Old pictures
This is a gallery of old photos of Barningham and its people. Below is an initial selection of pictures that have appeared in our newsletter, The Archive. More will be added as we find them.
We’re told that you can enlarge pictures by clicking on them. This sometimes works.
If you have similar photographs we’d love to see them and add them to this gallery.

c 1920: Barningham Park butler Joseph Leggett, his wife Eleanor, and mother-in-law Jane Boddy (see Archive 12)

Landlord Eric Licence with his pipe collection in the Pipes Tavern, Newsham, 1954. Featured in Archive 26.

Postcard, 1921: Sent from The Hollies, Barningham, it shows the Hall, church, pub, Moor Lea and Fern Fall on the moor. Featured in Archive 2

Wedding day 1930: George Herbert Brass and Hilda Brown. Featured in Archive 2.Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, caricatured in Vanity Fair 1875. Featured in Archive 9.

Edwardian ladies, 1903: Walking past The Yews and, right, outside the Post Office. Featured in Archive 2.

Shooting party, 1906: Barningham gamekeeper Hezekiah Birtwhistle (1849-1923) with beaters on Barningham moor. Featured in Archive 1.

Black Horse Inn, c.1916: Pictured just before it was bought by the village’s methodist minister and closed down. Now a private house, Elim Cottage. Featured in Archive 1.

Village green, 1900: In the background is Newby House, then called The Terrace and from 1780 to about 1880 The Academy boarding school. Featured in Archive 2.size

Schoolchildren 1901: Winners of awards for good attendance at Barningham school. Featured in Archive 1. size

Village bus, 1922: Owner Sam Turner with The Gypsy Queen: on the right, his taxi. Featured in Archive 1.

Ladies’ cricket team, 1929: We can name three of them — 1 Annie Bainbridge, 2 Jenny Lowes, 3 Mrs Lowes. Anyone identify more? Featured in Archive 3.

Off to London, 1970: The day of the big Milbank wedding at St Margaret’s, Westminster (the Queen Mum was at the reception), and here are Barningham Hall staff and estate workers who were invited, waiting for their train at Bank Top station. Back: Mr and Mrs Coates, L Wardle, Raymond Johnson, George Goodall, Les Ridley, Ethel Bulmer; Front: Tom Gill, Mrs Cuthbertson, Nan Maughan, Edith ??, Mr and Mrs Preston. Featured in Archive 3.

Family trip, 1898: George and Susannah Brown set off from Barningham House with their son Edward, and unidentified baby and its mother (or nurse?). Featured in Archive 3.

Barningham Rectory, c1900. The rector, the Rev Edwin Spencer Gough, can just be see coming round the corner from the church

Jubilee fancy dress 1977: Trevor Turner pushing Graham Lowes in the pram; Les Ridley (left), Ken Powell (centre), Ronnie Gill (right).

1936: Brenda, Sylvia and Lloyd Turner on the village green. The house behind them was Sharon Cottage, now demolished and the site today of Curlew House. Featured in Archive 6

2.Church choir, 1926: Lady Dorothy Milbank in the centre, the Rev Percy Dodd at the back. Featured in Archive 2.

The monkey puzzle tree – one of the tallest in the country – pictured in 1929. It was taken down in the 1990s.

Stapleton’s ‘Pride of the Road’, believed to be the first bus running regularly between Barningham and Darlington, c 1920. (Archive 16)