Papers relating to Aviation and the North Western Museum of Science and Industry

Bundle of documents, including an architectural plan of the basement of the Lower Byrom Street warehouse (New Warehouse) of the Science and Industry Museum; letter and copies from Sharp, Roberts locomotive order books pre-1850; typescript copy of Industrial Archaeology Occasional Paper, "The Housing of the Cotton Towns" by A. D. George; booklet "An Introduction to the Industrial Archaeology of Manchester and South Lancashire" by A. D. George; BBC Radio Manchester booklet "Manchester Underground" by K. Howarth.

There are also two aviation-related items, comprising a celestial navigation work book created by Navigator Leslie H Hodges during his Second World War era training, and a copy of an Air Ministry Booklet, "How to Avoid Flying Accidents Due to Weather" dating to 1943.