A contract between the East and West India Dock Company and Messrs Hunter & English for the construction of a central ladder dredger, dated 10th May 1883. There is also a specification for the dredger and instructions that it should be supplied for the dock company's extension at Tilbury. In addition to this there is a drawing giving a general arrangement of the vessel. There is a handwritten note on the front stating that this referrers to the dredger Tilbury. Contract between Messrs Hunter & English and The East and West India Dock Company for a central ladder dredger
100 Contract betweem The East and West India Dock Company and Messrs John Abbot & Company Limited for the construction of five wrought iron buoys, mooring chains and screw piles
1 item Drawing showing a longitudinal section, main deck plan and lower deck plan of the sailing ship Wanlock
Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus no.675-3769 Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus no.675-3769
100 Bond between Walter Hunter Esq, James Bernard Hunter Esq, A.H. Baker Esq, J.W. Douvia Esq and The East & West India Dock Company Bond for performance of a contract to construct a floating crane
Maps show location of Jimbour north of Dalby, around 110 miles west of Queensland, Australia; cutting, from The Brisbane Courier of 9 December 1882, bears article about the transit of Venus. These items were acquired, after 1882, presumably by Grover�s descendants; the copy maps are probably not from contemporary maps. Photocopies of parts of maps (2) and press cutting
63 pages used 'The Southern Cross. Notes of a voyage to, and Sojourn in, Australia. With the results of Observatories of the Southern Celestial Objects' by Cuthbert E Peek.
Manuscript notebook, compiled after Grover's return to England. He had spent seven weeks at Jimbour, Queensland, �engaged on the telescopic survey of the Southern Hemisphere�. 11 pages used. With transcription (4 pages. typescript.) Notes of Australian Life by C Grover.
250mm x 205mm King Edward's School, Birmingham. Grammar School, Five Ways. Interim Prospectus, October, 1882.
205mm x 130mm Printed note informing students of a lecture on "Effects of Pressure on the Boiling and Freezing Points"
15 pages in 1 item. 216mm x 140mm. Prospectus of the Normal School of Science, and Royal School of Mines, South Kensington and Jermyn Street
260mm x 130mm Printed note informing students of new programmes for Technological Cotton Manufacture.
4 pages in 1 item. 113mm x 181mm. Manuscript letter from F Brennan to S. Leigh-Gregson, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.
40 pages in 1 item.215mm x 140mm Irish industrial development: Irish harbour accommodation and Irish sea fisheries
4 pages in 1 item. 111mm x 177mm. Manuscript letter from A. J. Briant, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.
2 pages in 1 item. 225mm x 180mm. Manuscript letter from F.O. Cresswell to Samuel Leigh-Gregson, 5th February 1882.
67 pages in 1 item. 138mm x 215mm Popular education in England and Wales before and after the Elementary Education Act of 1870.
10 pages in 1 item. 224mm x 145mm Technical instruction--the express object of the South Kensington Museum
175mm x 125mm Seventeenth Annual Report of the Oldham School of Science and Art and the fourth report of the trustees of the Platt exhibition fund
4 pages in 1 item. . 178mm x 113mm. Manuscript letter from James Wright to S. Leigh-Gregson, 4th February 1882, concerning technical education.
30 pages in 1 item. 216mm x 138mm. Fifty-ninth annual report, session 1881-82. Adopted 4th October 1882.
