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Corder retired in the 1940s, donating his volumes of research to Sunderland’s Central Library.He left Sunderland some years later, moving to Over Stowey in Somerset.He died in Over Stowey in a nursing home in 1953, at the age of 85.
A catalogue of Lumley's library of some 3,000 volumes was prepared by Anthony Alcock (a member of the household of Lumley's protégé Anthony Watson) in 1596. [4] Another inventory of the pictures at Lumley Castle, and a revised catalogue of the library, were drawn up following Lumley's death in April 1609.
A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog .
The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street (occupying part of the former Binns Department Store). [11] The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art , renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists ...
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue: Risings, Petersfield: Enitharmon, 1988 ISBN 1-870612-00-0); The Red-Funnelled Boat, London: Picador, 1998 ISBN 0-330-36914-8)
Cooper Abbs II (died 1872), the second son, was a solicitor and became clerk to the Sunderland borough magistrates. He was a Liberal in politics. [45] Charles Cooper Abbs M.D. (died 1841 aged 36). [46] He graduated at Edinburgh University in 1828. [47] Their eldest daughter Ann Elizabeth was born in 1800. [43]