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