I.A.Recordings
Industrial Archaeology

Video Subject Index

The main subjects in our industrial archaeology video archive are listed below under alphabetical subject headings.
The only material listed here is original IAR video footage recorded between 1978 and the present.
Where they exist, Productions are listed first, followed by Compilations with their number in brackets.
Items in italics are in the archive, but have not yet been released. Some may only comprise a few incidental shots.

Bricks, Tiles & Pipes

HAND MADE BRICKS (Oak Farm brickworks working)
*Brick clamp experiment at Maw's Craft Centre, Shropshire
*Claughton Manor brickworks, Lancaster: aerial ropeway (working)
Doseley pipe works, Telford
Kings Mills brick works, Abenbury
Lawton Grange brickworks
Lightmoor Refractories brick works, Telford
Millburgh tile works, Jackfield (disused)
Preston Grange Hoffmann brickkiln, Scotland
Smitheman/Southorn clay pipe works, Broseley (disused)
*Stewartby brick works & clay quarry
*Whittlesey brick works & clay quarry

Civil Engineering

TELFORD'S LAST CANAL (Shropshire Union canals)
THE NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989
Other Waterways
Channel tunnel
Carrickarede footbridge, Co. Antrim
Clifton suspension bridge
Conway bridge
Kincardine swing bridge, Scotland
*The Iron Bridge, Ironbridge (including restoration work)
Menai suspension bridge
Saltash bridge, Devon/Cornwall
Severn suspension bridges
Humber bridge

Docks, Ports & Harbours

Aberystwyth, Wales
Antwerp, Belgium
Avonmouth docks
Birkenhead docks
Bristol docks (Including the International Festival of the Sea)
Bullo Pill dock
Cardiff docks
Charlestown china clay dock
Cobh docks, Co. Cork
Dublin port, Ireland
Dun Laoghaire port, Ireland
Falmouth docks
*Gloucester docks
*Goole docks
Grangemouth docks
Grimsby dock
Harrington harbour
Holyhead harbour
Hull docks
Immingham dock
Lydney dock
Maryport dock
Par harbour (aerial)
Portishead docks
Sharpness docks
Southampton port
Teignmouth clay docks
*Underfall yard, Bristol Docks
Waterford harbour, Ireland
Whitehaven harbour
Workington harbour
Zebrugge (Bruges) docks, Belgium

Iron & Steel

HAND ROLLING OF STEEL (John Bradley rolling mill in use)
August Thyssen Hütte ironworks, Bruckhausen, Germany
Backbarrow iron works & blast furnace, Cumbria (disused)
*Bickley's foundry, Walsall (working)
Coalbrookdale, various views
Consett steel works derelict site
Creevelea blast furnace, Co. Leitrim
*DK Recycling, Duisberg, Germany (a long tour of the works in 2002 with the Managing Director)
Duddon charcoal blast furnace,Cumbria (disused)
Dyfi charcoal blast furnace, Wales
'Gasometer', Oberhausen, Germany: Largest in world, used for blast furnace gas, then coal gas
Hüttenwerke Krupp-Mannesmann blast furnaces, Hüttenheim, Germany
*Landschaftpark Duisberg-Nord, Germany: preserved Thyssen blast furnace, gasholder, ore bunkers
Lilleshall Co. Lodge furnaces, Telford (disused)
Linley/Wren's Nest Forge, Apley, Shropshire (disused)
Madeley Court ironworks, Telford (disused)
Maddock's ironworks cupola furnace, Telford (disused)
Morley Park Ironworks blast furnaces, Heage (disused)
Newtown Crommelin blast furnace, Ireland
Rockley Abbey charcoal blast furnace, Worsbrough (disused)
Skinningrove rolling mill, Cleveland
Thyssen Hüttenbetrieb Meiderich AG, Duisberg, Germany: preserved blast furnace etc.
Thyssen-Krupp Stahl Bruckhausen steelworks, Germany
Wilkinson monument, Cumbria

Lock & Key Making

All works are seen in use
HAND MADE PADLOCKS (R.J.Locks)
(C4) H.E.Fletcher, Cabinet Lock Makers
(C5) Arthur Hough & Sons, Key makers
(C6) R.J.Locks, Lock makers & Repairers
(C7b) John Mattox & Sons, key makers
(C7a) Charles Starkey, Ship Lock Maker
(C7c) A. & E. Squire, Cabinet Lock Makers
(C7d) Locksmiths
(C27) Locks, Keys & Files
(C33) Willenhall Lock Museum and Other Works (West End Locks, Lock Museum & Lock works exteriors)

