Creative Midlands Heritage

Creative Midlands Heritage

Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Sheffield

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:10 PM PDT

Spent a really interesting day here. Some good photo opportunities. Good cafe too! The Museum is open Sunday to Thursday.


Situated on a man made island that is thought to be at least 900 years old, the museum is not far from the centre of Sheffield..


..and is in a former industrial area that has been redeveloped.


The Bessemer Converter is one of only three remaining world-wide.


The Crossley gas engine


The Bramah's Hydraulic Press, used to flatten maps!


The River Don steam engine






When the museum is open, the engine is in steam at regular times during the day.

Apedale Mining Museum

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 05:25 AM PDT

Discover the lost industrial heritage of the Apedale Valley and the history of the surrounding area when you visit this unique attraction.it is located in North Staffordshire's Apedale Community Country Park in an area that was once an industrial powerhouse.


This is a Drift mine


This is a mine train that transported the miners into the mine




This is all the electrical machinery needed


This machinery used to pull the coal trucks back up the mine


This is one of the coal trucks


This is an old mining cage

Thanks for looking :feedback:

Abbeydale Industrial Village, Sheffield

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Had a quick visit today, as I was passing through. Interesting place, a bit run down at present, but apparently they've just had a large amount of funding and plan to carry out some improvements.

Entry is free at present and it's well worth a visit.

I only took a couple of photos today, but it's definitely worth another visit to get more images.




The tilt-forge with, on the left the water-powered tilt hammers and on the right, a 2-cylinder blowing machine, again water-powered,
which provided the draught necessary to raise the forges to the required temperature.


A horizontal steam engine, currently out of use owing to the boiler needing repair.

The Boulton Paul Aircraft Heritage Project, Wolverhampton

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 09:05 AM PDT

Taking a break from coding, modding, head scratching, hair pulling and generally mucking about with the forum software, here's some pics I took and prepped for uploading a few days ago of some of the lesser known and overlooked things that could well be lost here...











































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Imperial War Museum, North

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:16 AM PDT

Visited here, at Salford Quays.

Very strange building, rather oddly set out. The interior is broken up, with continuity around the museum with modules dedicated to different subjects.

Very interesting, but I would have liked to have seen more items such as the tanks and guns. The Harrier jet is really great, but hung in such a way that it is difficult to get a good look at it.

I can't help feeling that the designers have gone more for a "clever" layout rather than for the satisfaction of the museum visitors, but it's definitely worth a visit. There's an excellent cafe.








This was a window frame from the World Trade Centre, recovered after the 9/11 attack
Posted by Creative Midlands at 8/20/2012 12:09:00 pm

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