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