Metal Working

HAND MADE HAMES (Walsall Lock & Cart Gear Ltd. in use)
(C3) The Hame Maker (Walsall Lock & Cart Gear Ltd. in use)
(C21) Wilf Davies, File Maker (The Lock Museum working)
Chirk Castle ornamental gates
Churchill Forge
*Crown Nails, Wolverhampton
*Edene Engineering, Oakengates
Perran foundry, Perran Wharf, Cornwall
*Solid Stamping Co. drop forgers, Cradley Heath (working)
*Solid Swivel Co., ship swivel makers, Cradley Heath (working)
*Smith Edge Tools, sledgehammer makers

Mills

(C24) Helsington Snuff Mill (working)
(C2) Pont-nedd-vechan Gunpowder Works (disused)
(C30) Charlecote water powered flour mill (working)
*Argo gold mill, Idaho Springs, USA
*Royal Gunpowder Mills, Ballincollig Co. Cork
British Colour & Mining Ltd, Forest of Dean
Eling tidal flour mill, Hampshire
*Cavendish fluorspar mill, Derbyshire
Etruria bone & flint mill, Stoke on Trent (disused)
Healings flour mill, Tewkesbury
Kennal Vale gunpowder mills, Cornwall
Low Wood gunpowder works, Cumbria (disused)
*Parkins fluorspar mill, Derbyshire
Ponsanooth mills, Cornwall
*Scierie-Museé Vincent sawmill & museum, St-Croix-Aux-Mines, France
Trevor Over mill, Plas yn Pentre

MineCam

Benthall Edge level
Bogg shaft, Nenthead
Brewery shaft, Nenthead
Cherry Tree Hill: Coalbrookdale furnace pool culvert inspection shaft
Clive well shaft, Clive
Hook a Gate collapse, Shropshire
Kinver rock house well, Kinver
Ladywell mine, Spring Vein shaft, Shropshire
*Leaton Knolls icehouse (disused)
Longholehead Whimsey shaft, Nenthead
Lord's Hill engine shaft, Snailbeach
Lovelady Shield shaft, Nenthead
Meretown Grange well
Middle Whimsey shaft, Nenthead
Nenthead: 4 unnamed shafts
Nentsberry Haggs shaft, Nenthead
Old Wind, Coalbrookdale
Ramsden's shaft, The Bog, Shropshire
Readshaw's shaft, Nenthead
Spring Vein shaft, Roman Gravels, Shropshire
Sutton House Farm well
Watson's shaft, Tankerville, Shropshire
Whitewayhead shaft

Mining, metal

A TOUR OF CARRS MINE (underground tour of the show mine)
A TOUR OF CLIVE COPPER MINE (underground tour, disused)
CLIVE RESCUE PRACTICE
GLENGOWLA (Lead Mine, County Galway, Ireland - surface and underground)
SNAILBEACH (underground and surface tour, disused lead mine)
LAND OF POETS, SCHOLARS AND MINES(Features some of the Irish mines listed as ~ below)
(C17) Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert (underground tour of show mine)
(C20) Snailbeach, Shropshire's Greatest Lead Mine
(C20a) Snailbeach, The Final Frontier (underground tour)
(C20b) Snailbeach, The Forty (underground tour)
(C20c) Snailbeach, The Surface Remains
(C29) The S.C.M.C. in Cornwall (Many mines, listed as + below)
See the Map Notes page for a detailed gazetteer of Cornish mines on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map 203.
(C32) The S.C.M.C. in Ireland and (C45) Twelve Mines of Ireland (Many mines, listed as ~ below)
(C44) Nenthead Lead Mines (Surface, MineCam, Smallcleugh Level, Rampgill Horse Level, Caplecleugh Level, Carrs Level)
(C50) The MHTI in Spain (All the Spanish mines below)

Mines disused unless indicated.

