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Double beam engine model

1840-1851

collection of objects and archives

1945-2007

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunnyside mill worker with row of looms

1949-11-11

15 megawatt AC turbo-alternator with steam turbine

1923; 1923

John Musgrave & Sons Maker's Plate

1913

Hand printing block by Isherwood & Ikin

circa 1900

Musgrave vacuum and pressure gauge

1950-1911

Hand printing block by Isherwood & Ikin

circa 1900

Hand printing block

circa 1910

Horizontal gassing machine

1912

Cardboard box associated with the Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine

1898

Fluted Roller Cutting Machine

1865

Flypress for Straightening Textile Roller Shafts

Safe from the basement of the Corn Exchange building made by Chatwood's

circa 1905

Lapel badge

1914-1950

Musgrave's pressure gauge (bourdon type)

1881-1912

Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine

1898

Drummer-brand dye in daffodil-yellow shade

Stand for textile roller shafts

Electric Blue Milk Float

2006

Hand printing block

circa 1900

Hand printing block

circa 1900

Emerald Drummer dye made by William Edge & Sons Ltd

Maker's plate of John Musgrave & Sons

1913

Hand printing block with screw by Isherwood & Ikin

circa 1890

Large hand printing block with urn/vase on three legs design

circa 1905

John & Edward Wood Maker's Plate

1902

Electric Blue Milk Float

2006

Four metal components associated with the Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine

1898

Double-bed lathe, made by William Ryder Son & Co.

Longcase clock made by J. Standring, c. 1760

circa 1760

Caddow Quilt

1886

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

1926

Jacquard Hand Loom

circa 1910

Textile Printing Block

1880-1920

One spinning frame, with one side converted to the Casablancas system

1920-1926
Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine, Corliss valve gear, by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, 1898. Part sectioned to show valves, scale 1:6

Horizontal Engine with Corliss Valve Gear, c. 1898

1898
Mechanical Lubricator, T&K Mechanical Lubricator with 2 glass gauge glasses. Plate fixed to side: "T&K Mechanical Lubricators. LIVC No.4952. J&W Kirkham Ltd., Bolton, England". Overall: 225 mm x 200 mm x 170 mm.

Mechanical Lubricator No 4952

1925-1926 diary of bookings at the Bee-Hive Picture House, Bolton.

Cinema Diary

1925-1926
1924-1925 diay of bookings at Bee-Hive Picture House, Bolton.

Cinema Diary

1924-1925
One green sock, Shiloh Spinners Horizon, 2/28 Nm 2/17 Ne, 55% modal, 45% acrylic.

Green sock by Shiloh Spinners Ltd

1996-2001
Coal miner's clothing and papers relating to Cutacre Opencast UK Coal PLC Coal Mine near Bolton. The archives consist of plans for Cutacre Opencast Coal Mine near Bolton, including a map of restoration and landscaping plan, map of the site plan, map of geological supplement, and statistics for coal production reduction.

Coal miner's clothing and pape

2010-2011
Silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Post Office from a car', by Humphrey Spender, Bolton, 1937. Three women talking in the street.

Post Office From a Car

1937
Ellipsograph devised in 1840 by John Hick of Bolton, in box

Ellipsograph devised in 1840 by John Hick of Bolton

1840
One working model, (scale 1:10) of a 240 H.P. beam engine by Benjamin Hick, Bolton, 1840, and one model of a 500 H.P. Steam Turbine with geared rope drive, 1935, formerly mounted together on wooden base. This model was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Models of double beam engine and steam turbine

1840-1851
Cotton combing machine by Dobson and Barlow Ltd., Bolton, Manchester, England, 1894, being an improved form of Heilmann's comber.

Combing machine by Dobson and Barlow Ltd.

1894
Lapel badge, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Railway Service no.B6859. Overall: 7 mm x 27 mm.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway lapel badge

One cop of large green yarn (2 ply).

Cop of green yarn by Shiloh Spinners Ltd

1996-2001
Black and gray child knitted jumper, 1-1 1/2 years old, Velawood knitwear manufactures, by Shiloh Spinners Ltd. Nostalgia 1.9 Ne (3.2 Nm), 100% acrylic.

Childs Knitted Jumper by Shiloh Spinners Ltd

1996-2001
One cop of small grey yarn, labelled: 2/34 Nm High, Bulk Courtelle. Shade: medium grey. Batch num: 291.

Cop of grey yarn by Shiloh Spinners Ltd

1996 - 2001