Salford Archive Centre
658-662 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, M44 5AD
Archon : 0129
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.
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
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. Period c.1831 – 1930, 111 items.
[Updated 13 Apr 12]