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Whessoe Foundry Company

Reference: D/Whes Catalogue Title: Whessoe Foundry Company Area: Catalogue Category: Business and Industry Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1601; 1790-1989

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Whessoe Foundry Company (Ref: D/Whes) (Ref: D/Whes 3/40)

Supplement

Papers concerning the acquisition and development of the foundry site


Papers concerning the acquisition and development of the Stooperdale Estate, 6 July 1897 - 10 September 1900
(1 file)

 (Ref: D/Whes 5/55)

Supplement

Patents


German patent granted to Erwin Moller for a process and apparatus for the electrical precipitation of floating bodies from non-conductive liquids or, in particular, gases, 1 September 1912
(1 file, German)

 (Ref: D/Whes 8/35-41)

Supplement

Technical drawings


Profile and plan of the locomotive engine Raby Castle built by Alfred Kitching, 1839 No scale given
(1 plan, paper on linen, 57cm x 47cm, coloured)


Profile drawing of a locomotive engine and tender, n.d. [1860]
(1 paper)


Copy of drawings of rollers for three lift gas holder, 7 May 1887. No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 57cm x 67cm)


Drawing of details of back leg connections in 5 comp headgear 26 September 1903 Scales: 3/8 inch to 1 foot [1:32] 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, waxed linen, 102cm x 68cm)


Drawing of details of girders and bracing [Order No. 5769], 3 August 1906 Scales: 3/4 inch to 1 foot [1:16]; 3 inch to 1 foot [1:4]
(1 plan, paper, 101cm x 68cm)


Technical sketches for orders, 28 May 1923 - 11 April 1933
(1 volume, leather half bound)


Drawing of details of a 40 ft. headgear n.d. Scales: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]; 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, waxed linen, 102cm x 70cm)

Registers of technical drawings (Ref: D/Whes 9/1-17)

Register of technical drawings relating to gas installations, 25 July 1904 - 21 November 1944
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no.1., August 1905 - November 1909
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 2, September 1909 - January 1913
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 3, January 1913 - August 1916
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 4, August 1916 - August 1919
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 5, August 1919 - October 1922
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 6, November 1922 - June 1925
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 7, June 1925 - October 1927
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 8, October 1927 - October 1929
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 9, October 1929 - June 1932
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 10, June 1932 - June 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 11, March 1935 - February 1937
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Shop register of drawings, no. 12, February 1937 - August 1939
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Index of plans and drawings, 1905 - 1925
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Index of plans and drawings, 1926 - 1935
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Register of drawings received, no. 8, 4 June 1952 - 30 December 1953
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Register of drawings received, no. 9, January 1954 - April 1956
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)

 (Ref: D/Whes 10/1-13)

Correspondence

Correspondence with the London Office


Memoranda and telegrams from Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 9 May 1891 - 31 December 1891
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 5 January 1892 - 30 August 1892
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 2 September 1892 - 30 December 1892
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 6 January 1893 - 20 May 1893
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 24 May 1893 - 7 February 1894
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 9 February 1894 - 31 July 1894
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 1 August 1894 - 31 October 1894
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 1 November 1894 - 13 September 1895
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 18 September 1895 - 12 August 1896
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 13 August 1896 - 31 December 1896
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 1 January 1897 - 22 May 1897
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 24 May 1897 - 29 September 1897
(1 file)


Memoranda and telegrams from the Whessoe Foundry Works, Darlington, to the London Office, 1 October 1897 - 31 December 1897
(1 file)

Correspondence with agents and others (Ref: D/Whes 10/14-17)

Correspondence with agents, 28 March 1901 - 7 March 1919
(1 file)


Correspondence with agents, 18 November 1909 - 28 December 1911
(1 file)


Correspondence and calculations concerning the future world demand for oil, 1951 - 1952
(1 file)


Correspondence and technical drawings concerning the liquefied petroleum gas storage installation at Coleshill, May 1962 - 29 April 1966
(1 folder)

Employees' records (Ref: D/Whes 11/1-8)

Register of male employees over the age of 16 giving names, addresses, marital status, ages, dates of engagement by firm, nature of employment, dates of leaving etc., 1916 - 1919
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Apprenticeship agreement of Stanley Whitfield, 13 Barron Street, Darlington as a fitter and turner, 13 February 1918
(3 papers)


Workmen's declarations containing employees' dates of birth, addresses, marital status, trade, previous employment and reasons of leaving, 27 October 1941 - 2 February 1942
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Workmen's declarations containing employees' dates of birth, addresses, marital status, trade, previous employment and reasons for leaving, 2 February 1942 - 18 September 1942
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Workmen's applications for employment containing employees' dates of birth, addresses, marital status, trade, previous employment and reasons for leaving, 20 November 1942 - 14 May 1943
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Copy of trust deed for the Whessoe Limited Supplementary Staff Pension and Life Assurance Scheme, 8 December 1955
(1 file)

 (Ref: D/Whes 12/1-22)

Plans

Foundry site plans


Plan showing layout of the Hopetown Works, 1831-62, and its relationship to the Stockton & Darlington Railway Company's carriage works, 1948 [the latter was used later as Whessoe erection store] Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch [1:240]
(1 plan, 95cm x 62cm, coloured)


Plan of the Tubwell Row Foundry and shop of William Kitching showing adjacent properties, n.d. [post 1844] No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 35cm x 38cm)


Plan by John Dixon and William Cudworth, engineers, of proposed diversion of the highway from Darlington to Whessoe, November 1858 Scale: 25.344 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, paper, 75cm x 50cm)


Plan and elevation by George Dickinson of Darlington, surveyor and civil engineer, of proposed workshops for Alfred Kitching, Hope Town, Darlington, 1861 Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [1:96]
(1 plan, paper on linen, 91cm x 51cm, coloured)


