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Example of the Willis world clock, with winding key (for showing local time in any part of the world), patented by John Henry Willis in 1929, made by J. H. Willis and Company, Norwich, England, 1929-1935.

Willis world clock, 1929-1935

Time Measurement

1929-1935

the four steamliners

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

about 1937

St Andrews, The Home of the Royal and Ancient Game

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1927

Baby food

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1984-1985

southport

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1929, about

Moulding plane, flute moulding type, size No. 4, 1

Hand and Machine Tools

Moulding plane, plain cavetto, with 1 1/4" wide b

Hand and Machine Tools

Baby food

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1984

Rail Weighing Machine, Great Northern Railway/London & North Eastern Railway/British Railways (Eastern Region), on four metal legs with wooden cover marked 'Great Northern Railway Rail Weighing Machine' four hinged carrying handles, GNR No. 13, LNER No. 10520, BR (ER) 10520.

Rail weighing machine, Great Northern Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

[One of 820 civil and engineering drawings, chiefly of Bramah & Robinson. Drawing no. 1/23: 'Plan and Sections of a Tread Mill, by J. Bramah & Sons, Engineers, Pimlico, proposed for the Gaol at Norwich'. ca.1820. Line drawing with wash. Scale 1" : 4']

Plans and Sections of a Tread Mill ...

Pedestal for wood core, University of East Anglia, 1997

Meteorology

1997

Steel lancet, in tortoiseshell sheath, by J.A. Gor

Therapeutics

1801-1900

Pine tree wood core, 1997

Meteorology

1997

Moulding plane: ogee profile type, stamped 1/2" ;

Hand and Machine Tools

Unknown

Lincolnshire - Spalding

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1960

It's Quicker by Rail - Ipswich

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1932

It's Quicker by Rail - Lowestoft

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1930

Trade card: Barlee Shreeve, Cockey Lane, Norwich.

.Unattributed

1780-1820

Mrs Graham's account of her ascent from Norwich wi

Art

1825

Trade card: Messrs Keyzor, St Giles's St, Norwich.

.Unattributed

1847-1854

Glass dispensing bottle with trace residues remaining , labelled "LAUDANUM"(opium tincture). 96 mm x 26 mm diameter, 36 g. Printed pharmacy label reads, 'LAUNDUNUM. POISON/H.KING/FAMILY AND DISPENSING CHEMIST/ Post Office Street, Norwich/POISON'. Supplied by H. King, chemist in Norwich, English, 1880-1910.

Dispending bottle of laudanum

Medical Glass-ware

1880-1910

One of four flavoured diet drinks. Strawberry. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of four flavoured diet drinks

Therapeutics

1987

Working model of Sprowston post windmill (1780 to 1934), scale 1:12, mounted on mahogany base, as it stood in 1924, by H. O. Clark, Norwich, England, 1924-1939 (see note).

Post Windmill, early 19th Century

Motive Power

1924-1939

Heatrae electric geyser (4 KW) by Heatrae, Norwich, 1927

Heatrae electric geyser (4 KW) by Heatrae, Norwich

Domestic Appliances

1927

Bottle of Dent-Odol denture cleanser, by Cranbux Limited, Norwich, England, 1970-1972

Bottle of Dent-Odol denture cleanser, by Cranbux L

Dentistry

1970-1972

Volume entitled 'The 1939 Callendar Steam Tables' compiled and edited by G. S. Callendar & A. C. Egerton, F.R.S. Second edition with new appendix on properties of compressed liquid water. 1944. Published by Edward Arnold & Co, London for the British Electrical & Allied Industries Research Association. Hardback maroon cover, 67 printed pages.

The 1939 Callender Steam Tables

Documents

1944

Children's pop-up book "A child's Story of Trains in living pictures". Spiral bound at top; colour pages. Written by John Ryder; illustrated by Bill York; published by World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd; printed by Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich. Overall: 163 mm x 205 mm 0.09kg.

