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