For Tyne Tees Television. Includes ideas for various scenes and episodes including Family Matters, Me Grandma, Jimmy at the bus stop, The Worker, The Gambler, and The Baby-Sitter. Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink and pencil. Includes copies of Private Eye April and May 1970 that were possibly used for research purposes.

Consists of Short story The Jarpin, as part of the Weekend Extra edited by Jackie McGlone. Article God, Gifts and Goodness, From the Sunday Times. Regarding the rule of the methodist chapel. Copy of paper 'British Weekly. A Journal of Christian and Social Progress' with article Unity at Canterbury. Copy of the 'Evening Chronicle Discover Northumbria' with article The place I call Hyam. Short story A Christmas Crutch, from the Christmas Extra series. Copy of North Magazine with article The Big Meeting: A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary, regarding the 100th anniversary of the Durham miner's gala. Hearth and Home with article Forum, regarding the new Forum building in Billingham. Copy of The Northumbrian With Sid's short story Christams at the Coal, taken from the Smell of Sunday Dinner Article 'A Theatre for the Tyne' from the programme for 'Bartholomew Fair' by Ben Jonson at The University Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, on the occasion of the official opening of the University Theatre. and a Greek Magazine with short story The Country Boys.

Clean copy typescript of untitled poem about rivers.

Consists of material relating to the writing of an untitled fantasy Sci-fi novel, written in collaboration with Joe Purnell, under the pseudonym of Dale Prescott. Referred to as the Shahladre novel.

Annotated typescripts of various chapters and pages from an Untitled autobiographical piece regarding growing up in a Durham village. Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink and pencil.

Consists of material relating to various unpublished novels and books written by Sid Chaplin.

Consists of annotated typescripts for Reflections at Two Hundred Fathoms, The Weaker, The Tartan Suit, The Man without a Gun, The Tall Hat/Mr Lincoln, Half-time for Soccer/players, Personal Outlook, England: North and South, Ocean Cruising, The Last Song, Down the Waggonway, Personal Outlook, J T Jackson, On Having the Nerve to See, Coal and Urban Renewal, The Miner, In a Love with a City, The Lover, A Girl Called Jenny, With Diamonds in his Hair, Just a pitman, Who is She?, On Christmas Day in the Morning, The Little Blacksmith, Northumberland, The Picnic, The Man who Saw, and The Week's Good Cause. Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink and pencil.

Consists of material relating to the writing of various unproduced or unfinished plays and dramatisations.

Consists of material relating to various unfinished novels. There is the possibility that some items may be from finished published or unpublished works, but have not been identified as such due to lack of titles or discerning characters.

Consists of annotated and clean copy typescripts and some galley proofs for short stories and pieces,

An introduction to A Story-Tellers Story. Big Little Hab The Boss The Bridge Green Eye Quite a Journey Grace Before Meat The End of an Age Rooms Ding Dong Dell The Pigeon-Cree What Katie Did The Shaft And the Third Day Half Moon Street Hands (originally called The Ninth Hour) The Unwanted The Keeper The Liberal Education of John Henry Johnson The Leaping Lad .

Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink, black ink and pencil, in various unknown hands.