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Anne Lister's Travel Case, c.1820s
Horrockses Fashions dress worn by Mavis Bimson, 1948-9
Roman Windowhead, 163AD
Sans Pareil, 1829
The Musical Stones of Skiddaw, 1840
Grace Darling's Coble, c. 1828
Bed Spread, ‘All You Need is Love’, 1969
Tour de France Pennant, 1958
'Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway' by John Dobbin, 1871
Blackpool Tower Circus Poster, 1946
'Nature Painting' by Keith Tyson, 2008
Skelmanthorpe Flag, 1819
'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861
Banner of Oldham Society of Women's Suffrage, c.1912
The Codex Amiatinus, 692AD
The FA Cup, 1896
Pilkington’s Lancastrian Tile and Pottery Company Vase by Jessie Jones, 1907
'Portrait of Edward Carpenter' by Thomas Binney Gibbs, 1911
‘Peace’, Mounted crane and piece of rubble from Hiroshima, with a thousand origami Cranes, 2011
Starvationer, c.1880s
PSS Wingfield Castle, 1934
Price List for Work-Scissors Putting Together, 1817
Blackham’s Hill Hauler Engine, 1826
Blackpool Illuminations Switch-on Switch c.1930s
Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC
Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874
'The Merz Barn Wall' by Kurt Schwitters 1947-48
The Only Viking-age Sock in England c.10th century
'Love You More' by Buzzcocks -Single Record Sleeve, 1978
Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901
Emily Brontë's Writing Desk, c.1830s-1840s
'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947
Cloisonné Vase Lamp, 1880
Pride by David Mellor, 1958
Rugby Ball, 1897
Nissan Bluebird, 1986
Hattersley Loom c.19th century
'The Struggle With the Quarry' by John Hancock, 1851
Coloured Window Glass, 675AD
Astral Navigations- Holyground Records, 1971
J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s
Bessemer Covertor, 1934
Rothbury Shrovetide Football, c.late 19th century
Cotton Queen Dress, 1930
Painted Fabrics Butterfly Costume, c.1920-1930
Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800
Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889
Angel of the North Maquette, 1997
Shepherd's Plaid, c.1950
'Jumping a Homemade Hurdle' by Jack Hulme, c.1945-55
World War II Searchlight, 1940
'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896
Beasley’s D2 type-specimen, c. 240,000,000 years old.
Hyde Chartist Bell, 1848
Johnson's Motorcycle, 1901
Siege Coin, 1648
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal, 1800-1803
Joseph Swan Plaque, 1931
Crucible Furnace c.early 1800s
Hexham Tans, c.early-mid 19th century
Mine Cage from Hodbarrow Mines c. 19th century
Pair of Cotton Cops, 1735-1885
The School for the Blind, Hardman Street, Liverpool, Application Form, 1918
Peppered Moth c.1800s
Memorial Glass of the Hartley Pit Disaster c.1862
Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC’s Victory Pennants, 1937
Architect’s Desk, Gillows of Lancaster, c.1795
St. Christopher Statue c.14th century
The Middleham Jewel c.15th century
Cross shaft fragment of the Wycliffe Cross, c.8th century
'Oldham Panorama' by Squire Knott, 1876
John Walker’s Apothecary Scales c.early 19th century
Liquorice Stamp, 1860-1890
Northumberland Small Pipes c.1805
Iron Age Chariot Burial c.200 BC
North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929
'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8
'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016
Doncaster Gold Cup, 1779
Tram 114, 1901
Piano Belonging to Delius c.19th century
Studio Glass by Keith Cummings, 2010
Myford 3" Type Lathe, 1946
Bloss, the 1st Airdale Terrier, 1887
Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s
Salt's Pattern Book, 1853
Calf Mould, c.8th century
'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902
Ballot Box, 1872
Liverpool Overhead Railway Motor Coach No.3, 1892
Lighthouse Tower, 1871
Bottle of Fluothane TM Anaesthetic, 1951
Turbinia, 1894
'The Old Town Hall and St Hilda’s Church, Middlesbrough' by LS Lowry, 1959
Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885
Billy- Early Locomotive, 1816
The Quintet, 1898-1911
'St. Cuthbert of Farne' by Fenwick Lawson, 1984
'Silver Moonlight' by Atkinson Grimshaw, 1880
Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009