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The Durham County Record Office holds the archives for County Durham and the Borough of Darlington.The service is run by Durham County Council. [1] The archives were held at County Hall, Durham until 2024 when the service moved to a new building which is part of The Story at Mount Oswald, South Road, Durham.
A site for the facility at Far Winterton, north of Sedgefield, was purchased in 1855. [1] It was designed by the architect John Howison, the surveyor for the county of Durham, as a three-storey corridor plan asylum built in the Elizabethan style with 300 beds for inmates, along with a chapel and superintendent's quarters. [1]
Northumberland's first recorded Sheriff was Gilebert from 1076 until 1080 and a 12th-century record records Durham regarded as within the shire. [14] However the bishops disputed the authority of the sheriff of Northumberland and his officials, despite the second sheriff for example being the reputed slayer of Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots ...
The former exchequer on Palace Green, Durham, (right) is the only surviving medieval administrative building of the palatinate. It was built by Robert Neville, bishop 1438–1457. [1] The County Palatine of Durham was a jurisdiction in the North of England, within which the bishop of Durham had rights usually exclusive to the monarch.
Beechwood Cemetery is a city-owned cemetery in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1924 or 1926. Maplewood, the city's other public cemetery was historically white while Beechwood is historically black stemming from the city's segregation at their inception. [1] It is the burial location of key Black figures in Durham's history. [2] [3]
In May 2021, four parish councils of the villages of Elwick, Hart, Dalton Piercy and Greatham all issued individual votes of no confidence in Hartlepool Borough Council, and expressed their desire to join the County Durham district. [53] In October 2021, County Durham was shortlisted for the UK City of Culture 2025. In May 2022, it lost to ...
The pediatric department also later offered specialized programs such as the Crippled Children's Clinic—a joint effort between Lincoln and Duke Hospital's orthopedic departments. In 1937, the infant death rate for babies under one year of age in Durham County was reduced to 52.2 per 1000 live births among whites and 94.2 per 1000 among blacks ...
Ralph Lever, canon of Durham Cathedral, was master of the hospital at the time of his death. [2] George Stanley Faber became master of the hospital in 1832 and devoted much of his income to improving it. He died there in 1854 and was buried in its chapel. [3] The hospital became very wealthy due to coal mining on its estates.