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Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
High level Bridge, Newcastle
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
High level Bridge, Newcastle
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
“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
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
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
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
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
