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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

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

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

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

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"

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to Lord Duke regarding test borings next to the River Thames

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]’

Notice entitled ‘Canal. The projected canal from the Tees to the coal district near Auckland, having now become a popular question, permit me to make some observations on this subject’

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]’

Small printed card showing ‘Distances of the Collieries, by the Railway, from Stockton [and] from Darlington’

Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland Canal. The committee of the subscribers to this undertaking… received from Mr. Leather, the engineer, a variety of information relative to a survey, which he has just finished, which most satisfactorily obviates every important objection that has been urged against the plan…’

Notice entitled ‘Canal Meeting. Stockton, July 9th, 1818. In consequence of a printed address from Mr. C. Tennant, relative to the proposed Canal between the Western parts of the county and this port, a numerous and most respectable meeting of gentlemen, belonging to this place and its neighbourhood, was held at the Town-Hall to-day.’

Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland intended Canal.’

Printed extract from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham County Advertiser

Printed article extracted from the Durham Chronicle

Printed memo completed in manuscript and addressed to Leonard Raisbeck

Draft resignation letter

Notice entitled ‘Stockland & Auckland Canal. The subscribers to this undertaking are particularly requested to attend a meeting… for the purpose of receiving the accounts…’

Notice entitled ‘Canal. Aug. 8, 1818. The very respectable meeting convened at Stockton on the 31st of last month, to consider of the expediency of cutting a canal into the Coal District, appears to have been so unanimous respecting it… but, differing, as I do, in opinion with all who decide for a canal, I venture to submit to them, and to the Public generally, whether it would not be best to reject a canal altogether, and substitute a Rail Road on the most approved construction…’

Handwritten Clarence Railway report

Handwritten copy of Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Printed Stockton & Darlington Railway Company annual report

Handwritten accounts regarding the income and expenditure of the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Letter from Francis Mewburn, 22 Craven Street to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Letter from Francis Mewburn, 22 Craven Street to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Letter from Francis Mewburn, 22 Craven Street to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Pages 40 and 41 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 54 and 55 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 56 and 57 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 58 and 59 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 108 and 109 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 122 and 123 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 46 and 47 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 124 and 125 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 100 and 101 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 90 and 91 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833

Pages 52 and 53 of John Graham's report book 1831-1833