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