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