~Allihies copper mines, Ireland
Antoņita Pozo San Cayetano, Spain
*Argo gold mill, Idaho Springs, USA
~Avoca copper mines, Ireland (surface & underground)
Bacheiddon lead mine, Powys
~Ballycorus smelt mill chimney, Ireland
~Ballycummisk copper mine, Ireland
Ballygahan copper mine, Ireland
Bar Moot Hall, Wirksworth
Beaumont fluorspar mine
~Bonmahon copper mine, Ireland
Bonsall lead mines, Derbyshire: Shafts, coes, gin circles, buddles, scrins
+Botallack Head mines, Cornwall
+Brea buddles & tin streaming plant, Cornwall
Bryntail lead mine, Powys
+Cape Cornwall tin mine, Carn Gloose
Capelcleugh level, Nenthead lead mine, Cumbria (underground)
~Cappagh copper mine, Ireland
Carlin How ironstone mine, Cleveland
~Carrigcrohane copper mine, Ireland
*Cavendish fluorspar mill, Derbyshire (lead by-product, working)
Cerro del Plomo, Spain
Chrétien inférior level, Rauenthal, France (underground)
Stephen's Pit, Forest of Dean
+Cligga Head mine, Cornwall (underground Borg tour)
Connoree copper mine, Ireland
Crawstone ironstone mine, Ironbridge (underground)
Cronebane mine, Co. Wicklow
~Derryginagh barite mine, Ireland
Derrylea Lough mine, Co. Galway
Devon United mines
Die Grube Kirchberg, Altenau, Germany
Dirtlow Rake, Derbyshire
Dylife lead mine, Wales
Eardiston copper mine, Shropshire (underground & surface)
Easter ironstone mine, Forest of Dean
El Manto, Spain
El Poligono bronze age site, Spain
Enthoven Smelt mill, Derbyshire (working)
* Florence ironstone mine, Cumbria (underground & surface)
Frazer's Hush fluorspar/lead mine, Co.Durham (working)
Frongoch lead/zinc mine, Wales
Gawton arsenic works, Devon
+Geevor tin mine, Cornwall (tour of dressing plant, working)
~Glendalough lead/zinc mine, Ireland
~Glendasan lead/zinc mine, Ireland
Gleniff barite mine, Ireland
~Glenmalur lead mine, Ireland
Glenravel ironstone mine, Ireland
Gortdrum copper mine, Co. Tipperary
+Great Condurrow mine, Cornwall (underground Borg tour)
Cononley lead mine, N. Yorkshire
Grinkle ironstone mine, Cleveland
Grogwinion lead mine, Wales
Groverake fluorspar/lead mine
Gunnerside Gill crushing mills
Gwaithgoch lead/zinc mill, Wales
Gwynfynydd gold mine, North Wales
Hawkstone copper mine supposed site, Shropshire
Hazard lead mine, Derbyshire: shaft & gin circle
Hexworthy lead mine, Devon
Hodbarrow iron mine, Cumbria
Hollandtwine lead mine, Derbyshire, now fluorspar opencast (working)
+Holman test mine, Cornwall (underground Borg tour)
Huglith barite mine, Shropshire
Kilbreckan lead mine, Co. Clare
Kilton ironstone mine, Cleveland
+King Edward mine, Cornwall
La Cruz Pozo Union, Spain
La Cruz smelter, Spain
La Esmeralda, El Cobre, Spain
La Palmena, Spain
*La Tortilla smelter, Spain
La Tortilla, Spain
Lebanon silver mine, Colorado, USA (underground & surface tour)
Les Filons du Neuenberg miner's trail, Alsace, France
Les Hautes Mynes copper mines, Le Thillot, France (surface & underground)
+Levant tin mine, Cornwall (Cornish winder in steam)
Lingdale ironstone mine, Cleveland
Lisheen zinc mine, Co. Tipperary (from road)
Llangynog lead mine, Powys
Llywernog lead mine, Wales
Lodge Park mine, Wales
Loftus ironstone mine, Cleveland
Los Curas, Spain
Los Guindos, Spain
Lost gold mine, Central City, USA (underground tour)
Mace Head, Co. Galway, Molybdenum veins
Magpie lead mine, Derbyshire
Mandale Rake, Derbyshire
Margrove Park miners housing, Cleveland
Mary Tavy arsenic works, Devon
