Axminster Heritage Centre - Gripper Loom
A demonstration of the Axminster Gripper Loom, invented by David Crabbtree. This film was commissioned for Axminster Heritage Centre in Devon.
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Places to see in ( Colyton - UK )
Places to see in ( Colyton - UK )
Colyton is a village in Devon, England. It is located within the East Devon local authority area. It is 3 miles from Seaton and 6 miles from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, reducing to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley electoral ward. The ward population at the above census was 4,493.
Colyton first appeared as an ancient village around 700 AD and features in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The third code of law of King Edmund I was issued at Colyton in about 945. This helped to stabilize feudal society, by stating clearly its four pillars: kingship, lordship, family, and neighbourhood. It grew into an important agricultural centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry and an oak bark tannery that is still functioning. Situated 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north of the town was Colcombe Castle, now demolished, a former seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon.
Following the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and those within Colyton were sold back for £1,000 to various residents of Colyton parish, as listed in a deed transcribed in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summarised as John Clarke and others. Grant in free socage, subject to rents etc. (specified), for l,000l., of the following lands (extents given) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton manor, Devon, and belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted. This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in common various properties in the parish.
Colyton Grammar School dates from 1546 and once occupied the part-medieval building now known as the Old Church House. In 1927 it moved to Colyford, a small village within the Colyton parish. The school has made headlines in recent years as the first school to 'opt out' of local authority control and gain grant-maintained status and for achieving very high rankings in national examination league tables. The Seaton Tramway terminates at nearby Kingsdon on the other side of the River Coly and the town is on the route of the East Devon Way footpath.
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Discovering Devon Vol 1 - 1st-Take Films (presented by Henry Buckton)
Devon is one of England’s largest and most diverse counties and in this film, the first in a series of four, presenter Henry Buckton will take you on a tour around its eastern region, visiting ancient towns and beautiful villages; a stunning coastline; and the county’s capital city. The film is produced by 1st-Take and you can find out more or order a copy by visiting their website at 1st-take.com or ringing 01454 321614. The film looks at some of the historic industries that have flourished here and examines the important part that canals, railways and tourism have played in developing the area; as well as the ever present influence of the sea. The tour takes the viewer to Tiverton, Bickleigh, Wolford Chapel, Honiton, Axminster, Axmouth, Seaton, Beer, Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth, Ladram Bay, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Topsham and Exeter. And there are special features at Allhallows Museum in Honiton, talking about lace making; Axminster Heritage Centre, to learn about carpet making; The Bill Douglas Cinema Collection at Exeter University; Sidmouth’s Norman Lockyer Observatory; Seaton Tramway; Beer Quarry Caves; Bickleigh Mill, and many more.
Bradford Industrial Museum West Yorkshire Filmed In The Early 90's
The Bradford Industrial Museum and Horses at Work, Moorside Road, Bradford. A gem of a museum on the outskirts of the City, dedicated to the great industrial North! See bradford.gov.uk for further details, its free to look around and open every day except Mondays.
Places to see in ( Seaton - UK )
Places to see in ( Seaton - UK )
Seaton is a small seaside town in East Devon on the south coast of England. It faces onto Lyme Bay, to the west of the mouth of the River Axe with red cliffs to one side and white cliffs on the other. Axmouth and Beer are nearby.
A sea wall provides access to the mostly shingle beach stretching for about a mile, and a small harbour. Seaton sits on the 96-mile (155 km) long Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, more commonly known as the Jurassic Coast. From here it is possible to visit rock strata dating from three geological periods in a 185 million-year ‘geological walk through time’.
Seaton was an important port for several centuries, supplying ships and sailors for Edward I's wars against Scotland and France. In the 14th century heavy storms caused a landslip which partially blocked the estuary, and the shingle bank started to build up. In 1868 the arrival of the railway reduced the use of the harbour.
