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Lithgow (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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Blast Furnace, Lithgow Ironworks, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/37
Scope and Contents

A view of the blast furnace, isolated in the countryside, with mined earth in the foreground.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lithgow Valley, showing Ironworks, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/38
Scope and Contents

A view across the valley, with a small residential community in the middle distance, and the ironworks beyond, with smoke drifting across the valley.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Railway over Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/71
Scope and Contents

229 x 190 mm. A view of part of the Lithgow zig-zag, the engineering feat of John Whitton which allowed the railway to descend on a manageable gradient from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panorama of the Lithgow zig-zag, and more detail on its construction see Y3086E/51.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Railway over Ye Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/72
Scope and Contents

233 x 181 mm. A view of another section of the Lithgow zig-zag.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).