Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington
6th Durham Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital
Type: Hospital
The Friends’ Meeting House was used as the 6th Durham Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in 1914-1915.
The hospital (50 beds) was established on 16 November 1914 in Skinnergate, Darlington. It transferred to larger premises at Woodside, Darlington (75 beds) on 15 September 1915 and remained there until the end of the First World War.
VAD Hospitals in Northumberland and Durham 1914-1918
http://www.donmouth.co.uk/local_history/VAD/VAD_hospitals.html
The Northern Echo – 10 April 2014
http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/in_your_town/darlington/a-soldier-his-spoon-and-his-spouse
8. The following letter regarding the possible outbreak
of war was sent to the public press at the suggestion
of a special sitting of this meeting at the close of
last First day morning meeting, also a telegram
was sent to Joseph A Pease by the direction of the
same meeting. This letter & telegram & reply follow.
“An Open Letter to the Churches of Darlington”
The congregation which met for Divine Worship at
the Friends Meeting House, Darlington, this morning,
decided to give public expression to its united convic-
tion that all war is contrary to the teaching of
Christ, and to appeal to the churches of the town
to use all their influence, collectively and individually
to discourage the participation of our country in the
extension of hostilities on the Continent of Europe.
Signed by direction of the meeting
Edward Backhouse,
Walter Brunskill,
J Edward Hodgkin
9 August 1914
Durham County Record Office, Darlington Joint Preparative Meeting Minute Book, SF/Da/PM 1/12
Civil Parish: Darlington
Contributed by Durham County Record Office | Jane Wilson
