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