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General I.A. & Related Organisations
Alcester & District Local History Society - useful gazeteers
All about the Industrial Revolution
All Archaeology: categorized resource directory for everything about archaeology
Archaeological Sites Index - searchable database of more than 85,000 UK archaeological sites
Archaeology Data Service of the University of York
Archaeology On-line Guide - a comprehensive set of resources in German
ArchaeologyExpert - a public interest website focused on general archaeology, archaeological sites, excavations and artefacts
ArchNet- The Archaeology Network Virtual library
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), History & Heritage Center
Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA)
Ball Clay Heritage Society - preserving the heritage of ball clay production in Devon and Dorset.
British Association of Paper Historians: Paper, paper making, paper makers, mills, machinery and watermarks
British Brick Society
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Conservare nv, the European Heritage Forum
Copper Coast Geopark, Ireland
Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Current Archaeology - magazine devoted to British archaeology
Czech Geological Survey
Derbyshire Archaeological Society
English Heritage- conservation of the built environment
European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage (E-FAITH)
European Heritage Web Database and Calendar- being rebuilt 2009 - ?
Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology- includes info on threatened sites
Forest of Dean Local History Society
Geological of Survey Ireland
Geological Survey of Finland
German Society for Clay-Pipe Research
Greater London IA Society (GLIAS)
Greenwich Industrial History Society, London
Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society (formerly Southampton Uni. I.A.Group)
Historical Metallurgy Society
'I Dig Sheffield', an online guide to the archaeology around Sheffield and the Peak District.
Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland
Industrial Heritage of Ireland: Railways, Canals, Mining, Visitor Centres & much more.
Industrial History of Cumbria
Industrial Revolution- Essay topics online at Michigan State University
Institution of Civil Engineers- Historical engineers and engineering.
Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET
Isle of Wight Industrial Archaeology Society
+ Landscape Observatory - details on the existence of industrial landscapes and their diversity, with special impact on those of Catalonia, Spain.
Living with History - The Industrial Heritage of Calderdale (Halifax Today)
Made in Birmingham - Birmingham's Industrial History Website
Mailbase List for discussion of I.A. - Fieldwork, research, individuals and establishments.
Medway Industrial Archaeology Group (MIAG), Chatham, Kent - Brook Pumping Station
Midland Wind and Water Mills Group
Mills Archive Trust - sharing records and history relating to traditional mills and milling
Mills Research Group - a UK group of enthusiasts, who carry out mill research
National Piers Society - promoting the interests of seaside piers.
Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology
Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society
North East Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology Society
North East Industrial Archaeology Panel focuses on Sources of Information for research
but will be expanding.
Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group
Old Bricks - History at your feet. An interesting site covering bricks and brickworks
Onamission - aims to give industrial heritage a purpose. Also covers Electric Horology
Ordnance Survey, British mapmakers
Oxford House Industrial History Society (at Risca Industrial History Museum, South Wales)
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England - Merged with English Heritage 1999
Scottish Paddle Steamers, Maritime, Rail and Scottish local nostalgic video footage
Shropshire Geological Society
SIWE: Stichting voor industrieel en wetenschappelijk erfgoed; a platform for IA in Flanders
Society for Clay Pipe Research
Society for Industrial Archaeology (USA)
Society for Medieval Archaeology
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (includes a Mills section)
+ Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society (SIAS)
Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stourbridge information, including the Stourbridge Lion locomotive
Surrey Industrial History Group
Sussex Mills Group (part of Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society)
The Institution of Engineers Australia - Sydney Division
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
The Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum - covers the history of Ball Clay and Purbeck stone mining.
The remains of Monmouthshire's industrial heritage.
Tomorrows Hisotry - regional local studies site for the North East of England, has a lot of industrial material.
Trevithick Society- helping preserve the Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall
UK Mills - devoted to all forms of Wind and Water powered machinery in the UK
Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Wealden Iron Research Group, covers Sussex, Kent and Surrey Weald.
Wheels of Industry - history of coal mining, iron & steel and cotton in the Wigan area
Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society - an excellent website with a virtual museum and detailed information on local IA
Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society, Worcester
Iron & Steel Industry
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..
Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama
Broseley Local History Society- all about the Shropshire town & home of the Wilkinson Society
Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.
Clydebridge Steel Works plus other Colvilles / British Steel / Corus iron and steel works in Scotland
Corus Group (once British Steel)
DK Recycling: blast furnaces turn waste into useful metal - an excellent firm run to benefit its employees and our environment.
~ East Carlton Countryside Park (includes East Carlton Steel heritage Centre)
+ Friends of Melingriffith water pump
Hawley Collection of edge-tools and cutlery, mainly from Sheffield
Henry Cort: A good factual site about the "father of the Iron Trade", one of the most neglected figures of the Industrial Revolution.
Historical Metallurgy Society
Les roues des forges et les martinets - water powered forges, tilt hammers, pelton wheels etc.
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Mining - Europe (covers mines and iron works in Europe)
Regards de chaussée français anciens / Old French Iron Manhole Tops
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stahlseite - Pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
Wealden Iron Research Group, covers Sussex, Kent and Surrey Weald.
Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers
Mills
Arcadia Mill Site, USA- First & largest early American water-powered industrial complex in Florida.
Arkwright's Cromford Mill, Derbyshire
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..
Balmoral Grist Mill, Nova Scotia, Canada
Belper North Mill Visitors Centre, Belper, Derbyshire. 2nd iron framed mill ever built.
