Miscellaneous Photograph Albums

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Introduction

	Contents
	Arrangement

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Catalogue

• A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
• A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
• A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
• A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
• C.J. Saunders photo album
• Van Der Heyden Scouting photo album
• University of Durham Centenary Celebrations scrapbook
• James Haworth photos
• C.W. Gibby railway photo album
• C.W. Gibby railways & buildings photo album
• H.B. Tristram photo album
• W.A. Bramwell photo album
• James Wilkinson Bede College photo album
• Dennison photo album
• Durham Castle portraits photo album
• G.T. Gordon Bede College photo album
• Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
• Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
• Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
• Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album

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Contents

A number of the albums relate to Durham University, its people, buildings, events and activites, especially sporting. Other subjects include Durham city, railways, in Co Durham, staff and students of Bede College in Durham, Durham, European resorts, Scottish and Irish scenery, British churches, military service in the First World War, and boy scouting.

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Accession details

Presented by various donors at various times

Conditions of access

Open for consultation.

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

Generally numbered in chronological order of accession

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Processing

A word-processed list had been drawn up by c.2000 which was converted to XML and augmented by Michael Stansfield January-August 2008.

Accruals

Further accessions may be anticipated

Catalogue

A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
Reference: MIA 1
Dates of creation: 1907 - 1914339 BW prints, almost all with typescript or manuscript captions by AAM-G, mounted on thick card leaves in an album, with spine (“Photograph Album”) and front (“A.A.M.-G. 1907-1914”) titles

The first of four photograph albums of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Angus Macfarlane-Grieve (1891-1970) covering principally his time as a student and then member of staff at Durham University.
Photographs of AAM-G's sporting and military activities at school (the Perse) and Durham university, especially rowing at university, featuring the annual collegiate races in November/December and March and the races against Edinburgh university in June, with generally all the crews who entered being photographed in action and some as groups; also images of races in the Durham Regatta in June, the Henley Royal Regattas of 1913 and 1914, and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat race, also the Durham university Officers Training Corps on its various summer camps with other university OTCs, other views of university life in Durham and of Durham in general, particularly the river Wear.
Two scrapbooks of AAM-G are in the University College archive at UND/F1/H5.
A collection of glass plate negatives of AAM-G's brother, Gavin Malcolm, covering similar scenes 1912-1914 is at UND/F1/H1.
Digitised material for Durham University Library Miscellaneous Photograph Albums 1 - A.A. Macfarlane Grieve

A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
Reference: MIA 2
Dates of creation: 1914 - 1922349 BW prints, almost all with typescript or manuscript captions by AAM-G, mounted on thick card leaves in an album, with spine (“Photograph Album”) and front (“A.A.M-G. 1914-1922”) titles

Photographs of AAM-G's military training and war service with the Highland Light Infantry and then the Seaforth Highlanders, including some German prisoners after the War, and then rowing at Durham University featuring the annual collegiate races in December and March and the races against Edinburgh university in June, with generally all the crews who entered photographed in action and as groups; also images of the Durham regatta races in June, Henley Royal Regatta, the Tideway Oxford/Cambridge boat races, and also the Durham University OTC on its summer camps with other university OTCs.
Digitised material for Durham University Library Miscellaneous Photograph Albums 2 - A.A. Macfarlane Grieve

A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
Reference: MIA 3
Dates of creation: 1922 - 1925204 BW prints of varying sizes, some by commercial photographers as recorded, pasted on to the album pages, most with captions by AAM-G

Photographs of rowing at Durham University featuring the annual collegiate races in December and March and the races against Edinburgh university in June, with generally all the crews who entered photographed in action and as groups, also images of the Durham Regatta races in June and the Tideway Oxford/Cambridge boat races, Durham university OTC on its summer camp with other university OTCs, and a summer holiday in Scotland.
Digitised material for Durham University Library Miscellaneous Photograph Albums 3 - A.A. Macfarlane Grieve

A.A. Macfarlane Grieve photo album
Reference: MIA 4
Dates of creation: [1923] & 1925 - 1927225 BW prints, mounted on thick card pages, with some captioned by AAM-G

Photographs of rowing at Durham University featuring the annual collegiate races in December and March and the races against Edinburgh university in June, with generally all the crews who entered photographed in action and as groups, also images of the Durham regatta races in June, Durham university OTC on its summer camp with other university OTCs, and summer touring and camping holidays in Scotland and Ireland.
Digitised material for Durham University Library Miscellaneous Photograph Albums 4 - A.A. Macfarlane Grieve

C.J. Saunders photo album
Reference: MIA 5
Dates of creation: 190714 BW prints mounted on paper, encapsulated, on thick card, in an album

Photographs relating to C.J. Saunders' time as a theology student at University College, Durham. Endorsements on the photos by Saunders have been transcribed by his son R.C. Saunders.
Charles James Saunders graduated LTh from University College, Durham, in 1907 and was ordained deacon in 1909 and priest in 1910. During the First World War he was mentioned in dispatches in 1917 and won an MC in 1918. He subsequently held various livings in the diocese of Manchester, his last incumbency being as vicar of Old St George, Stalybridge, 1946-1949.
Saunders bequeathed the volume to the university along with his rowing trophies; it was deposited in the University Library in 1986.

