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Hope you enjoy your visit to the library tomorrow. It is open 11 - 4 on a Sunday. The booklets on the stand to your left when you come out of the lift on the 6th floor will give you an idea of what volumes regarding parishes the library holds. (Northumberland & Durham) Microfilms for things such as newpapers, burials, cremations are in filing cabinets. Lots of records on microfiche too and can be found on shelves and in filing cabinets.
They also have a range of newspapers out the back which you can view in original form if you sign for them. You may need ID if you are not a library member already. A good one is the 'Illustrated Chronicle' - this featured much on aspects of the war during the Great War years. You may occasionally come across a marriage photo in this newspaper.
The shelves behind the staff tables hold many parish volumes, some interesting memorial inscription books and there are shelves of trade/street directories, etc. If you go past the computer section you will also find a good range of family and local history books, too.
Yes, I bet not a lot of people know what happened to the grave stones from the Whitley Bay St Paul's Churchyard. I was a bit shocked when I read in the volume you will find there that these were put in the Marden quarry and used as paving stones at Brier Dene. I don't know when this was actually carried out. I wonder what the local people's reaction was then? I don't think I would be too happy if I had forked out for a grave stone for this to be sunk under a quarry or used as part of a footpath.
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner