by a down train which passed in the meantime. Mr Pearson, who was formerly in business in Durham, was 65 years of age and leaves a widow and grown family.
INQUEST ON THE BODY
On Friday an inquest was held at Mr ??? Railway Tavern, Hylton ??ing the death of Joseph Bland Pearson, whose death under shocking circumstances occurred on the railway at Hylton, at a late hour on Wednesday night.
William Marshall, bricklayer, Washington Staithes. said that he was a regular traveller by the 1045pm train from Sunderland. Witness looked out of the window to see if the down train had passed. They were then leaving Hylton Station.
Witness saw something ????? of a man lying on one of the rails of the down line about 50 yards from the station ???
Witness also observed one of the carriage doors open on the off side from the platform. The carriage was near the engine.
Witness pulled the communication cord for about half a minute but got no response. Witness then saw the down train coming. This was about a minute and a half after leaving Hylton Station.
Witness could do nothing more until the train got to Pensher Station, when he reported what he had seen to the guard. He asked the guard if he heard the signal, and the latter replied that the cord was not connected, and that, as a rule, they did not use it on such short journeys.
Other evidence bore out the facts published above and the jury returned a verdict that the death of deceased was the result of misadventure.
Joseph was buried at Houghton Hillside Cemetery four days later in the same grave as his first wife, Elizabeth Phyllis, who had died in November 1891.
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
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HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
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HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
The rector of Houghton has sent the following additional note :
As regards the name of Houghton-le-Spring, we find in the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries the form Houghton in the Springe.
There are many springs in the neighbourhood, but possibly 'the
springe' is the 'Holy Well (chalybeate)' marked on the older ord-
nance map as existing in the garden attached to what is now 112
Newbottle street. This well, and the analogy of Chester-le-Street,
Dalton-le-Dale, etc., contrasted with Witton Gilbert, etc., somewhat
militates against the theory that the name is derived from Sir Henry
Spring, temp. Richard I, to whom one of the effigies in the church is
usually attributed
HOUGHTON POOR HOUSE
LADY ANN PIT
LANE ENDS HETTON
LANGLEY MOOR
LOW HILLSIDE
LUNATIC AYSLUM SEDGEFIELD
MILE END RD. LONDON
NEW SEAHAM
NEW SEHAM
NEWTON HALL ASYLUM
NORTH HETTON FARM
NORTH HETTON ST.ABLES
OVER THE HILL FARM
PHILADELPHIA
PORTLAND PLACE LONDON
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PRIMROSE HILL
ROTHBURY (NBL.)
RYHOPE
SEAHAM
SEATON MOOR
SHARROW HOUSE SHARROW LANE
SOUTH SHIELDS
SOUTH SHIELDS
ST.ONEYGATE
SUNNISIDE
SUNNISIDE
THE FELLING
THE PLAINS HETTON WAGGONWAY
USWORTH
WEST. CONFORTH
WEST.ERN HILL DURHAM CITY
WORKHOUSE
YEW HILL
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1754 – The Brewery was founded by the Robinson family and was known as The City Brewery.
1804 – On December 9th 1804, Thomas Robinson, brewer, was buried in St Michael & All Angels’ churchyard, Houghton.
1814 – J.Robinson, son of Mr Robinson, brewer, died aged 18. Nine months earlier “he had the misfortune to fall into a quantity of hot wort, since which time he unhappily lingered”.
1827 – George Robinson listed in the Gazette for Durham & Northumberland as a ‘Brewers’ and ‘Maltsters’ on Durham Road, Houghton-le-Spring.
1843 – George Robinson, brewer, died.
1851 – Elizabeth Robinson listed in Hagar & Co’s Directory as a ‘Brewers’ and ‘Maltsters’. She was soon succeeded by Thomas William Usherwood Robinson, who was known locally as the Squire.
1874 – Parts of the brewery were rebuilt. The brewery is made from the locally sourced magnesian limestone, with sandstone sills and arches.
1888 – TWU Robinson died and was buried at Houghton Hillside Cemetery, the creation of which in 1854 he had vehemently opposed.
1894 – The Robinson Bros (Brewery) Ltd was registered.
1909 – The brewery was destroyed by fire.
1910 – The brewery was rebuilt by Gateshead architect James William Fraser, and was described as: “The five storey, red brick warehouse-like structure had 22Q capacity” [British Breweries: An Architectural History, by Lynn F Pearson, 1999]
1914 – Norman Robinson and John James Stokoe were listed as the managing directors of the Robinson Brothers Brewery in Kelly’s Directory. The business was listed as ‘Maltsters, brewers and wine and spirit merchants’.
1921 – The brewery was taken over by C Vaux & Sons Ltd and James Calder & Co Ltd of Alloa. Five months afterwards, the brewery went on sale. [Possibly acquired by Calder in 1921 then Vaux in 1925 tbc]. The brewery had 63 licensed public houses.
1971 – The old Brewery became a listed building on June 17th 1971. The entry is as follows:
List Entry Number: 456/7/30
Date Listed: 17.06.71
Address: Durham Road, Houghton-le-Spring
Building Type: Maltings Club now luxury flats.
Building Name: The Old Mill Public House
Conservation Area: No. 8
Occupied: No 1
Ownership: Company 3
Grade: II(Risk 1)
Description: Maltings, now club. Circa 1874.
Exterior: Limestone rubble with brick and sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roof has flat stone gable copings. 4 storeys, 13 bays and 3 bays at right, 2 storeys. Double doors in fourth and twelfth bays, door in fourteenth, all modern; windows square, modern pivoted type. Brick segmental-headed door and window openings, projecting stone cills. Weatherboarded hoist with barge boards and wind vane projects from third floor roof in fourth bay. Roof of 2-storey section (former kiln) rises steeply to meet ridge with cowl continuous with ridge over main building. Historical Note: built for Robinson's, the brewers.
1972 – Photo from this era shows the wooden grain hoist (lucomb) and malt kiln were still present at the brewery. Internal photos show that the “floor tiles were perforated to allow the passage of warm air, from the heat source below, but the perforations were small enough to prevent the grains falling through. The tiles were supported on an iron framework” [SINE project]
1999 – The burnt out shell of the old brewery was converted by McCarrick Homes into twenty-seven duplex and single storey luxury apartments. Many original features were retained, including oriel windows, exposed beams and steel trusses.
Paul Lanagan, Local historian
www.Houghton-le-Spring.org.uk
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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1698 – 1732
Note of induction, 1709, 1723, 1727
Appointment of parish clerk, 1715
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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1733 - 1748
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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1746 – 1792
Entries for 1746 - 1748 copies from EP/Ho.4
Note of appointment of the parish clerk, 1789
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1793 – 1812
Population figures, 1780 – 1799
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Register of baptisms, January 1813 - December 1821
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Register of baptisms, January 1822 - May 1829
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Register of baptisms, May 1829 - November 1834
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, November 1834 - December 1849
Index of baptisms, 1834 - 1849
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, January 1849 - December 1849;
Register of burials, January 1849 - December 1849
Copies of parts of EP/Ho 10 and 41
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, January 1850 - May 1870
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Register of baptisms, June 1870 - August 1880
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Register of baptisms, August 1880 - December 1891
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Register of baptisms, December 1891 - August 1896
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, July 1896 - January 1905
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, January 1905 - December 1908
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, December 1908 - January 1916
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, January 1916 - April 1923
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, May 1923 - January 1931
(1 volume)
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Register of baptisms, January 1931 - December 1942
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Overseers' accounts, 1774 - 1818
(3 volumes)
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Life of Bernard Gilpin, 1636
(1 printed volume)
Herrington chapel
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number not used (now EP/WHer 1/1)
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number not used
Second Deposit
(Acc: 1043)
Registration
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Register of burials, 19 September 1854 - 9 September 1882
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of burials, 13 September 1882 - 29 May 1888
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of burials, 2 June 1888 - 24 July 1894
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of burials, 7 August 1894 - 3 March 1903
(1 volume, calf bound)
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Register of burials, 4 March 1903 - 23 January 1913
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of burials, 24 January 1913 - 31 December 1924
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of communicants, October 1868 - December 1870
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of communicants, January 1872 - December 1873
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of communicants, January 1874 - October 1877
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of communicants, October 1877 - December 1883
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of communicants, January 1884 - June 1890
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of communicants, January 1890 - December 1895
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
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Register of graves, 22 December 1894 - 31 December 1904
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of graves, 12 January 1905 - 13 August 1926
(1 volume, vellum bound)
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Register of graves, 21 August 1926 - 15 July 1971
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Durham Records Online. Durham Ancestors search, here online now.
Clergy, including Glebe
Ref No. EP/Ho 66
Lists of rectors and curates of Houghton, 1528 - 1896
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 67
Curate's Licence for Rev. Harold Arthur Ramsay, M.A., 5 April 1922
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 68
Curate's Licence for the Rev. Philip Hawker Hill, B.A., 11 June 1922
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 69
Glebe terrier for Houghton le Spring, July 1792
(1 file, paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 70
Note on career of Archbishop Secker (Rector of Houghton, 1723 - 1727) from Alumni Oxoniensis, n.d. [c190O]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 71
Receipt for £61 from the Rev. Mr. Secker, February 1726
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 72
An Essay on Human Liberty by John Rotheram, M.A., Rector of Houghton le Spring, 1782
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 73
Funeral Sermon by the Rev. Daniel Crosthwaite, curate of Houghton, preached 13 May 1827 (on the death of Rev. William Rawes, Master of Kepler School and Curate of Houghton) 1828
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 74
List of subscriptions to Canon Watson's memorial, 1943 - 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 75
Number not used
Equity cause re. ownership of minerals
Ref No. EP/Ho 76
Copy admittance of Rev. John Rotherham, Rector of Houghton, to Rurches Close, Sheep Close and Brad Close, Houghton, in right of his rectory, 22 October 1771
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 77
Award of Richard Wharton and John Griffith in the dispute between Rev. E.S. Thurlow, Rector of Houghton, and William Ironside, Esq., over a road in Pasture Burns leading from Houghton to Mr Ironside's farm, 3 May 1798
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 78
Admittance of the Hon. and Rev. John Grey (as Rector of Houghton) to 3 closes of land (as in EP/Ho. 76) with covering letter from the Exchequer at Durham, 22 - 24 October 1851
Ref No. EP/Ho 79
1865
(1) Thomas Wilson and others, Plaintiffs
(2) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey and George, Earl of Durham, Defendants
Bill of Complaint and Answer of the defendant John Grey, regarding sale of land in 1799 by the then rector of Houghton and ownership of minerals beneath it, in Court of Chancery
(2 files, paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 80
Statement respecting the sale of four closes of land in Houghton le Spring sold 1799 under the Land Tax Redemption Acts, n.d. [c1865]
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 81
Correspondence between the Hon. and Rev. John Gray at Houghton and J.L. Walters at Lincoln's Inn concerning progress of Chancery cause, 2 December 1864 - 15 December 1866
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 82
Copy of Joshua William's opinion re. Water Furs Farm, 11 December 1866
(1 paper)
Miscellaneous conveyances, leases etc. of Glebe Lands and subsiduary papers
Ref No. EP/Ho 83
14 May 1866
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, clerk, Rector of Houghton le Spring
(2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty
Counterpart Mortgage (by demise of 35 years) of all glebe lands, tithes etc. of Houghton to secure £550 + 4% interest
(Parchment, 1 membrane, pendent seal)
Ref No. EP/Ho 84
14 June 1867
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Clerk, Rector of Houghton
(2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty
(3) John Burder of Parliament Street, Westminster, gentleman
Counterpart Mortgage (by demise of 35 years) (1) to (3) of the glebe lands and tithes of Houghton to secure £150 + 4% interest
(1 parchment, pendent seal)
Ref No. EP/Ho 85
Conditions of letting Houghton Hill Farm, May 1882
(1 paper)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 86
29 September 1882
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton
(2) James Hall of White House near Houghton
Memorandum of agreement to let Bradleys Farm (22a) at Houghton on a yearly tenancy from May 1882
Rental: £42 p.a.
