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Letters from J.G.H. Warren representing Robert Stephenson and Co. Ltd., Darlington, to F. Dallimore, Librarian, Darlington County Borough, concerning Sir Alfred Pease's wish to deposit the Pease/Stephenson papers in the Library. One letter encloses a list of the collection, 31 October - 9 November 1923

Accounts, mainly copies of balance sheets and profit and loss accounts for the Forth Street Locomotive Works, 1826 - 1856

Letters from Michael Longridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, concerning various aspects of the management of the Forth Street Works, 10 August 1824 - 23 July 1840 See also D/PS 2/69

Letters from Edward J. Cook, head of the Counting House at the Forth Street Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, informing him about the firm's financial state, 22 December 1837 - 11 April 1844

Letters from W.H. Budden, the Locomotive works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, concerning the Company's accounts, 12 March 1846 - 14 September 1848

Letters from W. Weallens, the Locomotive and Marine Engine Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, about the running of the firm, 4 October 1854 - 20 November 1855

Letter from N. Wood, Killingworth, Northumberland, to Edward Pease, Darlington, reporting the progress of his experiments with locomotives, 1 February 1825

Letter from Harris Dickinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, concerning the lease of the Forth Street premises and the production of locomotives at the factory, 21 October 1830

Letter from William Pearson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Edward Pease, Darlington, re the Head Counting House Clerk's illness, 28 February, 1845 (1 paper)

Letters from Robert Stephenson to Joseph Pease about various aspects of the management of the firm, 12 April 1836 - 24 October 1840

Letter from Edward J. Cook, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Joseph Pease explaining the annual accounts, 13 February 1844

Letter from W.H. Budden, the Locomotive and Marine Engineering Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Joseph Pease informing him of events affecting the Works, 13 August 1848 - 17 September 1858

Letters from Michael Longridge, Bedlington Iron Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Thomas Richardson, London, relating his reasons for entering the business of George and Robert Stephenson, 7 March 1825

Letters from Michael Longridge, Bedlington Iron Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Thomas Richardson, London, giving his views on Robert Stephenson's wish to open a second factory at Liverpool, Lancashire, and mentioning the Reform Bill, 24 March 1831 (1 paper) Letters to Robert Stephenson and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Letters from Robert Brooks, London, to Robert Stephenson and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, giving a testimonial for a former employee, 12 October 1836

Letter from R. Creed, Secretary to the London and Birmingham Railway, to Robert Stephenson and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning a possible order for locomotives, n.d. Copy letter dated 30 October 1845

Draft letter from [Edward Pease], Darlington, to Robert Stephenson, concerning the appointment of a new head of the Counting House, 6 October 1836

Letter from J.E. Sanderson, Westminster, to an unidentified correspondent discussing whether Mr. Hutchinson should be made a partner, 12 May 1845

Extracts copied from correspondence dated 26 January - 16 March 1835 between Robert Stephenson and Michael Longridge, Bedlington Iron Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning Stephenson's wish temporarily to sell his shares in the locomotive plant as a result of harassment from opponents in Liverpool, n.d. [1835]

List of decisions taken at a meeting concerning the establishment of the firm of George Stephenson and Son, 31 December 1824

Proposed regulations for the establishment of the firm of George Stephenson and Son, 18 January 1825 See also D/PS 2/33

Copies of minutes of partnership meetings, n.d. [1838 - 1840]

Copy list of schools and societies subscribed to by Robert Stephenson and Co., 1856

Papers concerning Henry Pease and Company's order for a new factory engine from Robert Stephenson and Co., 1856 - 1858

Copy list of locomotive orders in hand, 27 December 1861

Financial papers of the Company including expense accounts, general accounts, receipts and invoices, 1836 - 1859

Copy minutes of Annual General Meetings and Committee Meetings of the company inscribed to Edward and Joseph Pease, n.d. [1836 - 1852]

Papers concerning the several lawsuits involving the company and Ralph Ward Jackson, 1870 - 1871

