General I.A. & Related Organisations

Alcester & District Local History Society

All about the Industrial Revolution

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

ARCHI UK - Archaeological sites and searchable database of more than 85,000 UK archaeological sites

ArchNet- The Archaeology Network Virtual library

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) - promoting the study, preservation and presentation of Britain's industrial heritage

Ball Clay Heritage Society - preserving the heritage of ball clay production in Devon and Dorset.

British Association of Paper Historians - a national association for anyone interested in paper making and it's history.

British Brick Society - promotes the study and recording of all aspects of the archaeology and history of bricks, brickmaking and brickwork.

Calderdale Industrial Museum

Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes - conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain.

Copper Coast Geopark, Ireland

Current Archaeology - magazine devoted to British archaeology

Czech Geological Survey

Derbyshire Archaeological Society

Dover Western Heights Preservation Society

English Heritage- conservation of the built environment

European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage (E-FAITH)

Forest of Dean Local History Society

Geological of Survey Ireland

Geological Survey of Finland

German Society for Clay-Pipe Research

GooseyGoo - a database of industrial heritage in the UK & Ireland. Sections include industrial explorer, events, preservation and jobs.

Greater London IA Society (GLIAS)

Greenwich History Society, London

Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society

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 in Flanders - Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology

Industrial Heritage of Ireland: Railways, Canals, Mining, Visitor Centres & much more.

Industrial History of Cumbria

Institution of Civil Engineers- Historical engineers and engineering.

Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET

Isle of Wight Industrial Archaeology Society

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 - 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

Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group

Old Bricks - History at your feet. An interesting site covering bricks and brickworks

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

Shropshire Geological Society

SIWE: Stichting voor industrieel en wetenschappelijk erfgoed; a platform for IA in Flanders

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 Archaeology and Historical Society

StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos

Stourbridge- Historic information, including the Stourbridge Lion locomotive

Surrey Industrial History Group

Sussex Mills Group (part of Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society)

The Institution of Engineers Australia

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.

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.

Wolverhampton Civic and Historical Society

Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society, Worcester

 

Iron & Steel Industry

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany a UNESCO Site (German text only)

Archaeology On-line Guide - a comprehensive set of resources in German

Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..

Brewery History Society

Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama

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

Clydebridge Steel Works plus other Colvilles / British Steel / Corus iron and steel works in Scotland

DK Recycling: blast furnaces turn waste into useful metal - an excellent firm run to benefit its employees and our environment.

Friends of Melingriffith water pump (sadly the Friends disbanded in 2013, but the website continues)

Gawith and Hogarth Snuff Makers - owners of Helsington Snuff Mill

German Society for Clay-Pipe Research

GooseyGoo - a database of industrial heritage in the UK & Ireland. Sections include industrial explorer, events, preservation and jobs.

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 (Historic 12th century wining & dining venue with small musuem)

Historical Metallurgy Society

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Joggins Fossil Cliffs of Nova Scotia - a World Heritage Site for geology and fossils

Kelham Island (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Ken Hawley Trust - an internationally important collection of edge tools, cutlery and measuring instruments

Les roues des forges et les martinets - water powered forges, tilt hammers, pelton wheels etc.

London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection

Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes "In search of Agenoria".

Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge - details, events and opening times

Millom Heritage and Arts Centre - showcases the history of the iron mining and steel works of the area

Mining - Europe (covers mines and iron works in Europe)

Museum of London - Clay tobacco pipe makers' marks database (in the Collections area)

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

Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Shepherd Wheel - water powered knife grinding workshop (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing.

Shropshire Geological Society

StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos

Stahlseite - Superb pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry

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 (Owned by English Heritage)

Swanage Museum - Purbeck stone and local history museum

Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..

Tata Steel Europe (once British Steel, then Corus Group)

The History and Development of the Lock and Key

Tyneside Family & Community History- 19th Century Colliery villages

Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur

Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers

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 Grade II listed 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 (Windmill World)

Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.

Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill

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)

Dilston Mill (former water mill, now B and B)

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, 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 - used to be a 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 - sharing records and history relating to traditional mills and milling

Mills of Northern Ireland - details of over 2500 mill sites with a list of their functions and owners.

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 (Preserve 20 mill sites - wind, water and steam)

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, Hampshire

Sarehole mill, Birmingham - a 250 year old working watermill associated with author J.R.R Tolkien.

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 (Owned by English Heritage)

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, 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.

Willesborough Windmill, Kent

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 - Mark Berry's Windmill site, photographs etc..

Windmills in Eastern Germany (German and English)

Woodbridge Tide Mill, Suffolk. Working tide mill

Worsborough Mill (working water mill)

Wymondham Windmill , Wymondham, Leicestershire.

 

Mining

Abenteuer Bergbau (German text)

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

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.

Bath Stone Group

Bath Stone Mines around Corsham (Brian Gibbs)

Beamish Open Air Museum - Official Site

Bersham Colliery Mining Museum

Berwyn Slate Quarry, Llangollen

Big Pit National Coal Museum, Wales

Blue John Mine and Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire

+ Buddle Pit - discussion forum for mining enthusiasts

Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall (Now part of Exeter Univeristy)

Cambrian Safaris - Mining history themed tours in North Ceredigion

Carn Brea Mining Society - 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

Cobalt Mining Legacy - Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes - conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain.

Collieries in Northumberland and Durham (Compiled by Brian Pears)

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

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.

ERMINA Equipe Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Mines Anciennes etc.

Fife Mining Heritage Society

Folldal Gruver, Norway (Copper Mine and Museum)

Force Crag Mine (preserved by the National Trust - book visits via them)

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

Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German text) - UNESCO site, includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine

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, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire

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

Honister Slate Mine (the last working slate mine in England) - Mine tours & Via Ferrata

Huskar Pit Memorial

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.

Kent Mining Museum - on the site of Betteshanger Colliery, Kent's last working coal mine (OPENING SPRING 2018)

Kernow, Land of Tin: Words and pictures of Cornish mines, including South Crofty

Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum

King Edward Mine Museum - an award winning mining museum

Kola Superdeep Borehole - 12.26 km

Lancashire Mining Museum at Astley Green - based on Astley Green Colliery with its huge engines and lattice headframe.

L'Argentière - France (Silver Mining heritage site)

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

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.

Millom Heritage and Arts Centre - showcases the history of the iron mining and steel works of the area

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 searchable gazetteer and bibliography of the mines and quarries of North Wales

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 in the East Midlands

Mining History Association

Mining History Association (North America)

Mining History information Pages (by Peter Claughton at Exeter University)

Mining History Network - has scores of useful addresses

Mining Technology - The website for the mining industry

Mining USA- Mining organisations and mining history

Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre

Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland

Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland

NAMHO Conference website (National Association of Mining History Organisations)

National Association of Mining History Organisations

National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield

National Mining Memorabilia Association (UK)

National Mining Museum Scotland - based on the Lady Victoria Colliery

Nenthead Mines Conservation 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.

Northern Mines Research Society

Oaks Colliery Disaster 1866 Memorial website (Oaks Explosion)

Outokumpu Old Mine and Mining Museum, Finland (Mining musuem in the North Carelia Copper mining area)

Parque Minero La Union - Mines of La Union & the Sierra Minera of Murcia, Spain (in Spanish)

Parys Underground Group - Exploring the famous Parys Mountain (Mynydd Trysglwyn) copper mine on Anglesey

Peak District Mines Historical Society (PDMHS)

Peak District Mining Museum and Temple Mine

Pleasley Colliery

Pleasley Pit Trust and Country Park - based on 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 (Now the The Welsh Mining Experience)

Rhosydd - a Ffestiniog slate quarry

Rosevale Tin Mine, Zennor - the only underground restoration project of its kind in Cornwall

Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy

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

Silver Mountain Experience - based on the Llywernog Silver Lead Mine, Aberystwyth

Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales

Snailbeach mine, Shropshire

? Snibston Discovery Park (based at Snibston Colliery) - SADLY CLOSED DOWN

South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group (SGMRG)

South Wales Coalfield collection (SWCC)

South Wales Miners' Museum - the first mining Museum in Wales.

