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A to Z Archive Video Archive
The main subjects in our industrial archaeology video archive are listed below under alphabetical subject headings.
 
Where material has been released as a Production or Compilation or is the subject of a features page the main title for the material is a link to a page which has more in-depth information on it.
 
Archive Material Note
Not all the items listed below have been released. Some entries may only comprise a few incidental shots.
 
The only material listed here is original IAR video footage recorded between 1978 and the present.
Subject headings: Bricks, Tiles & Pipes Civil Engineering Docks & Ports
Iron & Steel Lock & Key Making MineCam Mills
Mining, Metal Mining, non-metal Metal Working Miscellaneous
Railways Stone & Clay Steam Power Transporter Bridges
Textile Industries Urban Environment Waterways Craft Water Industry
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Bricks, Tiles & Pipes
HAND MADE BRICKS (Oak Farm brickworks working)
Brick clamp experiment at Maw's Craft Centre, (Jackfield, Telford, Shropshire) [1]
Claughton Manor brickworks, aerial ropeway working (Lancaster) [1]
Doseley pipe works, Telford (Shropshire)
Kings Mills brick works, Abenbury, Wrexham (North Wales)
Lawton Grange brickwork, snr Lichfield (Staffordshire)
Lightmoor Refractories brick works, Telford (Shropshire)
Millburgh tile works (disused), Jackfield (Shropshire)
Preston Grange Hoffmann brickkiln (Scotland)
Smitheman/Southorn clay pipe works (disused), Broseley (Shropshire)
Stewartby brick works & clay quarry (Bedfordshire) [1]
Whittlesey brick works & clay quarry, nr Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) [1]

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Civil Engineering
NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL, THE (Building a new canal tunnel, 1984, West Midlands) [1] [2]
TELFORD'S LAST CANAL (Shropshire Union canals)
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel (Building a new canal tunnel in 1989, Dudley, West Midlands)
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989 (Construction work etc. Dudley, West Midlands)
Carrickarede footbridge, Co. Antrim (Northern Ireland)
Channel tunnel (a train trip through the tunnel)
Clifton suspension bridge (Bristol)
Conway bridge, Conway (North Wales)
Humber bridge (East Yorkshire)
Kincardine swing bridge (Scotland)
Menai suspension bridge (North Wales)
Saltash bridge, Plymouth (Devon/Cornwall)
Severn suspension bridges (Gloucestershire)
The Iron Bridge (including restoration work), Ironbridge (Shropshire) [1]

Docks & Ports
Aberystwyth (Wales)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Avonmouth docks (Avon) [3]
Birkenhead docks (Liverpool)
Bristol docks (floating harbour), including the 1996 International Festival of the Sea (Bristol) [3]
Bullo Pill dock (Gloucestershire)
Cardiff docks (Wales) [3]
Charlestown china clay dock (Cornwall)
Cobh docks, Co. Cork (Ireland)
Dublin port (Ireland)
Dun Laoghaire port (Ireland)
Falmouth docks (Cornwall)
Gloucester docks (Gloucestershire) [1] [3]
Goole docks (East Yorkshire) [1]
Grangemouth docks, Grangemouth (Scotland)
Grimsby dock (North-east Lincolnshire)
Harrington harbour (Cumbria)
Holyhead harbour, Angelsey (North Wales)
Hull docks (Kingston-upon-Hull)
Immingham dock (North-east Lincolnshire)
Lydney dock (Gloucestershire)
Maryport dock (Cumbria)
Par harbour (aerial) (Cornwall)
Portishead docks (North Somerset)
Sharpness docks (Gloucestershire)
Southampton port (Hampshire)
Teignmouth clay docks (Devon)
Underfall yard, Bristol Docks (Bristol) [1]
Waterford harbour (Ireland)
Whitehaven harbour (Cumbria)
Workington harbour (Cumbria)
Zebrugge (Bruges) docks (Belgium)

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Iron & Steel
HAND ROLLING OF STEEL (John Bradley rolling mill in use)
August Thyssen Hütte ironworks, Bruckhausen (Germany)
Backbarrow iron works & blast furnace, disused (Cumbria)
Bickley's foundry, cupola furnaces working (Walsall, West Midlands) [1]
Coalbrookdale (various views) (Shropshire)
Consett steel works, derelict site (Durham)
Creevelea blast furnace, Co. Leitrim (Ireland)
DK Recycling, Duisberg, a long tour of the works in 2002 with the Managing Director (Germany) [1]
Duddon charcoal blast furnace (disused), Duddon (Cumbria)
Dyfi charcoal blast furnace, (Wales)
Hüttenwerke Krupp-Mannesmann blast furnaces, Hüttenheim (Germany)
Landschaftpark Duisberg-Nord, preserved Thyssen blast furnace, gasholder, ore bunkers (Germany) [1]
Lilleshall Co. Lodge furnaces (disused), Telford (Shropshire)
Linley/Wren's Nest Forge (disused), Apley (Shropshire)
Maddock's ironworks cupola furnace (disused), Telford (Shropshire)
Madeley Court ironworks (disused), Telford (Shropshire)
Morley Park Ironworks blast furnaces (disused), Heage (Derbyshire)
Newtown Crommelin blast furnace, (Ireland)
Rockley Abbey charcoal blast furnace (disused), Worsbrough (Barnsley)
Skinningrove rolling mill, (Cleveland)
Thyssen Hüttenbetrieb Meiderich AG, preserved blast furnace site, Duisberg (Germany)
Thyssen-Krupp Stahl Bruckhausen steelworks (Germany)
Wilkinson monument, (Cumbria)

