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