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.

Steep Rock Iron Mines, Canada (Working Mine)

Subterranea Britannica- Promoting the study and use of man-made underground space

Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire

Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales

Tar Tunnel, Coalport (Part of The Ironbridge Gorge Museum) - You can no longer enter the Tunnel, but can 'view' it

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 Story of Silver in the United States (Thanks to Penny and Mr. Wood)

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

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.

Gawith and Hogarth Snuff Makers - owners of Helsington Snuff Mill

German Society for Clay-Pipe Research

GooseyGoo - a database of industrial heritage in the UK & Ireland. Sections include industrial explorer, events, preservation and jobs.

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 (Historic 12th century wining & dining venue with small musuem)

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Joggins Fossil Cliffs of Nova Scotia - a World Heritage Site for geology and fossils

London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection

Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes "In search of Agenoria".

Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge - details, events and opening times

Museum of London - Clay tobacco pipe makers' marks database (in the Collections area)

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

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 (Owned by English Heritage)

Swanage Museum - Purbeck stone and local history museum

The History and Development of the Lock and Key

Tyneside Family & Community History- 19th Century Colliery villages

Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur

Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers

 

Museums (Industrial)

Abbey Pumping Station - Leicester's Museum of Science and Technology

Amberley Museum (Amberley Chalk Pits Museum)

Anson Engine Museum, Anson Road, Poynton, Cheshire

Arbetets museum (Museum of Work), Sweden - in an old cotton mill

Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..

Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group (on the site of Dunaskin Open Air Museum, formerly Dalmellington Iron Works), Scotland

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion

Beamish Open Air Museum - Official Site

Bersham Colliery Mining Museum

Big Pit National Coal Museum, Wales

Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Birmingham Museums: Musuem of the Jewellery Quarter (preserved workshop in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter)

Birmingham Museums: Soho House (Georgian home of Matthew Boulton)

Black Country Museum

Blackgang Sawmill, Ventor, Isle of Wight

Bletchley Park National Codes Centre - site of WW2 British codebreaking & birthplace of modern computing

Blue John Mine and Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire

Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama

British Engineerium, Goldstone Pumping Station, Hove, East Sussex (CLOSED to the Public)

Cambridge Museum of Technology- preserved Victorian Pumping Station and Working Museum

Canal Museum Stoke Bruerne - part of the National Waterways Museum

Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum - Friends web site

Clearwell Caves - Ancient iron mines

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum (formerly the Tom Leonard Mining Museum)

Cobalt Mining Legacy - Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill

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 (incorporating the Mosquito Aircraft Museum)

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

Durham Mining Museum

Ecomuseum and Archives of the Boom Brickworks, Holland (Dutch Only)

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.

Folldal Gruver, Norway (Copper Mine and Museum)

Force Crag Mine (preserved by the National Trust - book visits via them)

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 Inclined Plane Trust (FIPT) and Canal Museum

Fundacion Sierra Minera - The Sierra Minera Foundation, Associations and people concerned with mining history around La Union and Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

Gloucester Waterways Museum - part of the National Waterways Museum

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

Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German text) - UNESCO site, includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine

Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Province of Treviso, St.Antonino, 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 (Sadly Closed)

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

Honister Slate Mine (the last working slate mine in England) - Mine tours & Via Ferrata

Internal Fire - Museum of Power (an excellent small museum in Wales)

Ironbridge Gorge Museum

Kelham Island (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Kennet & Avon Canal Museum and Trust

Kent Mining Museum - on the site of Betteshanger Colliery, Kent's last working coal mine (OPENING SPRING 2018)

Kidwelly Industrial Museum - site of the second oldest recorded UK tinplate works -CLOSED

Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum

King Edward Mine Museum - an award winning mining museum

Kirkaldy Testing Works Museum - preserves a unique Victorian Materials Testing Machine in working order in the premises built to house it.