Lock & Key Making
HAND MADE PADLOCKS (R.J.Locks)
(C 4) H.E.Fletcher, Cabinet Lock Makers ()
(C 5) Arthur Hough & Sons, Key makers (Essington, West Midlands)
(C 6) R.J.Locks, Lock makers & Repairers (Willenhall, West Midlands)
(C 7a) Charles Starkey, Ship Lock Maker (Willenhall, West Midlands)
(C 7b) John Mattox & Sons, key makers (Wednesfield, West Midlands)
(C 7c) A. & E. Squire, Cabinet Lock Makers ()
(C 7d) Locksmiths (West Midlands)
(C27) Locks, Keys & Files ()
(C33) Willenhall Lock Museum and Other Works (West End Locks, Lock Museum & Lock works exteriors)

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MineCam
(M 1) The Old Wind (discovery of C18th tunnel, underground & surface, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire) [1]
(M 3) Ramsden's shaft, The Bog (Camera descent of the shaft, Shropshire) [1]
(M 5) Nenthead - 11 Shaft investigations (Cumbria) [1]
(M2 ) Leaton Knolls Icehouse (discovery of an icehouse, nr Shrewsbury, Shropshire) [1]
(M4) Spring Vein shaft, Roman Gravels (Camera descent of shaft, Shropshire) [1]
Benthall Edge level, Bentall (Shropshire)
Bogg shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Brewery shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Cherry Tree Hill, furnace pool culvert inspection shaft, Coalbrookdale (Shropshire)
Clive well shaft, Clive Copper Mine, Clive (Shropshire)
Hook a Gate mine collapse, (Shropshire)
Kinver rock house well, Kinver (Staffordshire)
Ladywell mine, Spring Vein shaft (Shropshire)
Longholehead Whimsey shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Lord's Hill engine shaft, Snailbeach (Shropshire) [1]
Lovelady Shield shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Meretown Grange well,, Newport (Shropshire)
Middle Whimsey shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Nenthead: 4 unnamed shafts (Cumbria)
Nentsberry Haggs shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Readshaw's shaft, Nenthead (Cumbria)
Sutton House Farm well, nr Newport (Shropshire)
Watson's shaft, Tankerville (Shropshire) [1]
Whitewayhead shaft, Knowbury (Shropshire)

Mills
(C 2) Pont-nedd-vechan Gunpowder Works (disused, Glyn-Neath, South Wales)
(C24) Helsington Snuff Mill (working, Kendal, Cumbria)
(C30) Charlecote water powered flour mill (working, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire)
Argo gold mill, Idaho Springs (Colorado, USA) [1]
British Colour & Mining Ltd, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Cavendish fluorspar mill,working lead by-product mill (Derbyshire) [1]
Eling tidal flour mill (Hampshire)
Etruria bone & flint mill (disused), Stoke-on-Trent (City of Stoke on Trent)
Healings flour mill, Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire)
Kennal Vale gunpowder mills, (Cornwall)
Low Wood gunpowder works (disused), Haverthwaite (Cumbria)
Parkin's fluorspar mill (Derbyshire) [1]
Ponsanooth mills (Cornwall)
Royal Gunpowder Mills, Ballincollig Co. Cork (Ireland) [1]
Scierie-Museé Vincent sawmill & museum, St-Croix-Aux-Mines (France) [1]
Trevor Over mill, Plas yn Pentre (North Wales)

