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General I.A. & Related Organisations
'I Dig Sheffield', an online guide to the archaeology around Sheffield and the Peak District.
Alcester & District Local History Society - useful gazeteers
All about the Industrial Revolution
All Archaeology: categorized resource directory for everything about archaeology
Archaeological Sites Index - searchable database of more than 85,000 UK archaeological sites
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
ArchNet- The Archaeology Network Virtual library
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), History & Heritage Center
Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA)
British Association of Paper Historians: Paper, paper making, paper makers, mills, machinery and watermarks
British Brick Society
Caernarvonshire Historical Society
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Conservare nv, the European Heritage Forum
Copper Coast Geopark, Ireland
Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Czech Geological Survey
Derbyshire Archaeological Society
English Heritage- conservation of the built environment
Europamines - the European Mining Heritage Network
European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage (E-FAITH)
European Heritage Web Database and Calendar
Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology- includes info on threatened sites
Forest of Dean Local History Society
Geological of Survey Ireland
Geological Survey of Finland
Greater London IA Society (GLIAS)
Greenwich Industrial History Society, London
Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society (formerly Southampton Uni. I.A.Group)
Historical Metallurgy Society
Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland
Industrial Heritage of Ireland: Railways, Canals, Mining, Visitor Centres & much more.
Industrial History of Cumbria
Industrial Revolution- Essay topics online at Michigan State University
Institution of Civil Engineers - celebrating the 250th anniversary of Thomas Telford
Institution of Civil Engineers- Historical engineers and engineering. Visit the Knowledge & Expertise link
Institution of Electrical Engineers- history of the technology
Isle of Wight Industrial Archaeology Society
Living with History - The Industrial Heritage of Calderdale (Halifax Today)
Made in Birmingham
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
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
North East Industrial Archaeology Panel focuses on Sources of Information for research
but will be expanding.
Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group
Old Bricks - History at your feet. An interesting site covering bricks and brickworks
Onamission - aims to give industrial heritage a purpose. Also covers Electric Horology
Ordnance Survey, British mapmakers
Oxford House Industrial History Society at Risca Industrial History Museum in S.Wales
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England - Merged with English Heritage 1999
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)
Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stourbridge information, including the Stourbridge Lion locomotive
Surrey Industrial History Group
The Institution of Engineers Australia - Sydney Division
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
+ The remains of Monmouthshire's industrial heritage.
Trevithick Society- helping preserve the Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall
Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Wealden Iron Research Group, covers Sussex, Kent and Surrey Weald.
Wheels of Industry - history of coal mining, iron & steel and cotton in the Wigan area
Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society - an excellent website with a virtual museum and detailed information on local IA
Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology & Local History Society, Worcester
Industrial Museums
~ Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
Amberley Museum (Amberley Chalk Pits Museum)
Arbetets museum (Museum of Work), Sweden
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion
Beamish Open Air Museum- Official Site
Bergwerksmuseum Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German): Includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine
Big Pit Museum
Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall
Birmingham City Council: Soho House
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery: Soho House, Jewellery Quarter, Science Museum
Black Country Museum
~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight
Bletchley Park National Codes Centre - site of WW2 British codebreaking & birthplace of modern computing
Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama
British Engineerium
Cambridge Museum of Technology- preserved Victorian Pumping Station and Working Museum
Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum - Friends web site
Clearwell Caves - Ancient iron mines
Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill
Coors Visitor Centre & Museum of Brewing (formerly The Bass Museum), Burton-on-Trent
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 (Mosquito Aircraft Museum)
De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum) - Unofficial guide
Deustches Museum, Munich - (Science & technology- including textiles)
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (now also in English)
Dock Road Edwardian Pumping Station- Unique Grade 2 listed restored gas fired engines & pumps
Dolaucothi Gold mines museum
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA - 1st modern oil well
Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland (formerly Dalmellington Iron Works) [Sadly Closed]
Durham Mining Museum
~ East Carlton Countryside Park (includes East Carlton Steel heritage Centre)
Ecomuseum and Archives of the Boom Brickworks, Holland
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Museum, Germany, with virtual tour & Mineral Museum
Elsecar - follow the History, Heritage Centre link for brief info on the Newcomen Engine.
