English Heritage has identified ten key industrial sites on the Heritage at Risk Register that are of outstanding importance to England’s industrial past. Full details on the English Heritage Industrial Heritage at Risk project can be found HERE.
Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury.
Built in 1797 this was the first textile mill in the world to have a fireproof internal iron frame.
Ditherington Flax Mill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (© English Heritage)
Ditherington Flax Mill, Shropshire - dye house interior (© English Hertiage)
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent.
The first pit to produce one million tonnes of coal in a single year and the most complete surviving example in England of a large-scale colliery from the peak years of the British Coal Industry.
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent (© English Heritage)
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent (© English Heritage)
Stanley Mill, Gloucestershire.
Rebuilt as a fireproof mill in 1813, Stanley Mill has the finest internal cast-iron framing in the country.
Stanley Mill, Kings Stanley, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Location view from south of mill site. (© English Heritage)
Interior south range, first floor, Stanley Mill (© English Heritage)
Stanley Dock, Liverpool.
Includes the Grade II and Grade II listed warehouses by Jesse Hartley together with the massive Grade II Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse. Built in 1900, this contains 27 million bricks and is said to be the largest brick building in the world.
Exterior view of Gate Piers Stanley Dock, Liverpool (© English Heritage)
Bowes Railway, Tyne and Wear.
Designed by the pioneering railway engineer George Stephenson in the 1820s, the Bowes Railway was built to take coal from local pits to the River Tyne. It combined three methods of working – locomotives, stationary haulage engines and gravity incline.
Bowes Railway, Tyne & Wear (© English Heritage)
Bowes Railway, Tyne & Wear. (© English Heritage)
Soho Foundry, West Midlands.
Opened in 1796 Soho Foundry was the worlds first steam engine manufactory capable of supplying complete steam engines.
Soho Foundry, West Midlands (© English Heritage)
Battersea Power Station, London.
This iconic London landmark was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s and was the first of a new generation of super generating stations.
Battersea Power Station, Wandsworth (© English Heritage)
Control Room at Battersea Powerstation, Wandsworth (© English Heritage)
Sleaford Maltings, Lincolnshire.
Built by Bass c.1900, this is the largest example of a floor maltings in Europe.
Sleaford Bass Maltings, Lincolnshire (© English Heritage)
Backbarrow Ironworks, Cumbria
The ironworks was in operation for over 250 years and many of its surviving features cannot be found elsewhere. The original water-powered blast furnace was erected in 1711 and the present furnace with its steam blowing engine worked until the 1970s.
Backbarrow Ironworks, Cumbria (© English Heritage)
Elsecar Engine, South Yorkshire.
Dating to 1795, the Newcomen steam engine is the only such engine in the world to survive on its original site.
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