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Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Baptism of Capability Brown
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
