Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index/England - North East

Overview

These pages contain a subject and place index (still under construction!) to the books scanned to create the British Library's Mechanical Curator collection of images.

Each entry in the index points to the images on Flickr which match the tag for the book. Additionally, when there are images from a book that have been copied over to Commons, this is shown with a green clickable  (Book cat)  link, which links to the relevant Commons category for the book.

A full list of the titles of the books that were scanned for the collection is also available, at

Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Full list of books

and succeeding pages, which may help browsing what is available.

The index is not (yet) complete. As of January 22, 2014 the titles in the detailed part of the index below accounted for about 40% of the images in the whole collection. A further 35% of images can be found through a more loosely organised set of "to do" pages constructed based on the books' class-marks, while a further 20% of images occur in books which are classed below as fiction, plays, verse or works. The focus of the indexing so far has been mostly geographical, with little development as yet of thematic classification.

The Commons main project page for the collection gives some further hints on searching; on how to upload the images to Commons, and on how to tag images on Flickr. If you do upload images to Commons, please create a Commons category for the book they were taken from, like those in Category:Books with images from the British Library Mechanical Curator collection, and include the images in it. The template {{HasBookCat}} can then be used to create a link to the category (on a green background) from the book's entry in this list.

Georeferencing campaign: For any titles below that have a  to georef template, please click on that templated link to find the thumbnails and then the pages on Flickr for the relevant map and plan images, and follow the links in their image description sections to the BL/Klokan Georeferencer to place the images on a present-day map of the world. This in turn should allow the map images' ready upload to Wikimedia Commons with reasonably accurate automatic categorisation. See also: BL information page and overall progress page.

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(The contents of this sub-page can also be viewed included ("transcluded") into the appropriate one of the higher-level main index pages above)

North East

• Local records; or historical register of remarkable events which have occurred exclusively in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed; with an obituary of persons of talent, eccentricity, and longevity (1824; 33 images; no maps)
• Local records; or historical register of remarkable events which have occurred exclusively in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed; with an obituary of persons of talent, eccentricity, and longevity. (1833; 79 images, 2 plates; no maps)
• Local Records: or, Historical Register of remarkable events, which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed ... 1832-57. Being a continuation of the work under the same title by J. Sykes (1857; 25 images, 1 plate; no maps)
• Local Records; or, Historical Register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed, with biographical notices of deceased persons ... 1833 to ... 1866, being a continuation of the work published by ... Mr. John Sykes (1867; 47 images, 19 plates; no maps)
• Second series. Chiefly in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland (1842; 46 images; no maps)
• The Local Historian's Table Book of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads, connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. (1841; 1302 images, 18 plates; 3 maps  to georef )
• Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated from original drawings by T. Allom, G. Pickering, &c. With descriptions by T. Rose. (1858; 178 images, 163 plates; 2 maps)
• Collectanea Curiosa, or, Miscellaneous Reprints of rare tracts, etc. relating to Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Edited by R. Robinson. (1892; 31 images, 3 plates; no maps)
• North-Country Sketches, Notes, Essays and Reviews ... With ... illustrations, etc (1893; 60 images, 12 plates; no maps)
• Summer Holidays in North East England. Illustrated with photographs by Payne Jennings, etc. (Descriptive letterpress by C. Cotterell.) (1895; 150 images, 38 plates;no maps)

– County Durham

• An historical, topographical and descriptive view of the County Palatine of Durham, etc., by E. Mackenzie and continued by M. Ross (1834; 47 images, 21 plates; 1 map)