Bembridge Mill, Isle of Wight (owned by the National Trust)
? Boughey's Mill- a water-powered corn mill in Staffordshire
Brindley Water Mill Preservation Trust, Leek, Staffordshire
? Bunbury Water Mill, Bunbury, Cheshire
Bursledon Windmill, Hampshire- the county's only working mill
Buttrum's Wind Mill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
Caudwells Mill, Rowsley, Matlock, Derbyshire - a unique, grade II* listed water pwered roller flour mill
Charlecote Mill, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire
Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust, Staffordshire
Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire
Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.
Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill
Corbridge mill (Anglo-saxon mill excavation)
Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent & other Kent Mills (Crabble Corn Mill Trust)
Crumplehorn Mill and Inn, Polperro, Cornwall
Cymdeithas Melinau Cymru (Welsh Mills Society)
Dakeyne high pressure hydraulic disk engine 1830. Ladygrove Mill, Two Dales, Derbyshire
Daniel's Mill, Bridgnorth, Shropshire - largest waterwheel powered corn mill still working in Britain
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mühlenkunde und Mühlenerhaltung (German only)
Dudley Caving Club (formerly Dudley Cave Rescue Team) and Ruiton Windmill
East Anglia Mills Society
Eling Tide Mill, Totton & Eling, Southampton, Hampshire
Federation des Moulins de France - National mills organisation for France.
Federation Francaise des amis des Moulins (French only)
Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, Worcestershire. Water powered needle scouring & polishing mill.
Gleaston Watermill, Ulverston, Cumbria
Gower Mill and Heritage Centre, South Wales - a 12th century water mill, one of the oldest welsh "Toll" mills.
Greens Mill & Science Centre, Nottingham (former home of mathematical physicist, George Green)
Hampshire mills Group
Haxted Watermill Museum & restaurant - a history
Haxted Watermill Museum, Surrey (Official website) - mill, brasserie and bar
Heage Windmill, Heage, Belper, Derbyshire. Working stone towered 6 sailed windmill.
International Working Stationary Steam Engines: Excellent photographs, information and DVDs on steam powered mills still at work.
Lacey Green Windmill, Buckinghamshire (Smockmill): official website including opening info. & details of history and restoration
Les roues des forges et les martinets - water powered forges, tilt hammers, pelton wheels etc.
Lincolnshire Mills Group
Lincolnshire Windmills - good starting point for mills of this area.
Little Salkeld Watermill, Cumbria - working flour mill
Longbridge Mill, Basingstoke
Mapledurham Watermill, UK
Maud Foster Windmill, tallest working British windmill.
Midland Mills Open - Wind and Water mills open to the public in the Midlands of England.
Midland Wind and Water Mills Group
Mills and Millers of Ireland
Mills Archive Trust - sharing records and history relating to traditional mills and milling
Mills Research Group - a UK group of enthusiasts, who carry out mill research
Molinos de Viento en Reino Unido - large British mills list on a Spanish site
Mosty Lea Water Mill, Stone, Staffordshire. Flint and bone grinding mill for pottery.
Nether Alderley Water Mill, Cheshire (National Trust) - unusual wheel arrangement.
New Hall Water Mill, Wylde Green Road, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Norfolk Windmills Trust
North East Mills Group
North West Mills Group
Outwood Windmill - oldest working windmill in the UK
Path Head Water Mill, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear
Quarry Bank Mill, Cotton Mill and Industrial Museum (National Trust)
Redbournbury Watermill, St.Albans, Hertfordshire. Working water mill
Sadler's Mill, Romsey
Sarehole mill, Birmingham
Sir Richard Arkwright's, Masson Mills, Derbyshire, Working Textile Museum
Skerries Mills, Ireland: 2 restored windmills, restored watermill & old bakery building.
Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM)
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (includes a Mills section)
Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria, UK
Stroudwater Textile Trust & Dunkirk Mill Centre, Nailsworth
Suffolk Mills Group - a Voluntary Association helping to care for Suffolk's old windmills and watermills
Sussex Mills Group (part of Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society)
Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire
T.I.M.S - The International Molinological Society
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
Thwaite Mills water mill museum - a fully-restored working watermill run by Leeds Council.
Town Mill, Lyme Regis - a restored ancient working watermill in Dorset in England
Trader Wind Mill, Sibsey, Boston, Lincolnshire
Two Rivers Paper Mill, Somerset: Working mill 400 years old, still has much of the ancient wooden milling machinery.
UK Mills - devoted to all forms of Wind and Water powered machinery in the UK
Upminster Windmill
Wellesbourne watermill - sadly the mill has now closed (2010).
Wellesbourne Watermill, Warwickshire
Wessex Mills Group - covers the milling heritage of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire
Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
Whitemill water mill, on the River Stour, Shapwick near Wimborne, Dorset
Wicken Windmill, Cambridgeshire. A working Corn 'smock' windmill.
? Willlesborough Windmill, Kent- and other windmill information
Wilton Windmill, near Wilton, Marlborough, Wiltshire. A working windmill
Wind and Water Mills of the UK- devoted to all forms of Wind and Water powered machinery in the U.K.
Windmill World - was Windmills of England
Windmill World - Mark Berry's Windmill site, photographs etc..
Windmills in Eastern Germany (German and English)
Woodbridge Tide Mill, Suffolk. Working tide mill
Worsborough Mill on Historic Barnsley (follow places of interest link)
Wymondham Windmill , Wymondham, Leicestershire.
Mining
Abenteuer Bergbau
AditNow: information sharing resource & discussion forum for the mine exploration community with a searchable database and thousands of photographs.
Alaska's Gold, Alaska, USA
Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Part of Derbyshire Caving Club's site)
Allihies Copper Mine Museum, Co. Cork, Ireland
Apedale Mining Museum (coal), part of Apedale Heritage Centre. Underground trips available
Astley Green Colliery Museum
Atlas Coal Mine, Canada (run by the A.C.M.Historical Society)
Australian Winding Engine Driver Contractor, JDC Pty.- Fascinating info, photos & links
Ball Clay Heritage Society - preserving the heritage of ball clay production in Devon and Dorset.
