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