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Today's @ARAScot #Archve30 theme is #ArchiveFashion. Here are some rather elaborate and slightly impractical designs inspired by hot air balloons. From Histoire des ballons ... 1887 https://t.co/SLxNpKBkbM

The first of the Birkenhead docks opened #OnThisDay 1847. Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton was opened on the same day, according to @BirkenheadPark1 the first municipal funded park in the world. Images from Illustrated London News.

April is #Archive30 month with @ARAScot . The theme for day 1 is #YourArchive. We have membership records for all our members as well as maps, drawings, photographs and reports relating to the work of ICE and our members.

John Rennie's Southwark Bridge opened #OnThisDay 1819. Originally called Queen Street bridge, the centre span was said to be the longest cast iron span ever built, at 240ft (73m). It was replaced in 1921. More Rennie projects at https://t.co/ToYLb5AGKW

William Mackenzie, railway contractor, was born #onthisday 1794. He built many continental railway lines particularly in France with Thomas Brassey and Joseph Locke. The Mackenzie collection of diaries, correspondence and drawings is one of our largest collections .

Sir William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2

Sir Robert Rawlinson was born #onthisday 1810. #Liverpool docks and waterworks, Crimea Sanitary Commission #sanitation Download his ICE obituary free at https://t.co/phLEFp0Tdv

Sir William Fairbairn was born #onthisday 1789. Designed the rectangular tube for Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge. Also Water Street Bridge on the Liverpool & Manchester railway with Eaton Hodgkinson.

ICE Secretary Charles Manby was born #onthisday 1804. He represented Robert Stephenson and Company in London and was a member of the International Scientific Commission on the Suez Canal. Free obituary at https://t.co/ZPwrVDI4yk

The Bell Rock lighthouse was first lit #onthisday 1811. The design was based on Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse but who designed the lighthouse - Robert Stevenson or John Rennie? Find out more https://t.co/9Dr6CfWbbn