Baseresult Holdings Ltd. - owners of South Crofty tin mine
Bath Stone Group
Bath Stone Mines around Corsham (Brian Gibbs)
Beamish Open Air Museum - Official Site
Bergwerksmuseum Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German): Includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine
Bersham Colliery Mining Museum
Berwyn Slate Quarry, Llangollen
Big Pit: National Coal Museum
Blue John Mine and Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire
Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall
Carn Brea Mining Society formed in 1975 encourages the study of all aspects of mining, geology and mineralogy in the South West of England.
Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum - Friends web site
Clearwell Caves - Ancient iron mines
Clwyd-Powys Metal Mines Survey
Coal Mining History Resource Centre
Coal Mining in Lunesdale (Hudson History)
Cobalt Mining Legacy - Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Collieries in Northumberland and Durham
Colorado School of Mines
Cornish engines- a superb collection of 3D renderings by Roland Wagener
Cornish Mining Images - superb collection of black and white pictures by Simon Jones
Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Cwm Ciprwth Copper Mine, Wales
Delabole Slate Quarry, Cornwall
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (now also in English)
Dolaucothi Gold Mines Museum (National Trust)
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA - home of the first modern oil well
Dudley Caving Club (formerly Dudley Cave Rescue Team) and Ruiton Windmill
Durham Miner Project - community project researching mining in County Durham and Sunderland during 2003 and early 2004.
Durham Mining Museum
Early Mines Research Group
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines De Saint-Etienne, Rhone-Alpes region, France
Ecton Mine Educational Trust, Ecton Copper Mine, Derbyshire
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Museum, Germany, with virtual tour, Mineral Museum and Asthma clinic
Elsecar Heritage Centre - within the former ironworks & colliery workshops of the Earl Fitzwilliam Mine.
Elsecar Newcomen Engine.
? ERMINA Equipe Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes & Recherches Archéologiques sur les Mines Anciennes &c.
Fife Mining Heritage Society
Florence Ironstone Mine- The last underground iron ore mine in the UK [Now CLOSED]
Folldal Gruver, Norway (Copper Mine and Museum)
Forest of Dean Coal Mining - details of the Gales in Dean, plus a map of coal & ironstone mines
~ Friends of St.Aidan's BE1150 Dragline - looking after "Oddball" the preserved walking dragline
Fundacion Sierra Minera - The Sierra Minera Foundation, Associations and people concerned with mining history around La Union and Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
GAG - Grubenarchäologische Gesellschaft - German Mining history society
Glengowla Silver Lead mine, Co. Galway - Ireland's ONLY Show Mine
Great Orme Ancient Copper Mines museum, Llandudno, Wales
Great Orme Exploration Society- exploring 4000 year old copper mines
Grimes Graves prehistoric flint mines in Norfolk, England
Haig Pit Mining and Colliery Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
Harvey Stone Quarry and Stonemasons (Bath Stone)
~ Hawkstone Park follies and copper mine (In grounds of hotel)
Health & Safety Executive - Mines Inspectorate, UK
Heights of Abraham and Cavern Tours, Matlock bath, Derbyshire
Heroes of Mine - a brief history of Mines Rescue in the UK
Hidden Earth - National (UK) caving conference
History of coal mining in the Illawarra region of NSW Australia
Huskar Pit Memorial (on visit Penistone)
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
Imerys (English China Clay International) - Ceramics section
In memory of Philip Healey - Ilkeston Mines Rescue (includes lots of other information too)
International Souterrain Union - lots of useful links (site in several languages)
Kelly Mine and Kelly Mine Preservation Society, Lustleigh, Devon.
Kernow, Land of Tin: Words and pictures of Cornish mines, including South Crofty
Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum
Kitty to the Cape - Spinx Productions splendid video about Tin & copper mining in West Cornwall (available here)
Kola Superdeep Borehole - 12.26 km
L’Argentière - France (Mining heritage site)
La Mineria de La Union y La Sierra de Cartagena - Mines of La Union & the Sierra Minera of Murcia, Spain (in Spanish)
Laxey Mines Research Group, Isle of Man
Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada
Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway - Britain's highest adhesion railway, built for refined lead
Lewarde Historical Mining Centre, Northern France
LKAB -worlds largest underground iron ore mine & musuem, Kiruna, Northern Sweden
Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Llywernog Silver-Lead mine "A symphony of turning wheels" A mining museum for 27 years.
Magpie mine, Derbyshire
Meadow Colliery Memorial Gardens- to miners of Meadow Pit & Madeley Wood Co. Shropshire
Merioneth Manganese: The manganese mines of the former county of Merioneth, North Wales.
Mine-explorer.co.uk - All about mine exploration, with excellent photographs and useful information.
Miners Advice - Aimed at British coal miners, includes a lot of useful and topical information
Miners Flame Safety Lamps - the wand of Science
Miner's Flame Safety Lamps -site selling Welsh flame safety lamps, with some historical info.
