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