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Mining, Metal
A TOUR OF CARRS MINE (underground tour of the show mine, Nenthead)
A TOUR OF CLIVE COPPER MINE (underground tour, disused, Clive, Shropshire)
CLIVE RESCUE PRACTICE (Clive Copper Mine, Shropshire)
GLENGOWLA (surface and underground lead mine tour, County Galway, Ireland)
LAND OF POETS, SCHOLARS AND MINES (Features some of the Irish mines listed as ~ below)
SNAILBEACH (underground and surface tour, disused lead mine)
(C17) Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert (underground tour of show mine, Wales)
(C20) Snailbeach, Shropshire's Greatest Lead Mine (Shropshire)
(C20a) Snailbeach, The Final Frontier (underground tour, Shropshire)
(C20b) Snailbeach, The Forty (underground tour, Shropshire)
(C20c) Snailbeach, The Surface Remains (Shropshire)
(C32) The S.C.M.C. in Ireland (Many mines, listed as [5] below)
(C44) Nenthead Lead Mines (Surface, MineCam, Smallcleugh Level, Rampgill Horse Level, Caplecleugh Level, Carrs Level)
(C45) Twelve Mines of Ireland (Many mines, listed as [6] below)
(C50) Historic Mines of Spain (Formerly known as 'the MHTI in Spain')
(C51) Historic Mines of the Harz (Formerly known as 'the MHTI in the Harz')
Allihies copper mines (Ireland) [2]
Antoñita Pozo San Cayetano (Spain)
Argo gold mill, Idaho Springs (Colorado, USA) [1]
Avoca copper mines, surface & underground (Ireland) [2]
Bacheiddon lead mine, Powys (Wales)
Ballycorus smelt mill chimney (Ireland) [2]
Ballycummisk copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Ballygahan copper mine (Ireland)
Bar Moot Hall, Wirksworth (Derbyshire)
Beaumont fluorspar mine (Derbyshire)
Bog Mine, Bog (Shropshire)
Bonmahon copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Bonsall lead mines, Shafts, coes, gin circles, buddles, scrins (Derbyshire)
Botallack Head mines (Cornwall) [2]
Brea buddles & tin streaming plant (Cornwall) [2]
Bryntail lead mine, Powys (Wales)
Cape Cornwall tin mine, Carn Gloose (Cornwall) [2]
Capelcleugh level (underground), Nenthead lead mine, (Cumbria)
Cappagh copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Carlin How ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Carrigcrohane copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Cavendish fluorspar mill,working lead by-product mill (Derbyshire) [1]
Cerro del Plomo (Spain)
Chrétien inférior level (underground) Rauenthal (France)
Cligga Head mine, underground Borg tour (Cornwall) [2]
Connoree copper mine (Ireland)
Cononley lead mine (N. Yorkshire)
Crawstone ironstone mine (underground), Ironbridge (Shropshire)
Cronebane mine, Co. Wicklow (Ireland)
Derryginagh barite mine (Ireland) [2]
Derrylea Lough mine, Co. Galway (Ireland)
Devon United mines (Devon)
Die Grube Kirchberg, Altenau (Germany)
Dirtlow Rake (Derbyshire)
Dylife lead mine (Wales)
Eardiston copper mine, underground & surface (Shropshire)
Easter ironstone mine, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
El Manto (Spain)
El Poligono bronze age site (Spain)
Enthoven Smelt mill, working (Derbyshire)
Florence ironstone mine, underground & surface (Cumbria) [1]
Frazer's Hush fluorspar/lead mine (working), Allenheads (Co.Durham)
Frongoch lead/zinc mine (Wales)
Gawton arsenic works (Devon)
Geevor tin mine, tour of working dressing plant (Cornwall) [2]
Glendalough lead/zinc mine (Ireland) [2]
Glendasan lead/zinc mine (Ireland) [2]
Gleniff barite mine (Ireland)
Glenmalur lead mine (Ireland) [2]
Glenravel ironstone mine (Ireland)
Gortdrum copper mine, Co. Tipperary (Ireland)
Great Condurrow mine, underground Borg tour (Cornwall) [2]
Grinkle ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Grogwinion lead mine (Wales)
Groverake fluorspar/lead mine (Derbyshire)
Gunnerside Gill crushing mills (N.Yorkshire)
Gwaithgoch lead/zinc mill (Wales)
Gwynfynydd gold mine (North Wales)
Hawkstone copper mine supposed site (Shropshire)
Hazard lead mine, shaft & gin circle (Derbyshire)
Hexworthy lead mine (Devon)
Hodbarrow iron mine (Cumbria)
Hollandtwine lead mine, working , now fluorspar opencast (Derbyshire)
Holman test mine, underground Borg tour, Troon (Cornwall) [2]
Huglith barite mine (Shropshire)
Kilbreckan lead mine, Co. Clare (Ireland)
Kilton ironstone mine (Cleveland)
King Edward mine (Cornwall) [2]
La Cruz Pozo Union (Spain)
La Cruz smelter (Spain)
La Esmeralda, El Cobre (Spain)
La Palmena (Spain)
La Tortilla (Spain)
La Tortilla smelter (Spain) [1]
Ladywell mine, Spring Vein shaft (Shropshire)
Lebanon silver mine, underground & surface tour (Colorado, USA)
Les Filons du Neuenberg miner's trail, Alsace (France)
Les Hautes Mynes copper mines, surface & underground, Le Thillot (France)
Levant tin mine, Cornish winder in steam (Cornwall) [2]
Lingdale ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Lisheen zinc mine, Co. Tipperary (from road) (Ireland)
Llangynog lead mine, Powys (Wales)
Llywernog lead mine (Wales)
Lodge Park mine (Wales)
Loftus ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Los Curas (Spain)
Los Guindos (Spain)
Lost gold mine (underground tour), Central City (USA)
Mace Head, Molybdenum veins, Co. Galway (Ireland)
Magpie lead mine (Derbyshire)
Mandale Rake (Derbyshire)
Margrove Park miners housing (Cleveland)
Mary Tavy arsenic works (Devon)
Michell's shaft Cornish beam winder (in use), Redruth (Cornwall) [2]
Mill Close lead mine (Derbyshire)
Mill Dam fluorspar & lead mine, underground & working (Great Hucklow, Derbyshire) [1]
Mina la Gitana Pozo Rivero (Spain)
Minas de las Morras de Cuzna (Spain)
Minera lead mine, Clwyd (Wales) [1]
Mollie Kathleen gold mine, Cripple Creek (USA)
Mount Gabriel bronze-age copper mines (Ireland) [2]
Muckross copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Nantiago lead mine (Wales)
Nent Force Level plaque, Alston (Cumbria)
Nenthead mining village buildings, Nenthead (Cumbria)
North Skelton ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Odin lead mine & crusher circle (Derbyshire)
Old Grit (Shropshire)
Old Ham ironstone mine, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Parkin's fluorspar mill (Derbyshire) [1]
Peñalosa bronze-age site (Spain)
Penyclun lead mine, Powys (Wales)
Pindale Scrins (Derbyshire)
Polberro mine (Cornwall)
Porthtowan cliffs (Cornwall) [2]
Pozo Mirador (Spain)
Pozo Nuevo (Spain)
Pozo San Antonio de las Cadenas (Spain)
Rampgill level (underground), Nenthead lead mine (Cumbria)
Rauenthal C16th copper mines, Alsace (France)
Riddleswood copper mine (underground), Habberley (Shropshire)
Roman Gravels (Shropshire)
Rosevale tin mine (underground), Zennor (Cornwall)
Ross Island copper-age copper mine (Ireland) [2]
Saint Louis Eisenthür C16th copper mine (underground), Rauenthal (France)
Saint-Croix-Aux-Mines C16th copper mines (France)
Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines mining town (France)
San Andrés (Spain)
San Fransisco Pozo Ancho (Spain)
San Ignacio (Spain)
San Vincente (Spain)
Scott level lead mine (underground), Snailbeach (Shropshire)
Sheeffry mine, Co. Galway (Ireland)
Silvermines silver/lead mine (underground & surface), Nenagh (Ireland) [2]
Sir Francis level (underground, inc. hydraulic winder, cage, etc.), Gunnerside (N.Yorkshire)
Skelton Park ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Smallcleugh level (underground), Nenthead lead mine (Cumbria)
Snailbeach Perkin's or Robert’s level, Snailbeach (Shropshire) [1]
Snailbeach smelt mill (Shropshire)
South Crofty tin mine (last working tin mine in Europe, underground tour), Camborne (Cornwall) [2]
South Shropshire lead mines (includes: Wood, Roman Gravels, White Grit, Old Grit, Ladywell (including MineCam), Bog, Tankerville, Shropshire) [1]
South Skelton ironstone mine (Cleveland)
South Tincroft copper/tin mine, Camborne (Cornwall) [2]
Spawood ironstone mine (Cleveland)
Stanghow ironstone mine ventilation furnace chimney (Cleveland)
Stephen's Pit, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Stone Edge smelt mill chimney (Derbyshire)
Tankerville lead mine (underground & surface), Stiperstones (Shropshire)
Tara zinc/lead mine (underground & surface, working - the largest in Europe), Navan (Ireland) [2]
Taylor's shaft, 90" Cornish beam pump, Redruth (Cornwall) [2]
Temple lead mine (Wales)
Tocketts ironstone mine ventilation furnace chimney (Cleveland)
Tolgus tin streaming plant, Redruth (Cornwall) [2]
Turnavore engine house (Cornwall)
Tynagh lead mine, Co. Galway (Ireland)
Tywarnhayle mine (Cornwall) [2]
Urhin copper mine (Ireland)
Van lead mine, Powys (Wales)
Wanlockhead lead mine (Scotland)
Wemyss lead mine (Wales)
Westcott copper mine (underground & surface), Westcott (Shropshire)
Wheal Basset, Carnkie (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Bellan, St. Just (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Betsy silver/lead mine (Devon)
Wheal Busy, Chacewater (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Coates, St. Agnes (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Friendly, St. Agnes (Cornwall)
Wheal Friendship (Devon)
Wheal Jane tin mine dressing plant (in use), shafts (disused), Baldhu (Cornwall)
Wheal Kitty, St.Agnes (Cornwall)
Wheal Luna, St. Agnes (Cornwall)
Wheal Peevor (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Rose (Cornwall) [2]
Wheal Uny, Redruth (Cornwall) [2]
White Grit (Shropshire)
Whitesyke level (underground), Nenthead (Cumbria)
Winster Pitts buddles (Derbyshire)
Wood Mine (Shropshire) [1]
Ystrad Einion lead mine, including disused underground water wheel (Wales) [1]
Zellerfelder glockenspiel & animated fahrkunst (man engine) model, Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Germany) [1]

Mining, non-metal
NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL, THE (Building a new canal tunnel, 1984, West Midlands) [1] [2]
(C 8) Muxton Bridge Colliery Site (disused, Telford, Shropshire)
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel (Building a new canal tunnel in 1989, Dudley, West Midlands)
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989 (Construction work etc. Dudley, West Midlands)
(C18) Donisthorpe Colliery (winder in steam, Donisthorpe)
(C23) Bagworth Colliery (working, Bagworth, Leicestershire)
(C28) Morse's Level (underground tour of working Forest of Dean free coal mine, Gloucestershire)
(C37) Wren's Nest East, Dudley (disused limestone mine & canal tunnel, West Midlands)
(C41) Hem Heath Winders (Colliery winder being dismantled, Stoke-on-Trent)
(C46) Astley Green Colliery (Steam winder & vintage rally, Wigan)
(C48) Draglines I (Oddball's final walk; Ace of Spades & Chevington Collier at work, UK)
(C49) Annesley-Bentinck Colliery (Surface tour of the collieries at work, Yorkshire)
Aberllefenni slate mine (Wales)
Alsumer Berg waste tip, Duisberg-Brockhausen (Germany)
Alveley colliery, Alverley (Shropshire)
Amelie I & II potash mines, Wittelsheim (France)
Ballingarry coal mine, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Ballyphillip opencast mine, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Barhaugh coal mine, underground, nr Alston (Northumberland)
Bersham coal mine -inc. winder, Bersham (Wales)
Birkhill fireclay mine, underground (Scotland)
Blue John mine, underground (Derbyshire)
Bo'ness atmospheric pumping engine house (Scotland)
Bois du Cazier colliery (Belgium)
Boulby Potash mine, surface tour, working mine (Cleveland)
Broseley clay mine (underground), Broseley (Shropshire)
Brynkynallt colliery site, Chirk nr Wrexham (North Wales)
Calcutta colliery (Leicestershire)
Calverton colliery, surface, working mine (Nottinghamshire)
Cannop colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Caphouse colliery, Middletown (West Yorkshire)
Catherton Common bell pits - includes aerial views (Shropshire)
Cavendish fluorspar mill,working lead by-product mill (Derbyshire) [1]
Clashduff Colliery, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Clifton or Wet Earth colliery (Greater Manchester)
Clipstone colliery - surface, working (Nottinghamshire)
Coal loading & carrying on the Birmingham canals - extensive re-enactment (Great Wyrley, West Midlands) [1] [3]
Copper colliery, Co. Tipperary (Ireland)
Dark Cavern (144) limestone mine (disused), underground, Dudley (West Midlands) [3]
Deer Park colliery, Castlecomer (Ireland)
Duke pit fan house, Whitehaven (Cumbria)
Earlshill coal mine, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Eastern United colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Ellington colliery, working (Northumberland) [1]
Elsecar colliery, Newcomen engine (South Yorkshire)
Flourmill colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Gascoigne wood coal mine, working, Selby coalfield (North Yorkshire)
Grange colliery, tandem headframe, Telford (Shropshire)
Grossrosseln coal mine (Germany)
Haig pit, large horizontal steam winders (Whitehaven, Cumbria) [1]
Hannover coal mine, Malakoff tower, Bochum (Germany:)
Harworth colliery (Yorkshire)
Hasard-Cheratte colliery (Belgium)
Hatfield colliery, working (South Yorkshire)
Hendre spar mine, Clwyd (North Wales)
Holditch colliery, Newcastle Under Lyme (Staffordshire)
Holland coal mine, 2 small Malakoff towers, Bochum (Germany:)
Jane Pit, Whitehaven (Cumbria)
Jarrow staithes, loading coal (Tyne and Wear)
Joseph/Else potash mine, Richwiller (France)
Joy mining machinery, working (Nottinghamshire)
Kellingley colliery, working (N. Yorkshire)
Kinlet colliery, Bridgnorth (Shropshire)
Knockalonga coal mine, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Le Grand Hornu (Belgium)
Lickfinn Anthracite Mine, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Lightmoor colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Limpley Stoke Bath stone mine, underground (Somerset)
Littleton colliery, working (Staffordshire) [1]
Llay Hall colliery, Wrexham (North Wales)
Longannet colliery, (Scotland)
Lound Hall mining museum tour (Nottinghamshire) [1]
Maidens Hall opencast coal mine & walking dragline Chevington Collier, working (Northumberland) [1]
Mamble bell pits. Wyre Forest (Worcestershire)
Mardyke colliery, Kilkenny (Ireland)
Marie/Marie-Louise potash mine, Pulvershiem (France)
Markham Main colliery, working (S. Yorkshire)
Marles-les-mines coal mine (France)
Mill Dam fluorspar & lead mine, underground & working (Great Hucklow, Derbyshire) [1]
Minllyn slate mine (Wales) [1]
Monckton coking plant,working, Royston, Barsnley (Yorkshire)
Monkton coking plant, working (Tyne & Wear)
New Fancy colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
North Selby coal mine, working (N.Yorkshire)
Northern United colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Peat cutting in Ireland (Ireland)
Petite Rosselle coal mines (France)
Pleasley colliery (Derbyshire)
Pooley Hall colliery (Leicestershire)
Preston Grange colliery (Scotland)
Princess Royal colliery, Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire)
Prosper colliery preserved waste tip & 'tetrade', Bottrop (Germany)
Prosper-Hanniel Malakoff tower, Bottrop (Germany)
Rock coal mine, Coolbaun (Ireland)
Rockley Abbey colliery, Newcomen engine house, Worsbrough (Barnsley)
Rudolph/Bollwiller potash mine, Pulversheim (France)
Saltom Pit Newcomen engine house (Cumbria)
Selby Coalfield: Mines Rescue station, working (North Yorkshire)
Singer Cavern limestone mine, underground, disused. (Dudley, West Midlands) [1]
Snibston colliery (Leicestershire)
St. Aiden's opencast coal mine & walking dragline Oddball, working (West Yorkshire) [1]
Stillingfleet coal mine, working, Selby coalfield (North Yorkshire)
Stobswood opencast coal mine & walking dragline Ace of Spades, working (Northumberland) [1]
Swinebach jack roller, Broseley (Shropshire)
Washington pit (Tyne & Wear)
Wellington Pit candlestick chimney, Whitehaven (Cumbria)
Westhausen 1 colliery, Malakoff tower, etc., Dortmund-Westerfilde (Germany)
Wet Earth or Clifton colliery (Greater Manchester)
William Pit Newcomen engine house, Wihtehaven (Cumbria)
Winlaton coking plant, demolition (Tyne & Wear)
Winsford Rock Salt mine, underground (Cheshire)
Woolley Moor colliery, Wakefield (West Yorkshire)
Woolley opencast coal mine, inc. shaft mine remains, Wakefield (West Yorkshire)
Wynnstay colliery, Ruabon (North Wales)