Miner's Lamps - a history (Collectors Page in English and French)
Mines and Caves of North Wales (Chris Cowdery)
Mines and Quarries of North Wales: A gazetteer and bibliography of the mines and quarries of north Wales
Mines of Sardinia - images, information & histories of mines on Sardinia
Mines of Sardinia, the Mining history and archeology of Sardinia
Mines of the Isle of Man
Mining - Europe (covers mines and iron works in Europe)
Mining Artifacts & History - a photo archive (Pages with many large photos - may be slow to download)
Mining district of St Just-in-Penwith, west Cornwall
Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland
Mining History Association (North America)
Mining History Association (now a Yahoo group)
Mining History information Pages (by Peter Claughton at Exeter University)
Mining History Network - has scores of useful addresses
? Mining History Research Group, Bramberg, Austria
Mining Technology - The website for the mining industry
Mining USA- Mining organisations and mining history
Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
NAMHO conference 2012: "Cheshire’s diverse mining history''. 29th June – 1st July, Quarry Bank Mill, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Mines, Cheshire
National Association of Mining History Organisations
National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
National Mining Memorabilia Association (UK)
Naturalization at the Steep Rock Iron Mines minesite, Canada - photos
+ Nenthead Mines Conservation Society - the new society working on the conservation and history of the mines at Nenthead, Cumbria
Nenthead Mines Exploration: Information on the area, details of the mines and trips with many photos.
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Sadly now in administration
Northern Mines Research Society
? Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Collieries (Terry Blythe)
~ Oaks Colliery Disaster Rescuers' Memorial (Oaks Explosion)
Parys Underground Group - Exploring the famous Parys Mountain (Mynydd Trysglwyn) copper mine on Anglesey
Peak District Mining History Society (PDMHS)
Peak District Mining Museum & Temple Mine
Pleasley Colliery
Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall
Politiko Phorades - excavations of a bronze age smetling site, Cyprus
Poynton Collieries (Cheshire), (by David Kitching)
Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway
Rhondda Heritage Park, Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Trehafod, Wales
Rhosydd - a Ffestiniog slate quarry
Rosevale Tin Mine, Zennor: The only underground restoration project of its kind in Cornwall
Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy
Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery
Shoalhaven Mining History, Australia
Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing.
Shropshire Caving and Mining Club (U.K.)
Shropshire Mines Trust- a charity looking after Shropshire's unique mining heritage
Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales
Snailbeach mine, Shropshire
Snibston Discovery Park (based at Snibston Colliery)
South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group (SGMRG)
South Wales Coalfield collection
Staffordshire coal mining
State Mine Heritage Park & Railway, a former New South Wales Coal Mine (Australia)
+ Steenkolenmijn Valkenburg - The Netherlands' last coal mine, now a museum.
Subterranea Britannica- Promoting the study and use of man-made underground space
Subterranean limestone quarries in Holland
Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire
Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales
~ Tar Tunnel, Coalport
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
The Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum - covers the history of Ball Clay and Purbeck stone mining.
Trevithick Trust- preserving Cornwalls Industrial Archaeology
Tribute to the Rhondda Valleys- covers various aspects of the Valleys including the Tonypandy Riots
Troon Exiles: Provides a link for all Cornish men & women now living elsewhere. Has much of mining interest.
Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine
U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration
Welsh Coal Mines, pictures, poems and memories
Welsh Mines Society
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum
Women in the Coal Mining industry
Woodhorn colliery museum and Northumberland Archives
Yorkshire Main Colliery
Zloty Stok Gold Mine and Museum - Poland
Miscellaneous
Archaeology On-line Guide - a comprehensive set of resources in German
Brewery History Society
Broseley Clay Tobacco Pipes (Rex Key)
Broseley Local History Society- all about the Shropshire town & home of the Wilkinson Society
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
Channel Tunnel - history, construction, facts & figures etc..
Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.
Clay Tobacco Pipes - Archaeology & Art
DK Recycling: blast furnaces turn waste into useful metal - an excellent firm run to benefit its employees and our environment.
Fossils of Nova Scotia, a Nova Scotia Museum Site
Gawith and Hogarth Snuff Makers- owners of Helsington Snuff Mill
German Society for Clay-Pipe Research
~ Grand Shaft, Dover (part of the Dover - Western heights site)
Greens Mill & Science Centre, Nottingham (former home of mathematical physicist, George Green)
Hack Green 'Secret' Nuclear Bunker. An excellent museum of the cold war etc. in a declassified site
~ Harvey's wine cellars, Bristol (Travel guide listing)
Hudson History - Lunesdale Mining, Industrial History & Bookshop
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
+ Landscape Observatory - details on the existence of industrial landscapes and their diversity, with special impact on those of Catalonia, Spain.
London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Middlesbrough Transport Bridge - details, events and opening times
National Piers Society - promoting the interests of seaside piers.
National Pipe Archive (NPA) - at the University of Liverpool
Northern Ireland Industrial Heritage
+ Nottingham Caves Survey - surveys and 3D fly-throughs of the sandstone caves under Nottingham.
Old Bricks - History at your feet. An interesting site covering bricks and brickworks
Porth Wen - an abandoned brickworks on Anglesey, Wales
Regards de chaussée français anciens / Old French Iron Manhole Tops
Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing.
Shropshire Geological Society
Snuffs and Snuff Taking - a snuff appreciation site.
Society for Clay Pipe Research
Stiperstones Inn- in the heart of the Shropshire lead mining area
Stock Photography including steam boats, mines, steel works and railways at Foto Search
Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria, UK
Swanage Museum - Purbeck stone and local history museum
Telford Gold: A directory of what's on, local links and businesses
The History and Development of the Lock and Key
Tomorrows Hisotry - regional local studies site for the North East of England, has a lot of industrial material.
Tribute to the Rhondda Valleys- covers various aspects of the Valleys including the Tonypandy Riots
Tyneside Family & Community History- 19th Century Colliery villages
Urban Exploration, Australia- features derelict & abandoned industrial buildings, mines etc.
Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
Walsall attractions
Museums (Industrial)
~ Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester (run by Leicester City Council)
Amberley Museum (Amberley Chalk Pits Museum)
Arbetets museum (Museum of Work), Sweden
Astley Green Colliery Museum
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion
Beamish Open Air Museum - Official Site
Bergwerksmuseum Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German): Includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine
Bersham Colliery Mining Museum
Big Pit: National Coal Museum
Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall
Birmingham City Council: Soho House
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery: Soho House, Jewellery Quarter, Science Museum
Black Country Museum
~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight
Bletchley Park National Codes Centre - site of WW2 British codebreaking & birthplace of modern computing
Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama
British Engineerium
Cambridge Museum of Technology- preserved Victorian Pumping Station and Working Museum
Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum - Friends web site
Clearwell Caves - Ancient iron mines
Cobalt Mining Legacy - Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill
Coors Visitor Centre & Museum of Brewing (formerly The Bass Museum), Burton-on-Trent
Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Enthusiasts website - excellent 3d animations of worlds largest steam pumping engine)
Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Official Musuem website)
De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum)
De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum) - Unofficial guide
Deustches Museum, Munich - (Science & technology- including textiles)
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (now also in English)
Deutsches Salzmuseum (German Salt Museum), Lüneburg
Dock Road Edwardian Pumping Station- Unique Grade 2 listed restored gas fired engines & pumps
Dolaucothi Gold Mines Museum (National Trust)
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA - home of the first modern oil well
Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland (formerly Dalmellington Iron Works) [Sadly Closed]
Durham Mining Museum
~ East Carlton Countryside Park (includes East Carlton Steel heritage Centre)
Ecomuseum and Archives of the Boom Brickworks, Holland
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Museum, Germany, with virtual tour, Mineral Museum and Asthma clinic
Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop - museum includes the Armory site (USA)
Elsecar Heritage Centre - within the former ironworks & colliery workshops of the Earl Fitzwilliam Mine.
Elsecar Newcomen Engine.
Florence Ironstone Mine- The last underground iron ore mine in the UK [Now CLOSED]
Folldal Gruver, Norway (Copper Mine and Museum)
Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, Worcestershire. Water powered needle scouring & polishing mill.
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum - stationary steam engines in steam, 1st Sunday May to November
Foxton Canal Museum
Fundacion Sierra Minera - The Sierra Minera Foundation, Associations and people concerned with mining history around La Union and Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Gower Mill and Heritage Centre, South Wales - a 12th century water mill, one of the oldest welsh "Toll" mills.
Great Orme Ancient Copper Mines museum, Llandudno, Wales
Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy
Haig Pit Mining and Colliery Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
Heights of Abraham and Cavern Tours, Matlock bath, Derbyshire
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire
Henry Ford Museum
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Kennet & Avon Canal Museum
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London
Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum
L’Argentière - France (Mining heritage site)
Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Langton Matravers Museum & Local History Society (formerly the Coachouse Museum, Purbeck stone industry)
Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada
Lewarde Historical Mining Centre, Northern France
Lion Salt Works Trust, Northwich, Cheshire
LKAB -worlds largest underground iron ore mine & musuem, Kiruna, Northern Sweden
London Canal Museum
London Transport Museum
Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
Medway Industrial Archaeology Group (MIAG), Chatham, Kent - Brook Pumping Station
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group
Mildenberg brickworks museum, Germany. Also has old steam engines & railways. (Website in German.)
Milestones- Hampshire's Living History Museum (transport, technology etc.)
Mineral Museums of Finland
~ Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre - tramways around Redruth, Cornwall (part of King Edward Mine)
Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
Museos de la Industria, la Ciencia la Tecnica - Links to industrial museums in Spain (in Spanish, Google translation to English available)
Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Museum of Industrial Archaeology & Textile (MIAT), Ghent, Belgium
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
Museum of the Chemical Industry, Liverpool
National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television)
National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park- restored Colossus computer & much more
National Museum of Flight, Scotland
National Railway Museum, York
Netherlands Textile Museum (Nederlands Textielmuseum), Tilburg, Netherlands
New England Wireless and Steam Museum has an extensive collection of steam engines and wirelesses.
New Lanark, cotton mill village and World Heritage Site
Norfolk Windmills Trust
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Sadly now in administration
Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall
+ Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (plus Gladstone Pottery & Etruria Industrial Museums)
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney- has a working 1784 Boulton & Watt engine
Prestongrange Industrial Museum (has a cornish beam engine - only one left in Scotland)
Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire
RAF Museums - Cosford Aerospace & Hendon
Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Rhondda Heritage Park, Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Trehafod, Wales
Risca Industrial History Museum, South Wales
Rüdersdorf: Limekilns and limestone quarrying; industrial monuments in a parkland setting.
Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland
Salt Museum, Northwich - now known as Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse (housed in the former Northwich workhouse)
Science Museum, London
Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network - some material on New Lanark.
Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing.
Silk Mill, Derby's Museum of Industry and History
Sir Richard Arkwright's, Masson Mills, Derbyshire, Working Textile Museum
Somerset Brick & Tile Museum, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset
Spotswood Pumping Station, Melbourne, Australia
Steam Museum, Ireland - in impressive buildings & grounds near Dublin
+ Steenkolenmijn Valkenburg - The Netherlands' last coal mine, now a museum.
Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
~ Tar Tunnel, Coalport
Tees Cottage Pumping Station Coniscliffe Road, Darlington
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA
The 24 hour Museum - details of UK Museums, Galleries and Heritage sites
The Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum - covers the history of Ball Clay and Purbeck stone mining.
The Science Museum at Wroughton, home to the Science Museum’s large-object store, Library and Archive.
The Wandle Industrial Museum - established in 1983 to preserve the industrial history of the Wandle Valley and its heritage.
ThinkTank, the Birmingham Museum of Science & Discovery - home of the Smethick beam pumping engine c1779
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
Thwaite Mills water mill museum - a fully-restored working watermill run by Leeds Council.