Seaton was served by a branch line, opened in 1886, from Seaton Junction on the Salisbury to Exeter main line. The railway was successful and considerably assisted in the development of Seaton as a holiday destination. Seaton and Beer became the two most popular holiday destinations in East Devon. Part of the trackbed has been used to construct the Seaton Tramway to Colyton, a tourist attraction.
In the 19th century Seaton developed as a holiday resort, which it remains to this day. Seaton lost its largest holiday camp at the beginning of 2009 when the site was purchased by Tesco who opened a major supermarket on the site in late 2011. However, Seaton still has many accommodation providers including guest houses, hotels, a camping site and a caravan park. The church on the edge of town was built in the 14th century, with a squat tower dating from the 15th century. Seaton is also notable for having one of the world's first concrete bridges, built over the River Axe in 1877, by the Seaton and Beer Railway company.
The Seaton Tramway takes visitors across country to Colyford and Colyton. It runs alongside the estuary giving views of the nature reserve on one side and the estuary wildlife on the other. At Beer, about two miles west of Seaton, is the Beer Heights Light Railway; along with numerous model railways this is part of Pecorama, a tourist attraction provided by the model railway manufacturer Peco. On 26 March 2016 the Seaton Jurassic visitor centre opened in the town which is a time travelling experience telling the story of the natural heritage of the Jurassic Coast past and present.
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UH20 Promotional Video 2017
UH Racing are the most successful UK Formula Student team of all time. The team was founded in 1997 by University of Hertfordshire students, the team have since competed in every IMechE Formula Student event, since its inception in 1998.
UH Racing is now in its 20th year, with the team designing and building their 20th combustion car. Throughout the past 20 years, countless awards have been won and the team have entered Formula Student competitions world wide with cutting edge petrol, electric and hydrogen powered cars. UH Racing continues to evolve with new technologies every year, to produce a successful single seat race car further contributing to the team’s heritage of success.
Class 117 and 108 hybrid Departs Wirksworth
A two car composing of 117 W51360 and class 108 E50599 departs Wirksworth bound for Duffield on the 16:20 service at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.
Prince Charles inspects carpet destined forBuckingham Palace
Prince Charles was in Portadown today (Tuesday) to give his seal of approval to a carpet destined for his mother's house in London.
The Prince and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, were visiting Ulster Carpet Mills on the Garvaghy Road, Portadown.
Such a visit to an area synonymous with one of the longest running parade disputes in the history of the Troubles would have been impossible had it not been for progress made in the peace process.
Charles joked that he was delighted he had been told that the carpet - ordered for Buckingham Palace - would be arriving on time.
He went on to praise staff at the award winning company for their genius, astonishing skills and dexterity.
He said both he and the Duchess had been so impressed with what they had seen during their hour-long visit to the complex.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Promo for Bradford City Council made by Sound and Visual Media students from University of Bradford
Manchester Arrivals - 1956
At the end of September 1956 we visit the Manchester area to see a number of LMS Fowler locomotives working on trains arriving in or in the area of the city. At Ashburys we see an Austin Seven or class 7F 0-8-0 goods engine, near Northenden on the CLC lines an original parallel-boilered Patriot passes with a lengthy express all in Crimson & Cream livery and then a Rebuilt Royal Scot follows before we go the London Road to witness a large Fowler 2-6-4 4P (no. 42365) tank on red local stock and a Crab backing in with a four-car set of Blood & Custard ex-LMS stock.
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Replicating some of the world's most prestigious carpet designs
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Hand made Bulgarian carpets are making their way into some of Europe's most extravagant buildings and palaces because of their attention to detail.
One company is using all natural products to create replicas of some of the most prestigious carpets from the 18th Century.
STORY-LINE:
Skillful fingers, a perfect eye for colours and a lot of patience are needed to make a carpet for a royal premises. A carpet that the weavers in this small factory in southern Bulgaria know they will hardly get a chance to walk on.
Saida Musa is one of many traditional weavers at Hemus carpets in the village of Kostandovo.
I love this profession and it is enjoyable doing it, although it is difficult. I have many years experience and we are already used to it, she says.
