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