


Diary of Robert Stephenson

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'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Drawings of industrial sites and machine tools including one thought to be based on the Liverpool Road Railway station drawn c1830.

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

Plan of the proposed route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by George Stephenson

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Manchester Guardian newspaper, first edition. Dated May 5 1821.

Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

A letter to Richard Trevithick from Davies Giddy regarding Trevithick's results from his first trial of the Herland pole steam engine

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.

Locomotive Engine Darlington drawing

Letter from George Stephenson, Liverpool to Timothy Hackworth, New Shildon

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Passport

Letter from Joseph Pease, Railway Office to Timothy Hackworth
Letters from Robert Stephenson to his parents

Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites
Collection of documents relating to the Portsmouth-to-Admiralty semaphore line designed by Sir Home Riggs Popham

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth