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Metal Working
HAND MADE HAMES (Walsall Lock & Cart Gear Ltd. in use)
(C 3) The Hame Maker (Walsall Lock & Cart Gear Ltd. in use)
(C21) Wilf Davies, File Maker (The Lock Museum working)
Chirk Castle ornamental gates (North Wales)
Churchill Forge, nr Stourbridge (Worcestershire)
Crown Nails, Wolverhampton (West Midlands) [1]
Edene Engineering, Oakengates (Telford, Shropshire) [1]
Perran foundry, Perran Wharf (Cornwall)
Smith Edge Tools, sledgehammer makers (working), Oldbury (West Midlands) [1]
Solid Stamping Co. drop forgers (working), Cradley Heath (West Midlands) [1]
Solid Swivel Co., ship swivel makers (working), Cradley Heath (West Midlands) [1]

Miscellaneous
DRAKELOW (disused underground bunker: WWII Rover shadow aero engine factory then regional government H.Q. Kinver)
(C26) Black Country Coopers (Coopers Trevis-Smith working, Seedhouse disused, West Midlands)
(C40) Colyton Tannery (working, Colyton, Devon)
(M 1) The Old Wind (discovery of C18th tunnel, underground & surface, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire) [1]
(M2 ) Leaton Knolls Icehouse (discovery of an icehouse, nr Shrewsbury, Shropshire) [1]
Annestown limekiln (Northern Ireland)
Beech sandstone caverns (Staffordshire)
Bighouse limekiln, Co. Antrim (Northern Ireland)
Bridgnorth caves, Bridgnorth (Shropshire)
Casting a full-size copy of a Roman lead pig, by Shropshire Mines Trust (Wales)
Clevedon pier, Clevedon (Avon)
Coors brewery, Golden (Colorado, USA) [1]
Criggion quarry aerial mast demolition, Powys (Wales)
Darley's brewery, Thorne (South Yorkshire)
Dartmouth Higher ferry, working (Devon)
Eden project domes, aerial view (Cornwall)
Eimco rocker shovels, working ()
Elizabethan glass furnace (Shropshire)
Firkin crane building, Cork (Ireland)
Gas holder - the 'Gasometer', largest in world, used for blast furnace gas, then coal gas. (Oberhausen, Germany)
Gunpowder demonstration, Kennal Vale (Cornwall)
Hawkstone follies (Shropshire)
James Brindley's grave, Kidsgrove (Staffordshire)
Jarrow - North Shields ferry (Tyne & Wear)
M&J Drilling, grouting old mine workings, Wolverhampton (West Midlands)
Mam Tor road slips (Derbyshire)
Orchard Press: Old printing presses & Monotype caster, working, Telford (Shropshire)
Pant limekilns, disused, Llanymynech (Shropshire)
Peat cutting in Ireland (Ireland)
Pneumatic rock drills, working ()
Queen Elizabeth II liner visiting Cunard (Liverpool)
Shell UK Oil exploration drilling, Harriot's Hayes (Shropshire)
Sugnall well, nr Eccleshall (Staffordshire)
The National Waterways Museum, Gloucester (Gloucestershire) [1]
The Severn Warehouse or Museum of the River, exterior, Ironbridge (Shropshire)
Williamson's Tunnels (Liverpool)