(1 paper)
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
Ref No. EP/Ho 87
26 December 1882
(1) James Bradford of Bunker Hill, Land Agent (acting for the Hon. and Rev. John Grey)
(2) George Haswell of Houghton
Memorandum of agreement to let Kirklee Field (6a.2r.24p.) and Cottage for one year
Rent: £27
(1 paper)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 88
Plan of proposed improvement to Newbottle St. and alteration to rectory boundary wall, Houghton le Spring, 22 October 1887
Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch
(34 cm. x 46 cm., oiled linen, ink and partial colouring)
Ref No. EP/Ho 89
Correspondence between Houghton le Spring Local Board of Health, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Rev. John Grey re. building the rectory garden wall on the widening of Newbottle Street; also sale of the land to the Local Board, approval of the Commissioners, 4 October 1887 - 28 November 1887
(5 papers, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 90
24 October 1891
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton
(2) Robert Fenwick Boyd and Llewellyn Thorman, both of Houghton (acting for Houghton Cricket Club)
Memorandum of agreement to let the field at Houghton as a cricket and football ground
Annual rent: £18
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 91
Plan of Houghton le Spring Rectory drainage system showing adjoining roads and premises, by D. Balfour, Civil Engineer, Newcastle, 10 October 1892
Scale: 52 feet to 1 inch
(70 cm. x 46 cm., oiled linen, ink and partial colouring)
Ref No. EP/Ho 92
Draft memorandum by Rev. John Grey to Mr. Stobart re. Houghton Rectory, Farm and School drains, 1892
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 93
3 November 1892
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton le Spring
(2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
(3) The Bishop of Durham
(4) The Guardians of the Poor of Houghton le Spring Union
Copy lease from (1) to (4) for 99 years from 13 May 1891 of 22a.3r.9p. of land in Houghton as the site for a sewage works with various rights of way and reserving mineral and sporting rights
Annual rent: £146 16s 9d
Plan of land attached
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 94
Conditions of letting the Dairy Farm, Houghton, May 1896
(1 paper)
Telephone and Telegraph
Ref No. EP/Ho 95
Letters from the National Telephone Co. Ltd. at 160 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, and Arcade Chambers, Sunderland, to Canon Brown at Houghton Rectory seeking to erect telephone poles adjoining Houghton Rectory, 12 February 1897 - 3 May 1900
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 96
Notices of erection of a stay and removal of poles, by Post Office Telegraphs, 14 July and 25 November 1905
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 97
National Telephone Co. Ltd. Notices for erecting telephone poles adjoining Houghton Rectory and of 1/- wayleave payments, 8 May 1908 - 20 May 1909
(1 file, paper)
Land for Sunderland District Tramways
Ref No. EP/Ho 98
Letter from James Bradford at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Canon Brown at Houghton discussing Hill Farm damages and the enclosed letter from D. Balfour, Civil Engineer at St. Nicholas's Buildings, Newcastle, and Trewhitt and Robson at Fawcett Street, Sunderland, regarding land needed for road widening in connection with the Sunderland District Tramways, 12 - 16 January 1900
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 99
Letters received by Canon Brown from J.G. Wilson at 5 North Bailey, Durham, and from the Ecclesiastical Commission re. sale of glebe land to tramways company; application to, and approval of, Board of Agriculture; investment of proceeds, 22 February 1904 - 15 December 1905
(12 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 100
Correspondence between J.G. Wilson at 5 North Bailey, Durham, D. Balfour and Son, Civil Engineers at St. Nicholas’ Buildings, Newcastle, and Canon Brown at Houghton re. sale of further land to the tramway Company for £l5, 25 August - 18 September 1905
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 101
Plan of lands at Dairy Lane, Houghton, required for the Sunderland District Tramways, n.d.
Scale: 25.346 inches to 1 mile
(76 cm. x 26 cm., oiled linen, ink)
Ref No. EP/Ho 102
17 June 1904
(1) Rev. Canon Frederick Brown, Clerk, Rector of Houghton
(2) The Sunderland District Electric Tramways Ltd.
Duplicate Conveyance of 3 parcels of land at Houghton (307 square yards in total) as described, for road widening connected with the works of (2)
Consideration:£76 15s.
(1 parchment)
Ref No. EP/Ho 103
10 January 1905
(1) Canon F. Brown.
(2) The Sunderland District Electric Tramways, Ltd.
Grant of an easement for the erection of posts for tramway overhead wiring
Rental: 1s. p.a.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 104
27 November 1905
(1) Canon F. Brown
(2) S.D.E.T. Ltd.
Duplicate Conveyance of a strip of land of 30 square yards, part of the Rectory Glebe Farm, Houghton, for road widening related to the works of (2)
Consideration: £15
(Parchment, 1 membrane)
Bowling Club and Football Club
Ref No. EP/Ho 105
Letters received by Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton Rectory from the Chapter Office at Durham, The North Eastern Banking Co. Ltd. at Houghton and J. and T.A. Bradford, land agents,at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, regarding lease of Houghton le Spring Glebe Land for a bowling green; details of the Bowling Club, 15 September 1909 - 24 May 1910
(14 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 106
30 June 1910
(1) Reginald Heart Yeld of the Rectory, Houghton le Spring, Clerk in Holy Orders
(2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
(3) The Bishop of Durham
(4) James Gilpin Houseman of Houghton le Spring, Surgeon and others
Lease reserving mineral rights (1) to (4) of 1 acre of land in Houghton le Spring on the south of the Fence Houses Road for 14 years from 1 January 1910
Rent: £8 p.a.
Plan attached
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 107
Letters from J. and T.A. Bradford, Land Agents and valuers, at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton with some draft replies re. Houghton Glebe Estate as a site for the Football Club, 23 March 1908 - 23 May 1910
(7 papers)
Dilapidations
Ref No. EP/Ho 108
Surveyor's report on dilapidations on the vacancy of the benefice of Houghton le Spring, 19 September 1907
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 109
Letters from Clark and Moscrop at Feethams, Darlington, to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton discussing their report on Houghton dilapidations and subsidence, 29 August - 15 October 1907
(4 papers)
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Letters from John Brown, Builder and Contractor at Hawdonside Works, Houghton, to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton Rectory with estimates for work and acknowledgement of payment, 14 October 1907 - 11 March 1908
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 111
Letter from J. and T.A. Bradford at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R.H. Yeld re. damage to wall from subsidence and conversation with Lambton Collieries Ltd., 19 September 1907
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 112
Order by the Bishop of Durham as to dilapidations, benefice of Houghton le Spring, following the retirement of Canon Brown, Schedule annexed, and covering letter from the Chapter Office to Rev. R. Heart Yeld at Houghton, 30 - 31 October 1907
(1 paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 113
Report by Dinning and Cooke of the Perry Iron Works, Newcastle, to Rev. R.H. Yeld on the condition of the old kitchen range in Houghton Rectory, 16 November 1907
(1 paper)
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Letter from Clark and Moscrop, Architects, at Feethams, Darlington, to Rev. RH. Yeld at Houghton Rectory re. payment for work done there, 21 February 1908
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 115
Letters from Clark and Moscrop, Architects at Feethams, Darlington, to G.H. Stevens at Houghton le Spring with attached correspondence with the Chapter Office concerning dilapidations at Houghton rectory and the liability of the colliery company, 13 - 16 June 1921
(1 paper, 1 file
Ref No. EP/Ho 116
File of letters from Clark and Moscrop, Architects at Darlington, to Rev. S.K. Knight at Bridstow, Hereford, and to G.B. Stevens at Houghton discussing rectory dilapidations, 3 May - 14 May 1921
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 117
Circular from Royalty Owners Joint Committee, June 1921
(paper, printed)
‘Papers received from Forster & Co. 19 August 1899 re. John Grey's executors and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners'
Ref No. EP/Ho 118
Memorandum of Rev. John Grey re. Houghton Glebe coal workings 1830 - 1836 and the late Rev. E. Thurlow's accounts thereof, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 119
Letter from Rev. W.A. Steabler of Sunderland to Joseph Brunskill at Newton near Penrith, Cumberland, quoting from the Newcastle Journal of 13 March 1847 re. Houghton Glebe royalty and discussing the late Rev. Mr. Thurlow's bequest, 1847
(1 paper)
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An Act for enabling Ecclesiastical Corporations to grant leases for long Terms of Years, 5 and 6 Victoria, cap. CVlll, 12 August 1842
(paper, 1 file, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 121
Letter to Rev. John Grey giving Mr. Ellison's opinion on the Act [EP/Ho 120], 1854
(1 paper)
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Accounts of Houghton Glebe Coal Royalties with occasional covering letters from Edward Boyd to the Rector, 1851 - 1874
(28 papers)
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Account of payments for repair of rectory, 1868 - 1876
(1 paper)
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Correspondence between Rev. John Gray and Rev. H.G. Liddell re. Glebe coal rent; opinions of Bishops Van Mildert and Barington; sales to Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 8 June - 12 June 1869
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 125
Memo of Rev. J. Grey re. Houghton Glebe Coal Royalties, 28 April 1877
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 126
Annual accounts of Slipperthorne Glebe Royalty payments from Lambton Collieries, Ltd. to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1897 - 1902
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 127
Quarterly statements from the Ecclesiastical Commission in London showing stock held in trust for the benefice (Slipperthorne Glebe Royalty), 1897 - 1904
(19 papers, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 128
Annual accounts showing money due from Lambton Collieries, Ltd. to Canon Brown for the Slipperthorne Glebe Royalty, 1898 - 1900, 1902 - 1906
(8 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 129
Letter from C.D. Forster and Co., Grainger Street West, Newcastle, to the rector re. dispute between Rev. John Grey's executors and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and forwarding papers, 17 August 1890
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 130
Letter from D. Balfour & Son, Civil Engineers, St. Nicholas' Buildings, Newcastle, to rector recommending Armstrongs, Mining Surveyors to investigate coal, 19 April 1904
(1 paper, typescript)
Colliery Way Leave
Ref No. EP/Ho 131
Letter from Canon R.M. Norman of The Red House, Berkhamstead, Herts., to Rev. R.H. Yeld re. Slipperthorne way leave and proceeds of coal royalties (enclosing a list of latter 1890 - 1895), 10 January 1908
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 132
Letters from Rev. Frederick Brown at Mansfield, Elphinstone Road, Hastings, to Rev. R.H. Yeld re. drop in Slipperthorne way leave income, parish affairs, local antiquarian matters, Houghton charities, 7 April - 14 December 1908
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 133
Correspondence between Austin Kirkup of the Lambton Collieries, Ltd., Bunker Hill, Fence Houses, and Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton concerning Slipperthorne way leave; request for additional help towards the curate's stipend; damage to rectory wall, 16 April 1908 - 27 August 1909
(10 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 134
Correspondence between the Lambton Collieries, Ltd., at Bunker Hill, Fence Houses, J. Bradford at Vigo House near Chester-le-Street and Canon Brown re. chasm at Hill Side farm resulting from colliery workings, 5 July 1898 - 2 February 1900
(4 papers)
Income of Rectory and dealings with the Ecclesiastical Commission
Ref No. EP/Ho 135
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Rules and Instructions respecting Parsonage Houses, June 1868
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 136
Number not used
Ref No. EP/Ho 137
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, M.A., Rector of Houghton le Spring
(2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Copy conveyance of 279 square yards of land at Houghton as an addition to Houghton Burial Ground which it adjoins
Plan attached
(1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 138
Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Rev. John Grey arranging conveyance of site for additional burial ground, 12 March 1873 - 10 April 1873
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 139
Glebe Lands Act 51 and 52 Victoria Cap. XX. 1888
(1 file, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 140
Particulars of the income of Houghton Rectory by Mr. Bradford and Canon Norman, 1894 - 1895
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 141
Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, Canon A.M. Norman at Barnmoor Rectory, Fence Houses, and the Bishop of Durham re. the income of Houghton le Spring benefice and attendant matters, 23 November - 12 December 1895
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 142
Value of the living of Houghton in Mr. Grey's time, n.d. [late 19th. century]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 143
Account of loans from Queen Anne's Bounty, n.d. [late C19]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 144
Queen Anne's Bounty - receipts for First Fruits and Tenths and notification of interest payments, 1898 - 1907
(1 bundle)
Ref No. EP/Ho 145
Circulars from the Ecclesiastical Commission forwarding interest warrants and statements of account, 1898 - 1907
(1 bundle)
Ref No. EP/Ho 146
Circular letters from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Canon Brown accompanying dividend warrants, 4 July 1898 - 28 February 1906
(11 papers, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 147
Circular letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. C.E. Adamson at Houghton Rectory regarding the conversion of 4½% War Stock (1925 - 1945), 22 February 1917
(1 paper, printed)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 148
Statements from the Ecclesiastical Commission showing 4% stock held in trust for Houghton benefice, 12 March - 24 August 1923
(2 papers, printed form)
General
Ref No. EP/Ho 149
Estimate from J. Richardson, Wheler Street, Houghton, for painting Houghton Rectory, 14 April 1900
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 150
Letters from Lord Howick at Howick near Lesbury, Northumberland, and elsewhere to Rev. R.H. Yeld discussing future of Miss Grey's house and the possible gift of it to the parish, 30 June 1908 - 14 February 1909
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 151
Letters from J. Gibson Cowe at Lambton Grange, Fence Houses, to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton concerning cost of gravel, 14 February - 7 July 1908
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 152
Letter from J.G. Wilson at 5 North Bailey, Durham, to Canon Brown relaying contents of letter from the Board of Agriculture regarding sale of timber, 6 December 1905
(1 paper, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 153
Letter from the Inland Revenue, Somerset House, to Canon Brown at Houghton refusing his claim for repayment of excess income tax, 23 January 1903
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 154
Letter from G.F. Hol[mes?] at Penshaw Rectory, Fence Houses, to the Rural Dean re. financing a curate and a new infants school, 4 March 1909
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 155
Statistical Table for Houghton Rural Deanery listing parishes, populations, numbers of electors, numbers on P.C.C., and names of representatives to Diocesan Conference, 1922
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 156
Correspondence between the incumbents of Herrington, New Seaham, Seaham, Dalton le Dale, Fence Houses, Penshaw, and Rev. S.K. Knight, Rural Dean and Rector of Houghton le Spring, discussing pew rents, 25 - 31 October 1923
(14 papers)
Tithes
Ref No. EP/Ho 157
Accounts of tithes received from the township of Houghton-le-Spring, 1625 - 1633
In front of volume: copy of an order for the division of Rainton Moor, 17 November 1631. Copy made 2 January 1670
Note of things left at Kicknell Milne by Christopher Middleton, 30 April 1634
In back of volume:
Copy of an account of receipts made by the parish clerk to the Rector of Houghton, 1640 – 1641
Note of terms of the Dean and Chapter leases to the tenants of West Rainton and Moresley, n.d., c 1660 - 1670
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 158
List of leases of West Rainton and Moresley, n.d.
