[M127] Manuscript map/plan of scottish road diversion. A Plan of the proposed alteration of the Road between Craigour and the corner of Lord Somerville's strip of planting....1777. 1777. A detailed manuscript plan scale two chains to the inch showing the rerouting of the highway SE of Edinburgh to a position further from Edmonstone House over a length of threequarters of a mile. Typical of schemes by powerful local gentry to improve their privacy, this appears to have been carried out and now forms part of the A68 road. Size 26" x 17", including two longitudinal sections and reference table. No indication of surveyor or engineer, but attractively and proffessionally prepared. Ink and wash on cloth backed paper. An additional note in another hand regarding gradients. £250.00

[M128] Manuscript map/plan of turnpike road diversion. [Plan of road diversion at Spotland, Rochdale, 1800]. 1800. An original folded parchment deed dated 1800 between the Trustees of the Bamford Road and Mrs Grace Lodge late of Willow Hall, Halifax. Conveys the site of the old highway from Sandy bank to Mitchelhey, Spotland, near Rochdale Lancashire. Signed by five of the Road Trustees (James, Robert, and John Kay, James and Joseph Fenton, Kay Allen). Endorsed on the skin is a neatly drawn ink and wash manuscript plan of the old and new lengths of road, size 8" x 10" £65.00

[M186] Borough of Hyde. Sites for proposed bus shelters. Two official plans showing sites for proposed bus shelters, with ink and pencil amendments. Undated, but probably 1940s. Each 30" x 16", with old folds. £10.00

[M188] T. Brown. A Travelling Map of Scotland including all the new and intended Roads, Bridges, & Canals etc.. 1806. Attractive map of Scotland drawn by Paton, engraved by Lizars and published by T. Brown in Edinburgh. This is the earliest issue, distinguishing roads etc proposed, undertaken to be made, under survey. With the division between Highlands and Lowlands, the boundary of the Highland Distillery, and the proposed sailing route for troops to Ireland between Stranraer and Larne. Attractively hand coloured. Dissected and linen mounted folding into the original marble card slipcase with printed label. Minor wear to map, case intact but rubbed and tender. £185.00

[M190] Milford Docks Company. Plan of the Milford Docks, Milford Haven, South Wales. Hand coloured lithographed plan c1870 showing the dock and port installation with railways and parts of the towns of Milford and Hakin. Scale 200 feet per inch, size 29" x 21". Dissected on cloth folding into hard covers with gilt title 'Milford Docks and Railway', spine neatly repaired. £95.00

[M191] [Thomas Telford]. Report from Select Committee on Carlisle and Glasgow Road. 1815. Important report with evidence and appendices, detailing the ruinous state of the existing road and the delays and inconvenience to mail coaches, with a transcript of Thomas Telford's evidence and his detailed report and estimate of the improvements needed over the 93 miles of highway, which he was to carry out over the next few years. 20 pages, folio, accompanied by a folding engraved plan 87" x 12" in three parts, and a sheet of long sections. The plan is an important topographic record, with the title 'Map of the Mail Road between Glasgow and Carlisle with the proposed improvements, surveyed and drawn under the direction of Thomas Telford Civil Engineer by W. A. Provis. London, 10th June 1815, Thos. Telford' Slight dampstaining to head and tail, maps cropped close to bottom of frame, otherwise a good example of a typically thorough Telford item. Modern paper covers. £460.00

[M201] Sir Douglas Fox & Partners. Transport Communication across the Humber Estuary. report by Sir Douglas Fox & Partners, February 1930. 1930. Detailed report by the well-known firm of consulting Egineers who had been asked to investigate the type, location, and cost of a new crossing of the Humber Estuary. They reported strongly in favour of a bridge, which could include railway tracks, rather than a tunnel, the position similar to that which was finally built some half a century later, although their recommended girder design was very different to the eventual suspension structure. 14 pages, printed by Waterlow & Sons, with an appendix and fifteen drawings, many large and multi-folding. These include maps, plans, elevations and sections, two aerial photographs, and a large perspective view of what the recommended bridge would look like. Folio, clipped in the original printed file cover. The format suggests only a very few copies were issued. There are some interesting pencil notes criticising several aspects of the scheme. £390.00

