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Barograph

2022-04-17T17:32:41Z

Peter:

Also known as the '''King's Barograph'''

<blockquote>"In 1862 a "self registering barometer", designed by Alfred King, an engineer and inventor of the Liverpool United Gaslight Company, and build by a local firm, J.G Lancaster, under the close supervision of Mr. King, was installed at the Observatory. its design was simple - a green cylinder floated in a circular tank of mercury. As the mercury expanded and contracted due to the variation of atmospheric pressure, the drum moved up and down and a pen attached recorded the movement on a rotating drum. By modern standards the barograph was very large - about 2.5 metres high and about 1.5 metres wide.

The King's barograph was moved to the new Observatory on bidston Hill in 1866, and continued in use till 1928, when it was replaced by a second King's barograph. The second instrument became inefficient in 1940, and was replaced by a micro-barograph from Short and mason. The original barograph is on display in the World Museum, and its successor was accepted for display at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London.<ref>Bidston Observatory, the Place and the People. Joyce Scoffield. Countyvise limited. 2006</ref></blockquote>

[[File:King's barograph.jpg|400px|King's Barograph displayed in World Museum Liverpool]]

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File:King's barograph.jpg

2022-04-17T17:30:24Z

Peter:

Barograph

2022-04-17T17:27:18Z

Peter:

Barograph

2022-04-17T17:26:52Z

Peter: Created page with "Also known as the '''King's Barograph''' <blockquote>"In 1862 a "self registering barometer", designed by Alfred King, an engineer and inventor of the Liverpool United Gaslig..."

Also known as the '''King's Barograph'''

<blockquote>"In 1862 a "self registering barometer", designed by Alfred King, an engineer and inventor of the Liverpool United Gaslight Company, and build by a local firm, J.G Lancaster, under the close supervision of Mr. King, was installed at the Observatory. its design was simple - a green cylinder floated in a circular tank of mercury. As the mercury expanded and contracted due to the variation of atmospheric pressure, the drum moved up and down and a pen attached recorded the movement on a rotating drum. By modern standards the barograph was very large - about 2.5 metres high and about 1.5 metres wide.

The King's barograph was moved to the new Observatory on bidston Hill in 1866, and continued in use till 1928, when it was replaced by a second King's barograph. The second instrument became inefficient in 1940, and was replaced by a micro-barograph from Short and mason. The original barograph is on display in the World Museum, and its successor was accepted for display at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London.<ref>Bidston Observatory, the Place and the People. Joyce Scoffield. countyvise limited. 2006</ref><:blockquote>

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Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T17:04:07Z

Peter:

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T17:02:22Z

Peter: /* The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine */

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==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

Having the Bidston Kelvin Machine and the Roberts Tide Prediction Machine available <blockquote>"equipped Doodson with experience that would prove invaluable when considering the design of later machines. They would also provide him with the means to enable the Liverpool Tidal Institute to become one of the main producers of tide tables worldwide. The two machines were to play particularly important roles in World War II, in providing tidal predictions for D-Day and for other military operations in Europe and the Paciﬁc. Those for D-Day were unusual in that they were made for an unknown location (now of course known to be Normandy), using only the crudest of harmonic constants provided by Commander Farquharson at the Tidal Branch of the Admiralty (Parker, 2011). However, they were not secret for long. In July 1944, Doodson gave a lengthy interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, stressing the importance of the TPMs to the D-Day predictions (LDP, 1944).

"In 1947, Doodson asked Légé to estimate the price of a machine with at least 35 components. Légé produced an initial design which Doodson started working on in detail. This became the 42-component machine delivered ﬁnally by Légé in December 1950 at a cost of GBP 5049 (Woodworth, 2016)."

"After the Bidston Kelvin Machine and the Roberts Tide Prediction Machine, the Bidston Doodson–Légé Machine (TPM-S20), which was referred to by Bidston staff as the “D–L machine”, was the third machine to be used operationally at the LTI and one of a number of similar machines made by Légé & Co. under Doodson’s supervision and exported to several countries. Doodson (1951) describes it in some detail. It was a single-sided TPM, being converted to a double-sided machine in 1956. It has an aluminium frame, unlike the steel frame of TPM-S5. The machine is approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 9.5 feet (3 m) long and 3.5 feet (1.1m) wide and weighs 1.4 t (not including the support base frame). Complete engineering drawings and documentation survive which have enabled its recent restoration.7Figure 3f and g provides photographs of the machine."<ref>Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, March 2020History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1):15-29, DOI:10.5194/hgss-11-15-2020, Philip L. Woodworth</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg|thumb|none|500px|"Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Predictor", printed from etched copper plate in the HECS archive]]

[[File:13.2b.jpg|thumb|none|500px|HECS archive inventory nr. 13.2. Copper print plate of Portable Doodson-Légé Predicting Machine]]

Portable Tide Prediction Machine appear in inventories as 'PTPM'<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Inventory-of-tide-prediction-machines-b-Inventory-of-portable-tide-prediction_tbl1_340064506</ref>

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Roberts Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:25:18Z

Peter:

<blockquote>In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including predictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI in 1929.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 constituents, several more than the [[Bidston Kelvin Machine]]. By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment. Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006).

This TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predictor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Machine”, a name which had previously been attached to the India Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the “Légé machine”.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6</ref></blockquote>

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Roberts Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:24:45Z

Peter:

<blockquote>In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including predictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI in 1929.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 constituents, several more than the [[Bidston Kelvin Machine]]. By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006).

This TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predictor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Machine”, a name which had previously been attached to the India Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6</ref></blockquote>

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Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T15:23:33Z

Peter:

Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T15:16:55Z

Peter:

Roberts Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:16:42Z

Peter:

<blockquote>In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including predictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI in 1929.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 constituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine. By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006).

This TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predictor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Machine”, a name which had previously been attached to the India Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6</ref></blockquote>

[[Category:Instruments]]

Roberts Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:16:19Z

Peter:

<blockquote>In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including predictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI in 1929.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 constituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine. By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006).

This TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predictor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Machine”, a name which had previously been attached to the India Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6</ref></blockquote>

Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T15:13:07Z

Peter:

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:11:35Z

Peter: /* The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine */

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==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

<blockquote>Having the Bidston Kelvin Machine and the Roberts Tide Prediction Machine available equipped Doodson with experience that would prove invaluable when considering the design of later machines. They would also provide him with the means to enable the Liverpool Tidal Institute to become one of the main producers of tide tables worldwide. The two machines were to play particularly important roles in World War II, in providing tidal predictions for D-Day and for other military operations in Europe and the Paciﬁc. Those for D-Day were unusual in that they were made for an unknown location (now of course known to be Normandy), using only the crudest of harmonic constants provided by Commander Farquharson at the Tidal Branch of the Admiralty (Parker, 2011). However, they were not secret for long. In July 1944, Doodson gave a lengthy interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, stressing the importance of the TPMs to the D-Day predictions (LDP, 1944).

In 1947, Doodson asked Légé to estimate the price of a machine with at least 35 components. Légé produced an initial design which Doodson started working on in detail. This became the 42-component machine delivered ﬁnally by Légé in December 1950 at a cost of GBP 5049 (Woodworth, 2016).

After the Bidston Kelvin Machine and the Roberts Tide Prediction Machine, the Bidston Doodson–Légé Machine (TPM-S20), which was referred to by Bidston staff as the “D–L machine”, was the third machine to be used operationally at the LTI and one of a number of similar machines made by Légé & Co. under Doodson’s supervision and exported to several countries. Doodson (1951) describes it in some detail. It was a single-sided TPM, being converted to a double-sided machine in 1956. It has an aluminium frame, unlike the steel frame of TPM-S5. The machine is approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 9.5 feet (3 m) long and 3.5 feet (1.1m) wide and weighs 1.4 t (not including the support base frame). Complete engineering drawings and documentation survive which have enabled its recent restoration.7Figure 3f and g provides photographs of the machine.<ref>Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, March 2020History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1):15-29, DOI:10.5194/hgss-11-15-2020, Philip L. Woodworth</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg|thumb|none|500px|"Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Predictor", printed from etched copper plate in the HECS archive]]

[[File:13.2b.jpg|thumb|none|500px|HECS archive inventory nr. 13.2. Copper print plate of Portable Doodson-Légé Predicting Machine]]

Portable Tide Prediction Machine appear in inventories as 'PTPM'<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Inventory-of-tide-prediction-machines-b-Inventory-of-portable-tide-prediction_tbl1_340064506</ref>

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Roberts Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T15:03:24Z

Peter: Created page with "In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and which had w..."

In 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the
son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made
machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and
which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition
of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own
tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of
Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including pre-
dictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI
in 1929. Doodson paid the Roberts family GBP 753 15s 0d.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 con-
stituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine.
By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased
to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design
having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions
are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and
2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006). This
TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predic-
tor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Ma-
chine”, a name which had previously been attached to the In-
dia Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed
by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.

Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T14:17:33Z

Peter:

The Bidston Kelvin Machine is one of three types of Tide Predicting Machines (TPM) that have been used in the Bidston Observatory. This TPM-S14 was developed out of earlier type predicting machines, and made in 1925 by the firm of Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird of Glasgow, with Doodson taking great interest in its construction and suggesting modifications.
The other types are the Roberts-Légé machine (bought in 1929) and the Doodson-Légé machine (1950).

<blockquote>Doodson wrote in an internal note that there was no difference in performance between the Bidston Kelvin and Roberts–Légé machines. He stated that for both “the total error of production of a tide does not differ by more than 0.05 ft (1.5 cm) and 1 min of time from calculations using the same harmonic constants, even for the largest ranges of tide”.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6</ref></blockquote>

The Bidston Kelvin Machine may still be found at SHOM in Brest.

