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Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
Baptism of Capability Brown
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
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
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
