Shildon Urban Rail Trails S & D 150 Booklet produced in 1950 by the Shildon S & D Railway Jubilee Committee.

The envelope contains the following – Sketches / Press Cutting / Tracts / Free Library Card

Receipt from Railway Centenary Fund 1925 –

1825 – 1925 London and North Eastern Railway programme or Ceremonies in connection with The Commemoration of the Centenary of Railways Thursday 2nd July 1925.


Contains Summary of Proceedings / Notes for the Guidance of Ticket Holders / Programme / Banquet at Darlington / programme of Music / Special Train Services.


Pdf version of the booklet below – click +  or – to expand or contract window and the arrow to track back to Google Drive where you can also view it or download the file for free if you look in the menu.


Contains descriptions of the Engines in the display and two maps – one of the key Plan of Centenary Celebration s and one of  the Banqueting Hall and Exhibitions.

Not Hackworth related but another interesting souvenir booklet in Joan’s collection. Joan would have been about 14 when Newport bridge was opened in 1934 and no doubt the family took her to see the opening, which would have only been a little way down the ‘Wilderness’ along the Stockton to Middlesbrough railway corridor from where they lived in Thornaby on Tees. Timothy hackworth had built the original coal staithes at Port Darlington (Middlesbrough) over  a hundred years before in 1830. Coal was the prime mover but from 1840 iron and steel were the prime movers and as can been seen, still in 1934.

Sent by Harry Parsons to Winifred Hackworth before they were married. These were Joan’s parents and shows Redcar pier before it was destroyed and Redcar beach before 1925.  The date stamp is 1925 but I think they might have been taken a little while before just before the 1st world war. There are no motor vehicles in the pictures and I’ve seen one of the pictures elsewhere that suggests pre-war.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5k7a5y8QpyHLWlNOWJXQ1dMbG8/edit?usp=sharing


The above link is to the free PDF file of this booklet from 1950. The file is too big to read on this display like the other ones but if you follow the link to Google drive you can download the booklet. It offers a history of Timothy Hackworth for those who attended the 1950 centenary of Timothy’s death in 1850, along with some photos – mostly reproduced also on this display.

This appears to be John Wesley Hackworth’s Notebook c 1876. It has his name on the front and and it looks to be his writing. It’s his domestic housekeeping book for part of that year averaging a 19/s spend each week on food and lodgings and a wage summary. However the notebook seems to have had a multigenerational use. A. Hackworth – who I assume to be John’s son Albert Hackworth is written on the back and presumably the rest of the entries may have been done by his daughter Winifred Hackworth – Joan;s mother as it involves an evaluation of Albert Hackworth’s furniture, books etc. From page 19 in the pdf file below, the entries were at the back of the book and upside down.


Use the + sign to enlarge the pdf file below and the arrow to head to Google drive where the file can be downloaded.

This is a PDF file with the 25th July 1937 brochure for the National Union of Railwaymen Carnival in Shildon.


Joan Hackworth Parsons (later Weir) was in attendance at the age of 17.