ROBERTS
Then in 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the
son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made
machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and
which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition
of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own
tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of
Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including pre-
dictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI
in 1929. Doodson paid the Roberts family GBP 753 15s 0d.

This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 con-
stituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine.
By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased
to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design
having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions
are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and
2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006). This
TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predic-
tor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Ma-
chine”, a name which had previously been attached to the In-
dia Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed
by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.

DOODSON-LEGE
These two TPMs equipped Doodson with experience that would prove invaluable when considering the design of later machines. They would also provide him with the means to enable the LTI to become one of the main producers of tide tables worldwide. The two machines were to play particularly important roles in World War II, in providing tidal predictions for D-Day and for other military operations in Europe and the Paciﬁc. Those for D-Day were unusual in that they were made for an unknown location (now of course known to be Normandy), using only the crudest of harmonic constants provided by Commander Farquharson at the Tidal Branch of the Admiralty (Parker, 2011). However, they were not secret for long. In July 1944, Doodson gave a lengthy interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, stressing the importance of the TPMs to the D-Day predictions (LDP, 1944).

In 1947, Doodson asked Légé to estimate the price of a machine with at least 35 components. Légé produced an initial design which Doodson started working on in detail. This became the 42-component machine delivered ﬁnally by Légé in December 1950 at a cost of GBP 5049 (Woodworth, 2016).6This Bidston Doodson–Légé Machine (TPM-S20), referred to by Bidston staff as the “D–L machine”, was the third machine to be used operationally at the LTI and one of a number of similar machines made by Légé & Co. under Doodson’s supervision and exported to several countries. Doodson (1951) describes it in some detail. It was a single-sided TPM, being converted to a double-sided machine in 1956. It has an aluminium frame, unlike the steel frame of TPM-S5. The machine is approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 9.5 feet (3 m) long and 3.5 feet (1.1m) wide and weighs 1.4 t (not including the support base frame). Complete engineering drawings and documentation survive which have enabled its recent restoration.7Figure 3f and g provides photographs of the machine.

The purchase of the Doodson–Légé Machine had been made contingent on the sale of the Bidston Kelvin Machine to the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) in France. It was acquired by them in 1950 and was operated ﬁrst in Paris and then in Brest for predicting the tides of overseas ports (SHOM, 2019). It remained in operational use at SHOM until 1966 (Rawsthorne, 2019).

Nowadays, the Roberts–Légé and Doodson–Légé machines are both on display at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool (Tide and Time, 2019), the only place in the world where two TPMs can be seen alongside each other. Meanwhile, the Bidston Kelvin Machine may still be found at SHOM in Brest. All three machines are in working or near working order. Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, March 2020History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1):15-29, DOI:10.5194/hgss-11-15-2020, Philip L. Woodworth<ref/></blockquote>

Bidston Kelvin Machine

2022-04-17T13:04:49Z

Peter:

<blockquote>Most of the funding for the establishment of the LTI in 1919 had come from Sir Alfred Booth and his brother Charles Booth of the Booth Shipping Line in order to “prosecute continuously scientiﬁc research into all aspects of knowledge of the tides” (Doodson, 1924; Carlsson-Hyslop, 2020).
In 1925, Charles Booth also provided most of the GBP 1500 required for the purchase of a 25- to 28- component TPM for the exclusive use of Doodson at the LTI.
The BAAS contributed GBP300. In the event, this became a 26-component machine, later extended to 29 components. This Bidston Kelvin Machine (TPM-S14) was made by the ﬁrm of Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird of Glasgow with Doodson taking a great interest in its construction and suggesting modiﬁcations. It stood about 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2 feet (0.6 m) wide and was encased by sliding doors (Doodson, 1925, 1926, 1927).

Then in 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the
son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made
machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and
which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition
of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own
tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of
Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including pre-
dictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI
in 1929. Doodson paid the Roberts family GBP 753 15s 0d.
This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 con-
stituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine.
By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased
to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design
having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions
are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and
2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006). This
TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predic-
tor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Ma-
chine”, a name which had previously been attached to the In-
dia Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed
by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.

Doodson wrote in an internal note that there was no difference in performance between the Bidston Kelvin and Roberts–Légé machines. He stated that for both “the total error of production of a tide does not differ by more than 0.05 ft (1.5 cm) and 1 min of time from calculations using the same harmonic constants, even for the largest ranges of tide”.

These two TPMs equipped Doodson with experience that would prove invaluable when considering the design of later machines. They would also provide him with the means to enable the LTI to become one of the main producers of tide tables worldwide. The two machines were to play particularly important roles in World War II, in providing tidal predictions for D-Day and for other military operations in Europe and the Paciﬁc. Those for D-Day were unusual in that they were made for an unknown location (now of course known to be Normandy), using only the crudest of harmonic constants provided by Commander Farquharson at the Tidal Branch of the Admiralty (Parker, 2011). However, they were not secret for long. In July 1944, Doodson gave a lengthy interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, stressing the importance of the TPMs to the D-Day predictions (LDP, 1944).