Florence Ironstone Mine- The last underground iron ore mine in the UK
Folldal Mines, Norway (Copper mining museum)
Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, Worcestershire. Water powered needle scouring & polishing mill.
Foxton Canal Museum
Gower Mill and Heritage Centre, South Wales - one of the oldest welsh "Toll" mills.
Great Orme Ancient Copper Mines museum
Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy
Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
Heights of Abraham mine museum
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire
Henry Ford Museum
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Kennet & Avon Canal Museum
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London
Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum
L’Argentière - France (Mining heritage site)
Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Langton Matravers Museum & Local History Society (formerly the Coachouse Museum, Purbeck stone industry)
Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada
Lewarde Historical Mining Centre, Northern France
Lion Salt Works Trust, Northwich, Cheshire
LKAB -worlds largest underground iron ore mine & musuem, Kiruna, Northern Sweden
London Canal Museum
London Transport Museum
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.)
Mineral Museums of Finland
Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre- covers the tramways and mines around Redruth, Cornwall
Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
Museos de la Industria, la Ciencia la Tecnica - Links to industrial museums in Spain (in Spanish, Google translation to English available)
Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Museum of Flight
Museum of Industrial Archaeology & Textile (MIAT), Ghent, Belgium
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
~ Museum of Scottish lead mining in Jorbons Souterrain pages
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 Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park- restored Colossus computer & much more
National Railway Museum York
Netherlands Textile Museum (Nederlands Textielmuseum), Tilburg, Netherlands
New Lanark, cotton mill village and World Heritage Site
Norfolk Windmills Trust
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Nenthead mines and much more
Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (plus Gladstone Pottery & Etruria Industrial Museums)
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney- has a working 1784 Boulton & Watt engine
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
RAF Museums - Cosford Aerospace & Hendon
Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Risca Industrial History Museum in S.Wales
Rüdersdorf: Limekilns and limestone quarrying; industrial monuments in a parkland setting.
Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland
Salt Museum, Germany
Salt Museum, Northwich
Science Museum, London
Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network - some material on New Lanark.
~ Scottish Mining Museum in Jorbons Souterrain pages
Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
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
Sir Richard Arkwright's, Masson Mills, Derbyshire, Working Textile Museum
Somerset Brick & Tile Museum, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset
Spotswood Pumping Station, Melbourne, Australia
Steam Museum, Ireland - in impressive buildings & grounds near Dublin
Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
~ Tar Tunnel, Coalport
Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington
Tetley's Brewery Wharf Museum (and conference centre)
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 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 - trivial dumbed-down website
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
Tom Leonard Mining Museum (Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum)
Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine
UK Museums & Galleries A-Z
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Belfast
Virtual Libray Museums Page
Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur
Walsall Leather Museum
Waterworks Museum - Hereford
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum
Willenhall Lock Museum (The Locksmiths House)
Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society - an excellent website with a virtual museum and detailed information on local IA
Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers
Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum, Earby
Zloty Stok Gold Mine and Museum - Poland
Industrial Sites
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
Alcester & District Local History Society - useful gazeteers
Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Part of Derbyshire Caving Club's site)
Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO Site)
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
~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight
? Boughey's Mill- a water-powered corn mill in Staffordshire
Burlesdon Brickworks, Hampshire
Burton 2000 - The webpage of Burton upon Trent (Brewing etc..)
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Cumbria- Industrial History Sites
Das Ruhrgebiet - industrial pictures of the Ruhr covering the past 50 years
Delabole slate quarry, Cornwall
Eli Whitney Armory site, USA
English China Clay International well-illustrated information on China Clay production
Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy
Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
Industrial Buildings in Tampere City, Finland
Kelly Shiny Ore Mine and Kelly Mine Preservation Society, Devon.
Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire
Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Lower Kem Mill Bleaching & Printing Works, Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire
Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
~ Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Nenthead mines and much more
Palmerston North Electric Power Station, New Zealand - a 1924 power station
Pilchard Works, Newlyn- Britain's last salt pilchard factory
Politiko Phorades - excavations of a bronze age smetling site, Cyprus
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
~ Salts Mill, Bradford (single page)
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Sitios de Interes. Mapas de Patrimonio Industrial - Maps of industrial heritage sites in Spain (in Spanish, Google translation to English available)
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
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
Urban Exploration, Australia- features derelict & abandoned industrial buildings
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
? Willlesborough Windmill, Kent- and other windmill information
Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers
Iron & Steel Industry
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc..
Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama
Broseley Local History Society- all about the Shropshire town & home of the Wilkinson Society
Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.
Clydebridge Steel Works plus other Colvilles / British Steel / Corus iron and steel works in Scotland
Corus Group (once British Steel)
DK Recycling: blast furnaces turn waste into useful metal - an excellent firm run to benefit its employees and our environment.
~ East Carlton Countryside Park (includes East Carlton Steel heritage Centre)
Hawley Collection of edge-tools and cutlery, mainly from Sheffield
Henry Cort: A good factual site about the "father of the Iron Trade", one of the most neglected figures of the Industrial Revolution.
Historical Metallurgy Society
Les roues des forges et les martinets - water powered forges, tilt hammers, pelton wheels etc.
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Mining - Europe (covers mines and iron works in Europe)
Regards de chaussée français anciens / Old French Iron Manhole Tops
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stahlseite - Pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc..
Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet
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 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
Cauldwells Mill Trust, Rowsley, Matlock, Derbyshire - water turbine driven flour mill.
Charlecote Mill, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire
Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust, Staffordshire
Chesterton Windmill, Warwickshire
Churchill Forge water mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Shaped spades, shovels & other tools with tilt hammers.
Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill
Corbridge mill (Anglo-saxon mill excavation)
Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent & other Kent Mills (Crabble Corn Mill Trust)
Crumplehorn Mill and Inn, Polperro, Cornwall
Dakeyne high pressure hydraulic disk engine 1830. Ladygrove Mill, Two Dales, Derbyshire
Daniel's Mill, Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mühlenkunde und Mühlenerhaltung (German only)
Dudley Caving Club (formerly Dudley Cave Rescue Team) and Ruiton Windmill
Eling Tide Mill, Totton & Eling, Southampton, Hampshire
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 - one of the oldest welsh "Toll" mills.
Greens Mill & Science Centre, Nottingham (former home of mathematical physicist, George Green)
Haxted Watermill Museum & restaurant - a history
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 Windmills - good starting point for mills of this area.
Little Salkeld Watermill, Cumbria - working flour mill
Longbridge Mill, Basingstoke
Mapledurham Watermill, UK
Mark Berry Windmill site, photographs etc..
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 Trust - sharing records and history relating to traditional mills and milling
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
North East Mills Group
North West Mill 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
Sarehole mill, Birmingham
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
Stroudwater Textile Trust & Dunkirk Mill Centre, Nailsworth
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 (follow links to sport & leisure, museums)
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.
Upminster Windmill
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
Warwickshire Archaeology Research Team. Chesterton Windmill, roman kilns, etc…
Wellesbourne Watermill, Warwickshire
Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
Whitemill water mill, on the River Stour, Shapwick near Wimborne, Dorset
Wicken Windmill, Cambridgeshire. Corn, smockmill
? Willlesborough Windmill, Kent- and other windmill information
Wilton Windmill, between Great Bedwyn and East Grafton, Wiltshire. 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 - was Windmills of England
Windmills in Eastern Germany (German and English)
Woodbridge Tide Mill, Suffolk. Working tide mill
Worsborough Mill on Historic Barnsley (follow places of interest link)
Wymondham Windmill , Wymondham, Leicestershire.
