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Film used at British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1970-1971

Four pairs of stereoscopic photographs of cloud chamber tracks

1960-1970

Acetate sheet carrying

Original 8 mm amateur films of steam engines in the 1960s

1960-1970

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Camera Film

1945-1955

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Film Cassette

1945-1955

Electric Personal Printer, by Brother, 1982

1982

Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

1942-1944

reproduction of sound from sound film

1949

Olympia Electronic Typewriter, 1960-1980

1960-1980

Display Bottle Containing Mauveine Acetate

1910-1945

Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

circa 1950s

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937

York Site and Great Western Railway Company Drawings transferred from Network Rail

circa 1876-1977

Star Finder and Identifier

1942

Film entitled "Critical Size"

1960-1961

Bubble Chamber Film used at CERN

1976-1977

Graphicel cartoon kit

circa 1970

Original sound recordings of steam trains recorded by John Burnie

1960-1970

Gun Camera Type G.45

1939-1945

Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

circa 1950s

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937
Original 8mm colour amateur film with magnetic soundtrack, made by Hilda Mary Meek and Roy Meek, wife and husband, in Belmont on Harrow & Wealdstone to Stanmore railway line (Greater London), in 1964-1965. The film is titled 'I Miss the Train' and features the Belmont station before and during closure in October 1964. The film includes shots taken in the station as well as shots taken on the Harrow & Wealdstone to Stanmore line. Some shots show electric trains, passengers giving a last homage to the station before closure and abandoned rails likely in 1965 after the effective closure of the line to Stanmore.

Original 8mm amateur film "I Miss the Train"

1964
5 Super 8 and 2 8mm original colour film footage of railways in North Wales made by the amateur filmmaker John R. Thomas and/or his friend, Ken Evans, in the 1960s. Includes footage of a special ‘radio cruise’ train tour

Original 8mm and Super 8 amateur films of Railways in Wales

1960-1970
Sample of halftone contact screen, one of 16 samples, 1983

Halftone Contact Screen

1983
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway (MER) and the Isle of Man Railway (IMR); tramcar No.1 with trailer 37, from the MER with “Douglas and Laxey Electric Tramway” written on the side of the tram; Bulgham Bay and Dhoon Queery; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Laxey wheel (Lady Isabella waterwheel). Tramcars No.1 and 4 at summit; No.6 and 3 are filmed from inside a tram passing by; Dhoon and Dreemskerry; the Isle of Man Railway; diesel railcar stopped at Douglas and the locomotive No.13, Kissack, leaving the station; red steam locomotive No.4, Loch; locomotive No.11, Maitland, and a Foxdale coach; Douglas horse drawn tramway features two horse trams, No.14 (double-decker) and No.12. The first one is baring a poster for the “Horse tram centenary”; tramcar No.5 passing, also the trailer No.72 being pulled out of a shed by a blue truck; poster for the ‘Cavalcade of electric cars’; IMR, in Douglas, locomotive No.12 Hutchinson, a diesel railcar, and locomotive No.13, Kissack.

8mm Footage 'Trams, Steam Locomotives and Diesel Railcars on the Isle of Man'

1979-1982
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway, Laxey; Isle of Man Railway (IMR); Bellawoods crossing; locomotive No. 11 Maitland; trams No.20 and trailer 47 filmed in Ramsey; trams No.22 and trailer 44 around Glen Mona; tram No.23 and trailer 43 filmed near Fairy cottage, Laxey; stationary locomotives aligned on tracks in Douglas; locomotive No.12 Hutchinson; Locomotives No. 10 G. H.Wood; booking office in Laxey with publicity posters for the Snaefell Mountain Railway; footage taken on board the Snaefell Mountain Railway, which includes views of the well-known Laxey wheel (Lady Isabella waterwheel); one steam locomotive is seen hauling several others. This includes the locomotives No.6 Peveril, 8 Fenella, 13 Kissack and 16 Mannin; exterior shot of the diesel engine at Port Soderick station. A shot in Douglas station features the locomotive No.4 Loch; Douglas Horse Tramway, with carriage No.42 and 44.