In 1947, Doodson asked Légé to estimate the price of a machine with at least 35 components. Légé produced an initial design which Doodson started working on in detail. This became the 42-component machine delivered ﬁnally by Légé in December 1950 at a cost of GBP 5049 (Woodworth, 2016).6This Bidston Doodson–Légé Machine (TPM-S20), referred to by Bidston staff as the “D–L machine”, was the third machine to be used operationally at the LTI and one of a number of similar machines made by Légé & Co. under Doodson’s supervision and exported to several countries. Doodson (1951) describes it in some detail. It was a single-sided TPM, being converted to a double-sided machine in 1956. It has an aluminium frame, unlike the steel frame of TPM-S5. The machine is approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 9.5 feet (3 m) long and 3.5 feet (1.1m) wide and weighs 1.4 t (not including the support base frame). Complete engineering drawings and documentation survive which have enabled its recent restoration.7Figure 3f and g provides photographs of the machine.

The purchase of the Doodson–Légé Machine had been made contingent on the sale of the Bidston Kelvin Machine to the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) in France. It was acquired by them in 1950 and was operated ﬁrst in Paris and then in Brest for predicting the tides of overseas ports (SHOM, 2019). It remained in operational use at SHOM until 1966 (Rawsthorne, 2019).

Nowadays, the Roberts–Légé and Doodson–Légé machines are both on display at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool (Tide and Time, 2019), the only place in the world where two TPMs can be seen alongside each other. Meanwhile, the Bidston Kelvin Machine may still be found at SHOM in Brest. All three machines are in working or near working order.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6 Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, March 2020History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1):15-29, DOI:10.5194/hgss-11-15-2020, Philip L. Woodworth<ref/></blockquote>

Bidston Kelvin Machine

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Peter: Created page with "<blockquote>Most of the funding for the establishment of the LTI in 1919 had come from Sir Alfred Booth and his brother Charles Booth of the Booth Shipping Line in order to..."

<blockquote>Most of the funding for the establishment of the LTI in 1919 had come from Sir Alfred Booth and his brother Charles Booth of the Booth Shipping Line in order to “prosecute continuously scientiﬁc research into all aspects of knowledge of the tides” (Doodson, 1924; Carlsson-Hyslop, 2020).
In 1925, Charles Booth also provided most of the GBP 1500 required for the purchase of a 25- to 28- component TPM for the exclusive use of Doodson at the LTI.
The BAAS contributed GBP300. In the event, this became a 26-component machine, later extended to 29 components. This Bidston Kelvin Machine (TPM-S14) was made by the ﬁrm of Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird of Glasgow with Doodson taking a great interest in its construction and suggesting modiﬁcations. It stood about 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and 2 feet (0.6 m) wide and was encased by sliding doors (Doodson, 1925, 1926, 1927). Figure 3a and b show
photographs of the machine.

Then in 1929, following the death of H. W. T. Roberts (the
son of Edward Roberts), Doodson acquired the Légé-made
machine that Edward Roberts had designed in 1906 and
which had won a Grand Prix at the Franco–British Exhibition
of 1908. Roberts had subsequently used it as part of his own
tidal prediction business (Messrs. Edward Roberts & Sons of
Broadstairs), with the work of that business, including pre-
dictions for the Hydrographic Ofﬁce, also passing to the LTI
in 1929. Doodson paid the Roberts family GBP 753 15s 0d.
This Roberts–Légé Machine (TPM-S5) simulated 33 con-
stituents, several more than the Bidston Kelvin Machine.
By 1929 it was in need of an overhaul and refurbishment.
Shortly thereafter, the number of constituents was increased
to 40 by Chadburns of Liverpool, with its original design
having allowed for such a future expansion. Its dimensions
are approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 6 feet (2 m) long and
2.5 feet (0.8 m) wide (somewhat wider with its casing). It re-
mained in use at Bidston until 1960 (Scofﬁeld, 2006). This
TPM was sometimes known as the “Universal Tide Predic-
tor of 1906” and also as the “Roberts Tide Predicting Ma-
chine”, a name which had previously been attached to the In-
dia Ofﬁce Machine (TPM-S2) which had also been designed
by Roberts. Doodson and Bidston staff referred to it as the
“Légé machine”.

Doodson wrote in an internal note that there was no difference in performance between the Bidston Kelvin and Roberts–Légé machines. He stated that for both “the total error of production of a tide does not differ by more than 0.05 ft (1.5 cm) and 1 min of time from calculations using the same harmonic constants, even for the largest ranges of tide”.

