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