Site plan of railway engine works belonging to A. Kitching, 19 December 1848 Scale: 8 yards to 1 inch [1:298]
(1 plan, paper, 45cm x 31cm)


Site plan of Whessoe works, 1 May 1891 No scale given [dimensions shown]
(1 plan, paper, 64cm x 24cm)


Plan of Whessoe Foundry and the Stooperdale Estate, n.d. [c. 1897] Scale: 80 feet to 1 inch [1:960]
(1 plan, linen, 97cm x 70cm)


Plan of Whessoe Foundry produced by the North Eastern Railway Estate Office, York, 18 April 1899 Scale: 208 feet to 1 inch [1:2500]
(1 plan, linen, 26cm x 20cm, coloured)


Plan of the Stooperdale estate and Whessoe Foundry produced by the North Eastern Railway Estate Office, York, 13 May 1899 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, linen, 59cm x 46cm, coloured)


Plan of the Stooperdale Estate showing sewerage pipes in part of the area immediately to the north of Bell Lane, n.d. [c.1900] Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792]
(1 plan, linen, 100cm x 75cm)


Site plan of Whessoe works, c.1900 No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 69cm x 32cm)


Plan of the Stooperdale estate and Whessoe Foundry produced by the North Eastern Railway Estate Office, York, 31 October 1908 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, linen, 61cm x 48cm, coloured)


Copy of plan of Whessoe Foundry and the Stooperdale estate showing field tenants, 16 March 1916 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, paper, 61cm x 47cm)


Tracing showing the works of the Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., Darlington, the area of proposed extension, and the adjoining property of the North Eastern Railway Co., n.d. Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, linen, 71cm x 55cm, coloured)


Site plan of Whessoe works, 17 February 1919 Scale: 33 feet to 1 inch [1:396]
(1 plan, paper, 81cm x 35cm)


Copy of plan of part of the Whessoe Foundry site, plan 17 February 1919; copy, 14 January 1921 No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 65cm x 49cm)


Plan of Darlington works site showing drains and services, December 1929 Scale: 33 feet to 1 inch [1:396]
(1 plan, paper, 95cm x 39cm)


Plan of the Whessoe Foundry showing the Stooperdale Estate and the surrounding area, with an area marked "for the purpose of the mortgage", n.d. Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch [1:792]
(1 plan, linen, 156cm x 100cm, coloured)


Copy of a plan of a farm called Stooperdale, n.d. Scale: 200 feet to 1 inch [1:2400]
(1 plan, tracing paper, 29cm x 38cm)


Plan of Whessoe Foundry and the Stooperdale estate, n.d. Scale: 80 feet to 1 inch [1:960]
(1 plan, linen, 82cm x 65cm)


Copy of plan of layout of works of the Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., n.d. No scale given
(1 plan, tracing paper, 95cm x 26cm)


Scheme III, proposed alterations to site, n.d. Scale: 1/64 inch to 1 foot [1:768]
(1 plan, paper, 88cm x 66cm)

Ordnance Survey (Ref: D/Whes 12/23-31)

Copy of Ordnance Survey, 5 feet to 1 mile [1:1056], Darlington sheet no. 1, 1856 Scale: 5 feet to 1 mile [1:1056]
(1 plan, incomplete)


Copy of Ordnance Survey, [1:1056], Darlington sheet no. 2, 1856 Scale: 5 feet to 1 mile [1:1056]
(1 plan, incomplete)


Copy of Ordnance Survey, Darlington sheet no. 4, 1856 Scale: 5 feet to 1 mile [1:1056]
(1 plan, incomplete)


Ordnance Survey plan, sheet NZ 2815 NE [Hopetown, Darlington], 1955 Scale: 50 inches to 1 mile [1:50]
(1 plan)


Copy of western half of Ordnance Survey plan, Durham sheet no. LV.2, 1855 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan)


Ordnance Survey plan, Durham sheet LV.6, revised 1939, published 1947 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan)


Ordnance Survey plan, NZ 5020 [Middlesbrough Dock and Teesside Bridge & Engineering Works], 1954 Scale: 25 inches to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan)


Ordnance Survey plan, Durham sheet no.XLIX SW, provisional edition, 1938-39 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]
(1 plan)


Ordnance Survey plan, 6 inches, sheet Durham LV.SW [South Darlington and Blackwell], 1938 Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]
(1 plan)

Other plans (Ref: D/Whes 12/32-34)

Transverse section of retort house and coal sheds for the Thwaites Works of Keighley Corporation Gas Department, n.d. Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48]
(1 plan, paper, 97cm x 64cm)


Plan of gasworks, n.d. Scale: 1/16 inches to 1 foot [1:192]
(1 plan, cloth, 51cm x 60cm)


Tees Conservancy Commission plan of the river Tees from Stockton to the sea, 1963 Scale: 1750 feet to 1 inch [1:21000]
(1 plan, paper, 89cm x 47cm, coloured)

 (Ref: D/Whes 13/1-86)

Photographs

Photographs of Foundry Site


Photograph of Whessoe Foundry offices, [1904]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of the Whessoe Foundry, n.d. [1910?]
(1 photograph)


Photographs of workshops, n.d. [pre-1914]
(20 photographs)


Photographs of the exterior and interior of the old office block, n.d. [various]
(6 photographs)


Aerial view of works site, 1921
(1 photograph)


Photographs showing the fitting shop, the punching shop, the blacksmith's shop, the grinder shop, the sheeting shop and the foundry, n.d. [c.1928?]
(15 photographs)


Aerial view of works site, 1930
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the interior of the works after the 1928 reconstruction, n.d. and March 1940
(18 photographs)