These two TPMs equipped Doodson with experience that would prove invaluable when considering the design of later machines. They would also provide him with the means to enable the LTI to become one of the main producers of tide tables worldwide. The two machines were to play particularly important roles in World War II, in providing tidal predictions for D-Day and for other military operations in Europe and the Paciﬁc. Those for D-Day were unusual in that they were made for an unknown location (now of course known to be Normandy), using only the crudest of harmonic constants provided by Commander Farquharson at the Tidal Branch of the Admiralty (Parker, 2011). However, they were not secret for long. In July 1944, Doodson gave a lengthy interview to the Liverpool Daily Post, stressing the importance of the TPMs to the D-Day predictions (LDP, 1944).

In 1947, Doodson asked Légé to estimate the price of a machine with at least 35 components. Légé produced an initial design which Doodson started working on in detail. This became the 42-component machine delivered ﬁnally by Légé in December 1950 at a cost of GBP 5049 (Woodworth, 2016).6This Bidston Doodson–Légé Machine (TPM-S20), referred to by Bidston staff as the “D–L machine”, was the third machine to be used operationally at the LTI and one of a number of similar machines made by Légé & Co. under Doodson’s supervision and exported to several countries. Doodson (1951) describes it in some detail. It was a single-sided TPM, being converted to a double-sided machine in 1956. It has an aluminium frame, unlike the steel frame of TPM-S5. The machine is approximately 7 feet (2.1 m) high, 9.5 feet (3 m) long and 3.5 feet (1.1m) wide and weighs 1.4 t (not including the support base frame). Complete engineering drawings and documentation survive which have enabled its recent restoration.7Figure 3f and g provides photographs of the machine.

The purchase of the Doodson–Légé Machine had been made contingent on the sale of the Bidston Kelvin Machine to the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) in France. It was acquired by them in 1950 and was operated ﬁrst in Paris and then in Brest for predicting the tides of overseas ports (SHOM, 2019). It remained in operational use at SHOM until 1966 (Rawsthorne, 2019).

Nowadays, the Roberts–Légé and Doodson–Légé machines are both on display at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool (Tide and Time, 2019), the only place in the world where two TPMs can be seen alongside each other. Meanwhile, the Bidston Kelvin Machine may still be found at SHOM in Brest. All three machines are in working or near working order.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340064506_Tide_prediction_machines_at_the_Liverpool_Tidal_Institute#pf6 Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, March 2020History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1):15-29, DOI:10.5194/hgss-11-15-2020, Philip L. Woodworth<ref/></blockquote>

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T12:47:36Z

Peter:

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==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

<blockquote>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg|thumb|none|500px|"Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Predictor", printed from etched copper plate in the HECS archive]]

[[File:13.2b.jpg|thumb|none|500px|HECS archive inventory nr. 13.2. Copper print plate of Portable Doodson-Légé Predicting Machine]]

Portable Tide Prediction Machine appear in inventories as 'PTPM'<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Inventory-of-tide-prediction-machines-b-Inventory-of-portable-tide-prediction_tbl1_340064506</ref>

[[Category:Instruments]]

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T12:23:27Z

Peter:

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==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

<blockquote>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg|thumb|500px|"Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Predictor", printed from etched copper plate in the HECS archive]]

[[File:13.2b.jpg|thumb|500px|HECS archive inventory nr. 13.2. Copper print plate of Portable Doodson-Légé Predicting Machine]]

[[Category:Instruments]]

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T12:22:51Z

Peter: /* The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine */

==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

<blockquote>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg|thumb|500px|"Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Predictor", printed from etched copper plate in the HECS archive]]

[[File:13.2b.jpg|thumb|500px|HECS archive inventory nr. 13.2. Copper print plate of Portable Doodson-Légé Predicting Machine]]

[[Category:Instruments]]

File:Doodson-Lege-portable.jpg

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Peter:

Inventories

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Peter: /* Bidston Observatory physical archive */

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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! style="width: 192px"|Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|80px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|80px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|80px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|80px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|80px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:15.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:16.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:16.1b.jpg]] ||
|-
| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || [[File:16.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:17.jpg|80px]] [[File:17-2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:18.jpg|80px]] ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
|-
| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
|-
| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
|-
| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
|-
| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
|-
| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
|-
| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
|-
| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
|-
| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

File:15.jpg

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Peter:

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

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Peter:

==The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

<blockquote>''Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.''<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

<blockquote>''The Doodson-Légé tide predicting machine c.1950, probably at Bidston Observatory, Wirral second largest tide predicting machine ever built. This was a development from the earlier Roberts-Légé machine and designed by Arthur Doodson in the late 1940s and manufactured by Légé & Co. around 1948-49. This much bigger machine was “easier” to set up and, after some additional mechanism added a few years later, could calculate the high and low tide levels and their times at once - effectively halving the time it took on the older Roberts-Légé machine. It is estimated that, using the Doodson-Lége machine, it could take almost a month to calculate a year’s worth of tidal levels for a particular port and these were calculated a couple of years in advance. In comparison, it takes the computers used today a fraction of a second to do the same calculation to greater accuracy. Throughout the 1950s though, this machine was state-of-the-art. Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre Installing the machine at the National Oceanographic Centre The 1.8 ton Doodson-Légé and the 1.2 ton Roberts-Légé machines were recently transported to the NOC’s Joseph Proudman Building. The process took 5 ½ hours and required a large team of people. Staff at the NOC were in a jubilant mood watching the installation and cheered as the first machine to be lifted, the Roberts-Légé machine, touched down on the pavement beside the Proudman Building. The Doodson-Légé machine is a particularly symbolic object for them as it was at the heart of their tide prediction work for international ports from c1950 to the early 1960s."''
<ref>https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-machines-restored-and-re-displayed</ref></blockquote>

