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Containing: script; rehearsal notes; budgets; stage and set plans; correspondence; tenders; production meeting minutes; and other material.

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These consist of two reports and a collection of plans bound together, for four different stone bridges proposed for different points on the river near Paxton, and for a cast iron bridge for which John Rennie did not estimate. The volume was apparently prepared for a client, and was at one time in the family of the Milne Home of Paxton.

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With estimates and plans for Harris's tide mill at Radford Lake, 1813.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the production files contained information which could be deemed sensitive under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998. For the sake of record, one file (‘Caledonia Dreaming’) has been kept in its entirety, though anyone wishing to consult it will have to comply with the terms of the Act and complete relevant paperwork. Potentially sensitive material, such as contracts, have been removed from all other files and shredded.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts. The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...