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