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Packet for 'Tenner' cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Churchman's No.1 Special' cigarettes manufactured by W A and A C Churchman Limited

1920-1950

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

A trigonometrical calculator, British, 1826-1842

1826-1842

Petrol Motor by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, c. 1903

1903-1905

Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets

1950-11-23

Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets

1950-11-23

Double thread chainstitch sewing machine with needle bar feed

1856-1866

Six plain

1957

Field cooking stove [model]

1900-1930

Steel rod associated with single-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine

1903-1905

London Transport Collection

1974

Daily Herald Photograph; Large Pig at Suffolk Agricultural Show

1948-06-03

Daily Herald Photograph: Agricultural Show at Ipswich

1948-07-02

Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets

1953-12-07

Lawn mower, built by J. R and A. Ransomes of Ipswich to Edwin Budding's patent No.3157 of 1830

Budding's patent lawn mower, 1832.

1832

Bottle of liniment & drug. Bottle shape: circular. Cork stopper. Label: The liniment/.../E. Matcham. Homeopathic Chemist, 50 Westgate Street, Ipswich, near Hyde Park Corner.

Bottle of liniment & drug

goods, junior clerk, class 4; inspecting officer; public relations; releif booking clerk; commercial department; travel centre; interview; entrance exam; medical centre; horse drawn traffic; number taking; outward truck section; cartage; British Transport Police; self-improvement; railway culture; incident; conditions; uniforms; APTIS; TRIBUTE machine, introduction; disciplinary procedures; staff recalled; murder; demotivation; d.o.b. 1946-02-26, railway work 1961-1996, Ipswich goods station; Norwich general offices; Liverpool Street; Bishopsgate offices; Harold Wood; Southend Line; York; North Eastern Region; Eastern Region; Anglia Railways. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Feakes, David Mervyn

2000-08-11; 2000-08-18

Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1700-1725

Engraving. Opening of the Eastern Counties Union Railway, 1846/06/11. Published by Frederick Pawsey, Ipswich (with key to figures present).

Eastern Counties Union Railway

Rigged model of a boomsail barge, Boom-Sail Barge 1900. Towards the end of the 19th Century larger sailing barges came into use, capable of making short sea voyages in addition to the usual coastal trade. Scale None given

Rigged model of a boomsail barge

1900-1963

93x118mm red Morocco leather case with two latches. Spine of case broken. Lined with plain red plush. Rectangular gilt mat with rounded corners. Patterned pinchbeck frame. Velvet backing. 65x90mm three quarter portrait of lady seated profile reading book (date given as 1860).

Collodion Positive in Red Morocco Case by R Cade, Ipswich

1860

Ransomes RSLD tractor drawn (automatic hitch) 3-furrow self lift plough with disc coulters. Lifting mechanism driven by land wheel. In production 1918-1946. This actual plough won the World Ploughing Match 3 years in succession

Ransomes RSLD tractor drawn

1918-1946

Iron one-way plough, by Ransomes of Ipswich, 1850-1870, incorporating Lowcock's patent of 1843

Iron one-way plough

Compound monocular microscope with folding tripod foot, by T. Crickmore of Ipswich, 19th century

Compound monocular microscope with folding tripod foot

1800-1825

Airy's altazimuth telescope and mounting, incomplete

Airy's altazimuth telescope and mounting

1847

BT Test Equipment used in the development of the CT2 (Second Generation) Telepoint Cordless Telephone system. Two 19 inch electronics racks representing base station and handset, made by British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1989. Handset and base station, made by Ferranti Creditphone, British, 1989-1991. Handset, made by Shaye Communcations Limited, British, 1989-199. All conforming to the Common Air Interface Standard, CAI, 1988

BT Test Equipment used in the development of the CT2 (Second Generation) Telepoint Cordless Telephone system

1988

Single-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine, C.5 h.p., 1903-1905, by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Petrol Motor by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, c. 1903

1903-1905

Kibbler by Turners, Ipswich, 1923

Kibbler by Turners, Ipswich, 1923

1923

Signal lever frame, 11 lever, Hayrake type, ex Vickers Gun Range, Furness Railway, by Ransomes and Rapier, 1870.

