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- 'Adventurers and Pirates' - Hetton Coal Company, 1820
- Looking back at Consett Steel Works
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County Durham remembers VE Day 1945
- 'We have come through' - Remembering VE Day 1945
- 9th Battalion DLI: From D-Day to Berlin
- 9th Battalion DLI: VE Day
- 9th Battalion DLI: In Berlin, June - September 1945
- Berlin Victory Parade, 7 September 1945
- Victory Parade at Belsen, 8 May 1945
- The Northern Echo, Victory edition, 9 May 1945
- VE Day and Durham Schools
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Burma 1945
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Rangoon Victory Parade, 15 June 1945
- VE Day and the Durham Miners' Association
- County Durham celebrates VE Day
- Haswell Victory Celebrations, 1945
- Soldier: Victory Souvenir edition, 8 May 1945
- Parade: European Victory edition, 26 May 1945
- VE Day not forgotten by one Spennymoor family
- County Durham celebrates VJ Day
- Victory Day, 8 June 1946
Directories
Information about trade directories in Durham County Record Office.
Trade directories were published from the late 18th century onwards and list the tradesmen and more wealthy inhabitants of each settlement.
Using trade directories gives a brief introduction, prepared by the Record Office in partnership with Durham University.
Durham County Record Office holds directories for:
County Durham
1827, 1828, 1829, 1834, 1848, 1851, 1855, 1865, 1879, 1890, 1902, 1910, 1914,
1921, 1925, 1929, 1934 and 1938.
Durham City
1846-1915, 1931-1937, 1939, 1951-1953
The city directories include street indexes and Durham Obituaries.
Directories in the Record Office Library - online catalogue.
Digital collections
Historical directories of England & Wales is an online digital library which includes digitised images of 12 County Durham directories.
The Vision of Britain website's descriptive gazetteer combines the full text of four 19th century gazetteers, a total of over 90,000 entries:
- John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872)
- Frances Groome's The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885)
- Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)
- John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
Search for a County Durham place name to find the relevant text. Here is an example for Durham city: