Parish Notes
SHOTLEY BRIDGE

Benfieldside Celebrations 1900
Echoes of the War – Benfieldside Pictures: A Brief History of the Public celebrations which took place in the above Township on the 11th June 1900, to commemorate the occasion of the Hoisting of the British Flag in Pretoria & c. Edited and arranged by Dugald Moore M.B. Printed by R. Jackson and Co., Guardian Office 1901.
This carries :
Photos of various Committee Members;
Poems about the war in South Africa;
Photos of Members of the Benfieldside Council and School Board;
Schoolteachers;
Consett Iron Works Band;
Ambulance Detachment;
Floats in the parade and general views of local places.

It also carries portraits of:
Philip Campbell (Crimea Veteran);
P.C. Simpson (former Matabele Police);
Thomas Telford, 1st D.L.I. Reserve from Blackhill;
Wm. Green, 1st N.F. from Blackhill;
W, Richards 32nd Battery R.F.A. “of Omdurman fame”;
Wm. Vivian, 5th N.F.;
P.Campbell, 1st D.L.I.;
J.Wright, 3rd D.L.I.M.,
R. Hall. 2nd East York Reserve;
P. McGeoghegan, 2nd Coldstreams;
Wm. Lovat, 1st D.L.I.;
Wm. Drugan, 2nd Coldstreams;