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Title: A collection relating to Morpeth News Room, established 1859, which appears to have evolved into the Morpeth Men's Mutual Instruction Association in October 1862.
Description: Small 4to ruled notebook containing detailed yearly accounts from May 1859 to May 1893 together with annual lists of members running, non-consecutively at the rear of the volume, from session 1875/6 to session 1893/4. After the accounts for 1861/2 are two-and-a-half pages of detailed rules of the Association in 12 sections. Contemporary brown cloth with later unlettered linen-backed spine. Boards rubbed and soiled; free endpapers partly soiled and chipped. Loosely inserted at the rear is a collection (c.60 pieces) of ephemera comprising engraved and other bill-heads, receipts, letters andaccounts. Of particular interest is a printed copy of the society rules (G. Flint, Bridge Street, Morpeth), c.1880 and six printed programme cards from 1887 to 1892. TEMPORARILY REMOVED REOM ABE AUGUST 2021

Keywords: Local History North East England


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