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The Only Viking-age Sock in England c.10th century
'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal, 1800-1803
Doncaster Gold Cup, 1779
'The Old Town Hall and St Hilda’s Church, Middlesbrough' by LS Lowry, 1959
Peppered Moth c.1800s
Pair of Cotton Cops, 1735-1885
Rothbury Shrovetide Football, c.late 19th century
St. Christopher Statue c.14th century
Myford 3" Type Lathe, 1946
The Quintet, 1898-1911
'Love You More' by Buzzcocks -Single Record Sleeve, 1978
Blackpool Tower Circus Poster, 1946
Sans Pareil, 1829
Blackham’s Hill Hauler Engine, 1826
'Silver Moonlight' by Atkinson Grimshaw, 1880
Pilkington’s Lancastrian Tile and Pottery Company Vase by Jessie Jones, 1907
Architect’s Desk, Gillows of Lancaster, c.1795
North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929
'The Struggle With the Quarry' by John Hancock, 1851
Johnson's Motorcycle, 1901
Anne Lister's Travel Case, c.1820s
Billy- Early Locomotive, 1816
World War II Searchlight, 1940
Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874
The School for the Blind, Hardman Street, Liverpool, Application Form, 1918
Salt's Pattern Book, 1853
Cloisonné Vase Lamp, 1880
Liquorice Stamp, 1860-1890
The Musical Stones of Skiddaw, 1840
J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s
'Nature Painting' by Keith Tyson, 2008
Hattersley Loom c.19th century
Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s
Painted Fabrics Butterfly Costume, c.1920-1930
'Jumping a Homemade Hurdle' by Jack Hulme, c.1945-55
The FA Cup, 1896
Tram 114, 1901
Astral Navigations- Holyground Records, 1971
Memorial Glass of the Hartley Pit Disaster c.1862
'Portrait of Edward Carpenter' by Thomas Binney Gibbs, 1911
Cotton Queen Dress, 1930
Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800
Shepherd's Plaid, c.1950
'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861
Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885
Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC
'Oldham Panorama' by Squire Knott, 1876
The Middleham Jewel c.15th century
Cross shaft fragment of the Wycliffe Cross, c.8th century
Lighthouse Tower, 1871
Iron Age Chariot Burial c.200 BC
Blackpool Illuminations Switch-on Switch c.1930s
Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009
'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896
Ballot Box, 1872
Emily Brontë's Writing Desk, c.1830s-1840s
Liverpool Overhead Railway Motor Coach No.3, 1892
Piano Belonging to Delius c.19th century
PSS Wingfield Castle, 1934
Grace Darling's Coble, c. 1828
John Walker’s Apothecary Scales c.early 19th century
Calf Mould, c.8th century
Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC’s Victory Pennants, 1937
'Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway' by John Dobbin, 1871
Mine Cage from Hodbarrow Mines c. 19th century
Bed Spread, ‘All You Need is Love’, 1969
Banner of Oldham Society of Women's Suffrage, c.1912
Beasley’s D2 type-specimen, c. 240,000,000 years old.
Roman Windowhead, 163AD
'The Merz Barn Wall' by Kurt Schwitters 1947-48
Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889
Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901
Price List for Work-Scissors Putting Together, 1817
Siege Coin, 1648
Bessemer Covertor, 1934
Horrockses Fashions dress worn by Mavis Bimson, 1948-9
Coloured Window Glass, 675AD
‘Peace’, Mounted crane and piece of rubble from Hiroshima, with a thousand origami Cranes, 2011
'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947
Nissan Bluebird, 1986
Starvationer, c.1880s
'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902
Turbinia, 1894
Joseph Swan Plaque, 1931
Angel of the North Maquette, 1997
'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016
Crucible Furnace c.early 1800s
Rugby Ball, 1897
Tour de France Pennant, 1958
Pride by David Mellor, 1958
The Codex Amiatinus, 692AD
Studio Glass by Keith Cummings, 2010
Northumberland Small Pipes c.1805
Skelmanthorpe Flag, 1819
Bottle of Fluothane TM Anaesthetic, 1951
'St. Cuthbert of Farne' by Fenwick Lawson, 1984
Hyde Chartist Bell, 1848
Hexham Tans, c.early-mid 19th century
Bloss, the 1st Airdale Terrier, 1887