Van Der Heyden Scouting photo album
Reference: MIA 6
Dates of creation: [c.1917]188 BW prints stuck on to the leaves of a now disbound album

Photographs of boy scouts at camp, many of the Middlesbrough High School Scouts Camp at Osmotherley in July 1917 - the only two captioned photos state this - and other camps of possibly the same group, depicting the various camp and scouting activities, noted by David Ramage (Durham University Librarian and scouter) as belonging to Mr Van Der Heyden.

University of Durham Centenary Celebrations scrapbook
Reference: MIA 7
Dates of creation: June 1936 - December 1937, mostly 1 July 193712 BW prints, with also newspaper cuttings, invites, programmes, correspondence and other printed material stuck on to card leaves in an album

A record of the centenary celebrations of the university of Durham at Durham on 1 July 1937, comprising photograph proofs of the convocation in the Durham Castle quadrangle, all the formal programmes, service papers and invites for the various functions in Durham and Newcastle and the associated correspondence, seating plans, with also the previous and subsequent newspaper pieces on the celebrations.
For further material on the centenary celebrations, see UND/AA1/3.

James Haworth photos
Reference: MIA 8
Dates of creation: [c.1900]32 BW photographs, mostly sepia on rather fragile German paper

The photos are mainly of resorts in Switzerland, and were probably bought commercially to judge by the sequence numbers and firms' names at the foot of some. Howarth, in his Who's Who entry, lists as a recreation, “walking”, and the date of the pictures may be c.1900.
Rev. James Haworth (born 17 December 1853, Blackburn; died Easter Monday 6 April 1942, at Gordon Mount, Crossgate Peth, Durham City) graduated from Hatfield College in 1879, with a degree in maths. He returned to Durham in 1885 as vice-principal of St Hild's College (Church of England training college for women teachers), and was principal of the college from 1888 until 1910. He was vicar of Haswell, Sunderland, 1910-1913 and of South Hetton 1913-1938, when he finally retired aged 85.
Presented by Miss Margot Johnson of Durham, who acquired the collection from Miss Haworth, presumably Canon Haworth's sister, who lived in the Bailey, in 1960.
The prints have been arranged alphabetically by town irrespective of country, and have been placed individually in acid-free-paper covers. Some of the subjects are not identified and these have been placed at the end of the sequence.

C.W. Gibby railway photo album
Reference: MIA 9
Dates of creation: [c. early 1960s]175 BW photographs, mounted on loose album pages, usually four per page

Co. Durham railway stations, related buildings and locomotive works, with a few trains in action, taken and identified by Dr. C.W. Gibby.
Presented by Dr. Gibby
Digitised material for C.W. Gibby railway photo album - MIA 9

C.W. Gibby railways & buildings photo album
Reference: MIA 10
Dates of creation: mostly the 1950s and 1960s139 black and white photographs, mounted on loose album pages

Photos taken by Dr. C.W. Gibby of buildings in Durham City. He was particularly concerned with those demolished in the 1950s and 1960s, and also railway stations and viaducts in Co Durham, continuing the collection in MIA 9 above, also by Dr. Gibby.
Digitised material for C.W. Gibby railways & buildings photo album - MIA 10

H.B. Tristram photo album
Reference: MIA 11
Dates of creation: late 19th century39 black and white photographs, mounted in an album of 32f, produced by Thomas Robertson, fancy stationer of 7 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh

Photographs of medieval churches and a few other buildings, mostly in England and Scotland, and scenery in Scotland, Devon, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Israel. Most (possibly all) are commercial photographs. Many have the photographer's serial number and initials or name printed at the foot; these are given at the end of the handlist description for the photographs concerned.
Henry Baker Tristram was born at Eglingham, Northumberland, 11 May 1822, and educated at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. It was as incumbent of Castle Eden and Master of Greatham Hospital, Co. Durham, in the 1850s and 1860s that HBT developed his interest in natural history as well as bringing up a large family (he married Eleanor Bowlby in 1850). From 1874 until his death on 8 March 1906, HBT was a residentiary canon of Durham Cathedral. He suffered from lung trouble, which required recurrent visits to North Africa and the Holy Land where he engaged in important and meticulous studies of natural history, especially of birds. He published widely on aspects of the Holy Land and his collections of birds and their eggs have provided significant groups in the Natural History Museum in London and the Public Museum in Liverpool. His travels also extended to Japan and China.
A pencil inscription on the volume's front pastedown states that the photographs were collected by Canon H.B. Tristram and that the volume was purchased at the sale of the household contents of Professor P.J. Heawood (Tristram's son-in-law) by Mr. Louis Allen, who presented it to the library. Other albums presented by Mr. Allen containing photographs of the Middle East and possibly associated with the Tristram family, but too late in date to have been collected by H.B. Tristram, are located with the Oriental MSS (MSS OR/Eur.58/1-5).

