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Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
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.
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Baptism of Capability Brown
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
