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