Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 31 January 1881
On Saturday public tea was held, the ladies presiding over the tables being—Mia Whitfield, Mrs Woodcock, Mrs Thompson, and the Misses Hnghes, Bewick, Morpeth, Adamson, and Holmes, and large number of persons sat down to the bountiful provision provided. Subsequently crowded public meeting was held, the chairman being Mr Thomas Armstrong, of East Tanfield, who gave a stirring address, and Mr Rutter also spoke upon the progress of the Lay Church movement in the county of Durham. The choir intervals sang selections of music. The solos, duets, &c., were given by Miss Holmes. Miss Hughes, Mrs Whitfield, and Mr John Kemp, Mr Hughes being conductor. An interesting meeting was brought a close the singing of the Doxology. Gospel-Temperance Union.—