DIRECTORY, J DURHAl\1, OEil!l8TIR•Ll!:•STREiT, 67 Post Office, Chester Moor. John Reed, sub-postmaster. Officials. Letters arrive 7.20 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at 4.40 Clerk, Robert Victor Dickinson, Chaster-le-Street &:; 10.15 a.m. & 5.40 & 6.55 p.m.; no sunday delivery. Assistant Clerk, W. A. Horn, Chester-le-Street Durham road, Chester-le-Street, is the nearest money Treasurer, Thomas E. Hodgkin, of Lloyds Bank Limited, order office & Chester-le-Street head office, ~~ milE's N ewcastle-on-Tyne distant, the nearest telegraph office Medical Officer of Health, John Taylor M.D.,C.M.Aberd., D.P.H.Camb. The Parade, Chester-le-Street URBAN DISTRICT COU:KCIL. Surveyor, John H. Mole, Chaster-le-Street Meetings held monthly at Council chambers. Inspectors of Nuisances, Birtley Division, George B. Members. Brown, Birtley; Washington Division, Thomas S. Chairman, Robert Lawson. Wadge, New Washington; & Division, Robert J. Swaddle, Durham road, Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street Ward. Retire April Retire April Tom Dufty ...•••...... • 1915 Joseph Young Robson .. 1916 CHESTER-LE-STREET HIGHWAYS COMMITTEE. William Middleton ... 1915 John Turnbull ...... 1916 Joseph Russell ...... 1915 Wm. UsherCuthbertson 1917 Clerl•, Robert Victor Dicl!:inson, Chester-le-Street Robert Smith ...... 1915 Albert Henry Fennell .. 1917 Surveyor, George W. A.yton, Chester-le-Street Thos. Finlay Punshon .. 1916 John Joseph Henderson 1917 Pelt on Fell Ward. CHESTER-LE-STREET UNION. Robert Lr.wson ...... 1)I.:; IEclward Lowry ...... 1916 Board DJy, every alternate tlmrsday at the Union offices, Joseph Richardson ...... 1915 Lemmrcl Usher ...... 1917 · at 2 p.m. Chester Moor Ward. The following are the places in the union: Barmston, John Holt ...... •····· ...... 1915 Biddick (South), Birtley, Bourn Moor, Chester-le­ Officials. Street Cocken , Harraton, Lambton, Clerk, Frederick J. Gray, Front street Lame;ley Lumiey (Great), Lumley (Little), Ouston, Treasurer Thomas .Albert Binks, North Eastern Ban}{ Pelton, Piawsworth, , Usworth (Great & Little), Medical Officer' of Health, David Duncan M.B. & C.M. Waldridge, Washington & Witton GiLbert. The popu­ Aberd. Front street lation of the union in 1911 was 78,5go; total acreage, .Smveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, W illiam Ridley, 34,620; rateable value at Lady Day, 1914, £363,629 Council chambers, Front street Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Eli Cook, 19 Collector, Robert Trotter, 19 Oakdale terrace Industrial street, Pelton Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Robt. Victor Dickinson, Chester-1e-Street COU~TY MAGISTRATES FOR MIDDLE DIVISIO~ OF CHESTER WARD PETTY SESSIONAL Assistant Clerk W. A. Horn, Chester-le-Street DIVISION. Treasurer, Tho~as E. Hodgkin, Lloyds Bank Limited, Newcastle-on-Tvne Durham Earl of K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O. (lord lieut.), Relieving & Vaccination Officers, Chester-le-Street dis­ Lambton castle, Chester-le-Street trict, Sam Shepherd, The Parade~ Chester-le-~treet; .Armstrong Hy. The Grove, Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne Birtley district, Laws, Butler; Washmgton Barrett Charles Rollo, Whitehill hall, Pelton Fell district, John E. Harrison, New Washmgton Bolam Bertram, :&lckville, Birtley Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Birtley district, Bullock Francis Callender, Bank house, Chester-le-Street David Wilson M.B., C.