+Michell's shaft, Redruth, Cornish beam winder (in use)
Mill Close lead mine, Derbyshire
*Mill Dam lead & fluorspar mine, Derbyshire (underground, working)
Mina la Gitana Pozo Rivero, Spain
Minas de las Morras de Cuzna, Spain
* Minera lead mine, Clwyd
Mollie Kathleen gold mine, Cripple Creek, USA
~Mount Gabriel bronze-age copper mines, Ireland
~Muckross copper mine, Ireland
Nantiago lead mine, Wales
Nent Force Level plaque
Nenthead mining village buildings
North Skelton ironstone mine, Cleveland
Odin lead mine & crusher circle, DerbyshireOld Ham ironstone mine, Forest of Dean
*Parkin's fluorspar mill, Derbyshire
Peņalosa bronze-age site, Spain
Penyclun lead mine, Powys
Pindale Scrins, Derbyshire
Polberro mine, Cornwall
+Porthtowan cliffs, Cornwall
Pozo Mirador, Spain
Pozo Nuevo, Spain
Pozo San Antonio de las Cadenas, Spain
Rampgill level, Nenthead lead mine, Cumbria (underground)
Rauenthal C16th copper mines, Alsace, France
Riddleswood copper mine, Shropshire (underground)
Rosevale tin mine, Cornwall (underground)
~Ross Island copper-age copper mine, Ireland
Saint-Croix-Aux-Mines C16th copper mines, France
Saint Louis Eisenthür C16th copper mine, Rauenthal, France (underground)
Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines mining town, France
San Andrés, Spain
San Fransisco Pozo Ancho, Spain
San Ignacio, Spain
San Vincente, Spain
Scott level lead mine, Shropshire (underground)
Sheeffry mine, Co. Galway
~Silvermines silver/lead mine, Ireland (underground & surface)
Sir Francis level, Gunnerside (underground, inc. hydraulic winder, cage, etc.)
Skelton Park ironstone mine, Cleveland
Smallcleugh level, Nenthead lead mine, Cumbria (underground)
*Snailbeach Perkin's level, Shropshire (underground)
Snailbeach smelt mill
*South Shropshire lead mines:
*Wood, Roman Gravels, White Grit, Old Grit, Ladywell (including MineCam), Bog, Tankerville
+South Crofty tin mine, Cornwall (last working tin mine in Europe, underground tour)
South Skelton ironstone mine, Cleveland
+South Tincroft copper/tin mine, Cornwall
Spawood ironstone mine, Cleveland
Stone Edge smelt mill chimney, Derbyshire
Stanghow ironstone mine ventilation furnace chimney, Cleveland
Stephen's Pit, Forest of Dean
Tankerville lead mine, Shropshire (underground & surface)
~Tara zinc/lead mine, Ireland, the largest in Europe (underground & surface, working)
Temple lead mine, Wales
Tocketts ironstone mine ventilation furnace chimney, Cleveland
+Tolgus tin streaming plant, Cornwall
+Taylor's shaft, Redruth, 90" Cornish beam pump
Turnavore engine house, Cornwall
Tynagh lead mine, Co. Galway
+Tywarnhayle mine, Cornwall
Urhin copper mine, Ireland
Van lead mine, Powys
Wanlockhead lead mine, Scotland
Wemyss lead mine, Wales
Westcott copper mine, Shropshire (underground & surface)
+Wheal Basset, Cornwall
Wheal Betsy silver/lead mine, Devon
+Wheal Bellan, Cornwall
+Wheal Busy, Cornwall
+Wheal Coates, Cornwall
Wheal Friendship, Devon
Wheal Friendly, Cornwall
Wheal Jane tin mine dressing plant (in use), shafts (disused)
Wheal Kitty, Cornwall
Wheal Luna, Cornwall
+Wheal Peevor, Cornwall
+Wheal Rose, Cornwall
+Wheal Uny, Cornwall
Whitesyke level, Nenthead (underground)
Winster Pitts buddles, Derbyshire
*Ystrad Einion lead mine, Wales
*Zellerfelder glockenspiel & animated fahrkunst (man engine) model, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Mining, non-metal

