Clean copy typescript including cover page featuring annotations in black pen. Also includes email printout of editorial notes by Matthew Alridge.

Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue and black ink. On the back of the last page there is one page of the script for "A bit of a Great Leviathan". Includes folder of handwritten and typed notes and research.

Written by V Skorodenko. Annotations consist of print copy corrections in blue and black ink.

Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue and black ink and pencil. Includes typescript contents page Annotated typescripts of short story The Dickie Pit, published in Coal Quarterly, Vol 1. Spring 1962. Numbered 26 Short story The Busted Empire Annotated typescripts of short story The City and Shrine of St Cuthbert. This was originally published in The Lakes to Tyneside , 1951. Numbered 6. Annotated typescripts of Christmas at the Coal. Published in Coal Quarterly Winter 1962. Numbered 7. Annotated typescript of The Big Meeting Annotated typescript carbon copy of Walking the Bounds. Numbered 3. Annotated galley proof of Makers of Paradise. Annotated and published copies of Coal is the Story. Numbered 21. Newspaper cutting of article Light in the Pit. From The Guardian, 5 Jan 1962 Annotated typescript of A Theatre for the Tyne. Numbered 4 Newspaper cutting of article The Power of the Word. Numbered 5. Newspaper cutting of article What's gone wrong with letters. Re-titled "Man of Letters" in pencil. Numbered 8. Newspaper cutting of article No End to Joe. From the Guardian 25 Mar 1967.Numbered 9 Photocopy of newspaper cutting of article The Ring of Burnished Steel. From The Guardian. Numbered 10 Annotated newspaper cutting of article from Column 9, Thumb print of a Master. Includes photograph of Sid Chaplin. Numbered 11. Newspaper cutting of article from Column 9 ,An Office on the Side. With photograph of Sid Chaplin. Newspaper cutting of article A river and its crossing. Numbered 13. Annotated typescript of radio transcript In love with a City. Produced by Kay Fuller Newspaper cutting of To be a Pilgrim.From the Guardian, 14 Nov 1960. Numbered 14. Annotated typescript of Passage to Northumbria. From the Guardian 1969. Numbered 15. Newspaper cutting of A wry smile from Tyneside - A farewell to Jack Common. From the Sunday Times, May 1968. Numbered 16. Annotated typescript of Jack Elliot of Birtley. Numbered 17. Newspaper cutting of The narrow world of Norman Cornish. From The Guardian, 24 May 1960. With reproduction of The Pit Road painting and a sketch by Norman Cornish. Numbered 18. Published copy of Letter from the Distant North. From the Penguin New Writing Series. Numbered 20. Published copy of The Swimmers. From Seven. Numbered 19. Newspaper cutting of article Dying in the shafts. From The Guardian, Mar 1966. Numbered 22. Newspaper cutting of article Time to Start on Boot Alley! From the Guardian personal column. Numbered 24. Newspaper cutting of article Bet you anything. From the Guardian 18 May 1963. Numbered 25. Annotated typescript of The Passing of the Cap. Printed in the Bedside Guardian. Numbered 27. and a newspaper cutting of article The Smell of Sunday Dinner. From the Guardian 15 Oct 1960, Numbered 28.

Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink and pencil. Includes correspondence between Sid and Jeremy Kingston.

Seven draft scripts including annotations in black pen.