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
Tom Leonard Mining Museum (Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum)
Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine
UK Museums & Galleries A-Z
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Belfast
Virtual Libray Museums Page
Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur
Walsall Leather Museum
Waterworks Museum - Hereford
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum
Willenhall Lock Museum (The Locksmiths House)
Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society - an excellent website with a virtual museum and detailed information on local IA
Woodhorn colliery museum and Northumberland Archives
Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers
Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum, Earby
Zloty Stok Gold Mine and Museum - Poland
Road & Rail Transport
Age of Steam- including the Timothy Hackworth museum, works & loco photographs
Amberley Museum Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway Collection
Association of Railway Museums (USA)
Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group (on the site of Dalmellington Ironworks)
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion
Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall
Birmingham Railway Museum Trust
California State Railway Museum, USA
Churnet Valley Railway, Cheddleton, Staffordshire Moorlands
Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith Railway Web Site
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden
David Bradley's site, with lots of pictures of London Transport trolleybuses.
Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland (formerly Dalmellington Iron Works) [Sadly Closed]
East Anglian Traction Engine Society
Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Foxfield Steam Railway, Staffordshire
Furness Railway Trust
Golden Valley Light Railway, Amber valley, Derbyshire
Great Southern and Western Railway, Eire- pages dedicated to the history & remains of the line
Great Western Society, Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire
Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society - based at Bursledon Brickworks Museum
Huge trolleybus and bus website
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways - all about them and high quality videos for sale
International Working Steam Locomotives
International Working Steam Locomotives: A huge collection of excellent photographs and information from all over the world
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Keighly & Worth Valley Railway
Lancashire Traction Engine Club
Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway - Britain's highest adhesion railway, built for refined lead
Light Railway Research Society of Australia
London Transport Museum
MailRail - London's Post Office Railway- 23 miles of underground 2 foot gauge line
Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (support organisation for the North Norfolk Railway)
Miles Canyon Historical Railway Society, Alaska
Milestones- Hampshire's Living History Museum (transport, technology etc.)
~ Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre - tramways around Redruth, Cornwall (part of King Edward Mine)
National Railway Museum, York
National Traction Engine Trust
Orange Empire Railway Museum, USA
Rails North - railways around the cirumpolar North
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Railway Friends Society, Belgrade
Railway Heritage of Thessaloniki, Greece. 1871-2001
Railway Preservation News, USA
Railways & Canals of Telford, Shropshire
Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway
Road Locomotive Society
Road Roller Association
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway - the world's smallest public railway
Scott's Railroad Archaeology- Boston & Maine Rail Road, USA
Severn Valley Railway, Bridgnorth
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust
South Tynedale Railway- narrow gauge railway between Alston and Kirkhaugh, Cumbria
Stanley Steamers
State Mine Heritage Park & Railway, a former New South Wales Coal Mine (Australia)
Steam Car Club of Great Britain
Steam Up - website for steam rallies and all things traction engine.
Steamlocomotive.com
Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire
Talyllyn Railway - an historic Welsh narrow-gauge steam railway
+ Tanfield Railway history - "The world’s oldest railway"
Telford Steam Railway
Ten and a Quarter Railway Society
The Cumbria Omnibus Group
The Midland Railway, Butterley, Derbyshire
Trams old & new
Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
UK Heritage Railways - a guide to all preserved lines, museums & societies
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Belfast
University of York- Institute for Railway Studies and Transport History
Watercress Line, Hampshire
Welsh Highland Railway
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Society
West of England Steam Engine Society
White Pass & Yukon Railroad, Alaska
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum
Workington Transport Heritage Trust - railways & buses
Ships & Ports
? British Ships - including Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine - The site has gone, but may return !
Consuta Trust - preserving the Steam launch Consuta
Finnish Steam Yacht Association (Suomen Höyrypursiseura ry)
Fulton Steamboat Foundation - planning to build a replica of Robert Fulton's "Clermont".
German Steamboat Society
Inboard marine engine research and information. Collectors, restorers, and users.
International Steamboat Society
Maid of the Loch steam ship - paddle steamer on Loch Lomond
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Migges Glaser's Dampfboote - DS LAGAVULIN
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Paddlesteamer Patria
Pleasure Steamers Waverley and Balmoral
Scottish Paddle Steamers, Maritime, Rail and Scottish local nostalgic video footage
? SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat site
? SS Engelbrekts, Swedish Steam boat site
SS Shieldhall - preserved steam ship at Southampton
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Steam Boat Association (Great Britain)
Steam Boat Association of Australia
Steam Boat Association of Sweden
Steam narrow boat President
Swedish East Indiaman "Götheborg", a magnificent oak & pine 18th century sailing ship replica
Vereniging Stoomvaart - Dutch Steam Society
Windermere Steamboat Museum
Sites (Industrial)
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
Alcester & District Local History Society - useful gazeteers
Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Part of Derbyshire Caving Club's site)
Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Arcadia Mill Site, USA- First & largest early American water-powered industrial complex in Florida.
Atlas Coal Mine, Canada (run by the A.C.M.Historical Society)
Bath Stone Mines around Corsham (Brian Gibbs)
Berwyn Slate Quarry, Llangollen
~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight
? Boughey's Mill- a water-powered corn mill in Staffordshire
Burlesdon Brickworks, Hampshire
Burton 2000 - The webpage of Burton upon Trent (Brewing etc..)
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Cumbria- Industrial History Sites
Cwm Ciprwth Copper Mine, Wales
Das Ruhrgebiet - industrial pictures of the Ruhr covering the past 50 years
Delabole Slate Quarry, Cornwall
Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop - museum includes the Armory site (USA)
+ Friends of Melingriffith water pump
Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy
Haig Pit Mining and Colliery Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
Imerys (English China Clay International) - Ceramics section
Kelly Mine and Kelly Mine Preservation Society, Lustleigh, Devon.