Aerial view of Whessoe site, 1930
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of Whessoe site, 1939
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the Estimating Office, [20 December 1945]
(2 photographs)


Photographs mainly of the offices and works, 1946 - 1950 Also includes rotary roasters at Hendon, Sunderland, 1946, and Penicuik, 1950; and a heat accumulator, 1950
(1 volume)


Aerial view of works site, 1948
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1948
(1 photograph)


Photographs showing reconstruction of the offices and works, 1948 - 1954
(1 folder)


Aerial view of works site, 1950
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1950
(1 photograph)


Photographs of sections of early railway track discovered in 1952 on the site formerly occupied by William Lister's iron foundry, with a photograph of the plaque erected to commemorate the discovery, 1952 - 1953
(19 photographs)


Aerial view of works site, [1955]
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1955
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1955
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, September 1955
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of part of works site, [1955]
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1961
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, 1978
(1 photograph, coloured)


Album of photographs of the interior and exterior of the new offices, n.d. [1950's]
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Aerial view of works site, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Aerial view of works site, n.d.
(1 photograph)

Photographs of employees (Ref: D/Whes 13/87-102)

Photographs of Alfred Kitching, partner 1831 - 1882; Alfred Edward Kitching, partner 1885 - 1890; Henry Kitching, partner, 1885 - 1890; Charles Ianson, partner 1862 - 1884; and James Ianson, partner to 1885
(5 photographs in one mount)


Portrait photographs of Thomas Coates, managing director, 1890 - 1913; Alfred Tom Coates, managing director, 1913 - 1924; and H. S. Smith-Rewse, chairman, 1895 - 1920
(3 photographs in one mount)


Portrait photographs of Thomas Coates, managing director, 1890 - 1913; and of Alfred T. Coates, managing director, 1913 - 1924, n.d.
(2 photographs)


Photographs of Whessoe foremen with note of names, 12 September 1891
(1 photograph, 1 paper)


Photograph of R. B. Hodgson, managing director (1925 - 1935), n.d. [c.1935]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of directors and departmental managers of Whessoe Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd., 1940
(1 photograph)


Photograph of the directorate and staff, with names, 1940
(1 photograph)


Photographs of Whessoe apprentices at work, 1950s
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph of engineer working on roof of storage tank, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of H. G. Judd, chairman (1920 - 1955), n.d. [c.1955]
(1 photograph)


Portrait of C. M. Spielman by [?] Fowler, 1960
(1 oil painting)


Photograph of C. M. Spielman, managing director (1935 - 1954), chairman (1955 - 1961), president (1961), n.d. [c.1961]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of A. G. Grant, managing director (1954 - 1961), n.d. [c.1961]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of John H. Lord, chairman (1961 - 1970), n.d. [c.1970]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of M. J. Noone, managing director (1963 - 1966) and Group chief executive (1966 - 1970), n.d. [c.1970]
(1 photograph)

Photographs of products and installations (Ref: D/Whes 13/103-165)

Photographs (vol. 1) of products and installations, 1891 - 1909
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 2) of products and installations, 1910 - 1920
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 3) of products and installations, 1920 - 1924
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 4) of products and installations, 1925 - 1929
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 5) of products and installations, 1930 - 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 6) of products and installations, 1935 - 1936
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 7) of products and installations, 1937 - 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 8) of products and installations, 1939 - 1940
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 9) of products and installations, 1941 - 1942
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 10) of products and installations, 1943 - 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs (vol. 11) of products and installations, 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph of the building of a three-lift telescopic gas holder for the Newcastle & Gateshead Gas Co. at St. Anthony's, Newcastle, n.d. [1890s]
(1 photograph)


Photographs of two gas holders made by Whessoe for the no. 2 works of the Tokyo Gas Co., n.d. [1906]


Photograph of pipework for R. E. Briggs, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz, n.d. [1909]
(1 photograph)


Photographs of work in progress on the Kilpauk water tank, Madras, 27 July 1913 and 1914
(2 photograph)


Photograph of repairs in progress on the damaged no. 8 tank at Saitozaki, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of steel girders for H.M. Dockyard, Malta, 1921
(1 photograph)


Photograph of a cast iron tank for H.M. Dockyard, Malta, 1921
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the construction of a gas holder at Rio de Janeiro, 1923 - 1924
(1 volume, leather bound)


Photographs of work in progress at Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Trinidad, Southampton, Winnipeg, Darlington, Newburn Steel Works, Vauxhall Gas Works, Madras, Brighton, Casablanca, etc., [1920s f.]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs of the buildings and structure of Hortonspheroid storage tanks and the damage resulting from a roof rupture of a tank at Bullen Baia, Curacao; also photograph of Hortonspheroids at the Largo Oil & Transport Co. at Aruba; and tanks at San Diego and Chicago Bridge, n.d. [1930s?]
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Photographs of weigh bridges, 1931 and n.d.
(12 photographs)


Album [B] of photographs of contract work at various gas works plant showing condensers, detarrers, washers, purifiers, heater, liquor coolers and telescopic holders, May 1939 - November 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph of a welded unit for the Admiralty on a trailer, 23 March 1943
(1 photograph)


Photographs of a bomb being loaded onto a bomber and of a bomb falling from an aircraft, n.d. [c.1943]
(2 photographs)


Photographs of models of a floating stores pierhead; a section of the towing link and shore ramp float; and a pontoon pierhead, together forming a floating harbour, n.d. [c.1943]
(2 photographs)


Photograph of an armoured car, n.d. [c.1943]
(2 photographs)


Photographs of construction work on storage tanks near Chatham and Liverpool, n.d. [c.1943]
(2 photographs)


Photographs of Churchill Mark VII tank production, 1945
(4 photographs)


Photographs of storage installation at Curacao, 16 January 1946
(1 photograph)


