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