Enclosed in EP/Ho 157
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 159
Copy of decree of Durham Court of Chancery establishing a division of the township of West Herrington and commuting tithes, 27 March 1641
Copy made late 19th. century
(1 paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 160
Abstract of several decrees and orders of the Durham Court of Chancery made concerning payments out of West Herrington to the Rector of Houghton le Spring, 28 March 1665 - 9 April 1666
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 161
Tithe apportionment of Houghton Rectory by township, n.d., (Sent by Mr. Bradford to Canon Brown, April 1899)
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 162
Correspondence between the Surveyor of Taxes, Sunderland, Canon Brown at Houghton and the Lambton Estate Office regarding East and West Herrington tithe rent charges, 3 December 1902 - 10 July 1903
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 163
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries tithe rent charge redemption notice for the township of Houghton, 19 August 1905
(2 papers, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 164
Sealed copy of Certificate of Redemption of Tithe Rentcharge of 5 gns. for the township of Houghton, 29 December 1905
(parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 165
Sealed copy of Certificate of Redemption of Tithe Rentcharge for £1 14s 6d in the township of Houghton, 11 June 1909
(parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 166
Sealed copy of a Certificate of Redemption of Tithe Rentcharge of £15 12s 6d in the township of Houghton, 27 August 1914
(parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 167
Letter from J. and T.A. Bradford, Land Agents at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R.H. Yeld discussing various tithe payments due to the latter, 6 May 1910
(1 paper)
Churchwardens
Ref No. EP/Ho 168
Churchwardens' account book 1595 - 1670
Includes: Assessments to be levied by the constables and agreed by the four and twenty. Lists of Churchwardens and the four and twenty, 1670
In Front: Copy made 25 April 1679 of order from churchwardens' book of yards of the churchyard wall of which the several townships are responsible for upkeep, 1633
Opposite folio 18: Resolution that the two senior churchwardens shall serve for two years and appoint the junior churchwardens with the consent of the four and twenty (Select Vestry), 13 May 1632
Folio 26:A note of the book of raits for the parish of Houghton listing sums of money due of the townships, n.d.
Opposite folio 32: Note about the upkeep of the churchyard wall, 7 April 1607
Folio 53: Memorandum of agreement of payments to be made for the upkeep of the poor of the parish of Houghton le Spring, 29 June 1614
Folio 95: Extract from the will of Mr. Frauncklanes leaving the sum of 26s 8d p.a. to the poor of Houghton le Spring and 40s yearly to Mr. Gilpin's school at Houghton le Spring, n.d., c 1604
Folio 96: Memorandum of an agreement between Doctor Hutton and the Select Vestry for settlement of parish disputes by arbitration, 26 April 1604
Folios 98 - 102: Names of occupiers of pews in the church, n.d.
Opposite folio 103: Names of parish poor to receive money, 1603
Opposite folio 104: Memorandum that Richard Belassis of Morton and his servant be placed in 2 stalls in the middle alley on the north side of the church and detailing payments made by him, 24 November 1599 and names of the poor receiving money, 1598
Folio 105: List of lengths of the churchyard wall for which the townships of Houghton le Spring are each responsible, 1633
Folios 106 - 110: Lists of occupants of pews, n.d.
Folio 111 and opposite: Agreement of the Select Vestry with John Taylor for payments to be made for repair work, 1613
Memo of the resignation of Roger Rackett previously elected clerk of Houghton and his recommendation of John Barnefather as successor, 24 June 1608
Opposite folio 112: Agreement by the Select Vestry for the renewal and repair of pews, 24 June 1607
Agreement to sue for the money due under Gilpin's will and to authorise all other steps for recovering it, 1 June 1602
Opposite folio 115: Agreements to pay Ralph Porter for maintaining the clock, 16 December 1599 - 7 July 1605
Folios 123 - 124: Order concerning the amicable settlement of differences between parishioners or with their parson, 1633
Folio 131: Appointment of a pew to Mr. Robert Sutton, 1637
Folio 156: Agreement in the absence of the governors that John Anthanke, Richard Marley, Thomas Turner, George Gray be admitted to Houghton School, 3 January 1655/6
Folio 157: Appointment of Surveyors of the Highways, 1 April 1656
Folios 164 - 166: Orders agreed at a meeting of the gentlemen and four and twenty with the churchwardens and overseers, 2 March 1657/8, 30 March 1658, 13 October 1658
Opposite 191: Extract from an agreement between the Governors of the Kepier School and Almshouse that 4s rent charge should be paid to the schoolmaster and 26s 8d for the maintenance of the poor in the parish from rent charges on lands at Cocken of William Car, alderman of Newcastle, 7 July 1597
Memorandum of George Bellasys' legacy of £10 to the poor, 25 March 1658
Memorandum concerning Mr. Franckland of Newcastle and the rent charge granted by his will of 26s 8d for the needy, 25 March 1658
Memorandum concerning Richard Bellasys of Morton house and grant of a rent charge of £10 to be paid out of the tythens of Kinkledam for the poor of Houghton, 13 January 1599
Memorandum dated 25 March 1658
Opposite 192: Memorandum that Baron Henry left by his will a rent charge of £24 to the Overseers of the Poor of Houghton, 25 March 1658
Folio 192: Memoranda of wages, fees and orders relating to pews and inventory of church goods, 25 March 1658
Opposite folio 193: Particular of the rates of the lands according to which taxes and sesses are collected, 25 March 1658
Folio 193: Memorandum about the office of churchwardens, 25 March 1658
Opposite folio 194: Particulars of goods belonging to the church, 25 March 1658
Agreement of the four and twenty with John Hope for repairing and maintaining the church clock, 13 October 1662
Folio 195: Inventory of goods belonging to the church, 10 April 1667
Endorsed on Folio 208: Note that the churchwardens must provide writing paper for themselves and that no paper is to be torn or cut out of this book, 25 March 1658
(1 volume)
Ref No. EP/Ho 169
Notes from the Churchwardens' account books of Houghton le Spring, 1595 - 1705
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 170
Churchwardens' accounts including assessments of rates to be levied, lists of churchwardens, overseers and the four and twenty, 1671 - 1705
Includes in front: Form of acquittance for Mr. Frankland's dole, n.d.
Opposite folio 6: Note about casting of great bell, 25 April 1671
Opposite folio 89: Collections made upon briefs, 1689
Folios 7 - 10: Collection for the redemption of Christians captive in Turkey, 1671
Folio 144: Agreement between Churchwardens and Michael Close to whiten Church and vestry, draw over the sentences and blacken the bows of the arches, 15 April 1701
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 171
Churchwardens' accounts, 1705 - 1733
Includes at back: Particulars of the rates of the lands of Houghton le Spring according to which taxes and sesses are collected, November 1707
Copy from old churchwardens' book of yards which the several townships are responsible for repairing of the churchyard wall ordered in 1633
Form of an acquittance for Mr. John Frankland's dole for the poor of the parish, n.d.
Copy of part of the will of George Lilburn, relating to his annual donation to the poor of the Hospital of Houghton le Spring, 17 June 1675
Copy of Lord Maior and Senior Alderman's (London) letter to the parish of Houghton le Spring about Hilton's dole, 8 December 1683 with reply of the churchwardens, 9 January, 1683/1684
Memorandum that a collection was taken for the Palatines who came into England, 26 December 1709
Inventories of belongings of the church and poor of Houghton le Spring, 23 April 1710 and 21 April 1712
Account of the payments made for putting up a gallery in the church, 1725
Account of money paid for pews in the gallery, 1725 - 1728
(1 volume, paper, parchment bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 172
Churchwardens' accounts including church rate, 1754 - April 1774
(1 volume, paper, parchment bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 173
Churchwardens' minute book, April 1801 - 1818 and accounts, including church rate, April 1800 - 1818
(1 volume, paper, calf bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 174
Churchwardens' accounts and minutes and church rate, 1841 - 1855
(1 volume, paper, calf bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 175
Churchwardens' accounts and minutes and church rate, 1855 - 1864
(1 volume, paper, calf half-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 176
Churchwardens' balance sheet, Easter 1902
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 177
Churchwardens' memoranda about the insurance, charities, care and repair of church, church finance and admission of churchwardens, n.d. [c 1900s]
(1 volume)
Offertory Books
Ref No. EP/Ho 178
Offertory book, 3 May 1724 - 25 December 1820
Includes at back: Wine from Mr. Arnsley, Easter 1772 - March 1773
List of ordinations of vicars, 9 April 1721 - 5 June 1726
Wine from Mr. Nicholson for the use of the church, April - October 1771
Money collected on briefs, 24 July 1791 - 31 May 1794
(1 volume, parchment bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 179
Offertory book, 7 January 1821 - 6 January 1851
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 180
Offertory book, 2 January 1848 - 17 January 1854
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 181
Offertory book, 2 January 1853 - 29 December 1872
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 182
Offertory book, 1 January 1870 - 28 December 1875
Enclosed: Statement of offertory account for 1875
(paper, 1 folio)
General expenses account of parish church 1875
(paper, 1 folio)
(1 volume, cardboard cover)
Ref No. EP/Ho 183
Offertory book, 1 January 1876 - 30 January 1881
(1 volume, cardboard bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 184
Offertory book, 1 January 1881 - 28 December 1884
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 185
Offertory book, 1 January 1885 - 29 December 1887
(1 volume, cardboard cover)
Ref No. EP/Ho 186
Offertory book, 1 January 1888 - 31 December 1891
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 187
Offertory book, 1 January 1892 - 7 April 1907
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 188
Offertory book, 31 March 1907 - 29 September 1921
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Fabric
Ref No. EP/Ho 189
Office copy of interlocutory decree upon the return of the faculty for rebuilding Houghton le Spring parish church, 17 January 1789
(1 parchment)
Ref No. EP/Ho 190
Notes by the Rev. John Grey of resolutions passed at the Restoration Committee meetings, 1851
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 191
Faculty for the 'restoration' of Houghton parish church including removal of the west end gallery, replacement of the roof and most windows, construction of a south porch, removal and renewal of pews, 21 February 1857
(Parchment, 1 membrane, pendent seal, wax wafer between papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 192
Faculty for alterations to the chancel of Houghton le Spring parish church, 10 November 1858
(Parchment, 1 membrane, pendent seal, wax wafer between papers)
The Old Bank was the Westminster.
Was 'Bland' Joseph's mother's maiden name perhaps?
I can recall the name Bland in Fence Houses. Mr Bland was superintendant of the Lambton swimming baths in the late 1940s, his son Donald was an Olympic swimmer c1948.
Where was 'Nesham Hall'?
In regard to the name Peasrson, houses in Nesham Place were owned by some Pearsons as late as the 1960s so was there a connection?
You say 'Neasham Place' - this shhould be 'Nesham Place'.