Album [D] of photographs of heat exchangers and columns manufactured for the Shell Refining & Marketing Co. Ltd., September 1946 - February 1948
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Album [A] of photographs of contract work on tanks for petrol installations, floating roofs, Hortonspheroids, tank fittings, elevated tanks, etc., October 1946 -November 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Album [C] of photographs of contract work on pressure vessels showing pressure holders, spheres and cylinders for volatile liquids, receivers and vacuum vessels, May 1947 - September 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Album [E] of photographs of contract work for blast furnace and producer gas plant, January 1948 - June 1949
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs of various tank fittings manufactured by Whessoe under licence of Shand and Jurs Co., U.S.A., May 1950 - January 1951
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Photograph of regenerator bottom cone being lifted into regenerator shell, 20 September 1950
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the construction of the catalytic cracking plant and distillation columns at the Stanlow Refinery, 1950 - 1951
(1 file)


Photographs and drawings of road tankers, n.d. [c.1960]
(2 volumes, card bound)


Photographs of road tankers, n.d. [c.1960]
(6 photographs)


Photographs of a road tanker for propane gas for British Oxygen, n.d. [1967]
(2 photographs)


Photograph showing the final welding at the Darlington Works of a series of circulator penetrations for an AGR nuclear reactor for the Central Electricity Generating Board and the South of Scotland Electricity Board, n.d. [1970s]
(1 photograph, coloured)


Photograph of the assembly and welding of buoyancy tubes at the Darlington Works for Britoil plc, n.d. [1980s]
(1 photograph, coloured)


Photograph of model of wagon bailer, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of a buoy [?], n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photographs of electric turbine charging and discharging machines in use at the La Villette works of the Paris Gas Co., n.d.
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs of construction work at Oldbury, n.d.
(1 volume, card bound)


Mounted photographs of various jobs, some for overseas clients, many untitled, but including a pontoon roof erected by Whessoe at Mount Hope, Canal Zone, Panama, n.d.
(20 photographs)


Photograph of a storage tank with a Wiggins type floating roof built for Les Ateliers et Chantiers de la Seine Maritime, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of a regenerator cone, n.d.
(1 photograph)

Collotypes of products and installations (Ref: D/Whes 13/166-169/1-7)

Catalogue of collotypes (1891-1920) giving date, order number and description, collected and bound, January 1950
(1 volume, paper bound)


Collotypes of Whessoe products (1891-1920), January 1950
(1 volume, leather bound)


Collotypes of condensers, weigh bridges, a gas main, a water carrier and a Wiggins roof, 1921f
(9 papers)


Collotypes of high pressure spherical gas holders, n.d.
(7 papers)

Photographs locomotive engines (Ref: D/Whes 13/170-181)

Photographs of the locomotive engine Derwent [no. 25] at Bank Top Station, Darlington, 1950-59
(5 photographs)


Photograph of the locomotive engines Derwent [no. 25] and Locomotion at Bank Top Station, Darlington, n.d. [1950s]
(1 photograph)


Photograph of the locomotive engine Sunbeam [no. 43], n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of framed drawing [1855] of passenger locomotive engine and tender built by A. Kitching, Hope Town Engine Works, Darlington, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of locomotive engine and tender no. 217, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of N.E.R. locomotive engine and tender no. 910, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of N.E.R. locomotive engine and tender no. 1275, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Photograph of Caledonian Railway engine and tender no. 124, built by Messrs. Dubs and Co., n.d.
(1 photograph)

Other photographs (Ref: D/Whes 13/182-191)

Photographs of the old and new Tay Bridges, n.d. [c.1879 and ?]
(2 photographs)


Photographs of the old Fighting Cocks railway station and the new Dinsdale railway station, 30 June - 1 July 1887
(2 photograph, mounted on 1 board)


Welded Rigid Frame Factory Building by 0. Bondy, reprinted from Engineering (11 and 25 October 1940), 1941
(1 volume, paper bound)


Photographs used in Welded Rigid Frame Factory Building by 0. Bondy, n.d. [1940] [The building, designed by the author, was erected by Whessoe for Messrs. Quasi Arc Ltd., Bilston]
(1 file)


Photographs of sections of esing of storage tank at Fawley, 13 February 1952
(2 photographs)


Aerial view of riverside facility, Middlesbrough, 1978
(1 photograph, coloured)


Catalogue of photographs and pictures in R.N.R. area, 7 September 1989
(1 file)


Photograph of suit of armour, n.d.
(1 photograph)

 (Ref: D/Whes 13/192-221)

Supplement

Photographs


Photograph of the erection yard, 31 October 1945
(1 photograph)


Photographs of the Foundry site and its redevelopment n.d. [various, 20 century]
(26 photographs)


Photograph of work on steel pipes for Barrancas, Portezuelo, for S. Pearson & Sons Ltd., London n.d.


Photographs showing damage resulting from the collapse of No. 9 tank at Saitozaki, n.d.
(2 photographs)

 (Ref: D/Whes 14/1-44)

Printed publicity, scrapbooks, press cuttings

Printed publicity


Illustrated publicity sheet of C. Ianson & Co., Whessoe Foundry, manufacturers of weighing apparatus, [1866]
(1 paper)


Lithograph of illustrations of various kinds of weighing apparatus manufactured by C. Ianson & Co., Whessoe Foundry, n.d. [1866]
(1 paper)


Price list of self-contained weigh bridges, 24 September 1891
(2 paper)


Price list of cranes manufactured by Charles Ianson, Son & Co., n.d. [c.1891]
(1 paper)


Price list of turntables manufactured by Charles Ianson, Son & Co., n.d.
(1 paper)


Price list of weighing machines manufactured by Charles Ianson Son & Co., Whessoe Foundry, Darlington, n.d.
(1 paper)


