Sans Pareil, 1829

The FA Cup, 1896

Pilkington’s Lancastrian Tile and Pottery Company Vase by Jessie Jones, 1907

Emily Brontë's Writing Desk, c.1830s-1840s

'The Merz Barn Wall' by Kurt Schwitters 1947-48

Bessemer Covertor, 1934

Bottle of Fluothane TM Anaesthetic, 1951

Starvationer, c.1880s

Skelmanthorpe Flag, 1819

North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929

'Oldham Panorama' by Squire Knott, 1876

Pride by David Mellor, 1958

Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885

'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947

Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s

'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016

Painted Fabrics Butterfly Costume, c.1920-1930

Blackham’s Hill Hauler Engine, 1826

'St. Cuthbert of Farne' by Fenwick Lawson, 1984

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal, 1800-1803

Hattersley Loom c.19th century

Horrockses Fashions dress worn by Mavis Bimson, 1948-9

The Musical Stones of Skiddaw, 1840

Rothbury Shrovetide Football, c.late 19th century

'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861

'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8

Memorial Glass of the Hartley Pit Disaster c.1862

Cross shaft fragment of the Wycliffe Cross, c.8th century

The Middleham Jewel c.15th century

Studio Glass by Keith Cummings, 2010

'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902

Liverpool Overhead Railway Motor Coach No.3, 1892

Rugby Ball, 1897

Banner of Oldham Society of Women's Suffrage, c.1912

Cloisonné Vase Lamp, 1880

Angel of the North Maquette, 1997

Calf Mould, c.8th century

Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC

Coloured Window Glass, 675AD

Blackpool Illuminations Switch-on Switch c.1930s

Tram 114, 1901

J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s

'The Struggle With the Quarry' by John Hancock, 1851

'Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway' by John Dobbin, 1871

Beasley’s D2 type-specimen, c. 240,000,000 years old.

‘Peace’, Mounted crane and piece of rubble from Hiroshima, with a thousand origami Cranes, 2011

Blackpool Tower Circus Poster, 1946

Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009

World War II Searchlight, 1940

Turbinia, 1894

Johnson's Motorcycle, 1901

'Portrait of Edward Carpenter' by Thomas Binney Gibbs, 1911

Pair of Cotton Cops, 1735-1885

Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874

The Only Viking-age Sock in England c.10th century

Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901

'The Old Town Hall and St Hilda’s Church, Middlesbrough' by LS Lowry, 1959

St. Christopher Statue c.14th century

Piano Belonging to Delius c.19th century

The Codex Amiatinus, 692AD

Peppered Moth c.1800s

Siege Coin, 1648

Northumberland Small Pipes c.1805

Cotton Queen Dress, 1930

Bed Spread, ‘All You Need is Love’, 1969

Liquorice Stamp, 1860-1890

Salt's Pattern Book, 1853

'Nature Painting' by Keith Tyson, 2008

Nissan Bluebird, 1986

Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800

Price List for Work-Scissors Putting Together, 1817

Anne Lister's Travel Case, c.1820s

Ballot Box, 1872

Doncaster Gold Cup, 1779

Shepherd's Plaid, c.1950

John Walker’s Apothecary Scales c.early 19th century

Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889

The School for the Blind, Hardman Street, Liverpool, Application Form, 1918

Tour de France Pennant, 1958

'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896