Annotations consist of changes in blue and black ink, and pencil. Includes Newspaper cutting of article The place I call Hyam, From the Evening Chronicle, Discover Northumbria 4 Mar 1972. Renamed My Durham, numbered 1. List of short stories and articles with word count. What's wrong with poetry?, For 'Here Now' the South Tyneside Arts Magazine, 1972. Newspaper page with article Suddenly, the turning point. From The Journal, 30 Sep 1969, as part of a series 'The Iron North, The Golden Years'. Annotated galley proof for A Tree with Rosy Apples pp.148 - 159 Contains the stories England's Green and Virgin Lands, A Smack of Northumberland, and Mr Pease takes a ride on the footplate. Newspaper cutting of article The Iron System from The Guardian, 14 Aug 1969. Print copy of newspaper article The Miner, The Man, This is his life, from the Newcastle Journal Review 1947 - 1957, 29 Jan 1957. Annotated typescript and newspaper cutting of Lilac and Chinese Pens. Draft contents page with notes. Annotated typescript of Mr Pease Takes a Ride on the Footplate. Newspaper cuttings of article The Perfect kind of Woman, for the Daily Express. Includes photograph of Sid's Grandma. Possibly re-titled A Song for my Darling Alice. Numbered 20. Annotated copy of On the Poverty line. Numbered 2. Newspaper clipping regarding A Month's of Sunday's, for which Sid Chaplin wrote and speaks the commentary. From the Observer. Newspaper cutting of article Village Pride, From The Guardian, Northern Accent series 1964. Numbered 3. Newspaper cutting of article from the Northern Echo Arts Close-up series, renamed The Happy Chance. Numbered 4. Copy of A Fatal at Brinsley, For the Tyneside Theatre Production. Numbered 5. Newspaper cutting of Wonder of Spring (Renamed "Magpies of Joy".) from the Guardian Northern Accent series. Numbered 6. Newspaper cutting of article Mothers & Daughters (Renamed "Our Kate") which is a review of Catherine Cookson's Our Kate . From the Guardian Apr 1969. Newspaper cutting of article Your own Monster (Renamed Treasure.) From the Guardian Northern Accent series Apr 1964. Numbered 8. Annotated typescript of Hard Hearted Hannah, with original title City Life. Numbered 9. Newspaper cutting of article A world that I am proud to call my very own. Renamed Sweet Springs of Geordie Land. From the Daily Express, Aug 1971. Numbered 33. Annotated newspaper cutting of article Sid Chaplin… the man who always had to come home, re-titled The Laughter of the Geordie. From the Daily Express Aug 1971. Numbered 13. Annotated typescript of review of At the Works by Lady Bell, re-titled Lady Bell's Middlesbrough. Appeared in the Guardian 1969. Numbered 14. Newspaper cutting of article Village Show Business, re-titled All the Lovely Horses. From the Guardian Northern Accent Series Sep 1963. Newspaper cutting of re-titled article Black River, from the Guardian. Numbered 16. Newspaper cutting of article Culture in the Club, from the Guardian Northern Accent series. Numbered 17. Annotated newspaper cutting of article Mrs Longworth's Village, From the Guardian Nov 1971. Numbered 18. Newspaper cutting of article Call me an English Nationalist, re-titled When Will our Nationalists Arise, from The Journal, Column 9 Series. Numbered 19. Newspaper cutting of article Collectors Piece, re-titled Among my Souvenirs, From the Guardian Northern Accent series Jun 1964. Numbered 21. Newspaper cutting of article The Public Complaint, Guardian, Jun 1967. Annotated newspaper cutting of article The Night Men, re-titled Brother to the Owl, from the Guardian, Jul 1963. Numbered 23. Annotated newspaper cutting of article The Matter of Northumbria, from the Journal June 1966. Numbered 24. Annotated typescript of Apple on the Tree, re-titled A Tree with Rosy Apples. This piece was originally written for the Palatinate - University of Durham Student Newspaper in 1960. Numbered 26. Newspaper cutting of article New Year Magic, re-titled The Dark Man at the Door, for the Guardian Northern Accent series Dec 1963. Numbered 27. Newspaper cutting of article A season in Pisa, from the Guardian, Nov 1967. Numbered 28. Annotated galley proof of The Plush-lined Ghetto, from the Twentieth Century, 1964. Numbered 29. Newspaper cutting of article Easter Meditations, re-titled An Egg for Easter, from the Guardian Northern Accent Series. Numbered 30. Newspaper cutting of article Modern Cacophony, re-titled Sing a Song of Silence, From the Guardian Northern Accent series, May 1963. Numbered 32. Copy of The Truth and Richard Kelly, Written for the North East Arts Review, No. 4 1963. With notes on changes to print copy. Numbered 34. Annotated typescript of The Bonny Pit Laddie, written for the Newcastle Journal, Jan 1957. Numbered 35. Annotated typescript of Songs of the Lower Empire. Annotated typescript of The Music of my Heart. Numbered 37 Annotated typescript of Wensleydale Cheese and Cleveland Iron. Written for The Lakes to Tyneside published by William Collins, Sons, & Company Limited. Numbered 38. Newspaper cutting of article A King in Newfields, regarding cinema music and Charlie Chaplin. From The Guardian August 1972.

With copies of newspaper articles from the time regarding his trial.

Typescript of articles A Cathedral. Son et Lumiere, and A Script for Son Et Lumiere, regarding the writing of the script.