Advertisement for Coates' improved furnace door protector, sole makers and vendors, The Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., Darlington, January 1894
(1 paper)


Photocopy of the entry for the Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., in Darlington Illustrated, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 file)


Short Histories of Famous Firms no. IX: Messrs. W. and A. Kitching, Hope Town Foundry, Darlington, by E. L. Ahrons [copied from The Engineer, 29 October 1920 with correspondence of 5 and 12 November]
(1 file)


Illustrated brochure of Whessoe, Darlington, gas plant manufacturers and constructional engineers, 3rd edition, n.d. [1928?] [includes cover of 1st edition, 1922]
(1 volume, card bound; 1 paper)


Samples of printed publicity, 1920's and 1930s
(1 volume, cloth half-bound)


Copies of display advertising in trade press, 27 January 1933 - 31 March 1939
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Copies of display advertising in trade press, 1 January 1938 - 28 February 1948
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Copies of display advertising in trade press, 1930s
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Copies of display advertising in trade press, 4 February 1942 - 5 August 1944
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Copies of display advertising in trade press, 1947 - 1953
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


An illustrated summary catalogue of Whessoe Company products, 1938
(1 volume, card bound)


Cutting from the Manchester Guardian Commercial concerning Lodge-Cottrell electrostatic precipitators, 28 April 1939
(1 paper)


Whessoe's Contribution to the War Effort, reprinted from the Northern Despatch, 16 - 17 April 1945
(2 papers)


Rough mock-up for publication on Whessoe at War, n.d. [c. 1948]
(1 file)


Rambles in Whessoe from Whessoe Magazine, n.d. [post 1948]
(1 file)


A Darlington Quaker Capitalist [Alfred Kitching], 1830 - 1843 by G. A. Petch published in The Journal of the Industrial and Social Order Council of the Society of Friends, vol. VI, no. 3, November 1949
(1 booklet)


Whessoe's Works Reorganisation and Technical Progress reprinted from The Petroleum Times, n.d. [1949]
(1 paper)


Whessoe trade publications, 1940 - 1949, May 1950
(1 volume, leather bound)


Articles by G. A. Petch on A Darlington Quaker Capitalist; and Whessoe Limited (from British Petroleum Equipment News), n.d. [1950]
(1 file)


Typescript of article on Whessoe Limited in Early Victorian England by G. A. Petch for British Petroleum Equipment News, n.d. [1950]
(1 file)


Press cuttings on the exploding of oil storage tanks at Avonmouth, 7 September 1951
(1 file)


Press cuttings from the Northern Despatch and the Evening Gazette concerning the discovery of sections of early railway track on the Whessoe Foundry site, 12 August - 29 August 1952
(1 file)


Correspondence etc. relating to the discovery of two sections of early iron railway line on the Whessoe Foundry site, 20 August 1952 - 11 May 1953
(1 file)


Memorandum of Whessoe's developments for the gas industry since 1930, 5 September 1952
(1 file)


Notes on the manufacture of iron plate etc. [1952 - 1953
(1 file)


Memorandum from Miss A. Cassels to A. G. Grant forwarding a typescript of article on the use of wrought iron and steel plate, 12 June 1953
(1 file)


Correspondence of Miss A. Cassels with the Picture Post Library, London and the Museum of Science and Industry, Newcastle, concerning the use of illustrations for an article on iron and steel plate in the Whessoe house magazine, 11 November 1953 - 18 January 1954
(1 file)


Pulls taken from old advertising blocks, May 1953
(1 file)


Articles on the Northern Region's Industries [inc. Whessoe] published in the Board of Trade Journal, 12 July - 2 August 1957
(4 files)


Drawing of the advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor (the reactor pressure vessel of which was manufactured by Whessoe) reproduced from an illustration in Nuclear Power, January 1959
(1 paper)


Library index of published articles, May 1960
(1 file)

Scrapbooks (Ref: D/Whes 14/45-48)

Whessoe scrapbook, 1793 - 1864, containing manuscript and printed papers relating to the business and the Kitching family. Also includes printed resolutions of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1793 - 1814) and papers re the Stockton & Darlington Railway (1833 - 1843)
(1 volume, plastic bound)


Whessoe scrapbook (1862 - 1885) contains accounts, letters, press cuttings, relating to the business and to individuals connected with it, n.d.
(1 file)


Whessoe scrapbook (1945 - 1950), n.d.
(1 file)


Whessoe scrapbook of press cuttings, photographs, etc., 1950 - 1952
(1 file)

Overseas markets (Ref: D/Whes 14/49-51)

Los Productos de la Campania Whessoe, n.d. [1930
(1 volume, card bound)


Illustrations and plans of the areas in the Caribbean and South America in which Whessoe construction projects were being undertaken, July 1947
(1 file)


Whessoe in Nigeria. Copy of trade publicity of Whessoe Engineering Ltd., Port Harcourt, showing places in Nigeria at which Whessoe have carried out contracts, n.d. [post 1950]
(1 paper)

Business cards (Ref: D/Whes 14/52-53)

Business cards of W. & A. Kitching, engineers, and the Owners of Whessoe Foundry, n.d.
(2 cards)

Other (Ref: D/Whes 14/54-63)

Jubilee of the World's First Public Railway: a chapter in the history of Railway Locomotion and a memoir of Timothy Hackworth, November 1892 [reprinted from Practical Mechanics' Journal, 1851 and 1852]
(1 volume, paper bound)


Souvenir publication to commemorate the centenary of the death on 7 July 1850 of Timothy Hackworth, 7 July 1950
(1 booklet)


Copies of press cuttings from The Berwick Advertiser relating mainly to archaeology and local history in the area of Wooler, Northumberland [1939 - 1951]
(2 files)


