Timothy Hackworth Museum Booklet 1975

Produced for the opening of the Timothy Hackworth Museum in 1975

Railway Centenary Celebrations 1925 - Unveiling Ceremonies

History of the First Public Railway - M. Heavisides.

Michael Heavisides - The History of the First Public Railway - Stockton and Darlington Railway - the Opening day and What followed.

Coal prices went down...

View the book online here
https://archive.org/details/cu31924030117471 
Formats - eg on line or pdf

Read the book on line here https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030117471#page/n0/mode/2up

And from Henry Heavisides - The Annals of Stockton

Relating to Thomas Hackworth - John Wesley Hackworth's brother who took over at Shildon and set up as part of the Clarence line. - 

Timothy Hackworth Museum - Youtubes

The Merlin Engine.

The naming of the Timothy Hackworth - Northern Rail line train with Jane Hackworth Young.

Photos of Joan Hackworth Weir

This is a photo from 1947 when Joan was about 27.

Joan 5 years old at the 1925 Centenary with the Hackworth Family

Joan (with the glasses) at the 2004 opening of Locomotion at Shildon with grandsons Kyle and Kristian Teasdel and their father Trevor. (1st and 2nd left of picture).

Joan is on the left and Jane Young 2nd left - 2005 opening of the Locomotion, Shildon.

Joan at the 1975 opening of the Timothy Hackworth Museum, Shildon

Joan with daughter Margaret Weir.

Joan's sister Margaret Parsons (Ferguson)

Pendants - 1925 Centenary Celebrations

From Joan's collection -

Evening Gazette "Railway Queen" July 17th 1975

"Rail Trail" This Month in Cleveland August 1975

"Tomorrow's Historic Railway Procession" Northern Echo Weds 1July 1925

More from this newspaper on July 1925 -