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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
CROOK and BILLY ROW constitute a township of and ecclesiastical district, formed in 1845 from the parish of Brancepeth, in the Southern division of the county, north-west division of Darlington ward, Auckland union and county court district, rural deanery of Northern division of Darlington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, is a polling place for the Southern division of the county, 5 miles north-north-west from Bishop Auckland, and 10 south-west from Durham. There is a station here, on a branch of the Stockton and Darlington railway to Bishop Auckland. The church of St. Catherine, a Gothic stone structure, was restored in 1877-78 at a cost of £1,500; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, with 1 bell, and contains a very beautiful font: the church will seat about 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1845. The living is a rectory, yearly value £330, in the gift of the rector of Brancepeth and held by the Rev. John King, M.A. of Durham University. There is a Catholic church in the Gothic style, with schools adjoining. The Wesleyans, Baptists, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodists, Presbyterians and Moravians have chapels. A Welsh service is held every Sunday evening in the Wesleyan Methodist schoolroom. A School Board was formed in 1875 for the united district of Crook, Billy Row and Helmington Row, consisting of seven members. There is also a Burial Board. The Cemetery is situated at Wheelbottom, the area is 8 acres: it was enlarged in 1878 at a cost of £2,500: there are two mortuary chapels. The Mechanics’ Institution is a large stone building, erected in 1867 at a cost of £1,000, and contains about 800 volumes. Francis Legge, Esq., Frosterley, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Viscount Boyne, Messrs. Joseph Pease and Partners, Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. Limited, and Messrs. Mawson and E. and A. Wilkinson. The soil is generally light; subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes and grass. The area of the parish is 3,908 acres and the population in 1871 was
is the ecclesiastical district, 9,395. The rateable value is £42,732; and of Helmington Row £10,977
Billy Row is a hamlet, part of which is in Stanley parish, situated about a mile north from Crook. Here is a National school, built by Joseph Pease, esq., in 1855; also Miners’ Institute. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. Messrs. Pease have extensive collieries with coke ovens here, the produce of which is known in the markets as “Pease’s West.”
Helmington Row, Sunnybrow, Job’s Hill and Helmington, also Sunnyside, are places in this parish
Parish Clerk, James Longstaff
*POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICES, Savings Bank, Insurance & Annuity Office (Railway Sub Office), Hope street.—Thomas Jolly, postmaster. Letters arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 6 p.m.; on sunday 9.10 a.m.; dispatched at 4.50 p.m. & 6.40 p.m.; on sunday 8.55 p.m. Telegraph office open from 8 to 8; sunday, from 8 to 10 a.m.
**POST OFFICE, Sunnybrow.—**John Rutherford, receiver. Letters arrive from Willington at 8 a.m. & dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Willington
Insurance Agents:
National Provincial Plate Glass, G. Laxjun, Gladstone st
Queen, J. M. Allison, Pease’s West colliery
Royal, T. Brown, 19 Hope street
Sovereign Life, J. Bygate, Woodfield colliery offices; J. & W. Wilson, South street
Westminster Fire, T. E. Bell, 20 Hope street
Public Establishments:
Police Station, Hope street, — Smith, sergeant
Burial Board, John Dawson, clerk
School Board, Ralph Dixon, clerk
Town Crier, A. Tulloch
Assistant Overseer, Collector of Rates & Assessor of Taxes, Thomas Edward Bell, Township offices
Relieving Officer, John Joel
48 CROOK. DURHAM. [POST OFFICE
SCHOOLS:
Board (for boys, girls & infants), James Tait, master; — Heaton, assistant master; Miss Elizabeth Wallace, mistress; Miss Meggie Wallace, infants’ mistress
Board, Helmington Row, Joseph Holmes, master; Miss Pottle, infants’ mistress
Crook.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Blackett Cuthbert, Hawthorne buildings
Bousfield Richard, 10 Dawson street
Corner Mrs. 33 Hope street
Dixon Ralph, West Road house
Dodd Rev. Thomas [Presbyterian], Victoria street
Dowscott Robert, Wilson street
Fenwick Rev. Ralph [Primitive Methodist], 17 Dawson street
Fletcher Rev. William [Baptist], Gladstone street
Gowland John, Hawthorne house
Jones Samuel Taylor, White Lee house
Keay Joseph Henry, Market place
King Rev. John, M.A. Rector
Lee John, 9 Dawson street
Mackay Alex. M.D. Palmfield house
Milburn Edward, 16 Hope street
Newcombe Wm. (Private), North terrace
Pippet Rev. Augustine [Catholic], Church hill
Powell William Laws, Brougham cot
Stephenson Mrs. Greenfield house
Teeseyman Rev. John [Wesleyan], Wesley house
Timms Rev. F. P. [Moravian], con-
mercial street
Turnbull Charles, Foundry field
Turnbull Michael, Foundry field
Wilkinson Very Rev. Canon [Catholic], Thistle flat
COMMERCIAL.