Ref No. EP/Ho 195
Letters from Thomas Jones, Proctor at Durham, to Rev. John Grey at Houghton forwarding faculty and discussing costs, 11 November and 30 December 1879
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 196
Letters from Hart, Son, Peard and Co., 53 - 58 Wych St. London, to Rev. J. Grey at Houghton discussing proposed altar cross and chancel screen with miscellaneous sketches in text, 18 November 1879 - 12 February 1880
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 197
Illustration of revised design of proposed chancel screen, [1879 - 1880]
(Pencil and water colour on waxed paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 198
Faculty for placing a clock in the tower of Houghton le Spring parish church, 13 December 1884
(1 paper, embossed seal)
Ref No. EP/Ho 199
20 October 1884
(1) The Houghton le Spring Local Board of Health
(2) The Rector and Churchwardens of Houghton Agreement for the erecting of a clock in the church tower and division of costs and future maintenance with covering letter dated 7 January 1885 from the Houghton le Spring Local Board to the Rector
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 200
Papers from Hutchinson and Lucas and Harrison and Co., Darlington, to the Rector of Houghton re. the late R.H. Allen of Blackwell Hall and his bequest of plate and money, 24 October 1886 - June 1889
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 201
Letters and estimate from Dinning and Cooke at the Percy Iron Works, Newcastle, to Rev. John Grey at Houghton Rectory, regarding proposed new heating system for Houghton church, 22 - 25 October 1886
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 202
Letter from James Joicey at Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, to Rev. F. Brown at Houghton Rectory re. damage caused to Houghton church by Joicey's colliery, 23 December 1899
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 203
Letters from the Lambton Collieries Ltd., Mining Office, Bunker Hill, Fence Houses, to Canon Brown at Houghton Rectory re. crack under east window, Houghton church through subsidence, 18 - 20 January 1904
(2 papers, typescript)
1903 Restoration
Ref No. EP/Ho 204
Faculty for new pulpit, grained oak ceiling, new gas pendants, oak chancel screen, oak panelling around the chancel, new altar rail, new marble floor in the chancel in Houghton le Spring Parish Church, 18 December 1903
(paper, 1 file, embossed seal)
Ref No. EP/Ho 205
Copy of the recommendations of the Church Restoration Committee and minutes of Vestry meeting adopting them, 13 - 19 September 1899
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 206
Architects report by Hicks and Charlewood of 67 Westgate Rd., Newcastle, concerning Houghton le Spring church restoration with additional suggestions [1903], 26 July 1899 and 12 February 1903
(paper, 2 files)
Ref No. EP/Ho 207
General conditions, specification and regulations produced by Hicks and Charlewood relating to the contract for repairs to outside walls of Houghton Church, n.d. [c 1900]
(paper, 2 files)
Ref No. EP/Ho 208
Specification for repairs to tower, n.d. [c 1900]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 209
Specification for internal cleaning and colouring, n.d. [c1900]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 210
Specification for repairs to lead glazing, n.d. [c 1900]
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 211
File of estimates and tenders for aspects of church restorations, n.d.
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 212
18 December 1901
(1) Rev. Frederick Brown and the Finance Committee of the Houghton le Spring Parish Church Restoration Committee
(2) Thomas B. Goldstone of Sunderland, artist in stained glass
Agreement for (2) to carry out repairs to stained glass at Houghton Church
Consideration: £88 10s.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 213
14 June 1902
(1) Joseph Richardson of Houghton le Spring, painter and decorator
(2) Rev. Frederick Brown
Agreement for cleaning and painting the church to be completed by 2 August 1902
Consideration: £60 10s.
(1 paper)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 262
Schedule of proposed alterations to Lambton Mixed School with a draft letter to Mrs. Robinson discussing them, 5 July 1889
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 263
Circular from the National Society to the Secretaries of Church of England Associations discussing new Education Bill, 12 April 1902
(1 paper, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 264
File of correspondence from Houghton and District Amateur Harrier Club regarding use of the school in Dairy Lane with various schedules of use, 27 October 1908 - March 1910
(1 file, paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 265
Circular from Durham County Council giving notice of the enlargement of the council school, Houghton le Spring, 12 November 1920
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 266
Rough job specification for schoolmaster and organist with notes by George Thomas Lauther, successful applicant, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 267
The North Eastern Banking Co. Ltd., current account of New Town Sunday School Savings Bank, 15 January 1908 - 28 July 1914
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 268
number not used
Charities
Kepier Grammar School and Almshouse
Ref No. EP/Ho 269
Copy and translation of Letters Patent of Elizabeth 1 (2 April 1574) for the founding and erecting of Kepier School and Almshouse, Houghton le Spring, detailing powers of governors of the school, the manner of their appointment etc. and copy of a letter from J. Wharton at Lincoln's Inn to William Griffith, Master of Kepier School, dated 4 July 1751 giving progress of Hope v Griffith in Chancery
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 270
Notebook containing: copy of Letters Patent of Elizabeth 1 establishing Kepier School; the Statutes of Kepier School; the will of Rev. Bernarde Gilpin, Rector of Houghton le Spring, dated 27 October 1582; extract from the will of John Heath, senior, Founder of the School, dated 28 August 1589; extract from will of Richard Belassis of Marton, 6 February 1596; subscriptions of Anthony Aray, 12 November 1607, and William Stobert, 1686
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 271
Extract from Bernard Gilpin's will, 1902
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 272
25 June 1657
Appointment of Thomas Delavall of Hetton in the Hole, Esquire, as a Modern Governor of the Free Grammar School and Almshouse of Kepier (by John Heath of Old Durham, Esquire, as heir of John Heath late of Kepier and Nicholas Battersby, Rector of Houghton)
(Parchment, 1 membrane, 2 pendent seals)
Ref No. EP/Ho 273
Copy of the appointment of John Stapylton Grey Pemberton, M.P., to be a governor of Kepier School and Almshouse, 1902
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 274
Prospectus of the Kepier Scholarship Fund with a list of subscribers, 23 October 1845
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 275
Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Rev. John Grey and James Young, both of Houghton le Spring, regarding the Exhibition at the Kepier Grammar School and application of funds, enclosing copies of other correspondence on this matter, 8 - 12 November 1860
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 276
Letter from Richard Pemberton at The Barnes to Rev. John Grey discussing Kepier Scholarship, 15 November [1860]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 277
Copy of Rev. John Grey's memorandum to the Bishop of Durham (visitor of Kepier School) re. Kepier Grammar School and its governance, 31 January 1860
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 278
Draft and copy letters from Rev. John Grey to Lord Vane re. disagreements with Lord Dungannon over appointment of Mr. Taylor as a master of Kepier School and matters arising therefrom, 3 - 5 January 1860
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 279
Memorandum of agreement between the Governors of Kepier School and the Rector of Houghton to pay the latter 2/6 p.a. for easements granted by him, 15 February 1861
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 280
Report to Viscount Castlereagh and Richard Lawrence Pemberton, the Governors of Kepier School and Almshouse, on the almshouse and its endowments, 1878
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 281
Charity Commission authorisation to Kepier Free Grammar School and Almshouse to exchange lands in Houghton le Spring as specified, 10 January 1888
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 282
Letter from Houghton le Spring [Poor Law] Union to J. Bradford at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, re. Mary Lax, an inmate of the workhouse, and her Kepier Almshouse annuity, 13 December 1898
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 283
Correspondence received by Canon Brown at Houghton Rectory from H.B. Wright and Co., Solicitors, at Seaham, and Mrs. Corbett at Chilton Moor re. question of free scholars at Kepier Grammar School and Mrs. Corbett's recommendation of her gardener's grandson, 22 February and 7 March, 1904
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 284
Letter from John Pemberton, M.P., at the House of Commons to Canon Brown at Houghton assenting to filling the vacancy at Kepier Almshouse, 15 June 1904
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 285
Report of Mr. H.B. Wright to the Governors of the Royal Kepier Grammar School on suggested scheme to transfer the property and endowments to Durham County Council, with an appendix featuring observations by H.B. Wright, correspondence of Canon Brown and extracts from Bernard Gilpin's will, September 1905
(paper, 2 files, typescript)
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
Ref No. EP/Ho 286
Report of the first inspection of Kepier Grammar School by the Board of Education, detailing administration, finance, buildings, staff, curriculum, fees, age, class, etc. of scholars, 26 June 1906
(paper, 1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 287
Memorandum regarding draft scheme for reorganisation of Kepier Grammar School, n.d. [c 1906]
(paper, 1 file)
The official history of Houghton Hillside Cemetery website can be found online at: www.HoughtonHillsideCemetery.co.uk featuring burial records, photos and information.
Ref No. EP/Ho 288
Copy of proposed scheme for the reorganisation of the Royal Kepier Grammar School under the education acts, [1906 - 1907]
(paper, 1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 289
Copy of proposed scheme to remodel the government of Kepier Grammar School by the Board of Education, 11 July 1908
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 290
Scheme for the reorganisation of Kepier Grammar School, Houghton, and its endowments with covering letter from the Board of Education, 7 – 13 March 1924
(paper, 1 file, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 291
Correspondence between Henry B. Wright, Solicitor, at Seaham Harbour (Clerk to the Managers of the Royal Kepier Grammar School) and Canon Brown at Houghton with enclosures re. proposed transfer of school to the County Council, dealings with the County Council, schemes of reorganisation, proposals of the Board of Education, views of Governors, provisions for boarders, alterations to buildings, 10 February 1905 - 25 September 1908
(11 papers and 5 files)
Ref No. EP/Ho 292
Copy of H.B. Wright's instructions to H.M. Potts, architect, at Sunderland for the alterations to Kepier Grammar School, 12 January 1907
(paper, 1 file, carbon)
Ref No. EP/Ho 293
Letter from the Director of Education, Durham C.C., to Canon Brown at Houghton Rectory discussing future of secondary education in Houghton le Spring, 18 July 1905
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 294
Letter from Mr. Ditchfield at the Londonderry Offices, Seaham Harbour, to Canon Brown re. prospective changes to Kepier School, 19 July 1905
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 295
Letter from F. [Brown?] at Mansfield, Hastings, to Rev. R.H. Yeld discussing proposed scheme for Kepier School, undersirability of County Council's having preponderent influence on a revised governing body, 28 December 1907
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 296
Short report on the Kepier School Library by R.W. Ramsey, September 1905
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 297
Letter from Canon W. Greenwell at Durham to Canon Brown at Houghton re. absence of any papers concerning Kepier Hospital and School in the Cathedral Library, site of the school, details of Capt Hill, 9 June 1906
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 298
'Books form the Library of Ben Jonson' [refers to Kepier School] in Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, vol. XXVII, n.d.
(1 booklet)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 299
Letter from Wright Scott and Co., Solicitors, at Seaham Harbour, to Canon Adamson at 1, Belford Terrace, Sunderland, re. library of Kepier Grammar School, [draft reply on dorse], 28 June 1921
(1 paper)
Lilburn's Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 300
Copy of part of George Lilburn's will of 17 June 1675 relating to the establishment of his charity and of a letter from Jane Tooley (Lilburn's daughter) at Sunderland to Mr. Richardson, giving instructions re. the charity, n.d., [early 18th c.]
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 301
Opinion of C. Carlton in re. Lilburn's Charity, n.d.
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 302
Account book of Lilburn's Charity, 1847 - 1850
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref No. EP/Ho 303
Rent book for Lilburn's Charity, 1848 - 1871
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 304
Annual Accounts of Lilburn 's Charity, 1898 - 1906 and receipts, 1898 and 1903
(14 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 305
Correspondence between Henry B. Wright, Solicitor, at Seaham Harbour, Canon Brown the Rector of Houghton and his predecessor, Canon Norman, arranging details of latter's gift of £100 to the Lilburn Wing of Kepier Almshouse, 6 January 1897 - 13 June 1899
(10 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 306
Correspondence between Henry Wright, Solicitor, at Seaham Harbour, The Charity Commission and Canon Brown at Houghton discussing the endowments of Kepier School and Almshouse under charity of George Lilburn, 26 January 1899 - 18 May 1899
(3 papers and 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 307
Letter from Legge and Miller, Solicitors, Houghton le Spring, to the Rector requesting Canon Norman's deed of gift, 12 October 1936
(1 paper)
Bagshaw's Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 308
Extracts from, and summary of, the will of Rev. Dr. Bagshaw relating to the school and hospital, n.d.
