Consists of Newspaper cutting of article "The Human Riches of Our Changing Villages" with alternative working title "Our Changing Villages", from the Northern Echo. Newspaper cutting of article "My Faith" from The Journal. Copy of article "The Answers you Give Yourself" from Going Places (North East) Newspaper cutting of article "We Found Great Hearts In Moscow" from the Northern Echo, regarding Sid and Rene's trip to Russia. Includes photograph of Sid Chaplin and Valentina Evashova. Annotated typescript of review of "Francie Nichols" Annotated typescript of "A Note about Joe Watson" Newspaper cutting from The Journal of "And Three were Found" Workers Educational Association Northern District 67th Annual Report with article "Work cums fust" Newspaper cutting from the Northern Echo of review for "This is My Kingdom" by Charles Brister. Newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times of article "Banner Bound" Newspaper cutting from the Journal of a book review for "The Making of the Working Class" by Edward Thompson (Gollancz) Copies of magazine The Socialist Commentary with articles Statesmen on the Periphery, and Work Cums Fust Newspaper cutting from the Northern Echo of article "What Durham has lost and won in 25 years" Annotated typescript of article "First & Last" Annotated typescript of article "Art and Society" Newspaper cutting of article "Bill scores £500 Goal" and annotated typescript of "The Computing Art. - The opportunities and dangers of the computer in the industry"

Consists of short stories and articles Easter 1927 with drawings by Ned Owens, A First Footing, Northumbria the Magnificent, and Washington New Town.

Consists of Annotated typescript of "The Truth and Richard Kelly" Annotated typescript of article "A Season in Pisa" Clean copy typescript of untitled article regarding a Robert Burns Festival in 1844 Annotated typescripts and newspaper cutting of article "Heart" (As Free as a Kingfisher), regarding Sid's heart surgery. Annotations consist of changes and corrections in pencil and blue ink. Annotated typescripts of article "Heartcase" Annotated typescripts of article "As I see it" and annotated typescript of article "A Novelist in the Theatre".

Annotated typescript of the Noblest Shore of All/Sea Castle and Border Fortresses/The Spacious Shores. Annotations consist of changes and corrections in blue ink and pencil. With handwritten Dan Leno chronology and poetry by AP Rossiter.

Collection of reprinted articles bound together about technical features and building design of the Tobacco Dock. These articles mainly come from The Royal Institute of British Architects Journal and The Architects' Journal.

Includes Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake Baker's Man, Down the Black Bank, The Wanderers, My Travels in a Land of Giants, A Happy Land Far Far Away, My Seven Years in a Smith, Coal Pit Country, The Rows, and The Gates of Paradise.

Including annotated and clean copy manuscripts and typescripts of Jefferies, The Questions they never ask, Topography of my childhood, The answers you give yourself, My Fate Cries Out - introduction, Treasure, Clipper Pits, Living and Writing, The Mining Life, As I see it, The River, The Northumberland Coalfield, In Blackberry Time, The Climbing Man, Goodbye to the Heartland, The Road to Primrose Hill and drafts of early chapters.

Black and white photographs of Ethel Williams in later life. Includes pictures of the house 'Low Ridges' at Stocksfield, Northumberland built with Frances Hardcastle, garden, and friends. Also included is a greetings card, 'Greetings from a Northumbrian Garden.'

Consists of First Berry Lincoln Store Keyring, Rutledge Tavern, Illinois medal, National Union of Mineworkers 100th big meeting, National Union of Mineworkers Durham Area 100th Gala 1983, and Mining Exhibition Newcastle 900 keyring.