Abbott William, livery stable keeper, Addison street
Addison Leonard, fish & potato dealer, Addison street
Addison Thomas, butcher & tobacconist, 6 & 7 Hope street
Allison Hannah (Miss), Queen’s Head, Commercial street
Anderson Joseph, currier, Commercial st
Anderson Thomas, grocer, Wilson st
Appleton John, grocer, Commercial street
Backhouse J. & Co.’s bank (branch of), Hope street, open on tuesdays from 11.30 till 2.30; draw on Barclay, Bevan & Co. London
Bainbridge Ann (Mrs.), 51 Commercial st
Beckwith Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, Addison street
Beckwith Anthony, grocer, Gladstone st
Bell George, grocer, 57 Hope street
Bell John, wine & spirit merchant & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants, 20 Hope street
Bell Thomas, draper, assistant overseer, collector of rates & assessor of taxes, Township offices
Black Christopher, grocer, 39 Victoria st
Blackett Margaret, James Mills, miller & dress maker, 12 Hope street
Blackett Robt., boot & shoe maker, 2 Hope st
Blair Wm. wine & spirit dealer, 40 Hope st
Body Ralph, grocer, Mill street
Bodd Richard, grocer, 43 Hope street
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Limited, colliery proprietors & fire brick manufacturers (Samuel Taylor Jones, manager; Ralph Dixon, cashier), Woodfield colliery
Davis Robert, manager at Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Limited, brick works, Commercial street
Brown Barbara (Miss), milliner, 70 Hope st
Brown John, tailor, Church hill
Brown Thomas, printer, stationer & news agent, 10 Hope street
Brown Thomas Anderson, auctioneer & cabinet maker, 17 Hope street
Brown William Henry, newsagent & bill poster, Church street
Brown William, tailor & draper, Market place
Bunston Wm. joiner & cabinet maker
Calvert Robert, sewing machine agent, 4 Glasson street
Campbell Peter, ironmonger, North terrace
Campbell Peter, saddler & harness maker, 11 Hope street
Carr Thomas Birks, painter & glazier, Hope street
Carr Wm. Mattison, painter, Mill street
Carter Thomas, Surtees inn, South street
Close Edward, plasterer, 39 Victoria st
Cotts Tom Dale, plumber & gas fitter, Commercial street
Colcock John, chymist & druggist, 6 & 8 Hope street
Cook John, tailor, 61 Hope street
Co-operative Stores (William Bunpin, manager), Market place
Cowen Agnes (Mrs.), dressmaker
Cragg John, butcher, Church street
Crook Burial Board (John Dawson, clerk)
Crook Colliery & Fire Brick Works (Chapman & Morson, proprietors)
Crook Equitable Building Society (William Robson, sec.), Commercial street
Crook Gas Co. (Robert Dodds, manager), works, Arthur street
Curry Wm., blacksmith, Church hill
Cunningham Matthew, china, glass & earthenware dealer, Morrison street
Davison Joseph, school board attendant officer, Croft street
Dawson Matt. timber merchant, St Cuthbert street
Dickinson Joseph, chemist, Market place
Dobinson Jas. Crown inn, 13 Commercial st
Egglestone Charles, beer retailer, Church st
Egglestone Joseph, beer retailer, Mill st
Eley Geo. & Wm., general dealers, Bridge st
Elliott Geo. grocer & tea dealer, 44 Hope st
Emmerson George, draper, Hope street
Fairhurst William, grocer, Wilson street
Fell R. Stephenson, engraver, 25 Hope st
Gibbon John, butcher, 48 Commercial st
Gibb Geo. watch & clock maker, 30 Hope st
Gill James, fruiterer, North terrace
Gordon Robt., tailor & draper, 52 Hope st
Gowland John, grocer, 10 Church st
