Tracking Railways Archives Project - TRAP
A Special Interest Group of the Railway & Canal Historical Society
This page last updated on 26 August 2006
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Salford Archives Centre
658-662 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5AD
Archon 0129
| Collection Reference |
Collection Title |
Creator |
Abstract |
Creation dates | Extent and Form |
Catalogue availability |
| U94/F1 | Railway contractor's ledger | [Taylor & Thomson] | Finance ledger of a railway contractor undertaking works in Stalybridge area; believed to be Taylor & Thomson (or Thompson) of 32 Victoria Street, Manchester. | 1881 - 1889 | 1 ledger | - |
| U397 | - | W H Killon | William Henry Killon was a breaksman at Moss Hill Colliery; collection consists of Great Central Railway (1) and Cheshire Lines (32) tickets ?1900, 1901-04; CLC postcard 1904; GCR Rules & Regulations 1912. | ?1900-1912 | 33 tickets; 1 postcard; 1 volume. | - |
| U205 | Records of the Ormesher family of Eccles | D H Ormesher | Collection of letter books and documents relating mainly to tunnelling and work at collieries. Includes work on Rotherhithe tunnel and tunneling under the Seine; railway publicity material relating to visit to USA in 1913. | 1859 - 1923 | 79 documents, 8 photographs, 7 letterbooks, 7 pamphlets | - |
| U267 | Records of the Bardsley and Eaton families of Barton upon Irwell; Clarke family of Worsley; Baldwin family of Clitheroe | - | Correspondence relating to Locomotive Steam Enginemen and Firemen's Society (James Lamb Turner, died 1880 age 65, was General Secretary); copy of Liverpool and Manchester Railway Rules and Regulations, 1841; many family papers. | 1812 - 1953 | 1 envelope of documents; 3 bundles; 5 volumes; 3 documents | - |
| U65 | Surveying and coalmining records Little Lever, Clifton and elsewhere | Joseph Jackson and Son, Bolton | 8 items relating to railway dealings, mostly Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; numerous colliery and canal references; shipping tonnages from Manchester Ship Canal, 1894-95; references Moses Gate and Ringley Branch turnpike road | c.1831 - 1930 | 111 items | - |