Exquisite Bulgarian carpets cover floors at places like Buckingham Palace, Osborne House – Queen Victoria's summer retreat, Vienna's Albertina Museum, and also properties of the Dutch Royal family, Prince Charles and Mick Jagger.
While Bulgaria's century-old tradition of carpet weaving has gradually dwindled since the introduction of modern tools for mass production, some manufacturers have thrived.
Soon after the country switched to a free market economy, the Parpulov family privatized an old factory in the mountain village of Kostandovo and brought new life to the tradition of making hand-knotted carpets.
The family received significant help from their business partner David Bamford, a skilled British carpet expert who also had been consulting the British Royal family for textiles and hand-made carpets.
Five years later the factory got an order for a carpet for Britain's Osborne House. The size of the carpet was 140 square metres (1500 square feet) with an irregular shape to fit into a room with many columns. And, it had to be done in no time - eight months, while the number of colours exceeded 120.
The manager of Hemus carpets, Nadya Parpulova says the order was well received and the company hasn't looked back since.
?or? than 15 years ago Queen Elizabeth personally opened the summer residence of the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria's summer residence Osborne house), where it was said explicitly that the carpet was made in Bulgaria. That was the first time our name sounded positively. Suddenly people in our sphere started to talk about that, Bulgaria fulfilling mission impossible in the carpet making. There was nothing from the previous negativity connecting 'made in Bulgaria' with the wrong design or the wrong colour but on the contrary - if you want something complicated, something real, something difficult, you can contact the manufacturer in Bulgaria.
Parpulova says the positive reaction was a turning point for the company which has since received many orders for new carpets.
From there onwards, for those 15 or more years, we have already completed more than 300 key orders for Britain and other countries in Western Europe. They came from castles, from places of national importance, museums etc. Our work requires fanatic devotion and accuracy with the details so that they look like masterpieces done centuries ago, she says.
Now, the factory employs some two dozen women who are among the last hand carpet makers in Europe. They also dye the wool for the carpets in all possible colours which allows them to make exact replicas of any ancient carpet.
One of the greatest challenges when making a larger carpet is to keep the knotting uniform as every weaver knots differently.
The team's latest success was to revive the exquisite French Renaissance Savonnerie carpets.
Parpulov says a lack of records about colours or the density of knots means he has to rely only on pictures, which he adds can be one of the most challenging aspects.
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Mills, Machines and Memories - The Film
In April 2017, Mansfield Museum set out to learn more about the town’s textile industry, through interviews with those who worked in it. We wanted to celebrate the culmination of our ‘Made in Mansfield’ gallery project, made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund, with a special look at a huge part of Mansfield’s history.
This project has enabled us to enhance our knowledge of the industry and add to our archives with images and oral histories, helping to ensure that the stories of Mansfield’s workers are kept and treasured. Workers came forward and generously shared their stories with us on camera, and some also brought photos & memorabilia.
Inspired by their stories, local artist Clare Taylor led the creation of the art installation, which takes the form of socks in various shapes and sizes. Each sock tells a story about a different aspect of life in the factories. They have the names, images and history of local mills and mill workers stitched, knitted and printed on to them. Led by Clare, dozens of local people helped make the socks during workshops for embroidery, crochet, image transfer and collaging. The whole process was filmed by John Slemensek of Bokehgo. The socks now have a permanent home in Mansfield Museum’s ‘Made in Mansfield’ gallery, alongside the film, as a piece of textile history recorded in textile art.
In August, in collaboration with County Youth Arts, we held a summer school with six local young musicians and two professional musicians to produce music for the film. All of the music in ‘Mills, Machines and Memories’ was written, arranged, played and recorded during that week, at the Old Library Recording Studio. Using the sound of mill machines and images of textile workers as inspiration, the group have created a beautifully sensitive soundtrack, which was also ‘Made in Mansfield’.
Yeovil Steam Centre
Yeovil Steam Centre 'Steam and Tractor' event (Sept 07). Apologies for the opening sequence; I will reload the video after I have found and used some .3gp editing software.