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 309
Dr. Bagshaw's charity account book, 1824 - 1836
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 310
Bagshaw Charity financial journal and quarterly balances, 1898 - 1910
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 311
Annual accounts of Bagshaw's Charity with various receipts, 1898 - 1906
(31 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 312
Letter from J. Bradford at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R.H. Yeld at Houghton forwarding Bagshaw's Charity cheque, 26 November 1907
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 313
Correspondence between Houghton le Spring U.D.C., the Charity Commission, James Bradford at Vigo House, Chester-le-Street, William Ridley at Gilpin House, Houghton le Spring, Dr. Norman and Canon Brown re. letting Bagshaw's field to the Miners' Union as allotments for miners, 8 February 1898 - 14 April 1899
(8 papers)
Wheler's Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 314
Accounts of Sir G. Wheler's charity lands at East Rainton, August 1813 - May 1846
Includes: account of money disbursed for repairs to the Kepier hospital, 1816 - 1846; extract from Sir G. Wheler's will, 1723 instructing that the rent of the Rainton estate be divided between the Master of the Kepier School and the poor of Davenport's Almshouse, 1723; sketch plan and measurements of the estate, 28 March 1815; list of leases renewed, 1807 - 1842
(1 volume)
Ref No. EP/Ho 315
Rules of Sir George Wheler Charity, and admission of scholars, 1857 - 1902
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 316
Admissions book of scholars to [G. Wheler Charity School], 1907 - 1964
Enclosed: application form for benefits of Sir George Wheler's charity
(1 volume and 1 paper, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 317
Account of Sir George Wheler's Charity Rainton Estate, 1876
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 318
Annual accounts and subsidiary vouchers of Sir G. Wheler's Rainton Charity, 1898 – 1906
(25 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 319
Copy of further decree in Attorney General against the Bishop of Oxford, Richard Stonhewer and James Elliott, regarding Wheler's Charity, in Chancery, 27 October 1758
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 320
Copies of J.W. Farrer' s report of 31 January 1850, and Court Order of 23 February 1850 in the matter of Sir George Wheler's Charity, in Chancery, [Early 20th century]
(paper, 3 files)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 321
Correspondence between H.J. Marshall at Durham, Rev. John Grey at Houghton Rectory and Edmund James Smith at London regarding sale of Wheler's Charity estate at Rainton, 8 April 1875 - 31 March 1877
(5 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 322
Authority to sell property [see EP/Ho 321] of Sir George Wheler's Charity granted by the Charity Commission, 14 August 1877
Enclosed in EP/Ho 323
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 323
25 September 1877
(1) The Hon. and Rev. John Grey of Houghton le Spring, clerk, (Acting Trustee of Sir George Wheler's Charity)
(2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
Articles of agreement for sale of 51a.lr.24p. of land in East Rainton, in the parish of Houghton le Spring, as specified on annexed schedule, for the residue of a term of 21 years from 18 June 1870
Consideration £1650
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 324
Receipt and covering letter from the Charity Commission for 3% annuities purchased from the proceeds of the sale of lands of Sir George Wheler's bequest, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 30 March 1878
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 325
Letter from the Charity Commission to the Rector of Houghton to accompany receipt for £261 3% consols on account of Wheler's charity, 6 May 1879
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 326
Letter from the Charity Commission to the Rector of Houghton re. financial arrangements between Wheler's Charity and Kepier Grammar School, 20 March 1905
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 327
Letter from J. and T.A. Bradford, land agents and valuers at Vigo, Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R.H. Yeld re. Wheler's Charity payment, 9 January 1908
(1 paper)
Davenport's Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 328
Copy of, and extract from, the will of George Davenport, Rector of Houghton le Spring, dated 17 September 1776
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 329
Annual Accounts of Davenport's Charity, 1899 - 1906, with subsidiary receipts, 1899 and 1903
(20 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 330
Letters from the Charity Commission to Canon Brown re. repair of Kepier Almshouse and conduct of Davenport's Charity, 9 March - 16 May 1903
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 331
Copy verdict of Coroner at the inquest on Dorothy Myers of the Almshouses, Houghton le Spring, exonerating the governors of Houghton Grammar School, 29 November 1905
(1 paper, typescript)
Miscellaneous papers concerning Charities
Ref No. EP/Ho 332
Extract from the wills of Rev. George Davenport [1676], Rev. Henry Bagshaw D.D. [1708], Rev. Sir George Wheler D.D. [1719], all rectors of Houghton le Spring, endowing their respective charities, 22 November 1894
(paper, 1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 333
Miscellaneous receipts and lists of payments for Lilburn's Charity, Wheeler's Charity and Davenport's Charity, 1848 - 1876
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 334
Correspondence between the Charity Commission and the Rector of Houghton le Spring, re. arrears in Lilburn's charity, Dorothy Spearman's estate and state of Davenport's Charity with extract from report of 1837 on the same, 26 November 1883 - 12 April 1884
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 335
Vestry minute book, June 1863 - April 1923
Charity accounts of Lilburn, Davenport, Bagshaw and George Wheler (Rainton Estate) charities, 1862 - 1908
(1 volume, calf half-bound)
Enclosed: letter of J. and T.A. Bradford, land agents of Chester-le-Street, to Rev. R. Heart, Houghton le Spring, about payments made from the Bagshaw and Davenport charities, 6 June 1908
(1 paper)
Frankeleyn's Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 336
Copy of clause in Mr. Frankland's will [c 1569], with additional notes re. his charity, n.d., [c 1900]
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 337
Letters from the City Treasurer's Office, Newcastle upon Tyne, to the Rector of Houghton, forwarding payments of Frankeleyn's Dole, 24 December 1897 - 23 December 1909
(6 papers)
Carr’s Charity
Ref No. EP/Ho 338
26 March1727
(1) Ralph Carr of Cocken, Esquire
(2) The Inhabitants of the township of Houghton le Spring
Copy memorandum of agreement as to distribution of Lady Carr's Legacy with extract from her will of 7 March 1721
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 339
Letters from Haswell Brown, Borough Accountant, Sunderland, to the Rector of Houghton, regarding interest on £200 loan [Lady Carr’s charity] and forwarding same, 19 December 1901 - 19 December 1902
(4 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 340
Letters from F. Stobart at the Lambton Estate Offices, Fence Houses, to Canon Brown re. Cocken Dole arrears due from Lord Durham enclosing extracts from the will of Bernard Gilpin [1582] and the church book [1595], 13 September - 14 October 1902
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 341
Statement of the accounts of William Carr's Charity for year ending, 31 December 1902
(paper, 1 file, printed form)
Church House
Ref No. EP/Ho 342
Miscellaneous correspondence received by Rev. John Grey from Canon George Body, Durham Diocesan Missioner, at the College, and at Florence, Robert Boyd at Houghton, George F. Boyd at Newcastle, Hugh Boyd at 11 Kings Bench Walk, the Earl of Durham at Skibo Castle, Dornoch, V.I. Thompson at Rainton Grove, Fence Houses, F. Stobart at Biddick Hall, Fence Houses, Alfred Octavius Hedley at 16 John St., Sunderland, Lord Londonderry at Windlestone, Ferry Hill, T. Talbot Laing at Etal Manor, Cornhill on Tweed and elsewhere, and others with some draft replies, circulars etc. regarding the Robert Boyd Memorial Church House, its valuation, arranging for Canon Body to supply two nurses trained at the Mission House to assist him, provision of a residence for them by the generosity of R.F. Boyd, death of Boyd, discussions with his executors, offer of £150 by Grey's nephew, the Earl of Durham, towards house, miscellaneous letters accompanying donations, lists of subscribers, conveyance of White House, trust and trustees for Boyd memorial, 8 October 1889 - 21 June 1895
(47 papers, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 343
Correspondence between McKenzie and Hedley, 16 John St., Sunderland, V.I. Thompson at Rainton Grove, Fence Houses, and Baltic Chambers, Sunderland, and Rev. A.N. Norman at Houghton Rectory re. the Boyd Memorial Church House, opinion of Counsel, arrangement of conveyance, appointment of new trustees, forwarding of papers etc., 26 November 1896 - 16 November 1897
(17 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 344
Correspondence received by the Rev. C.E. Adamson, Rector of Houghton, from Legge and Miller, Solicitors, at Houghton le Spring, Annie Boyd at Carrigrohane House, Co. Cork, Canon Norman at The Red House, Berkhamstead, and V.W. Corbett at Chilton Moor regarding the R.F. Boyd Trust, the Charity Commissioners' proposed scheme for it, delapidation of Church House, proposals for a subscription, 25 March 1911 - 9 January 1912
(6 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 345
29 December 1920
(1) Rev. C.E. Adamson and Norman Robinson, trustees for the Boyd Memorial Trust
(2) Sam Todd of Houghton, Dentist
Agreement to let the Boyd Memorial House in Church St., Houghton for 1 year
Rent: £38
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 346
Bank book of Church House account, February 1891 - October 1906
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 347
Bank pass book, Church House Account, Houghton (Barclays), 1910 - 52
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 348
Church House accounts, July 1901 - January 1911
(1 volume)
Ref No. EP/Ho 349
Receipts from Church House account book, 1900 – 1901
(33 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 350
Miscellaneous bills and receipts re. Church House account, June - November 1910
(paper, 1 file)
Modern Charities
Ref No. EP/Ho 351
File regarding Canon Grey's Trust including an extract from the will of the Hon. Mrs. Helen Mary Grey, 11 August 1905, and correspondence between the Diocesan Office, Durham, and the Rector of Houghton, 22 December 1943 - 13 June 1947
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 352
File of correspondence between Swinburne and Jackson, solicitors, Chester le Street; Rev H.E. Ashdown, Rector of Houghton; and the National Savings Movement regarding the investment of the legacy bequeathed by Mrs. M.I. Gibb of Houghton le Spring, 18 July 1946 - 29 March 1947
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 353
File of correspondence regarding N.L. Gaul's Trust and future intentions regarding the uninhabitable almshouses between Legge and Miller, Solicitors at Houghton, Canon O.N. Gwilliam and others, 21 November - 2 December 1969
(paper, 1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 354
Council of Social Service for Durham County: Charities Review for Houghton listing charities, objectives, income, description of almshouses with copy of accompanying correspondence, details of discussions with Canon Gwilliam etc., 15 December 1970 - 8 April 1971
(paper, 1 file, typescript)
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Chilton Moor
Ref No. EP/Ho 406
The London Gazette, no. 23910 including an Order in Council creating the district of Chilton Moor out of the parishes of Houghton le Spring, East and West Rain ton and Newbottle, 18 October 1872
(3 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 407
Map of the District of Chilton Moor, n.d.
No scale
(1 plan, 86 cm. x 74 cm., ink, oiled linen)
Eppleton
Ref No. EP/Ho 408
Letter from the Bishop of Durham at Auckland Castle to Rev. J. Grey discussing Eppleton, 15 February 1883
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 409
Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. T. Rudd at Hetton Rectory agreeing to the establishment of a new Ecclesiastical District of Eppleton and discussing financial provision for it, 14 February 1883
(1 paper)
St. Cuthbert's, Herrington
Ref No. EP/Ho 410
File of correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Bishop of Durham, the Rev. John Grey Rector of Houghton, the Earl of Durham and others, regarding the endowment of a new church at Herrington in the parish of Houghton le Spring, with related memoranda, 17 August 1883 - 11 November 1884
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 411
Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Rev. T.F. Paterson at Herrington Vicarage, Fence Houses, re. grant for an assistant curate, 9 May 1889
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 412
The London Gazette, no. 25387 including arrangements regarding St. Cuthberts, Herrington, in the parish, formerly District Chapelry, of St. Matthew, Newbottle, 15 August 1894
(1 booklet)
Miscellaneous
Ref No. EP/Ho 413
Church accounts, 1896 - 1900 and Church House accounts, 1896 - June 1901
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 414
Ladies' clothing club account book, 1831 - 1847
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 415
Account book of agent to Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton le Spring detailing income from tithes, payments to curates, and rates etc., May 1867 - December 1891
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 416
Minutes of G.F S., December 1881 - November 1898
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 417
The North Eastern Banking Co. Ltd. Current Account of the Rectors' and Churchwardens' Provident Society, 1 July 1898 - 31 December 1918
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 418
Account book for the Parochial Tea in Lambton School, 30 September 1908
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 419
Account book of Houghton Sick and Poor Fund, 1908 - 1910
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 420
Accounts of tithes and assessment, glebe and other rents, Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Queen Anne's Bounty; notes on tithe and rectory house and buildings income tax payments and rectory balance sheets 1900 - 1907; Vicar's agent's accounts, 1910 - 1920; notes made by Rev. S.K. Knight of replies to an enquiry conducted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners into the financial resources of the Church of England, 1921
(1 volume)
Ref No. EP/Ho 421
Ladies' working party minute and account book, 1911 - 1915
(1 volume, paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 422
Men's Institute minute book, January 1924
(1 volume, leather quarter bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 423
Account of Houghton township rates, n.d., [18th. century]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 424
Valuation of the Township of Houghton-le-Spring (sent to Canon Brown by Mr. G.H. Aird of Seaham Harbour, 1902), November 1820
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 425
Provisional valuation of 17 Church St , Houghton, (House and Institute) under the Finance Act, 1910, 18 January 1914
(2 papers, printed forms)
Ref No. EP/Ho 426
Sermon preached by the Hon. and Rev. John Grey at Houghton, 17 August 1879
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 427
Order of service and resolutions of a meeting of 16 January 1884 re. Bernard Gilpin's Tercentenary, 10 April 1884
(2 papers, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 428
Extract from sermon by Canon Beeching, 1905
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 429
Copy and duplicate letter from the rector to the congregation with list of church workers, January 1911
(2 papers, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 430
Parish Magazine, no. 121, January 1911
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 431
Monthly Church Calendars listing feasts, services, baptisms, marriages, burials and reports on church activity, March - December 1911
(10 papers, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 432
Illustrated introductory leaflet to the activities of St. Michael and All Angels, Houghton le Spring, n.d., [1960s]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 433
Circular regarding change in time of Sunday School at St. Michael and All Angels, Houghton, 19 June 1966
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 434
Plan of Sunniside Village and environs, showing Houghton civil and ecclesiastical parish boundaries, n.d.