Ransome and Rapier 11 Lever Signal Lever Frame

1870

'Hunter' two row self propelled sugar beet harvester made by Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Ltd., Ipswich. c.1970s.

'Hunter' two row self propelled sugar beet harvester made by Ransomes

1970-1980

Grain dryer designed by Roland Dudley and built by E. R. & F. Turner of Ipswich in 1929, for use at Linkenholt Manor in Hampshire in conjunction with a Holt combine-harvester. With associated spare parts

Grain dryer designed by Roland Dudley and built by E. R. & F. Turner of Ipswich in 1929

1929

Notice. Borough of Ipswich. Public Meeting, 13 April 1853. (Request to the Worshipful Mayor of Ipswich to convene a general meeting of the inhabitants.....with a view to affording them the opportunity of giving public expression to their opinion of the hostile measures adopted by the Eastern Counties Company against the interests of the Eastern Union Company). Black text on white background. Printed by J M Burton and Co, Ipswich Steam Press. Poor condition; torn and badly repaired.

Notice. Borough of Ipswich. Public Meeting

[Photo album (1920s) re Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., Waterside Works, Ipswich. A photographic record of various departments within the Ransomes and Rapier works with brief manuscript descriptions of the shops and their contents. 21 photos on 19 leaves]

Photo album (1920s) re Ransomes & Rapier Ltd.

1920-1929

Bottle of essence of white heliotrope, empty. Bottle shape: circular. No stopper. From the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co., 16 Westgate Street, and 1 Providence Street, Ipswich.

Bottle of essence of white heliotrope, empty

Bottle of hartshorn and oil & ammonia liniment & linseed & drug. Bottle shape: rectangular with depressed faces. No stopper. By J Wiggn, Pharmaceutical Chemist, corner of Berners Street, S. Matthew's.

Bottle of hartshorn and oil & ammonia liniment & linseed & drug

Woad seed (loose) originally from Thompson and Morgan seeds men Ipswich. One packet dated 1976

Woad seed (loose) originally from Thompson and Morgan seeds men Ipswich

1976

Engraving. Opening of the Eastern Union Railway, 11 June 1846. Published by Frederick Pawsey, Ipswich.

Eastern Union Railway

Etching. The Eastern Union Terminus, St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk. Drawn, etched and published by Henry Davy, Globe St, Ipswich. 1846/06/19.

The Eastern Union Terminus

1846-06-19

95x120mm red Morocco leather case with two latches. Lined with plain red plush. Rectangular gilt mat with domed top. Patterned pinchbeck frame. Velvet backing. 65x90mm three quarter portrait of gentleman seated holding open book.

Collodion Positive in Red Morocco Case by R Cade, Ipswich

90x118mm red Morocco leather case with two latches. Plain rectangular gilt mat, waffled pinchbeck frame. Stamped on back ' R Cade, Photographer, Ipswich'. Lacquer and velvet back. (Card backing was cut from paper print - small part remains of gentleman's foot - also marked in corner R Cade). Now removed. 68x95mm portrait of genteman standing full length with lady seated. (Could be mother and son). Lady middle aged, gentleman in late 20's?

Collodion Positive in Morocco Case by R Cade

Therapeutic limb cooler, made by Hospital Engineering Systems in Ipswich in the 1990s, developed at Oldchurch Hospital for post operative treatment on the orthopaedic ward - particularly following knee surgery, machine and trolley

Therapeutic limb cooler

circa 1993

Ransomes RYLT tractor drawn (chain hitch) 3-furrow steerage plough. c. 1914. steered by hand lever, raised and lowered by two hand levers.

Ransomes RYLT tractor drawn (chain hitch) 3-furrow steerage plough. c. 1914. steered by hand lever

1909-1919

Roller Mill (flour mill) with break and reduction rolls, by E.R. & F.Turner, St. Peter's Ironworks, Ipswich, 1899-1909

'Roller Mill' flour mill with rolls, Ipswich, 1899-1909

1899-1909