Steam Train at Yeovil Station Somerset UK
Steam Train at Yeovil Station Somerset UK
I was travelling through Yeovil Junction - a 'haunt' for steam train people. I could see the smoke coming from a steam engine and hoped that it would emerge as I went past it.
See the result for yourself.
50033 Glorious
Another one from the vault (well, attic). Here's the current history of the loco from the English Electric Archive:
Following its last working, a charter from York to Scarborough, 50033 entered the national collection at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York. In 2003 the NRM decided to dispose of the locomotive, subject to a suitable home being found, because of an inability to commit to future maintenance and storage costs. 50033, still owned by the NRM, spent a period on loan to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway during 2004 until a home was found at the STEAM museum in Swindon as a static exhibit.
It had been planned for the locomotive to relocate to RailSchool, at the Royal Docks Heritage Railway in East London. This plan has now been abandoned. Currently it is stored in an unserviceable condition at the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley.
*Brand New* Class 159 in new livery.
Brand new class 159 paintjob. First video on YouTube of the class 159 in new livery. The loco is meant to be named Templecombe however I didn't see a nameplate so I think the new operator has got rid of that name unfortunately.
Places to see in ( Bridport - UK )
Places to see in ( Bridport - UK )
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the small River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Bridport origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre, though many of its buildings date from the 18th century.
On the coast and within the town's boundary is West Bay, a small fishing harbour previously known as Bridport Harbour. In the 21st century Bridport's arts scene has contributed to the town becoming increasingly popular with people from outside the locality. It has an arts centre, theatre, library, cinema and museum, and several annual events. It features as Port Bredy in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels.
Bridport is in the county of Dorset in South West England, in the West Dorset district. Measured directly, it is about 14 miles (23 km) west of the county town Dorchester, 15.5 miles (25 km) SSW of Yeovil in Somerset, 33 miles (53 km) east of Exeter in Devon and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) inland from the English Channel at West Bay.
The coast at Bridport is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site that covers a continuous 96 miles (154 km) of coastline in Dorset and neighbouring east Devon. All of the town is also within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a protected landscape designation of national significance. The town's most notable landmark is the conical Colmers Hill, its distinctive shape and small clump of summit trees being very noticeable from West Street. Bridport is a Met Office coastal weather observation point.
The A35 trunk road between Honiton and Southampton passes around the centre of Bridport on a bypass. Bridport railway station was closed in May 1975, along with the Bridport - Maiden Newton branch line. The nearest railway stations to Bridport are Maiden Newton, Crewkerne, Dorchester and Axminster. The nearest international airports are Exeter and Bournemouth.
Within the parishes of Bridport, Allington, Bradpole and Bothenhampton are 514 structures that are listed by Historic England for their historical or architectural interest. Three of these are listed as Grade I (the designation of highest significance), seventeen are Grade II*, and the rest are Grade II. The three Grade I structures are Bridport Town Hall, the Parish Church of St Mary, and Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton. The seventeen Grade II* structures are: Bridport Museum, The Chantry and Daniel Taylor's almshouses (and wall of the Friend's burial place) in South Street; No.34 and Granville House in West Street; the Literary and Scientific Institute (the old library), Granby House Masonic Hall, No.9 and the walls to the garden behind No.74 in East Street; Nos.133-139 (one structure) and the Church of St Swithun in North Allington; Nos.27 and 29 (one structure) in West Allington; Downe Hall in Rawles Way; the unitarian chapel in Rax Lane; Berry Farmhouse on Lower Walditch Lane; Messrs Norman goods warehouse in West Bay; and the new Holy Trinity Church in Bothenhampton.
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Midlands Aerospace Manufacturer continue to invest in Technology and People
MTDCNC revisited Bromford Industries recently and Gio caught up with Alan Dunbar, Vice President of Business Development.
They discuss the latest and continued investments in all technology and the importance of attracting the best young talent into the industry.
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Montacute, Somerset
Montacute, Somerset
yeovil steam center
some shots of yeovil steam center in their shed and on their 5 inch and full size railway