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; & Witton Gilbert 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 Edmondsley, Harraton, Lambton, Clerk, Frederick J. Gray, Front street Lame;ley Lumiey (Great), Lumley (Little), Ouston, Treasurer Thomas .Albert Binks, North Eastern Ban}{ Pelton, Piawsworth, Urpeth, 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, Cuthbert 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; Gateshead Witton Gilbert district, John Hill Ross Garson M.B., Martin Nicholas Henry, Ravenswood,Low Fell,Gateshead C.M., D.P.H. Sacriston 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= •