THE NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989
(C8) Muxton Bridge Colliery Site (disused)
(C18) Donisthorpe Colliery (working)
(C23) Bagworth Colliery (working)
(C28) Morse's Level (underground tour, Forest of Dean free coal mine working)
(C37) Wren's Nest East, Dudley (disused)
(C41) Hem Heath Winders (being dismantled)
(C46) Astley Green Colliery (Steam winder & vintage rally)
(C48) Draglines (Oddball's final walk; Ace of Spades & Chevington Collier at work)
(C49) Annesley-Bentinck Colliery (Surface tour of Annesley and Bentinck at work)
Mines disused unless indicated:
Aberllefenni slate mine, Wales
Alsumer Berg waste tip, Duisberg-Brockhausen, Germany
Alveley colliery, Shropshire
Amelie I & II potash mines, Wittelsheim, France
Ballingarry coal mine, Kilkenny
Ballyphillip opencast mine, Kilkenny
Barhaugh coal mine (underground)
Bersham coal mine (inc. winder)
Birkhill fireclay mine, Scotland (underground)
Blue John mine, Derbyshire (underground)
Bois du Cazier colliery, Belgium
Bo'ness atmospheric pumping engine house, Scotland
Boulby Potash mine, Cleveland (surface, working)
Broseley clay mine (underground)
Brynkynallt colliery site
Calcutta colliery, Leicestershire
Calverton colliery, Nottinghamshire (Surface, working)
Cannop colliery, Forest of Dean
Caphouse colliery
Catherton Common bell pits, Shropshire (includes aerial views)
*Cavendish fluorspar mill, Derbyshire (working)
Clashduff Colliery, Kilkenny
Clifton or Wet Earth colliery, Greater Manchester
Clipstone colliery, Nottinghamshire (surface, working)
*Coal loading & carrying on the Birmingham canals (extensive re-enactment)
Copper colliery, Co. Tipperary
Dark Cavern (144) limestone mine, Dudley (underground)
Deer Park colliery, Castlecomer, Ireland
Duke pit fan house, Cumbria
Earlshill coal mine, Kilkenny
Eastern United colliery, Forest of Dean
*Ellington colliery, Northumberland (working)
Elsecar colliery, South Yorkshire, Newcomen engine
Flourmill colliery, Forest of Dean
Gascoigne wood coal mine, Selby coalfield (working)
Grange colliery, Shropshire (tandem headframe)
Grossrosseln coal mine, Germany
Hannover coal mine, Bochum, Germany: Malakoff tower
Hatfield colliery, S. Yorkshire (working)
*Haig pit, Cumbria: large steam winders
Harworth colliery
Hasard-Cheratte colliery, Belgium
Hendre spar mine, Clwyd
Holditch colliery, Newcastle Under Lyme
Holland coal mine, Bochum, Germany: 2 small Malakoff towers
Jane Pit, Cumbria
Jarrow staithes, Tyne and Wear (loading coal)
Joseph/Else potash mine, Richwiller, France
Joy mining machinery, Nottinghamshire (working)
Kellingley colliery, N. Yorkshire (working)
Kinlet colliery, Shropshire
Knockalonga coal mine, Kilkenny
Le Grand Hornu, Belgium
Lickfinn Anthracite Mine, Kilkenny
Lightmoor colliery, Forest of Dean
Limpley Stoke Bath stone mine, Somerset (underground)
*Littleton colliery, Staffordshire (working)
Llay Hall colliery
*Lound Hall mining museum, Nottinghamshire (tour)
Longannet colliery, Scotland
Mamble bell pits
Mardyke colliery, Kilkenny
Marles-les-mines coal mine, France
*Maidens Hall opencast coal mine & walking dragline Chevington Collier, Northumberland (working)
Marie/Marie-Louise potash mine, Pulvershiem, France
Markham Main colliery, S. Yorkshire (working)
*Mill Dam fluorspar/lead mine, Derbyshire (underground, working)
*Minllyn slate mine, Wales
Monckton coking plant, Royston (working)
Monkton coking plant, Tyne & Wear (working)
New Fancy colliery, Forest of Dean
Northern United colliery, Forest of Dean
North Selby coal mine (working)
Peat cutting in Ireland
Petite Rosselle coal mines, France
Pleasley colliery, Derbyshire
Pooley Hall colliery, Leicestershire
Preston Grange colliery, Scotland
Princess Royal colliery, Forest of Dean
Prosper colliery preserved waste tip & 'tetrade', Bottrop, Germany
Prosper-Hanniel Malakoff tower, Bottrop, Germany
Rock coal mine, Coolbaun, Ireland
Rockley Abbey colliery, Worsbrough, Newcomen engine house
Rudolph/Bollwiller potash mine, Pulversheim, France
*St. Aiden's opencast coal mine & walking dragline Oddball, W. Yorkshire (working)
*Stobswood opencast coal mine & walking dragline Ace of Spades, Northumberland (working)
Saltom Pit Newcomen engine house, Cumbria
Selby Coalfield: Mines Rescue station (working)
*Singer Cavern limestone mine, Dudley (underground)
Snibston colliery, Leicestershire
Stillingfleet coal mine, Selby coalfield (working)
Swinebach jack roller, Shropshire
Washington pit, Tyne & Wear
Wellington Pit candlestick chimney, Cumbria
Westhausen 1 colliery, Dortmund-Westerfilde, Germany: Malakoff tower, etc.
Wet Earth or Clifton colliery, Greater Manchester
William Pit Newcomen engine house, Cumbria
Winlaton coking plant, Tyne & Wear, demolition
Winsford Rock Salt mine, Cheshire (underground)
Woolley Moor colliery
Woolley opencast coal mine (inc. shaft mine remains)
Wynnstay colliery, Ruabon