Mining
Abenteuer Bergbau
AditNow: information sharing resource & discussion forum for the mine exploration community with a searchable database and thousands of photographs.
Alaska's Gold, Alaska, USA
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
Astley Green Colliery Museum
Atlas Coal Mine, Canada (run by the A.C.M.Historical Society)
Australian Winding Engine Driver Contractor, JDC Pty.- Fascinating info, photos & links
Baseresult Ltd., owners of South Crofty tin mine have been giving tours of the upper levels since 2003 via the Tuckingmill decline
Bath stone industry
Bath Stone Mines
Bath Stone Mines around Corsham (Brian Gibbs)
Beamish Open Air Museum- Official Site
Bergwerksmuseum Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German): Includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine
Bersham Colliery Trust
Berwyn Slate Quarry
Big Pit Museum
Blue John Mine and Cavern
Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall
Carn Brea Mining Society formed in 1975 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
Coal mining history resource centre
Coal Mining in Lunesdale
Coal mining links
Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain)
Collieries in Northumberland and Durham
Colorado School of Mines
Cornish engines- an superb collection of 3D renderings
Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Delabole slate quarry, Cornwall
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (now also in English)
Disused mines in Sardinia: itineraries, images, information & histories.
Dolaucothi Gold mines museum
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA - 1st modern oil well
Dudley Caving Club (formerly Dudley Cave Rescue Team) and Ruiton Windmill
? Dudley Limestone mines
Durham Mining Museum
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines De Saint-Etienne, Rhone-Alpes region,
France (French only)
Ecton Mine Educational Trust, Ecton Copper Mine, Derbyshire
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Museum, Germany, with virtual tour & Mineral Museum
Elsecar - follow the History, Heritage Centre link for brief info on the Newcomen Engine.
English China Clay International well-illustrated information on China Clay production
ERMINA Equipe Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes & Recherches Archéologiques sur les Mines Anciennes &c.
Europamines - the European Mining Heritage Network
Fife Mining Heritage Society
Florence Ironstone Mine- The last underground iron ore mine in the UK
Folldal Mines, Norway (Copper mining museum)
Forest of Dean Coal Mining
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
GAG - Grubenarchäologische Gesellschaft - German Mining history society
Glengowla Silver Lead mine, Co. Galway - Ireland's only show mine
Great Orme Ancient Copper Mines museum
Great Orme Exploration Society- exploring 4000 year old copper mines
Grimes Graves prehistoric flint mines in Norfolk, England
Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders
~ Hawkstone Park follies and copper mine (In grounds of hotel)
Health & Safety Executive- Mines Inspectorate, UK
Heights of Abraham mine museum
Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Heroes of Mine - a brief history of Mines Rescue in the UK
Hidden Earth - National caving conference
History of coal mining in the Illawarra region of NSW Australia
Huskar Pit Memorial- on Historic Barnsley (follow: About Barnsley, Historical Barnsley)
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
In memory of Philip Healey - Ilkeston Mines Rescue (includes lots of other information too)
International Mining History Congress: Redruth, Cornwall, 12 - 15 June 2009
International Souterrain Union - lots of useful links (site in several languages)
Kelly Shiny Ore Mine and Kelly Mine Preservation Society, Devon.
Kernow, Land of Tin: Words and pictures of Cornish mines, including South Crofty
Killhope Lead Mining Centre, The North of England Lead Mining Museum
Kola superdeep borehole- 12.26 km!
L’Argentière - France (Mining heritage site)
La Mineria de La Union y La Sierra de Cartagena - Mines of La Union & the Sierra Minera of Murcia, Spain (in Spanish)
Laxey Mines Research Group, Isle of Man
Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada
Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales
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
Llywernog Silver-Lead mine "A symphony of turning wheels" A mining museum for 27 years.
