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Everton FC Home Programme
Photograph of four soldiers of the 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, c.1914
‘Our Northern Film Heritage’
Pre-Gestee advert c1940, fore runner of PG Tips
Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes Admission Form
Registration card for the Municipal School of Art, Manchester, issued to L. S. Lowry
Photograph of workmen at The Bowes Museum
Photograph of Pit Brow Women leaving screen room at Gibfield Colliery, Atherton, 22 August 1918.
Cunard Staff Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan 1923).
Diary & Terrier of Brotherton Parish, 1778 - 1996
RMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord
John Crossley and Sons Limited, carpet manufacturers of Dean Clough, Halifax, Centenary Illustration, 1903
Photograph of the construction of the Tyne Bridge
Joseph Swan’s recollection of the first use of his incandescent lightbulbs at Cragside
Photograph of Ward C1, 1st Northern General Hospital
Roker Pier, Sunderland, under construction
Articles of partnership between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond, 28 February 1873
Durham and the North East Coast – Report of the Labour Party’s Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas
Colne Valley Division Labour Union Minute Book 1891-1900
Co-operative Wholesale Society, A Colossus of Commerce
Photograph of Birtley Belgians
Photograph of Richard Shufflebottom’s Wild West show taken at Hull Fair, circa 1930
Photograph of Marks & Spencer store, Leeds 1909
Lord Mayor's correspondence from York servicemen, January-April 1915
Photograph of Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool to Birkenhead under construction, 1931
Scrapbook of Bradford views and portraits
Huddersfield Female Educational Institute Advertisement
Port Sunlight Works and Village c1914