Lancashire Mining Museum at Astley Green - based on Astley Green Colliery with its huge engines and lattice headframe.

Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Now at Lancaster History Museum)

Langton Matravers Museum & Local History Society (formerly the Coachouse Museum, Purbeck stone industry)

L'Argentière - France (Silver Mining heritage site)

Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada

Lewarde Historical Mining Centre, Northern France

Lion Salt Works, Northwich, Cheshire

LKAB -worlds largest underground iron ore mine & musuem, Kiruna, Northern Sweden

London Canal Museum

London Museum of Water & Steam (formerly Kew Bridge Steam Museum)

London Transport Museum

Magna - Science Adventure Centre

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.)

Millom Heritage and Arts Centre - showcases the history of the iron mining and steel works of the area

Mineral Museums of Finland

~ Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre - tramways around Redruth, Cornwall (part of King Edward Mine)

Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre

Museos de la Industria, la Ciencia la Tecnica - Links to industrial museums in Spain (in Spanish)

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 London - Clay tobacco pipe makers' marks database (in the Collections area)

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 Mining Museum Scotland - based on the Lady Victoria Colliery

National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park- restored Colossus computer & much more

National Museum of Flight, Scotland

National Railway Museum, York

National Waterways Museum (formerly Ellesmere Port Boat Museum)

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 (Preserve 20 mill sites - wind, water and steam)

Outokumpu Old Mine and Mining Museum, Finland (Mining musuem in the North Carelia Copper mining area)

Parque Minero La Union - Mines of La Union & the Sierra Minera of Murcia, Spain (in Spanish)

Peak District Mining Museum and Temple Mine

Pleasley Pit Trust and Country Park - based on Pleasley Colliery

Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Gladstone Pottery Museum and Etruria Industrial Museum

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 (CLOSED - may re-open)

Rüdersdorf: Limekilns and limestone quarrying; industrial monuments in a parkland setting.

RAF Museums - Cosford Aerospace & Hendon

Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site)

Rhondda Heritage Park, Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Trehafod, Wales (Now the The Welsh Mining Experience)

Risca Industrial History Museum, South Wales

Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland

Science Museum, London

Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network - some material on New Lanark.

Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Shepherd Wheel - water powered knife grinding workshop (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

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 [DUE to RE-OPEN 2020]

Silver Mountain Experience - based on the Llywernog Silver Lead Mine, Aberystwyth

Sir Richard Arkwright's, Masson Mills, Derbyshire, Working Textile Museum

Somerset Brick & Tile Museum, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset

South Wales Miners' Museum - the first mining Museum in Wales.

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 (Part of The Ironbridge Gorge Museum) - You can no longer enter the Tunnel, but can 'view' it

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 National Brewery Centre (formerly The Bass Museum), Burton-on-Trent

The Postal Museum - Visit and ride the Mail Rail

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 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.

Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft - the largest Collection of Preserved Trolleybuses

Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine

UK Museums & Galleries A-Z

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Belfast

Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur

Walsall Leather Museum

Waterworks Museum - Hereford

Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse (housed in the former Northwich workhouse)

Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum

Willenhall Lock Museum (The Locksmiths House)

Wind Energy Museum, Great Yarmouth (inc. Morse windmill & windpump collection)

Windermere Jetty - Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories (former site of Windermere Steamboat Museum) OPENING SOON

Woodhorn colliery museum and Northumberland Archives

Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers

? Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum, Earby - SADLY CLOSED DOWN

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)

Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group (on the site of Dunaskin Open Air Museum, formerly Dalmellington Iron Works), Scotland

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

Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden

David Bradley's site, with lots of pictures of London Transport trolleybuses.