Miscellaneous

DRAKELOW underground bunker: WWII Rover shadow aero engine factory then regional government H.Q. (disused)
(C26) Black Country Coopers (Trevis-Smith working, Seedhouse disused)
Casting a full-size copy of a Roman lead pig
(C40) Colyton Tannery (working)
Annestown limekiln
Beech sandstone caverns
Bighouse limekiln
Bridgnorth caves
Clevedon pier, Avon
*Coors brewery, Golden, USA
Crigion quarry aerial mast demolition
Darley's brewery, Thorne
Dartmouth Higher ferry, Devon (working)
Eden project domes (aerial)
Eimco rocker shovels (working)
Elizabethan glass furnace, Shropshire
Firkin crane building, Cork
'Gasometer', Oberhausen, Germany: Largest in world, used for blast furnace gas, then coal gas
Gunpowder demonstration
Hawkstone follies, Shropshire
James Brindley's grave, Kidsgrove
Jarrow - North Shields ferry, Tyne & Wear
*Leaton Knolls icehouse (disused)
Mam Tor road slips
M&J Drilling, grouting old mine workings
Orchard Press: Old printing presses & Monotype caster (working)
Pant limekilns, Llanymynech (disused)
Peat cutting in Ireland
Pneumatic rock drills (working)
Old Wind, Coalbrookdale: discovery of C18th tunnel (underground & surface)
Queen Elizabeth II liner visiting Cunard, Liverpool
Shell UK Oil exploration drilling, Harriot's Hayes, Shropshire
Sugnall well, Staffordshire
The National Waterways Museum, Gloucester
The Severn Warehouse (exterior)
Williamson's Tunnels, Liverpool

Railways

Aberystwyth cliff railway
Alexisbad railway station, Sachsen-Anhhalt, Germany
†Babbacombe cliff railway, Devon (working)
Baschurch level crossing & signal box, Shropshire
Bowes railway, Tyne & Wear (inclines)
Bryn Oer plateway rail & wheel, Powys
Cann Quarry canal tramroad, Devon
Causey Arch, Co.Durham - One candidate for the world's oldest railway bridge (1727)
Chopwell waggonway embankment, Tyne & Wear (1708)
*Cripple Creek & Victor narrow gauge railroad, USA
Embsay station, N. Yorkshire
Essington signal box, Staffordshire (disused)
Flockton Green tramway viaduct 1790's (oldest?)
*Georgetown Loop railroad, Colorado, USA
Goodrington viaduct & steam train, Devon
GWR locomotive King George V (in steam)
Hay Tor granite tramroad, Devon
Kingswear station, Devon & Lydham Manor locomotive (in steam)
Old Whimsey, N. Yorkshire: 1850 rope-hauled incline & early tramway tunnel (1790's?)
Pant inclined plane, Montgomeryshire canal, Shropshire
*Pike's Peak cog railway, Colorado, USA
Ribble Head viaduct, North Yorkshire & steam train
South Shields marshalling yard, Tyne & Wear
Starcross atmospheric railway pumping station, Devon (disused)
Stirchley tramroad tunnel, Telford
Swindon: Railway workshops & buildings
†Trackside scenery during a return journey from Wolverhampton to Birmingham in 1984
Vale of Rheidol narrow gauge railway

Steam Power, Stationary Engines, Power Stations

(C18) Donisthorpe Colliery (winder in steam)
(C25a) SND No.4 Steam Dredger in Action
(C25c) SND No.4 Steam Dredger
(C29) The S.C.M.C. in Cornwall (Levant winder in steam, many Cornish engines & engine houses)
(C39) CH 106 (Features Ferrybridge power station, W. Yorkshire)
(C41) Hem Heath Winders (being dismantled)
(C42) The SCMC at Onslow Park (Steam & other plant on display)
Bord Na Mona peat cutting machine & peat railway, Co. Tipperary
Bratch water pumping engine, Staffordshire (in steam)
Clive copper mine, Shropshire, pumps & oil engine (dismantling)
*Coleham sewage pumping station, Shrewsbury (in steam)
*Crofton beam pumping engines (World's oldest working on original site, in steam)
Elsecar colliery, South Yorkshire, Newcomen engine
Ironbridge, Shropshire, power stations exteriors
Larkton Hill, Cheshire, barn engine rally (oil engines working)
Millmeece pumping station, Staffordshire
Onslow Park steam fair, Shropshire
Rockley Abbey colliery, Worsbrough, Newcomen engine house
Shrewsbury steam fair, Shropshire
*Following Steamrollers 'Lily' & 'Lady Hesketh' from Newport to Onslow Park steam rally
Thorpe Marsh power station, South Yorkshire
Vogelshiem power station, river Rhine, France
Welland steam fair
Workington wind farm, Cumbria