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.
Mine-explorer.co.uk - All about mine exploration, with excellent photographs and useful information.
Miner's Flame Safety Lamps - excellent site covering the history & collection of miners lamps
Miner's Lamps - a history (Collectors Page in English and French)
Miners Advice - Aimed at British coal miners, includes much useful and topical information
Mines and Caves of North Wales
http://www.cowdery.demon.co.uk/Mining.htm
Mines and Quarries of North Wales: A gazetteer and bibliography of the mines and quarries of north Wales
Mines of the Isle of Man
Mining - Europe (covers mines and iron works in Europe)
Mining Archeology in Sardinia
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 Trust of Ireland
Mining History Association (now a Yahoo group)
Mining History information Pages (by Peter Claughton at Exeter University)
Mining History Network - has scores of useful addresses
Mining History of Devon & Cornwall
Mining History Research Group, Bramberg, Austria
Mining Technology - The website for the mining industry
Mining USA- Mining organisations and mining history
Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre
Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites)
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland
~ Museum of Scottish lead mining in Jorbons Souterrain pages
NAMHO conference 2010: "Fuelling the Industrial Revolution''. 4th - 6th June, Coalpit Heath, South Gloucestershire
National Association of Mining History Organisations
National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
Naturalization at the Steep Rock Iron Mines minesite, Canada - photos
Nenthead Mines Exploration: Information on the area, details of the mines and trips with many photos.
North American Mining History Association
North Pennines Heritage Trust - Nenthead mines and much more
Northern Mines Research Society
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Collieries (Terry Blythe)
~ Oaks Colliery Disaster Rescuers' Memorial (Oaks Explosion)
Parys copper mine, Anglesey
Parys Underground Group - Exploring the famous Parys Mountain (Mynydd Trysglwyn) copper mine on Anglesey
Peak District Mining History Society (PDMHS)
Peak District Mining Museum & Temple Mine
Photographs of bunkers & stone mines
Pleasley Colliery
Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall
Politiko Phorades - excavations of a bronze age smetling site, Cyprus
Poynton Collieries (Cheshire), (by David Kitching)
Psychogoat: Fascinating photos of machinery accidents in opencast mines
QuarryEd - education resources and careers information for teachers and students: covers mines and quarries
Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site)
Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway
Rhosydd & other North Wales mines
Rhosydd - a Ffestiniog slate quarry
Ríotinto Mine (Huelva-España) - in Spanish only
Rosevale Tin Mine, Zennor: The only underground restoration project of its kind in Cornwall
Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy
~ Scottish Mining Museum in Jorbons Souterrain pages
Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery
Shoalhaven Mining History, Australia
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
Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales
Snailbeach mine, Shropshire
Snibston Discovery Park (based at Snibston Colliery)
South Wales Coalfield collection
Spinx Productions splendid video Kitty to the Cape, about Tin & copper mining in West Cornwall
Staffordshire coal mining
State Mine Heritage Park & Railway, a former New South Wales Coal Mine (Australia)
Subterranea Britannica- Promoting the study and use of man-made underground space
Subterranean limestone quarries in Holland
Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire
Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales
~ Tar Tunnel, Coalport
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
The Sierra Minera Foundation (Fundacion Sierra Minera): Associations and people concerned with mining history in Murcia, Spain
Tower Colliery photographic exhibition
Trevithick Trust- preserving Cornwalls Industrial Archaeology
Tribute to the Rhondda Valleys- covers various aspects of the Valleys including the Tonypandy Riots
Troon Exiles: Provides a link for all Cornish men & women now living elsewhere. Has much of mining interest.
Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine
U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration
Welsh Coal Mines
Welsh Mines Society
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum
Women in the Coal Mining industry
Woodhorn colliery museum
Yorkshire Main Colliery
Zloty Stok Gold Mine and Museum - Poland
Miscellaneous
Archaeology On-line Guide - a comprehensive set of resources in German
Birmingham's ASSIST page has a lot of information about the region
Brewery History Society
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 in Jorbons Souterrain pages
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.