East Anglian Traction Engine Society

Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways

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

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, video and information from around 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 Rail Transit Association

Light Railway Research Society of Australia

London Transport Museum

MailRail - London's Post Office Railway- 23 miles of underground 2 foot gauge line (Unofficial site)

Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society (support organisation for the North Norfolk Railway)

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 - The Virtual Roundhouse

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

Stourbridge- Historic information, including the Stourbridge Lion locomotive

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 Midland Railway - Butterley, Derbyshire

The Postal Museum - Visit and ride the Mail Rail

Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft - the largest Collection of Preserved Trolleybuses

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

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 (Maine, USA)

Workington Transport Heritage Trust - railways & buses

 

Ships & Ports

Consuta Trust - preserving the Steam launch Consuta

Finnish Steam Yacht Association (Suomen Höyrypursiseura ry)

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

Paddle Steamers - 'a unique heritage preserved'

Paddlesteamer Patria

Pleasure Steamers Waverley and Balmoral

SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat on Lake Siljan, Sweden (slow to load)

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 (Sveriges Ångbåtsförening)

Steam narrow boat President

Swedish East Indiaman "Götheborg", a magnificent oak & pine 18th century sailing ship replica

Vereniging Stoomvaart - Dutch Steam Society (Has Google Translate option)

Windermere Jetty - Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories (former site of Windermere Steamboat Museum) OPENING SOON

 

Sites (Industrial)

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Alcester & District Local History Society

Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Part of Derbyshire Caving Club's site)

Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany a UNESCO Site (German text only)

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, Ventor, Isle of Wight

~ Boughey's Mill - a Grade II listed water-powered corn mill in Staffordshire

Burlesdon Brickworks, Hampshire - a steam driven brickworks.

Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes - conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain.

Cumbria- Mining History Sites

Cwm Ciprwth Copper Mine, Wales

Delabole Slate Quarry, Cornwall

Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop - museum includes the Armory site (USA)

Friends of Melingriffith water pump (sadly the Friends disbanded in 2013, but the website continues)

Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Province of Treviso, St.Antonino, 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.

Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)

Llechwedd Slate Caverns

Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes "In search of Agenoria".

Lower Kem Mill Bleaching & Printing Works, Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire

Marstons Brewery, Burton-on-Trent - history and tour details.

Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)

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 (German text)

Salts Mill, Bradford - fun exploration!

Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Shepherd Wheel - water powered knife grinding workshop (Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust)

Sitios de Interes. Mapas de Patrimonio Industrial - Maps of some industrial heritage sites in Spain (in Spanish)

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

Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers

Willesborough Windmill, Kent

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 of abandoned factories and other places, stylishly presented via a Photo-wheel

Ambra Books - local, industrial, mining and social

Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site

Broseley Clay Tobacco Pipes (Rex Key)

Cambrian Safaris - Mining history themed tours in North Ceredigion

Can Stock Photo - royalty free stock photography agency, including Industrial History subjects

Dubtown - excellent artistic photographs and video of industry (Text in German)

Friched.net - French industry in photographs

GoGraph - royalty free stock photography and illustrations, including industrial & historical subjects

GooseyGoo - a database of industrial heritage in the UK & Ireland. Sections include industrial explorer, events, preservation and jobs.

Ironinspired.com - combining the designs of 19th century cast iron, with a 21st century style.

