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The Car - at Manchester.

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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 Mottram Viaduct of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.

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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 Hull whaler 'Abram'

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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…