4 June 1845 (1) Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-on-Tees, esq. (2) Alfred Kitching, Darlington, ironfounder Assignments by (1) to (2) of five shares in the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co. Consideration: £292 each share

Letters from John Kitching Stamford Hill, Middlesex, to his brother Alfred Kitching, [Darlington] discussing the several railway companies in which they have a financial interest, especially the Barnard Castle and Darlington Railway, 14-16 February 1854

Certificate of transfer of shares in the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co. from John Kitching, Stamford Hill, Middlesex, gent., to Alfred Kitching, Elm Field, Darlington, Engine Builder, 3 October 1862

Notice of registration of stock in the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co. in the name of Mary Ianson Kitching, 7 April 1877

Invoices for registration of share transfers, 22 September 1862 - 14 November 1864

Letter from George Stephenson, Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland, to Edward Pease, Darlington, concerning the surveying and planning of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 28 April 1821

Letter from Gerard B. Wharton, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, to John Allan, Thomas F. Scarth and Reverend Thomas Peacock approving the appointment of Peacock as Collector of Subscriptions towards the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 9 August 1821

Letters from J.B.M. [Jonathan Backhouse] Darlington, to Joseph Gurney calculating the likely cost of laying the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 26 [January] 1825

Copy of a memorandum from the secretary of the Company to Joseph Pease, junior, concerning the dividend to be declared, 26 August 1842

Letter form Mewburn, Hutchinson and Mewburn, Darlington, to R.A.D. Gresley, Bishop Auckland, about the enfranchisement of property held by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co. from the Bishop of Durham, enclosing, enclosing a list of these leasehold lands, 14 February 1852

Letter from Thomas MacNay at the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company's Office, Darlington, to John Glass, Shildon, about the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone of the pedestal for Locomotion no.1, 20 May 1857

Letter from Edward Turnbull, solicitor, to the promoters of the Hartlepool and Cleveland Junction Railway at West Hartlepool, to the Secretary of Directors of the North-Eastern Railway Company pointing out the advantages of a link with Middlesbrough, 2 December 1872

Observations on the proposed railway or tramroad from Stockton to the collieries by way of Darlington, 1818

Notebook belonging to Joseph Pease junior, containing statistics comparing the proposed [Stockton and Darlington ?] railway to the existing turnpikes, n.d. [1820's]

Share transfer certificate, 2 December 1833

Notebook belonging to Joseph Pease containing brief notes and cash memoranda, n.d. [1837]

10 March 1840 (1) William Bouch (2) Stockton and Darlington Railway Company Agreement between (1) and (2) as to the terms on which (1) will serve (2) as the superintendent of the Shildon Shops

Table of tonnages from collieries, carried on the Stockton and Darlington Railway for the year ending 30 June 1840, 1840

Table of traffic on the Stockton and Darlington Railway from it's opening in October 1825 to June 1840, n.d. [1840]

Copy of a memorial dated 17 April 1841, of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton addressed to the Post Master General concerning arrangements for the delivery of mail to the Stockton from London by rail, n.d. [April 1841]

Copy of regulations to be observed by railway gatekeepers, 28 March 1842

Copy of a notification of the date of a general meeting, 22 July 1842

North Eastern Railway, list of Directors from the amalgamation in 1854 to 8 February 1895, 10 April 1895

Notice of call on shares inscribed to Edward Pease, junior, 19 March 1838

Notice of an annual general meeting, 3 July 1838

Copy of a report to the annual general meeting, 21 July 1838

Notice of a public meeting to discuss the proposed Barnard Castle branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 2 November 1839

Offer of shares in the railway, 21 December 1852

Prospectus, 1852

Notice of a shareholders' meeting, 21 July 1856

Durham Chronicle, Sunderland Times, and Darlington and Stockton Gazette containing articles about the Great North of England Railway, 27 November 1835

Prospectus, 1835

Map of the railway showing communications, waterways and settlements, 1848 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 mile [1:506880] Labelled G.N.R. map no.6