Notable developments in engineering: Dewrance & Co. Ltd., Great Dover Street, London SE1, specialists in patent valves and boiler mountings. Reprinted from The Power and Works Engineer, February 1945 - August 1945
(1 file)


Article on the history of Messenger & Sons of Birmingham, brass founder, reprinted from Gas Times, 4 April 1952
(1 paper)


Modern Methods of Saving Labour in Gasworks by C. E. Brackenbury, n.d.
(4 papers)

Papers collected/prepared for the printed 'history' (Ref: D/Whes 15/1-95)

Copy of plan by John Michelson of lands belonging to the manor of Whesso and Drynge feilde (16 April 1601)
(2 photocopies)


Copy of probate register entry of will, 7 March 1818, of William Kitching of Darlington, ironmonger, 29 March 1820
(1 file)


Aphorism on virtue written by Alfred Kitching, Darlington, 1822
(1 paper)


Remarks on the Comparative Merits of Cast Metal and Malleable Iron Railways; and an account of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, etc., Newcastle, 1827
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photocopies of the summer timetable of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1837
(1 photograph)


Copy of a report by John Harris to the Directors of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on the proposal to extend the Weardale Railway to join the Stanhope and Tyne Railway as projected by the Derwent Iron Company; and a proposed junction between the Auckland & Weardale and the Newcastle & Carlisle Railways, 7 November 1843
(1 file)


Printed rules for workmen, and business cards, of Alfred Kitching, Darlington, and Charles Ianson & Co., Darlington, 1848 - 1865
(2 papers, 2 cards)


Copy of draft memorandum of agreement and specification by Alfred Kitching to supply the Stockton & Darlington Railway Company with two locomotive engines, 4 - 8 November 1853
(1 paper)


Copy of the rules for workmen employed by Alfred Kitching, Darlington, n.d. [c.1860]
(1 file)


Photograph of locomotive engine no. 170, [Reliance], built by Gilkes, Wilson & Co. and received January 1864, n.d.
(1 photograph)


Copy of probate register entry of will, 17 June 1863 - 27 February 1864, of John Kitching of Stamford Hill (co. Middlesex), 8 October 1864
(1 file)


Copy of probate register entry of will and codicils of Alfred Kitching of Darlington, esq., 10 February 1869 - 2 July 1881
(1 file)


Copy of the obituary of Alfred Kitching published in the Northern Echo, 14 February 1882. Typescript, 17 March 1953
(1 paper)


Typescript of the obituary of Alfred Kitching from the Darlington & Stockton Times of 18 February 1882, n.d. [c. 1953]
(1 file)


Copy of notes relating to the family of William Kitching of Darlington (b.1751) written in or before 1882, with note by R. Parker, 24 March 1953
(1 file)


Copy of probate register entry of will (23 August 1880 - 5 November 1881) of Charles Ianson of Fairfield House, Darlington, iron manufacturer, 21 October 1884
(1 file)


Notes and papers collected for the Whessoe history, 25 January 1885 - 6 March 1953
(1 file)


Typescript copy of The Rise and Progress of Wesleyan Methodism in the North End of Darlington by Robert Wilson (1890), n.d.
(1 file)


Letter from Whessoe Foundry to the London Office retained for the description of products on the letterhead, 11 May 1891
(1 paper)


Notes from the Directors' minute books, 1891 - 1915, by A. G. Grant, 1949 - 1950
(1 file)


Obituary of James Ianson Cudworth (1817 - 1899) from The Engineer, 10 November 1899
(1 paper)


Obituary of William Cudworth from The Engineer, 8 June 1906
(1 paper)


Obituary of Mrs. Alfred Kitching published in the North Star, 14 April 1909
(1 paper)


Newspaper cuttings and typed extracts from other publications collected for the proposed history of Whessoe, 1915f
(1 file)


Ancient Freemen and Honorary Freemen by H. G. Steavenson, Town Clerk of Darlington, 1918
(1 booklet)


Acknowledgement from H. S. Smith-Rewse, London Office, to T. Hutchinson, Company Secretary, Darlington [subsequently retained for letterhead and Smith-Rewse's signature], 10 March 1920
(1 paper)


Pages from a pocket notebook containing particulars about tanks and gas holders supplied, and rotary washer scrubbers for naphthalene extraction, n.d. [c.1924 - 1930]; with attached note by A. Cassels, 14 September 1954
(1 file)


Typescript copy of an article on Whessoe Farm and its old chapel by H. D. Pritchett extracted from the Darlington & Stockton Times, 18 July 1925
(1 file)


Correspondence and other papers concerning the origin of the name Whessoe, 18 July 1925 - 11 July 1951
(1 file)


Record of class of fuel used by Whessoe, where, and the price per ton, 21 September 1925
(1 paper)


Rules of the Whessoe Foundry Company's Darlington Works Fire Brigade, n.d. [?1925]
(1 paper)


Notes and papers relating to locomotive engines collected for the Whessoe history, 8 November 1939 - 9 June 1951
(1 file)


Lists of manuscript and printed sources for the Whessoe History, 30 April 1940 - July 1951
(1 file)


Reminiscences of former Whessoe employees, 10 November 1939 - 20 August 1953
(1 file)


Whessoe's contribution to the war effort, n.d.
(1 file)


The World's Oldest Railway: Three hundred years of coal conveyance to the Tyne Staiths by Charles E. Lee. Read to the Newcomen Society, London, 11 December 1946; with forwarding letter, 20 December 1946
(1 booklet, 1 paper)


Papers concerning portraits for the Whessoe Board Room and illustrations for the firm's history, 10 December 1947 - 6 July 1953
(1 file)


