'Trade and industry' in G Cookson (ed), Victoria History of the Counties of England. History of the County of Durham. Volume 4. Darlington

Notes:

Has sections: 'Trade and industry to 1600' - 'Markets and fairs' / 'The cloth industry' / 'The leather trade' / 'Darlington and its region'; 'Trade and industry from 1600'; 'Markets and shops' - 'Markets and fairs, 1600-1800' / 'Merchants, chapmen and other traders' / 'The retail trade from 1800'; 'Roads, canals and railways' inc the Stockton & Darlington Railway' [pp128-34]; 'Banking, insurance and building societies' - 'Early banking and insurance to 1826' / 'Banks after 1826' / 'Backhouses' Bank' / 'J & J W Pease' / 'Building societies and mutual benefit schemes'; 'The Leather industry' - 'The leather industry, c1600-1800' / 'The leather industry after 1800'; 'The textile industry' - 'The textile industry before 1700' / 'The textile industry after 1700' / 'The linen industry' / 'Decline of the Darlington linen industry' / 'The Pease family and the worsted industry, 1700-1972' / 'Growth and consolidation in the early 19th century' / 'The era of Henry Pease' / 'Decline and fall' / 'Rising again, the 20th century' / 'Innovation in the 20th century - Patons & Baldwins Ltd'; 'The iron and engineering industries' - 'Darlington Forge Co' / South Durham Iron Co' / 'The Darlington Iron Co' / 'The Skerne Ironworks' / The Cleveland Bridge & Iron Co' / 'The Drinkfield Iron Co' / 'John Kane, David Dale and industrial arbitration' / 'Alfred Kitching and the Whessoe Foundry' [pp176-81] / 'John Harris and Thomas Summerson' / 'Rise Carr Rolling Mills' / 'North Road Locomotive Works' / 'Robert Stephenson & Co'; 'Building materials and the building industry' - 'Building materials' / 'Craftsmen and the building industry'