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