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The Hull whaler 'Abram'
Launched in Lancaster in 1806, Abram was named after a West Indian planter and merchant. She had a very long career, sailing initially to the British and Danish Virgin Islands of Tortola, St Thomas and St Croix. The documentary record of her voyages…
The Mottram Viaduct of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.
The image shows a steam locomotive and freight wagons crossing the recently-completed viaduct at Mottram, Derbyshire, where an iron construction to support the track bed had replaced an earlier wooden construction. This had been achieved with minimal…
The Car - at Manchester.
A series of photographs and commentary on the Manchester Motor Show of 1914, accompanied by a range of advertising. Some of the advertisements are directly related to cars, other relate to a range of consumer products such as patent medicines. Page…
The World of Flight. Civil aviation, the calendar, and the weather.
Used against zeppelins in the air-raids: rockets fitted to an aeroplane - experimental practice-firing
The article by C.G. Grey discusses the early days of civil aviation, including the role played by the weather. The photograph is essentially unrelated other than it shows an approximately contemporaneous aircraft, which had been fitted with missile…
The World of Flight. On competition and competitions.
An article primarily discussing the role of flying competitions in the growth of civil aviation, with a reference to races which involved a return flight between London and Manchester (among other places) before World War One.
The first photograph…
The first photograph…
The Great Railway Strike: comments and responses
The files on this item are all drawn from the same edition of the Illustrated London News, from early October 1919. They all relate to a national railway strike which started on 27 September 1919.
During World War One, and its immediate aftermath, …
During World War One, and its immediate aftermath, …
The World of Flight. Joy-riding and commercial aviation
Article discussing the popularity of pleasure flights at Blackpool, with interior and exterior photographs of bi-planes used on flights between London and the Continent.
There is a reference to flights between Blackpool and Manchester, and also a…
There is a reference to flights between Blackpool and Manchester, and also a…
Viaduct over the River Lune at Lancaster, - Branch of the North-Western Railway to Poulton-le-Sands
An engraving of a timber viaduct over the River Lune at Lancaster, which carried the Midland Railway to Poulton-le-Sands (later known as Morecambe). The engineer for this viaduct was J. Watson.
The viaduct formed part of a branch of the rail line…
The viaduct formed part of a branch of the rail line…
Quintinshill Rail Disaster 1915
Photograph of the disaster site published in the Daily Sketch 24 May 1915
Engine cleaners (?) at Upperby Depot, Carlisle
Photograph which possibly shows women engine-cleaners, who would have been drafted in to undertake this work during World War One.
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Map of the Battle of Preston
This map was drawn in 1818 and published in 1836, so over a century after the event it represents. However, it is closely based on an original map…