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