No scale
(1 plan, 19 cm. x 40 cm., ink, tracing paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 435
File of ground plans of unidentified house by Cordingley and McIntyre of Durham, n.d., [early 20th. century]
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 436
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Houghton Hall and the Wardenlaw Estate, the property of Rev. John Hutton, deceased, (Hutton v Mascall and Monypenny v Mascall in Chancery) with map, October 1839
(paper, 1 file, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 437
Population statistics of Houghton, 1 January 1906
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 438
Notes on the descent of William Gilpin, n.d., [mid 19th. century]
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 439
A tracing of Bernard Gilpins' handwriting, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 440
Memorandum regarding Bernard Gilpin’s will and the means of appointing the select vestry for Houghton, 1587 - 1733, 16 February 1848
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 441
Copy of poem by Rev. B. Kennicott, Curate of Houghton, 1815
(2 papers)
Ref No. EP/Ho 442
Copy case upon the will of Rev. William Sharpe and Mr. Fawcett's opinion thereon, 29 January 1784
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 443
North and South elavations of proposed extension to St Michael's Church, Westoe, made by Hicks and Charlewood, Grainger Street, Newcastle, n.d.
Scale 8 feet to 1 inch
(3 plans, 56 cm. x 36 cm., oiled linen, ink)
Ref No. EP/Ho 444
St. Michael's Church, Westoe, statement of receipts and payments for the year ending Easter 1911
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 445
Specifications for reconstruction of the Parish Church, Wolsingham, with various pen illustrations of detail, April 1845
(paper, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 446
Letter from T.F. Paterson at 3 Grove End Road, London, to Rev. J. Grey discussing devotional paintings seen at the Arundel Society, 28 July 1883
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 447
Lessons on the catechism, by Rev A. Cluny Macpherson, M.A., n.d.
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 448
Certificate of Ownership of 5% War Stock (1929 – 1947), 18 December 1920
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref No. EP/Ho 449
Bills and receipts for work on rectory, glebe and other items, 1876 - 1877 (15 papers and 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Ho 450
Letter from Rev. Frederick Brown at Houghton Rectory to Dr. Park re. charity papers in possession of rectors, churchwardens, and other related matter, 1 November
(1 paper)
Third Deposit
(Acc. 1653)
Registration
Ref No. EP/Ho 451
Register of banns of marriage, 22 September 1940 - 16 May 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 452
Register of banns of marriage, 2 May 1948 - 3 July 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 453
Register of banns of marriage, 26 June 1955 - 20 May 1962
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 454
Register of banns of marriage, 3 June 1962 - 6 April 1969
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Clergy
Ref No. EP/Ho 455
Register of confirmations, 17 December 1924 - 28 February 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 456
Register of services, 3 July 1921 - 4 January 1928
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 457
Register of services, 1 January 1929 - 3 February 1935
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 458
Register of services, 1 January 1935 - 6 April 1941
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 459
Register of services, 7 April 1941 - 27 April 1946
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 460
Register of services, 28 April 1946 - 9 October 1948
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 461
Register of services, 10 October 1948 - 31 July 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 462
Register of services, 2 August 1959 - 26 June 1966
(1 volume, plastic bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 463
Book of profits belonging to the parsonage of Houghton, covered with leaf from fifteenth-century liturgical manuscript, 4 May 1531
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 464
'Copy of the book of Houghton Parsonage', 14 May 1531, "a true extended copy" made by John Caley, 10 July 1815
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 465
Copy of will of Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton in the Spring, 17 October 1582, n.d., [copy made in seventeenth century]
(10 papers)
Tithe
Ref No. EP/Ho 466
Composition of tithe book of Thomas Secker, rector of Houghton (later Archbishop of Canterbury), 1724
(1 booklet)
Ref No. EP/Ho 467
Copy of entries from Church book relating to tithes, c 1724
Enclosed in HP/Ho 466
(3 papers)
Churchwardens (including fabric)
Ref No. EP/Ho 468
Lithograph of nave of St. Michael's Church, Houghton-le-Spring, c 1859
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 469
Elevation of design for organ case by H.L. Hicks architect, September 1943
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, paper, 39 cm. x 29 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 470
Photograph of bells removed from belfry, 1928
(1 photograph, black and white, 22 cm. x 16 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 471
Photograph of church bells before rehanging, 1928
(1 photograph, black and white, 13 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 472
Postcard of interior of church, n.d.
(1 photograph, black and white, 13 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 473
Photograph of exterior of church, 1970s
(1 photograph, colour, 11 cm. x 9 cm.)
Schools
Ref No. EP/Ho 474
Log book of Houghton National School, 9 March 1863 - 26 November 1885
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 475
Log book of St. Michael's Girls' School, 11 January 1869 - 28 February 1901
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Church Societies
Ref No. EP/Ho 476
Minute book of Houghton-le-Spring Deanery Central Missionary Council, 18 July 1952 - 24 June 1960
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 477
Minutes of St. Michael's Mothers' Union, 17 July 1944 - 21 November 1973
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 478
Register of members of, and speakers to, the Mothers' Union, 1945 - 1954
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 479
Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 1, 1956 - 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref No. EP/Ho 480
Register of members of the Mothers' Union, book 2, 1956 - 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Miscellaneous
Ref No. EP/Ho 481
Parish magazine, January 1873
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 482
Parish magazine, February 1873 - November 1873
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 483
Parish magazine, December 1873
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 484
Parish magazine, January 1874
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 485
Parish magazine, February 1874 - December 1874
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 486
Parish magazine, January 1875 - December 1875
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 487
Parish magazine, January 1876 - December 1876
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 488
Parish magazine, January 1877 - December 1877
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 489
Parish magazine, January 1878 - December 1878
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 490
Parish magazine, January 1879 - December 1880
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 491
Parish magazine, January 1881 - December 1881
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 492
Parish magazine, January 1882
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 493
Parish magazine, February 1882 - December 1882
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 494
Parish magazine, January 1883
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 495
Parish magazine, February 1883 - December 1883
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 496
Article concerning a visit to Houghton-le-Spring, July 1911, Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries, 3. ser., vol v, no. 6
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 497
Guide to the parish church, 1912
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 498
A pictorial guide to Houghton-le-Spring parish church, 1954
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 499
Etching of Bernard Gilpin, rector of Houghton, 1558 - 1583 , and prayer to his memory, n.d.
(1 paper, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 500
Postcard showing portrait of John Rotheram, rector of Houghton-le-Spring, 1769 - 1789, n.d.
(1 postcard, black and white, 14 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 501
Photograph of Rector Gray, rector 1847 - 1895 in a trap with his wife, and his pony "Bobby", n.d.
(1 photograph, black and white, 15 cm. x 10 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 502
Photograph of R. H. Yeld, rector, 1907 - 1910, n.d.
(1 photograph, black and white, 14 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 503
Photograph of Rector Adamson, rector 1910 - 1921, with his wife, son and daughter, n.d.
(1 photograph, black and white, 13 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 504
Photograph of Rector Knight, rector 1912 - 1924, with the Boy's Brigade and Boy Scouts, n.d.
(1 photograph, black and white, 14 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 505
Photograph of Rev. P. Fisher and lady parishioners, 1980s
(1 photograph, colour, 9 cm. x 9 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 506-509
Broadsides concerning a controversy over the provision of a burial ground and whether it ought to be managed by the rector or ratepayers, 5 December 1853 - 31 January 1854
(4 papers, printed)
Mission church of St. Mark
Ref No. EP/Ho 510
Order of service for the dedication of St. Mark's Mission Chapel, 29 September 1883
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref No. EP/Ho 511
License for the performance of divine service in St. Mark's Mission Chapel, 12 January 1884
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 512-524
Correspondence concerning the lease of St. Mark's Mission Church to the National Coal Board for use as part of a mining school, 20 September 1950 - 23 December 1953
(17 papers, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 525
Plan of mission chapel, Houghton-le-Spring, 28 December 1882
Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]
(1 plan, waxed linen, 47 cm. x 37 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 526
Sections of St. Mark's Mission Chapel, Houghton-le-Spring, 25 January 1883
Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]
(1 plan, waxed linen, 46 cm. x 36 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 527
South elevation of St. Mark's Mission Chapel,10 February 1883
Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]
(1 plan, waxed linen, 46 cm. x 33 cm.)
Fourth Deposit
(Acc: 1991)
Ref No. EP/Ho 528
Minutes of Ruri-Decanal Conference, 11 May 1966 - 17 April 1970
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 529
Minutes, correspondence and related papers of the Houghton Deanery Synod, 14 September 1970 - 14 June 1976
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 530
Minutes, correspondence and related papers of the Houghton Deanery Synod, 6 February 1976 - 8 April 1983
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 531
Correspondence, assessments under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, architects' reports and related papers concerning the upkeep, repair and modernisation of Houghton-le-Spring Rectory, 15 March 1949 - 11 November 1968
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 532
Correspondence, assessments under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, architects' reports and related papers concerning the upkeep, repair and modernisation of Houghton-le-Spring Rectory, 27 May 1971 - 31 January 1974
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 533
Correspondence, assessments under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, architects' reports and related papers concerning the upkeep, repair and modernisation of Houghton-le-Spring Rectory, 30 May 1974 - 13 December 1983
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 534
Correspondence, plans, valuations and sale agreements concerning the disposal of portions of Houghton glebe land, 22 July 1949 - 11 June 1979
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 535
Correspondence, report of consulting engineers, tenders, estimates etc. relating to the restoration of the east window, 26 July 1973 - 22 October 1975
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 536
Correspondence, estimates and plans concerning the restoration of the south transept window, 18 July 1975 - 17 January 1977
(1 file, typescript)
Ref No. EP/Ho 537
Faculty, correspondence, estimates and plans concerning the north transept and west windows, 21 October 1976 - 21 November 1979
(1 file, typescript)
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Witnesses: John Heath, Henry Smyth, John Morland
Annexed: Statement of arrears due to Kepier school from the manor of Cocken, and agreed dates for payment, 8 March 1651/2
Witness: Thomas Delavall
Endorsed: account of arrears, 1652 - 21 September 1658
(2 papers)
Houghton le Spring
Ref No. EP/Ho 599
12 April 1757
(1) Francis Myddleton of Offerton, esq., and Ralph Robinson of Ormesby, Yorkshire, esq., modern governors of Kepier school and hospital
(2) James Crake of Houghton, staymaker
Lease of a farm of land in Houghton, now in the occupation of Thomas Robinson as tenant, and divided into 2 closes. Covenant by (2) to build a stable or barn of lime and stone in the summer ensuing the date of the lease, for which (1) will refund £3 out of the first year's rent. (2) to use 6a. and no more in tillage and to leave 2a. fallow at the end of the term of the lease. [Other covenants regarding good husbandry specified].
Term: 9 years from 12 May next
Rent: £9 p.a. and £5 for every acre ploughed which is not now used as such, or ploughed with the permission of (1)
Endorsed: Memorandum that after sealing and delivery it was agreed between the parties that the straw of the way going crop be left by the tenant James Crake, he having entered upon the way going crop of the last tenant
(1 paper; impressed seals of Kepier School and Hospital, and (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 600
Description of premises comprised in a surrender dated 22 April 1857 from John Robinson Legge and George Lowsdell Calbreath, both of Houghton, gents., to the Most Hon. Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry - part of Hall Myers Field in Houghton, adjoining Kepier school premises on the south and the churchyard on the west, n.d. [19th c.]
(1 paper)
East Rainton
Ref No. EP/Ho 601
List of field names and acreages of unspecified property [?East Rainton] taken from a survey in possession of Mr. Smales, 3 June 1740
Endorsed: memorandum of Mr. Smales' proposals for cultivation of individual fields, n.d.