Papers concerning the Kitching family and other individuals connected with the Whessoe Foundry, 29 December 1948 - 17 March 1953
(1 file)


Memorandum from A. G. Grant to W. H. Stairmond concerning the preparation for the Whessoe History of a summary of the weighing machine business from 1891; also a report on weigh bridges, maintenance contracts etc. by W. H. Stairmond, 16 August - 14 October 1949
(1 file)


Correspondence relating to and drafts of the proposed Whessoe book, 12 October 1949 - 3 November 1950
(1 file)


Memorandum on Whessoe History, 1920 - 1950, by W. K. Slater, Works Manager, 29 November 1949
(1 file)


Monograph on the Technical Department (1930 - 1950), 29 December 1949
(1 file)


Draft memorandum by R. Frith on the development of the Drawing Office (1920 - 1950), 5 April 1950
(1 file)


Material discarded from the 3rd and 4th revisions of the proposed Whessoe history, 5 September 1950
(1 file)


The Kitchings of Whessoe. The first hundred years of Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, 1790 - 1890, by G. A. Petch, 12 December 1950
(1 file)


Letter from G. A. Petch, King's College, Newcastle, concerning the corrected text of the Whessoe history, 13 December 1950
(1 paper)


"Thoughts induced by browsing thro' old albums of photographs - and indications as to the work Whessoe did", (1920 - 1936), n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)


Typescript of a text on Locomotive Operations by Kitchings, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)


Memorandum on the Research Department, n.d. [c.1950
(1 file)


Impressions of the London Office, 1920-50, n.d. [c.1950
(1 file)


Working notes, drafts etc. for the Whessoe history, [c. 1950]
(1 file)


Notes on the Whessoe records, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)


Notes on historical connections between individuals from the North East of England and North America, n.d. [c.1950
(1 file)


Draft text of an address on Team Work in Industry marked "for ultimate bound volume", n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)


Memorandum etc. concerning the defence tower ordered by the Admiralty in 1918 and subsequently moved from Shoreham to the Solent, includes reports from the Times and the Illustrated London News (1920), 6 - 20 September 1951
(1 file)


Draft introduction to Nurnberg's photographs of processes, 17 December 1951
(1 file)


Notes and comments on the history of Whessoe (1876 - 1951), [1951]
(1 file)


Second draft of the Whessoe history, December 1952
(1 file)


Summary of income from orders and wages costs of W. & A. Kitching for the years 1831 - 1862 and 1882 - 1891, n.d. [c.1952
(1 file)


Interesting Discovery at Whessoe: Old Norman chapel [from Wooler's press cuttings in Darlington Library], n.d. [c. 1952]
(3 papers)


Notes on order books (order nos. 4825-7848) for the years 1920 - 1937, n.d. [c.1952]
(1 file)


Photographs of section of old railway track and sets, n.d.
(4 photographs)


Copy of list of drawings and photographs of locomotives received from Branksome Hall, 16 March 1953
(1 file)


Copy of a list of locomotive engines on the Darlington Section of the North Eastern Railway, 1825 - 1867, 17 March 1953
(1 file)


Report by Gwyn Lewis on the seven Kitching brothers of Branksome Hall (copied from The Sunday Express, 26 April 1953); also cutting from The Northern Echo, 28 April 1953
(2 papers)


Press cuttings from The Daily Mail and The Darlington and Stockton Times about the Kitching brothers of Branksome Hall, n.d. and 2 May 1953
(3 papers)


Copy of a list of Alfred Kitching's locomotives still working in 1875. [Includes details of when built and original value], May 1953
(1 paper)


Genealogical notes about the Kitching and Cudworth families, n.d. [collected 8 June 1953]
(3 papers)


Papers concerning early references to the history of Whessoe, 14 September - 5 November 1953
(3 papers)


Notes, photocopies etc., relating to the medieval history of Whessoe, 1953 - 1954
(1 file)


History of Whessoe based on the work of G. A. Petch and R. P. Wood, n.d. [c.1955]
(1 volume, leather bound)


Press cuttings of an article (The Order Books are Full) on various Darlington business firms including Whessoe Ltd., from the Northern Despatch, 25 January 1956
(1 paper)


Photograph of work for English Electric at Warton, n.d.[1957 - 1958]
(1 photograph)


Part of a revised index to the Archive cupboard, February 1958
(3 papers)


Photocopy of The History of Whessoe (1958) with a typescript text on the firm to 1970, [1970]
(1 file)


Photograph of John Kitching, n.d. [d.1953]
(1 photograph)


Copies of photographs of H. S. Smith-Rewse, n.d.
(2 photographs)


Schedule of Whessoe records, 1831 - 1897
(2 files)


Draft of a preface to a publication on the company, n.d.
(1 file)

 (Ref: D/Whes 15/96-97)

Supplement

Papers collected for the published 'history'


Rough list of locomotive engines built by Kitching [1833 - 1860] n.d.
(1 paper)


Notes on the Kitching family made from a manuscript loaned by John Kitching of Branksome Hall, 17 March 1953
(1 file)

 (Ref: D/Whes 16/1-9)

Records of subsidiary companies

Barrowfield Ironworks, Bridgeton


Notes of a visit to the Barrowfield Ironworks, Bridgeton, by Thomas Coates, 22 August 1922
(1 file)


Papers relating to the acquisition of the Barrowfield Ironworks, 22 August 1922 - 17 December 1924 1 file)


Valuation by Thomas D. Smellie, Fraser & Muir, 209 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, of the Barrowfield Ironworks, Bridgeton, 6 September 1922
(1 file)


Copy of site plan of the Barrowfield Ironworks, n.d. [c. 1922] Scale: 1 inch to 40 feet [1:480]
(1 plan, linen, 69cm x 61cm, coloured)