Notice advertising for labourers to work on the railway, n.d. [1839]

Act to enable the West Durham Railway Company to raise a further sum of money, and to amend the act relating to the said railway, 1841

"New South Durham Railway with a list of sections, their owners, and the estimated number of chaldrons of coal" [likely to be carried], 1836 Shows mines, communications and settlements Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]

Plan of the Stockton and Darlington Railway with the Wear Valley and Middlesbro' and Redcar railways as leased October 1847. Shows communications, waterways, settlements and industry, n.d. [1848] Scale 5/16 inch to 1 mile [1:202752]

Supplement to the Darlington and Stockton Times consisting of a map of the Stockton and Darlington and Cleveland Railways showing communications, waterways, settlements, relief, mines and quarries, 10 July 1858 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 mile [1:126720]

Plan of the proposed South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, showing settlement and communications, n.d. [1860's] No scale (37.2 cm. x 28.7 cm., paper, printed

Reasons in support of the Tees and Weardale Railway Bill, March 1825

Invoice from Thomas Bradley and son to William Trotter concerning Durham South-West Junction Railway, 21 June 1836

Experiments by R. and W. Hawthorn of two locomotive engines, the "Sun" and "Star" upon the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway as to the consumption of Coke and Water, 1840

Leaflet detailing results of experiments concerning locomotive coke and water consumption on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, 8 May 1840

Order of arrangements for the opening of the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway, 28 May 1846

Notice of meetings of the Tees Valley Railway Board to be held in 1869, n.d. [1868]

Notice of intention to introduce the Skipton and Kettlewell Railway (Extension to Darlington) Bill into parliament, together with a schedule of land owned by the Borough of Darlington, which will be required for the railway, 1 December 1882

Concerning George Stephenson's health, 17 November 1845

Incomplete letter describing George Stephenson's journey abroad and his recent attack of pleurisy, 22 November 1845

Approving a suggestion concerning the running of Robert Stephenson and Co. in the absence of Michael Longridge, 15 December 1834

Discussing the proposal that Edward Pease's son should oversee the financial management of the Forth Street Works, 25 December 1834

Describing the background and qualifications of the proposed new head of the counting house of the Forth Street Works, 27 October 1836

Concerning the proposed extension of the Great North of England Railway, 18 October 1841 - 24 February 1842

Concerning the "Longridge matter", 19 October 1842

About the dissolution of the partnership with Michael Longridge, and the death of Stephenson's wife, 4 November 1842

Concerning the running of the Forth Street Works, 13 March 1846

Concerning arrangements for a new partnership with Mr. Hutchinson, 18 December 1847

Reporting the death and funeral of his father, George Stephenson, 12-16 August 1848

Describing his involvement in a project at the Menai Straits, and commenting upon Edward Pease's lifelong association with George Stephenson, 15 May 1850

Proposing to retire from the business, 15 June 1850

About his recent visit to Egypt and the proposed railway from Alexandria to Cairo, 3 April 1851

Arranging a meeting to discuss the Forth Street Works, 13 May 1853

Recommending a popular memoir be written about George Stephenson, and describing the fire damage done to the factory by a fire, 6 October 1854

Arranging a visit to Darlington, 21 October 1854

Commenting upon the performance of Robert Stephenson and Co. during the previous year, 5 May 1855

Invoice for oats from William Hills and Co., London, 16 February 1853

Letter from Mr. Webb, secretary to the Northern Counties Union Railway, Westminster, enclosing 50 share certificates [2 not found], 22 [December] 1846

Letters from William Hills and Co. , London, to Joseph Wetherall on behalf of Edward Pease, Stockton-on-Tees, concerning sales of consignments of oats, 31 August 1835 - 7 January 1837

Letter from William Thompson, Darlington, to Joseph Whitwell Pease, Darlington, concerning the cost of various railway shares and the progress of the Guisborough railway venture, 26 May 1852

Letter from John Sutherland, St. Helen's, Lancashire, to Joseph Whitwell Pease, Darlington, concerning the West Auckland Mechanics' Institute Annual Tea Party, 21 June 1852

