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NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Lord Mayor's correspondence from York servicemen, January-April 1915
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
Conveyance of the Ramsden (Huddersfield) Estates from Sir John Frecheville Ramsden to the Mayor Alderman and Burgesses of the County Borough of Huddersfield (Huddersfield Corporation) with full plans, 29 Sep 1920
Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch
Mortality Map of Cholera in 1866
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
Alexandra Park
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Domesday Book
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Ferry boats
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital
John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903
Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction
Photograph of Birtley Belgians
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ by Barry Hines - first page
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
High level Bridge, Newcastle
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
Lanchester Diploma
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930
Everton FC Home Programme
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.
The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
The Whitby Cartulary
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Watersheddings
Baptism of Capability Brown
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