+ Landscape Observatory - details on the existence of industrial landscapes and their diversity, with special impact on those of Catalonia, Spain.
Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)
Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Lower Kem Mill Bleaching & Printing Works, Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire
Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Sadly now in administration
Palmerston North Electric Power Station, New Zealand - a 1924 power station (web site last updated 2007 !)
Pilchard Works, Newlyn - Britain's last salt pilchard factory
Politiko Phorades - excavations of a bronze age smetling site, Cyprus
Porth Wen - an abandoned brickworks on Anglesey, Wales
Prestongrange Industrial Museum (has a cornish beam engine - only one left in Scotland)
Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway
Route of Industrial Heritage at the Ruhr, 400km with over 500 places to visit
Salts Mill, Bradford - fun exploration!
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Sitios de Interes. Mapas de Patrimonio Industrial - Maps of industrial heritage sites in Spain (in Spanish, Google translation to English available)
Skerries Mills, Ireland: 2 restored windmills, restored watermill & old bakery building.
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
Urban Exploration, Australia- features derelict & abandoned industrial buildings, mines etc.
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
? Willlesborough Windmill, Kent- and other windmill information
Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers
Specialists
A M Productions Inc- Videos for mining technologists
Abandoned Places - Photographs mostly of Belgian factories, stylishly presented
Ambra Books - local, industrial, mining and social
Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site
Broseley Clay Tobacco Pipes (Rex Key)
Creative Commons helps you publish your video online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work
Dubtown - excellent artistic photographs and video of industry
Forgotten Places - Photos of Belgian industrial remains
Friched.net - French industry in photographs
Horology, including Clocktrust and the largest international historic electric horological group.
Hudson History - Lunesdale Mining, Industrial History & Bookshop
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
Industrial Vibes - Photos of industrial remains in Upper Silesia, Poland
Ironinspired.com - combining the designs of 19th century cast iron, with a 21st century style.
Kate Boats - hire fleet and boat builders
KwMap.com - browse the Keyword Map of iarecordings.org
Lab-Wan - Photos of Belgian industrial remains
Landscape-guides - an e-book store specialising in walking and cycling guides, particularly in north Wales
Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds (formerly Tetley's Brewery Wharf Museum)
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales)
London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection
Lost & Least - Well presented photos of Italian abandoned industry
Mills Archive Trust - sharing records and history relating to traditional mills and milling
Mills Research Group - a UK group of enthusiasts, who carry out mill research
Miners Advice - Aimed at British coal miners, includes a lot of useful and topical information
Miners Flame Safety Lamps - the wand of Science
Miner's Flame Safety Lamps -site selling Welsh flame safety lamps, with some historical info.
Miner's Lamps - a history (Collectors Page in English and French)
Moore Books - Industrial history and mining books at attractive prices
National Mining Memorabilia Association (UK)
National Pipe Archive (NPA) - at the University of Liverpool
Nautical Books- specialists in new and out of print nautical books
+ Nottingham Caves Survey - surveys and 3D fly-throughs of the sandstone caves under Nottingham.
Rob Preston Model Locomotives: Working Steam Miniature Replicas of Neath Abbey Iron Company locos
Robert Forsythe Industrial Heritage consultant- Models, timetables, postcards, books, tickets &c.
SharingHistory.com put hard-to-find public-domain books & maps on CD-ROM. Includes rare mining machinery textbooks
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stahlseite - Pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry
Still Alive - Photographs of abandoned factories in Italy
Stock Images at Can Stock Photo
Stock Photography including steam boats, mines, steel works and railways at Foto Search
Stuart Turner Models
The Book House - Second hand and antiquarian books about industry and transport
Thomas Telford - the knowledge business of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
UK Mills - devoted to all forms of Wind and Water powered machinery in the UK
Unsigned Melody: A free web site for unsigned bands, singers and songwriters - Get your music heard!
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
Steam Power
~ Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester (run by Leicester City Council)
Bratch Pumping Station, Bratch Lane, Wombourne, South Staffordshire
~ Brede Steam Engine Society (Open day details from Southern Water)
Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site
British Engineerium
Cambridge Museum of Technology- preserved Victorian Pumping Station and Working Museum
Claymills Pumping Engine Trust
Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill
Crofton Beam Engines (Official site)
Crossness pumping station, London - a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building
Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Enthusiasts website - excellent 3d animations of worlds largest steam pumping engine)
Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Official Musuem website)
Dakeyne high pressure hydraulic disk engine 1830. Ladygrove Mill, Two Dales, Derbyshire
Doxford Engine Friends Association: history and development of the Doxford Marine Diesel Engine.
? Early steam engines 1690-1840 A splendid site about history of steam engines with animations! Now sadly lost !! (2010)
~ Eastney Pumping Station (very simple website)
Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale - the only complete working steam cotton-mill engine & boilers.
Elsecar Newcomen Engine.
Finnish Steam Yacht Association (Suomen Höyrypursiseura ry)
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum - stationary steam engines in steam, 1st Sunday May to November
Fulton Steamboat Foundation - planning to build a replica of Robert Fulton's "Clermont".
German Steamboat Society
Gula Java DVDs: Java's historic steam powered sugar mills
History and Growth of the Steam Engine- The 1878 book by Robert H. Thurston on-line!
Hollycombe Steam Collection, Hampshire - unique collection of working steam powered attractions
International Stationary Steam Engine Society
International Steamboat Society
International Working Stationary Steam Engines
International Working Stationary Steam Engines: Excellent photographs, information and DVDs on steam powered mills still at work.
