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'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947
Pair of Cotton Cops, 1735-1885
North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929
Cotton Queen Dress, 1930
'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896
PSS Wingfield Castle, 1934
Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885
Hexham Tans, c.early-mid 19th century
'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8
Billy- Early Locomotive, 1816
Bessemer Covertor, 1934
Hyde Chartist Bell, 1848
Hattersley Loom c.19th century
'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016
Peppered Moth c.1800s
Lighthouse Tower, 1871
Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009
Salt's Pattern Book, 1853
Tram 114, 1901
'Oldham Panorama' by Squire Knott, 1876
Mine Cage from Hodbarrow Mines c. 19th century
Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901
'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861
Nissan Bluebird, 1986
Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC
World War II Searchlight, 1940
'Jumping a Homemade Hurdle' by Jack Hulme, c.1945-55
Starvationer, c.1880s
Joseph Swan Plaque, 1931
Blackham’s Hill Hauler Engine, 1826
The Only Viking-age Sock in England c.10th century
Sans Pareil, 1829
Crucible Furnace c.early 1800s
Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874
Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s
Horrockses Fashions dress worn by Mavis Bimson, 1948-9
Liverpool Overhead Railway Motor Coach No.3, 1892
Memorial Glass of the Hartley Pit Disaster c.1862
Angel of the North Maquette, 1997
J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s
Price List for Work-Scissors Putting Together, 1817
Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800
'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902
Turbinia, 1894
Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889