(1 paper)
GOVERNORS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
Appointments of Governors
Ref No. EP/Ho 602
[no day or month] 29 Eliz I [1586/7]
(1) John Heathe of Kepier, esquire, only surviving governor of the free school and almshouse of Kepier in Houghton in le Springe
(2) Robert Bellamy, rector of Houghton in le Springe
(3) Richard Bellassis, esquire
Appointment by (1), with the consent of (2), of (3) as governor in place of Bernard Gilpin deceased, late rector of Houghton
Endorsed: No. 29 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (1) and (2))
Ref No. EP/Ho 603
12 August 29 Eliz I, 11 bp. Ric. [1587]
(1) Richard [Barnes], bishop of Durham
(2) Richard Bellassis, esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as a governor of Kepier school in place of Bernard Gilpin, deceased, power of appointment having devolved to (1) by reason of the governorship remaining vacant more than half a year after Gilpin's death
Witness: Thomas Calverley, esquire, chancellor of Durham
Endorsed: No. 30 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane)
Ref No. EP/Ho 604
3 October 32 Eliz I, 1590
(1) John Heath of Kepier, esquire, son and heir of John Heath of Kepier, esquire, deceased, and Robert Hutton, rector of Houghton in the Spring, governors of Kepier school and almshouse
(2) John Hedworth of Harverton [Harraton], esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as a governor of Kepier school and almshouse in place of the late John Heath, the elder
Endorsed: No. 31 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; 2 seals pendant of (1))
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Ref No. EP/Ho 605
16 July 1649
(1) Thomas Heath of Kepier Grange, esquire, son and heir of John Heath of Kepier, deceased, and Reuben Easthorpe, rector of Houghton in le Spring, governors of Kepier school and almshouse
(2) Arthur Haslerigge, bart., and Col. George Fenwicke, esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as governors of Kepier school and almshouse in place of Sir William Belasys of Morton Grange and Sir George Bowes of Bradly Hall, both deceased
Endorsed: No. 32 [18th c. hand]
(Latin, parchment, 1 membrane; seal pendant of Thomas Heath)
Ref No. EP/Ho 606
Copy of EP/Ho 605, marked 'vera copia', 16 July 1649
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 607
Copy [made by Thomas Delavall] of:
25 August 1660
(1) John Heath of Old Durham, esquire (great grandchild and heir of John Heath, late of Kepier, esquire) and John Barwicke, D.D., rector of Houghton
(2) Thomas Delaval of Hetton le Hole, esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as modern governor of Kepier school and almshouse, in place of Sir George Bowes, deceased; and on reverse side:
21 October 1662
(1) John Heath and William Sandcroft, D.D., rector of Houghton
(2) Col. John Tempest of Old Durham, esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as modern governor of Kepier school and almshouse, in place of Thomas Lambton of Biddick, deceased
(1 paper)
Ref No. EP/Ho 608
16 September 1678
(1) John Tempest of the Eilse [Isle], esquire, and Henry Bagshaw, D.D., rector of Houghton in le Spring
(2) Sir Ralph Carr of Cocken, and Richard Midleton of Ufferton, esquire
Appointment by (1) of (2) as governors of Kepier school and hospital, in place of Henry Lambton of Lambton, esquire, and William Bellasses the elder, esquire, on their resignation
(1 paper; seals and signatures of (1))
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Appointment of Schoolmaster
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
Ref No. EP/Ho 695
Transverse sections showing new roofs over nave and aisles looking west and east, and longitudinal section through nave looking north, n.d. c.1857
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, 55 cm. x 47.3 cm., colour-wash)
Plans of alterations to Newbottle church
Ref No. EP/Ho 696
'Elevation of East end windows half inside and half outside', drawing no. 8, by Charles Harrison, senior, n.d.
(1 plan, 47 cm. x 20 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 697
'Elevation of Entrance door half inside and half outside', and section and plan of entrance door, plan no. 10, by Charles Harrison, senior, n.d.
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, 46 cm. x 30.5 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 698
Elevation of transept arch, n.d.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, 29 cm. x 32 cm.)
Ref No. EP/Ho 699
Plans of alterations to Wolsingham church
Ground plan, drawing no. 1, sealed by the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches, by G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
Scale: 9½ inches to 50 feet [1:63]
(1 plan, 72 cm. x 51 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 700
East elevation and transverse section looking east, drawing no. 2, by George Gilbert Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
Scale: 9½ inches to 50 feet [1:63]
(1 plan, 73 cm. x 51.5 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 701
Section through porch, section of chancel and west elevation, drawing no. 3, by George Gilbert Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
Scale: 9½ inches to 50 feet [1:63]
(1 plan, 51 cm. x 73 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 702
South elevation, drawing no. 4, by G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
Scale: 9½ inches to 50 feet [1:63]
(1 plan, 72 cm. x 51 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 703
Longitudinal section, drawing no. 5, by G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
Scale: 6¾ inches to 50 feet [1:89]
(1 plan, 66.3 cm. x 51.2 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 704
Section of roof timbers by George Gilbert Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, 26 April 1845
(1 plan, 66 cm. x 53 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 705
Drawing of jamb and arch moulding to chancel by George Gilbert Scott, architect, 20 Spring Gardens, London, n.d.
Endorsed: drawing of details of chancel arch: cap, base, corbel to support centre shaft and elevation of corbel, n.d.
Scale: full size
(1 plan, 104 cm. x 66 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 706
Details of porch: section of jamb and arch mould, profile, section and elevation of label and section of base, by G.G. Scott, architect, 20 Spring Gardens, London, n.d. c.1845
Scale: full size
(1 plan, 65 cm. x 53.5 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 707
Copy section of roof trusses, by G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, n.d. c.1845
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, 65 cm. x 53.3 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 708
Elevation, plan, section of seat, details of cap and base, of sedilia, by George Gilbert Scott, architect, 20 Spring Gardens, London, n.d.
Scale: 1/8th full size; full size
(1 plan, 66 cm. x 53.5 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 709
Interior perspective, looking west, by G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffatt, architects, 20 Spring Gardens, London, n.d. c.1845
No scale
(1 plan, 51 cm. x 41.5 cm., pencil)
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Ref No. EP/Ho 710
Plan and elevation of east window by Edward Barrow, 21 January 1847
Scale: 13 inches to 14 feet [1:13]
(1 plan, 59.3 cm. x 53 cm., colour-wash)
Ref No. EP/Ho 711
Details of east window: plan of column and arch, section of capitals and section of bases and string course, by Edward Barrow, 21 January 1847
No scale
(1 plan, 65.5 cm.x 53 cm., colour-wash)
Church Lane, H'ton.
Church Street, H'ton
Nesham Place, H'ton. Alan Vickers says "... the name above the shop is Hall, photograph probably before 1935. Further up the road on the left hand side you can see the Nesham Place Methodist Church. On the right hand side, hidden from view, is the Manor House where there is much history..."
E Metcalfe & Son, general carriers, H'ton. Alan Vickers adds "J Metcalfe was the proprietor who was listed in Whellan's Directory, 1894. He died in 1907 and was survived by his wife Elizabeth and I am presuming that she is the E Metcalfe named on the wagon and hoarding. E Metcalfe died in 1917 when the business passed to the sons. So somewhere between 1907 and 1917."
Guy Potts' steamrollers, Newbottle, H'ton.
This is Houghton Broadway with the original White Lion Hotel on the right. The large building to the left of it is the old market hall in Newbottle Street. The photo was taken during the first week of June 1905 to show off the first of the new Sunderland District trams just before the system opened on Whit weekend. The trams were thought to be the wonder of the age and ran from here for the next twenty years. Caption Malcolm Fraser
The White Lion, H'ton c 1900? Sign at corner of pub reads "Smyth".
Houghton Colliery and Gasworks. date?
The Mill, H'ton.
Flower Show at Houghton le Spring. Houghton Feast?
Church St. H'ton 1905.
Ormston's butcher shop, Sunderland St at entrance to "the Lake" Houghton c 1912
Houghton Fire and Rescue Station c 1912?
St. Michael and All Angels Church
The Moors Houghton
St Michael & All Angels Church
Detached Churchyard of St Michael & All Angels Church Sunderland Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Consecrated in 1854, no burials since the 1970s.
Houghton Feast
Houghton Cut and old cemetary
Sunderland St. Houghton-Le Spring. This used to be the main Houghton to Sunderland road but it was demolished in the 1960’s to make way for the A690
Rough Dene Houghton
Sunderland St before 1907
Hall and Presbyterian Church Houghton
Steam engine,owned by Mark Wakefield, Houghton le Spring. date?
Maltsters Arms, H'ton Market Place behind First Methodist Church, known as the Folds. Landlord John Wheatley. date?
Houghton grammar School
Copt Hill, Houghton le Spring c 1900.
Coronation celebrations in 1911, bonfire on Houghton Hill attended by three Boy Scouts.
vWhite Lion. Sign on corner of pub reads "Dixon".
The Lake in 1880.
The Rough Houghton le Spring c 1900
Newbottle Street in 1905, with Houghton Colliery in the background. The photo shows the line of the new Sunderland District tramway which was laid here in the spring of 1905. Notice the carter driving with his cart wheels running in the grooves of the track. This was common practice as it made the ride much smoother than running on the cobbled roads of the day. Caption Malcolm Fraser
Market Place Houghton le Spring, c 1900
This view along Newbottle Street from Houghton Broadway dates from about 1930. Sunderland District Omnibus number 35 is about to pass the chaps having a chinwag outside the original White Lion Hotel. It's obviously a Saturday and the Market Hall will be busy and so will the fourteen billiard tables upstairs. Photograph and caption from Malcolm Fraser
'The son of that Sir Roland, also known as Sir Roland Bellasis, fought for
King Henry III - and therefore against Simon de Montfort, the 'Father of
Parliament' - at the Battle of Lewis (1264), and the effigy of a knight in
an alcove at the end of the South Transept is believed to be a
representation of the younger Sir Roland. The other knight, on the floor
beside him, lacking his legs , is said by tradition to be Sir John le
Spring, presumably a member of the family whop had held the manor of
Houghton before the Bellasis' took over as a result of the defeat of King David'.
On Tramways -some further information to that in my previous email. The building that was adjacent to the SDO bus garage at Philadelphia was the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries (LH&JC) Power Station which generated electricity for use in their nearby collieries. There was a colliery network that ran to Dorothea, Herrington, Lambton, Lumley, Houghton, North Pit, Nicholsons, and Hazard to name but some of them. I worked at some of the substations on the network in c1953-4, very old swirchgear etc.
Bernard Gilpin's coat of arms or family crest features a wild boar, crescent moon, and oak tree. The Gilpin Family Crest. Heraldry became popular in the 1100s.
In the 13th.Century the Gilpin family lived in Kentmere Hall, near Kendal in the Lake District. King John granted Richard Gilpin the crest of a boar under an oak tree to honour his killing of a ferocious boar which was terrorising the neighbourhood.
Three centuries later, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, one of Richard’s descendants, Bernard Gilpin, became Rector of Houghton-le-Spring from 1557-1584.
Bernard was known as “The Apostle of the North” because of his evangelistic sorties on horseback through North East England.
He helped found Houghton’s Kepier School in 1574. He was a scholar and theologian who was politically not always on the popular side. He was only saved from trial and execution because the Queen died before he could reach London. His crest is now the logo of Houghton-le-Spring Rotary Club.s
Philadelphia, Houghton-le-Spring, named after Philadelphia, USA, during the American War of Independence 1776 - 1783
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HERITAGE WALK FOLLOWED BY LOCAL HISTORY DVD SCREENING on Saturday September 12th 2009 at 12 Noon
Newbottle Street Junior School County of Durham Education Committee This school was opened on 15 Dec 1906 by T.Richardson Esq., C.C
The rector of Houghton has sent the following additional note :
As regards the name of Houghton-le-Spring, we find in the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries the form Houghton in the Springe.
There are many springs in the neighbourhood, but possibly 'the
springe' is the 'Holy Well (chalybeate)' marked on the older ord-
nance map as existing in the garden attached to what is now 112
Newbottle street. This well, and the analogy of Chester-le-Street,
Dalton-le-Dale, etc., contrasted with Witton Gilbert, etc., somewhat
militates against the theory that the name is derived from Sir Henry
Spring, temp. Richard I, to whom one of the effigies in the church is
usually attributed
Houghton Branch of the Newbottle & District Co-Operative Society.
Trace Your Family History (TYFH) to Houghton-le-Spring
Where can I view the Memorial Inscriptions MI for Houghton-le-Spring? Just click HERE!
Where did Hangman's Lane, Warden Law, Houghton-le-Spring, get its name from?
Is there a hanging tree at the crossroads of Durham Road and Church Street in Houghton-le-Spring?
What is a tithe barn? Have you ever been inside it?
Click here to find out about the Royal Wedding Street Party in Houghton-le-Spring on April 29th 2011.
Join us as we celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton.
The party will start in Houghton at 12noon and is open to all residents.
All you have to do is bring a plate of food and a bottle of drink (non alcoholic) and a packet of balloons and party poppers.
Celebrate the Royal Wedding in Houghton-le-Spring! April 29th 2011.
Kate's great-grandfather would often visit Houghton-le-Spring. Find out more about Houghton's heritage in this website.
Kate Middleton, Hetton-le-Hole.
Kate's great-grandfather, John Harrison, b. Barrington Terrace, Hetton Le Hole, co. Durham, 25 July 1874 [entry no. 90], in 1891 1897 1901 and 1904 a coal miner, in 1934 a miner, d. ...
m. Register Office, Houghton le Spring, co. Durham, 23 Feb. 1897 [entry no. 112], from: http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
From pit to palace.
Houghton Le Spring7 Mar 2011 ... From pit to palace: Kate's coal mining ancestry ... which shows Kate Middleton's great grandfather in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
From pit to palace: Kate Middleton's coal mining ancestry ...19 Apr 2011 ... A relative of Kate Middleton's shows an image of Middleton's great-grandfather Tom, front left, in Houghton Le Spring, England. ...
Where in County Durham did Kate Middleton's ancestors come from?
