Reference code: GB-0033-COCA
Title: Durham Cathedral Old Choristers' Association Records
Dates of creation: 1897-1977
Extent: 6 volumes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Durham Cathedral Old Choristers Association
Language: English
The Association was first formed in 1897 at a meeting attended by 27 old choristers, the minutes of which are recorded as the first entry in COCA/1. The archive does not currently hold COCA items after 1977, although the Association is still
(2013) in existence and active.
The collection contains items relating to the history of the Durham Cathedral Old Choristers' Association 1897-1977; including minutes of AGMS and committee meetings, annual reports and financial accounts, information on membership and reunion
events.
Deposited with Durham Cathedral Library by the Association at various times. Transferred into custody of Durham University at 5 The College, July 2016 (accession Misc.2013/14:66)
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Reprographics Officer at Durham Cathedral Library (library@durhamcathedral.co.uk). The Library will assist where possible with identifying
copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
MinutesDates of creation: 1897-1974
COCA 1 10 February 1897 - 18 December 1914
Annual General Meeting and Committee minute book, recording the establishment of the Association on 10 February 1897, with printed rules, with subsequent amendments, inserted, also printed annual reports and accounts inserted.
Paper book paginated xix + 284 + iii
COCA 2 10 June 1914 - 30 September 1951
Annual General Meeting and Committee minute book, with annual reports and accounts, and increasingly lists of proposed officers, reunion programmes, and dinner menus (1948-1951) - some signed - inserted. [No meetings held 1940-1946.] Association
rules amended and reprinted in 1927.
“L.J. Jones” inscribed on p.i.
Paper book paginated, iii + 326 + iii (some loose and p.170-195 missing), with 39f inserted
COCA 3 8 December 1951 - 6 April 1971
Annual General Meeting and Committee minute book, (minutes increasingly and from September 1959 exclusively inserted) with annual reports and accounts, lists of proposed officers, reunion programmes, and dinner menus inserted. Also festival
programme, order of service and dinner menu for the meeting of the National Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers' Associations in Durham in September 1953.
Paper book paginated, xxix + 258 + iii, with many insertions
COCA 4 22 June 1971 - 5 November 1974
Annual General Meeting, Committee and Festival Committee (1972 only) minute book.
Paper book 128p, with 10f inserted
OthersDates of creation: 1906-1977
COCA 5 25 April 1906 - 1 October 1977
Register, signed by those (members and guests) attending the AGMs/Reunions and dinner, with gaps 1914-1919 and 1939-1946.
Paper book 112p, with 1f inserted
COCA 6 December 1924
List of Old Choristers Also Organists, Precentors, Lay Clerks, printed by George H. Proctor of the Market Place, Durham. Photos of the cathedral exterior from the NW and the choir interior looking E. Listing choristers
etc chronologically and alphabetically (with addresses), with many corrections and additions up to 1940.
Inscribed on the front cover: “E.A. Knight”.
Printed paper booklet 22f, paginated 1-16, graingerised, text block detached
Formerly numbered: Add Ms 126.