• Views about Durham (1842; 13 images, 8 plates; no maps)
• A brief Sketch of Durham. Compiled for the use of the ... deputies of the ... Order of Odd-fellows ... attending the annual ... Committee of the Order held at D., etc. With illustrations. (1855; 30 images, 8 plates; no maps)
• Ye Auncient Citie of Durham in Ye Olden Tyme. Descriptive, historical, traditional (1883; 14 images, 1 plate; no maps)
• Durham. An illustrated history of the city. pp. 16. Reprinted from “The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio.” (1885; 6 images, 3 plates; no maps)
• Comprehensive Guide to the County of Durham. With maps and plans (1892; 12 images, 5 plates; 9 maps  to georef )
• Bygone Durham. Edited by W. Andrews (1898; 13 images, 8 plates; no maps)

• Durham Cathedral ... Third edition, with plan and illustrations (1889; 6 images, 2 plates; 1 map )
• Durham Cathedral. Ward and Lock's Illustrated Historical Handbook to Durham Cathedral, etc (1889; 17 images, 12 plates; 1 map)

• Handbook to Barnard Castle and the neighbourhood, with a map of Teesdale. (1882; 6 images, 2 plates; 1 map)
• A brief historical account of the Episcopal Castle, or Palace of Auckland (1852; 21 images, 11 plates; no maps)
• History and characteristics of Bishop Auckland ... Embellished with steel engravings, etc (1871; 14 images, 6 plates; no maps)
• Pleasant Memories of Darlington and Neighbourhood (1882; 17 images; no maps)
• The antiquities of Gainford in the county of Durham; comprising the baronial and ecclesiastical history of that place and of Barnard-castle, etc (1846; 10 images, 3 plates; no maps)
• The Visitor's Guide to Raby Castle, Barnard Castle, and the neighbourhood. By F. M. L. With illustrations on steel and wood (1857; 14 images, 2 plates; no maps)
• The History of the urban district of Spennymoor, etc. With illustrations. (1897; 43 images, 22 plates; 2 maps  to georef )
• The Local Records of Stockton and the Neighbourhood; or, a register of memorable events, chronologically arranged, which have occurred in and near Stockton Ward and the North-eastern parts of Cleveland (1868; 6 images, 3 plates; 1 map )
• Weardale men and manners (1840; 11 images, 9 plates; no maps)

– Tyne and Wear

• The River Tyne: its history and resources ... Illustrated (1880; 14 images, 12 plates; 1 map )
• The Tyne and its tributaries. Described and illustrated (1882; 160 images, 38 plates; 2 maps)
• The Making of the Tyne: a record of fifty years' progress. Illustrated, etc (1895; 85 images, 41 plates; no maps)

• Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton. With a descriptive memoir of the coast from Tynemouth to St. Mary's Island (1893; 18 images, 8 plates; 2 maps )

–– Gateshead

• Local Collections; or Records of remarkable events connected with the Borough of Gateshead. 1837-1839,(-1840) (1840; 9 images; 1 map  to georef )
• History of the Parish of Ryton, including the parishes of Winlaton, Stella, and Greenside (1896; 11 images, 7 plates; no maps)

–– Newcastle

• The Newcastle Freeman's Pocket Companion, containing a copious view of the charters granted to the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne. Including a particular account of the customs and privileges peculiar to the free burgesses of the said town. By a Burgess (Joseph Clark). (1817; 22 images; no maps)
• The Eve of the Revolution; in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (The Case of Sir Henry Brabant, knt., Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, most humbly offered to your Majesties Royal consideration.) (1848; 22 images; no maps)
• Reprints of Rare Tracts ? Imprints of Antient Manuscripts ... chiefly illustrative of the history of the Northern Counties: and printed at the press of M. A. Richardson, Newcastle (1847; 108 images; no maps)
• A Hand-book to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Illustrated with a geological map of th district, maps of the town, etc (1863; 93 images, 20 plates; 1 map); 1864 edition (1864; 7 images, 5 plates; 2 maps)
• The Jubilee handbook of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and places of interest in the North of England, etc (1887; 23 images, 6 plates; 2 maps)
• Newcastle Town. An account of its rise and progress ... With illustrations, etc (1885; 28 images, 4 plates; no maps)
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Royal Mining, Engineering, & Industrial Exhibition, Jubilee year, 1887. The bridges and the floods of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1887; 12 images, 9 plates; no maps)
• Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead. Illustrations by W. H. Knowles, etc (1890; 143 images, 81 plates; 1 map  to georef )
• The City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne of to-day. ... With illustrations (1891; 25 images, 10 plates; 2 maps)
• A descriptive and historical account of the Monuments and Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Compiled by R. W., ... and illustrated, etc (1880; 50 images, 30 plates; no maps)
• Newcastle. Illustrated (1893; 25 images, 10 plates; no maps)
• Newcastle-on-Tyne: its municipal origin and growth ... With a preface by T. Hodgkin, D.C.L. Illustrated (1898; 6 images, 2 plates; 1 map)