8mm Footage 'Railways and Tramways on the Isle of Man'

1969-1971
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Royal Albert Bridge in Saltash; Paignton and Kingswear train on coastal route; Copy Pit line (Todmorden to Burnley); Bournemouth central, locomotive 34004 Yeovil station; 73001 and 75073; Moorgate station and its widened lines; Leeds city station shows 42196 passing; Holyhead and Brymbo tour; 9630 is seen passing, also a signal box, then Blue Peter 60532 locomotive in a station with the train plate ‘A.R.E.S Holyhead Brymbo Special’; South Lancashire tour between Wigan and Liverpool Riverside; Lanarkshire Yeomanry 45154 leaving a station; Manchester Central station ; Great Northern goods warehouse; footage of last days of trolleybuses in Manchester and Rotherham; locomotive 68006; Crich Tramway village; tramway cars seen from outside, inside carriage, inside driver’s cabin and close-ups of pieces of mechanism (overhead electric cable); Amsterdam Tramway; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Manx Electric Railway (Derby Castle terminus) and Ramsey Pier tram; Southend Pier tramway; 70013 Oliver Cromwell locomotive; 2226, and 41241 & 72 (30072) at Haworth, apparently shortly after the re-opening of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; locomotive No. 10 G. H.Wood; Tal-y-Llyn (Talyllyn) railway; locomotive named Sir Haydn; Garsdale station and signal box.

8mm Footage ' Steam, Diesel and Electric Trains in UK and Amsterdam's Tramway'

1964-1969
Colour acetate positive depicting a man working in nuclear laboratory, taken by unknown photographer. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Atom', 3 June - 30 July 1995.

Colour acetate positive depicting a man working in nuclear laboratory

Black and white acetate positive depicting abstract lines, taken by unknown photographer. Marked 'NS35 6.4 TeV', 32S + Au' and '04-11.87'. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Atom', 3 June - 30 July 1995.

Black and white acetate positive depicting abstract lines

Text panel entitled Art and Society by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Art And Society

1990
Negative containing a diagram containing numbers and lines, with the number 68321. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Atom', from 3 June - 30 July 1995.

Negative of a diagram containing numbers and lines

Negative depicting a man amongst equipment with the number 143.4.71. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Atom', from 3 June - 30 July 1995.

Negative depicting a man amongst equipment with the number 143.4.71. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Atom'

Black and white photograph of three men beind a barbed wire fence. Inside overlay card frame

Three men behind barbed wire fence

Text panel entitled Notes from a balylonian ghetto by Alex Hirst. From the Impressions Gallery exhibtion 'Ecstatic Antibodies'.

Notes from a balylonian ghetto

Close up of women with eyes cast down, overexposed to suggest the image of a book by Lulu Quinn. Possibly entitled 'Libera Me'.

Untitled

2001
Colour photograph of of Brick and metal fence showing from the exteriro of a car park with sign Carpark with sign stating Attercliffe Environmental Corridor. Inside overlay card frame

Carpark with sign 'Attercliffe Environmental Corridor'

Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Tramway Extravaganza shot in Crich Tramway village in August 1970; LMS No.6441 is filmed at Steamtown Carnforth; Blackpool tram; St Etienne tramway in France in August 1971; Ravenglass and Eskdale railway; locomotive- River Mite; locomotive- Fred (Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway); steamer- Ben My Chree in Liverpool sailing to Douglas, Isle of Man. Another vessel (Irini) is filmed, pulled by two tugboats; Manchester canal, taken on-board a boat, with a shot of a swing bridge (either Barton road or Trafford road swing bridge); Ffestiniog railway (likely Porthmadog station); shot with a locomotive too far away to identify, supposed to be Evening Star at Keighley in April 1974 according the filmmaker’s notes; footage of Black Five Class No.45212 at Haworth and Bagnall Class No.2682 Princess locomotive on Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway; locomotive- River Irt; Two men are filmed manually operating the turntable with River Mite; double-decker trams in Pleasure Beach, Blackpool; train on the electric lines entering the Ryde tunnel on the Isle of Wight; Blanes station (Spain) and a white and green electric RENFE train arriving at the station; Arenys DelMar station and the building and platform of Tordera station; diesel electric train going to Mallaig (Scotland) is filmed arriving at Arisaig station; Glenfinnan viaduct; yellow and green signal box of Glenfinnan; Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; locomotive 8431 (or 48431); trams and trailers by the seaside in Dubrovnik and Cavtat in Croatia; view of Oakworth station and a black London Transport locomotive passing; a level crossing managed manually by two persons; L89, emerging out of the Mytholmes tunnel; Heatherfield Light Railway in 1981.