[M206] Tyne Blyth Port Welfare Committee of the Merchant Navy Welfare Board. Tyne and Wear Ports Information Guide. Double sided multi-folding information leaflet including a plan of the Tyne and its wharves up to Dunston, street plans of Newcastle and Shields, adverts, etc. Date probably c1970. £8.00

[M211] Royal Commission on London Traffic. [map] Plan of Glasgow and District Tramways. 1904. Coloured map of the Paisley area including Johnstone, Renfrew, Gardonald and Potterhill, showing existing railways and stations, and a proposed system of tramways. Submitted by Stephen Sellon, late Chief Engineer to the British Electric Traction Co Ltd, to the Royal Copmmission on London traffic and reproduced as Appendix 38. 122 x 8" £15.00

[M214] Ministry of Transport. Sharston By-Pass (M56). 1967. Large hand-coloured 1:2500 scale General Layout Plan of the proposed bypass to form part of the M56 Motorway. Harry Brompton & Partners, Consulting Engineers, for the MOT. A very detailed view of the proposal including the extensive disruption to existing highways caused by the scheme. Dyeline and colourwash, folded to 13" x 8" £36.00

[M215] Department of Transport. [map] The Development of the Trunk Road Network - Improvement Schemes over £500,000. 1977. Large coloured map showing the existing motorway and TR network in England & Wales, and the schemes in the preparation pool as at January 1977. 33" x 33", old folds. £10.00

[M217] [Worcestershire turnpike roads]. Remarks on the Droitwich Turnpike Bill, now pending in Parliament. 1803. Printed sheet 19" x 14" by opponents of the Bill, setting out their objections to the Road Trustees' proposals. Includes a neat engraved map of the roads between Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, and Worcester, showing mileages and intermediate villages etc. Old folds, cropped at bottom just shaving text. Such turnpike road ephemera has rarely survived. £75.00

[M219] Act of Parliament. Scarborough Pier and Harbour Act, 1732. London: John Baskett, 1732. An Act to enlarge the Pier and Harbour of Scarborough, in the County of York. The earliest legislation for the improvement of Scarborough Harbour. Title and 15 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £26.00

[M220] Act of Parliament. Whitby Harbour Improvement Act, 1735. London: John Baskett, 1735. An Act for lengthening the West Pier of the Harbour of Whitby, in the County of York, and for improving the said Harbour. Title and 7 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £21.00

[M221] Act of Parliament. Whitby Harbour Improvement Act, 1749. London: John Baskett, 1750. An Act for the more effectual repairing and preserving the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in the County of York. Title and 10 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £24.00

[M223] Act of Parliament. Scarborough Harbour Improvement Act, 1751. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1752. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to enlarge the Pier and Harbour of Scarborough, in the County of York; and for making the said Act more effectual. Title and 12 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £24.00

[M224] Act of Parliament. Bridlington Harbour Act, 1753. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1753. An Act for enlarging the Time, and continuing the Duties granted by several Acts of Parliament for repairs of the Piers of Bridlington, alias Burlington, in the County of York; and for making the said Acst more effectual. Title and 8 pages, black letter, folio, disbound. £21.00

[M226] Act of Parliament. Boroughbridge, Catterick, and PiercebridgeTurnpike Road Act, 1742. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1742. An Act for repairing the high Road from Borough-bridge in the County of York, to Catherick in the same County, and from thence to Piers-bridge on the River Tees. The first Act for this part of the roman Dere Street, Great North Road, now the A1. Title and 22 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £32.00

[M227] Act of Parliament. Hedon to Hull Turnpike Road Act, 1744. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1744. An Act for repairing the Road leading from a Gate commonly called Sacred Gate, on the South East Side of the Town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, through the siad Town, to Hull North Bridge. Title and 29 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £28.00

[M229] Act of Parliament. Hull Turnpike Road Act, 1744. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1744. An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Town of Kingston upon Hull, to and through the Town of Anlaby, and from thence to the Town of Kirk-Ella, in the County of the said Town of Kingston upon Hull. Title and 28 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £26.00

[M230] Act of Parliament. Tadcaster to York Turnpike Road Act, 1744. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1744. An Act for repairing the Road leading from Tadcaster Bridge within the County of the City of York, to a place near the said City, called Hobmoor-Lane End. Title and 24 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £30.00