Dudley- information about the town and its environment
Fossils of Nova Scotia, a Nova Scotia Museum Site
Gawith and Hogarth Snuff Makers- owners of Helsington Snuff Mill
~ Grand Shaft, Dover in Jorbons Souterrain pages
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 in Jorbons Souterrain pages
Historic Barnsley- Main page (Follow: About Barnsley, Historical Barnsley)
Hudson History - Lunesdale Mining, Industrial History & Bookshop
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
Industrial Buildings in Tampere City, Finland
Industrial Heritage Magazine- the only independant magazine dealing with historic industry
Industrial Revolution- Many links covering the Industrial Revolution in the USA & Britain
Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
National Piers Society - promoting the interests of seaside piers.
Northern Ireland Industrial Heritage
Old Bricks - History at your feet. An interesting site covering bricks and brickworks
Regards de chaussée français anciens / Old French Iron Manhole Tops
Rhondda Research - covers the geneaology of the Rhondda Valleys
Shareshill Vintage Fair
Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing.
Shropshire Geological Society
Snuff Appreciation site in the USA- covers sites and practices around the world
Society for Clay Pipe Research
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
~ Swanage Tithe Barn in Jorbons Souterrain pages
Teesside tourist, information about Middlesbrough etc.
Telford Gold: A directory of what's on, local links and businesses
The History and Development of the Lock and Key
Tribute to the Rhondda Valleys- covers various aspects of the Valleys including the Tonypandy Riots
Tyneside Family & Community History- 19th Century Colliery villages
Urban Exploration, Australia- features derelict & abandoned industrial buildings
Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur
Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers
~ Walsall attractions
Warwickshire Archaeology Research Team. Chesterton Windmill, roman kilns, etc…
Road & Rail Transport
Age of Steam- Timothy Hackworth, works, museum & loco photographs
Association of Railway Museums, USA : 100s of links
Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group (on the site of Dalmellington Ironworks)
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion
Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall
Birmingham Railway Museum
California State Railway Museum, USA
Churnet Valley Railway, Cheddleton, Staffordshire Moorlands
Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith Railway Web Site
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden
David Bradley's site, with lots of pictures of London Transport trolleybuses.
Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland (formerly Dalmellington Iron Works) [Sadly Closed]
East Anglian Traction Engine Club
Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
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
Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society - based at Bursledon Brickworks Museum
Huge trolleybus and bus website
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 and information from all over 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 Railway Society of Australia
London Transport Museum
MailRail - London's Post Office Railway- 23 miles of underground 2 foot gauge line
Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (support organisation for the North Norfolk Railway)
Miles Canyon Historical Railway Society, Alaska
Milestones- Hampshire's Living History Museum (transport, technology etc.)
Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre- covers the tramways and mines around Redruth, Cornwall
National Railway Museum York
National Traction Engine Trust
Orange Empire Railway Museum, USA
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Railway Friends Society, Belgrade
Railway Heritage of Thessaloniki, Greece. 1871-2001
Railway Preservation News, USA
Railways & Canals of Telford, Shropshire
Restoration of a 100 year old rotary snow plough, on WP & YR Railroad, Alaska
Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway
Road Locomotive Society
Road Roller Association
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Scott's Railroad Archaeology- Boston & Maine Rail Road, USA
Severn Valley Railway, Bridgnorth
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust
South Tynedale Railway- unofficial pages of this narrow gauge railway, Alston, 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
Steamlocomotive.com
Swannington Heritage Trust - Hough Windmill, Swannington railway incline, Snibston No.3 Colliery. Leicestershire
Talyllyn Railway
Telford Steam Railway
The Cumbria Omnibus Group
The Traction Engine Pages by Martin Pavey
Trams old & new
Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
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 and Transport History
? Voice of the Iron Horse- steam locomotive whistles
Watercress Line, Hampshire
Welsh Highland Railway
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Society
West of England Steam Engine Society
White Pass & Yukon Railroad- the railway built of gold
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum
Workington Transport Heritage Trust - railways & buses
Ships & Ports
British Ships- including Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine - This site to disappear soon !
