John Sinclair was a tobacco factory in Newcastle.
Smoking used to be seen as a glamorous pastime before medical professionals began to find links between smoking and serious illnesses.
This sort of ready rubbed tobacco flake would most likely have been used in a pipe rather than cigarettes.
A glass Castor Oil Bottle manufactured by Parkinsons' Ltd, Burnley, Lancashire
A 1947 two-shilling coin, also known as a florin or a two-bob bit.
1948 silver sixpence.
Tinned sponge pudding by Heinz.
Corgi Toy Colman’s Mustard Van
A Horlicks tin, which once would have held 20 tablets priced at 9d (9p).
OXO beef stock cubes – Diamond Jubilee Tin.
This object is a book of crepe fabric samples from the Viyella company.
Badger Light Dinner Ale bottle by the brewery Hall & Woodhouse
One Pence Coin (1975)
Tin containing National Dried Milk produced during the Second World War.
Sixpence from 1953
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