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Railways
Aberystwyth cliff railway (Wales)
Alexisbad railway station, Sachsen-Anhhalt (Germany)
Babbacombe cliff railway (working), Torquay (Devon)
Baschurch level crossing & signal box (Shropshire)
Bowes railway inclines (Tyne & Wear)
Bryn Oer plateway rail & wheel, Powys (Wales)
Cann Quarry canal tramroad, disused, Plymouth (Devon)
Causey Arch - One candidate for the world's oldest railway bridge (1727) (Co. Durham)
Chopwell waggonway embankment, 1708 (Tyne & Wear)
Cripple Creek & Victor narrow gauge steam railroad (Colorado, USA) [1]
Embsay station,Embsay (N. Yorkshire)
Essington signal box (disused), Essington (Staffordshire)
Flockton Green tramway viaduct 1790's (oldest?), Flockton (West Yorkshire)
Georgetown Loop railroad and steam locomotive (Colorado, USA) [1]
Goodrington viaduct & steam train, Paignton (Devon)
GWR locomotive King George V (in steam) (Herefordshire)
Hay Tor granite tramroad, Dartmoor (Devon)
Lydham Manor locomotive (in steam), Kingswear station (Devon)
Old Whimsey, 1850 rope-hauled incline & early tramway tunnel (1790's?) (N. Yorkshire)
Pant inclined plane, Montgomeryshire canal (Shropshire)
Pike's Peak cog railway (Colorado, USA) [1]
Ribble Head viaduct with steam train (North Yorkshire)
South Shields marshalling yard (Tyne & Wear)
Starcross atmospheric railway pumping station (disused), Torcross (Devon)
Stirchley tramroad tunnel, Telford (Shropshire)
Swindon - Railway workshops & buildings (Wiltshire)
Trackside scenery during a rail journey from Wolverhampton to Birmingham in 1984 (West Midlands)
Vale of Rheidol narrow gauge railway, Aberystwyth & Devils Bridge (Wales) [1]

Stone & Clay
(C31) Forest of Dean Stone Firms Ltd. (Working, Cannop, Gloucestershire)
(C37) Wren's Nest East, Dudley (disused limestone mine & canal tunnel, West Midlands)
Aerial views of St. Austell area china clay pits & works (Cornwall)
Antoing 1841 limekilns & working cement plant (Belgium)
Ballyknockan granite quarry (Ireland)
Bugle china clay pit (Cornwall)
Dark Cavern (144) limestone mine (disused), underground, Dudley (West Midlands) [3]
Delabole slate quarry, aerial view (Cornwall)
Dorothea slate quarry, disused (Nantlle, North Wales) [1]
Dunbar limestone quarry, dragline, transporter conveyor (East Lothian, Scotland) [1]
Fowey china clay wharf, working (Cornwall)
Goonbarrow china clay pit (Cornwall)
Goonvean china clay beam pumping engine, disused (Cornwall)
Grinshill sandstone quarries (Shropshire)
Ironbridge sandstone quarry, source of stone for Iron Bridge abutments, at work (Shropshire) [1]
Lee Moor china clay works (Devon)
Les Fours Lenain, Antoing (Belgium)
Singer Cavern limestone mine, underground, disused. (Dudley, West Midlands) [1]
St. Denis clay processing plant (Cornwall)
Stewartby brick works & clay quarry (Bedfordshire) [1]
Teignmouth clay docks (Devon)
Upper Fagley quarry & cranes (West Yorkshire)
Whittlesey brick works & clay quarry, nr Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) [1]

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Steam Power
(C18) Donisthorpe Colliery (winder in steam, Donisthorpe)
(C25a) SND No.4 Steam Dredger in Action (Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire)
(C25c) SND No.4 Steam Dredger (Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire)
(C39) CH 106 (Features Ferrybridge power station, Aire & Calder Navigation, West Yorkshire)
(C41) Hem Heath Winders (Colliery winder being dismantled, Stoke-on-Trent)
(C42) The SCMC at Onslow Park (Steam & other plant on display, Shrewsbury, Shropshire)
(C46) Astley Green Colliery (Steam winder & vintage rally, Wigan)
Bord Na Mona peat cutting machine & peat railway, Co. Tipperary (Ireland)
Bratch water pumping engine, in steam (Staffordshire)
Clive copper mine, pumps & oil engine being dismantled, Clive (Shropshire)
Coleham sewage pumping station, steam engines working (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) [1]
Crofton beam pumping engines. World's oldest, working on original site, in steam (Wiltshire) [1] [3]
Elsecar colliery, Newcomen engine (South Yorkshire)
Ironbridge, power stations exteriors (Shropshire)
Larkton Hill, barn engine rally, oil engines working (Cheshire)
Millmeece pumping station (Staffordshire)
Onslow Park steam fair, Shrewsbury (Shropshire)
Rockley Abbey colliery, Newcomen engine house, Worsbrough (Barnsley)
Shrewsbury steam fair (Shropshire)
Steamrollers 'Lily' & 'Lady Hesketh' travelling from Newport to Onslow Park steam rally (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) [1]
Thorpe Marsh power station (South Yorkshire)
Vogelshiem power station, river Rhine (France)
Welland steam fair (Worcestershire)
Workington wind farm (Cumbria)

