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Nucleic Acid Purification System

1989

Test sieve

1962-1989

250 micron sieve in three layers

Double ended metric screw plug gauge

1907

setting tool

1907

setting gauge

1907

setting dial

1907

ring gauge

1907

screw plug gauge

1907

ring gauge

1907

ring gauge

1907

Cast-iron 10 Radiant gas fire

420A Amino Acid Analyser, England, 1989

1989

Weezap, Low voltage circuit breaker

2017

Fletcher & Co. gas cooker

circa 1885

Part of the fly-wheel of an engine

before 1889

Persil Washing Powder

Fletcher Type Bunsen Burner, 1910-1913

1910-1913

Adjustable external limit gauge

1907

Convector gas fire

1900

Protein Sequencer, Warrington, England,1980

1980

Ring measuring micrometer set

circa 1910

Double-ended M 36 metric screw plug

1907

instruction sheet

1940

Gas cooker and kettle stand by Richmond & Co. Ltd

1897

Copper circulating boiler made by Richmonds Gas Stove Co. Ltd

Albany gas griller and stand made by Fletcher

1895

Fletcher & Co. gas griller

circa 1885
Carriage key, North Eastern Railway, T-key type with square head stamped "NER Co" on one side and "Thewlis & Co Warrington" on other.

Carriage key, North Eastern Railway

Carriage key, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, steel T-key with square head: 3 sides marked "LYRCo" 4th side "Thewlis & Co, Warrington".

Carriage key, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Carriage Key, North Eastern Railway, T-shaped, square-headed key, made by Thewlis & Co, marked "N.E.R.Co".

Steel carriage key, North Eastern Railway

Vintage gelatin silver print by Maurice Broomfield. Photograph titled "Chemical storage tanks. By courtesy Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd." Undated. Broomfield's studio stamp and paper label on verso.

Chemical storage tanks

mid-20th century
Clay furnace by Fletcher Russell and Co., Warrington

Clay furnace by Fletcher Russell and Co.

Gas cooker, The Warrington, by Richmond & Co. 'Property of the Manchester Corporation' cast on the front.

Warrington

Small gas cooker by Fletcher Russell and Co. of Warrington, model no.37, c.1893

Small gas cooker by Fletcher Russell and Co. of Warrington

1893
3 1/2" to 4" adjustable external limit gauge; pair of setting dials and standard setting bar,4" exactly setting bar, a force fit setting bar and a setting tool.

3 1/2" to 4" adjustable external limit gauge; pair of setting dials and standard setting bar

1907
Asbestos-radiant gas fire by T.Fletcher of Warrington, 1885

Asbestos-radiant gas fire by T.Fletcher of Warrington

1885
Pair of foot bellows with large iron feet and leather bag, made by Fletcher Russell of Warrington, Cheshire, English, 1895-1900

Pair of foot bellows with large iron feet and leather bag

1895-1900
Electrostatic condenser in iron case. Has two connectors on top, and rivet holes on either side. Manufactured by British Insulated Cables

Electrostatic condenser in iron case. Has two connectors on top

footplate, labourer, cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; mayor; school; Warrington; jobs during childhood; father, railwayman in Goods Depot, unemployed from 1926; first job, cotton mill apprentice; fitter with gas stove manufacturer; joining Territorial Army, aged fifteen; call-up to regular Army, 1939; service during Second World War; demobilisation, 1946; first railway job, labourer, Warrington; progression from cleaner, passed cleaner, fireman, passed fireman; joining trade union, ASLEF, active at branch level; joining Labour Party; elected to LDC; appointed ASLEF Branch Secretary and District Council Secretary; founder member of Warrington BRSA; elected member of LMR Sectional Council; experience of line and depot closures; elected local borough councillor and county councillor; service as a JP; election as Mayor; active promotion of Welfare Fund; driver. d.o.b. 1923-01-01, railway work 1946-1988, Warrington;

Whitehead, Harry

2000-11-27
Electromagnets by The Erasmic Co. Ltd., Warrington; England for original mass spectrograph by F.W. Aston.

Electromagnets, for Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

1919
An AGR fuel element cut away to show structure by British Nuclear Fuels Limited, 1982

An AGR fuel element cut away to show structure by British Nuclear Fuels Limited

1982
Setting bar 4" nominal size for setting the adjustable gauge.

setting gauge

1907
Cardboard box, unused, in flat form, assembles to form box for packaging paint tins for transport on British Railways, to BR Specification D62127, by Alliance Box Co, Warrington, c1960.

British Railways cardboard box

1960
Cardboard box, unused, in flat form, assembles to form box for packaging paint tins for transport on British Railways, to BR Specification D62127, by Alliance Box Co, Warrington, c1960.

British Railways cardboard box

1960
5" to 5 1/2" internal bore micrometer reading to thousandths of an inch patented by J. E. Storey in 1902 and made by Newall Engineering Co., Warrington.

5" to 5 1/2" internal bore micrometer reading to thousandths of an inch

1902 or later
Gas-fired hot water circulator by Fletcher Russell Ltd., Warrington, c.1920

Gas-fired hot water circulator by Fletcher Russell Ltd.

1920
Spelter dross, from Rylands's Galvanised Iron Works, Warrington

Spelter dross

before 1889
Plate mill, for making gold denture plates, iron, on four legged stand, by Thewlis, Warrington, 1880-1910

Plate mill

1880-1910
Residue from distilling ferriferous zinc lump obtained in the process of galvanising iron, Rylands's Galvanising Works, Warrington

Residue from distilling ferriferous zinc lump obtained in the process of galvanising iron

before 1889