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Industrial History

Quarry Bank Mill And Styal Estate

Quarry Bank, lying in the Bollin Valley, overflows with the atmosphere of the Industrial Revolution. Experience life as a mill worker – a visit to the ...

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Filed Under: Cheshire Tagged With: Gardens, Houses, Industrial History, National Trust, Sandford Award Winners

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Visit the world famous historic ships at the home of the Royal Navy. Go aboard HMS Victory, HMS Warrior 1860 and see the Mary Rose Museum for the best ...

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Filed Under: Hampshire Tagged With: Attraction, Industrial History, Military, Sandford Award Winners

New Lanark

Award winning Visitor Centre. Beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village nestled in the spectacular south Lanarkshire valley in southern ...

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Filed Under: South Lanarkshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Sandford Award Winners, World Heritage Sites

National Wool Museum

Wool was historically the most important and widespread of Wales's industries. The picturesque village of Dre-fach Felindre in the beautiful Teifi ...

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Filed Under: Dyfed Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Slate Museum

Dinorwig Quarry closed in 1969. Today – rather than fashioning wagons and forging rails – the workshops tell a very special story: the story of the ...

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Filed Under: Gwynedd Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Museum Of Wales, National Waterfront Museum

The National Waterfront Museum at Swansea tells the story of industry and innovation in Wales, now and over the last 300 years. Our vast industrial ...

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Filed Under: West Glamorgan Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

The Museum's Collections consist of a range of objects, boats, art, books and archives in support of its mission to promote an understanding of small ...

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Filed Under: Cornwall Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Coal Mining Museum

The Museum opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and much of the collections came to the site in the late 1980s and early 1990s when many pits ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Science And Industry

Located on the historic site of the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station, housed in five listed buildings, MOSI’s amazing galleries and ...

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Filed Under: Lancashire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Kent Life

Kent Life is a 28 acre, premier heritage farm attraction that encompasses a wonderful farmyard with a family of friendly animals ranging from donkeys, ...

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Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Houses, Industrial History, Museums

Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter

When the proprietors of the Smith & Pepper jewellery manufacturing firm decided to retire in 1981 they ceased trading and locked the door, unaware ...

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Filed Under: West Midlands Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Cannock Chase

The Museum of Cannock Chase site was once home to the Valley Colliery; the training pit for thousands of young men beginning their working lives in ...

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Filed Under: Staffordshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Sandford Award Winners

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