Stone & Clay industries

(C31) Forest of Dean Stone Firms Ltd. (working)
(C37) Wren's Nest East limestone mine, Dudley (disused)
Antoing 1841 limekilns & working cement plant, Belguim
Ballyknockan granite quarry, Ireland
Bugle china clay pit, Cornwall
Dark Cavern (144) limestone mine, Dudley (disused)
Delabole slate quarry (aerial)
*Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, North Wales (disused)
*Dunbar limestone quarry, dragline, transporter conveyor
Fowey china clay wharf, Cornwall (working)
Goonbarrow china clay pit, Cornwall
Goonvean china clay beam pumping engine, Cornwall (disused)
Grinshill sandstone quarries, Shropshire
*Ironbridge sandstone quarry (source of stone for Iron Bridge abutments, at work)
Lee Moor china clay works, Devon
Les Fours Lenain, Antoing, Belgium
Aerial views of St. Austell area china clay pits & works
St. Denis clay processing plant, Cornwall
*Singer Cavern limestone mine, Dudley (disused)
*Stewartby brick clay quarry
Teignmouth clay docks, Devon
Upper Fagley quarry & cranes, West Yorkshire
*Whittlesey brick clay quarry

Textile Industries

(C19) Alan Paine Knitwear Manufacturers (working)
(C22) K.F.Knitwear Manufacturers (working)
(C22) Old Knitting Workshops of Godalming (disused)
Kidderminster carpet factory buildings
*Pennine Tweeds woollen mill, Sedburgh (in use)

Transporter Bridges

Newport before restoration (working)
Middlesbrough (working)
Warrington (disused)

Urban Environment

Black Country buildings
Coalbrookdale
Drive-through Wem, Shropshire, 1983
Dublin, Ireland
Dudley
Kidderminster
Middlesbrough
*Rail journey from Wolverhampton to Birmingham in 1984
Tyneside
Whitby

Water Industry

Clywedog reservoir & dam, Powys
*Coleham sewage pumping station (steam engines working)
Cork Corporation waterworks
Cwm Rheidol reservoir & Felin Newydd dam, Wales
Devonport leat, Devon (disused)
*Elan Valley reservoirs & treatment works, Powys (working)
*Frankley water treatment works, Worcestershire (working)
Hoover dam, Nevada/Arizona, USA
Horseshoe Falls, Llantisilio
Manchester sewer replacement scheme
Three Valleys water supply tunnel & Iver water works (working)
Oberharzer Wasserregal graben, Germany: watercourses, mostly underground, built for mine waterwheels now supply drinking water
*Trimpley water works, Worcestershire (in use)

Water Power

(C24) Helsington Snuff Mill (working)
(C2) Pont-nedd-vechan Gunpowder Works (disused)
(C30) Charlecote flour mill (working)
(C40) Colyton Tannery (working)
Blue Hills mine waterwheel powered stamps, Cornwall
Eling tidal flour mill, Hampshire
Low Wood gunpowder works, Cumbria (disused)
Newport waterwheel, Shropshire
Trevor Over mill, Plas yn Pentre

Waterways Productions & Compilations

TELFORD'S LAST CANAL (Shropshire Union canals)
A CROOKED DITCH (Birmingham Canal Navigation)
THE NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL
TOM PUDDINGS and THE LAST RUN (Aire & Calder)
THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL
(C9) Canal Structures in Use (many canals)
(C10) Dudley Tunnel Boat Excavation
(C11) Flooding the Rock Tunnel, Dudley
(C12) The Milton Maid (Caldon canal)
(C13) The Birmingham Canal Navigations
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989
(C16) Keays Boatyard, Walsall (Wyrley & Essington canal)
(C25a) SND No.4 Steam Dredger in Action (Gloucester & Sharpness canal)
(C25b) Raise the Dredger (Gloucester & Sharpness canal)
(C25c) SND No.4 Steam Dredger (Gloucester & Sharpness canal)
(C34) Last Run II (Aire & Calder Navigation and River Ouse)
(C37) Wren's Nest East, Dudley
(C38) Humber Energy (River Humber and Aire & Calder Navigation)
(C39) CH 106 (Aire & Calder Navigation)