~. Birtley (medical officer) & Cook Joseph, Cnmberland house, Harrogate Nicholas Philipson L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Birtley (public Duberlv George, Plawsworth cottage, Chester-le-Street vaccinator); Chester-le-Street district, Augustus Fenwick Herbert George, Temple Dinsley, Hitchin Cecil Renton M.B., Ch.B. St. Mary's house, Chaster­ Kirkup Philip, Leafield house, Birtley le-Street· Harraton district, Daniel Albert Robert Liddell the Hon. Cvril Arthur, Ravensworth castle, • Farquha;son M. B.~ C. M. Glebe house, Washington; Witton Gilbert district, John Hill Ross Garson M.B., Martin Nicholas Henry, Ravenswood,Low Fell,Gateshead C.M., D.P.H. Mitchell William, The Elms, Chester-le-Street Mole John Robert, Weldon's terrace, Pelton The Union workhouse, erected in 1856 & enlarged in 1899, Newall Frederick Stirling, Castle hill, Wylam-on-Tyne forms an extensive pile of brick buildings, at the so-uth Newall Geoffrev Stirling, Snnniside, Hexham · end of the town, & will hold 230 inmates; John T. Shafto Robt. Chas. Duncombe, Whitworth pk.Spennymr Dunn, master; Rev. Alured Bayfield de Moleyns M.A. · Shafto Slingsby Duncombe, Beamish hall, Beamish. hon. chaplain; Augustus Cecil Renton M.B., Ch.B. Wood Arthnr Nicholas Lindsay, The Herm1bge. medical offict>r; Mrs. R. Dunn, matron Chester-le-Street Wood Sir Lindsay bart. D.L. The Hermitage, Chester-le­ 0HESTER-J,E-STREET REGISTRATION DISTRICT. Street Superintendent Registrar, Robert Victor Dickinson, The Chairman, for the time being, of the Chester-le­ Chaster-le-Street; deputy, John Crawford, Chaster-le­ Street Rural District Council & the Chester-le­ Street Street Urban District Council are ex-officio magistrates Registrars of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Chaster-le­ Clerk, Ernest J ohnson Pearce; office, Front street, Street sub-district, Frederick W. Mole, Cheater-le­ Cheater-le-Street Street· deputv, Robert J. Swaddle, Durham road, The following places are included in . the P_etty Sessional Cheste~-le-Street; Harraton sub-district, J. M. Diviai{)n :--Qhester-le-Street, Beamtsh, Butley, Grange Lawson, Birtley; deputy, Thomas Coates, Birtley Ville, Kibblesworth, Ouston, PerkinSTille, Pelton, Weet Pelton, Pelton Fell, Waldridge, Chester Moor, Nettles­ BURIALS JOINT COMMITTEE. worth, Plawsworth, Eighton Banks, part of Fat:field, For the Ecclesiastical parish of Chaster-le-Street, formed · Edmondsiey, Harraton, North Biddick, Lamesley, in 1894 of 11 members. South Pelaw, Newfield, Michaels Villa, Ravensworth Colliery & Urpeth Clerk, John Tnrnbull. Mains house Superintendent, Thomas Walker Petty sessions are held every alternate wed. at 10.30 a.m • The County Police Station, a building of stone, includes PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. a residence for the inspector (William David Barlow) having charge of the district ; there are 2 sergeants Board of Trade Labour Exchange, Ashfield terrace & 10 constables attached. The Court House adjoining Cemetery, John Turnbull, clerk to the burial authority; WI,IS erected & completed in x8g6 Thomas Walker, supt

CHESTER-LE-STREET RURAL JJISTRICT TERRITORIAL FORCE. OOUNCIL. The townships in the District are the same as in the 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (C Co.), 10 Lum­ Union, with the exception of Chester-le-Street. The ley terrace, Capt. J. A. S. Ritson, commanding; Color-Sergt. William George Francis, drill instructor area. is 32,109 acres; population in 19II, 63,878 Northern Cyclist Battalion (D Co.), Middle Chare, Council meetings are held at the Union offices, Chester­ Color-Sergt. Michael Ruddy, acting officer in com­ le-Street, monthly. mand & instructor -Chairman, Eli Cook, 19 Industrial street, Pelton DURHAM 51= •