Sunderland Echo 21/11/1902 Page 2
Deceased Colliery Managers
Yesterday afternoon the remains of Mr Joseph Stokoe who died at Edinburgh on Monday, at the age of 71 years, were buried in the churchyard of Newbottle Parish Church. Deceased was a son of Mr Michael Stokoe, colliery manager, of Philadelphia, and began work under his father passing through the several stages of a pitmans life until he was appointed manager of Houghton-le-Spring Colliery. This position he held for 30 years, but when seven years ago the new arrangement was made he retired.
He was a member of Houghton Board of Guardians for 40 years, and sat also as a representative on the old Houghton Local Board when Sir George Elliot and the late Mr Robinson (the Brewery) were members. When an Urban District Council was created, he became the first chairman, and in consequence, a justice of the peace for the county. Deceased had two sons-Mr T Stokoe, who was manager at Heworth Colliery, and Dr Ben Stokoe, Medical Officer of Gateshead-but both are dead. A daughter survives.
Heritage
boost for
Coalfield
A TASK group has been
launched to promote
and protect the history of
Sunderland’s Coalfield
area.
Made up of local
groups, volunteers,
council officers and
councillors, the task
group is putting together
an action plan to raise
the profile of historic and
interesting sites across
the wards of Copt Hill,
Houghton, Hetton and
Shiney Row.
Thanks to £10,000
Strategic Initiatives
Budget (SIB) funding
from the council’s
Coalfield Area
Committee, the task
group has commissioned
the charity North of
England Civic Trust to
produce a catalogue of
historic buildings,
collectable items, old
photographs, diaries and
archives.
While some of these
are held locally by private
individuals, others are
held in public archives
and museums, mainly
across the North East.
Councillor Denny
Wilson, Portfolio Holder
for Safer City and Culture,
said: “The Coalfield area
has a rich history which
we need to protect and
promote. The first step is
to establish what is there
and where it is housed,
before deciding how to
make the most of our
historic treasures.”
Welcome to the Houghton-le-Spring Family History Society
In the writings of the Venerable Bede (673-735) we read that the English Christians were permitted by St. Gregory on their Church dedication day to make themselves bowers about the Church and feast together and refresh themselves in good religious sort; to sacrifice their oxen in praise of God which they were before wont to offer to the Devil. Small wonder than that Bernard Gilpin did of his generosity as "Father of the Poor" roast a whole bullock for the poor and infirm of Houghton in the Spring, a tradition which is being re-enacted t his very year.
Houghton Feast then is our oldest festival... a Feast of Worship, rededication and rejoicing. Long may it last. This is the reason why on Feast Sunday the various Civic leaders and representative public bodies will attend the family service of rededication and thanksgiving in the Parish Church; why the choir will sing to the folk assembled below; why, after Evensong, a vast concourse will crowd the Broadway for the Community Hymn singing led by massed choirs of the United Churches to the music of the Hetton Silver Prize Band.
Gilpin the Giver and Apostle of the North by Jack Jacques
Life in the North East of our hundred years ago presented a dark picture of Poverty and hardship, ignorance and violence. The area had been depopulated by William the Conqueror and had never really recovered!
Bernard Gilpin - Rector of Houghton-le-Spring from 1557 to 1584, Beloved Apostle of the North did much to improve the lot of the common people in the North East at a time which had its difficulties for parsons too. He became rector under the catholic Queen Mary and continued under Queen Elizabeth I who strove to hold catholic and Protestants together in one church.
Born in 1517 at Kentmere Hall near Kendal, Westmorland. Now Gilpin was one of eleven children - at 16 years of age he went to Queen's College Oxford to read Greek and Hebrew - he made a special study of the Bible in these original languages.
From 1552 for a while he had charge of the parish of Norton on Tees. But in 1557 Gilpin became Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, a very large parish indeed in those days, comprising 16 villages or more. In 1547 the population of Houghton Parish was 2,000 to 3,000. Now Gilpin's outstanding quality was his hospitality and though he had a large stipend of about £400 a year, neither the rectory nor the salary was large enough for this generous giver - it is said that money never stayed in Gilpin's pocket! it simply passed through on its way to the Poor. He thought nothing of giving away his cloak or his horse to a needy person. Every Thursday he ordered that a 'very great pot' should be provided full of boiled meat for the poor!
Twenty four of the poorest of his people were his constant pensioners, and for many years he provided board and lodging in the rectory for 20 to 24 grammar school boys, most of them free of charge .
Every Sunday from Michaelmas to Easter the intestar of Houghton rectory resembled a huge feast with gentry, farmers and labourers dinning together at three long tables and there was an open invitation for any parishioners to join in the feast on these Sundays.
Everybody was welcome, from the richest official of the Queen's court to the poorest person in Houghton, now Gilpin became known as the "Common Father of the Poor"
Northerners took him to their hearts and filled his church eager to hear his wise and gracious sermons.
Life for many of the ignorant took on a new dimension. It is recorded that the fortnightly menu of this large household was 40 Bushels of corn and a whole ox (cow), in addition to other proportionate provisions. In order to maintain this hospitality Gilpin himself lived very frugally, it was said if a horse strayed from his owner , it would be sure to find its way to the rectory stables. A noted thief once declared that the devil himself would punish him if he stole one of Gilpins horses!
Without neglecting his own parish Gilpin paid yearly visits to other distant parishes of Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmoreland, Cumberland and Northumberland, travelling on horseback in the robber infested countryside. At Rothbury he quelled family feud in the church itself! Two families armed with spears and swords faced each other in church clanging their weapons impatiently. Gilpin entered the pulpit and strongly denounced violence. The two families appreciated such courage in a parson and listened to the sermon.
After the Rothbury incident any person in fear of his life knew he could be sure of safety in any church where Gilpin preached! In another Northern parish Gilpin fearlessly removed a glove placed high in the church as a challenge in a family feud and again strongly denounced such practice in any church; Gilpin was always ready for any emergency- one day when arriving at a church in a Northern Parish- a man galloped up on horseback with a dead child lying on the saddle in front of him. He thrust the dead body into Gilpin hands saying "Here parson! Do the cure" and galloped off so Gilpin held a service over the little body and so buried himself the little boy in the churchyard.
When the rectory become too small for the many pupils lodging there, Gilpin established the Kepier Grammar School around the year 1566- he gave a whole year's income towards the cost of this Venture! and needed to exercise the strictest personal economy to do so, for the poor children of Houghton in 1583 Bernard Gilpin was knocked down by an OX in Durham Market Place- he never fully recovered from this accident and he passed away on March 4 1584 in his 67th year, he was buried the next day in a tomb in the south transept of Houghton Church! worn out by his constant labours "Gilpin the Giver" had finally given his life. Prematurely in the service for the Northern People he loved so well- "he was truly one of our Greats"
Jack Jacques
Beaufield
Newbottle
April 8th 1996
Houghton Feast 2001
Each year I am delighted to comment on the Festival of Houghton Feast… a truly unique community effort.
I am particularly pleased that the theme of this year's Festival is CELEBRATION: to commemorate the regeneration of Houghton-le-Spring. Through regeneration, we have seen the recent refurbishment of The Broadway and Newbottle Street, and now welcome the new Library and Learning Centre and Co-op Supermarket, both facilities should breath new life into our Town.
And what better way than to celebrate with the Festival of Houghton Feast.
This years Feast has an amazing seventy different events and attractions taking place, catering for all.
The week long Literature Festival will herald the opening of the new Library, and will feature rock opera to celebrity authors, a 'murder squad' themed event and, of course, many children's library events and activities.
The traditional well-established events are again very much supported by a unique range of new attractions and concerts, there is a breathtaking variety of things to do and see during the Festival.
I am sincerely grateful to my colleagues of the Festival Steering Committee who have worked tirelessly during the past twelve months to produce this packed programme… for you ALL to enjoy…so let's celebrate.
Councillor JOHN MAWSTON
Chairman, Houghton Feast Steering Committee
Houghton Feast History by Sally Mitten
It is a common belief that Houghton Feast began as a celebration for a man named Bernard Gilpin, who was a rector for Houghton Le Spring parish in the Sixteenth Century. He was born in 1517 in the village of Kentmere, Westmorland, above the town of Kendal. He was the younger son of Edwin Gilpin, Lord of the manor of Kentmere.
At the age of sixteen Gilpin went to Queen's college, Oxford, to study Greek and Hebrew. A year later he was transferred to a college of the new learning - Christ Church College. He was ordained in 1541 in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Before becoming a Parish Priest Gilpin was invited to preach at Greenwich. What had been a private conversion to Protestantism, Gilpin made public during this sermon. While acting as Bishop Tunstall's Chaplain and living in Durham Castle, accusations of heresy were made against Gilpin. As well as those interested in his sermons, there were informers present acting for Bishop Bonner - who wanted more people to be arrested for heresy. Gilpin was offered the post of rector of Houghton le Spring, which he gladly accepted in 1558.
HOUGHTON FEAST 2001
The Festival Opening Ceremony and the Switch On of the Town illuminations is held in The Broadway and against the Backdrop of the beautiful St Michael and All Angels Church.
The Floodlit Arena plays host to colourful marching bands and military processions.
The Feast festive day is held on the first Saturday of the Festival and throughout the day the Town Centre becomes alive with a mix of arts and entertainment involving art Exhibitions, Street Theatre, outdoor music concerts, Carnival Procession featuring colourful floats, classic cars. The large funfair is operational all day. The Festival week commences with the Historical and Traditional Ox Roasting Ceremony followed by a Spectacular Free Fireworks Display set to classical music.
The Programme continues mid week with a series of musical concerts and workshop activities provided by professional, semi-professional and local enthusiasts. Several static exhibitions are held by local Art & Photography Clubs, together with Church Floral Displays.
Each year the Festival looks to support and promote new ideas and initiatives such as a "CYBERFEAST" computer/internet event introducing all to new technology whilst making it fun for all ages.
The Houghton Community Library provides a venue for different but hugely popular performances such as: -
Storyteller Theatre Co's production of "Pinocchio" for primary school ages and the Flabbergast Arts production of "A String of Pearls", nostalgia music and song which was attended by groups provided by Age Concern. Again these aspects of the Feast Programme are designed to cater for all ages of the community.
The highlights of the second weekend of the Festival include a 2 day Annual Horticultural Show which attracts record entries from all the Northern region and produces record breaking entries.
The sporting events feature the Family Fun Run, Harriers Races, Rugby Tournament and Family Country Walk, which again attract a record entry.
The local church community are very involved with the Festival; the Annual Civic Service is attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Sunderland, the High Sheriff of Tyne & Wear, many Members of Senior Officers of the Council, together with representatives of other local churches and community organisations.
The Festival of Houghton Feast continues to provide a unique mix of activities and events providing a Festival without comparison in the City of Sunderland.
Houghton Feast is the oldest and most traditional yearly Festival in the City of Sunderland. The Festival origins date back to the Tudor times, however over the second half of this century major efforts have been made to boost these celebrations. The original Feast was said to have dated back to the times of Bernard Gilpin who was a rector of Houghton le Spring during the sixteenth century. There are some people who would dispute this, as the Festival was important as both a religious and a community event. The Feast has evolved and changed to meet the differences in today's society. It dwindled significantly during the early parts of the twentieth century but was revived by a Canon Gwilliam, who was a Rector of Houghton from 1948 to 1972. Gwilliam persuaded the Urban District Council to become fully involved with the planning and presenting and also subsidising the festivities, which helped to link together the religious and community aspects of Houghton Feast's Traditions. This continued until 1974 when the County borders changed and Houghton le Spring became part of Tyne & Wear and Sunderland Council took over.
Houghton Feast became a regionally promoted attraction organised by the City of Sunderland Council. Today, the Festival is organised by a committee that has representatives from more than thirty local community groups, who organise the Feast and encourage other community groups to take part. The Council introduced illuminations into the Town Centre and Rectory Park and there is also a funfair run by the members of the showmen's guild, who operate on the rectory field.
Your quick guide to the full variety of festival events.
Poetry Readings
Themed Readings
Craft Workshops/li>
Drama Workshops
Quizzes
Reading Groups
Celebrity Talks
Local History Groups
Bookk Signings
Author Visits
Rock Opera
Rock n Roll
Massed Choirs
Pipe Bands
Operatic/Musical
Brass Bands
Variety, Music & Dance
Ceilidh
Folk Concert
Barber Shop Harmony
60's Night
Street Buskers
Photographic
Radio Communications
Art & Craft Sale
Demonstrations
Art Work
Horticultural Show
Exotic Birds
Enactment Battles
Ox-Roasting
Carnival Parade
Tea Dance
Countryside Walk
Street Theatre
Aikido & karate Events
Family Country Walk
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Coffee Mornings & Events
Special Services
Galloping Gilpin Extravaganza
Civic Service
Well-dressing
Peal of Bell-Tower Bells
Heritage Hop
Carnival Parade
Rugby Tournament
Fun Fair
Fireworks
Sports Displays
Harriers Races
Family Fun Run
Comedy Shows
Circus Shows
Details of venues and dates are included in the Events page, however for further
information contact the Festival Hotlines:
0191-5141235, 0191-5536601
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