A Child's Story of Trains in Living Pictures

Toys & Games

Black and white photograph. Exterior view of west door of Norwich Cathedral. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, the west door

Photographs

1904

Photograph of the Superintendent, Officers and Men of the GER Police taken at the Royal Agricultural Show, Norwich, 1911, by the Norwich photographer Charles Aldous. The photograph formerly belonged to (and includes) Constable W. E. Geater (back row, 8th from left), who served with the GER Police from 1906 to 1914.

Superintendent, Officers & Men, Great Eastern Railway Police, Royal Agricultural Show, Norwich, 1911

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1911

One of two diet bars. Malt Toffee flavour. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of two diet bars

Therapeutics

1987

Box for "Less" toothpaste, by Lauraine Laboratories, Westwick St., Norwich, England, 1965-1970

Box for "Less" toothpaste

Dentistry

1965-1970

Four flavoured diet drinks, chocolate, turkey and vegetable, beef and strawberry flavoured in sachets. With two meal bars, Malt toffee and Peanut flavour. Samples of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

Four flavoured diet drinks

Therapeutics

1987

Black and white photograph. View of the cloister at Norwich Cathedral. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, a glimpse of the cloister c. 1297-1430

Photographs

1904

Black and white photograph. Exterior view of the south side of Norwich Cathedral, some obscured by shrubs. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, south side of nave showing 'P.' triforium windows

Photographs

1904

Four 12" lengths of bands for Water Elevator:- No. 00, 1 and 3 (metal backed)

Four 12" lengths of bands for Water Elevator:- No.

Pumping Machinery

1922

One of two diet bars. Peanut flavour. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of two diet bars

Therapeutics

1987

One of four flavoured diet drinks. Turkey and vegetable. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of four flavoured diet drinks

Therapeutics

1987

Booklet exhibition guide entitled 'Portraits For Print' by Philip Sayer, published by Norwich School of Art, 1983.

Portraits For Print

Photographs

1983

Polarizing kaleidoscope with to rotatable slides, one polarising slide, one sample slide and a broken slide, John Huggins, Norwich, England, 1867-1868.

Polarizing kaleidoscope, with slides

Optics

1867-1868

Black and white photograph. Exterior view of south east apse of Norwich Cathedral. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, the south east apse

Photographs

1904

Black and white photograph. Norwich Cathedral, view of south side showing east end and most of nave with spire in middle. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, spire from South. 1463-72 (315 feet)

Photographs

1904

Black and white photograph. Exterior view of west front of Norwich Cathedral showing west window and spire. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, west front 1121-1145. Gt window 1536.

Photographs

1904

Models of four horses with draught harness based on plates to agriculture in A. Rees, cyclopedia, 1819, scale 1:16

Models of four horses with draught harness based o

Motive Power

1988, model; 1701-1800, original

Glass bottle with glass stopper for Paregoric elixir (camphorated tincture of opium) with trace amounts remaining. 95 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm, 117 g. Printed chemists label reads, 'PAREGORIC ELIXIR/ Medicinal Use.- As an anodyne in Coughs/ Dose.- Half to a tea-spoonful, in water/ Francis Sutton & Co. Chemists...'. Norwich, 19th century.

Bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Ice corer used to take ice core samples for research into past climates, 1980

Heated ice corer used by the University of East Anglia, 1980

Meteorology

1980

One of four flavoured diet drinks. Beef. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of four flavoured diet drinks

Therapeutics

1987

Black and white photograph. View of the Ethelbert Gateway at Norwich Cathedral. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, Ethelbert Gateway c. 1272 (upper part 9th cent.)

Photographs

1904

Black and white photograph. Distant view of Norwich Cathedral looking over rooftops. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich Cathedral from the castle

Photographs

1904

Black and white photograph. Norwich Cathedral - close-up of south doorway of tower. Taken by John H. Pledge, Norwich, Norfolk, 1904.

Norwich, s. doorway of tower

Photographs

1904

One of four flavoured diet drinks. Chocolate. Sample of the Cambridge diet with accompanying literature, by Cambridge Nutrition Ltd., Norwich, England, 1987

One of four flavoured diet drinks

Therapeutics

1987