W.A. Bramwell photo album
Reference: MIA 12
Dates of creation: [c.1900]94 BW photographs, loose, some mounted, others merely in Secol sleeves

Photographs of churches in Scotland and England and of a few secular buildings, collected and presented by W.A. Bramwell. Most are identified in pencil on the back, and in some cases the photographer is also named. Many of the photographs of Scottish churches are identified as having been taken by M. (or? Mr) Powles in 1899, and most of the others, similar in size and appearance, are probably also by him. The photographer of many of the Yorkshire churches was A. Bailes of Durham, although one is attributed to C.C. Hodges of Hexham. Bramwell himself probably took at least some of the remainder.

James Wilkinson Bede College photo album
Reference: MIA 13
Dates of creation: 1910 - 191163 BW prints, inserted in an album of 6 grey card leaves in alternate oval and rectangular apertures, with a glazed mottled cover with the arms of the diocese of Durham and a photo of Durham cathedral from the mill on the river on the front, titled “Mr Friends”

Album of photographs of Bede College staff and students, with an inscription “Jas Wilkinson” and ms title “Bede Students 1909-11: - and staff” on the front pastedown, and ms inscriptions, some autograph, with the names and some nicknames. The images are half-length, seated, mostly outside a doorway, with the subjects dressed in suits and ties, with one in uniform.
Presented by Dr. C.W. Gibby, 1979.
Digitised material for James Wilkinson Bede College photo album - MIA 13

Dennison photo album
Reference: MIA 14
Dates of creation: late 19th/early 20th centuryAlbum of 157 black and white and sepia photographic prints; photographs 124-157 were found loose in the album and are now in an envelope kept with it (but not found 13 August 2008)

The subjects include historic buildings, streets and seaside scenes in Co. Durham, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and family photographs. Mrs Dennison was unable to identify either photographers or the people who appear on the photographs, which seem generally late 19th and early 20th century snapshots. The only clues derive from inscriptions on the back of nos 134 and 142. No.134, a photograph of a portrait of a woman, carries a pencil note, “Miss Patrick Durham 6”. No.142, of the cornmill on Durham river banks, has inscriptions “G.S. Patrick Kepier Lodge”, and “J. Patrick Junr Solicitor Albion Chambers 1 Silver St Durham”. The elder John Patrick, son of George Patrick, both solicitors, died 24 January 1885, aged 67. His home was 67 Hallgarth Street, Durham City. The elder John Patrick is buried at St. Oswald's Durham. Mrs. Patrick died 28 October 1904. Her residence was then said to be Kepier Lodge. In the early years of the 20th century the legal practice was based at 2 Silver Street and, by 1906, at 26 Market Place. A number of photographs of Hallgarth Street and Kepier are included in the album. If/how the Patrick family and the Dennisons were connected is not known.
Deposited with Durham University Library c.1991 by Mrs. Dennison, widow of Frederick Dennison (1914-1985, mayor of Durham 1968-1969).

Durham Castle portraits photo album
Reference: MIA 15
Dates of creation: [1991]Plastic slip-in album containing 36 black and white photographs

Portraits and the royal arms hatchment in the Great Hall of Durham Castle. The portraits are of bishops of Durham and prebendaries of Durham Cathedral, vice-chancellors, professors and other members of staff of the University of Durham and of University College. The album was made as a security record, and has pencilled identifications on the back of each photograph.
Deposited by the bursar of University College, 1995. The negatives are held by the college.

G.T. Gordon Bede College photo album
Reference: MIA 16
Dates of creation: 1911 - 191364 BW prints, inserted in an album of 6 grey card leaves in alternate oval and rectangular apertures, with a glazed mottled cover with the arms of Bede College and a photo of the college front, titled “Mr Friends”

Album of photographs of Bede College staff and students, with an inscription “G.J. Gordon” and ms title “1911-1913” and “Bede College Durham” on the front pastedown, and ms inscriptions, some autograph, with the names and some nicknames. The images are half-length, seated, mostly outside a doorway or against a foliage backdrop, with the subjects dressed in suits and ties, with one in uniform.
Presented by Mrs J. Mather (Belford, Northumberland) via the Bede Centre of the City of Sunderland College, 1996.
Digitised material for G.T. Gordon Bede College photo album - MIA 16

Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
Reference: MIA 17
Dates of creation: December 1985 - May 1987
Photos (all identified) of Wade Hall-Craggs' time as a student at Durham, featuring: rowing training and racing at York Head, Nottingham Head, Durham Regatta (including prize-giving in the Castle); DUBC 1986 (Eric Halladay, Paul Johnstone, Mike Dick, Hugh Mitchell, Ben Lyster-Binns, John Holden, Peter Davison, Steve King, James Eves, Gerald Blake, Justin Young, Andy Batt, Geoff Porter, Chris Daly, Graham Angus, Wade Hall-Craggs, Simon Atkinon, Paul Harris, Sue Flood, Derrick Wood-Thompson, Julie Deadman, in zephyrs and singlets) and Grey College groups 1986; Marlow and Wargrave and Shiplake regattas; renovating and parties in 6 Willans Buildings; DUBC trial VIIIs; chalet party in the Alps; snowballing and ice-breaking on the Tyne; snow and ice in Durham; more student parties at 6 Willans Buildings, Ramside Hall Hotel, Royal Station Hotel Newcastle (NUBC dinner) and Dunelm House; Trent and Tyne Heads; a new boat; Union Society fashion show; York Head; work on the railway at The Lawn; visit to Brussels and Belgium; party at Tanfield Lodge; DAF power sprints.
Given by Wade Hall-Craggs 29 July 2009, Acc No Misc.2009/10:41.

Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
Reference: MIA 18
Dates of creation: May - November 1987
Photos (all identified) of Wade Hall-Craggs' time as a student at Durham, featuring: student parties and life in Durham at 9 Highwood View, 3 Farnley Ridge, 6 Willans Buildings, and 60 Hawthorne Terrace, also on a beach; rowing training and racing at Holmepierrepoint Regatta, Durham Regatta (and prizegiving in the Town Hall), Marlow regatta, Henley Regatta, Wargrave and Shiplake Regatta; some Durham views, stays at the Hall-Craggs home at The Lawn featuring the railway and a party involving a marquee; WH-C's archaeological research at Penhill Preceptory; visits to Bruges Belgium and the Jumba ruins excavations Kenya; views of Farm Lodge Petersfield; the Wear in flood; The Amazon Ball at Lumley Castle; featuring WH-C's Morris Traveller and also a rolled and damaged MGB.
Given by Wade Hall-Craggs 29 July 2009, Acc No Misc.2009/10:41.

Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
Reference: MIA 19
Dates of creation: November 1987 - May 1988
Photos (all identified) of Wade Hall-Craggs' time as a student at Durham, featuring:: student parties in Durham at 9 and 17 Highwood View, 6 Willans Buildings, and 30 Atherton St, also dinners/balls at Thornton Watlass Hall, Kinlochmoidart (including clay-pigeon shooting & wet beach walks), Ramside Hall Hotel, Berkeley Square London, The Lawn, Colherne Road Earl's Court, Little Langley's Steep, Chollerton Grange, rowing training on the Tyne and Tideway (including flooding), and racing at Rutherford Head, Trent Head, Chester Head, Tideway Head, Notts City Regatta, his Archaeology dissertation on the Templar Preceptory at Penhill, picnic above Brancepeth Castle, Archaeology Society dinner in Castle Senate Room, St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club dinner at the Thrre Tuns Hotel, Union Society fashion show, and working on the railway at The Lawn
Given by Wade Hall-Craggs 29 July 2009, Acc No Misc.2009/10:41.

Wade Hall-Craggs Photo Album
Reference: MIA 20
Dates of creation: May 1988 - January 1989
Photos (all identified) of Wade Hall-Craggs' time as a student at and immediately after (graduated 1988) Durham, featuring: a picnic near Brancepeth; rowing training on the Tyne, DUBC 1987/88 group, racing at Durham Regatta (and with trophies), Marlow Regatta, Henley Regatta (and collecting Visitors' Cup trophy), on Ullswater, the Great North Boat Race; student parties and life in Durham at 9 Highwood View, 9 Mayorswell Close, 6 Willans Buildings (also in the garden there), and Allington House; other parties and stays at Wick Farm Hants, Guildhall Newcastle, The Lawn, South Pool Devon, the Honourable Artillery Company Ball, University College Middlesex Ball at Cafe Royale; holiday in Cornwall; post exams in Durham outside Elvet Riverside; Durham Archaeology Dept group 1988; Durham Miners' Gala; trip to Botswana with views of Gaborone, campsite in the bush at Maun, rock art in the Tsodilo hills and crocodile camp at Maun; Kew Gardens Palm House; Varsity [rugby] match at Twickenham socialising; Tideway Scullers boathouse; Chiswick river views.
Given by Wade Hall-Craggs 29 July 2009, Acc No Misc.2009/10:41.