[M231] Act of Parliament. Catterick to Durham Turnpike Road Act, 1746. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1747. An Act for repairing the Road leading from Catherick Bridge in the County of York, to Yarm in the said County; and from thence to Stockton in the County of Durham; and from thence through Sedgefield, in the said County of Durham, to the City of Durham. Title and 32 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £30.00

[M232] Act of Parliament. Boroughbridge to Piercebridge Turnpike Road Act, 1748. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1749. An Act for enlarging the powers granted by an Act passed in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Boroughbridge, in the County of York, to Catherick in the same County, and from thence to Piercebridge, on the River Tees. Title and 9 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £22.00

[M233] Act of Parliament. York to Boroughbridge Turnpike Road Act, 1749. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1750. An Act for repairing the Road from the City of York over Skipbridge, to Boroughbridge, in the County of York. Title and 30 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £30.00

[M235] Act of Parliament. Selby to Halifax and Tadcaster Turnpike Road Act, 1750. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1751. An Act for explaining and amending so much of ann Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty for the repairing and enlarging the Roads from the Town of Selby in the West Riding of the County of York, to the Town of Leeds; and from thence in two several Branches, One through Bradford and Horton, and the other through Bowling and Wibsey, to the Town of Halifax in the same Riding, as relates to that part of the said road which lies between Selby and Leeds; and also for repairing the Road from Tadcaster in the said West Riding, over Bramham Moor through Kidhall Lane, over Win Moor, and through Seacroft to a place called Halton Dyal, where it comes into the abovesaid Road, between Selby and Leeds. Title and 36 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £28.00

[M236] Act of Parliament. York to Scarborough Turnpike Road Act, 1751. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1752. An Act for repairing and widening the Roads from the East End of Monk Bridge, near the suburbs of the City of York, to New Malton, and from thence to Scarborough, in the North Riding of the County of York; and also from Spittle-house, in the East Riding of the said County, to Scarborough aforesaid. Title and 36 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £32.00

[M238] Act of Parliament. Knaresborough to York Turnpike Road Act, 1751. London: Thomas & Robert Baskett, 1752. An Act for repairing the Road from Knaresborough in the County of York, by longflat Lane, Gouldsborough Fields, Flaxby, Allerton Mauleverer, and Scate Moor, to Green Hammerton, in the same County; and for making the same a High Carriage Road. Title and 25 pages, folio, black letter, disbound. £25.00

[M240] Surveyors of the Highways for the Parish of Old Stratford, Warwickshire. Printed notice of an application to the Justices to stop up the public highway from the Common Pound at Bishopton,northwards to the Stratford/Henley Turnpike at Bishopton Hill . 1843. Folio poster notice approx 8" x 13" dated May 1843 under the names of Richard Swinburn and Josh Callaway, Highway Surveyors. The application to Quarter Sessions for closing this road 572 yards in length must have succeded as it does not appear on current maps. Printed by F. Ward, Stratford. Minor creasing etc. An unusual ephemeral survivor. £42.00

[M241] Anon. [Clopton Bridge, Stratford upon Avon]. A small but interesting archive relating to the proposal by Stratford on Avon Corporation in 1924 to widen the mediaeval bridge over the River Avon, and the furore which this created. [1] Proposed Widening of Clopton Bridge. Report to the Stratford-upon-Avon Preservation Committee by B. L. Hurst Esq, This report was commissioned from a Civil Engineer, who came out strongly against the proposal on aesthetic grounds and recommended a completely new bridge with a short bypass, a little further upstream. 7 pages, folio, photo, elevation, and folding coloured plan. Stapled. [2] Further Report...Answer to the Borough Surveyor's Criticism of his original Report. 7 pages, folio, stapled. [3] Clopton Bridge Stratford-on Avon, Its History and Shakespearean and other Associations. Interesting notes by 'E.L.' with several nice photos. 7 pages, folio, stapled. [4] Two original photographic prints of the bridge approx 10" x 7" on thin bromide paper. Although similar views they are clearly of differing dates. Six small photographic copies of old prints of the bridge and the River in Stratford. The opposition must have succeded as the widening has never taken place. £95.00

