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