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Ditton Brook Iron Co.
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Library List (MS Excel 97) |
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Collection List
(MS Excel97) |
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Map List
(MS Excel97) |
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Brief Early History of the Everite from original sources
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| Brief history of
the
Widnes Foundry and Engineering Company (from the 1948
Centenary Brochure), with original punctuation but with no
illustrations |
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Commemorative brochure produced by Fisons Ltd in 1972 to
mark the cessation of manufacturing at Whiffen and Sons (who
had been absorbed into Fisons Fine Chemicals in 1966) former
Loughborough site . Covers period 1654 - 1972. No
illustrations. |
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A partial
transcript of
LIVERPOOL SUMMER ASSIZES 1846 Sir John Gerrard v.
J.C. GAMBLE
Including the
initial declaration and various correspondence and depositions
concerning the case against the St Helens alkali manufacturer
Josiah Christopher Gamble and others. Complete with original
spelling in some cases, plus some transcription errors. |
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Partial list of the contents of the
research files produced
by the Museum Project regarding alkali works along with soap
works, and other firms in the Widnes and Runcorn area. Some
notes from places further afield as well. |
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Pages 48 - 52 from the 1948 50th anniversary book for Orr's
Zinc White works in Widnes. Produced by The Imperial Smelting
Company, the then owners of the company. This document has the
original page breaks and punctuation but with no illustrations. |
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Whole text from the
Orr's Zinc White 25th anniversary
brochure 1923. This document has the original page breaks and
punctuation but with no illustrations. |
| Article about the
Widnes Transporter Bridge from Meccano Magazine April 1960 |
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List of all Catalyst's copies of ICI employee publications
such as ICI Magazine including the various divisional
publications, for example Hexagon Courier or Alkali News (MS
Excel) |
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List of ICI records, mostly books and documents, donated in
October 2005 (MS Excel) |
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Translation of
the introduction to book Nicolas Leblanc Sa Vie, Ses
Travaux, et L'Histoire de la Soude Artificielle written by
Auguste Anastasi grandson of Leblanc |
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Complete
list of research files donated to Catalyst from ICI General Chemicals
Group
(and predecessors) dated 1896 - 1998 This list includes
files listed in the document above and is based on our own cataloguing of these files.
It is the definitive list of all 25,263 documents. |
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List of items from the
McKechnie collection |
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List of
films in the Brunner Mond film collection (extant films rather than full list that was assumed upon initial loan)
(MS Excel) |
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Temporary lists of documents from
J W Towers (later Gallenkamps) and from
Bowmans (catalogued by Christina Evans). These will be updated as cataloguing
progresses. Bowmans is expected to be complete by the end
of June 2008, Towers by the end of August. |
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An
article by Gordon Rintoul from 1984 entitled "The Chemical
Industry in Runcorn and Weston 1800 - 1930". This is an
excellent summary of the origins and development of the industry
complete with footnotes. |
| We have recently
acquired the rent books from S Owens the Widnes estate agency,
for the period from 1910 until the agency was taken over by the
Halifax in 1988. These show the addresses for which Owens was
responsible, along with the rent payer's name and the value of
the rent. Books from 1910 until 1939 are available for
inspection. We also have various ledgers showing the
beneficiaries of the rents received. |