8mm Footage 'Great Britain, France, Spain and Croatia and of the Heatherfield Light Railway'

1970-1981
Different bits of films, some upside down. Window view on board moving train ; lineside shot of locomotive 45647 passing near station ; window shots on board moving train, passing through tunnels, near a power station close to rails (Ironbridge Power station?), Severn Valley Railway? Cut, film not spliced - View of Southampton in background, locomotive Honeton 34034, pulling green livery carriages and restaurant/buffet cars, Southampton Central Station ; railway on the coast, filmed from bridge (?), 45190 passing with carriages in maroon livery ; 73035 passing in station (station on bay, coastal railway) ; (splice) magenta faded film, different shots locomotives (2287, 9464..) ; shots taken on board moving train, filming locomotive 7804 passing with plate 'Pembroke Coast Express' ; window shots taken on board moving train (landscapes, houses, cows in fields, viaduct), passing a Deltic, water in the gutter between rails (filmed from front of train), passing Severn Tunnel Junction tunnel, black frames, exiting a tunnel ; large shot of a freight train pushed by steam locomotive

Original 16mm amateur film 'Railways- Southampton and Pembroke'

circa 1960
800 feet metal canister, Colour, Silent footage. First shots taken at a railway station, shots from platform, locomotive approaching, fiited with 'SLS Special' plate ; 4079 Pendennis Castle (GWR) ; also locomotives 4555 and 3690 filmed ; shots taken on board moving steam train, passing by a signal box, on bridge, trainspotters seen on the lineside and on pantographs ;passing H--field station (?) , Talyllyn station (?) Cut, film not splices - Filming on board steam ride ; at a station locomotive 4079 fitted with plates Z48 Ian Allan Rail Tour, further shots taken on board, passing through unidentified station, along the coast ; Various landscapes ; locomotive 46251 City of Nottingham passing pulling maroon livery coaches ; then locomotive 44255 ; more on board train footage Leader - On board moving train footage, passing Adlestrop station (closed to passenger traffic in 1966) ; locomotive 7029 departing from a station, without carriages, fitted with plates 'X20' Ian Allan Rail Tour ; footage on board moving train window view ; Cut, film not spliced - On board moving train footage ; 7029 Glen Castle stationary at station, fitted with X20 Ian Allan Rail Tour ; (splice) shots taken at sunset, train passing shot from lineside

Original 16mm amateur film 'Railways'

1965-1966
800 feet metal reel, colour, silent footage. Reel starts with aerial shots of Sydney, Australia (view of Sydney Opera House - start of construction 1959, completed in 1973) ; black frames ; sunrise or sunset/night shots ; window view on board of train ; airport with Austrian Airlines planes ; shots taken through plane window showing sun, clouds and montains ; various views of Syndney shot from street level, Syndey bridge, including shots from parc behind Opera House showing cranes (Opera in construction), street/road view ; in parc ; shots through plane window, landing and taking off (leaving Sydney?) Part 2 (after white leader): shots taken in Gibraltar, streets, views of the sea, house/architecture ; street, man with snakes (snake charmer?) ; shots taken from boat, filming Gilbraltar from sea ; Part 3 (film cut, no splice): Gilbraltar, view from sea/boat ; Cliff on Gibraltar, monkeys, group of people looking at a monkey Part 4 (film cut, no splice): shot taken through plane window, Gilbratar landing? ; BEA (British European Airways) plane at airport, group of people gathering ; shots of a hotel ; group of pople (tourist) visit Gibraltar (streets) ; Part 5 (film cut, no splice): railway, filmed from lineside, locomotive 1665 passing, hauling carriages, with people travelling inside opened freight wagons ?; shots taken on board train, window view plus view at back of the train of single line tracks

