Industrial Heritage

Explore the vast industrial heritage of the UK with reviews, news, event listings, website links and much more from hundreds of museums, collections and heritage sites.

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Nearer to God than Thee: The story of the Cornish Miner lost on the Titanic

Jamie Maddison continues his series uncovering Cornish Mining Heritage by travelling to St Ives to find the grave of a young Cornish Tin Miner who lost his life on the SS Titanic.

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Beyond the Beaches: Exploring the World Heritage of Cornish Mining

Jamie Maddison explores the history and heritage of mining in Cornwall and speaks to David Rutherford, of Cornish Mining World Heritage - the organisation working to promote it to a wider audience.

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Walking Central Cornwall's Mining Heritage: The Great Flat Lode Trail

Jamie Maddison begins his discovery of some of the fascinating mining heritage sites that litter the landscape of Cornwall by exploring the area around Camborne and Redruth.

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Magnum Photos' Stuart Franklin presents Farmscapes at Scottish National Portrait Gallery

The scope of an agricultural industry which takes up three-quarters of Scotland's land mass is the subject of three years of photos at the SNPG in Edinburgh.

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Culture24 launches new Cornish Mining World Heritage internship in build-up to Olympics

Culture24 is working with Cornish Mining World Heritage on a new journalist internship scheme designed to promote Cornwall's mining heritage during the Olympic year.

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Jan Nowak's Time and Place at the National Mining Museum in Newtongrange

Jan Nowak's uncle and grandfather were both miners at Midlothian's Lady Victoria Colliery before its demise in 1981. His new exhibition explores the impact of the closure.

Funds needed to repaint lighthouse before the Olympic torch passes Beachy Head in July

The 'Keep Our Stripes' campaign needs to raise £27,000 for restoration work on the site before the Olympic torch passes through Eastbourne later this year.

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COTTON: Global Threads arrive at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester

Four years in the making, curator Jennifer Harris and her team take over a floor of the Whitworth for an exploration of the cotton industry which tells its 200-year-old story through installations,......

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In Pictures: The power of No Redemption at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield

Photographer Keith Pattison depicts a community's defence of their way of life during the miners' strikes of 1984 and 1985 in a visually powerful exhibition in Yorkshire.

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Sheffield Hallam University and Museums Sheffield put metalwork online in Objects in 3D

Researchers and curators have teamed up for an innovative new online adventure shedding new light on the metalwork masterpieces Sheffield is famous for.

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Avoncroft Museum set for more restoration heroics after storms batter historic windmill

An 18th century windmill which was just days from being fully restored at the Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromsgrove needs a £5,000 repair job after "horrifying" storm damage.

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The Culture24 Review of 2011: New Museum Openings

From new suites of maritime marvels to Ancient Greece and Egypt, we take a look at some of the best new museums and heritage spaces which have appeared during 2011.

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New Spode History Centre to open in Stoke on Trent for Spring 2012

An important aspect of the ceramic heritage of Stoke-on-Trent is to be preserved as the Spode Museum Trust reveal plans to open a visitor centre at the former Spode Factory site.

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Photographer Jean-Claude Wicky links Cornwall with Bolivia in Mineros, Bolivia at Geevor

A "stunning" show in the fitting setting of Cornwall's Geevor Tin Mine displays photos taken by a Swiss photographer during 17 years of visits to Bolivian mining centres.

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Ghosts of Lady Victoria Colliery to light up Midlothian skies over National Mining Museum

An innovative lighting system installed at the National Mining Museum in Scotland will make miners and pit wheels appear to be moving as part of a programme of enhancements.

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