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Stephenson family recipe book

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

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Pattern books from Mount Pleasant Mill, Bury

Architectural Drawings of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Collection of documents relating to the work of Marc Isambard Brunel, mainly concerning the Thames Tunnel

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

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"

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Liverpool Engine C drawing

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket

Notes on Civil Engineering

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Volume of patents and folded drawings of Joseph Maudslay (two with Joshua Field)

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

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Gazeteer of Mines in Chili (Chile)

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

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

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

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')"

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

183 drawings

Drawings of the Analytical Engine

Drawing of St. Petersburg Railway Locomotive

158 daguerreotypes in original cabinet, 1 box containing Ellis's photography notes, 1 box containing copy negatives, 1 box containing conservation materials

The Ellis Collection of Daguerreotypes of Italy

Report books are written by John Graham for the Stockton and Darlington Railway Committee. Most reports are initialled or signed by one of the Directors such as Edward Pease, Joseph Pease, Joseph Pease Jr, John Pease, Jonathan Backhouse, Henry Pease and Henry Stobart. The reports give details of incidents on the line including fines issued and damage incurred.

Report books of John Graham, Stockton and Darlington Railway Employee

Letter from George Stephenson, Newcastle to Timothy Hackworth, Darlington

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

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook