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