Consuta Trust - preserving the Steam launch Consuta
Fulton Steamboat Foundation - planning to build a replica of Robert Fulton's "Clermont".
German Steamboat Society
Inboard marine engine research and information. Collectors, restorers, and users.
International Steamboat Society
? Maritime Engineering Historical Research
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Migges Glaser's Dampfboote - DS LAGAVULIN
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Paddlesteamer Patria
Restoring the Maid of the Loch steam ship on Loch Lomond
Scottish Paddle Steamer, Maritime, Rail and Scottish local nostalgic video footage
SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat site
? 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
Steam narrow boat President
Swedish East Indiaman "Götheborg", a magnificent oak & pine 18th century sailing ship replica
Vereniging Stoomvaart - Dutch Steam Society
Windermere Steamboat Museum
Specialists
A M Productions Inc- Videos for mining technologists
Abandoned Places - Photographs mostly of Belgian factories, stylishly presented
Ambra Books- local, industrial, mining and social
America's Defense Monitor- US producer of PBS TV programs, inc. Mining subjects
Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site
Creative Commons helps you publish your video online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work
Dubtown - excellent artistic photographs and video of industry
Forgotten Places - Photos of Belgian industrial remains
Friched.net - French industry in photographs
Horology, including Clocktrust and the largest international historic electric horological group.
Hudson History - Lunesdale Mining, Industrial History & Bookshop
Ian Cooper's superb photographs of mining and industrial subjects
Industrial Vibes - Photos of industrial remains in Upper Silesia, Poland
Ironinspired.com - combining the designs of 19th century cast iron, with a 21st century style.
Kate Boats - hire fleet and boat builders
KwMap.com - browse the Keyword Map of iarecordings.org
Lab-Wan - Photos of Belgian industrial remains
Landmark Publishing: industrial & mining history etc, steam: new series of George Watkins photos
Landscape-guides - an e-book store specialising in walking and cycling guides, particularly in north Wales
London's Industrial Heritage- Peter Marshalls photographic collection
Lost & Least - Well presented photos of Italian abandoned industry
Miner's Flame Safety Lamps - excellent site covering the history & collection of miners lamps
Miner's Lamps - a history (Collectors Page in English and French)
Moore Books- Industrial history and mining books at attractive prices
Nautical Books- specialists in new and out of print nautical books
Restoration of a 100 year old rotary snow plough, on WP & YR Railroad, Alaska
Rob Preston Model Locos: Working Steam Miniature Replicas of Neath Abbey Iron Company locos
Robert Forsythe Industrial Heritage consultant- Models, timetables, postcards, books, tickets &c.
SharingHistory.com put hard-to-find public-domain books & maps on CD-ROM. Includes rare mining machinery textbooks
StahlArt - superlative photography of Industrial History and Architecture; one of the earliest websites of artistic industrial photos
Stahlseite - Pictures of the vanishing European iron & steel industry
Still Alive - Photographs of abandoned factories in Italy
+ Stock Images at Can Stock Photo
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
Unsigned Melody: A free web site for unsigned bands, singers and songwriters - Get your music heard!
Steam Power
~ Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
Brede Steam Engine Society (page with lots of pictures)
Brian Carter's Steam Modelling & Technology site
British Engineerium
Bull Engine Restoration Project (at Kew Bridge Steam Museum)
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
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.
Early steam engines 1690-1840 A splendid site about history of steam engines with animations!
~ Eastney Pumping Station (very simple website)
Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale - the only complete working steam cotton-mill engine & boilers.