Copy of plan of Barrowfield Ironworks, Boiler Yard, n.d. [c. 1922] Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet [1:192]
(1 plan, paper, 69cm x 81cm)


Copy of plan of Barrowfield Ironworks Front Yard, n.d. [c. 1922] Scale: 1 inch to 12 feet 4 inches [1:148]
(1 plan, paper, 107cm x 62cm)


Copies of letters between R. L. Chambers, Glasgow, and R. B. Hodgson, Darlington, concerning patents for a bedlock carriage and an anti-syphon heater, 21 - 22 June 1926
(1 file)


Correspondence between W. T. Pallin, Darlington, and R. L. Chambers, Glasgow, concerning the winding up of the Barrowfield Ironworks, 20 - 22 May 1935
(1 file)


Memorandum concerning the take-over and subsequent winding up of the Barrowfield Iron Works Ltd., (1922-36), 13 and 14 October 1949
(1 file)

Continental Tank Works Ltd (Ref: D/Whes 16/10)

Monograph no. 2 and memorandum describing the establishment and Whessoe's involvement in the Continental Tank Works Ltd., 14 October 1949
(1 file)

Electric Turbine Gas Retort Charging and Discharging Machine Co. Ltd. (Ref: D/Whes 16/11)

Monograph no. 4 describing the establishment of the Electric Turbine Gas Retort Charging and Discharging Machine Co. Ltd. Contains agreement and supplementary agreement establishing the Company (1903); specifications for improvements in discharging and charging retorts (1902 - 1904); share certificate, etc., 15 November 1949
(1 file)

Jenkins Bros. (Birkenhead) Ltd. (Ref: D/Whes 16/12-15)

Register of drawings, May 1924 - October 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Correspondence between the Whessoe Foundry, Darlington, and Messrs. Jenkins Bros. (Birkenhead) Ltd., concerning possible reciprocal trading arrangements, 18 November 1930 - 15 September 1931; with memorandum about the same from A. G. Grant to Mr. Park, 16 March 1950
(1 file)


Jenkins Bros. (Birkenhead) Ltd., chemical engineers and boilermakers, photographs and drawings of products, general sections, n.d. [c.1930]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Jenkins Bros. (Birkenhead) Ltd., chemical engineers and boilermakers, photographs and drawings of products, soap machinery section, n.d. [c.1930]
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Stockton Construction Co. Ltd. (Ref: D/Whes 16/16)

Stockton Construction Co. Ltd., cash book no. 2, 1 September 1944 - 12 April 1947
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Whessoe Colombia (Ref: D/Whes 16/17-18)

Diario Colombia or operating accounts of Whessoe Colombia, 28 February 1946 - 29 July 1951
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Whessoe Colombia, ledger, February 1946 - March 1950
(1 volume, cloth bound)

 (Ref: D/Whes 17/1-12)

Miscellaneous

Whessoe


Pattern of the maker's nameplate for the steam locomotive Derwent, n.d. [1843]


Certificate of membership of the Whessoe Foundry of the Institute of Welding, 29 December 1937
(1 paper)


Roman lettering designed for Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, by L.C. Evetts, 7 January 1947
(1 file)


Monograph on the function of the library, November 1949
(1 file)


Papers relating to a visit to Whessoe by the North of England Gas Managers' Association, 5 June 1950 - 8 December 1950
(1 file)


Memorandum from W. N. Park to R. Hindson forwarding enclosed exhibits (1947 - 1951) in connection with the use of the trade mark 'Horton', 14 March 1960
(1 bundle)


Whessoe Christmas card showing John Bailey's engraving of the South East aspect of Darlington [1947]
(1 card)


Whessoe Christmas card showing the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825), n.d. [1950]
(1 card)


Coloured reproduction of lithograph of Darlington Market Place, 1843, by William Oliver, used to illustrate the Whessoe Christmas card, 1951
(1 card)


Whessoe Christmas card, showing the old Town Hall, Darlington (1808-62), [1956]
(1 card)


Whessoe Christmas card with view of the suspension bridge [1830] over the River Tees, 1958 [W and A Kitching supplied ironwork for the rebuilding of the bridge in 1833]
(1 card)


Whessoe Christmas card with view of skaters at North Lodge, Darlington [January 1871] n.d.
(1 card)

Other (Ref: D/Whes 17/13-22)

Supplements to the Northern Echo to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 22 September - 25 September 1875
(1 file)


T. Newbigging & W. T. Fewtrell (ed.): Kings Treatise on the Science and Practice of the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas, 1878 - 1882
(3 volumes, leather half bound)


Middlesbrough: Its History, Environs and Trade, Middlesbrough, 1899 (2nd edition)
(1 volume, paper bound)


Borough of Darlington building application form, including building regulations, n.d. [1890s]
(1 paper)


Pictorial advertisement of the Asiatic Petroleum Company Ltd. printed on silk and found in the London Office of Whessoe Ltd., 1950, n.d. [?1920s]
(1 folder)


Copy of a commentary by G. A. Petch on a letter of 26 November 1833 from Evan Thomas of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway to Edward Pease, Darlington, concerning the development of American locomotives and railroads, with covering letter between the author and A. G. Grant, 27 June - 2 July 1951
(1 file)


Copy of an article by R. R. J. in the Northern Despatch on the diamond jubilee of The Darlington Technical College, 22 March 1957
(1 paper)


Poster advertising Calder Hall, Britain's first atomic power station, n.d. [pre 1965]
(1 paper)

 (Ref: D/Whes 17/23-30)

Supplement

Miscellaneous


File concerning arrangements for holding an 'Open Day at Whessoe', 19 December 1951 - 28 April 1952
(1 file)


Posters promoting health and safety at work, n.d. [1956]
(7 papers)