Graham John, railway station master
Graham James, fruiterer, 22 Hope st
Gray Matthew, farmer, Watergate
Green John, grocer, 18 Church street
Grey Wm. mason, grocer, 59 Hope st
Grundy Robt. greengrocer, 51 Hope st
Hall Jesse, draper & outfitter, 20 Church st
Hall Thomas, beer retailer, West road
Hanson Robert, confectioner, 72 Hope st
Hardy Thos. fire brick manuf., West view
Hare John, builder, Gladstone street
Hedley Thomas, butcher, Commercial st
Hemsley Thomas, grocer & draper, Commercial street
Herron Robert, butcher, Crook steam mills
Hinchley John, plumber & gas fitter, Addison street
Hodgson Ralph, butcher, 12 Hope st
Hughes Charles, shoe maker, Church st
Humble Richard, grocer, 23 Commercial st
Humble Richard, jun., grocer, Church st
Hutchinson William, builder & joiner, Commercial street
Jackson Joseph, tailor, 6 Emmerson st
Jackson Thos. photographer, 5 Emmerson st
Johnson Jeremiah, officer for Crook district of the Prudential Life Assurance Company, Grey street
Jolly Thomas, grocer & tobacconist, 14 & 15 Hope street
Catholic, the Sisters of St. Paul are the teachers
National, Billy Row, Samuel Barkas, master; Miss Elizabeth Coates, mistress
British, Sunnybrow, Richard R. Taylor, master; Miss Margaret McDonald, mistress
Kearsipp, Henry, surgeon, Market pl
Kellett Anthony, builder, Dawson st
Kidd James (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Church st
Kyle James, general furnishing ironmonger; depot for patent picks, copperstone gear, drills &c. 13 Hope st
Lax George, jun. painter, glazier, painter, plumber, &c. 6 & 7 Hope st
Larsen, white lead, oil & colour merchant, 6 & 7 Hope st
Lax Joseph, boot & shoe warehouse, 10 Hope street
Lax Wm. builder & joiner, Gladstone st
Linton Thomas, printer, Church street
Lister George, builder, Commercial st
London & Newcastle Tea Company, grocers, Hope street
Longstaff James, boot & shoe maker, Low street
Marshall Robert, boot & shoe maker, 16 Church street
Morrison Alfred, mason, Church street
Bishop Auckland, Middle St. Consett; Market place
Lowe Beerburn Colliery (John Sharp, proprietor)
Lumley John, butcher, Bridge street
Lundy Joseph William, saddler & harness maker, Commercial street
McCallum Duncan, hairdresser, North terrace
Mackay Alexander, M.D. physician & surgeon, Palmfield house
Marriner & Co. boot & shoe manufacturers, 24 Hope street
Mazzucchi Charles, jeweller, 60 Hope st
Mechanics’ Institution (W. L. Powell, secretary; John Leigh, secretary; T. B. Jones, president)
Milburn Edward, solicitor, 18 Hope st
Milburn John, King’s Arms, Hope st
Milburn William, mason, High Hope st
Miller Elizabeth & Annie (Misses), milliners, 58 Hope street
Miller William Hall, grocer, Church st
Mills Thomas, tailor, 34 Commercial st
Moore Mary Jane (Miss), dressmaker, 7 Gladstone street
Moralee George, butcher, 53 Hope st
Moses Nathan, grocer, 50 Commercial st
Murray John, blacksmith, Emmerson st
National Provincial Bank of England (branch of), Commercial street (Richard Travers, manager), open on tuesdays from 10.45 till 2; draw on head office, London
Nelson Wm. Victoria inn, Victoria street
Newton William, cabinet maker, 55 Commercial street
Nicholson John, china & glass dealer, 50 Hope street
Nicholson John Thomas, painter & paperhanger, South street
Nicholson Matthew, Lowe’s tavern, 13 Commercial street
Nodding John, Farrier’s Arms