Waterways archive A-K

Aire & Calder navigation
Anderton boat lift (disused & in use)
Anglesey branch
Arzviller inclined plane, Lorraine, France (in use)
*Barton swing aqueduct (working)
Basingstoke canal
Bentley canal
*Birmingham Canal Navigation
Birmingham & Fazeley canal
Birmingham & Warwick Junction canal
Bradley branch
Bridgewater canal
*Broad Street warehouse, Wolverhampton: architecture & cargo handling
*Building a wooden narrowboat at the Black Country Museum
Calder & Hebble navigation
Caldon canal
Canal du Centre, Belgium (inc. La Louviere ship lifts & Ecluse No.2 de Peronnes)
Canal de Pommeroeul a Antoing, Belgium
Cann Quarry canal tramroad (disused)
Cannock Extension canal
Catshill stop in use
Chester canal
Coal carrying on the BCN - re-enactment
Coal chutes & staithes
*Crofton steam pumping station
Digbeth branch
Doncaster canal
Donnington Wood canal (disused)
Dredging
Ducart's Canal, Ireland
Dudley canal
Ellesmere canal
Ellesmere Port Boat MuseumEscaut river, Belgium
Exeter Ship canal
Foxton inclined plane (disused)
Fitting a narrowboat rudder or 'elum'
Grain traffic from Gloucester to Tewkesbury
Grand Union canal
Gloucester & Berkeley ship canal
*Gloucester & Sharpness ship canal
Goole canal
Gauging a narrowboat
Heinrichenberg ship lifts & locks, Waltrop, Germany
Huddersfield Narrow canal (disused)
Hüttenwerke Krupp-Mannesmann steel works, Hüttenheim, Germany: unloading boats on river Rhine
*International Festival of the Sea (Bristol 1997)
Ketley canal including inclined plane(disused)
Knottingley & Goole canal

Waterways archive L-Z

*La Louviere ship lifts, Canal du Centre, Belgium
Leeds & Liverpool canal
Leominster canal
Llangollen branch
Lydney canal
Macclesfield canal
Montgomeryshire canal (disused, restored locks)
National waterways rally 1982
New Junction canal
Newport branch (disused)
Northampton arm
Oxford canal
Notre Dame lift bridge, Tournai, Belgium
River Ouse
Peak Forest canal
Prees branch
River Rhine
*River Severn (including voyages between Sharpness, Avonmouth, Cardiff & Clevedon and grain traffic from Gloucester to Tewkesbury); also flooding
*Severn trow Spry: Recovery and the restored vessel under sail
Ronquières canal inclined plane, Belgium
Shafting narrowboats
Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham navigation
Shrewsbury canal (disused)
Shropshire (tub boat) canals (disused)
Sneyd & Wyrley Bank branch (disused)
Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal
Stourbridge canal
Stratford Upon Avon canal
Strépy-Thieu ship lift, Belgium (Largest in world, on test)
Tame Valley canal
Thurlwood steel lock (disused)
Titford canal
Trent & Mersey canal
Ulverston canal
Vogelsheim locks, Rhine, Germany
Walsall canal
Wednesbury Old canal
*Wheelock stables (in use)
Worcester & Birmingham canal
*Wyrley & Essington canal

Waterways Craft

Cawoods Hargreaves push tug CH 106
*Cawoods Hargreaves push tug CH109
* NB Gifford (horse towing on the Worcester & Birmingham canal)
Whittaker's tanker Humber Energy
*Rix Petroleum tanker Rix Merlin (in use)
Acaster's tug Little Shuva (Last Run II)
*Steam tug Mayflower (the world's oldest)
*Severn grain barge Chaceley
*NB Atlas, engine details
*NB Northwich (horse towing on the Worcester & Birmingham canal)
*NB Leo (riveting the restored hull, launching, clothing-up)
Liner Queen Elizabeth II
Tanker ship Reedness (Last Run II)
Diesel tug Resolute Lady
Severn trow Spry (rescued, restored & sailed)
Steam dredger SND No.4
*NB Atlas (clothing-up)
NB Saturn (caulking)
*NB Stour (rebuilt and launched)
Diesel dredger Thomas Fletcher
Dean & Dyball tanker Trentaire (Last Run II)
Various BCN 'Joey' or 'Day' boats
BCN tug 'Birchills'

*...extended coverage
+...mines included in (C29)The S.C.M.C. in Cornwall
~...mines included in (C32)The S.C.M.C. in Ireland

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