Letter from George Stephenson

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Register:
National
Year of Inscription:
2013
Type of Heritage:
Letter
Nominating Institution:
Liverpool Record Office

This is a unique holograph letter written by George Stevenson to his son Robert. It was sent during the period of construction of the world’s first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester (1827).

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