A collection of Railway Acts and Papers, manuscript and printed:- An Act to restore the exemption of goods loaded or unloaded on the lands or docks of Robert Vyner ... at Birkenhead, 1865; Articles of Agreement ... between the Wrexham Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Company ... The Wirral Railway Company, and The Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway Company, 1888; Report by the Board of Trade on the Applications made in the year 1882 under 'The Railways Construction Facilities Act, 1864'; Wirral Railway Act, 1884; Wirral Railway Act, 1888; Wirral Railway Transfer Act, 1889; An Act for making and maintaining Railways from Birkenhead and Poulton-cum-Seacombe to Hoylake in the County of Chester, 1863; An Act for the extension of the Hoylake Railway to New Brighton; and for other purposes, 1865; The Hoylake and Birkenhead Railway and Tramway Act, 1872; Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Act, 1882; Seacombe, Hoylake, and Deeside Railway Act, 1886; The Mersey Railway Acts, 1866, 1871, 1874, 1877, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888; The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Chester to Connah's Quay) Act, 1884; and The Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway Act, 1883.

Two hundred and twenty letters and related items, 1808-1822, addressed mainly to Paul Panton, junior, from Thomas Norbury, his agent at Holywell. The correspondence deals with the Flintshire estate of Paul Panton, with mining leases, colliery undertakings, the navigation of the river Dee, railroads, the Talar Goch mine, smelting works, the Nant-y-Moch pottery, Bagillt 'cop' and damage from storms and floods, and proceedings against Dee fishermen.
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