==The Portable Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine==

[[Category:Instruments]]

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

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Peter:

<blockquote>''Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.''<ref>https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Doodson-Lege.jpg|thumb|500px|The Doodson-Légé Tide Prediction Machine that was removed from Bidston Observatory, craned into building]]

[[Category:Instruments]]

File:Doodson-Lege.jpg

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Peter:

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

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Peter:

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T11:15:19Z

Peter:

<q>Tidal predictions were first carried out in 1924 at Bidston Observatory (University of Liverpool Tidal Institute), initially by hand and then by early tide predicting machines.</q>

https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine

[[Category:Instruments]]

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

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Peter:

https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine

[[Category:Instruments]]

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine

2022-04-17T11:07:02Z

Peter: Created page with "https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine"

https://ntslf.org/about-tides/doodson-machine

Inventories

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Peter: /* Bidston Observatory physical archive */

__TOC__

== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! style="width: 192px"|Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|80px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
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| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|80px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
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| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|80px]] ||
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| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|80px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|80px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|80px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:16.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:16.1b.jpg]] ||
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| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || [[File:16.2.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:17.jpg|80px]] [[File:17-2.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:18.jpg|80px]] ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
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| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
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| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
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| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
|-
| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
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| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
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| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
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| 3.39 || || || || || ||
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| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
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| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
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| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
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| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
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| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
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| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
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| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

Inventories

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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! style="width: 192px"|Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|80px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|80px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|80px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|80px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|80px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|80px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|80px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:16.1.jpg|80px]] [[File:16.1b.jpg]] ||
|-
| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || [[File:16.2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:17.jpg|80px]] [[File:17-2.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:18.jpg|80px]] ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
|-
| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
|-
| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
|-
| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
|-
| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
|-
| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
|-
| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
|-
| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
|-
| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|50px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|50px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|50px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|50px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|50px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:16.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || [[File:16.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:17.jpg|50px]] [[File:17-2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:18.jpg|50px]] ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
|-
| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
|-
| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
|-
| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
|-
| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
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| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
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| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
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| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
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| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
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| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
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| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|50px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|50px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|50px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|50px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|50px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:16.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || [[File:16.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:17.jpg|50px]] [[File:17-2.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
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| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
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| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
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| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
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| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
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| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
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| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
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| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
|-
| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
|-
| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
|-
| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|50px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|50px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|50px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|50px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|50px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:14.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || ||
|-
| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
|-
| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
|-
| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
|-
| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
|-
| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
|-
| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
|-
| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
|-
| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
|-
| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

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== Bidston Observatory physical archive ==

These are objects kept in the Heritage Education Centre Space archive, on site.