• The History of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1793-1896 ... With ... illustrations (1897; 35 images, 30 plates; no maps)

• A History of the parish of Gosforth, in the county of Northumberland (1879; 10 images, 2 plates; no maps)

–– Sunderland

• A historical and descriptive view of the Parishes of Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth and the Port and Borough of Sunderland, etc (1819; 11 images, 5 plates; 1 map)
• The history and antiquities of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, etc. (Memoir of Major General Sir Henry Havelock.) Vol. 1 (1858; 60 images, 3 plates; 2 maps)
• Sunderland: a history of the town, port, trade and commerce (1892; 2 images, 2 plates; 2 maps)

– Northumberland

• Treasure Trove in Northumberland (1851; 41 images, 4 plates; no maps)
• Comprehensive Guide to the County of Northumberland (1889; 12 images, 4 plates; 4 maps )
• Northumberland: its history, its features, and its people. With illustrations. (1893; 4 images, 4 plates; no maps)
• Bygone Northumberland. Edited by W. Andrews (1899; 15 images, 6 plates; no maps)
• Illustrated Handbook to the rivers Tyne, Blyth, and Wansbeck, etc (1894; 40 images, 10 plates; no maps)

• A Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick ... and of Alnwick Castle ... Second edition. With numerous views, etc (1822; 22 images, 18 plates; 5 maps)
• A Guide to Alnwick Castle ... With illustrations by P. H. Delamotte, etc (1865; 8 images, 2 plates; 1 map)
• The History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick. With illustrations. (1866; 85 images, 18 plates; 2 maps)
• A Historical Guide to Alnwick, and the immediate neighbourhood ... Second edition. With plates. (1889; 27 images, 7 plates; no maps)
• Alnwick in the Past, being a review of the habits and customs of the inhabitants of Alnwick in the early part of the 18th century, together with an historical description of the various churches and other places of religious worship, and the old buildings of the town, etc. Articles reprinted from “The Alnwick and County Gazette. With plates. (1896; 19 images, 6 plates;no maps)
• Berwick-upon-Tweed. The history of the town and guild. Illustrated by photo-engravings, etc (1888; 94 images, 19 plates; 4 maps)
• Under a Border Tower: sketches and memories of Ford Castle, Northumberland, and its surroundings, with a memoir of its ... châtelaine, Louisa Marchioness of Waterford, with illustrations including the cartoons at Ford (1896; 67 images, 22 plates; 1 map)
• A new Health Resort, being an unconventional guide to Harbottle, Rothbury, and district, etc (1884; 30 images, 1 plate; no maps)
• An Essay towards a History of Hexham ... illustrating its ancient and its present state, civil and ecclesiastical economy, antiquities and statistics, with descriptive sketches of the scenery and natural history of the neighbourhood (1823; 4 images, 2 plates;no maps)
• A Guide to Lindisfarne, Bamburgh, Farne Islands, Dunstanburgh Castle, etc (1888; 10 images, 3 plates; no maps)
• Whittingham Vale, Northumberland: its history, traditions and folk-lore ... With illustrations by J. T. Dixon, etc (1895; 42 images, 4 plates; 1 map)

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