Letter from W.W. Thomas, Pinchthorpe, North Riding of Yorkshire, about Messrs. Bolckow's mining ironstone on Hutton Common [North Riding of Yorkshire], 29 June 1852

Outlining the progress in negotiations to establish an ironworks at Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, or Hartlepool, 17 December 1852

From Philip H. Stanton, Newcastle -upon-Tyne about various aspects of the establishment and formal opening of the Stephenson School, 24 June 1859 - 27 January 1860

Letter from Michael Longridge, Bedlington Iron Works, Newcastle-upon Tyne to Robert Stephenson, Mariquita, Columbia, giving him news of his father and friends, and the progress of various railway schemes, 1 November 1825 - 29 May 1826

Letters and share certificates connected with Henry Pease's executorship of the wills of Edward Pease and Henry Richardson, 6 December 1870 - 22 September 1871

Letters mainly to Joseph Whitwell Pease, from several individuals concerning the early history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and especially the part played by the people of Yarm, North Riding of Yorkshire, 26 June 1897 - 11 June 1899

A bound collection of papers relating principally to railways and the Society of Friends, arranged roughly in chronological order, 1817 - 1837, and containing the following: Extract from the Durham County Advertiser containing a report of a shipwreck at Seaton [Cleveland], 4 February 1815 Notice to the creditors or mortgagees of the tolls of the Darlington to West Auckland Turnpike, 24 February 1819 Circular concerning the Stockton and Darlington Railway Bill, n.d. [c.1821] Report relative to Lines of Railway surveyed from the ports of Perth, Arbroath and Montrose into the Valley of Strathmore by Robert Stephenson, 1827 Memorial regarding the propriety of opening the valleys of Strathearn and Strathmore by means of a railway or canal, by Robert Stephenson, 1820 Report by Robert Stephenson on the Roxburgh, Selkirk etc. railway, 22 May 1821 Extract of the minutes of a general meeting of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co., n.d. [1822] Circular about a charity connected with Ackworth School, North Riding of Yorkshire, January 1833 Letter from the agent for the committee of Ackworth school to Thomas Ventress, Stockton-on-Tees, concerning aid from the school fund to Ventress' son, 6 October 1824 Circular re the Friends marriage portion fund, 1 February 1825 Circular about a proposed agricultural school at Hayes, Middlesex, 27 July 1833 Circular concerning the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity, January 1820 Circular re the Central Society of Education, n.d. [1830's] Letter from John Edmond Sutton, Greystoke, Cumberland, to [Joseph] Pease, London, calling his attention to the inhabitants' petition re tithes, 9 February 1833 Circular about Dr. Peacock, 22 March 1824 Circular about the business affairs of Thomas Horner, Darlington, 22 March 1827 Minutes of the annual meeting of Friends, 1828 Fifteenth report of the committee of the Friend's loan fund, 1829 Resolutions passed at a meeting of the Darlington East India Association, 1829 Prospectus of the Friends Academy, Darlington, n.d. [1830's] Circular about the British and Foreign Seamen and Soldiers' Friend Society, October 1832 Circular to Wesleyan Methodists, numbers I and II, 31 January - 27 February 1830 Circular about cholera, 18 November 1831 Extracts from the Glasgow Herald concerning the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leith Railway, 16-30 January 1832 Laws of currency, letter number XII, 10 January 1834 Circular from the General Baptist Missionary Society, 10 March 1834 List of objections to the bill for establishing a general register of all deeds etc. affecting real property in England and Wales, n.d. [1834] Advertisement