Parish Notes
DARLINGTON

Properties used by War Dept. in the Great War.
War Office Lands and Buildings Reconstruction Committee List of Lands and Buildings in the occupation of the War Department 1st June 1918. Northern Command.

Properties marked with an asterisk were either owned by or leased by the War Department prior to the commencement of the war. All other properties have been taken over since 4th August 1914.

DARLINGTON
Accommodation of Troops: Albert Road U.M. Church; Assembly Hall Buildings (M.O’s Office); Congregational School, Union Street; Conservative Club; Corn Exchange; Crosby Street Mission; Dernholme, Stanhope Road; 267 Durham Road; Feetham Hall; Gentleman’s Club, Duke Street; 27b Grange Road; 40 Hammer Street; King’s Head Hotel; Methodist Church Hall and Schools, Lowson Street; Nelson’s Rooms, Parkgate; N.E.R. Hotel (Cottage); Northgate, Brookside; North Road, St. Paul’s Schools; Parkgate, Club Room; Pendower Street (3 Cottages); St. Hilda’s Hall and Rooms; St. James’ Schools; Skinnergate, Friends’ Meeting House; 12 Tubwell Row; Wesleyan Church, Denmark Street; West Garage, Woodlands Road (Messing).

Accommodation of Horses: Barclay * Co., High Row; Bulls’ head; Corporation Yard; Dobbing’s Stables, Skinnergate; Dolphin Hotel; Elm Grove, Grange Road; Fleece Hotel; Four Riggs; Golden Cock Hotel; Green Tree Inn; 4 Harewood Hill; 8 Harewood Hill; Hargreave Terrace; Honey pot House Farm; Longstaff (Stables); Neasham (Stables); Polam Hall; Raby Hotel; Robert’s Hotel, Commercial Street; Springfield (Stables, R.F.A.); Woodside; Woodside Riding School.

Hospitals : Fairfields House, Woodlands Road; “Oak Lea”; Thornfields, Carmel Road.

Mechanical Transport: Old Mills, High Northgate, off John Street.

Offices: Commercial Street Motor Garage; 27a Grange Road; 27b Grange Road; High Northgate, 5 Livingstone Buildings (Office and Stores); 9a High Northgate (Shop and Back Room); Lloyds Bank (Two Rooms); London Stock Exchange Bank Chambers; Neasham Road, St.John’s Mission Room (Office and Stores); 35 North Road; Prebend Row, Monument Chambers; St.Luke’s School, Leadenhall Street; 69 Stanhope Road; 17 Victoria Road (Inland Water Transport);

Stores: 5 Catherine Street; Cleveland Car Co., Grange Road (Workshop); Cleveland C.C. Pavilion, Grange Road; Feetham’s Cricket Pavilion, &c.; High Northgate Adult School and Social Club; Jane Street P.M. Schools; Joinery Works, Snaith & Sons (Yard and Shed); Lowson Street Reading Rooms; Mechanic’s Yard, Skinnergate (2 Rooms); Old Mills, High Northgate (Workshops); 2 Paradise Street.

Various: 26 Clay Road Workmen’s Mission (Baths); Four Riggs Forge (Farrier’s Shop); 8 Mayfair Road (Workshop) Speedwell Hotel, Victoria Road, Lower Hall (Recreation Room);