Nodding Thomas, butcher, Gladstone st
Pattinson Thomas, butcher, 70 Hope street
Park William, fruiterer, Arthur street
Parker Joseph, grocer, 24 Hope street
Patterson William, organist, North road
Pearce’s West Colliery (Thomas Douglas, viewer; Lawrence Candler, engineer)
Pollard William John, clothier & draper, Market place
Porter James, pork butcher, 74 Hope st
Powell William Laws, provision merchant & bacon curer, 22 Commercial st
Proud Richard, Royal hotel, Commercial street & Hope street
Proudfoot Edward, blacksmith, Queen st
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DIRECTORY.] DURHAM. CROXDALE. 49
Raine Elizabeth (Mrs.), Commercial inn, Commercial street
Rhymer Joseph Pollitt, general dealer, 78 Hope street
Richards John, butcher, Church hill
Richardson John, fishmonger, Church st
Robinson John, carter, Moravian street
Robson William, blacksmith, Wilson st
Robson Wm. builder, 10 High Hope st
Routam William, shoe maker, 77 Hope st
Ruddymoor Colliery (Joseph Pease & Partners) (James Wild, viewer)
Ryle Annie (Miss), school, Market pl
Ryle John, grocer & pawnbroker, Market place
Sadler Saml. Thos. genl. draper, 73 Hope st
Saville Richard, beer retailer, Wilson st
Skidmore Thomas, grocer, West road
Smith Jane Ann (Miss), draper, 37 Hope st
Smith John, shoe maker, 60 Commercial st
Smith Mary (Miss), dressmaker, 22 Commercial street
Smith Robert (Mrs.), farmer
Smith Thomas, grocer, 90 High Hope st
Spalding Joseph, confectioner & shoe maker, 64 Hope street
Stevenson William, cartwright, Emmerson street
Still Michael, grocer, Church street
Stoker Hugh, Golden Fleece, Hope st
Stonebank Thomas, White Swan, Hope st
Suttees & Co. grocers, Hope st
Tate William, butcher, High Hope st
Suttees William, grocer, Church st
Talbot Alfred, auctioneer, 16 Hope st
Taylor John, tailor & draper, 16 Hope st
Thompson John, greengrocer, 54 Hope st
Thompson Glen, grocer, Church st
Tait Andrew, bill poster & town crier, 9 Commercial street
Turnbull John & Brothers, iron founders, Crook foundry
Turner Jno. confectioner, 33 Commercial st
Valley Charles, leather seller, scurrier, 25 Commercial st
Bishop Auckland & High street, Spennymoor
Vickers John, farmer, Mown meadows
Walker John, grocer, 45 Commercial st
Walton Charles, stationer & news agent, 45 Hope street
Wilson John, timber merchant, 65 Hope street
Wadd Jacob, grocer, 67 & 68 Hope street
Wearmouth George, draper & outfitter, 47, 48 & 49 Hope street
Weightill Elizabeth (Mrs.), dressmaker, 12 Gladstone street
Weightill Lucy (Mrs.), confectioner, 33 Hope street
Whitehead Henry, grocer & provision merchant, 5 Hope street
Wilkinson Richard Alexander, Arthur st
Wilkinson William, chemist, 9 Hope st
Willoughby John, Royal Oak, Commercial street
Wilson Walter, grocer & provision merchant, Market place
Wilson Henry, shopkpr. Commercial st
Wilson Isaac, chemist & druggist, Market place
Wilson James Swall, grocer & draper, South street
Wilson James, boys’ school Grey street
Winder John, hairdresser, Commercial st
Wright William, draper, Market place
Young Michael, gen. draper, 18 Hope st
Billy Row.
Douglas Thomas, West lodge
COMMERCIAL.
Bowman Thomas, grocer
Candler Lawrence, esquire to Messrs. Pease & Partners, East lodge
Douglas Thomas, mining engineer, West lodge
Elliot John George, grocer
Kyle John, butcher
Longstaff James, Billy Row inn
Wild James, colliery viewer, East lodge
Helmington Row.
