Papers, including: commissions of members of the Kirkman family to army regiments 1804, 1860; printed report of meeting of the commissioners for executing the powers of the Manchester and Salford Police Act, with John Kirkman, Senior Constable in the chair 1824; volume of symbolic illustrations of the history of England drawn by Thomas Harrison Kirkman, age 14 at dame school in Lytham 1854; extracts of Thomas Harrison Kirkman's diary relating to 2nd Manchester Volunteer Rifle Regiment 1859-1860.