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