International Working Steam Locomotives
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London
Lancashire Traction Engine Club
Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)
Maid of the Loch steam ship - paddle steamer on Loch Lomond
Markham Grange Steam Museum - Brodsworth near Doncaster. Regular steamings of engines.
Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group
Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)
Migges Glaser's Dampfboote - DS LAGAVULIN
Mill Meece Pumping Station Preservation Trust, Staffordshire
National Traction Engine Trust
New England Wireless and Steam Museum has an extensive collection of steam engines and wirelesses.
North West Steam Society
Northern Mill Engine Society Collection - includes a 'virtual tour'
Old Engine House - Steam engine collection, including Riches & Watts
Old Engine House, Norfolk - preserved engines including Riches & Watts
Olean - Java's historic steam powered sugar mill
Palmerston North Electric Power Station, New Zealand - a 1924 power station (web site last updated 2007 !)
Papplewick Pumping Station- the site and the website both worth a visit!
Pleasure Steamers Waverley and Balmoral
Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia - contains a 1785 Boulton & Watt Engine, still in steam.
Road Locomotive Society
Road Roller Association
Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland
Sandfields Pumping Station, South Staffs
? SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat site
? SS Engelbrekts, Swedish Steam boat site
SS Shieldhall - preserved steam ship at Southampton
Stanley Steamers
Steam Boat Association (Great Britain)
Steam Boat Association of Australia
Steam Boat Association of Sweden
Steam Car Club of Great Britain
Steam Museum, Ireland - in impressive buildings & grounds near Dublin
Steam narrow boat President
Steam Up - website for steam rallies and all things traction engine.
Tees Cottage Pumping Station Coniscliffe Road, Darlington
Temples of Steam DVDs: Burma's historic steam powered rice mills
Twyford Waterworks Trust, Hants, steam powered waterworks/pumping station
Vereniging Stoomvaart - Dutch Steam Society
Waterworks Museum - Hereford
West of England Steam Engine Society
Westonzoyland Pumping Station- museum of Steam power and land drainage in Somerset
Windermere Steamboat Museum
Textile Industry
Arkwright's Cromford Mill, Derbyshire
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire
Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum of Industrial Archaeology & Textile (MIAT), Ghent, Belgium
Netherlands Textile Museum (Nederlands Textielmuseum), Tilburg, Netherlands
New Lanark, cotton mill village and World Heritage Site
Quarry Bank Mill, Cotton Mill and Industrial Museum (National Trust)
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network - some material on New Lanark.
Stroudwater Textile Trust & Dunkirk Mill Centre, Nailsworth
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
Women in the Textile industry
University I.A.
American Heritage Centre, University of Wyoming - (inc: economic geology, petroleum & mining)
Birmingham University & the Ironbridge Institute
Bristol University Historical Archaeology of the Modern World MA
Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall
Cleveland State University Library's Special Collections - industrial history of Northeast Ohio
Colorado School of Mines
Freiberg University - Institute for History of Science and Technology (Germany), including I.A.
IA notes, links, etc., for an IA Course at the Free University of Brussels. [Mainly in Dutch]
Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University, USA
Leicester University, Archaeology & Ancient History (have stopped running their I.A. course!)
Michigan Technological University Industrial Archaeology Courses
University of York- Institute for Railway Studies and Transport History
Waterways
Ashton Canal and Peak Forest Canal (Canal Junction Cruising Guide)
Ashton Canal, Macclesfield Canal and Peak Forest Canal
Birmingham Canal Navigation Society
Boat Museum Ellesmere Port - part of the National Waterways Museum
British Waterways
~ Canal Blacksmith's Shop, Hartshill- small museum in workshop by Coventry Canal.
Canal Museum Stoke Bruerne - part of the National Waterways Museum
Canalbarge.co.uk: Unused timeshare weeks on narrowboats for hire at Barton turns Marina
Chesterfield Canal Partnership. Includes detailed plans for the restoration of the Chesterfield canal and the archaeology of the route and surroundings.
Chesterfield Canal Trust. Includes links to projects such as the constuction of the first wooden Cuckoo Boat to be built for 80 years.
Dudley Canal Trust - preserving the canals & tunnels of Dudley
~ Ethnoscope Film & Video - "Along the Erie Canal", USA (video tape)
Foxton Canal Museum
Foxton Inclined Plane Trust (FIPT)
+ Friends of Melingriffith water pump
George Pearson's Canal site- a comprehensive guide to British canals and information on the net
Gloucester waterways Museum - part of the National Waterays Museum
Grand Western Horseboat Company
Inland Waterways Association
~ Inland Waterways Heritage Network - a loose association of UK waterways museums
Jim Shead's Waterways Information - lots of details on UK waterways
Kate Boats - hire fleet and boat builders
Kennet & Avon Canal Museum
Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
Lichfield & Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust- Official Site
London Canal Museum
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Macclesfield Canal
Macclesfield Canal Society
Narrowboat-holidays.org.uk: Unused timeshare weeks on narrowboats for hire
National Waterways Museum - comprises 3 main museums in Britain.
Northwich Water Heritage Trail- guided walk featuring the IA of the Weaver
Navigation.
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Railways & Canals of Telford, Shropshire
South pennine & Ashton under Lyne canals. Includes Rochdale & Huddersfield Narrow.
Steam narrow boat President
The Horseboating Society
The Waterways Recovery Group
Waterways Directory. A comprehensive search engine and directory dedicated to the Inland Waterways.
Waterways Trust, includes catalogue of WW Museums collections
Wey & Arun Canal Trust
Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole Docks, formerly 'The Sobriety Project'
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