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