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Billy- Early Locomotive, 1816
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
'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8
Hyde Chartist Bell, 1848
Peppered Moth c.1800s
Crucible Furnace c.early 1800s
PSS Wingfield Castle, 1934
Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009
'Jumping a Homemade Hurdle' by Jack Hulme, c.1945-55
Turbinia, 1894
'Oldham Panorama' by Squire Knott, 1876
Bessemer Covertor, 1934
Lighthouse Tower, 1871
Salt's Pattern Book, 1853
'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016
Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800
Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885
Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC
Angel of the North Maquette, 1997
J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s
Mine Cage from Hodbarrow Mines c. 19th century
Starvationer, c.1880s
North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929
'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902
Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s
Joseph Swan Plaque, 1931
'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896
Price List for Work-Scissors Putting Together, 1817
Nissan Bluebird, 1986
Hexham Tans, c.early-mid 19th century
Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889
'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861
'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947
Hattersley Loom c.19th century
Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874
The Only Viking-age Sock in England c.10th century
Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901
Tram 114, 1901
Sans Pareil, 1829
Blackham’s Hill Hauler Engine, 1826
Pair of Cotton Cops, 1735-1885
Cotton Queen Dress, 1930
World War II Searchlight, 1940
