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Auction No 350, Category: Local History

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Southend & District Joint Services Bus Timetables

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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Southend & District Joint Services Bus Timetables (5), plus Fares Tables (1) and Timetable leaflets/pamphlets (12); mid-1950s to early 1960s.

Nottingham & Derby Bus Services 1950s / 1980s

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £115
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Nottingham & Derby Bus Services 1950s / 1980s, chiefly Timetable Leaflets (163) plus Timetables (4), very largely Trent Motor Traction Company. Includes brochures for Express Coach services. (169)

Yorkshire Bus Timetables (6) and Fares Tables (2)

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Yorkshire Bus Timetables (6) and Fares Tables (2), plus two Timetables for Venture Transport, Newcastle; also related leaflets/brochures. Mostly 1960s. Various companies. (19 items)

Thomas Brear of Bradford "Brear's Monthly Diary and District Time Table" 1886, 1897 and 1901

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
UNSOLD
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Thomas Brear of Bradford Brear's Monthly Diary and District Time Table for September 1886, July 1897 and December 1901, pocket size softbacks, each comprising 96pp or 128pp of timetables for Bradford's Omnibus, Tram and Railway services plus 36pp diary & adverts, the diaries all with manuscript entries in ink or pencil. The 1886 issue with a rather tired cover o/w VG. Rare. (3)

Lancashire & Cumbria Bus Services 1950s to 1980s, a selection of Timetables (10)

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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Lancashire & Cumbria Bus Services 1950s to 1980s, a selection of Timetables (10) and related leaflets & brochures (11), with chief interest in Ribble Motor Sevices Ltd, mostly 1960s. 

Pictorial Certificate of Membership for the "Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners"

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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Pictorial Certificate of Membership for the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, early 20th Century, unissued; coloured chromolithograph with multiple vignettes. 24 x 17". Small tape mark upper left otherwise VG

19th Century Stereographs of Chester

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
UNSOLD
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19th Century Stereographs of Chester, either photographs (11) or photogravures, most with captions, a few with annotations on reverse. (21)

William Arthur Shaw "Manchester Old and New" Cassell & Co., 1894

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £38
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William Arthur Shaw Manchester Old and New, Cassell & Co., 1894, tall quarto, three volume set, gilt cloth; numerous illustrations by H.E. Tidmarsh

T. Swindells "Chapters in the History of Eccles" James Wilkinson 1914; and others

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £20
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T. Swindells Chapters in the History of Eccles, James Wilkinson, 1914, original gilt cloth, some wrinkling to boards, 92pp; and Manchester Streets and Manchester Men, 5 volume set, the Morten reprint, VG; ownership stamps to front endpapers

Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932

Lot: 308

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
UNSOLD
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Ross-on-Wye Post Office copy letter book 1904-1932, comprising a manuscript record of correspondence received by the Ross-on-Wye postmaster from the Surveyor of the GPO and other officilas. The entries from 1904 to 1920 are comprehensive but increasingly sketchy and summarised thereafter. The early period provides a fascinating insight into the day to day workings of the postal service in Herefordshire and the management of post office staff. Foolscap, 140pp, plus diary entries thereafter, bound in original boards with OHMS label on front.