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Olympia Electronic Typewriter, 1960-1980

Olympia Electronic Typewriter, 1960-1980

1960-1980
Original sound recordings of steam trains recorded by John Burnie

Original sound recordings of steam trains recorded by John Burnie

1960-1970
Shirley Wellard "Universal" Camera Film

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Camera Film

1945-1955
Original 8 mm amateur films of steam engines in the 1960s

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

1960-1970
Shirley Wellard "Universal" Film Cassette

Shirley Wellard "Universal" Film Cassette

1945-1955
York Site and Great Western Railway Company Drawings transferred from Network Rail

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

circa 1876-1977
Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937
Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

Eastleigh drawings on film negatives

1942-1944
Bubble Chamber Film used at CERN

Bubble Chamber Film used at CERN

1976-1977
Display Bottle Containing Mauveine Acetate

Display Bottle Containing Mauveine Acetate

1910-1945
Star Finder and Identifier

Star Finder and Identifier

1942
Film used at British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

Film used at British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

1970-1971
Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937
Four pairs of stereoscopic photographs of cloud chamber tracks

Four pairs of stereoscopic photographs of cloud chamber tracks

1960-1970
Electric Personal Printer, by Brother, 1982

Electric Personal Printer, by Brother, 1982

1982
Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

circa 1950s
Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937
Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

circa 1950s
Film entitled "Critical Size"

Film entitled "Critical Size"

1960-1961
Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

Football - England vs Czechoslovakia, 1937

1 December 1937
Gun Camera Type G.45

Gun Camera Type G.45

1939-1945
Acetate sheet carrying

Acetate sheet carrying

Imperial "Good Companion" Model 7 portable typewriter, 1962

"Good Companion" Model 7 Imperial portable typewriter, 1962

1962
Imperial electronic typewriter Model SE 5020, SERIAL NUMBER.....54034359 AN 61702 REFERS, 1984.

Electronic Typewriter, made by Imperial, 1984

1984
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
Animation cel and background in a window mount from the animated film 'World of Little Ig'. Little Ig and tiger. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1956.

Animation cel and background from 'The World of Little Ig'

1956
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
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
Ten annotated photographs used in the production process for the `Parting of the Red Sea' sequence from the film THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 1955, plus three modern colour prints demonstrating the finished effects.

Ten annotated photographs 'The Parting of the Red Sea'

1955
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
Three animation cels and a plain orange background from the animated film 'Tales of Hoffnung' by Halas and Batchelor, 1965. Bass player; man playing broom.

Animation cels and background from 'Tales of Hoffnung'

1965
Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, devised by Marianne Frostig, 3rd edition 1961; consisting of acetate sheets and test manual; used by the Institute of Education, University of Liverpool, c.1960-1990.

Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception

1961
The personal archive of the work of British animator Run Wrake (1965-2012). The archive consists of Wrake’s work from his college days through to his death and comprises scrapbooks, cells and drawings (including examples of how drawings were manipulated using photocopiers), storyboards (including the detailed synchronisation of image and music), found objects and images, original paintings and illustrations and notebooks. Twelve bankers boxes and four portfolio folders, plus a small number of loose larger works.

Run Wrake Animation Archive

late 20th century
12" 2-sided Portland Recordings Studio Acetate of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. Handwritten labels which do not specify the album title - possibly unconfirmed at that stage, just 'Joy Division Side A' / 'Joy Division Side B', 1979.

12" 2-sided Portland Recordings Studio Acetate of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures

1979
16mm film in cardboard case, approximatley 10 feet of silent colour film. Handwritten on label: Vale of Neath Railway ? Shot showing a steam train passing on a viaduct, village in the background on the other end of the viaduct

Original 16mm amateur film 'Vale of Neath Railway Viaduct'

circa 1960
3 Animation cels and background from the animated film 'Animal Farm' by Halas and Batchelor, 1954. Farmer Jones lets off his gun, 2/62, box 1,44 ii.

Animation cels and background from 'Animal Farm'

circa 1954
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
Speed Crazy, produced and commercially issued as 8mm home movie film in 1953-1954 by Walton Films. Speed Crazy is the compilation of two films: one is a speeded-up journey in London’s street, shot from a car; the second is another ghost ride of a train journey London-Brighton, filmed from the front of a locomotive

Speed Crazy, 8mm commercial copy

1953-1954
Animation cel and background from the animated film 'Butterfly Ball'. Scene 16, frog playing guitar and singing in front of trees and sandy foreground. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1974.