Elsecar - follow the History, Heritage Centre link for brief info on the Newcomen Engine.
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum - stationary steam engines in steam, 1st Sunday May to Nov.
Friends of Sandfields Pumping Station, South Staffs
Fulton Steamboat Foundation - planning to build a replica of Robert Fulton's "Clermont".
German Steamboat Society
Gula Java DVDs: Java's historic steam powered sugar mills
History and Growth of the Steam Engine- The 1878 book by Robert H. Thurston on-line!
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
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London
Lancashire Traction Engine Club
Landmark Publishing: industrial & mining history etc, steam: new series of George Watkins photos
Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire
Markham Grange Steam Museum - Brodsworth near Doncaster. Regular steamings of engines.
Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group
~ Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire
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 stationary engines
North West Steam Society
Northern Mill Engine Society Collection - includes a 'virtual tour'
Old Engine House, Norfolk - preserved engines including Riches & Watts
Olean - Java's historic steam powered sugar mill
Palmerston North Electric Power Station, New Zealand - a 1924 power station
Papplewick Pumping Station- the site and the website both worth a visit!
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
SS Elfdalen, Swedish Steam boat site
? 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
Steam Car Club of Great Britain
Steam engines, including Riches & Watts
Steam narrow boat President
Steam Up - website for steam rallies
Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington
Temples of Steam DVDs: Burma's historic steam powered rice mills
The Traction Engine Pages by Martin Pavey
Twyford Waterworks Trust, Hants, steam powered waterworks/pumping station
Vereniging Stoomvaart - Dutch Steam Society
Waterworks Museum - Hereford
Watts Campbell Co. - restoring a 1918 Corliss Stationery Steam Engine
West of England Steam Engine Society
Westonzoyland Pumping Station- museum of Steam power and land drainage in Somerset
Windermere Steamboat Museum
Textile Industry
Arkwright's Cromford Mill, Derbyshire
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire
Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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
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 Institute
Bristol University Historical Archaeology of the Modern World MA
Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall
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.
IA notes, links, etc., for an IA Course at the Free University of Brussels. [Mainly in Dutch]
Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University, USA
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 and Transport History
Waterways
Ashton Canal and Peak Forest Canal (Canal Junction Cruising Guide)
Ashton Canal, Macclesfield Canal and Peak Forest Canal
Birmingham Canal Navigation Society
Boat Museum Ellesmere Port
British Waterways
~ Canal Blacksmith's Shop, Hartshill- small museum in workshop by Coventry Canal.
Canalbarge.co.uk: Unused timeshare weeks on narrowboats for hire at Barton turns Marina
Dudley Canal Trust - preserving the canals & tunnels of Dudley
~ Ethnoscope Film & Video- "Along the Erie Canal", USA (video tape)
Foxton Canal Museum
George Pearson's Canal site- a comprehensive guide to British canals and information on the net
Grand Western Horseboat Company
Inland Waterways Association and the Waterways Recovery Group
~ Inland Waterways Heritage Network
Jim Shead's Waterways Information - lots of details on UK waterways
Kate Boats - hire fleet and boat builders
Kennet & Avon Canal Museum
Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
Lichfield & Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust- Official Site
London Canal Museum
Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria"
Macclesfield Canal
Macclesfield Canal Society
Narrowboat-holidays.org.uk: Unused timeshare weeks on narrowboats for hire
Northwich Water Heritage Trail- guided walk featuring the IA of the Weaver
Navigation.
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Railways & Canals of Telford, Shropshire
South pennine & Ashton under Lyne canals. Includes Rochdale & Huddersfield Narrow.
Steam narrow boat President
The Horseboating Society
Waterway Partners- Register your view about the waterways
Waterways Directory. A comprehensive search engine and directory dedicated to the Inland Waterways.
Waterways Trust, includes catalogue of WW Museums collections
Wey & Arun Canal Trust
Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole Docks, formerly 'The Sobriety Project'
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