{| class="wikitable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Date Added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| A || 1 || || Bidston Anemometer pressure tube recordings 1905 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:1.jpg|80px]] [[File:1b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 2 || || Bidston thermographic records 1906 || Full year original charts from instrument || via Peter Vincent - neighbour (f) worked @ POL || 11/01/17 || [[File:2.jpg|80px]] [[File:2b.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| || 3 || 3.1 || Annual report 1969-70 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.2 || Annual report 1969-70 || Second copy - Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.3 || Annual report 1971-72 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.4 || Annual report 1972-73 || Institute of coastal oceanography and tides || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.5 || Annual report 1973-74 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.6 || Annual report 1975 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:Bid-3.6.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 3.7 || Annual report 1976 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.8 || Annual report 1977 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.9 || Annual report 1978 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.10 || Annual report 1979 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.11 || Annual report 1980 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.12 || Annual report 1981 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.13 || Annual report 1982 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.14 || Annual report 1983 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.15 || Annual report 1984 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.16 || Annual report 1985/86 || NERC Institute for Oceanographic Sciences || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.17 || Annual report 1987/88 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.18 || Annual report 1988/89 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.19 || Annual report 1989/90 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.20 || Annual report 1990/91 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.21 || Annual report 1991/92 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.22 || Annual report 1992/93 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.23 || Annual report 1993/94 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.24 || Annual report 1994/95 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.25 || Annual report 1995/96 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.26 || Annual report 1996/97 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.27 || Annual report 1997/98 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.28 || Annual report 1997/98 || Second copy - NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.29 || Annual report 2002/03 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.30 || Annual report 2003/04 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.31 || Annual report 2006/07 || NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 3.32 || "Annual reports bound, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1958" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:3.32.jpg|50px]] [[File:3.32-b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 4 || || "Annual reports loose, 1940-45 & 1951 to 1956" || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || "Tables high & low water, Jan - Dec 1961" || Southend / Tilbury / R.Albert Dock / London Bridge || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 5.1 || Photocopied image orig. from plate XX - Lighthouse and signals on Bidston Hill 1826 || Cardboard back || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:5.1.jpg|80px]] ||
|-
| B || 5 || || Assortment NERC magazines / info flyers || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 6 || 6.1 || Newspaper clippings related to Bidston Observatory || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.2 || "Corespondance, incl. job application letters & reply to enquiry about Doodson-Lege" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.3 || Infographics on instruments / lighthouse etc. Speeches on the OBS. || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.4 || The polemic obs newspaper ed. Judith Woolf || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 6.5 || Notes technical writing workshop || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:6.5.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 7 || || > Box file of photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 7.1 || foamboard backed reproduced photos || Some foamboard backed || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.1.jpg|40px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.2 || original photos || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.2-Equatorial-telescope.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.4 || roll prints || || || || [[File:7.3b.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 7.3 || Negs / slides || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:7.3.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || 8 || 8.1 || Thames barrage information || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.1.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.2 || Copyright fees || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.2.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.3 || Charges for tidal predictions || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.3.jpg|50px]] [[File:8.3box.jpg|90px]] ||
|-
| || || 8.4 || "copies of operating procedures, how to calculate for tidal prediction & timing/costs" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:8.4.jpg|50px]] ||
|-
| C || 9 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1878 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1879 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:MD-HB1879.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_2.jpg|40px]] [[File:MD-HB1879_3.jpg|40px]] ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1884 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1887 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1895 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1896 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1897 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1898 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1899 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1900 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1901 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1902 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1903 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1904 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1906 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1907 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1908 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1909 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1953 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1954 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1966 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1967 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Tide Tables 1969, with engineers supplement" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 11 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1910 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1911 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1912 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1913 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1914 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1915 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1916 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1917 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1919 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1920 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1921 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1922 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1924 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1925 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1927 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1928 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1929 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1930 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1931 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1932 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1933 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1934 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1936 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1937 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1938 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1939 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1940 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1941 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1964 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1965 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1968 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board 1969 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1880 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1882 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1883 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1885 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1886 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1888 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1889 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1890 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1891 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:0011-holden.jpg|50px]] [[File:0011-holden-b.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1892 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1893 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Holdens Almanac 1894 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 12 || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1975 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1979 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1984 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:12-MD-1984.jpg|50px]] [[File:12-md-collection.jpg|80px]] ||
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| || || || Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Liverpool Tide Tables 1985 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Port of London Authority Handbook Tide Tables & Port Information 1988 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || National Rivers Authority Tide Tables 1990 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Associated British Ports Southampton Tide Tables 1993 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Fred's Tide Guide 1987 || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 13 || 13.1 || Plate - Details of gears for driving component || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.1.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.1b.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.2 || Plate - portable tidal machine || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.2a.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.2b.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.3 || Plate - Doodson-Lege || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.3.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.4 || Plate - village scene (Bidston?) || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.4.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.4b.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.5 || Plate - Bidston hill windmill || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.5.jpg|50px]] [[File:13.5b.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.6 || Plate - flagstaffs || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.6.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.7 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'J' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.7.jpg|50px]] [[File:20220416 115523.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || || 13.8 || "Plate - Doodson-Lege, component " || Marked 'M' || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || [[File:13.8.jpg|50px]] ||
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| || 14 || || "Photocopied documents - texts, scientific papers from the observatory library" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 15 || || "Study of changes inhigh water levels & tides, LPL" || "Liverpool, last 230 yrs, Phil Woodworth POL rpt 56" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || Market & business strategy for tidal computations & stats || "Anne Auslid Tryggeset, Bath Uni MBA 1990" || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || || POLTIPS tidal prediction software info || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| D || 16 || 16.1 || "Original tidal prediction cards, harmonic analyses, visualisations" || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 16.2 || Print outs of visualisations and data || || || || ||
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| || 17 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 18 || || Collected correspondance 1940's - 1950's post war || || Valerie Doodson || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Materials in the Wirral Archive ==

