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