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Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
Ferry boats
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Set of playing cards depicting the counties of England and Wales, Robert Morden, 1676
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Simon Temple's plan of Jarrow and the River Tyne
Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Cunard Passenger List `Passengers for Halifax and Boston: No. 1' (Jul 1840-Dec 1844) 1 volume.
Flying machines designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)