Animation cel and background from 'Butterfly Ball'

1974
Original 16mm amateur colour silent films, made by Glyn Thomas between 1962 and 1986. The railway footage were taken during journeys with ‘Ian Allan Rail Tours’ and last steam train trips on lines due to be closed as a consequence of the Beeching cuts, especially in England and Wales (Vales of Neath Railway; Cynheidre) – not all the locations were identified. Other films were shot abroad: a cruise on a P&O steamship, departing from Southampton for Rio de Janeiro with scenes shot at the ports of calls Salvador, Dakar, Senegal; footage taken in South England and France (including a railway station); aerial shots taken through planes’ windows, and footage of Sydney (Australia) and Gibraltar.

Original 16mm amateur films of railways, travel abroad and steamship

1962-1986
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
800 feet plastic canister, colour, silent footage. Shots in port/harbour/docks (Southampton or Liverpool? - Liverpool boats Alexandra', 'Wallasey'), lock entrance to docks ; ferries ; sunset filmed om board of a boat ; group of men and women on board a ferry/cruise ship, filming coast (Ireland? Isle of Man? Other?) , shot of a Thoresen Car ferry (Thoresen Car Ferries 1964-1968 - Southampton-Cherbourg) on sea (Splice) Small group of people, getting on board of small boat (Milford-on-sea - "Pembroke Petrel Milford" on boat) , waving at camera, following shots taken on board of small boat, filming sea, and the other boat (Splice) Public gathering in town, orchestra, religious/official celebration, with religious procession, bandstand in parc, people making speeches under bandstand, Welsh, UK and USA flags ; 2 boys playing next to a white street lamp with Rotary International logo on it, female Lord mayor (wearing chains?) giving speech (Splice) Shots taken through plane's window, aerial view of coast (France?); people next to Paris airport bus ; shots taken on French motorway (filmed from copilote point of view) , then in town's street ; views at a city (Paris?), shot from roof or building's window, group of people in town ; shots of cyclist race, filmed on side of road, group of women talking with a French police officer (countryside) ; ruins of castle/ancient stone building, group of men and women talking, GB car with registration DVX285B ; group of men and women on platform at Moulins station, filmed from platform, steam locomotive arriving ; filmed from on board the train, people on platform waving goodbye at camera as train start moving ; shots inside wating room, sign ' channel', maybe on board Channel ferry ; shots of beach, coast, (Splice) waves, cliffs, man with binoculars on top of cliff next to filmaker ; sunset filmed on board of boat ; women and man on a house/hotel terrace, women talking, one knitting ; women in hats and men in siuits walking along promenade near beach seaside, peir in the background (Eastbourne?) ; orchestra, soldier parade in Chichester (marching down from Chichester cross - market cross) ; Navy orchestra in harbour/port/dock (likely Southampton), harbour, ferry/ship gate (P&O), ferry, boats (Brokenhurst, Sir Bevois Southampton), rail in the docks, ship "Iberia London" (Ocean liner, mostly London-Sydney through Suez canal - from 1968 Southampton-Sydney; also trip to Pacific ocean - taken out of service in 1972, scrapped in 1973) ; shots taken on british roads, countryside, view from copilote seat ; river, man picking up stones and throughing them in the river

Original 16mm amateur film 'Railways and ships'

circa 1960-circa 1970
Cine-Kodak Panchromatic Safety Film. Emulsion NUmber 531901D. Manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak Limited), Rochester, New York.

Cine-Kodak Panchromatic Safety Film

1930s
16mm film on 100 feet plastic reel, approximatley 50 feet of colour silent film. Night shots of steam locomotives ; several feet of black/dark frames and leader

Original 16mm amateur film 'Dark Railways'

circa 1960
Sample of halftone contact screen, one of 16 samples, 1983

Halftone Contact Screen

1983
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
Animation panning cel and background from the animated film 'Ruddigore'. Three couples dancing in street. Made by Halas and Batchelor, 1964.

Animation cel and background from 'Ruddigore'

1964
Animation cels and background from the film 'Tales of Hoffnung' entitled 'The Vacuum Cleaner'. Salesman plugs in vacuum cleaner watched by family. Made by Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd, London, 1965.

Animation cels and background from 'Tales of Hoffnung'

1965
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
Acetate for masking, a section of photograph entitled 'Blackpool 1968' painted in black, by Tony Ray-Jones.

Acetate for masking

1968