This is a selection of materials relative to Bidston Observatory, stored in the [https://www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/wirral-archives-service Wirral Archives]. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive, kept in the HECS Archives, to be used for research purposes. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Box !! Packet/folder No. !! Item No. !! !! !! !! Provenance !! Date added !! Digitization(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1 || || 1.1 || Box 1 || Timeline notes || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.2 || Box 1 || Annual sunshine 1908-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.3 || Box 1 || Annual rainfall 1867-1983 || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || || 1.4 || Box 1 || Random shot wirral archives || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.5 || || Box 1 || Weather observation note & symbols || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.6 || Box 1 || Anabatic & Katabatic wing explanations || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.7 || Box 1 || "Memorandum, 9. Jan 1989" || One O'clock time gun || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.8 || Box 1 || Marine Committee 12. July 1909 || Seismograph || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.9 || Box 1 || "Cathetometer description, " || "handwritten, early" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.10 || Box 1 || || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.11 || || Box 1 Item 10 || Meteorological and general working instructions || "manual, 1958" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.12 || Box 1 Item 9 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute || Certificates of examination || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.13 || Box 1 Item 8 || "Twenty five years of rainfall in the wirral, 1889" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.14 || || || Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society 1848-9 pg. 15-18 || || Lpool Museum || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.15 || || || "On the Liverpool Obs by John Hartnup, Junior assistant astronomer" || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.16 || || || "Statement on (…) the observatory, mid/late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.17 || || || "Text about mounting the telescope at Bidston, late 1800s" || "Notes, author?" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.18 || Box 1Item 5 || "Letter, September 3. 1869" || John Hartnup || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || || 1.19 || || Folders containing mean temperature recordings 1855-1865 || Outside of packets only || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.20 || || Box 1 Items 1 & 2 || Liverpool observatory and tidal institute 1905-1909 and 1910-1913 || Presented by C.S Drummond 19th Aug 1954 || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.21 || || || Timeline notes || Author unknown || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.22 || || || Tidal institute committee meeting book || "Uni of Lpl, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 1.23 || || || Observatory Library catalogue || "handwritten, partial digitisation only" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| 2 || || 2.1 || || Astronomers Reports displayed || || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.2 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1849" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.3 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1850" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.4 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1851" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.5 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1852" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.6 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1855" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.7 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1856" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.8 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1857" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.9 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1862" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.10 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1863" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.11 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1864" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.12 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1865" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.13 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1869" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.14 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1870" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.15 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1871" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.16 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1873-74" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.17 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1875-78" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.18 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.19 || || || "Report of the Astronomer to the Marine Committee, 1884-88" || "Report, but all tables not digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|-
| || 2.20 || || || Meterological summaries 1867 > || Not all pages digitsed || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
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| || 2.21 || || || "Anemograph recording sheets, 70s-90s" || "Images, but not all sheets digitised" || Original docs belong to Wirral Archives || 02/01/18 || ||
|}

== Archives related to the one o'clock gun ==

Physical objects relative to the one o'clock gun are stored in the [https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ National Museums Liverpool] (NML) archive, collected & donated by Phil Woodworth. Digital snapshots are stored on a hard drive kept in the HECS Archives. Most objects have come from Liverpool University.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Item No. !! !! Item !! Description !! Provenance !! Digitizations(s) !! Comments
|-
| 1.1 || 1.5 || Letters 1939-1946 about Time Gun || || "Phil Woodworth, now in NML" || ||
|-
| 2.2 || 2.3 || Early photos gun & Liverpool || Photocopies of photos || || ||
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| 3 || || Investigation August 1958 || "Notes, handwritten" || || ||
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| 3.2 || || Procedure for testing and firing gun || || || ||
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| 3.3 || 3.6 || Gun & Gauge circuits & Wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.7 || 3.8 || Chadburn – Doodson Tide Recorder schematic || || || ||
|-
| 3.9 || || commutator resistance || || || ||
|-
| 3.1 || || Circuit for galvo box || || || ||
|-
| 3.11 || 3.27 || Sangmo Weston correspondance & invoices || || || ||
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| 3.28 || || Note Volts & Pulse || "Note, handwritten" || || ||
|-
| 3.29 || 3.3 || Uni of LPL dept. of Physics New posts description 1962 & pencil notes on the back || Typewritten document || || ||
|-
| 3.31 || 3.32 || Grant application 1961 || || || ||
|-
| 3.33 || || "Correspondence to Sangemo, Sheffield, 1962 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.34 || || "Correspondence from Sangemo, Sheffield, 1960 RE: relays" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.35 || || "Correspondence to observatory about relays, 1960" || Letters || || ||
|-
| 3.36 || || Newlyn / Shoreham Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || Handwritten Table || || ||
|-
| || 3.37 || "Pencil diagram on back, resistance, 1960" || || || ||
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| 3.38 || || Liverpool / Glasgow Data set coastal to input to tidal prediction machine 1958 || || || ||
|-
| 3.39 || || || || || ||
|-
| 3.4 || 3.41 || Pen Diagram Jan 1960 with notes on back || || || ||
|-
| 3.42 || || Gun & Gauge circuits diagram on squared paper || || || ||
|-
| 3.43 || || Switchboard wiring || || || ||
|-
| 3.44 || || Circuit diagram 1959 || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.45 || || Investigation of Galvo currents || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.46 || || 'Commutator’ (?) Resistances || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.47 || || Circuit for Galvo box || Handwritten in pen || || ||
|-
| 3.48 || || Investigation August 1958 || || || ||
|}

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