Catalogue

Volume entitled 'Local Odds and Ends' containing Acts of Parliament, posters and printed material relating principally to South Shields and the Tyne Improvement Commission, 1788-c.1874 (1 volume) (i) Various election posters and addresses for county, 1826-1874, (5 papers) (i) Dean and Chapter of Durham. Leaseholds re transfer of them to the Ecclesiastical commissioners, 1871, (1 paper) (i) Plan of coal shafts (possibly Whitburn), 1873, (2 papers) (i) Articles from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle: On coal mining: Our Colliery Villages - Springwell; Our Colliery Villages - St Hilda's (S. Shields); Invention of the lifeboat; St. Cuthbert. 1874, (5 papers) (i) Various song sheets (mainly Northern) one only dated 1874, (6 sheets) (ii) Posters and notices issued by Tyne Improvement Committee (include observations on tides), 1850-1873, (4 papers) (ii) Act to allow York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway to construct docks at Jarrow, 1854, (1 paper) (ii) Bill to make and maintain dock and tidal basin of Tynemouth, 1856, (1 paper) (ii) Articles from Shields Daily Chronicle and Newcastle Daily Journal re port, shipping, salmon fisheries on Tyne and Coquet, Tyne Improvement Commission, 1859-1874, (7 papers) (ii) Report on general plan of improvement of Tyne, 1860, (1 paper) (ii) Act empowering Tyne Improvement Commission to raise loans, construct docks and railways, etc. (includes report 1866), 1867, (2 papers) (ii) Correspondence between Tyne Improvement Commissioners and Newcastle Corporation re transfer of 5/8 of coal dues, 1869, (1 paper) (ii) Amendment to the River Tyne Improvement Act, including report on past improvements, 1872, (4 papers) (iii)Posters and notices re elections, impressment of seamen, burial ground, sale of land by Tynemouth Gas Co. concerning North Shields, 1826-1874, (5 papers) (iii)Section of strata in water shaft at Preston Pit and Billy Mill, North Shields, n.d., (2 sheets) (iv)Bill to allow Dean and Chapter of Durham to supervise fairs and markets of South Shields, 1767, (1 booklet) (iv)Act for supplying South Shields with water, 1784, (1 booklet) (iv)Election posters and addresses, South Shields, 1826-1868, (13papers) (iv)South Shields Improvement Act, 1852-1853, (1 booklet) (iv)South Shields Gas Act, 1857, (1 booklet) (iv)Official correspondence (miscellaneous), South Shields, 1859-1874, (5 letters) (iv)South Shields, report on sewerage of the town generally (includes plan for new privies), 1861, (1 booklet & diagram) (iv)South Shields Burial Board Treasurers account, 1865, (1 paper) (iv)Report on Customs control in South Shields asking for independence, 1865, (1 paper) (iv)Miscellaneous posters, pictures, notices re churches, businesses, sale of property in South Shields (including articles of Association of South Shields Theatre Co. Ltd. 1865), 1865-1874, (14 papers) (iv)Report on Toll Gates in South Shields, 1866, (1 paper) (iv)Bill for extension of Sunderland and South Shields Water Co. 1868, (1 booklet) (iv)South Shields School Board regulations for schools, 1871, (1 paper) (iv)School Board report - South Shields, 1871, (1 paper) (iv)On redivision of the Borough into Wards, South Shields, 1871, (2 papers) (iv)South Shields School Board accounts, 1872 and 1874, (2 papers) (iv)Report of Local Sanitary Authorities on the Tyne, 1872, (1 paper) (iv)Rules of Free Public Library in South Shields (also estimate of expenditure), 1873, (2 papers) (iv)Proposed alkali amendment Act, 1873, (1 paper) (iv)Report on scheme for watering streets in South Shields with salt water, 1874, (1 paper) (iv)Statement of receipts and payments by Tyne Sanitary Authorities, 1874, (1 paper) (iv)Proposed statutes and Rules of Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, n.d. (1 paper) (v) Report of government enquiry into Newcastle Corporation, 1833, (1 paper) (v) Report on The Time Guns of the Tyne, 1864, (1 paper) (v) Prospectus of Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, 1870, (1 paper) (v) Catalogue of the Derwent water auction in Newcastle, 1870, (1 paper) (v) Article on inauguration of the Wood Memorial Hall (Newcastle Weekly Chroncle), 1872, (1 paper) (vi)Report on investigation into Brandlington Junction Railway, 1842, (1 booklet) (vi)Report on investigation into Great North of England Railway's purchase account: (a) Evidence by witnesses; (b) George Hudson's letter to shareholders; (c) Notice to shareholders of a meeting to discuss report; (d) Notice of meeting to appoint committee of enquiry to investigate management of Company; 1849, (6 papers) (vi)Prospectus of Newcastle, Derwent and Weardale Railway, 1861, (1 paper) (vi)Railway map of Great Britain and Ireland, 1864, (1 paper) (vi)Map of East and West Junction Railway, n.d. (1 map) (vi)Railway map of Eastern and Central England (London-Aberdeen), n.d. (1 map) (vi)Statement of objections to amalgamation of North Eastern and Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Companies, n.d. (1 paper) (vii)Miscellaneous articles including: 'The investors guide', 1871; 'English Mechanic and Mirror of Science', 1870; Royal Aquarium and Winter Gardens Prospectus, 1875; Romantic story from 'Newcastle Weekly Chronicle', 1874; Various cartoons and cuttings on education Portrait of Mr. Abraham Cowley, 1870-1875; (6 papers) (vii)Colonial and foreign affairs: Map showing system of the River Plate and Brazil Telegraph Co.; Map showing Tasmanian main railway; Articles from 'Newcastle Daily Journal' on the Asrantee War, 1874; Article in 'Sunderland Times' urging flooding of the Sahara to form a new sea; 1874, (4 papers, 2 maps) (vii)Miscellaneous cuttings from the 'Newcastle Weekly Chronicle' including reports of the Titchbourne Trial, 1874, (3 papers)

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