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