Transporter Bridges
Middlesbrough Transporter bridge, working (Middlesbrough)
Newport Transporter bridge, working before restoration, Newport, Gwent (South Wales)
Warrington Transporter bridge, disused (Greater Manchester)

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Textile Industries
(C19) Alan Paine Knitwear Manufacturers (working, Guildford)
(C22) K.F.Knitwear Manufacturers (working, Guildford)
(C22) Old Knitting Workshops of Godalming (disused, Godalming)
Kidderminster carpet factory buildings, Kidderminster (Shropshire)
Pennine Tweeds woollen mill, looms and other machinery in use (Sedburgh, Cumbria) [1]

Urban Environment
Black Country buildings (West Midlands)
Coalbrookdale (various views) (Shropshire)
Drive-through Wem, 1983 (Shropshire)
Dublin (Ireland)
Dudley (West Midlands)
Kidderminster (Shropshire)
Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough)
Rail journey from Wolverhampton to Birmingham in 1984 (West Midlands) [1]
Tyneside (Tyneside)
Whitby (North Yorkshire)

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Waterways Craft
Acaster's tug Little Shuva (Last Run II) () [1]
BCN tug 'Birchills' (West Midlands) [3]
CH 106 Cawoods Hargreaves push tug ()
CH109 Cawoods Hargreaves push tug (West Yorkshire) [1]
Dean & Dyball tanker Trentaire (Last Run II) ()
Diesel dredger Thomas Fletcher (Gloucestershire) [1]
Diesel tug Resolute Lady (Gloucestershire) [3]
Humber Energy Whittaker's tanker ()
NB Atlas, clothing-up and engine details () [1] [3]
NB Gifford, horse towing on the Worcester & Birmingham canal (Worcestershire) [1] [3]
NB Leo, riveting the restored hull, launching and clothing-up (Stourbridge, West Midlands) [1]
NB Northwich, horse towing on the Worcester & Birmingham canal (Worcestershire) [1] [3]
NB Saturn, caulking (Cheshire)
NB Stour, rebuilt and launched, Black Country Museum (Dudley, West Midlands) [1]
Queen Elizabeth II liner visiting Cunard (Liverpool)
Rix Merlin, Rix Petroleum tanker, working (River Humber, Hull & Grimsby) [1]
Severn grain barge Chaceley working from Gloucester to Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire) [1]
Severn trow Spry - the rescue (Rescuing the last Severn trow for restoration) [1] [3]
Steam dredger SND No.4 () [1]
Steam tug Mayflower, the world's oldest working steam tug (River Severn, Gloucester and Bristol) [1] [3]
Tanker ship Reedness (Last Run II) ()
Various BCN 'Joey' or 'Day' boats (Wet Midlands)

Water Industry
Clywedog reservoir & dam, Powys (Wales)
Coleham sewage pumping station, steam engines working (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) [1]
Cork Corporation waterworks, Cork (Ireland)
Cwm Rheidol reservoir & Felin Newydd dam (Wales)
Devonport leat, disused (Devon)
Elan Valley reservoirs & treatment works, working, Powys (Wales) [1]
Frankley water treatment works, working (Worcestershire) [1]
Hoover dam, Nevada/Arizona (USA)
Horseshoe Falls, Llantisilio (North Wales)
Manchester sewer replacement scheme (Manchester)
Oberharzer Wasserregal graben, watercourses, mostly underground, built for mine waterwheels now supply drinking water (Germany)
Three Valleys water supply tunnel & Iver water works, working (London) [1]
Trimpley water works, in use (Worcestershire) [1]

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Waterways: Archive A-K
Aire & Calder navigation (Yorkshire)
Anderton boat lift, disused & in use (Cheshire)
Anglesey branch, BCN (West Midlands) [3]
Arzviller inclined plane, in use, Lorraine (France)
Barton swing aqueduct, working (Manchester) [1]
Basingstoke canal (Hampshire)
Bentley canal, BCN (West Midlands)
Birmingham & Fazeley canal (West Midlands)
Birmingham & Warwick Junction canal (West Midlands)
Birmingham Canal Navigation (West Midlands) [1]
Bradley branch, BCN (West Midlands)
Bridgewater canal (Greater Manchester)
Broad Street warehouse, architecture & cargo handling re-enactment (Wolverhampton, West Midlands) [1]
Building a wooden narrowboat at the Black Country Museum (Dudley, West Midlands) [1]
Calder & Hebble navigation (Yorkshire)
Caldon canal (Staffordshire)
Canal de Pommeroeul a Antoing (Belgium)
Canal du Centre, inc. La Louviere ship lifts & Ecluse No.2 de Peronnes (Belgium)
Cann Quarry canal tramroad, disused, Plymouth (Devon)
Cannock Extension canal (West Midlands)
Catshill stop lock, Wyrley & Essington Canal, in use (West Midlands) [3]
Chester canal (Cheshire)
Coal carrying on the BCN including use of Coal chutes & Staithes - re-enactment (West Midlands) [3]
Crofton beam pumping engines. World's oldest, working on original site, in steam (Wiltshire) [1] [3]
Digbeth branch, Birmingham (West Midlands)
Doncaster canal (South Yorkshire)
Donnington Wood canal, disused, Telford (Shropshire)
Dredging (Gloucestershire) [1]
Ducart's Canal (Ireland)
Dudley canal (West Midlands) [1]
Ellesmere canal (Shropshire & Cheshire)
Ellesmere Port Boat Museum (Cheshire)
Escaut river (Belgium)
Exeter Ship canal (Devon)
Fitting a narrowboat rudder or 'elum' (West Midlands)
Foxton inclined plane, disused (Leicestershire)
Gauging a narrowboat, Wyrley & Essington Canal (West Midlands) [3]
Gloucester & Berkeley ship canal (Gloucestershire)
Gloucester & Sharpness ship canal (Gloucestershire) [1] [3]
Goole canal (Humberside)
Grain traffic from Gloucester to Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire) [1]
Grand Union canal (Warwickshire)
Heinrichenberg ship lifts & locks, Waltrop (Germany)
Huddersfield Narrow canal, disused (West Yorkshire)
Hüttenwerke Krupp-Mannesmann steel works, Hüttenheim, unloading boats on river Rhine (Germany)
International Festival of the Sea (Bristol 1997) () [1] [3]
Ketley canal including inclined plane, disused, Telford (Shropshire)
Knottingley & Goole canal (Yorkshire)

