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