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In 1942 the Rover company built 5k of tunnels to house a hidden factory of over 26,000 square metres in the sandstone hill at Drakelow, near Kidderminster. Rover was building parts for radial aero engines...
The Old Glengowla lead mine in County Galway, Ireland, operated from 1851 to 1865. Today, an underground trip down to water level shows old equipment and and a variety of minerals, and on the surface can be...
The history of windmills in England from the wooden post mill and the timber smock mill to the stone tower mill, showing windmills in the Midlands, East Anglia and southern England. With wind power gathering...
Surviving buildings indicate that wealth-creating activities in the countryside were as often industrial as as agricultural. This programme looks at industrial and agricultural building in France, Scotland...
Shows the workings of Force Crag mine, the last metal mine in the north of England, which is now closed. Describes the operation of the minerals processing plant at Froce Crag and explains the underlying...
LOCOMOTION (1975, 15 min), produced by Geoffrey Jones, presents a chronology of British railway history and made to commemorate the 150th anniversity of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s...
Video recordings made using the MineCam, a miniature colour video camera designed for lowering into underground cavities such as wells and mineshafts to allow remote exploration. M1: Investigation of a well...
Examines the social effects of the Industrial Revolution on the North West. Images include early spinning machinery such as Hargreaves’ spinnning jenny, Arkwright’s water frame and Crompton’s mule,...
Shows a knitwear manufacturer that has been based in Godalming, Surrey, since 1907, producing fully fashioned knitwear from natural fibres. This recording was made in July 1990 as the firm me due to move...
Recording of the last working steam winding engine in Leicestershire. The Donisthorpe Colliery officially closed at 12 noon on Thursday 12 April 1990 - the day the recording wa made. Shows the steam engine...
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