[M242] [Thomas Telford]. [Volume of reports etc on the Holyhead Road]. An important collection of original Parliamentary Papers 1819-30 relating to the reconstruction of the mail road from London to Holyhead, one of the principal means of Anglo-Irish communication. The items are bound together in a folio volume, cloth rather worn, formerly from the Harbour Engineer's Office at Ramsgate, and latterly in the Library of Sir Alexander Gibb, Civil Engineer and biographer of Telford. Comprising; Telford's Reports of June 1819 and June 1820 on the English Part of the Holyhead Road, 42 pages detailing all the existing Trusts and the many defects of their roads, 'General Rules for Repairing Roads' with an engraved plate of tools used, and proposals for improvements. Appended are nine large folding sheets of plans and sections engraved by Arrowsmith and hand coloured, covering many alterations between Chirk and Barnet; Reports [by Telford] of the Progress and Present state of the Anglesea Road and Menai Bridge, and on the Holyhead Road, May 1821, 23 pages; Holyhead Road (Shrewsbury by Coventry to London) - Report of Mr Thomas Telford, March 1822, 7 pages; Report of Mr Telford on the Road from Ketley Iron Works to Chirk, February 1830, 2 pages and large folding plan and section on two sheets lithographed by Arrowsmith with facsimile Telford signature; First and Second Reports of the Select Committee on the Holyhead and Liverpool Roads, May/July 1830, 52 + 5 pages with much interesting data on contracts, costs, Menai and other bridges, harbours at Holyhead and Howth, verbatim evidence from Telford, McNeil, Provis, and others, and some testimonials from coachmen on the improvement following 'Telfordizing' of the Highgate Archway Road. £650.00

[M244] [Parliamentary Paper]. [First] Report of the Commissioners for repairing the Roads between London and Holyhead by Chester, and between London and Bangor by Shrewsbury.. 1816. Reports the commencement of works under Telford's direction and lists his selection and estimates for prioritising the works in North Wales. 9p, folio, madern paper covers. £70.00

[M245] [Parliamentary Paper]. Second Report from the Select Committe on the Road from London to Holyhead &c. 1819. Primarily concerned with the building of a completely new road from Bangor Ferry to Holyhead. Includes Thomas Telford's report and recommendations, and verbatim evidence from interested parties. Lord Viscount Jocelyn refers to it as "the worst road I ever travelled in my life" 17p, folio, stitched in original printed blue paper covers. Includes a large hand coloured map engraved by Arrowsmith showing most of Anglesey, and accurately detailing both the existing road through Llangefni and the proposed new alignment. Facsimile signature of Thos Telford. £210.00

[M246] [Parliamentary Paper]. An Account of the receipt and expenditure on the Road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead..... 1828. Detailed accounts of twelve months' expenditure and toll receipts tec, with the report of John Provis the Engineer on the various sections of the road. Detail down to the expenditure of three shillings on 'fires to dry new Toll Houses' 10p, folio, stitched as issued. £85.00

[M247] [Parliamentary Paper]. report from the Committee on Holyhead Harbour. 1816. Recommending the extension of the pier as reported on by John Rennie in 1815, his evidence and the text transcribed in full. With other appendices including a detailed folding plan of Holyhead engraved by Basire showing the pier extension and also a proposed wet dock. 13p, folio, modern paper covers. £165.00

[M248] Albano, B. Details of the Construction of a Stone Bridge erected over the Dora Riparia, near Turin, by Chevalier Mosca, Engineer and Architect to the King of Sardinia, etc. 1836. Comrehensive account of the design and construction of this elegant flat stone arch. 12p, quarto, 3 double page plates, later paper covers. From the first volume of the Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1836 £40.00

[M249] Hartley, J. B, and others. An Account of the new or Grosvenor Bridge over the River Dee at Chester. 1836. When opened in 1832 the Grosvenor Bridge was the largest stone arch in the world, and vastly improved the main mail road from the north of England to North Wales. Built by Hartley, with Trubshaw as main contractor, to an original design by Thomas Harrison. 8p, quarto, 2 double page plates, later paper covers. From the first volume of the Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1836 £75.00

[M251] Timperley. An Account of the construction of the Harbour and Docks at Kingston-upon-Hull. 1836. The Resident Engineer's account of the history of the docks and their improvement. 52p, quarto, a double page plan of the docks, 7 other double and 2 single page plates, later paper covers. From the first volume of the Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1836 £95.00

[M252] Clyde Navigation. [Map] Clyde Navigation Provisional Order, 1914. 1914. Lithographed map in colour showing the tidal basins proposed at Shieldhall, Renfrew, with the connections to the railway system at Cardonald. 29 x 29 inches, cloth backed, folded. £20.00