Original 16mm amateur film 'Australia, BEA Gibraltar, Railway Cynheidre'

circa 1960-circa 1970
16mm film approximately 20 feet of silent colour film. Handwritten on label: Fuzzy film. Different bits of films, Orchestra outdoor. White/clear film with no image printed

Original 16mm amateur film 'Fuzzy Film'

circa 1960
Shots of a sign for Dalbeath. A steam train arrives at the station. Shots of the train driver leaning on the train window. Shots of the train reversing past the control tower. Shots of the train going through the countryside. Shots of Castle Douglas train station and shots of Tarff, Kirkcudbright and Dumfries station as the train drives through it. Shots of the side of a train with the sign: “The Thames Clyde Express” as the train sits in a large station. Shots of a train driving through Dumfries station. Shots of Carlisle Train Station and a train driving through it. Men push around what looks like an ice cream trolley in the station, the conductor blows the whistle and the train leaves. Shots of a sign for Windermere train station. Shots of a ferry and shots of the coastal landscape. Shots of sign for Ambleside Pier. People get off the ferry. Shots of a small dog before shots of York train station. Shots of sign for the Railway Museum. Shots of a train arriving at York. Shots of a train the ‘Northumbrian’ going from Newcastle to King’s Cross

Original 8 mm amateur film 'Railway Miscellany'

circa 1960
Shots of the Museum of British Transport in Clapham, London. Interior and exterior shots of the museum. Shots of trains on display in the museum; London Airport- Shots of aeroplane landing at the airport and taking off; The Isle of Wight - Shots from a ferry arriving at Ryde Pier Head and shots from a moving steam train. The train passes Branding, Sandown, Wroxall and other stations. Shots from the train as it goes through tunnels and travels through the countryside. Shots of South Hampton Docks; Shots of the Canberra cruise ships and other large boats; Shots of a sign for Salisbury and shots from the train station. More shots from a moving steam train going past various stations in England; Shots of a sign for Lyme Regis; More shots from the moving steam train as it passes through Exeter, Kingswear for Dartmouth etc. shots of the train passing through stations and travelling along the coastline and through the countryside and past towns. The film continues with more extensive shots of the train travelling through Southern England. Shots from Land’s End; Newquay branch-More shots from the train as it goes through Looe; Barnstaple; Minehead The Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, Temple meads

Original 8 mm amateur films 'A Train Journey Through England'

1960-1970
BBC Recording service label, Q6, User John Adams, 09/1963 ; 29 ; Q6 Ashington to Cambois, Blythe, Shunting at Ashington [Cam], ascending bank at [Cam], arriving at [P…] 63386 / Typed note enclosed: Q6 63386 ; 1. Taking empties to top of yard ; 2. Running light back to Marshalling Yard and waiting for instruction ; 3. Procceding light intoyard to pick up van ; 4. Shunting van ; 5. Backing on to load ; 6. Taking load (blowing off stops half way through tape) ; 7. Working hard on bank in Colliery and easing off at top prior to taking on brake vam ; 8. Restarting having picked up van and running free after getting train under way ; 9. Check for signals and pulling away ; 10. Shunting off train

Magnetic audio tape 1/4" 'Q6'

1963
2 Animation cels and background from the animated film 'Animal Farm', by Halas and Batchelor, 1954. Cat and pigeon in barn, Scene 10 sequence 12.

Animation cel and background from 'Animal Farm'

circa 1954
Transparency showing the Metzger table-clock of 1564, one of the best table-clocks of the 1500s. As well as the time, it shows the time in Italian hours, the times of the sunrise and sunset and the length of the daylight period.

Transparency of the Metzger Table-Clock, 1964

1964
Eleven inch IBM 72 electric typewriter, Delegate type, serial no. 8000280. A revolutionary typewriter which employed an interchangeable typing head containing the 88 characters of a normal keyboard, an interchangeable ribbon and a fixed cartridge, 1961

IBM Electric Tpewriter, 1961

1961