Etruria Vale Road,
Etruria,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire,
ST1 4RB.
Tel: 01782 626 082.
Home to Jesse Shirley’s 1857 Bone and Flint Mill, the only remaining operational steam driven potters’ mill in the world. Driven by a 1820s Boulton…
Elizabethan Way,
Newhey,
Rochdale,
Lancashire,
OL16 4LE.
Tel: 07981 391 603.
Historic engine house containing two large important textile mill engines steamed from an original Lancashire Boiler. The 3,000hp Ellenroad engine is the…
The Old Works, Thames Water STW ,
Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood,
London,
Greater London,
SE2 9AQ.
Tel: 020 8311 3711.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s original 1865 (Grade One Listed) sewage pumping station, with four giant rotative beam engines (one in steam) and remarkable…
Crofton Pumping Station,
Crofton,
Marlborough,
Wiltshire,
SN8 3DW.
Tel: 01672 870 300.
The oldest working beam engine in the world, an 1812 Boulton & Watt, and an 1846 Harveys of Hayle, pump water to the summit level of the Kennet & Avon…
Blenheim Palace Sawmills,
Combe,
Long Hanborough,
Oxfordshire,
OX29 8ET.
Tel: 01993 358 694.
It is the original sawmill and workshop of the Blenheim Palace Estate, and is a Grade II* Listed building. This working industrial museum offers visitors…
Resembles a Victorian Chapel in style, which was built c.1900 to house two 1901 Renshaw of Stoke massive steam-driven beam engines, both now restored to…
Lodge Park,
Straffan,
Co. Kildare,
IRELAND.
Tel: 00 353 1 628 8412.
The Power Hall displays six large 19th century stationary engines running in steam on occasions. Demonstrations are included of steam powered electric…
Meadow Lane,
Stretton,
Burton-upon-Trent,
Staffordshire,
DE13 0DA.
Tel: 01283 509 929.
Claymills has four Woolf compound beam engines, two working, five Lancashire boilers, steam engines, steam-powered workshops with steam hammer, blacksmith’s…
The Old Pumping Station,
Cheddars Lane,
Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire,
CB5 8LD.
Tel: 01223 500 652.
Working museum with original 1895 Hathorn-Davey steam pumps and boilers, 1909 94hp National Gas engines. Other exhibits include 1845 horizontal steam engine…
Brede Waterworks,
Waterworks Lane,
Brede,
East Sussex,
TN31 6HG.
Tel: 01323 897 310.
Worthington Simpson & Tangye triple expansion pumping engines run on compressed air in original buildings. Also many other heritage steam, electric and…
Green Dragon Lane,
Brentford,
Greater London,
TW8 0EN.
Tel: 020 8568 4757.
It houses some of the world’s rarest working steam engines still in their original location and tells the incredible story of how the Victorians cleaned…
Gillians Lane,
Barnoldswick,
Lancashire,
BB18 5QR.
Tel: 07707 670 177.
The original 1920 mill steam engine was the 13th and last mill built in Barnoldswick, and is preserved in operating condition with working cotton weaving…
Hoopers Lane,
Westonzoyland,
Nr Bridgwater,
Somerset,
TA7 0LS.
Tel: 01278 691 595.
Grade II* Listed building (c1830) houses award winning 1861 Easton Amos steam land drainage machine. 1938 Marshall portable boiler used for raising steam.…
High Peak Junction,
Cromford,
Derbyshire,
DE4 5HW.
Tel: 01629 533 298.
Unique 1849 Graham & Co. beam engine pumps water from the River Derwent into the Cromford Canal. Steam supplied by two locomotive style boilers built by…
Low Road,
Forncett St Mary,
Nr Norwich,
Norfolk,
NR16 1JJ.
Tel: 01508 488 277.
Discover an award winning collection of spectacular stationary steam engines, hidden in the depths of the beautiful South Norfolk countryside. It gives…
Bridge Farm,
off A153, East of Tattershall Bridge,
Tattershall,
Lincolnshire,
LN4 4JG.
Tel: 01522 683 755.
Steaming 1856 beam engine driving a scoop wheel land drainage pump. Also working 1940 Ruston 7XHR diesel with Gwynnes centrifugal pump.
Hatfield Road,
Langford,
Nr Maldon,
Essex,
CM9 6QA.
Tel: 01621 843 183.
Housed in a former water pumping station, the museum contains a fascinating collection which ranges from a working overhead machine shop to a petrol powered…
The Green, Stradbally, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, IRELAND.
Houses many steam, fire and farm engines in the museum. These incluse a Land-Rover fire engine which was stationed at Stradbally fire station in approximately…
Harle Syke,
Burnley,
Lancashire,
BB10 2HX.
Tel: 01282 412 555.
The last surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill – relive the days when cotton was king and see the magnificent steam engine 'Peace' driving…
Broomy Hill,
Hereford,
Herefordshire,
HR4 0LJ.
Tel: 01432 361 147.
Classified by English Heritage as "a site of clear national importance", the museum is home to the oldest working triple expansion steam engine in the…
Hazeley Road,
Twyford,
Winchester,
Hampshire,
SO21 1QA.
Tel: 07516 458 900.
Discover the story of water extraction, softening and supply over the last 100 years at this Scheduled Ancient Monument located close to Winchester in…
Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, Co. Durham, DL3 8TF.
Illustrates the history of water supply, featuring a Teesdale compound rotative beam engine and Hornsby gas engine preserved in a waterworks dating from…
Waterworks Road,
Ryhope,
Sunderland,
Tyne & Wear,
SR2 0ND.
Tel: 0191 521 0235.
Illustrates aspects of water pumping. The two original Hawthorn beam engines of 1868, designed by Thomas Hawksley, have been restored and are steamed at…
Rigg Lane,
Ravenshead,
Nottinghamshire,
NG15 9AJ.
Tel: 0115 963 2938.
Britain’s finest Victorian fresh water pumping station. Two James Watt beam engines with Lancashire boilers. Robey winding engine from Linby Colliery,…
The second book in the series is the true story of a little quarry engine that is sold and travels to America. Follow her amazing adventure across…
Steam engine road run across the Derbyshire countryside
First published in 1962 as a small booklet, ‘Ploughing Engines at Work’ has been revised into a larger edition – A4 landscape, 76 pages with soft…
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Bring back memories of a bygone time with two books of outstanding photographs by well-known photographer Barry J Finch taken through the 1950s and 1960s – now available at an outstanding price.
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