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Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Yorkshire County Cricket Team Photograph, 1956
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
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
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Everton FC Home Programme
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
York Corporation House Book, 1480-1486
Lanchester Diploma
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Alexandra Park
Photograph of Martin Luther King and students at coffee morning (University Archives, NUA/05289)
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Leeds City Varieties Poster advertising Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime, 1976
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
Ferry boats
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
The Commission for the Execution of the 7th Earl of Northumberland
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Baptism of Capability Brown
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
The Whitby Cartulary
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
Watersheddings
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
