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Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Drummer-brand dye in daffodil-yellow shade

Fluted Roller Cutting Machine

1865

Flypress for Straightening Textile Roller Shafts

Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine

1898

Musgrave vacuum and pressure gauge

1950-1911

Musgrave's pressure gauge (bourdon type)

1881-1912

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

circa 1905

John Musgrave & Sons Maker's Plate

1913

Hand printing block by Isherwood & Ikin

circa 1900

Hand printing block by Isherwood & Ikin

circa 1900

Hand printing block

circa 1910

Horizontal gassing machine

1912

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunnyside mill worker with row of looms

1949-11-11

Lapel badge

1914-1950

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

1898

Caddow Quilt

1886

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

1926

Jacquard Hand Loom

circa 1910

collection of objects and archives

1945-2007

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

1898

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

Textile Printing Block

1880-1920

John & Edward Wood Maker's Plate

1902

Electric Blue Milk Float

2006

Stand for textile roller shafts

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

Longcase clock made by J. Standring, c. 1760

circa 1760

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

1920-1926
Banks focimeter, Bolton, 20th century

Banks focimeter, Bolton, 20th century

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

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

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway lapel badge

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
Made for Rank Film Laboratories Ltd. By donor, who specialised in this work. Folder with 7 step grey scale, light grey patch and 18% reflectance patch.

Grey scale and standard grey patch

Made for BBC Televsion Film Studios, Ealing, by doonor, who specialised in this work. Folder with 7 step grey scale (Ref. white 60%, 36%, 22%, 13%, 8%, 5% refelctance), light grey and dark grey patches.

Grey scale and standard grey patch

Made by donor, who specilaised in this work. AM ref 14B/660; 5" lens.

Torpedo Training Camera Assessing Graticule

MKV11b quartz timer by Hurd-Brown Limited, Bolton c.1955

MKV11b quartz timer by Hurd-Brown Limited

circa 1955
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
Child's knitted jumper, blue green and white, The Sweater Shop 7-8 years, Shiloh Spinning Ltd, coin 4.5 (Q.7 Ne) 50% cotton 50% acrylic.

Child's knitted jumper by Shiloh Spinners Ltd

1996-2001
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
Safe lock manufactured by Chatwood.

Safe lock

Two 'key stamp' hand printing blocks, c.1900

Two printing blocks with the same pattern

circa 1900