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Plan of the Great North of England Railway. Tho.s Storey Esq.r Engineer. R. Otley & T. Sopwith, Surveyors.
[n.d., c.1836.]
Engraved map, with some hand colour. 495 x 350mm (19½ x 13¾"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1836'. Folded as issued, holes in corners; old ink mss. table of distances and added names on map.
A map of north east England, covering from Huddersfield and the Humber north to Morpeth, marking the existing railways and the route of the proposed 'Great North of England Railway' marked in red. The route from York and Darlington was opened in 1841, but by 1846 the company had been absorbed by the 'Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway'.
[Ref: 53005] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1836.]
Engraved map, with some hand colour. 495 x 350mm (19½ x 13¾"), with large margins, watermarked 'J Whatman 1836'. Folded as issued, holes in corners; old ink mss. table of distances and added names on map.
A map of north east England, covering from Huddersfield and the Humber north to Morpeth, marking the existing railways and the route of the proposed 'Great North of England Railway' marked in red. The route from York and Darlington was opened in 1841, but by 1846 the company had been absorbed by the 'Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway'.
[Ref: 53005] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Sunday School Jubilee to be Celebrated on Thursday Sepr. 8th. 1831. In Commemoration of the Founding of Sunday Schools by R. Raikes Esqr.
Sold at the Sunday School Union Depository No.20, Quay Side Newcastle upon Tyne. [c.1831.]
Letterpress broadside handbill/frontispiece? with steel engraved portrait of Robert Raikes by W. Collard. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½".
Robert Raikes (1735 - 1811) was a journalist and promoter of Sunday Schools. A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.
[Ref: 16769] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Sold at the Sunday School Union Depository No.20, Quay Side Newcastle upon Tyne. [c.1831.]
Letterpress broadside handbill/frontispiece? with steel engraved portrait of Robert Raikes by W. Collard. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½".
Robert Raikes (1735 - 1811) was a journalist and promoter of Sunday Schools. A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.
[Ref: 16769] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Isometrical Plan of Mr. Grainger's Proposed Concentration of the Termini of the Several Railways from London, Edinburgh, Carlisly, Shields and Sunderland, at a General Depot at Elswick.
Engraved by W. Collard.
T. Sopwith, C.E. [n.d. c.1840.]
A very rare and scarce engraving. Sheet 406 x 247mm. 16 x 9¾". Laid on separate sheet.
It was in 1839 that Mr. Richard Granger (1797-1861) the builder from Newcastle upon Tyne, known for taking on the task of building and developing Grainger Town, decided to buy the Elswick estate to the west of Newcastle with the intention of building a railway terminus. These plans never went ahead, as Grainger bankrupted himself in purchasing the land, and following his death, his debts were greater than his personal estate, so the sale of the land in the Elswick estate helped pay off these debts. Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879), also from Newcastle, was a miner and railway surveyor, writing his best-known book "Treatise on Isometrical Drawing".
[Ref: 16104] £360.00
Engraved by W. Collard.
T. Sopwith, C.E. [n.d. c.1840.]
A very rare and scarce engraving. Sheet 406 x 247mm. 16 x 9¾". Laid on separate sheet.
It was in 1839 that Mr. Richard Granger (1797-1861) the builder from Newcastle upon Tyne, known for taking on the task of building and developing Grainger Town, decided to buy the Elswick estate to the west of Newcastle with the intention of building a railway terminus. These plans never went ahead, as Grainger bankrupted himself in purchasing the land, and following his death, his debts were greater than his personal estate, so the sale of the land in the Elswick estate helped pay off these debts. Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879), also from Newcastle, was a miner and railway surveyor, writing his best-known book "Treatise on Isometrical Drawing".
[Ref: 16104] £360.00