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