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The objects

 

 

Choose an original historical object from Tees Valley museum collections, to share with your students and care for in your classroom. Each has stories of past lives to tell and the power to spark the imagination. Click on an object for more detail and how to get started with a Literacy Loan.

Ironstone Miner’s Carbide Lamp

Ammonite Fossil

Sperm Whale Tooth

Staghorn Coral

Poss Stick

Victorian ‘Wells’ Hand Lamp

Dorman Long and Co. Girder

Stockton and Darlington Railway Piece

wooden peg doll with articulating arms and legs. No clothes and a white painted face.

Peg Doll

SSI UK Helmet

Tea Brick

North Eastern Railway Hand Lamp

Now choose your writer