Waterways: Archive L-Z
(C 1) The Last Run (Tom Pudding compartment boats last run, April 1986)
La Louviere ship lifts, Canal du Centre (Belgium) [1]
Leeds & Liverpool canal (Lancashire & West Yorkshire)
Leominster canal (Hereford & Worcestershire)
Llangollen branch, Clwyd (North Wales)
Lydney canal (Gloucestershire)
Macclesfield canal (Cheshire)
Montgomeryshire canal, disused, restored locks (Shropshire & Wales)
National waterways rally 1982 ()
New Junction canal (London)
Newport branch, disused (Shropshire)
Northampton arm (Northamptonshire)
Notre Dame lift bridge, Tournai (Belgium)
Oxford canal (Oxfordshire)
Peak Forest canal (Derbyshire)
Prees branch (Shropshire)
River Ouse ()
River Rhine (Germany)
River Severn (including voyages between Sharpness, Avonmouth, Cardiff & Clevedon and grain traffic from Gloucester to Tewkesbury); also flooding (Shropshire, Gloucestershire & Wales) [1]
Ronquières canal inclined plane (Belgium)
Severn trow Spry: Recovery and the restored vessel under sail (Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire & Wales) [1] [3]
Shafting narrowboats ()
Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham navigation (Gloucestershire)
Shrewsbury canal, disused (Shropshire)
Shropshire (tub boat) canals, disused (Shropshire)
Sneyd & Wyrley Bank branch, disused, BCN (West Midlands)
Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal (Staffordshire & Worcestershire)
Stourbridge canal (West Midlands)
Stratford Upon Avon canal ()
Strépy-Thieu ship lift, largest in world, on test (Belgium)
Tame Valley canal, BCN (West Midlands)
Thurlwood steel lock, disused (Staffordshire)
Titford canal, BCN (West Midlands)
Trent & Mersey canal ()
Ulverston canal (Cumbria)
Vogelsheim locks, Rhine (Germany)
Walsall canal, BCN (West Midlands)
Wednesbury Old canal, BCN (West Midlands)
Wheelock stables, in use (Cheshire) [1] [3]
Worcester & Birmingham canal (West Midlands & Worcestershire)
Wyrley & Essington canal, BCN (West Midlands) [1] [2] [3]

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Water Power
(C 1) The Last Run (Tom Pudding compartment boats last run, April 1986)
(C 2) Pont-nedd-vechan Gunpowder Works (disused, Glyn-Neath, South Wales)
(C24) Helsington Snuff Mill (working, Kendal, Cumbria)
(C30) Charlecote water powered flour mill (working, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire)
(C40) Colyton Tannery (working, Colyton, Devon)
Blue Hills mine waterwheel powered stamps, St. Agnes (Cornwall)
Eling tidal flour mill (Hampshire)
Low Wood gunpowder works (disused), Haverthwaite (Cumbria)
Newport waterwheel, Newport (Shropshire)
Trevor Over mill, Plas yn Pentre (North Wales)
Ystrad Einion lead mine, including disused underground water wheel (Wales) [1]

Waterways Releases
A CROOKED DITCH (A history of the Birmingham Canal Navigations)
MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL, THE (Manchester & Liverpool)
NEW DUDLEY TUNNEL, THE (Building a new canal tunnel, 1984, West Midlands) [1] [2]
TELFORD'S LAST CANAL (Shropshire Union canals)
TOM PUDDINGS (Aire & Calder) [1] [2]
(C 1) The Last Run (Tom Pudding compartment boats last run, April 1986)
(C 9) Canal Structures in Use (many canals)
(C10) Dudley Tunnel Boat Excavation (Dudley, West Midlands)
(C11) Flooding the Rock Tunnel, Dudley (Dudley, West Midlands)
(C12) The Milton Maid (Caldon canal)
(C13) The Birmingham Canal Navigations (West Midlands)
(C14) The Construction of the 1989 Dudley Tunnel (Building a new canal tunnel in 1989, Dudley, West Midlands)
(C15) Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989 (Construction work etc. Dudley, West Midlands)
(C16) Keays Boatyard, Walsall (Wyrley & Essington canal)
(C25a) SND No.4 Steam Dredger in Action (Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire)
(C25b) Raise the Dredger (Sunken steam dredger, Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire)
(C25c) SND No.4 Steam Dredger (Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire)
(C34) Last Run II (Aire & Calder Navigation and River Ouse)
(C37) Wren's Nest East, Dudley (disused limestone mine & canal tunnel, West Midlands)
(C38) Humber Energy (River Humber and Aire & Calder Navigation)
(C39) CH 106 (Features Ferrybridge power station, Aire & Calder Navigation, West Yorkshire)
 

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[1] - extended coverage.   [2] - material which appears in one or more of our productions or compilations.
[3] - material which has been used in other organisations productions.