Part of the Industrial Heritage Support Project
Hayle Heritage Centre, member of the Industrial Heritage Network Cornwall & Devon, is currently celebrating its reopening for the Summer Season. Everyone is welcome and entry is free!
A triumph of Victorian innovation, a masterpiece of engineering and a cathedral of ironwork – the Crossness Pumping Station, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1865, hosted the inaugural meeting of the Industrial Heritage Network London (IHNL) last Friday. What a phenomenal location for the launch of the new network!
Carshalton Water Tower, West Street, Carshalton, Surrey, is a grade II* listed garden building, built between 1717 and 1720. It contains a suite of rooms which offer both pleasure and practical facilities. Read more
The Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum seeks to employ a Collections Officer to maintain their unique collection based around the Ironstone Mining Industry and to assist in the exciting redevelopment of the museum. Read more
Historic England is looking for a new Marketing Officer. In this role, you will be supporting the Public Engagement and Promotions Manager to carry out marketing and communications tasks for the high profile Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings restoration project, which is funded in large part by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The machinery, the stock, even a pot of tea on the stove – when the Newman Brothers factory closed, almost everything in it was left as if at the end of an ordinary working day. Described as a sort of mercantile Marie Celeste, Coffin Works are the only surviving example of a purpose-built Victorian coffin furniture factory in the UK. All the coffin fittings including the handles, breastplates, ornaments, linings, cushions and the funerary gowns are still there, and visitors are free to touch and interact with many of them.
Land of Oak & Iron, an area rich in industrial, natural and cultural heritage in the North East of England and the name of a local landscape partnership. Land of Oak & Iron are also one of the members of the Industrial Heritage Network North East (IHNNE) who hosted our second network meeting yesterday.
New colleagues, in depth discussions and great insights together with glorious sunshine and delicious pasties – the inaugural meeting of the Industrial Heritage Network Cornwall & Devon (IHNCD) was a great day, and a brilliant start to a new network!
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