Carter Robert, farmer
Coates John (Mrs.), Joiner’s Arms, Sunnybrow
Hood Leonard, grocer, Bowden close
Linsley John, joiner
Morton John, beer retailer, Bowden close
Pease Joseph, Partners, colliery owners & brick manufacturers (James Wild, viewer), Bowden close
Reading Row (Henry Pickford, sec.), Sunnybrow
Sayer William, shoemaker of Minton Stobs Hall, farmer, Tine Grange
Strickers & Love, colliery owners & fire brick manufacturers, Willington colliery, Sunnybrow
200 people. The ancient chapel of the parish near the Hall is retained by the Salvini family, and used as a mortuary, they giving in exchange the site on which the church of St. Bartholomew now stands. Captain Henry Thorp of the Queen’s Own Yeomanry is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mostly light; subsoil, sand and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and grass. The area of the township is 1,143 acres; rateable value, £6,561; the population in 1871 was 355. The area of the parish 1,037 acres; the population in 1871 was 740.
CROXDALE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1843 from the parishes of St. Oswald, Durham, and Merrington, and consists of the township of Sunderland Bridge in the former and HETT in the latter parish, in the Northern division of the county, south-east division of Darlington ward, Durham union and county court district, rural deanery of South Easington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. Sunderland Bridge occupies a pleasant position on the ridge of a hill, by the side of the river Wear; it is 3 miles south-by-west from Durham, and 8 from Bishop Auckland. The Durham and Ferry Hill branch of the North Eastern railway has a station here. The church of St. Bartholomew is a modern Norman building, with an Early English nave and chancel added in 1873. The register dates from the year 1669. The living is a rectory, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held by the Rev. Edward Greenstock, Minor Canon of Durham Cathedral, M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford. A School Board was formed for the parish in 1877. Croxdale Hall, the property of Captain Salvini, but in the occupation of John Rogerson, esq. commands a most extensive view of the beautiful scenery towards the south-east, and overlooks a densely-wooded dell: the grounds are tastefully arranged. The area of the parish is 1,537 acres; the population in 1871 was 1,026.
CROXDALE HALL.
Rogerson John, Croxdale hall
Salvin Capt. Henry Thoroton Thomas, J.P. Croxdale Wood house
Linsley John, farmer, Croxdale farm
Noon Thomas, High Croxdale farm
Parkin Wm. & Sons, quarry, Croxdale mill
Nesbitt Robt. farmer, High Butterby farm
Job’s Hill.
Birkbeck John, shopkeeper
Errington Michael John, beer retailer
Greenwell John & William, farmers
Sunnyside.
Graham John
COMMERCIAL.
Carr & Rowe, builders
Charlton William, Wellington Arms
Dent Jacob, fruiterer
Errington Richard, Crown inn
Gardiner John, shoemaker
Graham John, architect & farmer
Hodgson Robert, Sun inn
Hodgson Thomas, butcher
Knox Enock, grocer & draper
Laws William, grocer & draper
Maughan Thos., farmer, Deene house
Meins William, draper
Nicholson Alexander, grocer
Paine Thomas John, shoemaker
Pattinson Joseph, grocer & draper
Pease Joseph & Partners, colliery owners (Martin Holliday, viewer), Sunnyside colliery
Proud Robert, farmer
Richardson John, fruiterer
Runciman James, dealer in earthenware
Taylor Edward, farmer
Tomlinson George, butcher
Twyedd Joseph, greengrocer
Wheatbottom.
Field John, Red house
Beaumont Ann (Mrs.), Three Bells
Bailey Richard, Princess of Wales
Best Philip, grocer
Chambers Joseph, grocer
Dent Hodgson, butcher
Fell Joseph Crossle, farmer
Fenwick John, grazier
Fox Charles, grocer
Golightly William, beer retailer
Greenham William, butcher
Hutchinson Matt. beer retailer & shoe maker
Nixon Joseph, joiner & cartwright
Norwood Robert, property & income tax collector
Pinnington Charles, shoe maker
Reid John, surgeon, Red house
Robson Geo. Thos., Wheatbottom inn
Walton William, builder
Whitfield John, farmer
**POST OFFICE, Sunderland Bridge.—**Robert Hall Worthy, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Durham at 8.15 a.m. & dispatched at 5.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Tudhoe Colliery
MAIL LETTERS Hett, closed at 3.30 p.m.
A. Nicholson, draper, Sunderland Bridge
Wearmouth Thomas, farmer, Butterby farm
Sunderland Bridge
Greenstock Rev. Edward, M.A. Rectory
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