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Amberley Working Museum www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Amberley BN18 9LT England
Amberley Working Museum is an open-air museum dedicated to the industrial heritage of south-east England. Exhibits range from transport-based collections, such as the Southdown bus collection & the village garage, to industry-based collections such as the Print Workshop & Wheelwrights'.
Last updated: 2007-10-25
Astley Green Colliery Museum www.agcm.org.uk
Astley Green M29 7JB England
Astley Green Colliery Museum is situated next to the Bridgewater Canal and is Lancashire's only remaining colliery. The museum includes the largest collection of colliery locomotives in the United Kingdom, the largest steam winding engine ever used in the Lancashire Coalfield plus the headgear and capstan engine.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Black Country Living Museum www.bclm.co.uk
Dudley DY1 4SQ England
An urban heritage park to which buildings from throughout the Black Country have been relocated. The site includes trams, trolleybuses, coal mine, blacksmith's and canal plus a traditional pub and fish & chip shop.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Bratch Pumping Station www.thebratch.org
Wombourne WV5 8DW England
Bratch Pumping Station in Wombourne, Staffordshire is one of 50 steam pumping stations in England. It was built in 1895 and the two vertical triple expansion steam engines are housed in a Gothic style pumphouse which was built around the engine. Bratch locks on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal are nearby.
Last updated: 2010-08-21
British Lawnmower Museum www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/...
Southport PR8 5AJ England
A collection of over 200 vintage lawnmowers and an archive of information about lawnmowers. The Museum is also one of the World's leading authorities on vintage lawnmowers and can supply lawnmower parts.
Last updated: 2008-05-04
Chocolatería San Ginés en.wikipedia.org/...
Madrid Spain
Tiled cafe specialising in 'chocolate con churros', a cup of dark chocolate with long sticks of light, crisp doughnut-like material to dip in them. Open 24 hours per day (May 2010).
Last updated: 2010-05-18
Crossness Pumping Station www.crossness.org.uk/...
Abbey Wood, London SE2 9AQ England
The Beam Engine House of the Crossness Pumping Station is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building and contains the four original pumping engines.
Last updated: 2007-11-11
Goodison Park Stadium Tour www.evertonfc.com/...
Liverpool England
This is particularly draught do the staff - it is run by an Everton hero of the 1950's (who scored over 400 goals) who tells magnificent stories of the 'old days' of top division football.
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Great Dorset Steam Fair www.steam-fair.co.uk
South Down, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford England
Held on a 600 acre site and visted by over 200,000 visitors from both the UK and abroad.
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Hat Works www.hatworks.org.uk
Stockport SK3 0EU England
Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear.
Last updated: 2007-10-22
Historic Dockyard Chatham www.chdt.org.uk
Chatham ME4 4TZ England
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is a maritime heritage site that covers over 400 years of Britain's maritime history and provides the world's most complete dockyard of the age of sail.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Hook Norton Brewery www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/...
Hook Norton OX15 5NY England
Many of the Hook Norton Brewery's processes are still driven by a 25hp steam engine which was installed in 1899.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
John Betjeman www.johnbetjeman.com
England
Not a place but a person. John Betjeman loved 'draught' things including architecture, railways and canals and brought them to the attention of the public. John Betjeman will not only be remembered for his poetry but also for his love of, and fight to preserve, the 'draught' things in England.
Last updated: 2007-11-11
Kempton Great Engines www.kemptonsteam.org/...
Kempton TW13 6XH England
The world's largest fully operational inverted vertical triple expansion steam engine dating from 1926-1929.
Last updated: 2010-05-14
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk
Lynton/Lynmouth EX35 6EQ England
Victorian water powered funicular railway established in 1888.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Marble Arch www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Manchester M4 4HY England
Victorian pub with historic tiling and mosaic which was rediscovered behind boarding in the 1990's. The pub is also home to the organic Marble Brewery.
Last updated: 2007-12-30
Museum of Science and Industry www.msim.org.uk
Manchester M3 4FP England
Includes an interesting collection of railway locomotives and live industrial steam engines.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
National Brewery Centre www.nationalbrewerycentre.co.uk
Burton-on-Trent DE14 1NG England
Formerly the Bass Museum. Includes an explanation and artifacts of brewing using the unique Burton Union System, steam engines, vans and buses. The museum has a model of Burton-on-Trent in 1921 and includes a model railway. Worthington White Shield is brewed on site and can be sampled draught in the Brewery Tap.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Portland Basin Museum www.tameside.gov.uk/...
Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0QA England
The Portland Basin Museum is housed within the restored nineteenth century Ashton Canal Warehouse. The museum includes a 1920s street to allow you to find out how people used to live in Tameside.
Last updated: 2008-04-14
Saltburn Inclined Tramway www.saltburnclifflift.co.uk/...
Saltburn TS12 1HQ England
Opened on 28 June 1884 to transport people over the 120 feet drop from the town to the beach. The track is 207 feet long with a guage of 4' 2.5". The carriages carry 10 people and are powered by water balance. It is the oldest surviving water balanced cliff lift in the country and the second oldest surviving in the world.
Last updated: 2010-03-13
Scarborough Central Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2ER England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1881.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Scarborough South Cliff Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2HD England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1875.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
The Hythe
Maldon CM9 5HN England
The Hythe is situated at the head of the River Blackwater estuary and is home to a collection of historic vessels including Thames sailing barges. There are also two pubs at the Hythe and up the hill in Maldon are additional pubs and two breweries.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Thursford Collection www.thursford.com
Thursford NR21 0AS England
The Thursford Collection includes mechanical organs, traction engines, fairground carousels and a Wurlitzer cinema organ.
Last updated: 2007-10-14
Trattoria dai Tosi
Venice 738-Venezia Italy
Pizzeria/Trattoria in Secco Marina near the Giardini vaporetti stop, a few stops to the east of San Marco. Also does take away pizzas or stand in the street drinking beer. Half way along the street on the S side, beware similarly named place on N side.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine www.wlct.org/...
Wigan WN1 1BA England
The steam engine was installed at Trencherfield Mill in 1907 and is thought to be the world's largest original working mill steam engine. It has four-cylinders, a 70 tonne flywheel and produces 2,500 hp. Until the Mill's closure in the late 1960s it enabled power to be sent throughout the five floors of the mill to power thousands of cotton spinning machines.
Last updated: 2010-01-10
Walkley Clogs www.clogs.co.uk
Mytholmroyd HX7 5LR England
Walkley Clogs is Britain's last factory to make Clogs from start to finish in the traditional British style using a leather upper and wooden sole.
Last updated: 2008-04-22
Wieliczka Salt Works Museum www.muzeum.wieliczka.pl/...
Cracow Poland
One of the biggest mining museums in Europe. It is situated in the original underground excavations of the 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine. Things to see include the amazing carvings made in salt by the workers.
Last updated: 2007-10-24