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