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