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Ferry boats
“W and D” Birdseye View of Textiles of Manchester
University of Durham 1837 Charter
Drawing of a retort used by Boulton and Watt to provide gas lighting at Phillips and Lee textile mill Salford, 1805.
Birdseye View of Barrow Docks and Shipbuilding Yard
Photograph of Bessemer Convertor
Letters patent: Charter of incorporation 20 January 1345
George Walker’s watercolours for The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Drawing of the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1830-31
Replica of ‘Rocket’ 1886.
Tony Harrison’s notebook for the poem ‘v.’
Map of the River Weaver, surveyor John Billington 1721
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914
Plan of Seathwaite showing wad-mine surface and workings, 1821
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum
Illustration of George Stephenson's locomotive, ‘Locomotion’ 1875
Ennis and Freeman on Sydney Harbour Bridge during construction
John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903
Alexandra Park
Cellar book for His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Mersey Tunnel Construction photograph
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Author's proof copy of Love on the Dole
Diaries and journals of Ellen Weeton (written 1807-1825)
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
Charter of Edward II, 12 May 1316
Plan of the proposed harbour buildings at Seaham by John Dobson, 1828
Photograph of the tanker 'World Unicorn' before launch
Electric light fittings for St George's Church, Preston designed by Sir Albert Richardson
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Chartist movement poster, Carlisle, 1839
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Painting by Giovanni Montiroli of a design for the Ceiling of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle. c.1850
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Everton FC Home Programme
The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Ten Years of Nuclear Power, publicity publication by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1966
Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991
‘Part of the Wall near Benwell Hill, with an Apple Tree growing upon its Summit’
‘Jumbo Farm’ Minute Book 1861-1863'
Lanchester Diploma
Sketch of wall hanging from the Art Treasures Manchester exhibition,
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1822
“The first report of a society for preventing accidents in coal mines”
Architectural plan of the Bank of England, Newcastle branch
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
NEWCASTLE BRANCH: RECORD OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES AND NOTES FROM PRIVATE LETTERS, 1828-1832
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
First Minute Book, Northern Architectural Association
The Whitby Cartulary
Survey and Valuation of Selby Abbey lands surrendered at the Dissolution
Birkenhead Park – sales plan
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
Baptism of Capability Brown
‘Wash your hands now – as mummy does!’ c1960 leaflet
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Photograph of Walter Marshall while serving as a pilot in the RAF in the Middle
Lithograph depicting Hetton Colliery
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
Manchester Caribbean Carnival leaflet, 1993
Watersheddings
Register of Archbishop Walter de Grey, 1225-1255
Symeon of Durham On the origins and progress of the church of Durham
Poster advertising The People's Excursion Trains to the Art,Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
North West Lesbian and Gay Equality Campaign Programme, 20 Feb 1988
Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record
Photograph of Birtley Belgians
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
High level Bridge, Newcastle
Plan of the Saltburn Inclined Tramway
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
The Victoria Engine designed by James Close 1837
Cammell Laird – photograph of the launch of the Windsor Castle
Conveyance of the Ramsden (Huddersfield) Estates from Sir John Frecheville Ramsden to the Mayor Alderman and Burgesses of the County Borough of Huddersfield (Huddersfield Corporation) with full plans, 29 Sep 1920