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 (Text in Italian)

Mills Archive - 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

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

Sharing History - Virtual Museum and Virtual history project

StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos

Stahlseite - Superb pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry

Still Alive - Photographs of abandoned factories in Italy

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

Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers

 

Steam Power

Abbey Pumping Station - Leicester's Museum of Science and Technology

Bratch Pumping Station, Bratch Lane, Wombourne, South Staffordshire

Brede Steam Engines - The Giants of Brede, Rye, East Sussex

Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site

British Engineerium, Goldstone Pumping Station, Hove, East Sussex (CLOSED to the Public)

Burlesdon Brickworks, Hampshire - a steam driven brickworks.

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.

~ Eastney Pumping Station (very simple website)

Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale - the only complete working steam cotton-mill engine & boilers.

Finnish Steam Yacht Association (Suomen Höyrypursiseura ry)

Forncett Industrial Steam Museum - stationary steam engines in steam, 1st Sunday May to November

German Steamboat Society

Gula Java DVDs: Java's historic steam powered sugar mills

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

Lancashire Traction Engine Club

Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire (Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group)

London Museum of Water & Steam (formerly Kew Bridge Steam Museum)

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'

Olean - Java's historic steam powered sugar mill

Paddle Steamers - 'a unique heritage preserved'

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 (Lichfield Waterworks Trust)

SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat on Lake Siljan, Sweden (slow to load)

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 (Sveriges Ångbåtsförening)

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.

Stretham Old Engine - last surving Fens steam drainage 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 (Has Google Translate option)

Waterworks Museum - Hereford

West of England Steam Engine Society

Westonzoyland Pumping Station- museum of Steam power and land drainage in Somerset

Windermere Jetty - Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories (former site of Windermere Steamboat Museum) OPENING SOON

 

Textile Industry

Arkwright's Cromford Mill, Derbyshire

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire (Sadly Closed)

Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Now at Lancaster History Museum)

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 (CLOSED - may re-open)

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 International Institute for Cultural Heritage

Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall (Now part of Exeter Univeristy)

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.

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

 

Waterways

Ashton Canal and Peak Forest Canal (Canal Junction Cruising Guide)

Ashton Canal, Macclesfield Canal and Peak Forest Canal

Birmingham Canal Navigation Society

Canal & River Trust - looking after the canals and rivers of Britain

Canal Museum Stoke Bruerne - part of the National Waterways Museum

Chesterfield Canal Partnership - working for the restoration of the Chesterfield canal and the archaeology of its surroundings.

Chesterfield Canal Trust - promoting the restoration and appropriate development of the Chesterfield Canal.

Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust - preserving the canals & tunnels of Dudley

~ Ethnoscope Film & Video - "Along the Erie Canal", USA (video tape)

Foxton Inclined Plane Trust (FIPT) and Canal Museum

Friends of Melingriffith water pump (sadly the Friends disbanded in 2013, but the website continues)

Friends of the Grand Western Canal

George Pearson's Canal site- a comprehensive guide to British canals and information on the net

Gloucester Waterways Museum - part of the National Waterways Museum

Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

Inland Waterways Heritage Network - a loose association of UK waterways museums

Jim Shead's Waterways Information - lots of details on UK waterways

Kennet & Avon Canal Museum and Trust

Lichfield & Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust- Official Site

London Canal Museum

Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes "In search of Agenoria".

Macclesfield Canal Society

Macclesfield Canal Society

National Waterways Museum (formerly Ellesmere Port Boat Museum)

Railway & Canal Historical Society

Railways & Canals of Telford, Shropshire

South pennine & Ashton under Lyne canals. Includes Rochdale & Huddersfield Narrow.

Steam narrow boat President

The Canal & River Trust - the charity entrusted with the care of 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.

The Horseboating Society

The Scottish Waterways Trust - charity looking after Scotlands canals and waterways.

The Waterways Recovery Group (WRG)

Tiverton Canal Co - operators of one of the last Horse-Drawn canal boats in the UK

Waterways Directory. A comprehensive search engine and directory dedicated to the Inland Waterways.

Wey & Arun Canal Trust

Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole Docks, formerly 'The Sobriety Project'