Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine
Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"
Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.
A Description of the Pneumatic Apparatus made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty
Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'
Volume entritled: "Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids"
The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale
Diary of Jeremiah Head, railway engineer for Robert Stephenson and Co, part founder of Fox, Head and Co
Accounts between Coates & Wright of Ingleton and Peel, Williams & Peel of Manchester regarding the purchase of two steam engines
Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"