for an establishment to protect agricultural property from fire, 21 January 1835 Election notice from Joseph Pease, 13 January 1835 Reason against the Sheffield and Rotherham Railroad Bill, 1835 Epistle of council from the yearly meeting of Friends to the quarterly and monthly meetings, 1835 Resolutions concerning the proposal to build the Great North of England Railway, 27 November 1835 Minutes of the committee of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, 20 October 1835 Circular publicising the work of the Foulah Mission in West Africa, 7 November 1835 Circular concerning the proposed Manchester and Cheshire junction railway, 24 December 1835 Prospectus of the Statistical Society of London, 23 April 1834 Circular proposing the establishment of a lunatic asylum at Northwoods, Bristol, 8 August 1835 Circular re the Protestant Association of Ludlow, Shropshire, 22 September 1835 Advertisement for a water purifying machine, n.d. [1835] Circular from Edward Pease denying allegations made by Dr. Peacock, 15 January 1834 Copy of two letters dated 1 May and 20 August 1835, from Joshua Field to Samuel Hall about the new condensers on the Ramsgate steam packet,. n.d. [1835] Leaflet entitled Circumstances favourable to the Stability of Government and to permanent alliances between different states, n.d. [1835] Copy of a letter dated 31 January 1835 from W. Cubitt, London to W. Hedger, Port William, Wigtonshire, reporting on the possibility of establishing a harbour, n.d. [1835] Appeal for subscription towards building a church at Middlesbrough-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, 22 December 1836 Extract from the Scotsman re the Irish Church question, n.d. [1836] Report of the provisional committee of the institution at Brookfield for the education of the descendants of Friends, 1 April 1837 Leaflet defending Quakerism, May 1837 Circular supporting Mr. Johnson's application for the chair of chemistry at University College, London, 4 May 1836 Leaflet concerning Samuel Hall's new condensers, 1837 Resolutions of the building committee of the Darlington New Church, 18 September 1837 Report of the committee of the Darlington Library for July 1837 Leaflet concerning the persecution of the Catholics, n.d. [1837] Circular attacking the new Poor Law Bill, n.d. [c.1837] Handbills expressing various views re the payment of church rates by dissenters, 1837 Form of appointment of proxy for a meeting of the proprietors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, n.d. [1837] On the Decrease of Capital Punishment, 19 April 1837 Advertisement for a book of Scottish songs, 19 October 1837 Advertisement for the Imperial Life Assurance Company, n.d. [1837] Letter of introduction for the bills of exchange circulated by Hammersley and Co., London, 8 June 1820 Circular about the dairy system of London, n.d. [1830's] Drawings of [pumping equipment and storage tanks], n.d. [1830's] Catalogue of British Birds, n.d. [1830's] Treatise by Charles Whitlaw on the management of dairies in London and Holland, n.d. [1830's] Letter to the editor of the Liverpool Chronicle on combatting vice, 4 August 1834 Circulars from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, n.d. [1830's] Abstract of a petition for the repeal of the duty on marine insurance, n.d. [1830's] Circular re the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, n.d. [1830's] Advertisement for the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, n.d. [1830's] Articles concerning slavery, n.d. [1830's] Advertisement for emigration to Australia, n.d. [1840's] Advertisement for the steam packet between London and the south coast ports, 1837 Hints for the reduction of taxation by the Profitable employment of the surplus labour and capital of the country, n.d. [1830's]

