Manchester Collection (page 21)

Locomotive for the Manchester and Sheffield Railway
Locomotive passenger engine built for the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Date: 1849

Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway

Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, Manchester
The interior of a prison kitchen, believed to be at Strangeways Prison, Manchester. The room is filled with assorted boilers, coppers, ovens and cooking hobs. Much of the cooking was done using steam

Pierrots at Langho Colony, Ribblesdale, Lancashire
The Blackwites pierrot troupe at the Langho Colony in 1925. The colony, at Langho in Ribblesdale, Lancashire, was set up in 1906 by the Chorlton

Nell Lane Military Hospital, Manchester
A group of uniformed military personnel and nurses pose in front of the Nell Lane Military Hospital, Withington, Manchester

Manchester Board of Guardians, Officers and Ex-Chairmen
The Chairman (Hugh Fay, centre), Vice Chairman (William Reid, left of centre) and Clerk (F.W. Greenhalgh) of the 1930-31 Manchester Board of Guardians

Manchester Union Ambulances
The Manchester Unions fleet of ambulances used for the transport of patients to and from its institutions

Manchester Board of Guardians Offices
The Manchester Board of Guardians Offices at All Saints, Manchester

Manchester Union Casual Wards, Manchester
Casual wards for tramps and vagrants at Tame Street, Ancoates, Manchester. The original premises were set up in a former cotton mill in 1897 but were rebuilt in around 1900 after being burnt down

Decorated Tram car
A spectacular illuminated tram car - decorated thus for the official visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria to Manchester on 13th July 1905

Music cover for The Varsovien Mazurka
Music cover for The Varsovien (or Varsovian) Mazurka, composed by Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860), and dedicated to Monsieur Paris of Manchester

N. A. A. F. I. Club - Manchester
Views of the N.A.A.F.I. Club at Manchester, including inset views of the interior including the Reading Room, Quiet Room, Lounge, Ballroom and Cafeteria

Battle of Gallipoli WWI
Advance of the 6th Manchester Regiment during the Third Battle of Krithia on Gallipoli during World War I

Krithia Nulla in Gallipoli WWI
6th Manchester Regiment in the Krithia Nulla sector at Gallipoli during World War I

Lock House at Mossley, Manchester
Mossley, Manchester, Lancashire - the Lock House on the canal. The tight entrance to the lock is whitewashed (and labelled thus) to make it very distinct when travelling late in the day and at night

Departure of troops by the London and Birmingham Railway
Troops departing from Euston Station, London, to Manchester and other industrial districts of Lancashire to supress the riots and strikes there

Operations on the Ancre 1917
Working party of the Manchester Regiment moving up to the trenches near Serre in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Industrial School for Girls, Sale, Cheshire
The Manchester Branch Industrial School for Girls, erected in 1870 on Northenden Road, Sale, for 100 girls. From 1933, it became an Approved School

Manchester Ship Canal - The opening of a new dock
Officials and local dignitaries on the deck of a steamship at the opening of a new dock for the Manchester Ship Canal - built between 1887 and 1894 - it was (for a time)

Manchester Ship Canal - The dramatic opening of a new dock
The dramatic opening of a new dock on the Manchester Ship Canal. A charge is detonated to break a temporary levee across the entrance to the new dock

Manchester Ship Canal - Railway and warehouses
Manchester Ship Canal - Railway line and mulit-storey warehouses. The trade coming through the Ship Canal (often originating from Ireland)

Manchester Ship Canal - The Barton Swing Aqueduct
A horse-towed coal barge crossing the unique structure of the Barton Swing Aqueduct, carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the wider span of the Manchester Ship Canal - opened in 1893

Manchester Ship Canal - Creating a new dock
Workmen operate a temporary pulley-based device used in the process of the construction of a new dock for the Manchester Ship Canal

Manchester Ship Canal - Butchered carcases awaiting distribu
A warehouse alongside the Manchester Ship Canal with rank upon rank of hanging beef caracasses awaiting transportation by train to London

Manchester Ship Canal - Following the opening of a new dock
Dignitaries and guests on the quayside, following the opening of a new dock on the Manchester Ship Canal - built between 1887 and 1894 - it was (for a time) the largest navigation canal in the world

Manchester Ship Canal - Cattle Auction
Cattle auction brought in from Ireland by ship and unloaded on the Manchester Ship Canal

Manchester Ship Canal - Beef Carcasses for London
A chalk scrawl on the wagon door records that 1000 beef carcasses were transported in these wagons from the offload on the Manchester Ship Canal down to final destination of Smithfield Market, London

Hertford House
in Manchester Square : previously known as Manchester House; subsequently the home of the Wallace Collection

Letter from the Titanic
A letter dated 10 April on White Star Line headed paper from Adolphe Saalfeld of Manchester, a first class passenger who survived the Titanic disaster

Rochdale, Lancashire
On the way to One Ash, Rochdale, Lancashire, now part of Greater Manchester

Manchester
Factories at night on the Irwell at Manchester

C. P. Scott aged 80
Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1932), British journalist, publisher and politician, shown here on his 80th birthday in 1926, in his 55th year as editor of The Manchester Guardian

Assize Courts Manchester
The exterior of the new Assize Courts at Manchester

The Society of Friends Soup Kitchen, Ball Street, Mancheste
This illustration in three panel shows the preparation of the soup, the mass of people waiting to receive some and the distribution of the soup

Mr Barries play in London and Manchester
Miss Pauline Chase as Peter Pan at the Duke of York s, London and Miss Zena Dare as Peter Pan at the Princes theatre, Manchester

Corporation of Manchester Steam Barge, January 1877
Engraving of a Corporation of Manchester steam barge used for the transportation of sewage, from the Illustrated London News, 20th January 1877

Industrial Manchester
Manchester; view of factories from Kersall Moor

John Bright MP, (1811-1889)
Portrait of John Bright, the English orator and radical politician. As well as serving as MP for Durham and Manchester he was also appointed President of the Board of Trade

Everton and Manchester City Football Teams walk onto the pit
Photograph showing the Everton (light shirts) and Manchester City (dark shirts) teams walking onto the pitch at Wembley Stadium, prior to the start of the F.A. Cup Final of 1933

Manchester City vs. Bolton Wanderers F. A. Cup Final, 1904
Series of illustrations from the Manchester City vs. Bolton Wanderers F.A. Cup Final at the Crystal Palace ground, London, 23rd April 1904

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Coal mine fire at Astley, near Manchester
Coal mine fire at the Tyldesley Collieries near Manchester. The fire spread so furiously that all the shafts were unaccessable

Reform Club / Manchester
The New Reform Club

RAIL / TUNNEL / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Inside a tunnel along the course of the historic rail link, opened in September 1830

Rail / St Helens / 1832
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The Intersection bridge on the St Helens & Runcorn Gap railway, crossing the Liverpool to Manchester line

Rail / Manchester / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY A view of Water Street station, Manchester

Rail / Liverpool / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The railway office in Liverpool at Crown Street station

Rail / Wapping Tunnel / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Warehouses at the end of the Wapping Tunnel

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