Bound collection of railway tracts, pamphlets and circulars relating mainly to Joseph Pease's interests as an M.P. containing the following: Resolutions passed at a meeting for the purpose of promoting a canal or railway from Stockton via Darlington westwards, n.d. [1812] Rules of the Herefordshire Female Servants Reward Society, n.d. [c.1820] Article reprinted from the Newcastle magasine on the conveyance of goods along railroads, 16 March 1822 Observations on the amended Stockton and Darlington Railway Bill, n.d. [1823] The impolicy of slavery, 1 October 1826 Resolutions of a meeting of the proprietors of the Darlington school premises, n.d. [July 1827] Proceedings at a meeting of the board of directors of the London Northern Railroad Co., n.d. [February 1825] Circulars re the Bill to extend the Stockton and Darlington Railway to Middlesbrough, 1828 Reports of tract societies, 1828 - 1834 Report of the association for the relief of distress occasioned by accidents, 1829 Circular replying to accusations from W.L. Wharton concerning the Stockton and Darlington railway, 21 May 1830 Letter from Alfred Tomlins junior, Llangennech Coal Company, to P. Henderson, Cardiff, Glamorgan, quoting coal prices, 21 August 1837 Poster advertising a meeting to discuss trade with the East Indies and China, n.d. [1830] Article reprinted from the Durham Chronicle concerning the dispute between the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company and W.L. Wharton, 19 June 1830 Report on the building of the Centenary bridge across the river Tees, 9 October 1831 Statement of reasons for objecting to the payment of tithes, May 1832 Lord John Russel's Statements on Criminal Law further illustrated as to the offences of burglary and housebreaking, n.d. [1836] Impolicy of the tax on cotton wool, 8 February 1837 Form of petition to parliament concerning the proposed general public register of deeds, May 1833 Letter from John Pyne [Somerton, Somerset] to Joseph Pease, House of Commons, Westminster, concerning the Metropolitan Railway Bill, 19 May 1833 Circular about Canada, December 1834 Advertisement for a dealer in parliamentary literature, n.d. [1830's] Petition to the House of Commons about the general register of deeds Bill, 15 April 1834 Circular recommending modification of the criminal law, n.d. [1832] Statement of the case of Protestant dissenters, 4 January 1834 Extracts from the proceedings of the American colonisation society, n.d. [January 1834] Petition to Parliament from William Tutin Haycroft, Greenwich, Middlesex, May 1834 Report of the committee of the general shipowners society, 20 January 1835 Circular addressed to stage proprietors , n.d. [1835] Resolutions of a meeting held at 3 Abingdon Street, London, 3 July 1834 Circular concerning the condition of the apprenticed labourers under the Act for the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies, n.d. [1830's] Circular about the Society for the improvement of prison discipline, n.d. [1835] Election address by a Glasgow M.P., 15 January 1835 Advertisement for the shares of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, n.d. [1835] Questionnaires prepared by the Society for the Suppression of mendicity, n.d. [1835] Statement concerning the metropolis roads by the proprietors of the Great Western Railway, n.d. [1834] Observations on the pier and improvements at Deptford, n.d. [1835] Advertisement for a process to preserve timber from dry rot, 1 January 1835 Circular concerning the conveyance of marked newspapers by post, n.d. [1837] Resolutions passed at a meeting of the North Riding Liberal registration association, 16 October 1837 Report on a lawsuit, Heathcote v Ashworths, 1837 Circular about destitution in the Highlands of Scotland, 10 April 1837 Advice on breadmaking, 20 March 1837 Prospectus of the Yearly Journal of Trade, n.d. [1838] List of subscribers to the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, n.d. [1838] Circular from the Edinburgh committee of the Society for the diffusion of information on capital punishments, n.d. [1837] For enclosures see D/PS 5/2(i-ii)

Winter timetable of the Stockton and Darlington Railway for 1837 - 1838, n.d. [1837] Originally enclosed in D/PS 5/2

Cautions to enginemen, wagon and coach drivers on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 7 November 1834 Originally enclosed in D/PS 5/2

Report of the Committee of the Darlington Subscription Library for the year ending June 1838, 1 July 1838

Pages 359 - 360 from an unidentified publication [relating to the history of County Durham?] with manuscript alterations, n.d. [1830's]

Circular about a dinner to celebrate the passing of the Tees Conservancy Bill, 7 July 1852

Circulars proposing a national monument to George Stephenson, 1858

Print entitled "George Stephenson at Darlington in 1823" by A. Rankley, n.d. [mid 19th century]

Memoir of Frank Mewburn, Chief Bailiff of Darlington and first Railway Solicitor, by his son, August 1867

Circular to the proprietors from the Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Company, dated 15 August 1851, annotated with information concerning the repudiation by the company of the result of the Circular, n.d. [December 1870]

Reproduction of a print illustrating a method of conveying boats from one canal to another without the help of a lock, which was presented by W. Dixon to Sir Alfred Pease, 4 February 1920